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one tip I have for those who are using 8.5 to 9.2.2 Copy & Paste: It Does Happen... Spinning Rainbow Wheel Troubleshooting Tips Here are some things to try when things are going wrong. 1. Repair Disk Permissions. Open Disk Utility, located in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder. Select the “First Aid” pane, click on the indented hard drive icon, right beneath the top hard drive icon for the drive in question. Click “ Repair Disk Permissions.” If errors are found and corrected, click “Repair Disk Permissions” again until you get a clean bill of health. You can also repair any disk except the Startup Disk using Repair Disk on the right side of the window. To repair the Startup Disk, restart your computer using the Mac OS X Install disk, holding down the “C” key as you restart. Then you will be able to repair your Startup Disk. 2. Delete the Program Preferences. Go to your Username icon, open Library folder (careful now, the Library folder WITHIN the Username folder), open Preferences folder, locate the Preferences for the application in question. Many times this will be named like this: com.apple. yourapplication-name. Drag the preference file to the Desktop. Relaunch the application (if you dragged out the Finder preferences, Log out and back in again). If all is OK, trash the preference file you dragged to the Desktop. If things are still wrong, you may want to replace the new preference with the one dragged to the Desktop. 3. Zap the PRAM. Restart your computer holding down Command/Option/P/R. (I know this is hard to do.) Hold down these four keys until the computer bongs at least three times. Let go and the computer restarts normally. 4. Perform a File System Check. Restart the computer holding down the Command/S keys. When a black Terminal screen appears with a bunch of code scrolling down the page, wait until it stops entering code. Type /sbin/fsck -y (be sure there is a space before the -y). If it now says your Mac is OK, type exit and hit Return. In place of /sbin/fsck -y you can rather just type fsck -y I have learned, but I always type it the way I originally learned. As long as you are careful to type exactly what I just told you, Terminal should not be a big scare. The above are the four things you can do to troubleshoot your OS X Mac and these four things should repair many often-encountered problems. If you have Apple Care, you should probably try all four before making a call to Apple. Double Your Warranty Use iChat for Sending Files Automatically Login Items Email Button In iPhoto OS X Character Palette Customize OS 9 thru OS X Installing OS 10.3 does not disable the ability to startup with OS 9. So if the computer could startup with OS 9 before installing 10.3, it can certainly still startup with OS 9 after installing 10.3. New Macs cannot startup with OS 9, but there are still a number of ways you can control and customize Classic (OS 9) from OS X. You can access OS 9’s System Folder on the top level of your hard disk. Go to the Finder and double-click your hard disk icon. The System Folder is identifiable by the orange nine on the icon. Inside you can add, move, and delete fonts, control panels, and extensions. Another way to customize Classic is through the Classic System Preference. Choose “System Preferences” from the Apple Menu and click “Classic.” Under Start/ Stop, activate the option to “Show Classic status in menu bar.” This menu allows you to access items in OS 9’s Apple Menu, allowing you to quickly open and configure Control Panels or choose a printer with the Chooser. And, finally, you can activate and deactivate control panels and extension through the Extensions Manager. To do this, open the Classic System Preference and click Start (or Restart). Once the startup window appears, click the caret to show the startup process. You should see the standard startup screen for OS 9. Hold down the space bar, and in a few moments, you’ll see the Extensions Manager. Make your selections and then click “Continue” to startup with your newly customized Classic. BACK TO TOP Here Are Some Interesting Facts There are 150 new features in Panther. Apple doesn’t even bother to advertise some of these features. Using the new Keyboard control panel, you can easily change any keystroke in any program. You can also make up new keyboard shortcuts for menu commands that don’t have them. Preview now opens raw PostScript or EPS files. You can now use any inkjet printer as a PostScript printer and even share it on your office network. Disk Utility now has a new Restore tab. It can make a perfect copy of a disk, and replicate it on another hard drive. If you want to make an exact copy of your old Mac’s hard drive on your new one, Disk Utility can do it. Bluetooth is better integrated than ever. You can shoot a file through the air to a fellow PowerBook owner (or even a Windows laptop) with just a couple of clicks, check your email using the Bluetooth cell phone in your pocket as a wireless antenna, or dial the phone using the Mac OS X address book. There is a very handy new key combinati Command/Escape. It “force quits” the front-most program, no questions asked. Nice when the front program has frozen, especially when it’s a full-screen program that covers up the Apple menu where the Force Quit is located. Shared folders on Windows PCs on your home network show up on the Mac’s screen, ready to open and use. You can also make your Mac’s files show up in the PC’s Network Neighborhood. You can use shared printers that are connected to your PC. CDs and you with a colorful dialog that displays icons for each of your open applications. At the left side of this dialog, you’ll see the icon for your current application. Next to it (and highlighted), you’ll find the icon for the application you last used. Each time you press Tab (without releasing the Command key), you highlight another of your open applications. One more related tip: you can also use the left and right cursor keys to navigate your open applications. Quick Switching Want a fast way to switch from one open application to another? Mac OS X version 10.3 Panther makes it as easy as typing Command/Tab. Go ahead, try it. When you hold down the Command/Tab, Panther presents. If you are running several memory-hungry applications in Classic and don’t seem to have enough memory to keep them all open at once, there’s a way to adjust memory. Launch System Preferences and select “Classic.” Hold down the Option key while you click on the “ Memory/Versions” button. An “Adjust Memory” button will appear at the bottom of the window. Click on it and a sheet drops down from which you can adjust the relative amounts of Application memory and Temporary memory used in Classic. Moving the slider toward the Temporary end should end your memory woes. Address Book Printing Labels from Address Book Your newest video complete, you decide it’s about time you invited friends and family over for movies and pizza. With the invitations printed, now you need to create mailing labels. Luckily, you’ve already entered everyone’s address in Address Book allowing you to create labels easily. Here’s how. Open Address Book and: 1. Create a Group folder and fill it with invitees 2. Click a name, Select All (Command/A), then choose “ Print” from the File menu 3. In the Print dialog, select “Mailing Labels” from the Style option, and click “Layout” to specify the Avery or Dymo label you plan to use. Click “Print” and enjoy your new mailing labels. SPELL CHEQUES The Purfect Poem: I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC; It plainly marks four my revue, Mistakes I cannot sea. I've run this poem threw it, I'm sure your please to no, Its letter perfect in it's weigh, My checker tolled me sew. Your Mac Joke For The Month Three Microsoft engineers and three Apple employees are traveling by train to a computer conference. At the station, the three Microsoft engineers each buy tickets and watch as the three Apple employees buy only a single ticket. " How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asks a Microsoft engineer. " Watch and you'll see," answers the Apple employee. They all board the train. The Microsoft engineers take their respective seats, but all three Apple employees cram into a restroom and close the door behind them. Shortly after the train has departed, the conductor comes around collecting tickets. He knocks on the restroom door and says, "Ticket, please." The door opens just a crack and a single arm emerges with a ticket in hand. The conductor takes the ticket and moves on. The Microsoft engineers saw this and agreed it was quite a clever idea. So after the conference, the Microsoft engineers decide to do the same on the return trip and save some money. When they get to the station, they buy a single ticket for the return trip. To their astonishment, the Apple employees don't buy any ticket, at all. " How are you going to travel without a ticket?" asks one perplexed Microsoft engineer. " Watch and you'll see," answers an Apple employee. When they board the train the three Microsoft engineers cram into a restroom and the three Apple employees cram into another one nearby. The train departs. Shortly afterward, one of the Apple employees leaves his restroom and walks over to the restroom where the Microsoft engineers are hiding. He knocks on the door and says, "Ticket, please..." |
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