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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Use Carbon Copy Cloner: http://www.bombich.com/ Thanks, I'll give it a shot!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin If you have another Mac, you can install onto an external drive and then plug the external into the problem Mac and boot from it and then clone the system form the external to the internal. How do you clone t…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Karl Kuehn It really sounds as if you have a scratched or otherwise bad DVD. Apple will replace them for a small fee. Alternately you have some bad memory that only MacOS X is running afoul of. Apple tends to demand me…
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Quote: Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot You mentioned earlier running a "hack" OSX on it... did that, by chance, require you to flash the boot-ROM ? Oh good lord no (: It's just one of the ones that are meant to work on non-apple hardwa…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Marvin Are you formatting the drive before the installation and making sure it's formatted as a GUID partition? Yeah. Before I did that it was dying before it even started installing. Note from the photo of the scre…
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Quote: Originally Posted by gordon1420 Same problem here. As long as Filevault is enabled, setting default apps for certain tasks (e.g., default web browser) and setting the default apps to open files do not survive restarts in Leopard with FileV…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aresee You hit the end of my knowledge. This is where I would look for that information, but it looks like it is elsewhere. Sorry. Thanks for your help though! I hope someone else can pick it up (:
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Quote: Originally Posted by aresee The relevant files are: ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iChat.plist ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist You might check to see if these are being updated. (~ = Home directory) They are indeed g…
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Quote: Originally Posted by aresee Em.. Wonder if the plists are getting updated and saved properly? You are getting beyond me but it sounds like iChat and Safari are recreating their preferences at each reboot. Sorry I can't help you more. I …
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Quote: Originally Posted by aresee Have you gone into iChat and Safari General Preferences and changed the default applications there? Maybe Adium and Firefox are not updating the right file. Ok, I rebooted, and ran Safari and iChat. They had …
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Quote: Originally Posted by aresee Have you gone into iChat and Safari General Preferences and changed the default applications there? Maybe Adium and Firefox are not updating the right file. I have not - I had in fact never ran iChat OR Safar…
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I use firefox. I have several machines with different OSes, and I like using the same browser on all of them. I also use quite a few firefox plugins. If you use firefox on OS X, you should probably get Bon Echo. It's an optimised build for…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Xian Zhu Xuande Before doing so I spent a few hours online researching all the latest 7200 RPM drives. ... but please note that a lot has changed since that date, and there will almost certainly be a better choice no…
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Quote: Originally Posted by birdwellcc I would go with a Seagate or Western Digital. That's cool, except the only ones I can find are Hitachi! *lol* No rush though.
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Quote: Originally Posted by tonton It's a piece of cake, takes about three minutes, and I've never heard of any problems with heat... Cool. I understand it's a gazillion times easier than on the Powerbook - but I am worried about the heat with…
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Yup, same fonts in the past. But the one I'm using now doesn't exist on my PB12, which is why I don't just go do it on that one. But seriously, I've tried plain old helvetica and times-new-roman just to check. Rendered movie viewed in Quicktime …
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Same version of iMovieHD. Same settings. Different machine - the slow old one has GOOD quality, and there's no setting to change that.
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Yes, I know this, except when the movie is VIEWED later in ANY viewer no matter WHAT quality you tell it to use, the titles text is HORRIBLE, even though everything ELSE is fantastic quality. And that doesn't explain why iMovieHD does it but iMo…
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Yeeeesh. I'm seriously considering returning the thing now. I have no intention of using the thing as an MP3 player, or of ever using iTunes to store and manage my music. I was going to dump music on this thing as a flash drive so I can listen i…
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I was going to say t's the same way as any other ipod, but I plugged it in and went into iTunes so I could give you the exact menu wording, and it's not there! So I hope someone else knows, since I was going ot do that, too.