Hard drive fills up for no apparent reason

2009-12-12 Thread James I Fraser
Please would anyone have any idea how 155GB of free space on a 500GB drive fill up in 5 hours with no user activity? The laptop - a MacBook Pro, late 2007, 4GB Ram running 10.6.2 was wirelessly connected to the internet and McAfee ran finding 431 malwares, but on the backup drive! To email

Re: Hard drive fills up for no apparent reason

2009-12-12 Thread Barry Sexstone
James Recently I had a problem where my hard drive filled up without apparent reason.. I eventually discovered that for no apparent reason everything had been duplicated, possibly due to a backup glitch. I finally tracked the problem down using disk inventory X which showed me where

Re: mail accounts

2009-12-12 Thread Pedro
Hi Susan and Pete I tried your idea Susan late last night when I got home and it set easy and worked fine except I couldn't get messages to stay in the inbox. After a lot of reading today and a few experiments I worked out it is not recommended to mix imap and a pop account. So, until she

Re: mail accounts

2009-12-12 Thread Susan Hastings
Hi Pedro, I wonder if your wife's POP3 email account is set up to 'remove from server' on her Windows PC. Therefore, the inbox on the server keeps getting emptied, and because the IMAP account sets the computer inbox to sync with the server inbox, the messages on the IMAP account keep

Re: mail accounts

2009-12-12 Thread Pedro
Hi Susan I think you are right with the settings. I went thru it today with some help from iinet. The problem is she is using incredimail which is like a drug. Once you start using it , you can't stop. Some of the emails she requires access to are very important ethics cases and if she

Re: Hard drive fills up for no apparent reason

2009-12-12 Thread James I Fraser
Thanks Barry, I wish it were that simple - nothing appears amiss, no duplication at all. Though another 4GB has disappeared since I wrote last :( Time to turn the Airport off and head for the cot. Best wishes, James James Recently I had a problem where my hard drive filled up without

Re: mail accounts

2009-12-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Pedro, It looks like IncrediMail doesn’t implement IMAP correctly. It doesn’t synchronize the IMAP folders, but instead just downloads the messages, while leaving them on the server. From the IncrediMail Help files: How you can easily configure your IMAP email account in IncrediMail. Note

iPhone

2009-12-12 Thread Kim Maher
Hi All Has anyone achieved or has an idea how to connect a iPhone 3GS 32GB to a TV to watch movies etc? I thank you all in advance. Regards Kim iMac 24” Intel Core 2 Duo MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo iPhone 32GB iPhone 16GB iTouch 16GB OS X Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group

Re: Hard drive fills up for no apparent reason

2009-12-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi James, Have you received any error messages? Perhaps one saying SubmitDiagInfo has crashed? Check Activity Monitor and the Console logs, they should show you what is using up your CPU time. If there are lot's of Diagnostic Logs, they might be able to point you to an application that is

Pious Toner Cartridge

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Sealy
I have a Brother Laser mono HL5150D printer. I see that one of the web e-commerce sites is selling Pious brand toner cartridges for this printer at a very reasonable price. Made in China [where else?], Brother compatible, etc. Anyone tried this brand? Peter Sealy Thurgoona

Re: iPhone

2009-12-12 Thread Andrew
You can get composite (red/white/yellow) or component (red/green/blue for video and red/white for audio) connectors from Apple shops. The latter will give the best result if you have the connections on your tv. After market ones are also available from JB HiFi etc. The benefit of the genuine

Re: Uprade from 10.4.11

2009-12-12 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Laura, Sounds like you have a problem with your Optical Drive. Try to do the installation by booting from the Snow Leopard Installer DVD. Shutdown your MacBook, then 1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive. 2. Restart the computer. 3. Immediately after the chime press and hold

BBQ apologies

2009-12-12 Thread John Daniels
My apologies to the committee and especially to Mac who may have some steak left over. We were unable to come due to the inclement weather. Regards The Wimps -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines -

Is this some graphics controller fault on my PowerBook ?

2009-12-12 Thread Brian Scott
Hi, I was was about to setup EYeTV to record a show yesterday when my screen started getting a mess/mesh of dots and lines. Not just on the PowerBook 15 but on my TV (CRT) that it is connected to also. The external HDD started unexpectedly removing itself invoking Device Removal

Re: Name Tags! Re: Annual WAMUG Christmas Barbecue: 13 December 2009

2009-12-12 Thread kevin Lock
Sorry folks, I did turn up and circled Heathcote twice without seeing any likely groups. The only people with name tags on seemed to be a small family group. Maybe there should have been a WAMUG notice visible. I'm sorry I missed catching up with the many people who have helped me

Re: Is this some graphics controller fault on my Pow erBook?

2009-12-12 Thread Brian Scott
If the link to the picture of the faulty screen didn't work, try this one.. http://i601.photobucket.com/albums/tt99/walfau/Computer/Faulty-PB-screen1.jpg Thanks Brian On 13/12/2009, at 12:26 PM, Brian Scott wrote: Hi, I was was about to setup EYeTV to record a show yesterday when my

Re: Name Tags! Re: Annual WAMUG Christmas Barbecue: 13 December 2009

2009-12-12 Thread Martin Hill
Oh dear, that'd be my fault Kevin. I'm afraid after saying I'd see if I could chase up some name tags we ended up not making it at all with our little one suffering from the heat and lack of sleep from an outdoor service this morning. :-( Very sorry everyone. I hope those who did make it