Re: Recovery problems

2009-08-09 Thread Ronda Brown
On 10/08/2009, at 12:29 PM, Richard Anderson wrote: When power went off, my computer came down. Now when I try to reopen some files in Appleworks. I get the expected message that the file wasn't closed properly, and inviting me to recover the changes. However, none of the buttons Cancel

Re: File not saving?

2009-08-09 Thread Ronda Brown
On 10/08/2009, at 12:09 PM, gary dorn wrote: On 09/08/2009, at 10:40 PM, gary dorn wrote: On 07/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, gary dorn wrote: howdy I have software which recently had an update v 4.1 universal - (previously ran under rosetta) snip Hi Gary, What Software Application d

Recovery problems

2009-08-09 Thread Richard Anderson
When power went off, my computer came down. Now when I try to reopen some files in Appleworks. I get the expected message that the file wasn't closed properly, and inviting me to recover the changes. However, none of the buttons Cancel Discard Recover work, and I can't open the files in t

Re: File not saving?

2009-08-09 Thread gary dorn
On 09/08/2009, at 10:40 PM, gary dorn wrote: On 07/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, gary dorn wrote: howdy I have software which recently had an update v 4.1 universal - (previously ran under rosetta) snip Hi Gary, What Software Application did you update to v 4.1 Universal? Its an archite

Re: iWork problem

2009-08-09 Thread Mervyn & Giuliana Bond
On 10/08/2009, at 9:25 AM, Bill Parker wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with PAGES in iWork? I am at the hair pulling stage Working from an empty template except for a masthead and other common details (start size about 1MB) I have a 30 page document that comes out at

Re: iWork problem

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Parker
Hi Ronni, I have been using Good, Better and Best with very sim. results on size. I found the solution. I took the PDF exported at "Best" quality from Pages and re-opened in Acrobat 8 Pro. I then saved that PDF using the "optimize" function. Size now 2.7MB - OK for my purpose.

Re: iWork problem

2009-08-09 Thread Eugene
Hi Bill, pages imports the pictures and maintains the file size of the original picture's document. In other words if you import a 3Mb picture file into the pages document it still retains the original document size even if you physically resize the picture to 2 cm x 2 cm thumbnail. Now

Re: iWork problem

2009-08-09 Thread Ronda Brown
On 10/08/2009, at 10:08 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 10/08/2009, at 9:25 AM, Bill Parker wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with PAGES in iWork? I am at the hair pulling stage Working from an empty template except for a masthead and other common details (start size abou

Re: iWork problem

2009-08-09 Thread Ronda Brown
On 10/08/2009, at 9:25 AM, Bill Parker wrote: I wonder if anyone has experience with PAGES in iWork? I am at the hair pulling stage Working from an empty template except for a masthead and other common details (start size about 1MB) I have a 30 page document that comes out

iWork problem

2009-08-09 Thread Bill Parker
I wonder if anyone has experience with PAGES in iWork? I am at the hair pulling stage Working from an empty template except for a masthead and other common details (start size about 1MB) I have a 30 page document that comes out at 7MB. I have checked every picture and graphic

Re: File not saving?

2009-08-09 Thread Ronda Brown
On 09/08/2009, at 10:40 PM, gary dorn wrote: On 07/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, gary dorn wrote: howdy I have software which recently had an update v 4.1 universal - (previously ran under rosetta) On my MacPro 10.5.6 when ever I open a file and go to save it, the save is not kept. Thanks t

Re: Phishing attempt for MobileMe

2009-08-09 Thread Ronda Brown
On 10/08/2009, at 8:15 AM, Peter Sealy wrote: I picked up from another of my email lists that a very good fraudulent renewal for Mobileme accounts is doing the rounds. It is just a phishing attempt but well done. I don't know how any of you have MobileMe accounts but be warned. This one

Phishing attempt for MobileMe

2009-08-09 Thread Peter Sealy
I picked up from another of my email lists that a very good fraudulent renewal for Mobileme accounts is doing the rounds. It is just a phishing attempt but well done. I don't know how any of you have MobileMe accounts but be warned. This one traces back to the Philippines. ..

Re: Lost Administrator Privileges

2009-08-09 Thread Robert Howells
On 09/08/2009, at 11:07 PM, Warwick Smith wrote: Hi WAMUGers Does anyone have a 'quick fix' for lost administrator privileges. My personal PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.5) now asks me for an administrator name and password three times before I can use system preferences, and no longer acce

Lost Administrator Privileges

2009-08-09 Thread Warwick Smith
Hi WAMUGers Does anyone have a 'quick fix' for lost administrator privileges. My personal PowerBook G4 (Mac OS X 10.5) now asks me for an administrator name and password three times before I can use system preferences, and no longer accepts my user name and password for any changes. When

Re: File not saving?

2009-08-09 Thread gary dorn
On 07/08/2009, at 2:35 PM, gary dorn wrote: howdy I have software which recently had an update v 4.1 universal - (previously ran under rosetta) On my MacPro 10.5.6 when ever I open a file and go to save it, the save is not kept. Thanks to all that replied and made suggestions Just now

Re: Reconstruction

2009-08-09 Thread Robert Howells
On 09/08/2009, at 4:51 PM, Severin Crisp wrote: After a certain amount of toing and froing and hassling I have my G5 back where it was with 10.5.7 and will move to 10.5.8 in due course when all dust has settled. All is happily clean installed and restored - god bless Time Machine for t

Reconstruction

2009-08-09 Thread Severin Crisp
After a certain amount of toing and froing and hassling I have my G5 back where it was with 10.5.7 and will move to 10.5.8 in due course when all dust has settled. All is happily clean installed and restored - god bless Time Machine for those regular backups. My only minor annoyance is tha