On Thursday, December 30, 2004, at 03:13 PM, Marcus Chang wrote:
Hi gang. New member nere. I'm running a Beige G3 233 first generation with a bit more RAM. I have to admit, I'm barely just a "user." To explain, I used to work in marketing communications (used to be called "advertising") when I was in Detroit. Lots of gearheads around, but we were still the minority. Someone would say, "I just bought a new car, a (blank)." I'd ask, "Great, which engine did you get? The 4, the 4-valve 4, the V6 or the overhead-dual-cam V6?!?" and they'd look at me and say, "Uhm, uh, gas?"
ROFL.
I used to look down upon those folks, but now I is one. I know my way around my Mac, but I am definitely not an "enthusiast." So if I say something completely wrong, call me on it. (Also, the memory isn't what it used to be.)
Just saw this:
I bought a zip 100 drive from a friend, so she can make document backups as she was used to, and added an PCI USB/FW card so I can do maintenance and transfers to and from the G3, but the card does not show up!
If I remember correctly, I could not see any USB or FW device until I went to 9.2.
That was because if the USB or FW interface is not present upon OS install, the necessary System Extensions are not installed. Both FW and USB have minimum OS requirements of OS 8.6, which was the OS that the B&W originally shipped with. That was the first Mac with both firewire and USB ports. USB may even work with 8.1, since the first iMacs shipped with that, but I think that was restricted to those systems only, I know Apple's USB Adapter Support 1.4 required 8.6 or greater. <http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=31132>
Now a couple of questions. I checked the archives and didn't find any answers:
I have a couple of files (okay, like 300) with damaged resource forks. Is there a way to repair these? Or am I stuck with "Copy, Rename, delete original"? It seems so stone-age to do this on a computer of any kind.
Disk First Aid doesn't fix these? I'd try Disk Warrior, from Alsoft, then. I'd also look to see what damaged this many files..you may well have some serious underlying disk problems. As a start run Disk First Aid until it no longer reports any fixable errors. This may take three or four runs.
Second, one of the resource forks is on my MS Word 5.1, and it's screwing up my address book in the "Create Envelope" tool. Where are these addresses stored and can I retrieve them before I trash the Toolbar Preferences file, which has a damaged resource fork?
I believe that that was in a separate preferences file, not the toolbar. To check, simply move the problematic preferences file out of the system folder, and rename it, rather than trashing it.
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