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When I tried to launch my email program (QuickMail Pro), I got a this
application has unexpectedly quit message. I restarted several times and each
time got this behavior.
I've booted back into 9 so I can work (and send email).
Any clues on what might have happened and how to remedy it?
Dan
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If several computers have lost contact with printers at one time, it's
highly unlikely that batteries are the culprit. If these printers are
on the network (rather than directly connected to each computer), than
I would suspect network problems first.
The first thing to try, always, is to turn
I have got Mail's junk mail auto delete working now and thought I'd
pass along my findings in case anyone else might benefit from my
travails.
It appears that, as some who responded here noted, the auto deletion
does occur only if the program (or maybe the computer) is shut down. I
haven't
Several content management systems that we have looked at to manage the
content of our web site Louisville.com use Java HTML editors to help
format text and graphics. These editors look much like an MS Word
document, with various tools that one can click on to implement
boldface, italics and
I found the answer to my Mac Help problem (all my Help links gave the
result: TopicListNoResults).
A help file named DataDirect help.help in my
Disk/Library/Documentation/Help/ folder was the culprit. After
deleting it, Mac Help once again works fine. I'm not exactly sure where
this file came
For about a month now I've been getting a strange result when I try to
use Apple's Help menu (I'm using 10.3.3). I believe this started with
one of the upgrades, but I don't know which one.
If I choose Mac Help (under the Finders' Help menu), then click on
Browse Mac OS Help, then click on any
Lately, when I have tried to use Apple's built-in Mac Help (under the
Help menu when Finder is active) and choose the Browse Mac OS Help
option, I get the following message when I try to to drill down to
specific help topics.
TopicListNoResults
Does anyone get that? Any ideas on how to get it
Ward:
Do you know of any more, shall we say, accepted methods of recovering
data from a crashed drive? Does MacTown offer any services in this
realm? Do you know of any vendors who do this kind of thing, local or
otherwise?
Dan
Folks,
While this home-brewed cure may have worked for
Please include information about converting audio-tape music to digital
as well. It should be similar to converting vinyl LPs, I would think.
I think it's a great idea. How about the June Meeting. I think I have a
presentor for May and I know I have one for April.
Saturday, March 20,
: Rebooting (several
times, including Shift-booting), Rebooting from other CD -- Norton's,
Tech Tool -- and deleting.
Thanks, and keep those suggestions coming.
Dan Crutcher wrote:
On one of our G3 iMacs at work we have a corrupted file that is
causing
some problems and I cannot find any way
it work? ?:)
Ward
Ward Oldham, MacDude
MacTown
1041 Bardstown Road
Louisville, KY ?40204
502-485-1243
ward at mactown.us
http://www.mactown.us
From: Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com
Reply-To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 09:12:11 -0500
On one of our G3 iMacs at work we have a corrupted file that is causing
some problems and I cannot find any way to get rid of it.
Doing a Get Info shows that the file is 833 GB, which would be seem
rather impossible on a computer with a 5 GB hard drive, but that's what
it says. This file
I have a spare battery for my Powerbook G4 that's been sitting unused
for about 6 months. I just put it in the computer to charge it up and
after an hour or so it still reads 0% charged.
Does this likely mean it's dead? Is there any way to revive it?
Dan
-
I'm going to come up with a
=2004120314311760query=Terminal+Script
Jerry
On Dec 13, 2004, at 6:22 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
I have a java-based program that (currently) I can only be launch by
opening Terminal and typing in Unix commands. How can I create an
alias or an icon or some easily clickable
:) )
Jerry
On Dec 15, 2004, at 3:14 PM, Lee Larson wrote:
On Dec 15, 2004, at 1:53 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
When I enter ls -a in Terminal (bash), I get a directory listing,
but there is no .cshrc file. Do I have to do something else to
make it visible?
I think the problem
Keeping stacks of old email inside an Archive folder in Mail is
exactly what I do, but I keep my mail on only one machine so I don't
have to worry about compressing/decompressing it.
Inside my Archived folder I keep my old mail in subfolders named by
month/year, Jan04, Feb04, etc. I generally
Jonathan:
Thanks very much for this tip. I've been traveling with my PowerBook
for the past 10 days and, since my only internet connection in some
places is via AOL dialup, sending email through my regular mail server
has been a major hassle (AOL seems to allow one email to be sent per
I've been part of many Internet -- and before that, bulletin board --
discussion groups. Almost all of them take occasional detours, which is not
necessarily a bad thing as long as it doesn't get out of hand.
This little back-and-forth over Al has actually been rather mild by
Internet/BBS
Ward:
Of course one of the uphill battles the local business is fighting is the 6%
sales tax differential between mail-order and local purchase (I know, they're
_supposed_ to charge sales tax and remit it to the states, but the reality is
that very few do so, and states have no way of
Anyone have any idea why my iPod no longer shows up on my Mac's desktop when I
connect it to the computer?
I haven't used it in a while, but I know that it used to show up when I was
using OS 9 and it's songs and playlists used to automatically appear in iTunes
when it was connected. Now: It
Wouldn't that wipe out everything that's on it? I'd rather not have to do that
unless it's the only atlternative.
Dan,
Try resetting your ipod.
Ward
On 3/30/03 12:53 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com
wrote:
Anyone have any idea why my iPod no longer shows up on my Mac's desktop when
Got one here.
Dan Crutcher
Out of curiosity, how many subscribers to this list have an
ipod? I do.
Diane Stinnett
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I got the same can't be found result, even when I made sure the .htm was
included. I think the problem may be explained by this sentence from the page
that I arrived at (I suspect Bryan is a BusinessWeek subscriber and that's why
he can get to the article but we cannot):
The latest
Jerry:
I went to lowendmac.com, but couldn't find anywhere where they tracked current
prices of used iMacs. Can you steer me to that?
Meanwhile, a check of eBay (I look at recent completed sales that _really_
sold), shows that iMac 333s with 96-160 MB of RAM have generally sold in the
Bill:
Would Timbuktu possibly allow you to do what you want?
That's what I use when I want to access my Mac work computers from home, and
I'm pretty sure it also will work with PCs. I had to configure my router at
work so that certain ports were open to allow Timbuktu access to certain
Only slightly off subject ... Several months ago, out of curiosity, I set up a
mail management rule in my email program that automatically routes to a
particular folder all email that contains the word Viagra, several of its
variant spellings or any of several words commonly used to describe
of my
business's email server and it sends me any email that comes to loumag.com that
isn't properly addressed to a current employee. Which means I get misaddressed
email, email sent to former employees, etc. So my email -- and spam -- haul is
somewhat exaggerated.
Dan
Dan Crutcher wrote
I've recently installed a new hard drive in my Powerbook G4 and in so doing
installed OS X on the new drive. I'm now in the process of copying over various
preference and support files from old drive (which was also running X). In the
old days of MacOS, I got pretty familiar with where to put
I seem to recall reading about some great deals that were available on Adobe
InDesign (perhaps for Quark switchers?). Does anybody know of any specials
available through Apple, Adobe or anywhere else?
Has anyone had experience creating postscripting files using InDesign (I don't
mean creating
Actually, if the magazine can get you to sign up as a paid subscriber (defined
by Audit Bureau of Circulations as at least half of their regular
subscription price, whatever that is), they will gladly take that half price on
the hopes that you will renew at a higher rate.
And the magazine has
That's one of the cardinal rules of safe computing: Never, ever turn your back
on a computer.
It's always astonishing what these little gremlins do in your computer
behind your back!!!
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I'm trying to set up a demo version of a website content management
system (CMS) on my Powerbook, running 10.4.3. I have never used the
personal web sharing feature of X before.
First, I turned on Personal Web Sharing in the system preferences.
Now I'm trying to install the CMS and its
I don't use any virus-protection software and haven't for about five
years.
I don't know of any Mac viruses.
Dan
I haven't upgraded to Tiger, thus did not know, just wondered why i
never heard anything about Virex anymore. What virus fighter do
you all use ?
Marta
On Jan 10, 2006,
I updated to 10.4.4 last night and, indeed, it does contain a white
pages widget. The icon looks just like the yellow pages one, and it
says People underneath it. I tried it on myself and a couple of
friends in distant cities and it seemed to work fine.
As I understand it, it is a pure
Stuart:
I discovered recently that one type of Apple USB keyboard will
recognize/recharge the iPod Shuffle, while another one that looks
indentical won't.
In my experience, the keyboards that have the USB ports at either
corner of the keyboard will _not_ charge or sync the Shuffle, while
I'm using Photoshop 7.0.1, OS 10.4.4; when I go to Photoshop's Help
function it launches, by default, Internet Explorer 5.1 in OS 9 to
use as the browser that accesses the help files. I cannot find any
preference or other way to change that setting so it launches an OS X
browser -- Safari,
it.
Photoshop Help has no brain, it select the OS default web browser.
In Panther or later, open Safari/Preferences/Default Web
Browser=Safari. Prior to Panther, it's Systems Prefs/Web/Default
Web Browser=Safari...jf
On Jan 15, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
I'm using Photoshop 7.0.1, OS
I'm flummoxed. Maybe all center-mounted-port USB keyboards aren't the
same. Of course, I also was not using a Mac Mini as the base computer
-- but it did work on two computers that only have USB 1.1, so I
don't think that you absolutely _have_ to have USB 2.0 to charge your
Shuffle.
I have OS X Server 10.4.3 running on one of the computers at work.
Works great for all the Macs.
There are two PCs, both running Windows XP, on the LAN. I am trying
to set up file and print sharing for them from the OS X Server,
keeping it as simple as possible. I have:
1. Turned on
.
And besides the book would look impressive on your shelf.
Hmm, maybe i need to buy one, too!
::-)
j.
On Jan 16, 2006, at 5:15 PM, Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com
wrote:
I have OS X Server 10.4.3 running on one of the computers at work.
Works great for all the Macs.
There are two
, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
I have two computers in a room that has only one Ethernet
connection to my LAN. I want both computers to be connected to the
LAN. I also happen to have have an unused Linksys cable/DSL router,
which I'll call Linksys B.
If I plug in the Linksys B
That did the trick. Thanks.
From the Swiss cheese. In the Finder. Applications/Adobe Photoshop
7.0/Help/help.htm. Click on help.htm and Get Info CMD+I. Click Open
With, then select Firefox.app from the dialog box. Do not click
Change All. Quit APS 7 if it's open, Firefox should be the
from the wall
to the uplink(though you won't be able to use the port next to the
uplink port) and then the next upstream router will assign ip
address' to the 2 pcs in that room essentially making it a
dumb router.
John
On Jan 18, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
I have two
Grab, a utlity that comes with OS X (look in ~/Applications/
Utilities/) saves screenshots as tiffs. You can open them in
Photoshop and increase the resolution to 300 ppi (or whatever). Of
course, the acquired image is going to be the same 72 ppi resolution
as the screen, so increasing its
Is anyone else unable to get sound with this video? The video portion
plays fine, but I get no sound in either Firefox or Safari.
I have checked system preferences -- my sound output is set to built-
in audio, the mute button is unchecked and the sound slider is about
three quarters of the
Found the solution to my sound problem. Seems that some audio
applications can change system sound settings to a sample rate that
is too high for other applications to use. I have no idea which
application did this, but this may also explain why I've been having
problems getting sound in
I am replacing an employee's iMac running 10.3.9 with an eMac running
10.4.5. He has been using OS X Mail on his iMac. When I try to import
his mailboxes into his new account on the eMac, the import function
appears to work ? it finds Inbox, Sent and several other
mailboxes on his iMac,
No problems here. I've upgraded my Powerbook and two or three eMacs
to 10.4.6 and nobody's died yet.
Dan
Is all well to download 10.4.6? Somebody seemed to have had
troubles? I thought I ask first before I take the step.
Marta
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Since it says need _minor_ repair, it's probably nothing to worry
about, but . . . if it were me I would go ahead and run OS X's Disk
Utility program (found in ... /Applications/Utilities) and run the
Verify Disk option and Repair Disk if it reports any errors. Just
for peace of mind.
Does Disk Utility have a Verify Disk button that is not grayed out?
And you have to first select the disk or volume (in the left panel of
the Disk Utility window) that you want to verify or repair.
When I open Disk Utility, the Repair Disk button is greyed out. I
assume that?s because the
Sounds like you need SharePoints:
SharePoints gives you a lot of the permission functions of OS X
Server in standard OS X. It's a great program.
http://www.hornware.com/sharepoints/
I cannot figure out what the deal is with read only files. When
I create
a new Word document and save it
wrote:
On Apr 29, 2006, at 7:47 PM, Dan Crutcher asked:
What keystroke combination is used in Windows to produce an em
dash (that's the longest dash available, not to be confused with
an en dash, which is slightly shorter)?
en-dash is ALT 0150
em-dash is ALT 0151
-- next
Robert,
If you set permissions correctly on the shared directory/folder, it
will allow those users with permission to access files in newly
created folders within that folder (that is, folders created after
the SharePoints permissions have been set). Note that you will need
to create some
on it.
My address book is lost in space!
Mike
On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
Have you tried opening the Applications folder on your hard
drive and double-clicking on the Address Book application? That
should open Address Book and use your current AddressBook.data
file
on it.
My address book is lost in space!
Mike
On Nov 9, 2005, at 9:05 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
Have you tried opening the Applications folder on your hard
drive and double-clicking on the Address Book application? That
should open Address Book and use your current AddressBook.data
file
Have you tried opening the Applications folder on your hard drive
and double-clicking on the Address Book application? That should
open Address Book and use your current AddressBook.data file. If it
doesn't show the addresses you put in there, what does it do?
The icon in the dock is just
On my Powerbook, running 10.4.3, when I open the Printer Setup
Utility and click on the Add icon in the toolbar, up pops a
Printer Browser that shows me all the printers available to my
computer (since I'm on a network, several show up).
On my daughter's iBook, also running 10.4.3, and
-install of OS X on this iBook ... but I'd still like to
understand what would cause these differences.
You have the printer drivers installed on the Powerbook, but not
the iBook?
On Dec 21, 2005, at 9:22 PM, Dan Crutcher wrote:
On my Powerbook, running 10.4.3, when I open the Printer Setup
Yes, Appletalk is turned on.
On my Powerbook, running 10.4.3, when I open the Printer Setup
Utility and click on the Add icon in the toolbar, up pops a
Printer Browser that shows me all the printers available to my
computer (since I'm on a network, several show up).
On my daughter's
A follow-up on print browser problems on daughter's iBook:
I've got everything working right now, after wiping the disk clean
and reinstalling X.
Had some strange results along the way, though. I first tried an
archive and install, which seemed to install okay, but when I booted
up I got
Bill,
I have no trouble accessing your web site at http://
rising.homedns.org either. I am connecting through my Insight account
at home.
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For real-world use (read: exchanging files seamlessly with the PC-
centric world) I don't think you really can avoid MS Office. I would
recommend buying the student/teacher version of Office 2004 if you go
that route. You can usually get it for $125-$150 and you get three
installs with
I have to ask: Are you related to (the well-known Louisville
architect) Stratton Hammon?
Greg:
As a retired architect, I have been using VectorWorks, a product of
Nametsceck North American. I started with Version 5 many years
ago, and am now using version 11. They are trying to get me
I can no longer access the hard drive on an eMac, with 10.3.3
installed. It will not boot by itself (gives the blinking
folder/question mark).
I can and will reinstall the system on this machine, but it has some
critical data that is not backed up that I would very much like to
recover if
I use Timbuktu often, both on a LAN and from remote locations, to
access and control 7 or 8 Macs in my office. My remote access is
usually through cable or DSL connection, so speed generally is not an
issue. I'm very impressed with its features generally, although it does
occasionally flake
I doubt I qualify as a guru, but I've owned several Powerbooks and
currently have a 17 Powerbook G4. What do you want to know?
Is there a powerbook guru on this list?
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This is a followup to my earlier question about data recovery. The
situation now stands:
We purchased Data Rescue v10.4.1 and attempted to find files on the
hosed eMac hard drive. After letting it run for three days it told us
we still had some 17,000 minutes to go (which works out to roughly,
I have a Filemaker 6 database that contains an email field that has
an individual email address in it and a description field that
contains a text description of an event. I would like to do a batch
email sending the text in the description field in each record to the
email address in the same
Harry:
There is an application called Image Capture in your Applications folder (or
it may be in Applications/Utilities). Launch this program when your memory card
is connected, go to Image Capture's Preferences and set the When a camera is
connected, open option to no applicaton (or to
This is a test message to see how my new spam filtering program, Spamfire,
handles a message from a mail list.
Dan
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Hey Ward, if you want a downtown location to display that puppy, we'll be glad
to keep one here at Louisville Magazine. Hell, I'll even keep it right here in
my office. And I won't charge you a dime.
Dan
23 Cinema DisplayHey Folks,
For anyone curious what the biggest brightest Apple display
You don't need any special drivers. Mac OS X or 9 should work with any DSL or
cable modem without installing a thing. You just have to set up your Control
Panel or System Preference panel correctly. If you need help doing so, I or
others on this list can give you the settings you need.
You
Jerry:
Thanks for providing that example. Now, suppose one had just downloaded X11 and
OpenOffice.org 1.0.1. How would one set up X11 so that OpenOffice would launch
from that same Applications menu?
And while you're at it, where are these /usr and /local directories? They don't
show up using
Allan:
Entourage can print out its addess book, or lists of selected addresses, in
various formats. Choose the standard Print command while in Address Book mode
and you will see options to print out all addresses or selected addresses, and
you can customize a lot of things in your print format.
or create something that's close to what
you're looking for.
Dan
From: Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com
Subject: MacGroup: Re: Entourage printing address books
Allan:
Entourage can print out its addess book, or lists of selected addresses, in
various formats. Choose the standard Print
you mean the same thing as categories?
If you wanted to display just one of your groups -- say, MacGroup -- for print
or other purposes, how do you go about telling your program to do that? You
must use some kind of find or search or filter feature.
Dan
Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com wrote
Okay, then a group is a category; they're the same thing. If you define
categories in Entourage the same way as you have defined groups in OE (or
whatever contact manager you're using), you should be able to print them out as
separate groups.
Dan
Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com wrote
of the selected contacts.
Dan
Dan Crutcher dcrutcher at loumag.com wrote:
Okay, then a group is a category; they're the same thing.
In Entourage, Groups are not the same as Categories. I have assigned almost
of all my contacts assigned to some Group. Yet when I scroll down the big
list of contacts
Does anyone know of a good, inexpensive source of keyboards, presumably used? I
need two or three USB keyboards that will work with iMacs.
Thanks.
Dan
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