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So which of the two - OnyX and Cocktail - would... 5,782 Views / 9 Replies  
So which of the two - OnyX and Cocktail - would people here recommend? I downloaded both, but don't want to install either until I'm sure it's worth it (just did a fresh install of everything, and...
Posted by Simon Young, on May 6, 2004 at 01:26 PM, in macOS
Is it safe to delete all .DS_Store files? 5,782 Views / 9 Replies  
Quick - and probably stupid - question here. I'd like to be able to easily reset all of the Finder's window positions. Is the best way to do this:

- do a search for invisible files called...
Posted by Simon Young, on May 5, 2004 at 09:50 PM, in macOS
Thanks guys, but I tried both of those ideas.... 482 Views / 3 Replies  
Thanks guys, but I tried both of those ideas. Neither worked - the disc utitlity didn't find any errors, and Sys Prefs refused to open.

Anyway, here's how I got around it:

- used Toast to burn...
Posted by Simon Young, on Mar 23, 2004 at 01:16 AM, in macOS
NEED URGENT HELP!! Finde quits in endless loop! 482 Views / 3 Replies  
I downloaded a file, only to find it was corrupt. Opening the folder it was in caused the Finder to reset, so I moved the file to the trash. Upon trying to delete it, I got an error (-8036 I think,...
Posted by Simon Young, on Mar 22, 2004 at 07:14 PM, in macOS
Do you mean that it is only a problem if I plug... 921 Views / 13 Replies  
Do you mean that it is only a problem if I plug my iPod or LaCie drive into the FireWire 800 port? Fortunately I only use FireWire 400 ports, and I've upgraded my LaCie drive to the latest firmware...
Posted by Simon Young, on Feb 8, 2004 at 12:14 PM, in macOS
Cheers for the replies...how about iPod... 921 Views / 13 Replies  
Cheers for the replies...how about iPod compatability?
Posted by Simon Young, on Feb 8, 2004 at 05:01 AM, in macOS
Safe to install Panther? *FireWire related* 921 Views / 13 Replies  
I followed the problems surrounding Panther and loss of data on FireWire drives for some time when it was first discovered. I've now been holding off buying Panther for quite some time, as I am a...
Posted by Simon Young, on Feb 8, 2004 at 12:28 AM, in macOS
Thanks, but I've already tried the Pacifist... 605 Views / 8 Replies  
Thanks, but I've already tried the Pacifist route. I managed to reinstall DVD Player, but I've got exactly the same prob.

How do I archive and re-install then? What gets archived? All of my apps...
Posted by Simon Young, on Nov 26, 2003 at 11:55 PM, in macOS
It doesn't crash when I insert a movie, it... 605 Views / 8 Replies  
It doesn't crash when I insert a movie, it crashes when I try to run the app. It gets as far as displaying the controller, but then it just disappears and the dialogue box appears telling me that DVD...
Posted by Simon Young, on Nov 26, 2003 at 08:51 PM, in macOS
I repair permissions regularly, and it's a single... 605 Views / 8 Replies  
I repair permissions regularly, and it's a single user machine (with auto login).
Posted by Simon Young, on Nov 26, 2003 at 05:26 PM, in macOS
I get this: ## Component Manager: attempting... 605 Views / 8 Replies  
I get this:

## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
Nov 26 15:28:17 Simon-Youngs-Computer crashdump: Crash report written to:...
Posted by Simon Young, on Nov 26, 2003 at 11:29 AM, in macOS
iPod screen contrast varies with heat? 576 Views / 2 Replies  
I've had my 3rd gen 20GB iPod for a couple of months now, and I'm generally very happy with it. However, a couple of things have been bugging me.

Ever since I plugged it into my Mac for an...
Posted by Simon Young, on Nov 25, 2003 at 11:55 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
DVD Player crashes upon launch 605 Views / 8 Replies  
A while ago DVD Player just stopped working, and every time I load it up it just crashes, regardless of whether I have a DVD in the drive or not. VLC, on the other hand, seems to play DVDs OK, albeit...
Posted by Simon Young, on Nov 25, 2003 at 11:51 PM, in macOS
Dropped my iPod...rattling noise? 743 Views / 1 Replies  
D'oh! I've only had my iPod for a couple of weeks, and I stupidly go and drop it! Luckily it was in its case (the standard Apple one), and it only fell from a desk onto a carpeted floor. All the...
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 31, 2003 at 08:10 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
17" PB...occasional hard disk 'click'/gap in casing 667 Views / 2 Replies  
I've had my 17" PB for about 5 months now, and I delighted with it.

However, I recently noticed two things that have been bothering me slightly. Firstly, if I listen carefully I can hear what I...
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 19, 2003 at 01:00 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Thanks for all the info! Is this 'fsck' command... 544 Views / 4 Replies  
Thanks for all the info! Is this 'fsck' command anything like the 'Repair Disk' command in Disk Utility? How does it work? Can it theoretically lose data? Is it designed to be used by consumers who...
Posted by Simon Young, on Jul 28, 2003 at 06:08 AM, in macOS
Partitioning...Norton Utilities...and backing up?! 544 Views / 4 Replies  
1) I used to have my internal 60GB drive partitioned into two equal volumes, with the intention of storing all applications, system files and preferences on one, and all of my personal files on...
Posted by Simon Young, on Jul 26, 2003 at 10:21 AM, in macOS
Bumping up...come on, someone must know a... 578 Views / 2 Replies  
Bumping up...come on, someone must know a solution! :)
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 9, 2002 at 01:27 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
DV - PAL (too light), and MPEG-2 (too dark) 578 Views / 2 Replies  
Ever since I've had my iMac (about a year now) I've noticed that, in Final Cut Pro 2.0, when I render stuff in DV PAL, the rendered video is much 'brighter' than the original video, even if the...
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 7, 2002 at 10:44 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
Thanks for all the info - I decided to just wipe... 731 Views / 9 Replies  
Thanks for all the info - I decided to just wipe the partition, seeing as I've got everything backed up that I need, and I hardly use OS X anyway.

In order to erase it, I simply selected the drive...
Posted by Simon Young, on Sep 5, 2002 at 11:53 AM, in macOS
OK, I tried that, and the disk appears to be... 731 Views / 9 Replies  
OK, I tried that, and the disk appears to be fine. However, when I typed cd /etc, it said it didn't exist! So I guess that's the real problem. It's a shame, because I don't have my OS X installation...
Posted by Simon Young, on Sep 4, 2002 at 10:34 PM, in macOS
Can't open OS X!! Need help - urgently! 731 Views / 9 Replies  
I haven't booted up OS X for a while now, but when I tried today I got a black screen, and a message:

/etc/master.passwd: not a folder

followed by a bunch of text which I don't understand. I'm...
Posted by Simon Young, on Sep 4, 2002 at 09:17 PM, in macOS
Fixed the problem 616 Views / 2 Replies  
It seems that the problem was not with Final Cut Pro and MPEG-2, but with the way I demuxed the VOB files. I tried simply opening the VOBs in Quicktime Pro, saving them as stand-alone Quicktime...
Posted by Simon Young, on Sep 1, 2002 at 08:14 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
Need a bigger hard disc for video editing... 538 Views / 1 Replies  
I'm using my iMac to run Final Cut Pro 2.0 under Mac OS 9.2.2, and have run out of space. I reckon I could us another 60-100GB, as I want to transfer DVD VOB files to DV files, which (as many of you...
Posted by Simon Young, on Aug 29, 2002 at 03:28 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
MPEG-2 in Final Cut Pro 2.0 616 Views / 2 Replies  
I've recently attempted to create a Charlie's Angels music video, using footage from the DVD. After extracting the VOB files and demuxing them, I originally decided to convert the resulting MPEG-2...
Posted by Simon Young, on Aug 19, 2002 at 07:56 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
Just tried to play a non fullscreen QT trailer,... 586 Views / 5 Replies  
Just tried to play a non fullscreen QT trailer, and it also had problems - it scaled it up to fullscreen, but the movie became really jerky, blocky and unwathable. Any ideas on how to sort out...
Posted by Simon Young, on Jul 19, 2002 at 04:37 PM, in macOS
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva,... 586 Views / 5 Replies  
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Posted by Simon Young, on Jul 19, 2002 at 11:15 AM, in macOS
Annoying Mac OS X stuff...how to fix? 586 Views / 5 Replies  
1) The sound seems to be 'spatial', when compared with the sound on Mac OS 9. It's as if there's a box ticked somewhere under some setting that makes the sound artificially '3D'. Anyone know what I'm...
Posted by Simon Young, on Jul 19, 2002 at 09:18 AM, in macOS
VGA port on old iMac? 630 Views / 1 Replies  
I just noticed on the box for my old snow iMac that it says it has a VGA port for video mirroring. Great, I thought, but I hadn't noticed it before. Where exactly is it, and what kind of socket is...
Posted by Simon Young, on Apr 14, 2002 at 09:52 AM, in Mac Desktops
Need urgent help converting Appleworks doc to Word doc!!! 480 Views / 2 Replies  
Well, the title speaks for itself really. I need this help real quick, if possible, because I need to e-mail a Uni lecturer some overdue work and he don't got a Mac.

Cheers,

Si
Posted by Simon Young, on Nov 28, 2001 at 03:34 PM, in Applications
Cheers, deleting the icons seemed to work a treat! 2,601 Views / 2 Replies  
Cheers, deleting the icons seemed to work a treat!
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 24, 2001 at 05:05 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Well, I'm hesitant to use that scipt, but it... 3,289 Views / 3 Replies  
Well, I'm hesitant to use that scipt, but it seems like it could work. I tried the other suggestion, but I'm afraid that only changes the view options for the root of the hard disk, not the entire...
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 24, 2001 at 04:57 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Won't this ruin Mac OS 9, or at least create a... 2,884 Views / 6 Replies  
Won't this ruin Mac OS 9, or at least create a few problems? And how do I go about doing this 'Dirty' install?
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 23, 2001 at 09:03 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Pictures and their icons... 2,601 Views / 2 Replies  
Every picture I download from the internet has an icon which is like a miniature version of the actual picture - is there a way to change this so it's the default icon used by the application (i.e....
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 23, 2001 at 06:39 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
How do I make EVERY folder adhere to standard view settings? 3,289 Views / 3 Replies  
The subject speaks for itself. Is there a macro ot something that will go through every folder and set it to standard views? It's just annoying having to manually adjust each new folder so that the...
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 23, 2001 at 06:29 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Can I get rid of file extensions safely? 2,544 Views / 1 Replies  
Like, say if I renamed my personal files so that "Lord of the Rings.mov" became "Lord of the Rings"? Would it stop the files working, or would they still safely be associated with the correct app?...
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 23, 2001 at 06:26 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Getting rid of Mac OS X? 2,563 Views / 1 Replies  
How do I uninstall Mac OS X (or, more specifically, Mac OS 10.1) without ruining Mac OS 9.1? Does anyone know what files I can safely remove from the Mac OS 9 system folder that have to do with Mac...
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 23, 2001 at 06:21 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Tried this, still didn't work. 2,884 Views / 6 Replies  
Tried this, still didn't work.
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 23, 2001 at 06:14 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Can't install Mac OS 9.2.1...why? 2,884 Views / 6 Replies  
OK, I have a new iMac. When I got it, I followed the advise given to me on these forums and partitioned the hard-disk: 3GB for 9.1 (the only version of OS 9 I have), 3GB for X and the remainder for...
Posted by Simon Young, on Oct 22, 2001 at 05:44 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
A few quick questions (9.1 & X) 3,437 Views / 1 Replies  
1) Why are certain .mpg files appearing squashed in Quicktime player (all versions)?

2) How should I go about updating Quicktime 5.0 for OS X? Just go to the Quicktime website and download the...
Posted by Simon Young, on Sep 12, 2001 at 08:33 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Thanks for the info, but I don't... 1,688 Views / 3 Replies  
Thanks for the info, but I don't understand...which properties dialogue?

Si
Posted by Simon Young, on Sep 11, 2001 at 04:18 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
Problems with screen geometry 3,270 Views / 2 Replies  
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question, as it may be software related. Anyway:

I have a 500Mhz Snow iMac with CD-RW and 512Mb RAM. The problem: whenever I set the screen...
Posted by Simon Young, on Sep 10, 2001 at 09:52 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Exporting to Quicktime from iMovie 1,688 Views / 3 Replies  
Hey everyone, first time poster here (I just got my Snow iMac - 500Mhz, 512Mb RAM - a couple of weeks ago).

My question: how do I export digital video from iMovie 2 so that it retains its full...
Posted by Simon Young, on Sep 10, 2001 at 09:44 PM, in Art & Graphic Design
 
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