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AppleScript to delete Junk mail works partially	1,104 Views / 2 Replies
I have a simple AppleScript in my Mail Script folder to delete all my Junk mail. Sometimes when I run it, though, it only deletes some of the junk mail. I run it a second time, and it deletes some...
Posted by rw, on Nov 7, 2004 at 12:24 PM, in Applications

The script won't run at all if I don't set the...	700 Views / 7 Replies
The script won't run at all if I don't set the path with the Finder. I get this error: NSReceiverEvaluationScriptError: 4 I'm beginning to suspect that OO's implementation of AS is buggy,...
Posted by rw, on Feb 8, 2004 at 12:54 PM, in Applications

I've managed to track down the part of the script...	700 Views / 7 Replies
I've managed to track down the part of the script that isn't working, and created a short test script that exhibits the same behavior: on run tell application "Finder" set shoppingList to...
Posted by rw, on Feb 8, 2004 at 03:37 AM, in Applications

AppleScript runs in Script Editor but not as saved application	700 Views / 7 Replies
I swear, trying to do anything with AppleScript is like banging your head against a wall. I have a script that runs just fine if I open it in Script Editor and click the Run button. But if I save...
Posted by rw, on Feb 8, 2004 at 01:08 AM, in Applications

Rotor on Panther	540 Views / 3 Replies
Has anyone succeeded in getting Rotor (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3A1C93FA-7462-47D0-8E56-8DD34C6292F0&displaylang=en) (Microsoft's port of the .Net framework to...
Posted by rw, on Nov 22, 2003 at 11:04 PM, in macOS

What runs "find"?	503 Views / 2 Replies
While my computer was sitting idle, I noticed the hard drive suddenly becoming active and running for some time. Checking top showed the culprit to probably be a process called "find" which,...
Posted by rw, on Nov 8, 2003 at 11:50 AM, in macOS

Sounds like you want to use System Profiler. Go...	503 Views / 3 Replies
Sounds like you want to use System Profiler. Go to the Apple menu and choose "About This Mac". Then click the "More Info" button in the about window.
Posted by rw, on Nov 8, 2003 at 11:36 AM, in macOS

Reformatting as a routine form of maintenance is...	1,232 Views / 30 Replies
Reformatting as a routine form of maintenance is strictly a Windows thing. I've never heard anyone say that it was good to just reinstall the OS on a Mac.
Posted by rw, on Aug 7, 2003 at 11:32 PM, in macOS

I've been using Moneydance...	1,137 Views / 13 Replies
I've been using Moneydance (http://moneydance.com/). It's a Java application -- I'll leave it up to you whether you consider that to be a pro or a con. It doesn't have the slickest interface, and it...
Posted by rw, on Aug 5, 2003 at 02:05 AM, in Applications

Do you just have this problem in the Finder? Can...	756 Views / 12 Replies
Do you just have this problem in the Finder? Can you open TextEdit and type Spanish characters?
Posted by rw, on Jul 14, 2003 at 10:50 AM, in macOS

The system language and the text behavior are not...	756 Views / 12 Replies
The system language and the text behavior are not the problem. (It's not your fault -- dealing with languages and writing systems is confusing.) The solution to your problem depends on what keyboard...
Posted by rw, on Jul 13, 2003 at 10:20 PM, in macOS

I second the above. I recently used Carbon Copy...	631 Views / 4 Replies
I second the above. I recently used Carbon Copy Cloner to transfer the contents of my hard drive to a Firewire drive, and it worked just fine. The Firewire is now my boot disk.
Posted by rw, on Jun 14, 2003 at 10:08 PM, in macOS

Here's Apple's listing of keyboard shortcuts...	1,257 Views / 7 Replies
Here's Apple's listing of keyboard shortcuts (startup and otherwise). Not much info on what they do, though. http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75459
Posted by rw, on Jun 14, 2003 at 02:09 PM, in macOS

I doubt your PC needs to be defragged, either....	960 Views / 12 Replies
I doubt your PC needs to be defragged, either. Defragging seems to be the PC version of the snake oil and voodoo mentioned above.
Posted by rw, on Jun 7, 2003 at 11:44 PM, in macOS

Thanks!	3,797 Views / 9 Replies
Thanks!
Posted by rw, on Jun 1, 2003 at 01:51 PM, in macOS

I don't have hwmond.xml, but I did find an XML...	3,797 Views / 9 Replies
I don't have hwmond.xml, but I did find an XML file called /etc/hwmond.SMART. I take it that you have to have a particular brand and make of drive for this to be of any use. In fact, if I try to run...
Posted by rw, on Jun 1, 2003 at 09:59 AM, in macOS

What is hwmond?	3,797 Views / 9 Replies
What is hwmond?
Posted by rw, on May 31, 2003 at 11:06 PM, in macOS

A bit off topic, but ... zachs, since when is...	687 Views / 5 Replies
A bit off topic, but ... zachs, since when is Beethoven's 9th Euro-Techno?
Posted by rw, on May 26, 2003 at 11:10 PM, in Applications

In other words, go here:...	1,940 Views / 8 Replies
In other words, go here: http://www.joyoftech.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/469.html :)
Posted by rw, on Apr 29, 2003 at 01:07 AM, in MacNN Lounge

Sound Studio 2.1 crashes	454 Views / 1 Replies
Any Sound Studio users out there? I find that the most recent version (2.1) crashes a lot when I'm editing a waveform. Unfortunately, I haven't narrowed down what causes the crash. I've gone back to...
Posted by rw, on Apr 20, 2003 at 11:15 PM, in Applications

Solution 1: Control-click (or right-click) the...	617 Views / 3 Replies
Solution 1: Control-click (or right-click) the Mail.app icon and choose Get Info. In the Info window, click the triangle labeled Languages. Then uncheck the boxes for every language except English....
Posted by rw, on Apr 20, 2003 at 09:35 PM, in macOS

Yahoo probably gets paid according to the number...	3,841 Views / 38 Replies
Yahoo probably gets paid according to the number of ads that get read.
Posted by rw, on Apr 13, 2003 at 12:27 AM, in macOS

It's possible that the file names were converted...	1,388 Views / 26 Replies
It's possible that the file names were converted to gibberish when you transferred them from the PC to the Mac. Do try the Apple File Name Encoding Repair utility mentioned in a previous post. That...
Posted by rw, on Mar 29, 2003 at 12:15 AM, in macOS

Re: Re: Re: Re: X11 Public Beta 3 for Mac OS X	2,445 Views / 42 Replies
Actually, these are tools for phonetics research, not music and audio :)
Posted by rw, on Mar 18, 2003 at 10:22 AM, in Applications

Re: Re: X11 Public Beta 3 for Mac OS X	2,445 Views / 42 Replies
Sound digitizer? Spectrograph? F0 (pitch) tracker? :)
Posted by rw, on Mar 17, 2003 at 10:25 PM, in Applications

But we at MacNN Forums are not the average Joe....	909 Views / 9 Replies
But we at MacNN Forums are not the average Joe. If nothing else, we are more curious. :) I'd like to know what this crud means, too.
Posted by rw, on Mar 16, 2003 at 11:06 PM, in macOS

I use two Java applications -- Moneydance and Bag...	3,425 Views / 60 Replies
I use two Java applications -- Moneydance and Bag of Unusual Strategy Games. Both used to be dog slow. Now both take noticeably less than a lifetime to load and run at blazingly tolerable speeds. ...
Posted by rw, on Mar 11, 2003 at 01:49 AM, in macOS

Re: Re: Re: What Does this Process Do?	746 Views / 5 Replies
Unless tcpflow is spyware ... (Just kidding.) I seem to be reading a lot of forum posts about "spyware" recently. At first, I thought people were just being overly paranoid. But now, I suspect it's...
Posted by rw, on Mar 1, 2003 at 11:16 PM, in macOS

can't get ghostscript/gv to work	487 Views / 0 Replies
I am trying to run gv and ghostscript in X11, but gv just gives me this error message when I try to open a file: ---------------------------- X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid...
Posted by rw, on Feb 23, 2003 at 04:55 PM, in macOS

Thanks! the selfupdate still won't work, but cvs...	615 Views / 3 Replies
Thanks! the selfupdate still won't work, but cvs runs fine from the fink directory.
Posted by rw, on Jan 29, 2003 at 11:53 PM, in macOS

"fink selfupdate" fails	615 Views / 3 Replies
When I try to run the "fink selfupdate" command, I get this error: "execution of su failed, exit code 1". If I try to run the command "cvs -z3 update -d -P" from the Terminal (which is what Fink was...
Posted by rw, on Jan 26, 2003 at 01:23 PM, in macOS

I don't know about the crashes, but according to...	1,592 Views / 34 Replies
I don't know about the crashes, but according to Apple, it's expected that fsck will report errors when journaling is on: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107250
Posted by rw, on Jan 25, 2003 at 01:33 AM, in macOS

This is off the new topic of enabling root, but I...	810 Views / 13 Replies
This is off the new topic of enabling root, but I wanted to thank Arkham_c for solving my original problem re Fink.
Posted by rw, on Jan 22, 2003 at 10:26 PM, in macOS

root's path	810 Views / 13 Replies
While using Fink, I got this message: NB: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/local/sbin, /usr/sbin and /sbin. So, without enabling root, how do I find out what root's PATH variable...
Posted by rw, on Jan 20, 2003 at 10:53 AM, in macOS

I'd suspect a corrupt font. If you don't have a...	735 Views / 4 Replies
I'd suspect a corrupt font. If you don't have a font repair utility, then you can try just reinstalling the font from the Office CD -- it's in Microsoft Office X -> Office -> Fonts.
Posted by rw, on Jan 19, 2003 at 11:42 PM, in macOS

#opendarwin on what server?	2,149 Views / 21 Replies
#opendarwin on what server?
Posted by rw, on Jan 9, 2003 at 12:24 AM, in macOS

Has Apple been Slashdotted?	504 Views / 2 Replies
Speaking of web site downtime ... Apple's homepage is down (8 January '03 7:50 PM PST). You can access the rest of the site, but www.apple.com gets a "page not found" page. (Okay, so maybe it's not...
Posted by rw, on Jan 9, 2003 at 12:03 AM, in macOS

"No manual entry for diskutil"	957 Views / 9 Replies
"No manual entry for diskutil"
Posted by rw, on Jan 2, 2003 at 12:16 PM, in macOS

I suspect this is a difference between keyboards...	602 Views / 11 Replies
I suspect this is a difference between keyboards for Windows and those for Mac. My wife's Japanese laptop (Windows) indeed has the brackets on the 8 and 9 keys, but Japanese keyboards for the Mac (as...
Posted by rw, on Dec 31, 2002 at 11:34 PM, in macOS

Those are probably the Klez virus (which won't...	1,076 Views / 13 Replies
Those are probably the Klez virus (which won't affect your Mac). Search under "Klez" if you want more info.
Posted by rw, on Dec 30, 2002 at 01:14 AM, in macOS

I've been told that booting up the computer uses...	888 Views / 13 Replies
I've been told that booting up the computer uses as much electricity as leaving it on idle all night. Is this so, or am I the victim of an urban legend?
Posted by rw, on Dec 22, 2002 at 02:31 PM, in macOS

Maybe it would help us if you posted your network...	1,060 Views / 26 Replies
Maybe it would help us if you posted your network settings. Can you post screen shots of the Network control panel, TCP/IP and PPPoE tabs?
Posted by rw, on Dec 22, 2002 at 02:25 PM, in macOS

streaming mpeg-4 on iTunes?	446 Views / 0 Replies
RadioIo (http://radioio.com) is presenting an mpeg-4 stream of their radio broadcast. They claim they are the world's first streaming mpeg-4 radio broadcast...
Posted by rw, on Dec 10, 2002 at 02:30 AM, in macOS

Weird picture, but I like the overall effect. I...	70,872 Views / 723 Replies
Weird picture, but I like the overall effect. I like a mostly white desktop sometimes myself. Here's mine today: http://home.earthlink.net/~khr/desktop.jpg Picture by Rosa...
Posted by rw, on Dec 4, 2002 at 01:46 AM, in macOS

I wish I had a good answer for you, but I only...	657 Views / 5 Replies
I wish I had a good answer for you, but I only have a so-so answer. Maybe this will start the ball rolling, though, and inspire someone else to pipe up with the perfect book recommendation. I've...
Posted by rw, on Nov 28, 2002 at 01:10 AM, in macOS

Some people think that deleting these three files...	555 Views / 4 Replies
Some people think that deleting these three files can help OS X performance (sort of like rebuilding the desktop in pre-OS X). Here (http://osxfaq.com/dailytips/08-2002/08-14.ws) is a link. Maybe the...
Posted by rw, on Nov 17, 2002 at 12:29 PM, in macOS

.lpoptions	452 Views / 0 Replies
Sorry if this is just the most trivial question that's ever been asked here, but inquiring minds want to know. Since the 10.2.2 update, there is a new file: ~/.lpoptions. It turns out to be a text...
Posted by rw, on Nov 12, 2002 at 11:19 AM, in macOS

Thanks, P and gorgonzola. It all makes sense now...	885 Views / 5 Replies
Thanks, P and gorgonzola. It all makes sense now (sort of). By the way, one interesting if trivial side effect of my changing the permissions in that directory is that I can see what files the 10.2.2...
Posted by rw, on Nov 12, 2002 at 11:10 AM, in macOS

Thanks for the replies. Now what I don't get is...	885 Views / 5 Replies
Thanks for the replies. Now what I don't get is this: what does it mean that files are "world executable" but "you need to be root to run them anyway". I thought the little x meant that you could run...
Posted by rw, on Nov 10, 2002 at 01:12 AM, in macOS

Permissions in /usr/sbin	885 Views / 5 Replies
I noticed that all the files in /usr/sbin were world-executable. That sure doesn't seem right. I fixed it with "chmod o-x *", but I'm just a Unix-putterer. Do you think I've broken anything?
Posted by rw, on Nov 9, 2002 at 01:04 PM, in macOS

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