Re: time machine

More info on using crontab http://www.makemacwork.com/command-time-machine.htm On 22/12/2007, at 4:45 PM, X.Ray_Wa wrote: Go to /System / Library / LaunchDaemons Look for a file called com.apple.backupd-auto.plist look in that file for keyStartInterval/key integer3600/integer Change the

Re: Intel Mac concerns

Hi Rosie, Yes my Intel CoreDuo iMac does the same. After compressing about 6 hours of video, done in impressive time, it got very hot. So far however it has not decided to use it's fans. I hope it is not cooking the screen. I'd like to plumb the hot air off to dry fruit, but thats probably just

Re: iPod Classic on a G3

Hi Michael I believe the only thing the new iPod's require the latest iTunes and a machine running 10.4 or later I believe a warning telling you using USB 1 is not recommended but you can hit okay and choose to continue A friend of ours Has a new nano But wouldn't work with G3 I believe because

Intel Mac Concerns

Thanks Mark and Paul Your responses have placed me much more at ease. As the heating issue would be considered as relatively 'normal' for this computer, then I'm a much happier little vegemite. (I was getting a little worried about cooking my hard drive)! Again thanks to wamug for

Re: Intel Mac concerns

Hi Rosie, Suggest you download the free widget iStat from http://islayer.com/index.php?op=software It will tell your what is going on in your machine and whether it's good or bad. They have a lot of information on interpretation of the data at http://islayer.com/support/?p=24 I suggest you

Automatically Find iTunes Files

Seasons Greetings all. I have a habbit of creating playlists and then moving the folders where I originally stored the actual music files elsewhere. Anyone got a trick / plug-in / app that automatically finds the new location and relinks it for iTunes? And an optional tool to remove all

XP pro on parallels - try to upgrade to SP2 - now windows wont start!

I've posted this to the parallels forums but I thought I'd see if any of our WAMUG gurus had any suggestions/answers: -- POST 1: -- I just installed parallels 3 (build 5582) on my 24 2.4 GHz intel iMac running 10.4.11. I imported a vpc virtual machine (running a fairly old

Time Machine SLOW 1st Backup

Hi I set Time Machine going earlier today, to do its first backup to a firewire external drive with heaps of space. It has been going for more than 3 hours now and has only backed up 17 GB of 160. Is this unusually slow??? Or does the first backup run slowly? thanks Rod Blitvich -- The WA