Re: Replacement for Quicksilver G4 Superdrive
On Apr 12, 2015, at 11:55 AM, William Tomcanin wt8091...@gmail.com wrote: the Superdrive in my trusty Quicksilver will no longer read DVDs. CDs appear to read ok, although burning is becoming problematic (50-50 chance of success). Before you go for a replacement, try cleaning it! fwiw, - Dan. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Apple Mail questions
On Dec 1, 2014, at 03:11 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: On Dec 1, 2014, at 12:27 PM, Dan C dantear...@gmail.com wrote: Sooo... I switched from Eudora to Apple Mail and am having a few growing pains. (QuickSilver 2002, Leopard) [snip - my griping about the conversion process in general] Well, to be honest, moving to a modern version of the OS will help a great deal...the computer is 12 years old, the os is what, 7? pffft. They'll pry my ppc macs out of my cold dead hands. (not to be confused with my saying the same thing about Eudora a few years ago). With Snow Leopard (iirc) Apple moved from monolithic .mbox mail files to .eml files in directories, which speeds up message management by a gazillion times. The transition from the standard unix mailbox to the proprietary index with separate message files occurred in Leopard. That's why I now gots an additional 100,000+ files on me drive. I see now that Apple has changed their file format/set-up three times, during the transitions to Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion. That's got me thinking: The older versions of Mail do not run on newer versions of the OS. So how are people and businesses (with a legal requirement) handling this inability to read their backups and archives? How do I tell Apple Mail to throw a message to my default browser? Now and then, friends (peecee users) send me poorly formatted html messages that get mangled by WebKit. I know by previous experience that if I throw them at a non-webkit browser (eg: TenFourFox), they display just fine. In Eudora, I did this by selecting the message then hitting an open in browser button. What is the equivalent for Apple Mail? There really isn't one; because Mail is using (theoretically) the same engine as the default web browser. Of course, since your system Webkit version is ancient, you'll run into issues. My default web browser, as selected in Safari's preferences, is either a newer WebKit app, or TenFourFox. So Mail is *not* using the same engine. I think I'll try Cam's suggestion of relinking Mail. That will fix the slow rendering issues. Still need a way to outright throw the email... How do I quickly grab in-line photos? Some people send me messages that contain dozens of photos. They're in-line - dragged into the message body, not regular attachments. In Eudora, they appeared as files in Eudora's Parts folder - easy to grab from Finder. Where does Apple Mail stash them? I know that in current versions of mail there's a kind of pop-up menu that will let me select any or all attachments to save. Yea, it's there if the files are attachments. If they're in-line, then it's AWOL. I've discovered that I can drag individual images to a fold in Finder, if I'm patient (Finder has to see each drag before you let go of the mouse). I guess that will work on messages that contain only a few files. Any idea where Mail is stashing these? Explore the toolbar customization menu, there's a bunch of useful tools that aren't in the standard set. Nothing pertaining to saving images tho. How do I create a rule to move sent messages to their appropriate mailbox? I'm accumulating mailing list replies and such in the Sent mailbox. I'd like them to automagically move to the right mailbox, to keep the threads intact. I'm pretty sure if you add a rule to the Sent mailbox you should be able to do what you want. How do I add a rule to the Sent mailbox? I'm not seeing that the rules are being applied to anything when sending. Thx, - Dan. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Apple Mail questions
Hi, Sooo... I switched from Eudora to Apple Mail and am having a few growing pains. (QuickSilver 2002, Leopard) I used EudoraMailboxCleaner, rebuilt the resulting mailboxes in Apple Mail, and got most of my filters er a rules working. My first impression of Apple Mail was that it's a POS because it was abysmally slow. Turns out that to rebuild a mailbox, Mail opens each and every message for *writing*, not just reading - so when they're closed, fseventer throws them at ClamXav and Splotchlight for that unnecessary 2nd and 3rd rescan. Splotchlight, of course, goes into convulsions from being given so much work to do, mangles its indexing, and throws thousands and thousands of errors at the console, which then requires several cpu hours of the logger process futzing around. sigh. So I beat it all with a stick, disabled Clam and Splotch, let the rebuilds finish (21 years worth of mail!) then let Splotchlight spend the night reindexing from scratch. Overall Mail's performance is improved, as long as I stay away from big mailboxes. Those still take 30s to a minute to view. Ok - the questions: Other than installing a newer WebKit system-wide (which has stability issues), is there an easy way to point Mail to using a newer build? The newer builds are much faster at displaying image heavy messages. How do I tell Apple Mail to throw a message to my default browser? Now and then, friends (peecee users) send me poorly formatted html messages that get mangled by WebKit. I know by previous experience that if I throw them at a non-webkit browser (eg: TenFourFox), they display just fine. In Eudora, I did this by selecting the message then hitting an open in browser button. What is the equivalent for Apple Mail? How do I quickly grab in-line photos? Some people send me messages that contain dozens of photos. They're in-line - dragged into the message body, not regular attachments. In Eudora, they appeared as files in Eudora's Parts folder - easy to grab from Finder. Where does Apple Mail stash them? How do I create a rule to move sent messages to their appropriate mailbox? I'm accumulating mailing list replies and such in the Sent mailbox. I'd like them to automagically move to the right mailbox, to keep the threads intact. How do I create a rule to move attachments to an alternate folder? I've no problem creating rules that move messages to specific mailboxes. But on some, I'd like to also move the attachments to a different folder, away from the default (which has become cluttered fast!). Thanks, - Dan. -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups G-Group group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
