Home folder icon disappearing from dock

2013-02-07 Thread Barry Sexstone
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Re: Home folder icon disappearing from dock

2013-02-07 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Barry, Is you Home Folder showing in the Finder Sidebar? That is just an Alias in the Sidebar. You need to: 1. In the Finder, click the icon for your Hard Drive. (Unless you’ve renamed it, it’s probably called Macintosh HD.) 2. Open the Users folder. 3. Then drag your Home Folder from the

Re: Home folder icon disappearing from dock

2013-02-07 Thread Barry Sexstone
Many thanks Ronni That worked BUT. the icon is now that of the first of my home folders. I can live with that but it seems odd that now behaves like any other folder on the dock. In Finder side bar the hard drive icon has disappeared although it does appear on the desktop, all the external

Re: Home folder icon disappearing from dock

2013-02-07 Thread Ronda Brown
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Re: Home folder icon disappearing from dock

2013-02-07 Thread Ronda Brown
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Re: Home folder icon disappearing from dock

2013-02-07 Thread Barry Sexstone
Thanks once again I should have thought of that, I did look in preferences but only checked what was shown on the desktop. Previous comment regarding mush are even more likely. I am sorry to trouble you with things I realise I should know but have forgotten Cheers Barry iMac 10,1 Intel

Re: Home folder icon disappearing from dock

2013-02-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Barry, I suggest grandkids be supervised when using your iMac, or taught NOT to fiddle and change any settings. Or Create a User Account for them with Parental Controls. I have had to fix many serious problems that kids have created on clients Macs. My grandkids were taught in very early

Re: Rant! you have been warned :-).

2013-02-07 Thread Malcolm McCallum
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Re: Rant! you have been warned :-).

2013-02-07 Thread Malcolm McCallum
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Mac anti virus testing

2013-02-07 Thread Alan Fenton
Hello all. This may be of interest. From Alan. http://www.reedcorner.net/mac-anti-virus-testing-01-2013/ -- 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 Settings

Re: Mac anti virus testing

2013-02-07 Thread Ronda Brown
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Re: Hello

2013-02-07 Thread Brian Risbey
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Re: Hello

2013-02-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Brian, Yahoo Mail Accounts were hacked back on 7-8 January 2013 Yahoo Mail hacked via XSS exploit, loophole fixed soon after If Janis Lynn's Yahoo Account has been hacked and it does look like it has been, she should change her password immediately.

Re: New MS Office

2013-02-07 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Chris, There is NO Mac version of Microsoft Office 2013. The current version for Mac is Office for Mac 2011. http://www.microsoft.com/australia/mac/products Microsoft Office 2013 and Office 365, are the Windows maker's big push to bring its suite of software and services into the cloud with

Adobe Flash Player is out of date

2013-02-07 Thread Matt Falvey
Hi, I just opened Facebook and had the message: Adobe Flash Player is out of date, and tells me: The version of Adobe Flash Player on your system does not include the latest security updates and has been blocked . To continue using Adobe Flash Player, download and updated version from

Re: Adobe Flash Player is out of date

2013-02-07 Thread Ronni Brown
Hi Matt, Go to System Preferences - under 'Other' you should see 'Flash Player' Click on the Flash Player icon, then click the 'Advanced' button Beside 'Check Now' what Plug-in version do you have? If it does not indicate that Plug-in version 11.5.502.149 is installed. Click the 'Check Now'

Re: New MS Office

2013-02-07 Thread Chris Burton
Hi Ronni Wow, that is amazing. I guess that will only be useful if I actually use Cloud for much of my other work and storage commitments? I have no plan soon to do that and only need excel and word for my documents and data analysis. I do have MS Office 2011 on this MBPRo which I use every