Do yourself a favor and buy an external hard drive ( firewire preferably ). A flash drive is not a good permanent solution for backups. You should back up all your data to it then go through all your folders on your iBook and see what you can get rid of. Nearly 5Gb free space on your hard drive should be more than enough for OSX to work fine though.
Stewie Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:45:43 -0400 Subject: Re: PDF & Firefox issues? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Yes, Stewie, I think I need to clean out the corners. 30g HD with 4.86 left. the trouble with that is. I don't really know what I am doing. where has all this stuff has come from? I moved my photos to a thumb drive and...let's see someone once told me how to move itunes library to a thumb drive...let me start another thread.. how to move my iTunes to thumb drive and free my iBook. humpf my SE 30 [circa 1989] had a 40 mg HD... THAT ONE was a simple HD to manage... couldn't see much...din't go far...and it WAS portable. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Stewie de Young <[email protected]> wrote: It is just a very small but very useful plugin. And yes I think a Firefox upgrade is what broke my ability to download pdf's too. Don't use it to convert a webpage to a pdf though. It takes forever ( especially on an old G3 like yours ) and half the time either leaves out half the page or you end up with garbled text - my experience anyway. Just use it to download the pdf to your desktop then view it from there in Acrobat Reader or Preview. It works very well for this. By the way how much free hard drive space do you have if you have " a ton of stuff in there " ? You should work on having 5-10% of your hard drive as free space to give OSX room to move and operate correctly. Stewie Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:02:43 -0400 Subject: Re: PDF & Firefox issues? From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Thanks Stewie... gee the reviews are not consistent...crashing firefox...which mine won't even play a youtube video decently...? I will give it a try... I am a basic user... CS2, internet, i upload pdf files to clients and college assignments...on my wee G3. All of sudden one day everything is different. Now I have to have a program to download pdfs??? what's the deal? In looking at my Mac Profiler:applications: hoo boy I have a ton of stuff in there. On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Stewie de Young <[email protected]> wrote: You need to get "pdf download " from Nitro software - a free plugin to Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/636 When you click on a pdf file link on a web page this little dialogue box will drop down from the main menu bar and ask you what you want to do with it- Download it , Open PDF, View as HTML, Bypass PDF Download or Cancel. There is also a pro version that costs money to upgrade to but for simply downloading a pdf from a website this is a good plugin. Stewie From: [email protected] Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:45:08 -0500 Subject: Re: PDF & Firefox issues? To: [email protected] On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Kristina Rost <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, My Firefox lately won't download pdfs [forms] from sites. Is that because of a Firefox upgrade? any other ideas? No problems here with that version of OS X and firefox. What version of Firefox are you using? I haven't seen an upgrade of FF in what--at least a month? What's your machine specs? Have you tried those same sites using a different browser, and can you download using those? Howard Check out The Great Australian Pay Check Take a peek at other people's pay and perks Let us find your next place for you! Need a place to rent, buy or share? _________________________________________________________________ Need a place to rent, buy or share? Let us find your next place for you! http://clk.atdmt.com/NMN/go/157631292/direct/01/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are a member of G-Books, a group for those using G3 iBooks and PowerBooks (we run a separate list for G4 'Books). The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g-books Support for older Macs: http://lowendmac.com/services/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
