Re: Search Window
Hello Travis, 1. Bring up a search window using Command-F 2. Click on File Name instead of Contents Below was written by Francine Schwieder: While there isn't a thing you can do about the toolbar default, you CAN render it irrelevant. If you bring up the Find window using the shortcut of Command-Shift-F, then you will get Name:Contains with the cursor blinking in the blank entry field. Type the file name you want to find, and the results will be files whose actual file name contains whatever you typed. Furthermore, if you don't want to be bothered by using the shift key, you can go to System Prefs- KeyboardMouse-Shortcuts and reverse the two shortcuts, so that Find... with the Kind nonsense becomes Command-Shift-F, and Find by Name... is a simple Command-F. Restart the Finder after you make your changes, and then whenever you do Command-F you will get a search box with Name:Contains and the cursor blinking in the field for you to just type your search word-- the results will be files containing your word in their NAME, not the content. There still ain't a dang thing you can do about the default of searching This Mac rather than the folder you were in when you invoked the search. You can take a look at the article she wrote on Spotlight at the link below: http://www.pinkmutant.com/articles/Leopard/leospot.html Cheers, Ronni On 11/03/2009, at 2:55 PM, Travis Hansen wrote: Hi all, There's something that's been bugging me since upgrading to Leopard. When I open a normal Finder window and type something in the search field in the top right corner, it searches the contents of the files on my mac because (of course) the Contents button is selected by default. Is there a way to have the File Name button selected by default when doing a search in this way? 99% of the time I only want to search the file names. Cheers Travis -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Search Window
Travis If I enter a word in Spotlight it initially produces a list with the first item, Show All. When I click on Show All a dialogue box appears and in the headings are Contents and File Name. As you say, Contents is the default, but a click on File Name produces what you want. If in the Finder you go to File and Find you get the same window as clicking on Show All in Spotlight. Click on File Name. Seconds are precious but that is about all it takes. You can also use key board shortcuts to open these windows. See Spotlight preferences. Merv Hi all, There's something that's been bugging me since upgrading to Leopard. When I open a normal Finder window and type something in the search field in the top right corner, it searches the contents of the files on my mac because (of course) the Contents button is selected by default. Is there a way to have the File Name button selected by default when doing a search in this way? 99% of the time I only want to search the file names. Cheers Travis -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone car kit
Hi all, There is also this devices that may work as well .. * ILuv I720 Bluetooth Hands-Free Kit With Remote Control And FM Transmitter For IPod Have anyone used it? Cheers, Peder On 11/03/2009, at 12:34 , ponti...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 10/03/2009, at 12:50 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Does anyone know if there is there a car kit available for the iPhone? If not is there a way of connecting one to an existing car kit aerial? If you are talking just about making phone calls, with an extended mobile phone range, then TH Bury (www.bury.com) have either a dedicated cradle (Uni TakeTalk) for the 3G iphone, or a Bluetooth cradle, with inductive aerial (Take Talk BT). With the latter, a separate charging cable is needed is available for the 3G iphone. I have used the Take Talk BT (without a charging cable for the iphone) connected to an external aerial and it certainly extends the mobile phone range in rural areas, although if hills are between you and the tower, the range extension will be minimal. However, of itself, the Take Talk BT does not support the iPod function of the iPhone, at least in the car that I have used it in. If you are just after a hands free unit, without an external aerial, there are a lot cheaper options than the TH Bury products. Richard -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Music CD catalog app
I am looking for a simple app to catalog my music CDs. I do not play any music on my iMac [24 in/3.06/10.5.6/4gb] as my computer is located in my study where I have a superb stereo music setup so I only play CDs on that. But I do want to be able to make a catalog of all my CDs [so far only about 150] and load all my CDs in an app which will show CD name, each song title, singer, etc. And enable me to search on song title, artist name, CD name. etc. I don't want to load the songs into iTunes as that's a waste of space. I thought I would just be able to import the CD into iTunes and save the CD title, contents, etc in iTunes and then eject the CD/delete the songs but apparently I can't. Is that possible? Any bright ideas out there pse. I have looked at a number of shareware apps on Version Tracker but I have no real opinion on their quality. Thanks Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA The Apple Religion: Geek Orthodox -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Music CD catalog app
Hi peter have a look at cdpedia I use DVDpedia and its great. Roger CDpedia is a CD manager software for Mac OS X. Its familiar iTunes style interface makes it easy to use. It integrates with iTunes so that you may know what CDs in your collection you have imported. You also have access to all the Amazon sites as well as other international music sites to retrieve information for your database. On Wed Mar 11 16:45 , Peter Sealy carp...@internode.on.net sent: I am looking for a simple app to catalog my music CDs. I do not play any music on my iMac [24 in/3.06/10.5.6/4gb] as my computer is located in my study where I have a superb stereo music setup so I only play CDs on that. But I do want to be able to make a catalog of all my CDs [so far only about 150] and load all my CDs in an app which will show CD name, each song title, singer, etc. And enable me to search on song title, artist name, CD name. etc. I don't want to load the songs into iTunes as that's a waste of space. I thought I would just be able to import the CD into iTunes and save the CD title, contents, etc in iTunes and then eject the CD/delete the songs but apparently I can't. Is that possible? Any bright ideas out there pse. I have looked at a number of shareware apps on Version Tracker but I have no real opinion on their quality. Thanks Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA The Apple Religion: Geek Orthodox -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au ) -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Winmail.dat
Hi Bob Does Enough run on 10.5? John On 11/03/2009, at 7:20 AM, Edwards Cranston wrote: Hi all, I often get e-mails attachments with winmail .dat as an attachment. I cannot open these files and any suggestions on how to open these would be appreciated. Regards Cranston. From the WAMUG archives : *** Fri Oct 20 19:05:07 2000 The problem you are having with winmail.dat is that your friends are sending from M$ Outlook (not express) using the M$ rich text option. POP mail clients can't interpret this RTF and so it gets transformed into winmail.dat or application/tnef or something like that. It makes attachments unreadable. The remedy - a utility called TNEF's Enough. I can't remember where I got it but it works a treat. Try download.com or kagi.com or versiontracker.com. You save the winmail.dat file and open it in TNEFs Enough and it extracts the attachments. Cheers Greg *** Have fun 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Winmail.dat
Hello John, I'm fairly sure Version 2.0 of TNEF's Enough works in Leopard. Download it and see ;-) http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/download.html There is also this app tnefDD decodes winmail.dat files, works with Leopard, and is free. http://tnefdd.sourceforge.net/tnefDD/Overview.html Cheers, Ronni On 11/03/2009, at 6:11 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi Bob Does Enough run on 10.5? John On 11/03/2009, at 7:20 AM, Edwards Cranston wrote: Hi all, I often get e-mails attachments with winmail .dat as an attachment. I cannot open these files and any suggestions on how to open these would be appreciated. Regards Cranston. From the WAMUG archives : *** Fri Oct 20 19:05:07 2000 The problem you are having with winmail.dat is that your friends are sending from M$ Outlook (not express) using the M$ rich text option. POP mail clients can't interpret this RTF and so it gets transformed into winmail.dat or application/tnef or something like that. It makes attachments unreadable. The remedy - a utility called TNEF's Enough. I can't remember where I got it but it works a treat. Try download.com or kagi.com or versiontracker.com. You save the winmail.dat file and open it in TNEFs Enough and it extracts the attachments. Cheers Greg *** Have fun 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone car kit
The car kit I have at present is hard wired into the audio system, as is the iPod, it automatically switches the audio system from iPod/ radio etc. to phone when the phone is in use which greatly superior FM transmitters, it also keeps the phone charged. The carriage is mounted on an arm that retracts into the centre console which keeps it out of sight and harms way. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 11/03/2009, at 5:30 PM, Peder Kristensen wrote: Hi all, There is also this devices that may work as well .. * ILuv I720 Bluetooth Hands-Free Kit With Remote Control And FM Transmitter For IPod Have anyone used it? Cheers, Peder On 11/03/2009, at 12:34 , ponti...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 10/03/2009, at 12:50 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Does anyone know if there is there a car kit available for the iPhone? If not is there a way of connecting one to an existing car kit aerial? If you are talking just about making phone calls, with an extended mobile phone range, then TH Bury (www.bury.com) have either a dedicated cradle (Uni TakeTalk) for the 3G iphone, or a Bluetooth cradle, with inductive aerial (Take Talk BT). With the latter, a separate charging cable is needed is available for the 3G iphone. I have used the Take Talk BT (without a charging cable for the iphone) connected to an external aerial and it certainly extends the mobile phone range in rural areas, although if hills are between you and the tower, the range extension will be minimal. However, of itself, the Take Talk BT does not support the iPod function of the iPhone, at least in the car that I have used it in. If you are just after a hands free unit, without an external aerial, there are a lot cheaper options than the TH Bury products. Richard -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Winmail.dat
Yes Ronni, seems to work OK thanks John Hello John, I'm fairly sure Version 2.0 of TNEF's Enough works in Leopard. Download it and see ;-) http://www.joshjacob.com/macdev/tnef/download.html There is also this app tnefDD decodes winmail.dat files, works with Leopard, and is free. http://tnefdd.sourceforge.net/tnefDD/Overview.html Cheers, Ronni On 11/03/2009, at 6:11 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi Bob Does Enough run on 10.5? John On 11/03/2009, at 7:20 AM, Edwards Cranston wrote: Hi all, I often get e-mails attachments with winmail .dat as an attachment. I cannot open these files and any suggestions on how to open these would be appreciated. Regards Cranston. From the WAMUG archives : *** Fri Oct 20 19:05:07 2000 The problem you are having with winmail.dat is that your friends are sending from M$ Outlook (not express) using the M$ rich text option. POP mail clients can't interpret this RTF and so it gets transformed into winmail.dat or application/tnef or something like that. It makes attachments unreadable. The remedy - a utility called TNEF's Enough. I can't remember where I got it but it works a treat. Try download.com or kagi.com or versiontracker.com. You save the winmail.dat file and open it in TNEFs Enough and it extracts the attachments. Cheers Greg *** Have fun 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download
On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: I know there are Terminal commands that could be typed to trash this file but. There is absolutely NO WAY I want this guy going anywhere near Terminal ... Heaven Forbid! He is a very basic Mac user, doesn't follow instructions well (even with screenshots I include with my instructions), and can stuff up anything and I mean really Stuff Up anything! I remember using this in Jaguar days I think it was. Do you think it is worth a try in Leopard 10.5.6? I understand your trepidation with introducing him to Terminal, but with everything that;s been tried and failed, it may be his only recourse. I it doesn't have to be as hard as all that, though. He only has to type two characters. Get him to launch Terminal, and make the wondow small enough that he can see the problem file on the desktop. All he has to do is type rm (that's r m space) and drag the problem file onto the Terminal window and press Return (I'm sure you know all this but the careful instructions are for his benefit, not yours necessarily). That should remove the horrible thing. After that it's all a bit of clutching at varous straws. One approach might be to change it's file association, as a wy of disentangling it from what ever program it thinks has control at the moment. The essential probem is that OS X has flagged the file as Open (the act of canceling the download failed to close it). The rm command does not respect all the same flags that Finder does, so it might work. Just as an aside, I once backed up the contents of a client's User Account (Windows XP) to an external hard drive of mine. I repaired his system and everything was fine with his computer, but for the longest time after I had his user folder locked in place on my drive. I finally had to run Parallels on my Mac and mount the drive in Windows, at which point I could actually remove the files, but NOT their parent folders. They are still on that drive to this day. I think the only way I'm ever going to remove them is to format the drive. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download
At great risk of showing my ignorance here--in a case like this, if you start the offending computer in target mode could the offending file be trashed on the second computer? Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 12/03/2009, at 8:31 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: I know there are Terminal commands that could be typed to trash this file but. There is absolutely NO WAY I want this guy going anywhere near Terminal ... Heaven Forbid! He is a very basic Mac user, doesn't follow instructions well (even with screenshots I include with my instructions), and can stuff up anything and I mean really Stuff Up anything! I remember using this in Jaguar days I think it was. Do you think it is worth a try in Leopard 10.5.6? I understand your trepidation with introducing him to Terminal, but with everything that;s been tried and failed, it may be his only recourse. I it doesn't have to be as hard as all that, though. He only has to type two characters. Get him to launch Terminal, and make the wondow small enough that he can see the problem file on the desktop. All he has to do is type rm (that's r m space) and drag the problem file onto the Terminal window and press Return (I'm sure you know all this but the careful instructions are for his benefit, not yours necessarily). That should remove the horrible thing. After that it's all a bit of clutching at varous straws. One approach might be to change it's file association, as a wy of disentangling it from what ever program it thinks has control at the moment. The essential probem is that OS X has flagged the file as Open (the act of canceling the download failed to close it). The rm command does not respect all the same flags that Finder does, so it might work. Just as an aside, I once backed up the contents of a client's User Account (Windows XP) to an external hard drive of mine. I repaired his system and everything was fine with his computer, but for the longest time after I had his user folder locked in place on my drive. I finally had to run Parallels on my Mac and mount the drive in Windows, at which point I could actually remove the files, but NOT their parent folders. They are still on that drive to this day. I think the only way I'm ever going to remove them is to format the drive. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download
On 12/03/2009, at 8:47 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: At great risk of showing my ignorance No such thing here--in a case like this, if you start the offending computer in target mode could the offending file be trashed on the second computer? Brilliant idea that quite probably will work . I used to use that method booting between os 9 and OSX . Bob Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 12/03/2009, at 8:31 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: I know there are Terminal commands that could be typed to trash this file but. There is absolutely NO WAY I want this guy going anywhere near Terminal ... Heaven Forbid! He is a very basic Mac user, doesn't follow instructions well (even with screenshots I include with my instructions), and can stuff up anything and I mean really Stuff Up anything! I remember using this in Jaguar days I think it was. Do you think it is worth a try in Leopard 10.5.6? I understand your trepidation with introducing him to Terminal, but with everything that;s been tried and failed, it may be his only recourse. I it doesn't have to be as hard as all that, though. He only has to type two characters. Get him to launch Terminal, and make the wondow small enough that he can see the problem file on the desktop. All he has to do is type rm (that's r m space) and drag the problem file onto the Terminal window and press Return (I'm sure you know all this but the careful instructions are for his benefit, not yours necessarily). That should remove the horrible thing. After that it's all a bit of clutching at varous straws. One approach might be to change it's file association, as a wy of disentangling it from what ever program it thinks has control at the moment. The essential probem is that OS X has flagged the file as Open (the act of canceling the download failed to close it). The rm command does not respect all the same flags that Finder does, so it might work. Just as an aside, I once backed up the contents of a client's User Account (Windows XP) to an external hard drive of mine. I repaired his system and everything was fine with his computer, but for the longest time after I had his user folder locked in place on my drive. I finally had to run Parallels on my Mac and mount the drive in Windows, at which point I could actually remove the files, but NOT their parent folders. They are still on that drive to this day. I think the only way I'm ever going to remove them is to format the drive. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download
Thanks Peter, Adrian, Bob Roger, A good idea Adrian ... but, the guy is way down south in the country with only ONE computer and no way of borrowing another ;-) I'm not going down with my MacBook Pro just to delete this uncompleted corrupted file. I've sent him an email with these suggestions, I think now he has managed to get the file into the Trash, but, I'm not sure. (WAMUG won't see the screenshots that I have to send him) So I have asked him. The File is in the Trash? If it is in the Trash a couple of things to try to empty (without using Terminal Commands). Hold the Shift Key or the Shift-Option keyboard shortcut while selecting Empty Trash from the Dock Menu of the Trash. If that doesn't get rid of the file rename the file: 1. Rename the file to remove.rtf (without the quotation marks) If you don't know how to change the name of a file ... To do this you click once on the name under the file, then click once again, you will get this: Drag your Cursor over all the title you get this: (WAMUG will not see the you get this screenshots) then type remove.rtf 2. Open TextEdit (/Applications/TextEdit) 3. From the File menu, choose Save As 4. Select the location where the file is located 5. Type: remove in the Save As field (it should be showing this) 6. Click Save, then Replace 7. Quit TextEdit 8. Drag remove.rtf to the Trash 9. Empty the Trash And when this does not work to delete this blxxdy file, heaven help me when I have to explain to him how to open Terminal and type a command. When I asked him to Open or Launch Disk Utility to Repair permissions ( I sent Screenshots with red arrows with HD Applications Utilities Disk Utility.app and Open Disk Utility Application ... he only highlights the Disk Utility.app and then aks me why doesn't he get the same window as mine? (Which is the Disk Utility window when Disk Utility Opens ...) He has to be reminded every time to Double Click Disk Utility.app to Open it! That's why I've been trying everything possible without using Terminal. I asked him once to use Terminal I still have Nightmares about the mess I had to fix! This guy is a disaster area on a Mac. I've told Daniel Kerr many stories of the impossible messes I've had to correct on this guys computer. I went down once and found he had no Home Folder ... and wondered why his stupid computer would not work properly. I've had difficult Clients in my time, but this guy takes the cake! He is really unbelievable how he can create a disaster out of the most simple exercise. Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2009, at 9:20 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 12/03/2009, at 8:47 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: At great risk of showing my ignorance No such thing here--in a case like this, if you start the offending computer in target mode could the offending file be trashed on the second computer? Brilliant idea that quite probably will work . I used to use that method booting between os 9 and OSX . Bob Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 12/03/2009, at 8:31 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: I know there are Terminal commands that could be typed to trash this file but. There is absolutely NO WAY I want this guy going anywhere near Terminal ... Heaven Forbid! He is a very basic Mac user, doesn't follow instructions well (even with screenshots I include with my instructions), and can stuff up anything and I mean really Stuff Up anything! I remember using this in Jaguar days I think it was. Do you think it is worth a try in Leopard 10.5.6? I understand your trepidation with introducing him to Terminal, but with everything that;s been tried and failed, it may be his only recourse. I it doesn't have to be as hard as all that, though. He only has to type two characters. Get him to launch Terminal, and make the wondow small enough that he can see the problem file on the desktop. All he has to do is type rm (that's r m space) and drag the problem file onto the Terminal window and press Return (I'm sure you know all this but the careful instructions are for his benefit, not yours necessarily). That should remove the horrible thing. After that it's all a bit of clutching at varous straws. One approach might be to change it's file association, as a wy of disentangling it from what ever program it thinks has control at the moment. The essential probem is that OS X has flagged the file as Open (the act of canceling the download failed to close it). The rm command does not respect all the same flags that Finder does, so it might work. Just as an aside, I once backed up the contents of a client's User Account (Windows XP) to an external hard drive of mine. I repaired his system and everything was fine with his computer, but for the longest time after I had his user folder locked in place on my drive. I finally had to run
Help - Firefox Wont Launch
Hi Halfway through a Firefox session a strange dialogue box came up. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was. I tried to cancel it, But Firefox seemed to freeze. After a Force Quit, now I can't get Firefox to launch. It seems to launch but there is no Firefox Window. I have deleted the mozilla prefs or plist. I have also downloaded a new copy, but still it won't launch. I have Repaired Disk Permissions and run MacJanitor. The following message was in Console 12/03/09 8:32:53 AM com.apple.launchd[141] ([0x0-0x1d01d].org.mozilla.firefox[258]) Exited with exit code: 143 Please - any suggestions would be appreciated. Ta Rod Blitvich -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Help - Firefox Wont Launch
On 12/03/2009, at 12:58 PM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Halfway through a Firefox session a strange dialogue box came up. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was. I tried to cancel it, But Firefox seemed to freeze. After a Force Quit, now I can't get Firefox to launch. It seems to launch but there is no Firefox Window. I have deleted the mozilla prefs or plist. I have also downloaded a new copy, but still it won't launch. I have Repaired Disk Permissions and run MacJanitor. The following message was in Console 12/03/09 8:32:53 AM com.apple.launchd[141] ([0x0-0x1d01d].org.mozilla.firefox[258]) Exited with exit code: 143 Please - any suggestions would be appreciated. Ta Rod Blitvich Start up as an alternative User ... create a new user if you have to and try firefox from there 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Help - Firefox Wont Launch
Thanks Bob Firefox is OK when i log in as a different user. So what is the next step (please)? ta Rod On Thu Mar 12 12:06 , Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au sent: On 12/03/2009, at 12:58 PM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Halfway through a Firefox session a strange dialogue box came up. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was. I tried to cancel it, But Firefox seemed to freeze. After a Force Quit, now I can't get Firefox to launch. It seems to launch but there is no Firefox Window. I have deleted the mozilla prefs or plist. I have also downloaded a new copy, but still it won't launch. I have Repaired Disk Permissions and run MacJanitor. The following message was in Console 12/03/09 8:32:53 AM com.apple.launchd[141] ([0x0-0x1d01d].org.mozilla.firefox[258]) Exited with exit code: 143 Please - any suggestions would be appreciated. Ta Rod Blitvich Start up as an alternative User ... create a new user if you have to and try firefox from there 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au ) -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download
Hi Ronni, How far down South? We are just south of Yallingup and could be of MODERATE help ( I thought you may be talking about me until mentioning the mere male only had One computer, we have TWO) Regards Darrel On 12/03/2009, at 10:09 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Thanks Peter, Adrian, Bob Roger, A good idea Adrian ... but, the guy is way down south in the country with only ONE computer and no way of borrowing another ;-) I'm not going down with my MacBook Pro just to delete this uncompleted corrupted file. I've sent him an email with these suggestions, I think now he has managed to get the file into the Trash, but, I'm not sure. (WAMUG won't see the screenshots that I have to send him) So I have asked him. The File is in the Trash? If it is in the Trash a couple of things to try to empty (without using Terminal Commands). Hold the Shift Key or the Shift-Option keyboard shortcut while selecting Empty Trash from the Dock Menu of the Trash. If that doesn't get rid of the file rename the file: 1. Rename the file to remove.rtf (without the quotation marks) If you don't know how to change the name of a file ... To do this you click once on the name under the file, then click once again, you will get this: Drag your Cursor over all the title you get this: (WAMUG will not see the you get this screenshots) then type remove.rtf 2. Open TextEdit (/Applications/TextEdit) 3. From the File menu, choose Save As 4. Select the location where the file is located 5. Type: remove in the Save As field (it should be showing this) 6. Click Save, then Replace 7. Quit TextEdit 8. Drag remove.rtf to the Trash 9. Empty the Trash And when this does not work to delete this blxxdy file, heaven help me when I have to explain to him how to open Terminal and type a command. When I asked him to Open or Launch Disk Utility to Repair permissions ( I sent Screenshots with red arrows with HD Applications Utilities Disk Utility.app and Open Disk Utility Application ... he only highlights the Disk Utility.app and then aks me why doesn't he get the same window as mine? (Which is the Disk Utility window when Disk Utility Opens ...) He has to be reminded every time to Double Click Disk Utility.app to Open it! That's why I've been trying everything possible without using Terminal. I asked him once to use Terminal I still have Nightmares about the mess I had to fix! This guy is a disaster area on a Mac. I've told Daniel Kerr many stories of the impossible messes I've had to correct on this guys computer. I went down once and found he had no Home Folder ... and wondered why his stupid computer would not work properly. I've had difficult Clients in my time, but this guy takes the cake! He is really unbelievable how he can create a disaster out of the most simple exercise. Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2009, at 9:20 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 12/03/2009, at 8:47 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote: At great risk of showing my ignorance No such thing here--in a case like this, if you start the offending computer in target mode could the offending file be trashed on the second computer? Brilliant idea that quite probably will work . I used to use that method booting between os 9 and OSX . Bob Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 12/03/2009, at 8:31 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 11/03/2009, at 1:51 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: I know there are Terminal commands that could be typed to trash this file but. There is absolutely NO WAY I want this guy going anywhere near Terminal ... Heaven Forbid! He is a very basic Mac user, doesn't follow instructions well (even with screenshots I include with my instructions), and can stuff up anything and I mean really Stuff Up anything! I remember using this in Jaguar days I think it was. Do you think it is worth a try in Leopard 10.5.6? I understand your trepidation with introducing him to Terminal, but with everything that;s been tried and failed, it may be his only recourse. I it doesn't have to be as hard as all that, though. He only has to type two characters. Get him to launch Terminal, and make the wondow small enough that he can see the problem file on the desktop. All he has to do is type rm (that's r m space) and drag the problem file onto the Terminal window and press Return (I'm sure you know all this but the careful instructions are for his benefit, not yours necessarily). That should remove the horrible thing. After that it's all a bit of clutching at varous straws. One approach might be to change it's file association, as a wy of disentangling it from what ever program it thinks has control at the moment. The essential probem is that OS X has flagged the file as Open (the act of canceling the download failed to close it). The rm command does not respect all the same flags that Finder does, so it might work. Just as an aside, I once
Re: Help - Firefox Wont Launch
On 12/03/2009, at 1:14 PM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Bob Firefox is OK when i log in as a different user. So what is the next step (please)? ta Rod So from that we conclude the problem is most likely to be in your user , so you explore in Hard drive - users - your user - Library - for things firefox and Mozilla . You could throw them all away but you would probably lose all your bookmarks so you need to be selective ... If we ask the question ... if something off the net has stored itself in Firefox where is the most likely place to look ? I would try ... Caches and Cookies You should find caches in USer - library - caches - Firefox - profiles - I am not sure about cookies with firefox . AND There is another place to look and that is : User - Library - Application support - Firefox Noy sure what you will find there . AND User - Library - Preferences - org.mozilla.Firefox.plist HTH's Bob On Thu Mar 12 12:06 , Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au sent: On 12/03/2009, at 12:58 PM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Halfway through a Firefox session a strange dialogue box came up. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was. I tried to cancel it, But Firefox seemed to freeze. After a Force Quit, now I can't get Firefox to launch. It seems to launch but there is no Firefox Window. I have deleted the mozilla prefs or plist. I have also downloaded a new copy, but still it won't launch. I have Repaired Disk Permissions and run MacJanitor. The following message was in Console 12/03/09 8:32:53 AM com.apple.launchd[141] ([0x0-0x1d01d].org.mozilla.firefox[258]) Exited with exit code: 143 Please - any suggestions would be appreciated. Ta Rod Blitvich Start up as an alternative User ... create a new user if you have to and try firefox from there 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au ) -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Music CD catalog app - delicious library
I am looking for a simple app to catalog my music CDs. I do not play any music on my iMac [24 in/3.06/10.5.6/4gb] as my computer is located in my study where I have a superb stereo music setup so I only play CDs on that. But I do want to be able to make a catalog of all my CDs [so far only about 150] and load all my CDs in an app which will show CD name, each song title, singer, etc. And enable me to search on song title, artist name, CD name. etc. I don't want to load the songs into iTunes as that's a waste of space. I thought I would just be able to import the CD into iTunes and save the CD title, contents, etc in iTunes and then eject the CD/delete the songs but apparently I can't. Is that possible? Any bright ideas out there pse. I have looked at a number of shareware apps on Version Tracker but I have no real opinion on their quality. Thanks Delicious library http://www.delicious-monster.com/ catalogues books, CDs, DVDs, video games, toys, gadgets database search engine is linked to Amazon.com uses address book if you lend items to people it keeps a record it does lots of things I think they have a free trial period. they email reply to help, feedback and suggestions. I find it worth every penny good luck Peter Sealy Thurgoona AUSTRALIA The Apple Religion: Geek Orthodox -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Help - Firefox Wont Launch
Thanks Bob Removed Firefox folder and all is well ta Rod On Thu Mar 12 12:56 , Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au sent: On 12/03/2009, at 1:14 PM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Thanks Bob Firefox is OK when i log in as a different user. So what is the next step (please)? ta Rod So from that we conclude the problem is most likely to be in your user , so you explore in Hard drive - users - your user - Library - for things firefox and Mozilla . You could throw them all away but you would probably lose all your bookmarks so you need to be selective ... If we ask the question ... if something off the net has stored itself in Firefox where is the most likely place to look ? I would try ... Caches and Cookies You should find caches in USer - library - caches - Firefox - profiles - I am not sure about cookies with firefox . AND There is another place to look and that is : User - Library - Application support - Firefox Noy sure what you will find there . AND User - Library - Preferences - org.mozilla.Firefox.plist HTH's Bob On Thu Mar 12 12:06 , Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au sent: On 12/03/2009, at 12:58 PM, rb...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Halfway through a Firefox session a strange dialogue box came up. Unfortunately I don't remember what it was. I tried to cancel it, But Firefox seemed to freeze. After a Force Quit, now I can't get Firefox to launch. It seems to launch but there is no Firefox Window. I have deleted the mozilla prefs or plist. I have also downloaded a new copy, but still it won't launch. I have Repaired Disk Permissions and run MacJanitor. The following message was in Console 12/03/09 8:32:53 AM com.apple.launchd[141] ([0x0-0x1d01d].org.mozilla.firefox[258]) Exited with exit code: 143 Please - any suggestions would be appreciated. Ta Rod Blitvich Start up as an alternative User ... create a new user if you have to and try firefox from there 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au ) -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- 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 - wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au','','','')wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au ) -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Cannot move or delete an Incomplete Download
Thanks Darrel for your offer, But I'll sort him out eventually. If my last email to him with more instructions doesn't do the trick, I'll get him to do Peter's suggestion of using Terminal. I'm really trying not to let him near Terminal, but might have to ;-) Cheers, Ronni On 12/03/2009, at 1:55 PM, Darrel McGuiness wrote: Hi Ronni, How far down South? We are just south of Yallingup and could be of MODERATE help ( I thought you may be talking about me until mentioning the mere male only had One computer, we have TWO) Regards Darrel -- 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:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
