Marta, I am sorry you are having the same problem, but it lets me know it isn't something with my machine. Possibly Ward knows what is going on and a cure?
John R. On Jul 18, 2005, at 6:00 PM, Marta Edie wrote: > On my G4 powerbook the dictionary channel has not been working for a > long time. It distresses me greatly, but I have no idea how to > resurrect it, tried everything, finally gave up. This is the only > channel I actually use, because it also has thesaurus capabilities. > Since I have sherlock in my dock, it was so easy to use anytime i > needed a spelling or a synonym. Now only my iMac allows me to do that. > Phonebook and pictures are also "temporarily unavailable." However > ,their icons show up, my dictionary icon does not even show on the > palette of my powerbook > Marta > On Jul 18, 2005, at 14:33, Profile wrote: > >> >> Folks, >> >> For some strange reason the Pictures Channel and the Phone Book >> channel have quit working on a couple of my Mac's. I get the same >> dialogue box, saying "This Channel is temporarily unavailable, check >> back soon." >> >> This will appeared first on a laptop (all machines running 10.3.9), >> but worked on the other machines, then it appeared on a G5 desktop, >> but others worked, now today it appeared on a G4 iMac. Never do they >> begin working once they quit, and the machines are in different >> locations. >> >> Anyone have an idea what is happening or what needs to be done to >> gain usage again? >> >> I used Cocktail, no help. The other channels work fine, just the >> same two on each machine. >> >> Many thanks, >> >> John R. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 1618 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050718/63dd0520/attachment.bin