Monthly Meeting
Afternoon all, Is the monthly meeting on tonight? and where please ? (I notice the web site is still stuck in a time warp) regards Peter -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Directory Listing software
diskcatalogmaker could be the solution it scans any removable media plus hard drives, makes a document that is application specific, but you can export to text(with tabs as seperator) or just use the apps by itself as a searchable data base without haveing the harddrive connected or media inserted, it's shareware but as far as i know it works for free aswell, for me it works fine for the last 3 years and holds the list of approx 100 data- backup dvd/cd 10 hard disks here just an example from the exported text file 200gig-5:fasnacht06:Capture Scratch:fasnacht 25-2-6:tape3 11.9 GB QuickTime movie 26 February 2006 22:21 200gig-5:fasnacht06:Capture Scratch:fasnacht 25-2-6:tape4 12.2 GB QuickTime movie 26 February 2006 23:23 200gig-5:fasnacht06:Capture Scratch:fasnacht 25-2-6:tape5 5 GB QuickTime movie 26 February 2006 23:48 200gig-5:fasnacht06:fasnacht 25-2-6 140 KB file22 March 2006 22:35 200gig-5:fasnacht06:Render Files0 KBfolder 26 February 2006 19:28 200gig-5:fasnacht06:Thumbnail Cache Files 1.6 MB folder 28 February 2006 7:46 200gig-5:fasnacht06:Thumbnail Cache Files:Final Cut Pro Thumbnail Cache 1.1 MB file 28 February 2006 22:33 200gig-5:fasnacht06:Thumbnail Cache Files:Final Cut Pro Thumbnail Data 544 KB file 4 March 2006 12:03 200gig-5:fasnacht06:Waveform Cache Files 0 KB folder 28 February 2006 7:46 200gig-5:from 74 gig42.2 GB folder 7 March 2006 21:54 200gig-5:from 74 gig:Audio Render Files 39.2 MB folder 9 September 2005 0:25 200gig-5:from 74 gig:Audio Render Files:dv tape lead in 18.6 MB folder 31 July 2005 21:19 200gig-5:from 74 gig:Audio Render Files:dv tape lead in:lead in 1'25'- ITM-0010 5.1 MB QuickTime movie 31 July 2005 21:19 cheers James On 07/10/2008, at 11:16, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Folks Please does anyone know of a (free) program that will enable me to list/export to Excel or Word the directory listings/file names from several external Hard Drives - so I can remember where I put what? I found Directory Content Printer - 1.5, but it is not free and it doesn't seem to export to Excel. Ta Blitto -- Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam¹s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://web.mac.com/blitto The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Time Capsule Time machine
Thanks Mark for the input will give this a try now. David On 07/10/2008, at 11:45 AM, Mark Secker wrote: I use this: http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ changed my back up time to once every 3 hours Suggest you turn off the backup when disks are mounted/computer wakes from sleep options and I did find it needed a restart to kick in the changed times On 07/10/2008, at 10:03 AM, David Wood wrote: G'day All, I am experiencing some issues with the backing up from Time Machine to my Time Capsule. Currently running a Powerbook G4 and an iMac 1.8GHz G5 with Version 10.5.5 on both and both are wireless networked via Time Capsule. Simply put when Time Machine kicks in for both machines every hour it slows everything down and what is most frustrating, it in particular seems to affect the download speed from the internet. I am with Westnet and have talked to them we have conducted ping tests and everything is OK with the line so it is certainly something to do with my set up. What is interesting is that when I plug the ethernet cable from my Time Capsule back into either machine direct then the download speed automatically increases even when Time Machine is not backing up, which suggests there is a wireless issue with my Time Capsule. It was suggested that possibly my home phone which runs on 5.8GHz could be interfering with the wireless network, but I have moved it out of my office completely and it has made little or no difference as far as I can see. I really don't need to back up every hour as my machines are more for domestic use rather than business can I get Time Machine to just backup once per day and preferably then at a certain time when I am not likely to be using the net? Is there something I need to change on the configuration maybe on either to reduce the slowing down of my machines when the back up is running? Thanks for any input in advance, David -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) User Support Officer Laboratory Manager Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Leopard - The Temperamental Big Cat
On 07/10/2008, at 5:01 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote: I recently shifted to Leopard on my old PPC G5 but the yay factor has been replaced by the grr factor. My HP 1020 printer wasn't recognized. Google solved that one. But worse is that my two backup SATA drives on a Sonnet Tempo X4i card aren't mounted anymore. DriveUtility sees them but they can't be mounted. Repairing them hasn't worked. Updating the Sonnet firmware hasn't worked. So you are saying they have firmware 2.1.2 ( or greater ) and they do not work ? Is that correct ? I presume you have rebooted since the firmware upgrade ? Bob And now to totally get the blood boiling I open Eudora to find that my In box which once had a few hundred mail items is now empty (actually 3 recent items). The inbox file itself has only those three items. My backups are on the other drives (and aren't as current as I would like). Of course my versions of TechTool Pro and DiskWarrior don't work with Leopard... Argh! Anyone suggest a battle plan for In box recovery? (Aside from giving Eudora 6.2.x the flick). For bonus points - is there a way to get MMS on the iPhone yet? What were they thinking leaving that functionality out? Sigh - why did I sell my carrier pigeons ;) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Time Capsule Time machine
Just as a pointer if you're using your time capsule via wifi then it will be hogging the bandwidth, and because wireless shares a common media (all machines use the same frequencies) then it will decrease the available bandwidth for even the machine that isn't doing the backup. as wireless is a non switched bus network then you will lose a certain amount of bandwidth to packet negotiation (who gets to transmit/receive and when) and as traffic increases you will get more and more of this bandwidth lost to traffic management communications , and significantly, to collisions, particularly to back offs (where, after a packet collision both macs and the wifi router will back off their attempt to use the media for random amount of time to clear the connection and allow a new negotiation. as the ethernet cable on your macs and on your time capsule are both Gigabit ethernet and on the time capsule the ports are controlled via a switch (rather than an ethernet hub) then you will probably see a substantial increase in real bandwidth. as any traffic on the network destined for the Time capsule from one machine will not interfere with traffic from the other machine attempting to download. Also as there are less collisions (in fact a switch should, ideally, get no collisions) there is less bandwidth lost to negotiation and back offs. Thanks Mark for the input will give this a try now. David On 07/10/2008, at 11:45 AM, Mark Secker wrote: I use this: http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ changed my back up time to once every 3 hours Suggest you turn off the backup when disks are mounted/computer wakes from sleep options and I did find it needed a restart to kick in the changed times On 07/10/2008, at 10:03 AM, David Wood wrote: G'day All, I am experiencing some issues with the backing up from Time Machine to my Time Capsule. Currently running a Powerbook G4 and an iMac 1.8GHz G5 with Version 10.5.5 on both and both are wireless networked via Time Capsule. Simply put when Time Machine kicks in for both machines every hour it slows everything down and what is most frustrating, it in particular seems to affect the download speed from the internet. I am with Westnet and have talked to them we have conducted ping tests and everything is OK with the line so it is certainly something to do with my set up. What is interesting is that when I plug the ethernet cable from my Time Capsule back into either machine direct then the download speed automatically increases even when Time Machine is not backing up, which suggests there is a wireless issue with my Time Capsule. It was suggested that possibly my home phone which runs on 5.8GHz could be interfering with the wireless network, but I have moved it out of my office completely and it has made little or no difference as far as I can see. I really don't need to back up every hour as my machines are more for domestic use rather than business can I get Time Machine to just backup once per day and preferably then at a certain time when I am not likely to be using the net? Is there something I need to change on the configuration maybe on either to reduce the slowing down of my machines when the back up is running? Thanks for any input in advance, David -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) User Support Officer Laboratory Manager Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Mark Secker Computer Support Officer ph# 61-8-6488 1855 (ECEL) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Western Australia - CRICOS Provider No. 00126G ~ http://www.pbase.com/marxz It takes an idiot to do cool things that's why it's cool - Haruhara Haruka (FLCL) Ubi fumus, ibi fumus -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Time Capsule Time machine
Hi David David Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...both are wireless networked via Time Capsule. ...it slows everything down and what is most frustrating, it in particular seems to affect the download speed from the internet. When Time Machine is performing a backup it is using a portion of the available wireless bandwidth. Therefore it will be competing with the browser and downloads for bandwidth, which will slow both down. ...when I plug the ethernet cable from my Time Capsule back into either machine direct then the download speed automatically increases even when Time Machine is not backing up, which suggests there is a wireless issue with my Time Capsule. The wireless network will run at the speed of the slowest device on the network. If you have the Time Capsule running on 802.11n, and at least one of the computers on the network is 802.11g, then the network will run at 802.11g speeds. Also ethernet will normally be faster than a wireless connection, so yes you will get faster data transfer speeds and internet speeds when using an ethernet cable. I really don't need to back up every hour as my machines are more for domestic use rather than business can I get Time Machine to just backup once per day and preferably then at a certain time when I am not likely to be using the net? Is there something I need to change on the configuration maybe on either to reduce the slowing down of my machines when the back up is running? It appears you already have an answer to this one. HTH Regards Daniel F. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Leopard - The Temperamental Big Cat
I recently shifted to Leopard on my old PPC G5 but the yay factor has been replaced by the grr factor. My HP 1020 printer wasn't recognized. Google solved that one. But worse is that my two backup SATA drives on a Sonnet Tempo X4i card aren't mounted anymore. DriveUtility sees them but they can't be mounted. Repairing them hasn't worked. Updating the Sonnet firmware hasn't worked. And now to totally get the blood boiling I open Eudora to find that my In box which once had a few hundred mail items is now empty (actually 3 recent items). The inbox file itself has only those three items. My backups are on the other drives (and aren't as current as I would like). Of course my versions of TechTool Pro and DiskWarrior don't work with Leopard... Argh! Anyone suggest a battle plan for In box recovery? (Aside from giving Eudora 6.2.x the flick). For bonus points - is there a way to get MMS on the iPhone yet? What were they thinking leaving that functionality out? Sigh - why did I sell my carrier pigeons ;) Anthony, I'd suggest even when you get the updated DiskWarrior you have a complete backup of Eudora in a Very Safe Place. DW has wreaked havoc with my In folder, and no constructive response from Pica. An overnight backup was the best available. Jame -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Leopard - The Temperamental Big Cat
I recently shifted to Leopard on my old PPC G5 but the yay factor has been replaced by the grr factor. My HP 1020 printer wasn't recognized. Google solved that one. But worse is that my two backup SATA drives on a Sonnet Tempo X4i card aren't mounted anymore. DriveUtility sees them but they can't be mounted. Repairing them hasn't worked. Updating the Sonnet firmware hasn't worked. And now to totally get the blood boiling I open Eudora to find that my In box which once had a few hundred mail items is now empty (actually 3 recent items). The inbox file itself has only those three items. My backups are on the other drives (and aren't as current as I would like). Of course my versions of TechTool Pro and DiskWarrior don't work with Leopard... Argh! Anyone suggest a battle plan for In box recovery? (Aside from giving Eudora 6.2.x the flick). For bonus points - is there a way to get MMS on the iPhone yet? What were they thinking leaving that functionality out? Sigh - why did I sell my carrier pigeons ;) -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AppleWorks 6 page setup
I think the problem identified below might have started when I updated to 10.5.5 in mid-September. Repairing permissions and removing com.apple.appleworks.plist from the Users Library Preference folder was of no avail. However, tonight I repeated the procedure but in addition removed the contents of the AppleWorks folder from the same Preference folder. Restarted, launched AppleWorks and Page Setup now works. Merv At 11:17 AM +0800 6/10/08, Mervyn Giuliana Bond wrote: Running an intel iMac on 10.5.5 I can't remember when the problem with AppleWorks 6.2.9 started on the iMac but here it is: I opened an existing document and then selected Page Setup. Made my choice and clicked OK. The contents of the document seemed to slip to the left and leave me with a dark grey page. At the time I was using an OKIPage 8 printer that is on my wife's iBook G4 on 10.4.11 power PC. There is no driver for the OKI on intel. Assuming this was the problem I tried the same procedure for the Epson Stylus C61 which has a driver on my computer and is connected to my computer. Same result. Thinking the existing document might be corrupted in some way I tried a new document but got the same result. Suggestions appreciated. Merv -- Science teaches that we must see in order to believe, but we must also believe in order to see. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Time Capsule Time machine
Thanks Neil for the input. I have in fact been turning it off and on but wanted it automated as with age forgetfulness does reign!! Hopefully the info from Mark will do the trick. Still not sure though why the download speed is slower via Time Capsule? Thanks again, David On 07/10/2008, at 11:07 AM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi David, Not an answer, per se, to your problem - but what I do is have Time machine set-up then switch it off. Then when I think it is time to do a back-up (usually once a day but sometimes an extra one or two if I'm busy!) I just turn on Time machine, do back-up now and then turn it off again. Of course, this does defeat the set forget advantage of Time machine and relies on you actually remembering to back-up - but this is not something I have a problem with and the Time Machine menu bar item makes it really quick to Open Time Machine Preferences, turn it on, Back Up Now and then turn it off. I have a couple of reasons for doing this: - Like you I think that the default hourly back-up is too frequent. - My external disks are fairly quiet but my iMacs are really quiet and I still find the disk noise distracting - so I tend to leave them switched off and just switch them on for my (manual) back-up. Since you are using a Time Capsule, I assume that your backup disk is always mounted - so if there is not an easy solution to actually schedule The Time Machine back-ups, I wonder if there is a way to automate the switch on, back-up, switch-off approach that I describe? I haven't done much with Applescript or automator so I'm not sure of the scriptability of all these actions but others may be able to advise whether there is a way to automate/script this? HTH Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 7/10/08 10:03 AM, David Wood at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day All, I am experiencing some issues with the backing up from Time Machine to my Time Capsule. Currently running a Powerbook G4 and an iMac 1.8GHz G5 with Version 10.5.5 on both and both are wireless networked via Time Capsule. Simply put when Time Machine kicks in for both machines every hour it slows everything down and what is most frustrating, it in particular seems to affect the download speed from the internet. I am with Westnet and have talked to them we have conducted ping tests and everything is OK with the line so it is certainly something to do with my set up. What is interesting is that when I plug the ethernet cable from my Time Capsule back into either machine direct then the download speed automatically increases even when Time Machine is not backing up, which suggests there is a wireless issue with my Time Capsule. It was suggested that possibly my home phone which runs on 5.8GHz could be interfering with the wireless network, but I have moved it out of my office completely and it has made little or no difference as far as I can see. I really don't need to back up every hour as my machines are more for domestic use rather than business can I get Time Machine to just backup once per day and preferably then at a certain time when I am not likely to be using the net? Is there something I need to change on the configuration maybe on either to reduce the slowing down of my machines when the back up is running? Thanks for any input in advance, David -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Leopard - The Temperamental Big Cat
On 07/10/2008, at 5:01 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote: For bonus points - is there a way to get MMS on the iPhone yet? What were they thinking leaving that functionality out? I have no idea what they were thinking, but if you have a Jailbroken iPhone then SwirlyMMS is an option. Haven't used it myself (no iPhone) but have heard good things about it: http://blog.swirlyspace.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Leopard - The Temperamental Big Cat
Antony N. Lord wrote: I recently shifted to Leopard on my old PPC G5 but the yay factor has been replaced by the grr factor. My HP 1020 printer wasn't recognized. Google solved that one. But worse is that my two backup SATA drives on a Sonnet Tempo X4i card aren't mounted anymore. DriveUtility sees them but they can't be mounted. Repairing them hasn't worked. Updating the Sonnet firmware hasn't worked. And now to totally get the blood boiling I open Eudora to find that my In box which once had a few hundred mail items is now empty (actually 3 recent items). The inbox file itself has only those three items. My backups are on the other drives (and aren't as current as I would like). Of course my versions of TechTool Pro and DiskWarrior don't work with Leopard... Argh! Anyone suggest a battle plan for In box recovery? (Aside from giving Eudora 6.2.x the flick). For bonus points - is there a way to get MMS on the iPhone yet? What were they thinking leaving that functionality out? Sigh - why did I sell my carrier pigeons ;) Have you gone to your Eudora folder and double clicked on 'Eudora settings'? If you get it alive again use Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to import the mail to Mail and yes give that old horse the flick!! ;-) Good luck Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Firefox
This morning the Firefox start page displays with Chinese characters. I have gone through the preferences and selected English as the page display language, but can't see where to change the start page back to English. Any ideas for me? Regards Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox
My Safari - Google home page started with the japenese site This morning the Firefox start page displays with Chinese characters. I have gone through the preferences and selected English as the page display language, but can't see where to change the start page back to English. Any ideas for me? Regards Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox
On 08/10/2008, at 6:34 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote: This morning the Firefox start page displays with Chinese characters. I have gone through the preferences and selected English as the page display language, but can't see where to change the start page back to English. Any ideas for me? Regards Kevin What happens if you change your preferences to start with show a blank page and then select the website you wish to visit Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Leopard - The Temperamental Big Cat
As another aside to this topic. My MacBook, intel, MacOs 10.5.5 will not recognize the HP3500 scanner. Works for one scan only and then hangs necessitating a force-quit and sometimes a restart. Have downloaded and installed the latest drivers (for 10.4.x, none listed for Leopard) and also tried the latest from Vuescan, which acts in the same manner. All to no avail. Surprisingly enough the HP3500 works fine on the MacMini G4 running Leopard, so looks as if it could be an Intel issue. Any ideas? Regards John Thompson On 08/10/2008, at 7:12 AM, Paul Kitchener wrote: Antony N. Lord wrote: I recently shifted to Leopard on my old PPC G5 but the yay factor has been replaced by the grr factor. My HP 1020 printer wasn't recognized. Google solved that one. But worse is that my two backup SATA drives on a Sonnet Tempo X4i card aren't mounted anymore. DriveUtility sees them but they can't be mounted. Repairing them hasn't worked. Updating the Sonnet firmware hasn't worked. And now to totally get the blood boiling I open Eudora to find that my In box which once had a few hundred mail items is now empty (actually 3 recent items). The inbox file itself has only those three items. My backups are on the other drives (and aren't as current as I would like). Of course my versions of TechTool Pro and DiskWarrior don't work with Leopard... Argh! Anyone suggest a battle plan for In box recovery? (Aside from giving Eudora 6.2.x the flick). For bonus points - is there a way to get MMS on the iPhone yet? What were they thinking leaving that functionality out? Sigh - why did I sell my carrier pigeons ;) Have you gone to your Eudora folder and double clicked on 'Eudora settings'? If you get it alive again use Eudora Mailbox Cleaner to import the mail to Mail and yes give that old horse the flick!! ;-) Good luck Paul -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox
On 08/10/2008, at 6:34 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote: This morning the Firefox start page displays with Chinese characters. I have gone through the preferences and selected English as the page display language, but can't see where to change the start page back to English. Any ideas for me? Hi Kev, Check in Firefox Preferences under 'Content' Default font: Times then click Advanced (beside this) check that Default character encoding is set to Western (ISO-8859-1) not unicode. Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Time Capsule Time machine
Thanks to Daniel and Mark. I now more clearly understand the limitations and the reasons why I lose speed with Time Capsule. It really is great for a lay person such as me to have this knowledge on tap thanks again to all for your input. David On 07/10/2008, at 8:42 PM, Daniel Forsdyke wrote: Hi David David Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...both are wireless networked via Time Capsule. ...it slows everything down and what is most frustrating, it in particular seems to affect the download speed from the internet. When Time Machine is performing a backup it is using a portion of the available wireless bandwidth. Therefore it will be competing with the browser and downloads for bandwidth, which will slow both down. ...when I plug the ethernet cable from my Time Capsule back into either machine direct then the download speed automatically increases even when Time Machine is not backing up, which suggests there is a wireless issue with my Time Capsule. The wireless network will run at the speed of the slowest device on the network. If you have the Time Capsule running on 802.11n, and at least one of the computers on the network is 802.11g, then the network will run at 802.11g speeds. Also ethernet will normally be faster than a wireless connection, so yes you will get faster data transfer speeds and internet speeds when using an ethernet cable. I really don't need to back up every hour as my machines are more for domestic use rather than business can I get Time Machine to just backup once per day and preferably then at a certain time when I am not likely to be using the net? Is there something I need to change on the configuration maybe on either to reduce the slowing down of my machines when the back up is running? It appears you already have an answer to this one. HTH Regards Daniel F. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox
What happens if you change your preferences to start with show a blank page and then select the website you wish to visit that's exactly everyone should do, in that way you do not announce that you are online, especially 'bill gates/micro$oft' is watching since i'm online (13years) my browsers are set to blank and i'm only getting what i want and not what they want you to see i just used google, all was ok on safari James On 08/10/2008, at 8:15, Robert Howells wrote: On 08/10/2008, at 6:34 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote: This morning the Firefox start page displays with Chinese characters. I have gone through the preferences and selected English as the page display language, but can't see where to change the start page back to English. Any ideas for me? Regards Kevin Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox
Ronni is the Guru! Thanks Ronni, all is well again. regards Kevin -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
