Re: HD help needed

2010-01-30 Thread Ronda Brown
Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 30/01/2010, at 3:40 PM, Nicholas Pyers li...@nicholaspyers.com wrote: On 30/01/2010, at 6:09 PM, Andrew wrote: HI Folks While sharing a couple of files between my 2 iMacs across the home network for printing purposes, I ejected what I thought was Mac no2

Re: HD help needed

2010-01-30 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 30/01/2010, at 6:52 PM, Andrew wrote: Thanks, Nicholas That was very scary. I found this http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1876?viewlocale=en_US and followed the instructions. All is fine now, thank goodness. Great to hear you fixed it I thought I had lost about 4 years worth of photos and

Re: HD help needed

2010-01-30 Thread Andrew
I will do so. I checked my partitions on my external drive and have decided to get a new one to do a back up as none of the partitions have enough space. Makes you realise the importance of it. Everything seems to have returned to normal. Andrew On 30/01/2010, at 4:17 PM, Nicholas Pyers

Re: HD help needed

2010-01-30 Thread Andrew
Hi Ronni I won't go into the why, but it's sorted now and lesson learnt. I was probably fixing it with that method as Nicholas was typing his first reply. I had Googled the problem before I posted to the list, but maybe hadn't worded my query well the first time. New ext hard drive will be

Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

2010-01-30 Thread Jennifer Lefroy
Thank you, Ronnie, I will do that. I use Gmail for my WAMUG list although my concern is with Mail. My email to WAMUG which you have answered has not appeared in my WAMUG inbox although there have been questions from others arriving. Greg Manzie very kindly came to the rescue yesterday off list

Disposal of iMac

2010-01-30 Thread Paul Weaver
I'm wondering about best to prepare an iMac before disposal or sale? Cheers, Paul. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe -

Re: Disposal of iMac

2010-01-30 Thread Nicholas Pyers
On 30/01/2010, at 9:11 PM, Paul Weaver wrote: I'm wondering about best to prepare an iMac before disposal or sale? It depends if you just want to throw it out or pass it on to someone else... If you want to just dispose of it and clear your data off it, then BACKUP your data first!!!

Re: iPad

2010-01-30 Thread Neil Houghton
Hehe... I have to agree that people have been talking about the paperless office for well over 20 years! However, the momentum HAS been building.. at first very slowly, but now, I think, we are reaching critical mass. I'm not talking about the demise of books here, but electronic data and

Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

2010-01-30 Thread Ronda Brown
Hi Jennifer, The later Repair Permissions showed many more items. What was the repair permissions report? Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 30/01/2010, at 5:15 PM, Jennifer Lefroy lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you, Ronnie, I will do that. I use Gmail for my WAMUG list although my

Re: Mail 'To' line anomaly

2010-01-30 Thread Ronda Brown
On 31/01/2010, at 12:19 PM, Jennifer Lefroy lefroy.jenni...@gmail.com wrote: Thank you very much, Ronnie. You're welcome Jennifer. That's a relief. No, I haven't been aware of other problems and I will be on the alert though I hope the Repair, then Combo, then Repair will have fixed