Re: sync iphone - contacts

2010-02-01 Thread gary dorn
Howdy its been some time since my query in November, but I was too busy to deal with any stuff ups, so I've waited til now anyway I've just done the 3 steps this morning, and now I have no contracts at all on my iPhone. I've turned it off/on a couple of times , including changing the sync

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

2010-02-01 Thread Neil Houghton
(following my previous post Graeme phoned me and we went through these checks over the phone) Hi Graeme, To sum up what we found - together with a couple of thoughts I've had since: 1) Printer Set-up in OSX: - we have confirmed that your printer is set-up and showing in the Print Fax

Re: HP Printer

2010-02-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Graeme, Glad to hear you finally got it working A USB was not enabled and all is now fine I assume you mean that a USB controller on the VM was not enabled -that is interesting - Does this mean that you now have the printer connected as a USB device, rather than as a Bonjour printer or as

Re: HP Printer

2010-02-01 Thread Graeme Winters
Hi Neil It is now very interesting that you raise this as after the fix I could print in Windows but could not print in Apple until I had closed Windows down I had not expected that. I guess it is not really a problem as generally I will only be in Windows when doing some MYOB work Graeme On

Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Crisp, Peter
I have noticed what I believe is a bug in Entourage (Office 2008). I have a Macbook 13 1 month old so running Snow Leopard. I also have a Time Capsule. When the hourly backup is running AND at the same time I attempt to Attach a file to an email I am preparing, it all hangs up solid.

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Lloyd White
I had similar problems with Entourage hanging after waking from sleep. I had several other problems which caused me to re-install the OS 10.6 software and the problem has now gone. However it hangs for a short time while Time Machine is backing up. But as a precaution I now close Entourage before

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter, From Microsoft support you must quit all Microsoft Applications before backing up. backing up hourly you must quit quit All Microsoft applications (Entourage, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, My Day, Office Reminders, Messenger) and the Microsoft Database daemon before backing up. See

Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

2010-02-01 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Hello Ronnie, I have run Repair Permissions again today and the log appears identical to the last one. My emails are once again showing the wrong name in the 'To' line. My husband's MacBook pro is running 10.5.8 One other thing I notice on the Mac OS X is that I am seeing the spinning multi

Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

2010-02-01 Thread Ronda Brown
Hello Jennifer, Did you clear/delete your previous recipients list? Also open the message/messages that show the wrong TO: then go to 'View Raw Source. Look for the TO: field and if the name doesn't match yours, then the problem is on the sender's end, in which case you shoul tell them to

Re: Is HD defrag necessary?

2010-02-01 Thread Stephen Chape
To tell the truth ... I bought Disk Warrior about 12 months ago and I am buggered if I know what it is doing ??? On 01/02/2010, at 11:04 AM, Rob Phillips wrote: I used to swear by DiskWarrior, but I've stopped using it, for 2 reasons: the automatic unix utilities seem to do a good job. The

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Severin Crisp
Interesting. I have Word and Excel from Office 2008 always running but have no problems with hourly Time Machine backups (Leopard). I do not use Entourage at all. Severin Crisp On 01/02/2010, at 9:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, From Microsoft support you must quit all Microsoft

Mac Mini

2010-02-01 Thread John Daniels
Hi Wamuggers I would like to update my table lamp iMac possibly to a MacMini. Can I run the Mini using the old table lamp PPC G4 IMac? If not has anyone recommendations for a reasonably priced display, say about 20inch? Cheers Jonn -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List --

Re: Mac Mini

2010-02-01 Thread Gavin Criddle
Hi John, Do you mean to use the iMac as a monitor? Sorry but this isn't possible. A 22 Samsung monitor is around 220 dollars these days. Gav On 01/02/2010, at 11:40 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi Wamuggers I would like to update my table lamp iMac possibly to a MacMini. Can I run the

Re: Mac Mini

2010-02-01 Thread John Daniels
Hi Gavin I did mean to use the iMac as the monitor but the Samsung is cheap enough. Thanks for your help (I was surprised that there were other Wamuggers still awake) Cheers John On 01/02/2010, at 11:44 PM, Gavin Criddle wrote: Hi John, Do you mean to use the iMac as a monitor? Sorry

Re: Is HD defrag necessary?

2010-02-01 Thread KEVIN Lock
I use a previous version of DiskWarrior on G3s and G4s I am refurbishing. It is a bit frustrating when it doesn't tell you what it is looking at like other programs. When I crank up a refurbished machine after fitting a new PRAM battery often I get no startup chime. Running DiskWarrior

RE: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Crisp, Peter
Yes, Entourage is left running all day for the usual email correspondence that we all use, so quitting Entourage (and all other Microsoft apps) is not really practical - the back up starts whenever it likes to and maybe I could extend that to daily backups - timed to occur at 2AM - is that

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 01/02/2010, at 7:45 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: (following my previous post Graeme phoned me and we went through these checks over the phone) Hi Graeme, To sum up what we found - together with a couple of thoughts I've had since: 1) Printer Set-up in OSX: - we have confirmed that

macintosh generates spam?

2010-02-01 Thread James / Hans Kunz
did anyone came across this problem: The following message to gbwat...@cockburncement.com.au was undeliverable. The reason for the problem: 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 553-' DENY_SERVICE_SRC Deny CLASS mailspam ACTION MAILSPAM\n sad...@iinet.net.au from 203.59.1.104\n The address from

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter, You can use Terminal to change the default time etc that TM backups. If you don't wish to use a shell prompt using Terminal, there are a couple of software that look like they would do the job. TimeMachineEditor http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ And

Re: macintosh generates spam?

2010-02-01 Thread Peter Curtis
Hi I don't have the problem but when your email was delivered to me it was marked as spam! Wamug emails are never usually marked as spam. Regards Peter On 02/02/2010, at 8:15 AM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: did anyone came across this problem: The following message to

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Rob Findlay
I'v'e tried them both and they work fine. On 02/02/2010, at 8:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, You can use Terminal to change the default time etc that TM backups. If you don't wish to use a shell prompt using Terminal, there are a couple of software that look like they would do the

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread John Thompson
A very simple solution - ditch Entourage and use Mail. John Thompson On 02/02/2010, at 7:42 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Yes, Entourage is left running all day for the usual email correspondence that we all use, so quitting Entourage (and all other Microsoft apps) is not really practical – the

RE: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Crisp, Peter
I wondered how long it would take for someone to suggest this solution - thanks John for raising this one. Having come from a Windows background, I find it hard to move to a program (Mail) that doesn't have Contacts and Calendar functions integrated into the one app. Mail is just one part of daily

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Rob Findlay
The single fact that makes me recommend my clients not to use Entourage is that it keeps all it's data (mail, contacts, calendars) in a single monolithic data file. If you get a lot of email this file will quickly grow to multiple gigabytes. If you use Time Machine, have a 3 Gig Entourage file

Re: macintosh generates spam?

2010-02-01 Thread alnova
Hi James I have had a similar problem in that I have not received (random) emails from a supplier who has an Ozemail address. My understanding is that Ozemail is owned by iinet and therein lies the problem. There is reference to iinet in the message below. iinet have been blacklisted on a

Re: HP Printer

2010-02-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Graeme, Yes, if you remember when we talked I said there were basically three ways you could set up your printer, the Parallels manual probably explains this better than I did: There are three basic ways to set up printing in a virtual machine. You can: € Share any of the printers

Re: HP 5380 all in one printer

2010-02-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi Peter, That is interesting. I didn't think you needed USB activated on the VM to use the VM printer port (or a Bonjour printer). From your description, it sounds like you added the printer as a USB printer directly connected to the virtual machine. I've never tried that but I understood that

Re: HP Printer

2010-02-01 Thread Neil Houghton
Well, interesting the things you find out in this sort of exercise: on 2/2/10 12:58 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: snip Whereas for a Bonjour printer (approach 2 on another VM) I see: Port name(s): http://NRH-iMac27.local:631/printers/Canon_iP4000 snip When my post

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter, I use Apple Mail and it suits my needs well, but it you do make the decision to stick with Entourage, you can Exclude your Entourage database from Time Machine backups. If you use Microsoft Entourage, you have a file called Database, which stores all your email messages, calendar

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Peter and others using Entourage, Is anyone who uses Entourage, backing up Entourage using Time Machine? If so have they been checking their Entourage backups to see if there is any corruption? Why I ask is I have always understood the main issue with Time Machine and the Entourage

Re: Entourage bug

2010-02-01 Thread Rod Kevill
Regarding the increasing disk space, it¹s not quite as bad as it seems. After 24hrs, TM will be deleting the hourly backups at the same rate that it¹s creating new ones, except for the increase in size of the Entourage DB over that 24 hrs. After a month, the daily backups will be deleted, keeping