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I bought an Airport card on ebay to install in my G3 iMac and it came with no install instructions. I have no idea where this thing should go... I opened up the bottom panel but I can't see any matching ports where the card should go. Thanks for any …

So I've been using my Powerbook for about four months now and you couldn't take it away from me without violence. I've been able to fix the few minor problems that I've had by simply consulting this forum. In fact, the only REAL problem with my entire Mac experience so …

Alright I know it only just been released but has anyone got their hands on the new version of Tiger, what do you think? is it worth the upgrade from Panther i am a little unsure it is worth the money.

if i try to choose the AutoShape option from the 'Insert' drop-down menu or select the Drawing toolbar, Word freezes up and i have to force quit the program... every time.

Safari keeps crashing now that I've updated to 10.3.9. Mail has the opposite effect, sometimes it won't shut down. Anyone else with this problem? The Safari problem is so irritating that I've switched to Firefox.

Hi, New user iMac OS X 10.3 Panther. I've selected a great screensaver, but it seems to stay hidden under a black screen. When the screen is black and I hit a key, when the black disappears the screensaver is there for just a split second until the page I …

My first posting, and it's because I need your help. OS 10.3 is not seeing my OS 9.2 SimpleText files. I've even burned them onto a CD on an iMac, copied them to my G4 and, guess what, the folder is empty (but back-checking the CD on the iMac shows …

When I endeavor to download software updates on my ibook G4, I get the following message: " Make sure you have permission to write to /private/tmp/501/TemporaryItems/com.apple.SoftwareUpdate". there are no permissions set (nothing is locked) on my system. How can I correct this problem. Or, can I reinstall OS without losing …

I am using a G4 IMac Flat screen running 10.3.9 I have been using Macs back to OS 5 and I have never experienced any thing like this. I was copying some photos (about 150) from a folder to a CDR to archive when I hesitated for a nano second …

Hey guys, The company I work for currently use Citrix to let Mac users access Word and Excel. However we have just updated all the Macs we have to Panther (10.3.9). Before the change they were using Outlook 2001 under classic, however we want to abolish classic and stay in …

Hi, I am a relatively new iMac user, and I mostly love it. However, I can't figure out how to save Appleworks so that I can open the disk at the library to print it(I can't afford a printer anytime soon). When I use the choices and save it as …

Hi, I've tried to install Adobe Reader 7 for Mac, and twice after waiting the hour it took to install the manager, it said the file could not be downloaded because it's corrupted. Any thoughts? Thanks. Terrie

I currently have two 250 gig drives striped into one partition on my dualie G5, and running Panther. I have all of my software installed and configured, all of my files saved, and I'm very happy. I also have a 500 gig firewire drive. What is the best way to …

I expect this is obvious but somehow I have ruined my mail setup so that I no longer have the facility to view the messages without opening them. Instead I now simply have a page-long list of messages in my inbox and no split screen. Can anyone tell me how …

Hello, I have an old Performa 6200cd mac. It is a great machine but the OS is 8. I would like to run some software but most requires OS/9 or higher. Can I upgrade to this and how do I find it? Can I go on up to OS/10 after …

Hey i have had a mac mini for around 2-3 months now and i have got my head round the basics, although i am having a bit of problem with the keyboard, because although it is said that we can use our old PC stuff with it some of the …

As a Windows XP user that is feed up with all the problems associated with Windows, I am seriously considering switching to Mac. Have absoulty no experience with Mac. Here is what I want a computer to do for me. Photo and Video editing, e-mail, web browsing. That is bascailly …

I am trying to play foreign films on my dvd player, as well as homemade films(I work for a film festival). These films work fine on actual dvd players, how do I set my dvd player on my PowerMac G4 laptop?

Hi, i´m really scr3wed about font mangement in osx, i mean, i´ve been a win user, and there was this thing with fonts, when i load photoshop, all of them loaded with it, making it slower and frustrating. well, i´ve found this font manager in osx, what is it? i´ve …

I have an iBook G3. Two days ago, I upgraded from 10.2.8 to 10.3.4. The first time the computer started up, my main concern was getting on the internet [my dorm now has wireless; before the upgrade, I couldn't access the network] so I opened up my web browser [Firefox] …

I just downloaded a trial FM Pro 6 for classic on my powerbook with os x and classic in background. When I try to print, I get a message saying"print software such as imagewriter needs to be installed". I have an Epson SW connected, printing fine with normal os x …

my emac was "frozen" in a word document so I turned it off and then on manually. It did not return to my desktop. The screen is grey with the finder icon blinking with a question mark. Help. Now what do I do to get back into my emac?

does anybody know of a very small network messaging program that doesn't need to be installed just unzipped or somethin. thanks :mrgreen:

Hi, I'm trying to create a DLL for Excel on Mac OS X but any guide or tutorial on the net seems to be completely focussed on Windows. Can anybody help me with how to create DLLs on a mac or direct me to a tutorial. Thanks gus

HI, looking for some advice from the mac users here. I recently got a side job supporting computers in a church office. There is also a k-8 school filled with macs that I had nothing to do with until last week. The wants to upgrade it's computers(the macs thye have …

My lovely system has started up, my log on screen accessed and then I wait for my desktop to load- and then I wait some more, and more, than make coffee, then wait some more. Can anyone tell me whats causing this delay- someone advised me to check Fontbook for …

Ho Wcan I Install Programs Downloaded From Limelight....i Cant Do It ....after It Unstuffs And I Go To Run Setup.exe It Wants To Restuff The Download And It Goes In A Big Circle.. Im New To The Mac World So I Dont Know If I Have To Run It Through …

I have just installed Quark 6.1 running on a G4 with a 125ghz processor with 1ghz of ram, and OS10.3.4, all the usual quark functions are very sluggish even to showing the invisables is slow also I get the winding clock when i go to the menu bar to activate …

Lost old hard drive, installed new and installed Panther from original disks. Now it says it can't launch any of my application that need system 9. Having a very bad week.

Hi, I´ve kinda rookie on OSx issues but, i´ve realized that real player, windows media, and quicktime, don´t have a playlist option. I mean, what if i want to watch all my silent hill videos ( .mov for example ), and i don´t want to click each one of them …

Hi guys, i´m a newbie on mac world, i recently bought a mac mini, and i want to move my info from my laptop to mini, but i can´t view any of both computers, i´m using a firewire, and i´d like to keep them connected on a home LAN. other …

Long story short, instead of having Fonts >> (actual font files) in System, I accidently now have Fonts >> "New Folder" >> (acutal font files) in System. I restarted, and now the desktop shows nothing, and the top title bar shows nothing... any idea how to fix this? Can you …

Hello , i am going nuts what do you have to do if you forget your administrator password I can't do anything, what do I have to do to fix this Please help! i am working with OSX 10.2.6 Thanks :cry:

Hi folks, i had to install a Windows-emulator in my mac---wintel 1.01. And i wanted to install WinXP. After the setup a blue screen appeared. Somethings wrong with the VGA. something with an non-ending loop, and i should try to install some drivers. But for an emulator it's not neccessary …

osx, working for 3 weeks on a quark 6.0 document. ran the quark 6.1 upgrade and the file is now GONE!!!! no one from quark can tell me what happened or where the file is. can someone please help with any suggestions?

Can anyone recommend a solution to allow buttons to link on my IE explorter 5.1.7 on my iMac OS 8.6. All traditional hypertext links work, but on certain web pages anything that looks like a button is dead when I click on it. (for example when I click on the …

So, I finally was able to install OS X on one of my hardrives, but most of my music is on another hardrive, and the amount of memory left on the hardrive I have installed OS X on wouldn't support the amount of songs I have. Is there any way …

I am embarassingly new to computing. Please be patient with my infantile questions. Using a little how-to book, I set Expose because I do like to be able to spread out the windows I have open and get myself reorganized. But all I really want is to have the F9 …

There was(is) this nifty little freeware app I used for OS 9 named "Burn 2.5"; I'm needing to know if there's a OS X equivalent available today. (This app basically wrote over free space or designated files with ones or zeroes.) Thanks!

I am trying to set up the Internal Modem for my Powerbook G4. In the past, I have successfully connected using both Ethernet and Airport Express, BUT now I am attempting connect via DSL. The DSL line (router is: Speed Touch USB Alcatel) I am trying to use is normally …

when I TRY TO LOG INTO MY HOTMAIL ACCOUNT AN ALERT MESSAGE APPEARS READING "UNKNOWN SIGNATURE ALGORITHMS." what is the problem? my keyboard also has a mind of its own.

right were do i start, on my mac i book it as 0s9 and 0sx i swithched to osx and nothing works, no applications work, i heard you can switch back on start up does anybody know how and if so could you please tell me my mac is redundant …

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anyone know the cure to this problem. Im running osx on an ibook clamshell. imovie.3 is incompatible with ibook because of the lower resolution screen therefore im running Imovie 2.1 the PROBLEM.. every now and then it crashes, and then i open it and get error.."your project is unreadable"...and then …

Hi Can someone help me. A colleague at work has a G2 and has tried to load some new printer software but a dialogue box has popped up saying that the volume is full. What does this mean? I am unfamiliar with MAC syatems. Many thanks Jan-Michael

First of all, I'm running on OS 9.2 Normally when I do a hard restart a message comes up that says disk first aid is taking care of the problems, but this time I got a message, which said the disk first aid couldn't fix it. When I went disk …

Hi everybody. New here, so be gentle... I am the sole Mac user in a network of 10 machines (9 PCs all running XP). Our server is a Linux box (i.e. NOT Exchange Server). I use Entourage for mail, iCal for calendar, etc etc. I HOPE to be able to …

Hi guys and gals. i have a problem with one of our macs at work, we have a mac running 10.3 server which has a 500 gb Hd connected to it by firewire, all macs can use the files on this drive. i am running osx10.3.7 and i can read …

[font=Trebuchet MS]Does anyone have any experience setting up OS X machines to be Domain Controllers on a mixed network? But not with OS X server... Unless you've got a spare license laying about that you'd like to give me? Right...what I thought. ;) So back to regular OS X Panther. …