Re: Where in OS X are the settings for window views saved?
On Saturday, July 31, 2004, at 05:03 PM, Zoltan Batiz wrote: Hello All, For some reason, my settings for only two windows do not save. Specifically, my main hard drive window and the applications (for OS X) window. Only these two windows always go to a default setting after reboot/cold boot. There is an invisible file called '.DS_Store' in every directory on your Mac that's ever been opened in Finder, which stores this information. Quick Unix lesson: These files could also have become corrupted. The fix is deleting them, as the OS will just recreate them again. If fixing permissions doesn't work, close the offending windows, then open a Terminal window. (in all the instructions following, type the commands without the ''s and hit return after) type 'cd /' type 'sudo rm .DS_Store' If this is the first time you have run the sudo command, you will get a screen asking you to be careful and be polite with other's files, then you'll be asked for your admin password. Then you'll be asked if you really want to delete the file .DS_Store Enter 'y' type 'cd /Applications' type type 'sudo rm .DS_Store' again type 'y' again. You're not asked for your admin password again because the OS lets you continue to use sudo in a single terminal session until you don't use it for 15 minutes, I think. You can use the 'rm -f' version of the rm (the unix file deleting command) which forces the removal, not asking you for confirmation. When you rm a file in Unix it's gone, dead, pushing up daisies, nailed to the perch, pinin' for the fjords, pray you have a recent backup dead. When you use sudo, you're acting as 'root' the most powerful user on a Unix system. Root can do 'rm -rf /' (the single most dangerous command in the Unix Universe) and a system will obediently eat itself, so it pays to be careful and have the 'are you sure' prompt. -- Wherever you go, there you are. - B. Banzai, Ph.D. Bruce Johnson -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Pismo booted by external Firewire drive
Will a Pismo boot OS X 10.3 from an external Firewire drive? If so, until I can get a bigger internal drive I need to move Panther from my iMac to this external drive. I'm getting ready to sell the iMac. Brian -- I'm Brian Braunschweiger and I approved this message. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo booted by external Firewire drive
I have on my Lombard so I'm sure the Pismo will Michael Sharon Vogt On Aug 1, 2004, at 11:19 AM, Brian Braunschweiger wrote: Will a Pismo boot OS X 10.3 from an external Firewire drive? If so, until I can get a bigger internal drive I need to move Panther from my iMac to this external drive. I'm getting ready to sell the iMac. Brian -- I'm Brian Braunschweiger and I approved this message. -- -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo booted by external Firewire drive
On Aug 1, 2004, at 10:19 AM, Brian Braunschweiger wrote: Will a Pismo boot OS X 10.3 from an external Firewire drive? If so, until I can get a bigger internal drive I need to move Panther from my iMac to this external drive. I'm getting ready to sell the iMac. Brian, Download the freeware program called CCC which stand for Carbon Copy Cloner. This great utility will greatly decrease the amount of time it will take to move Panther and everything else to your new drive. You can this either via a firewire drive or through Target Disk Mode. CCC can be found here: http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html Before you use this program, be sure you repair permissions on the source drive and make sure the destination drive has been wiped. After that, plug in the external drive to your iMac and boot CCC. With a click of a button, you'll be able to make a literal carbon copy, or clone, of your entire hard drive. . .apps, OS 9. . .everything. Once CCC is completed, you'll need to repair permissions on the newly cloned drive as well. The whole process should only take about an hour to two, depending on the size of the drives. Hope this helps, Z THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
optical drive replacement infos
Very helpful! Thanks! Subject: optical drive replacement infos Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 15:21:14 -0400 From: Dan K [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As usual, I reference my own page as a good place to start: http://mywebpages.comcast.net/macdan/ebms.html... -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo troubleshooting
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 17:03:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Alejandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pismo troubleshooting --- Jeff Hubatka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 01:00:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Alejandro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Pismo troubleshooting You have a Lombard wich needs a screen to work. Well, you can place the Pismo's one. This will be the faster solution. Follow these steps: http://homepage.mac.com/scadboy/lcd/ Anyway, it will be better to fix the Pismo, because it's the only which have DVD Playback on OS X and has a better Video Card.\ Pismo and Lombard do not have the same screens - the flat cable connectors on them are in about a quarter-inch different place and so do not match up correctly. The screens aren't the same, but the LCD can be replaced. Check the page and you will see that the Pismo and the Lombard can have the same LCD (inside the cover screen). Apple changed some things, because they DON'T want users replacing LCDs on NON Apple Services. Instead of having cheaper prices, they replaced the connectors. Funny, isn't it? All of these panels are compatible with PowerBook G3s with 14.1 Displays: - WallStreet (G3 233-292) - PDQ (Revised Wallstreet) - Lombard (Built-in USB) - Pismo (Built-In Firewire) You are correct in saying the screens are not the same, although I think you're talking about the housings. The actual LCD is a different part number. I have taken apart quite a few Lombards and Pismos and can say from actual experience rather than someone else's web page that the LCD probably won't work. The flat connector that is part of the LCD is in a different place, so your flex cable from the motherboard will not work correctly. --- JSH TiBook -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Slim CD-IDE Adapter in PB G4?
Jeff, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The cable from the standard DVD will not work with anything else like a combo drive, the connectors are on a different side. OK, thanks. But then if I took this connector cable from a dead PBG4 with a combo, a combo could still run in an earlier machine, right? Or do I also need more stuff from the dead machine. Maybe it's easier to sell the 400 machine and buy 550 or faster, but I'm kinda fed up changing machines all the time. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Anyone know where to get expansion bay hard drives anymore?
Jeff, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I replaced my TiBook DVD drive with a combo drive, and later upgraded that to a faster model. Did you also need to replace the cable? Did it perhaps come with the combo? -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
OT: Disk errors when booted off ext. cdrom drive?
I have used this external cdrom drive many times before, and used the install cd's many times before, I tried my system 8 cd, and my system 7.6 cd with this 5300 I have, and everytime I boot off the external cd and try to install the system software I get disk errors/ installation couldn't continue unknown error, it installed 7.6 once, but then it wouldn't install the .1 update. 8 won't go at all. Anyone have any ideas? I just bought a SCSI dock adapter so I could hook it up to one of my desktops and just create a system folder and drag it to it since I can't get it to install, but was hoping someone had a suggestion. Also being that this is the first time I have attempted a docking how would I go about creating a laptop system folder on my desktop mac...sorry for being OT, but you guys are great help! Thanks, Josh -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet G3 will not accept Netscape 7.02
Warren; I run a Wallstreet 233-G-3 with 96 megs of ram. I use 9.04 OK but I detest Netscape 7.02 on this Book. No trouble installing it but it is bloated, slower, and crashes. If I knew how to move all my info back to 4.79, I would trash this latest greatest version of Netscape. Just my 2 cents. Hope the info helps. Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Netscape 7.02 downloaded to my Syquest drive loads to my G3 - 233 Desktop with no problems. I am running 8.6 on both the Wallstreet and the G3 Desktop. I purchased an OS 9.04 PowerBook Install Disk which also will not install on the Wallstreet. Could my Netscape problem be related to the OS 9 install refusal? As yet I do not have OS 10 so have not tried with the Syquest. In a message dated 7/31/04 1:55:50 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Saturday, July 31, 2004, at 09:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to load Netscape 7.02 on my wife's Wallstreet. If I try to load from the download to the Wallstreet I get an error - 43 (file not found) and a system freeze. If I try to load from a download to a Syquest 200MB disk Netscape starts to load and I get a failed error - 202 (problems with sound or sound files) while it is installing XPCOM file 1 of 12. If you downloaded the full installer, it may be corrupted. If the download is only a few hundred K, this installer requires network access during the install. I think the 202 error is erroneous. I'd also do a Disk Utility check of both drives. (and how well does your Syquest disk work under OSX anyway?) -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Wallstreet G3 will not accept Netscape 7.02
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 09:30:00PM -0400, Bill Buckhaults wrote: : : I run a Wallstreet 233-G-3 with 96 megs of ram. I use 9.04 OK but I : detest Netscape 7.02 on this Book. No trouble installing it but it is : bloated, slower, and crashes. If I knew how to move all my info back to : 4.79, I would trash this latest greatest version of Netscape. Just my 2 : cents. Hope the info helps. Have you tried running iCab? -- Eugene Lee eugene at anime dot net -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Re: Pismo booted by external Firewire drive (Dreams of a Carbonated Pismo)
Hi Brian Yes, a Pismo will indeed (happily) boot 10.3 from an external Firewire drive. My 400 Mhz/512MB/40GB Pismo (with multiple partitions on the internal drive) will quite happily boot from the external (USB and Firewire) drive (actually the original 10GB Pismo drive in a case) with OS X (I am currently up to 10.3.4 but it also worked with 10.2.6 etc). Good Luck Harry. P.S. I wish Apple would bring out an updated (hot G4/G5 ...) version of the Pismo ... it is such a nice laptop to work on ... the more rounded (and warmer) plastic shape is a delight (sounds dubious huh?) to work on ... maybe a carbon fibre version? Carbonated Pismo! 8-) On 02/08/2004, at 5:07 AM, G-Books wrote: Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2004 13:19:27 -0400 From: Brian Braunschweiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Pismo booted by external Firewire drive Will a Pismo boot OS X 10.3 from an external Firewire drive? If so, until I can get a bigger internal drive I need to move Panther from my iMac to this external drive. I'm getting ready to sell the iMac. -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
Has Everybody heard? Steve Jobs is doing fine in hospital!
Latest news on Steve Jobs: I know this is off topic, but is it? This is afterall, Steve's Universe. Anyway, he had a rare form of cancer which he is recovering from with no complications and should be back to work running Apple by September. Some guy I never heard of is running it in the meantime. . .no, not Steve Wozniak. Well, just thought I'd spread the happy news! Steve is too young to have to worry about stuff like this. America needs inventors like 'em! (This was just quoted from a talk show on AM 640 which aired tonight). Zoltan THE BLUETOOTH MASTER -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog Electronicshttp://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html G-Books list info: http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html -- AOL users, remove mailto:; Send list messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For digest mode, email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscription questions: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/ --- The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---
