Re: Strange iMac Problems

2004-02-02 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 31/01/2004, at 3:57 PM, Antony N. Lord wrote: Machine : 400Mhz iMac DV (Graphite) Machine was working fine with OS 9, decide to do a fresh install [with no OS 9], erase HD, partition, install 10.2 (with view to install 10.3) OS X works fine but machine hangs a few hours later. Restart i

Re: Strange iMac Problems

2004-01-31 Thread Rob Findlay
> From: "Antony N. Lord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 22:05:20 +0800 > To: "WAMUG Mailing List" > Subject: Re: Strange iMac Problems > >> Did you update the Firmware on your iMac before installing OS X? > > I was under t

Re: Strange iMac Problems

2004-01-31 Thread Antony N. Lord
Did you update the Firmware on your iMac before installing OS X? I was under the impression the machine [not my machine] had at one stage contained an X install before being taken back to 9. So in all honesty there is a possibility that the firmware WAS "out of date" if X hadn't been there b

Re: Strange iMac Problems

2004-01-31 Thread Greg Manzie
Hi Anthony, Don't you just hate computers sometimes. You probably do not have a doorstop. Try the following; Temporarily disconnect all peripherals. Restart with either the OS9, Disk Warrior, or OS 10 CD by holding down the 'c' Key during re-start. If you can re-install OS9 it will prove tha

Strange iMac Problems

2004-01-31 Thread Antony N. Lord
Machine : 400Mhz iMac DV (Graphite) Machine was working fine with OS 9, decide to do a fresh install [with no OS 9], erase HD, partition, install 10.2 (with view to install 10.3) OS X works fine but machine hangs a few hours later. Restart it and it does this : Chimes, powers up (green pow

Reinstalling X after HD problems

2004-01-17 Thread Antony N. Lord
Here's what I've got / what happened : Mac PowerBook Lombard 333, 320Mb RAM 30Gb HD with 3 partitions [10gb OS 10.2.8, 10Gb OS 9.2.2, 10Gb Data] Machine was being a bit flaky, tried out TechTool Pro 4.0.1 found "allocation overlap -694" which it was unable to fix. Problems

Panther installation was - Word problems

2004-01-08 Thread Greg Manzie
Hi Rod and others I upgraded a G4 400 PCI Graphics with 128 M RAM (soon to be much more), from OS 10.2.8 to 10.3.1 and then 10.3.2, along with other apps like AppleWorks 6.2.7. I used Software Update with ADSL internet direct upgrades. I did this over a few weeks and had almost no problems

Re: Word problems and CopyPaste

2004-01-08 Thread Rod Lavington
On 8/1/04 9:44 AM, "Lloyd White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I read that some members have had strange things happening with MS Word. > > This has happened to me yesterday when I upgraded my version of CopyPaste X > from v 1.6.1 to v 2. > > I am using OSX 10.3.2 > > Control clicking on a wor

Word problems and CopyPaste

2004-01-08 Thread Lloyd White
I read that some members have had strange things happening with MS Word. This has happened to me yesterday when I upgraded my version of CopyPaste X from v 1.6.1 to v 2. I am using OSX 10.3.2 Control clicking on a word for spell-checking resulted in the spinning wheel and the MS Word quitting.

Re: Cabling problems & ISPs

2003-12-22 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 22/12/2003, at 7:56 AM, Bob Howells wrote: So what Modem Initialisation string is the 30k Imac using ? Just the standard string for the built-in v90 iMac modem. The same one which provides a 56k connection in so many other iMacs of the same model. The question is pretty much moot by n

Re: Cabling problems & ISPs

2003-12-22 Thread Bob Howells
On 22/12/03 7:51 AM, "Peter Hinchliffe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 20/12/2003, at 5:55 PM, Vladimir James wrote: > >> Some may not be aware that other conditions besides ISPs may affect >> download efficiency. For example, ancient Telstra cabling in my >> district >> restricts my 56k conn

Re: Cabling problems & ISPs

2003-12-22 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 20/12/2003, at 5:55 PM, Vladimir James wrote: Some may not be aware that other conditions besides ISPs may affect download efficiency. For example, ancient Telstra cabling in my district restricts my 56k connection to about 30k, often less. Clearly some of us are more fortunate than other

Cabling problems & ISPs

2003-12-20 Thread Vladimir James
Some may not be aware that other conditions besides ISPs may affect download efficiency. For example, ancient Telstra cabling in my district restricts my 56k connection to about 30k, often less. Clearly some of us are more fortunate than others. I'm waiting for some wag to tell me to move to anoth

Sharing problems

2003-12-02 Thread Severin Crisp
but forgot to click the "Apply Now" button. How silly can you get? Once again I am grateful to WAMUG members for quick and valid responses to problems! Severin Crisp -- __ Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CP

Re: Entourage Problems -> Try Norton's, permissions repair, rebuilding database, closing Preview Panes

2003-11-18 Thread Derek Yeoh-Ellerton
y 3. Turn off the preview pane in any windows you use. 4. Quit Entourage, and trash your general Entourage prefs (not your identity prefs, just the general Entourage ones) 5. Quit Entourage, and make a duplicate of your Identities folder, and move it aside, in case of problems in following step

Fwd: Entourage problems

2003-11-09 Thread BART RAFFAELE
Begin forwarded message: From: BART RAFFAELE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat Nov 08, 2003 08:43:27 AM Australia/Perth To: WAMUG Subject: Entourage problems Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-

Entourage problems

2003-11-08 Thread BART RAFFAELE
Hi all I'm using Entourage on my iMac 233 running 10.1.5 It seem that in the last 3 months the program keeps on quitting, When I check some of the inboxes like deleted items theres nothing there ,but I click on the area and some of them appear, then it unexpectly quits and some times comes up

Entourage problems

2003-11-08 Thread BART RAFFAELE
Hi all I'm using Entourage on my iMac 233 running 10.1.5 It seem that in the last 3 months the program keeps on quitting, When I check some of the inboxes like deleted items theres nothing there ,but I click on the area and some of them appear, then it unexpectly quits and some times comes up wit

PANTHER PROBLEMS AT MACINTOUCH :- BE CAREFUL !

2003-11-04 Thread Bob Howells
Aside from the nasty FireWire bug in Panther, we've been getting reports of problems in other disk-related areas of the new operating system: [Eric Shepherd] Over the last few days, I've had increasing problems with preference files getting corrupted, but it wasn't until la

PANTHER & FIREWIRE PROBLEMS

2003-11-01 Thread Bob Howells
BEWARE BEWARE ! Today's ( Saturday Perth time ) Macintouch carries details of an Apple warning re lost files etc where Panther is in use with Firewire device's. Go here today for all the goss :- Bob

ATTN: those with printer problems in panther

2003-10-31 Thread David Choy
I recall some people on this list were having problems printing in panther/printing to windows printers on a network from a mac. I have found the following that may help: courtesy of MacSlash: Panther Upgrade Breaks Printing posted by Cannonball on Thursday October 30, @03:28PM from the fixing

printing problems 10.3

2003-10-30 Thread Susan Hastings
Hi, I thought I had posted a query about this last night, but can't see my query showing up yet. I have installed 10.3, and find I can print without problems from MS word, but can't print from Preview or AccountEdge. AccountEdge is third party, but Preview is an Apple product, and

Re: Panther compatibility problems?

2003-10-27 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On Saturday, October 25, 2003, at 10:06 PM, Ray Forma wrote: The following statement from the makers of Vectorworks, the top Mac CAD program, makes me ask what other applications will not work properly with Panther? There is a discussion thread at AppleInsider which deals with this. Ch

Re: Panther compatibility problems?

2003-10-27 Thread Brett Carboni
I guess the big question for a lot of us is, does Quark Xpress work? Versions 3 or 4 specifically since that's what most people I know use. The new version's about $3,500 and I've heard they don't even transfer licences (ie secondhand sales no good). Brett Carboni Tsunami On 25/10/03 10:06 PM, "

Panther compatibility problems?

2003-10-25 Thread Ray Forma
The following statement from the makers of Vectorworks, the top Mac CAD program, makes me ask what other applications will not work properly with Panther? Columbia, Maryland (October 22, 2003)- Nemetschek North America announced today that it will release a public beta of VectorWorks to coincide

Re: 10.2.8 Problems

2003-10-20 Thread Daniel & Claire Forsdyke
I ended up updating with the original version of 10.2.8, and had no problems at all. Then when the "bug-fix" for 10.2.8 came up I updated to that, with no problems once again. I was starting to wonder whether it was more related to what machine it was running on, rather than the softw

Any Griffin PowerWave -Epson 680 Printer - Epson 1660 Photo Scanner -users experiencing 10.28 problems?

2003-10-18 Thread Robert Dudley Miller-Eves
Are there any Wamuggers out there who are using and experiencing difficulties with 10.2.8 in relation to USB Devices? Since upgrading to 10.2.8 I can't print out from my Epson 680 I can't Scan with my Epson 1660 Photo Scanner and my Griffin Powerwave refuses to function. All these peripherals

10.2.8 Problems

2003-10-16 Thread Robert Dudley Miller-Eves
I've read with interest and dismay,the various messages concerning problems with the OS 10.2.8 upgrade. Then I, stupidly!, agreed to allow my computer to upgrade itself when the kind invitation arrived on my screen! Oh Horror! Now my Epson 1660 Scanner and ,recently purchased, Gr

10.2.8 problems

2003-10-16 Thread Robert Dudley Miller-Eves
I've read with interest and dismay,the various messages concerning problems with the OS 10.2.8 upgrade. Then I, stupidly!, agreed to allow my computer to upgrade itself when the kind invitation arrived on my screen! Oh Horror! Now my Epson 1660 Scanner and ,recently purchased, Gr

mail problems still

2003-10-15 Thread Adam Hewitt
Hi All, Well I tried cranking up Outlook for OS9 this morning and filled in my account details and it works perfectly, so it is definitely something with iMail (mail.app or whatever). Is there a way that I can reinstall Mail without reinstalling everything? Cheers, Adam.

Re: Diskwarrior 3 problems?

2003-10-06 Thread Malcolm McCallum
Hi Keith, what is your best deal for a (wamug) base station? :-) Mac On Monday, October 6, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Keith Palmer, Zytech wrote: It means the new PowerBook requires at least 10.2.7 to boot up but your DiskWarrior CD only has 10.2.3 on it. There are a few options that spring to mind -

Re: Diskwarrior 3 problems?

2003-10-06 Thread Keith Palmer, Zytech
It means the new PowerBook requires at least 10.2.7 to boot up but your DiskWarrior CD only has 10.2.3 on it. There are a few options that spring to mind - 1. make a 10.2.7 (or .8) startup CD and copy DW3 onto this 2. partition your new PB drive into 2 volumes both with an OS so you can start

Re: Diskwarrior 3 problems?

2003-10-06 Thread Shay Telfer
HI Muggers I have version 3 of DW which works great on my G4 desktop running OSX 10.2.6 and did equally well on my Pismo G3 500 running the same OS. I have since replaced Pismo with a new 15" PB, that came standard with 10.2.7! I didnt even know this had been released prior to the apparently

Diskwarrior 3 problems?

2003-10-06 Thread Chris Burton
HI Muggers I have version 3 of DW which works great on my G4 desktop running OSX 10.2.6 and did equally well on my Pismo G3 500 running the same OS. I have since replaced Pismo with a new 15" PB, that came standard with 10.2.7! I didnt even know this had been released prior to the apparently

Re: Problems with Stuffit 8

2003-10-04 Thread Larry Pohl
le icon was replaced by > a No Entry icon (a circle with a diagonal bar). This was new. > > 4. Bad. Very Bad. Try some tools. Disk Warrior fixed a problem with the > Volume Wrapper, but otherwise found no serious problems. Didn't help. > Booted from MacOS X Disk and ran Disk Fi

Re: Problems with Stuffit 8

2003-10-03 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
en. It did not even get as far as the little spinning icon. Eventually the apple icon was replaced by a No Entry icon (a circle with a diagonal bar). This was new. 4. Bad. Very Bad. Try some tools. Disk Warrior fixed a problem with the Volume Wrapper, but otherwise found no serious problems. D

Re: Problems with Stuffit 8

2003-10-03 Thread Larry Pohl
On 03/10/03 9:43 AM, "Matthew Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I have just gotten of the phone from Peter Hinchliffe, who is having a > Major problems with Stuffit Deluxe 8. He has had to reinstall > everything twice. He asked me to issue

Problems with Stuffit 8

2003-10-03 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi Everyone, I have just gotten of the phone from Peter Hinchliffe, who is having a Major problems with Stuffit Deluxe 8. He has had to reinstall everything twice. He asked me to issue this caution to everyone who is thinking of install v8. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0

Re: BigPond Email Retrieval Problems

2003-09-25 Thread Onno Benschop
On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 08:00, Kay, Richard wrote: > More email retrieval problems with Telstra BigPond last night. Two > nights in a row! This was posted on the Service Status page: "We are > currently looking into possible problems with BigPond Mail. Customers > with usernames R

BigPond Email Retrieval Problems

2003-09-25 Thread Kay, Richard
More email retrieval problems with Telstra BigPond last night. Two nights in a row! This was posted on the Service Status page: "We are currently looking into possible problems with BigPond Mail. Customers with usernames R(a-i)& O(a-z) are experiencing problems retrieving mail. Techn

10.2.8 problems

2003-09-24 Thread David Hudleston
I updated to 10.2.8 yesterday and Word (v.X) quit immediately every time I tried to open documents on a client's network. (error message: program unexpectedly quit etc) Disconnected from the network it works fine. There were no problems before the upgrade. An older version of Word w

Problems Solved, Mostly

2003-09-04 Thread Kelly Duffy
Thanks all for the response, for some reason its taken a while to get my messages through from this address, maybe it thinks it is a spam address, unfortunately there's not much I can about it, I'm stuck using this one until I find an ISP I'm happy with. The email problem with "The end of file was

Re: Email Problems

2003-09-03 Thread Bob Howells
Kelly, Have you tried setting up a new account under a different account name But with the same properties Check out the help info under accounts Bob On 3/9/03 3:55 PM, "Kelly Duffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Two issues in one day, I must be on a role. I am > running Entourage 2

Email Problems

2003-09-02 Thread Kelly Duffy
Hi all, Two issues in one day, I must be on a role. I am running Entourage 2001 on Mac OS9.2 on a flat panel iMac. I haven't been able to recieve email for two days. I've been getting continous error messages say that 'Could not retrieve mail from account "account".' with an explanation of the ems

Re: Modem Problems

2003-08-24 Thread Shay Telfer
you can help with the following. Correspondent has been using 10.2.6 for a short while with no problems and then the modem ceased working. Thanks Adam I have a problem with the the modem in my iMac (DV SE 400). When I attempt to use Internet Connect (on 10.2.6), I get an error message

Modem Problems

2003-08-23 Thread Adam Lippiatt
Hello Just wondering if you can help with the following. Correspondent has been using 10.2.6 for a short while with no problems and then the modem ceased working. Thanks Adam > > > I have a problem with the the modem in my iMac (DV SE 400). When I attempt to > use Internet

pdf problems

2003-08-16 Thread Jason Spittlehouse
hi there new to macs but am having a problem with pdfs that i dont seem to be able to fix from looking at web. am modifying excel files originally created on a Windows98 machine in excel2000 and saving as xls on mac - no problems with those. however, the pdf files created from these are

Re: HP printer problems

2003-08-15 Thread Eugene
Thanks Bob yes I have been on the HP support pages downloaded all the current drivers, visited the help forums, search their sites for every possible key word but to no avail. I'm thinking of calling it a day. Too many hours wasted getting no where. regards Eugene On Thursday, August 14

HP printer problems

2003-08-14 Thread Eugene
I posted this plea a few days back and received 2 responses which unfortunately did not work. My computer under OS X using inDesign sent some setup configuration to two HP 5si mx printers. Now, no matter what computer (Macs or PCs), what OS (9.2, X windoze) what software (pick any) the resolut

Re: printing problems

2003-08-13 Thread Eugene
Hi Brad, it is the graphics that are the concern, the text prints clean as you normally expect. Regards Eugene On Tuesday, August 12, 2003, at 11:10 PM, Brad Helden wrote: Hi Eugene, Question - are you printing text or graphics? Brad Dear WAMUGers I'm now at my wits end. I have a H

Re: printing problems

2003-08-12 Thread John Winters
Have you spoken to the vendor? John on 12/8/03 4:25 PM, Eugene at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have tried every possible permutation but I'm open to ideas. > > Regards Eugene -- John Winters [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph +61 8 9367 9277 Fax +61 8 9367 9244

printing problems

2003-08-12 Thread Eugene
Dear WAMUGers I'm now at my wits end. I have a HP 5si mx printer on a network with the latest drivers. The printer is set to 600dpi, resolution enhancement is on, levels of grey is enhanced and econo-mode is turned off. (Using the printer's own internal menu selection.) I'm running OS X 10.2

Problems with Outlook Express

2003-08-08 Thread Prefumo, Johnny
owever this does not appear to make any difference. Could anyone recommend a diagnostic program or any remedies to sort this problems out? Regards Johnny

iBook Networking Problems

2003-08-06 Thread Andrew Schox
Hi all, We have an 800MHz iBook which regularly (i.e. usually at least once a day) loses its IP info, and therefore its internet access. The IP address is allocated by a DHCP device. This happens on both our home and office networks, and I've also tried separate access points to eliminate the poss

Fwd: ftp problems

2003-07-29 Thread Rosemary Horton
pload fine, for others the date/time changes and the files are stripped (0kb) When you try to synchronize again , message says already synchronized. What's worse, files that have not changed are made to go to 0kb too! The Fetch troubleshooting site says Norton Personal Security might cause

Re: ftp problems

2003-07-28 Thread Onno Benschop
t; The Fetch troubleshooting site says Norton Personal Security might > cause problems and to move it from the Startup folder. I did that... > still no go. Do I need to delete it? Two things to try: * Try using passive mode ftp * Try using ftp over http, called hftp There are other things, but

ftp problems

2003-07-28 Thread Rosemary Horton
date/time changes and the files are stripped (0kb) When you try to synchronize again , message says already synchronized. What's worse, files that have not changed are made to go to 0kb too! The Fetch troubleshooting site says Norton Personal Security might cause problems and to move it f

Monitor Problems

2003-07-12 Thread David Watkins
previously using OS 9 and I had no problems changing the resolution. Can anybody give me some advice if I can change the resolution using the ADI monitor and OS X? Thanks Dave Watkins

Re: Continuing G3 powerbook Battery problems

2003-07-04 Thread Shay Telfer
s the machine had any 3rd party memory or hard drives or anything else installed in it? It sounds suspiciously like there isn't enough power getting to the battery, hence why it only charges if the machine is not running. The machine has also had 3 seperate OS's this week witht the sa

Re: Continuing G3 powerbook Battery problems - unhelpful response

2003-07-04 Thread Onno Benschop
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:38, tmharding wrote: > Any ideas? It's broken? Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 from S33:37'33" - E115:07'30" (Dunsborough, WA) -- ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. |>>? ..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highwa

Continuing G3 powerbook Battery problems

2003-07-04 Thread tmharding
e but makes the noise you can hear (some of us) when it is running off battery. The machine has also had 3 seperate OS's this week witht the same problems - 9, 9.1 and 9.2.2 Also I now have an intermittent fault with the 2/w/s/x buttons on my keyboard. They don't also want to work.

Re: ADSL Problems

2003-05-30 Thread Onno Benschop
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 18:46, Carl Roberts wrote: > Hi all > > Netcomm NB3300 modem router, OS X 10.2.6 > Eftel ADSL > > Spent the last two days trying to configure the NB330 to authenicate to > EFTEL. > > all setting correct on web server, however the DSL link doesn't send > successfully to th

ADSL Problems

2003-05-30 Thread Carl Roberts
Hi all Netcomm NB3300 modem router, OS X 10.2.6 Eftel ADSL Spent the last two days trying to configure the NB330 to authenicate to EFTEL. all setting correct on web server, however the DSL link doesn't send successfully to the source ( hangs when trying to first connect - doesn't get past " t

DSL Problems

2003-04-25 Thread Matthew Healey
Just a quick thought. There are many DSL providers in WA. iiNet is not the only one. http://www.highway1.com.au http://www.extremedsl.com.au http://www.westnet.com.au To date, I haven't heard any complaints from the above ISP's. If your DSL doesn't work, vote with your wallet and switch provid

Re: Problems trying to open windows downloads

2003-04-21 Thread Onno Benschop
On Mon, 2003-04-21 at 09:27, hank_mirtl wrote: > I cant seem to open internet down loads for example dl.cgi which is a > solitair > games download. Can anyone advise how I can open this/ > thanking you in advance > hank This is a rather hard problem to solve with the information you've provided.

Problems trying to open windows downloads

2003-04-21 Thread hank_mirtl
I cant seem to open internet down loads for example dl.cgi which is a solitair games download. Can anyone advise how I can open this/ thanking you in advance hank

Re: Bigpond Mail Problems

2003-04-11 Thread Toby Oldham
Hi Neil - I've recieved the same (or similar) problems on and off for about 3- 4 weeks. I think it's a general Telstra issue, not necessarily mac related. I'm running a G4 466 with 10.2.4 and Apple's Mail app on a Telstra dialup plan. Initially, I thought it was perhaps

Bigpond Mail Problems

2003-04-10 Thread Neil Houghton
Hi all, Has anyone noticed erratic behaviour with Telstra Bigpond Mail recently. Over the last week or so (I'm not sure exactly when I first noticed it) I seem to be getting a lot of mail error messages. The message I get (I run Outlook Express) when I "get info" from the error log is: Error Cou

Re: Palm problems

2003-04-08 Thread Paul Mac Phail
it talk to iCal and Address Book. Help >>> >> >> I had the same problem, ical and address book stuff muddled and no 'to do' >> lists updates etc with Palm m515. >> >> Anybody got ideas? >> > Hi Rosemary (and others!) > > If you

Re: Palm problems

2003-04-07 Thread Daniel
#x27;t seem to get it talk to iCal and Address Book. Help I had the same problem, ical and address book stuff muddled and no 'to do' lists updates etc with Palm m515. Anybody got ideas? Hi Rosemary (and others!) If you are having problems with Palm have a look at the following

Re: Palm problems

2003-04-07 Thread Sojourn
On 7/4/03 12:12 PM, "Paul Mac Phail" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all ­ I am having trouble syncing my Palm m505 with iCal and Address > Book. I use Now Up to Date on a desktop at work, which Hotsyncs to Palm > nicely, but when I try to use iSync at home on a Powerbook, I can¹t seem to > get

HP PDF print problems

2003-04-07 Thread Jim Cummins
Thanks to those who've responded so quickly. Obviously we don't need a printer driver as HP is already supported under OSX We seem to have solved the .pdf print glitch under the Print> Copies and Pages> Acrobat menu either by selecting Acrobat or Print as Image. -- Dr J.M. Cummins Anatomy, Sc

Palm problems

2003-04-07 Thread Paul Mac Phail
Hello all ­ I am having trouble syncing my Palm m505 with iCal and Address Book. I use Now Up to Date on a desktop at work, which Hotsyncs to Palm nicely, but when I try to use iSync at home on a Powerbook, I can¹t seem to get it talk to iCal and Address Book. Help Paul Mac Phail General Manager Y

Re: Problems shutting down in OSX

2003-03-28 Thread Justin Bearne
Hi Greg, The only solution I found to both problems was a clean re-install of OSX! Good luck. Justin On Friday, March 28, 2003, at 09:27 AM, Greg Hosking wrote: Hiya Justin only just read your message, I previously ignored anything to do with OS X because I was only running OS 9, but I

Re: Problems shutting down in OSX

2003-03-28 Thread Neil Houghton
on 18/02/03 13:41, Justin Bearne at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running OS 10.2.4 on a G4 powerMac (old model, AGP). I only just > installed OSX and have effectively gone straight to 10.2.4. The problem is > that if I try to shutdown all the happens is the finder restarts. The same > occurs if

Re: Problems with iBook

2003-03-26 Thread Greg Pennefather
Tom I have run in to these sorts of problems a few times. I find that each time they are fixed by running disk utility and repairing permissions. Cheers Greg on 25/3/03 9:10 PM, tom samson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Problems with iBook > Some strange events are starting to cree

Problems shutting down in OSX

2003-03-26 Thread Justin Bearne
I am running OS 10.2.4 on a G4 powerMac (old model, AGP). I only just installed OSX and have effectively gone straight to 10.2.4. The problem is that if I try to shutdown all the happens is the finder restarts. The same occurs if I try to logout, and if I select 'About This Mac'. I can only shutdow

Problems with iBook

2003-03-25 Thread tom samson
Problems with iBook Some strange events are starting to creep into 10.2.2 1. Cut and paste is not working in Apple works MS Office X Sometimes drag and drop doesn't work . Toast 5.2 fails to respond properly and will not record My suspicions are preferences but which or all? tom samson

Re: Print problems in OSX

2003-03-20 Thread Neil Blake & Associates
On 19/3/03 6:51 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: > I have that problem too on a combo iBook. I'll look at it with gimp and > see what happens. Reg I'm using Gimp-print 4.2.1 with my PowerBook on OS 10.2.3 and find it great with my Canon BJC 3000. It took a little bit of setting up, but the Gimp-print disc

Starting up problems

2003-03-20 Thread Lloyd White
Just yesterday my iMac, OS 9.2.1 started doing a strange thing. Immediately on pressing the start button I heard a loud long tone. Then on the screen a long list of things appeared about things failing. At the end it had a message about firmware and USB failing and offering me two options. Type in

Re: Print problems in OSX

2003-03-20 Thread Mark Secker
One thing to note here is that if you have proxy servers configured (and most of us should) you will need to put the local host IP# 127.0.0.1 in to the"bypass proxy settings for these hosts & domains" field of the Network in System Preferences. on a humorous aside re local hosts I like this h

Re: Print problems in OSX

2003-03-19 Thread Reg Whitely
Thanks Neil I have that problem too on a combo iBook. I'll look at it with gimp and see what happens. Reg On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 03:34 pm, Neil Blake & Associates wrote: On 19/3/03 7:07 PM, Jim Cummins wrote: Can't find this in the archives. How does one delete print jobs? J

Re: Print problems in OSX

2003-03-19 Thread Neil Blake & Associates
On 19/3/03 7:07 PM, Jim Cummins wrote: > Can't find this in the archives. How does one delete print jobs? Jim If you are having trouble with Print Centre, try the built in CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) print management window - it is a local web interface (ie it is on your Mac) which you re

Print problems in OSX

2003-03-19 Thread Jim Cummins
Can't find this in the archives. How does one delete print jobs? I've had a couple of time-outs printing large graphic/,pdf files but when I try to delete/cancel the jobs the menu is grayed out. I can work around it by creating a new printer link but I'm still left with "stopped" printers on my

Re: More PayPal Problems

2003-03-14 Thread Matthew Healey
On Thursday, March 13, 2003, at 02:59 PM, Mark Secker wrote: Also the dot.com in the original link is from a group/person who seems (in my opinion) to be.. err how shall I put it politely... "A bunch of wacko conspiracy theory paranoids" I

Re: More PayPal Problems

2003-03-13 Thread Mark Secker
>Hi All, I am sure many people here have PayPal accounts. Here is yet another reason to close your account ASAP. > - Matt Note that most of the letters are from merchants, not PayPal end-users. (Lets face it, if you leave large sums of your mo

Re: More PayPal Problems

2003-03-13 Thread Shay Telfer
Hi All, I am sure many people here have PayPal accounts. Here is yet another reason to close your account ASAP. - Matt Note that most of the letters are from merchants, not PayPal end-users. (Lets face it, if you leave large sums of your money

More PayPal Problems

2003-03-13 Thread Matthew Healey
Hi All, I am sure many people here have PayPal accounts. Here is yet another reason to close your account ASAP. - Matt -- 0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0--0 Matt Healey [EMAIL PROTECTED]

DVD Problems

2003-03-10 Thread John Hatch
may be some one can shed some light on this problem Some DVD's work in the drive and some don't. They are all legal copies John

Re: Font problems Indesign 2 and Pagemaker 6

2003-02-14 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 11:46 PM, Dudley Gager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am having font problems with Indesign 2 under OSX and Pagemaker 6 > under > classic. I find I have numerous font folders. Is this right? Do I > need to clean things up? This is what

Font problems Indesign 2 and Pagemaker 6

2003-02-13 Thread Dudley Gager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am having font problems with Indesign 2 under OSX and Pagemaker 6 under classic. I find I have numerous font folders. Is this right? Do I need to clean things up? This is what I have: System/Library/Fonts - a collection of mostly dfonts - presumably OSX Library/Fonts - whole heap of fonts

Fwd: Replacement iMac HD problems

2003-02-13 Thread tom samson
My 333 Imac has a 40gig with an 8gig first partition-well 7.98gig and OSX2 and 9.2.2 on it tom samson first partition cannot work larger than 8 GIG. That is where the System file should reside OK I have some official results. You can put ANY sized drive in an iMac with ANY sized partitio

Re: Replacement iMac HD problems

2003-02-11 Thread Antony N. Lord
e now refuses to boot of the TechTool (3.0.6) CD (in any of the System versions) giving the "This machine cannot boot from this system version..." dialog. Plugging the drive in to another Mac shows no problems (mounts, is blessed, passes tests.) You don't actually mention which O

Re: Replacement iMac HD problems

2003-02-11 Thread Shay Telfer
After installing the replacement drive it seems the iMac won't boot from it or recognize it. * It's jumpers are set to master * PRAM reset * Tried CUDA * Reconnected / reseated everything * Checked drive on another Mac (its fine) Am I looking at a potentially screwed mobo or something? Is the

Replacement iMac HD problems

2003-02-11 Thread Antony N. Lord
333 MHz Bondi Blue iMac 1998 (M4984) Machine had a flaky original 6Gb Western Digital HD. Data has been recovered to an external (replacement) 40Gb Seagate Barracuda (with 2 x 20Gb partitions.) After installing the replacement drive it seems the iMac won't boot from it or recognize it. * I

Re: Browser Problems

2003-01-29 Thread David Watkins
something else I did but I think it may be worth a try. Dave Watkins -- At 7:06 PM +0800 29/1/03, Rod Blitvich wrote: > Dear WAMUGers > > I am having problems with my browser. > I frequently get the message "The Specified server could not be found

RE: Browser Problems

2003-01-29 Thread Glen
Hey there Rod This sounds like a problem I have had with both MAC and PC... Have you checked your DNS settings? Glen -Original Message- From: Rod Blitvich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, 29 January 2003 7:07 PM To: WA Mac User Group Mac User Group Subject: Browser Problems

Browser Problems

2003-01-29 Thread Rod Blitvich
Dear WAMUGers I am having problems with my browser. I frequently get the message "The Specified server could not be found" If I re-enter the URL 3 or 4 times, it eventually connects. Sometimes Sleeping the mac then reawakening it also works. Usually I am using the Airport. Alth

OS 10.2.3 Problems

2003-01-15 Thread Dark Servant
I'm not sure if this problem is related but I've had various problems since updating to OS 10.2.3. Anyway I checked on the US Apple support forum and there seems to be a huge amount of very unhappy Mac users discussing a whole heap of different problems associated with OS 10.2.3. The

Re: Toast & eMac problems

2003-01-02 Thread Daniel
Hi Faye (and others) (Happy New Year to all!) A quick search of the WAMUG archives for "Toast Problems" reveals,... --quote-- Message 12706 of 20137 Make sue you have the following extensions turned off, as these conflict with Toast. From the Extension Manager (Control Panels

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