[babydoom]

I just got my 12'' powerbook. The screen's perfect, the setup easy as pie and OS X a joy to use. I'm a happy mac switcher! Except for these two problems..

1. Batteries
My first setup: Battery calibration + slow updating of software.
Since I'm letting the updating go through the night, I want the pb to feed off the power plug. Problem is: I dont know how. Right now, it's using battery (at 60%) The LED is off (not green nor orange.) I tried plugging it in repeatedly, but doesnt start charging.

How do I quickly switch the power source of the pb (from battery to power and vice versa?)

2. Hard Drives
I'm using a portable HD to transfer files from my PC to this new powerbook. I start copying a large folder (>1gig) and the copy dialog pops out. That's good. But then, I stopped the transfer for some reason and now its stuck at 'Copy'. The % and time doesnt change. The entire dialog seems to have frozen..

How do I force quit or override this copy command so I can do it again?

Thanks in advance!

[cpac]

Originally posted by babydoom:
1. Batteries
My first setup: Battery calibration + slow updating of software.
Since I'm letting the updating go through the night, I want the pb to feed off the power plug. Problem is: I dont know how. Right now, it's using battery (at 60%) The LED is off (not green nor orange.) I tried plugging it in repeatedly, but doesnt start charging.

Welcome to Macintosh!

All you should have to do is plug in your powerbook. If the light on the plug is not turning on (green would indicate a full charge, orange that the battery is charging), then you've either (1) got a bad power adapter, or (2) have no power at the outlet you're trying to use.

I'd try pluggin in to another outlet (or verifying the outlet you're using has power via a lamp or something) - and if it seems the power adapter is to blame, I'd try to borrow one from another mac user (the adapters have thankfully been standardized across all recent mac portables) and seeing if that works.


On your second problem, i'd suggest just force-quitting the Finder. You can do this by holding down option and click-holding the Finder icon in the dock, or you can hit command-option-escape, select the Finder in the window that pops up, and click "Force Quit".

best of luck

[babydoom]

Thanks and it worked.. Hurray!

Switched to another power outlet and its orange and charging now.

Same thing with the finder.

Thanks again

[Xeo]

This is always nice to hear. Might want to get your outlet fixed.