Peter, most of the updates on any of the apple stuff are free. They are actually automatic, You get a reminder if you have set your computer for automatic updates. available in your menu bar under the blue apple. It is only the big steps like from Panther to Tiger and the new iLife that will cost. I keep wondering whether Apple will put Tiger in the Mac-mini when it is released. It already does come with the new iLife. Adding Tiger would realllllly make the Mac-mini an even better bargain. We shall see. As to losing the calendar data, it is more of a question as to why this happened. It happened to me once last year, but then miraculously the data came back. I do make backups and print-outs, but it bears on my mind when I cannot figure out what happened and why. Marta On Feb 15, 2005, at 19:26, Peter McGrath wrote:
> Marta, I don't think this will be much help because this info is 15 > years old and for the PC, but this guy named Peter Norton put out a > lot of useful software including disk maintenance and sytem optimizing > utilities. I think he also had software that could recover deleted > files. His company was called Symantec if I remember correctly. > > As far as the future search capabilities for the "Tiger" mail program, > being newer to the Apple world than yourself, I have no idea. I'm > just beginning to realize that the software updates in the Apple world > seem to come fast and furious; and I fear that staying uptodate with > the new releases is becoming expensive. > > Thanks for the link to the dictionary website. It also had a link to > another more general dictionary website. > > Thanks also for the Apple DIscussions site. I felt so ignorant for > such a long time and frustrated because I was just so certain that my > questions had already been asked many times before and didn't want to > abuse this wonderful resource, i.e., Macgroup. Now I can spend my > time constructively reading the FAQ's and getting basic questions > answered at Apple Discussions. > > Peter > > > On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 19:40:02 -0500, Marta Edie <martaedie at mac.com> > wrote: >> I need some assistance. I just found out that all my iCal entries >> from last year up till Jan 13 of this year are no more. The calendar >> shows nothing. What might have happened or what might I have done? >> iPod and palm are ,of course, erased, too. Not that I need these old >> data that much. I usually even make paper copies of all the dates, but >> I hate not to be able to look at my calendar and check when last I >> saw >> this or that doctor etc. Is there a way to recover it all? I just >> tried to check something out and there these blank pages stared at me. >> Suggestions? Are those files still around on my hard drive somewhere? >> Marta >> > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 22. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
