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It appears that the problem may lie with... 2,534 Views / 17 Replies  
It appears that the problem may lie with third-party burners. It appears the some Yamaha burners are coming up with the same problems. Macintouch iTunes Special report says Apple is working on a fix....
Posted by Don Foy, on May 7, 2003 at 11:24 PM, in Applications
Got it to work once 2,534 Views / 17 Replies  
I actually got it to work once by putting a non-purchased song in front of all the purchased songs. But then I made a blank file to put in front of them and it wouldn't work. Oh well, we'll try some...
Posted by Don Foy, on May 3, 2003 at 09:44 PM, in Applications
iTunes 4 won't burn purchased music 2,534 Views / 17 Replies  
iMac Rev B (233) with 384 mb RAM and MCE internal ATAPI CDRW (TEAC CD-W216E). OS X 10.2.5 and current in all other ways in Software Update. iTunes 4 and Quicktime 6.2

System Profiler says drive...
Posted by Don Foy, on Apr 30, 2003 at 10:38 PM, in Applications
Quicken crash in PIN vault 606 Views / 1 Replies  
Quicken 2002r3, OSX 10.1.4 or 10.1.5
I am attempting to begin billpay in Quicken. But I can't do it without entering the BillPay PIN in the Quicken>Online>PIN Vault. I can enter the the PIN, but...
Posted by Don Foy, on Jun 4, 2002 at 10:17 PM, in Applications
Agfa DuoScan 1200 dark scans 601 Views / 0 Replies  
All of a sudden one of my scanners reported that she is getting really dark scans out of the Agfa DuoScan 1200. Agfa support is so slow, the thing will die of old age before they get back with us...
Posted by Don Foy, on Jan 15, 2001 at 01:06 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Is the modem firmware up to date? Apple's web... 453 Views / 7 Replies  
Is the modem firmware up to date? Apple's web site will tell you how to find out if it is not. That might be the cause.

Hope this helps.
Posted by Don Foy, on Jan 13, 2001 at 10:15 AM, in Mac Desktops
I would suggest that you contact the... 485 Views / 1 Replies  
I would suggest that you contact the manufacturers and ask the question specifically. Most of them have an 800 number for customer relations or support.

If that falls through, you'll have to try...
Posted by Don Foy, on Nov 11, 2000 at 11:50 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
There are several companies that make PCI cards... 439 Views / 2 Replies  
There are several companies that make PCI cards to go in such machines. Orange Micro is one. There are others. Bear in mind that for it to work with the least amount of trouble, you should probably...
Posted by Don Foy, on Nov 5, 2000 at 09:43 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
How much extra space left on your hard drive? Is... 2,756 Views / 1 Replies  
How much extra space left on your hard drive? Is the file you are printing pretty large? Are you trying to print in the background?
When you print in the background, the spool file, as it is called,...
Posted by Don Foy, on Nov 2, 2000 at 08:33 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
I would reinstall the driver, from the OS 9 CD,... 2,557 Views / 2 Replies  
I would reinstall the driver, from the OS 9 CD, because the driver obviously needed updating to run on that system.
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 28, 2000 at 11:12 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Have you installed a program that may have... 2,521 Views / 1 Replies  
Have you installed a program that may have 'helped' you by installing an earlier version of either the AppleScript extension or the AppleScriptlib. I found that several programs use the library,...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 28, 2000 at 11:06 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Actually, in OS 9 you throw away the Servers... 2,574 Views / 3 Replies  
Actually, in OS 9 you throw away the Servers folder in the system folder. The system will recreate it.
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 27, 2000 at 11:26 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
The installer always says that. As you begin the... 2,574 Views / 1 Replies  
The installer always says that. As you begin the process, click on the options button and uncheck update hard disk drivers. Your drivers are already compatible with 8.6.
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 22, 2000 at 01:39 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Let's move this to OSX forum, OK. ... 2,701 Views / 5 Replies  
Let's move this to OSX forum, OK.
http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=OS+X+-+General+Discussion+&number=3
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 22, 2000 at 01:32 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Let's move this to OSX forum, OK. ... 322 Views / 5 Replies  
Let's move this to OSX forum, OK.
http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&forum=OS+X+-+General+Discussion+&number=3
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 22, 2000 at 01:32 PM, in macOS
Canon made Apple's printers. Apple stopped... 570 Views / 11 Replies  
Canon made Apple's printers.

Apple stopped selling printers about two years and a half years ago, when Steve took back over and just before the iMac made it's debut.

Most of the used Mac places...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 21, 2000 at 10:48 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Guess what? Since you posted your first question,... 524 Views / 8 Replies  
Guess what? Since you posted your first question, MacWeek is reporting that your local dealer will soon have mouses (meeses, mices?) keyboards and other stuff that had been exclusive to the Apple...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 20, 2000 at 10:29 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
This is probably not a good time to tell you... 2,553 Views / 5 Replies  
This is probably not a good time to tell you this, but you do have disk utilities on your restore disk. Look in the utilities folder. Disk First Aid is there. It may or may not have helped you in...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 19, 2000 at 04:00 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
It's probably just you, Misha. ... 2,537 Views / 3 Replies  
It's probably just you, Misha. http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/eek.gif

I have never noticed the problem, but only because I don't use font smoothing. I find that it slows down the computer...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 19, 2000 at 03:55 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
It is safer to do the clean install thing. One... 2,540 Views / 3 Replies  
It is safer to do the clean install thing. One thing you can do is to install a system on a new partition or another drive and copy the finder over.

But it is still safer to do the clean install...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 19, 2000 at 03:51 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Online store is the only place. 524 Views / 8 Replies  
Online store is the only place.
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 19, 2000 at 03:43 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Type 1 and 2 errors are the worst kind. They... 2,540 Views / 6 Replies  
Type 1 and 2 errors are the worst kind. They involve the bus (1) and the memory (2). They are always fatal.

ID=01 Bus Error
This means the computer tried to access memory that doesn't exist. You...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 18, 2000 at 10:29 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Since there is no response here, let's move this... 491 Views / 1 Replies  
Since there is no response here, let's move this one to Airport and Networkingt:
...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 18, 2000 at 10:21 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Check some of the educational places. I find them... 4,620 Views / 6 Replies  
Check some of the educational places. I find them in the back of MacWorld or MacAddict magazines.
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 17, 2000 at 11:32 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Transferring to G-4 forum. 2,594 Views / 1 Replies  
Transferring to G-4 forum.
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 17, 2000 at 11:28 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Transferring to G-4 forum. 500 Views / 6 Replies  
Transferring to G-4 forum.
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 17, 2000 at 11:28 PM, in Mac Desktops
We really like the Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 91 499 Views / 5 Replies  
We really like the Mitsubishi Diamond Plus 91
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 5, 2000 at 04:48 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Double posting. Moving this to Mac OS forum ... 491 Views / 2 Replies  
Double posting. Moving this to Mac OS forum
http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=11&SUBMIT=Go
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 1, 2000 at 03:14 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Double posting. Moving this to Mac OS forum ... 2,542 Views / 2 Replies  
Double posting. Moving this to Mac OS forum
http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=11&SUBMIT=Go
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 1, 2000 at 03:14 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Here's a solution: Tell your friend it doesn't... 491 Views / 2 Replies  
Here's a solution: Tell your friend it doesn't work on your machine. If it is OS 9.0.4, it has to be started up with on a hard drive before it is burned or else it won't be bootable. There is...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 1, 2000 at 03:08 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Here's a solution: Tell your friend it doesn't... 2,542 Views / 2 Replies  
Here's a solution: Tell your friend it doesn't work on your machine. If it is OS 9.0.4, it has to be started up with on a hard drive before it is burned or else it won't be bootable. There is...
Posted by Don Foy, on Oct 1, 2000 at 03:08 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
First, let's remember that that is a violation of... 2,851 Views / 5 Replies  
First, let's remember that that is a violation of the user agreement. The OS 9 that you can install from say a G-4 machine is licensed for that machine and it is a violation of the user agreement to...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 30, 2000 at 10:23 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
First, let's remember that that is a violation of... 2,851 Views / 5 Replies  
First, let's remember that that is a violation of the user agreement. The OS 9 that you can install from say a G-4 machine is licensed for that machine and it is a violation of the user agreement to...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 30, 2000 at 09:38 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Prepare for smart-alek reply: ... 3,840 Views / 3 Replies  
Prepare for smart-alek reply: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/biggrin.gif

It indexes your hard drive.

Which is actually what it does. It enables you to search for content of those files in...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 30, 2000 at 09:33 AM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
I really like my XLR8 Point and Scroll mouse. And... 515 Views / 3 Replies  
I really like my XLR8 Point and Scroll mouse. And it works in several applications in OS X without additional drivers.
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 30, 2000 at 09:30 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Actually, they are the same burners that the... 378 Views / 1 Replies  
Actually, they are the same burners that the manufactures put in SCSI or USB enclosures. Firewire is faster than USB. It may or may not be faster than SCSI, depending on the flavor of SCSI.

Since...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 30, 2000 at 09:18 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
You won't be able to import address books into... 315 Views / 3 Replies  
You won't be able to import address books into the Apple Address book at the present time. There is a TIL on the OSX support pages that details this.
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 28, 2000 at 04:39 PM, in macOS
I'm pretty sure I'll use OmniWeb as my default... 566 Views / 19 Replies  
I'm pretty sure I'll use OmniWeb as my default browser when Omni gets it stable again.

As for the mail, my filters are working fine in Mail.app. The only problem I have with it is that all mail...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 28, 2000 at 03:44 PM, in macOS
I really like the feel of the OmniWeb browser,... 1,183 Views / 83 Replies  
I really like the feel of the OmniWeb browser, and I'm sure I'll use it as my default browser as soon as Omni gets it stable.
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 28, 2000 at 03:40 PM, in macOS
Actually, it looks like you understand it pretty... 376 Views / 6 Replies  
Actually, it looks like you understand it pretty well.

That sound like a good plan, 2-2-2. I have a 9GB drive partitioned into three equal parts 2.8-2.8-2.8.

Works quite well.

My iMac is a...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 26, 2000 at 02:31 PM, in macOS
Moving this thread to peripherals 494 Views / 8 Replies  
Moving this thread to peripherals
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 22, 2000 at 04:03 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
I use Action Menus... 2,544 Views / 5 Replies  
I use Action Menus (http://www.poweronsoftware.com/site2/html/products/am.html), which allows you to organize your menus most anyway you want to.

I think BeHierarchic...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 22, 2000 at 04:01 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Apple's servers have been pretty spotty lately. I... 2,604 Views / 5 Replies  
Apple's servers have been pretty spotty lately. I haven't been able to connect either. MRJ, however, is available here:
http://www.versiontracker.com/redir.fcgi/kind=1&id=377/MRJ_2.2.3.smi.bin
...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 22, 2000 at 03:52 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
Any USB hard drive case solutions 388 Views / 1 Replies  
I'm about to embark on OS X, but the 4 gb internal drive on my iMac is not partitioned, so I plan on getting another internal hard drive. I have seen lots of talk of FireWire drive enclosures that I...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 22, 2000 at 03:34 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
W A R N I N G !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Do not try... 375 Views / 2 Replies  
W A R N I N G !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do not try this at home. Monitors have high voltage, even when unplugged.

An Apple authorized technician may be able to refocus the monitor, but the age on that...
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 22, 2000 at 03:28 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Correct URL for the Soundstick vs. Monsoon... 634 Views / 7 Replies  
Correct URL for the Soundstick vs. Monsoon review:
http://reviews.macnn.com/reviews/mwspeakers/mwspeakers.phtml
Posted by Don Foy, on Sep 2, 2000 at 01:45 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
As for No. 1, if the CD is in the drive at... 2,898 Views / 5 Replies  
As for No. 1, if the CD is in the drive at startup, it should go ahead and load. but the best thing to do is go into extensions Manager and create a new set, turn all off and turn CD/DVD extension...
Posted by Don Foy, on Aug 29, 2000 at 09:49 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
G-4 vs. LaserWriter Pro 600 452 Views / 1 Replies  
New G-4 and old LW Pro 600. Have a Keyspan Twin Serial Port USB adapter, can't see the printer. Do I need to go to Farallon or Asante ethernet to Localtalk adapters or has someone found a way to make...
Posted by Don Foy, on Aug 29, 2000 at 09:38 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Go to the chooser, then to the server you are... 2,891 Views / 3 Replies  
Go to the chooser, then to the server you are connected to, then uncheck the boxes on the right side of the window that are under the 'connect at startup' column.
Posted by Don Foy, on Aug 27, 2000 at 02:57 PM, in Classic Macs and Mac OS
There are all kinds of tape drives to look at. I... 494 Views / 1 Replies  
There are all kinds of tape drives to look at. I would suggest going to the Dantz web site http://www.dantz.com and first and foremost make sure any drive you are considering is compatible with...
Posted by Don Foy, on Aug 23, 2000 at 05:37 PM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
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