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Yes, we do have two accounts. However this was... 877 Views / 5 Replies  
Yes, we do have two accounts. However this was never a problem with iPhone 5 or ios7
Posted by WSE, on Sep 24, 2014 at 11:10 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
"Find My iPhone" deletes music on iPhone 6+ 877 Views / 5 Replies  
When my son got his iPhone 6 Plus a few days ago, it took several tries to get all his music to sync over from his prior iPhone 5 backup via iTunes/USB cable. When it was all finally working, he...
Posted by WSE, on Sep 24, 2014 at 01:29 AM, in iPhone, iPad & iPod
Hidden files created by interrupted Migration Assistant 3,087 Views / 2 Replies  
I bought a new MBP, and during Migration Assistant data transfer, the process halted after several hours, with only a few minutes to go, with an error messaging saying the other computer stopped...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 25, 2008 at 08:35 AM, in macOS
Miracle! -- a Mac developer has published a... 1,708 Views / 8 Replies  
Miracle! -- a Mac developer has published a little utility to do what Samsung could not figure out...

deSEDG - convert SEDG files back to DivX on OS X...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 20, 2006 at 11:13 AM, in Applications
Samsung not Mac compatible 1,708 Views / 8 Replies  
Thanks to all for your suggestions. I called Samsung customer service first thing this morning .. guess what! -- they use a proprietary version of DIVX video codec and have not developed one for the...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 20, 2006 at 10:44 AM, in Applications
Thanks for VLC suggestion but didn't help 1,708 Views / 8 Replies  
VLC 0.8.6 (just downloaded from their website) tried to open the AVI files but gave this error message:

main: no suitable decoder module for fourcc 'SEDG'
VLC probably does not support this sound...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 20, 2006 at 03:44 AM, in Applications
Viewing and converting AVI files 1,708 Views / 8 Replies  
I just purchased a Samsung SC-X205L sports camcorder which claims to be Mac compatible. Be wary.

After some effort and a non-intuitive interface, I was able to download the video files I made to...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 20, 2006 at 02:48 AM, in Applications
iPhoto wasting storage space 467 Views / 0 Replies  
iPhoto appears to be grabbing many multiples more space than is necessary to store a photo. I imported about 500 megs of JPGs already on my hard drive; my prefs are set so that iPhoto creates its...
Posted by WSE, on Sep 13, 2006 at 05:49 PM, in Applications
SmartDisk FireLite external drive and MBP trouble 521 Views / 0 Replies  
I have two SmartDisk FireLite external firewire drives, one 80 Gig, the other 100 Gig, which I use for alternate daily backups.

Both work perfectly on my PowerbookG4, and have been used daily for...
Posted by WSE, on Mar 17, 2006 at 03:27 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Reply to mduell from original poster 938 Views / 7 Replies  
Yes, I meant a PC card, specifically I have a PC5220 for Verizon

If someone has this working on a MBP with Verizon with a Treo 650, I would greatly appreciate it if you would post detailed...
Posted by WSE, on Feb 26, 2006 at 12:39 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Anyone achieve cellular internet access on MacBookPro? 938 Views / 7 Replies  
Without a PCI slot, my Verizon EDVO card is worthless on my MBP. Anyone been successful in achieving cell-phone based internet access on their MBP via any of the following methods, please enlighten...
Posted by WSE, on Feb 26, 2006 at 02:39 AM, in Mac Notebooks
video playback stripes of frozen prior content 558 Views / 0 Replies  
On two different digital video cameras, I have had intermittent problems with playback being spoiled by about 8-10 fat stripes across the screen, occupying half of the total screen. The content of...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 25, 2005 at 12:10 AM, in Art & Graphic Design
Perfect!! Thanks. Not a very intuitive... 761 Views / 6 Replies  
Perfect!! Thanks. Not a very intuitive interface from Apple for this particular functionality
Posted by WSE, on Oct 21, 2005 at 02:36 PM, in macOS
doesn't work for me 761 Views / 6 Replies  
Thank you for this reply but it doesn't work for me. The Finder windows have favorites, servers, folders etc on the left side, but the iDisk does not appear there. It is on my desktop; and if I...
Posted by WSE, on Oct 21, 2005 at 02:17 PM, in macOS
Thanks, but this only seems up work if there are... 761 Views / 6 Replies  
Thanks, but this only seems up work if there are Address Book, Bookmark, etc. items specified in the first tab of the .Mac preferences to synch. In my case I am manually putting items into the...
Posted by WSE, on Oct 19, 2005 at 09:30 AM, in macOS
Forcing iDisk to synchronize (synch) 761 Views / 6 Replies  
In System Preferences / iDIsk, you can specify that a mirror of your iDisk will appear on your desktop. This allows rapid access, and supposedly changes are automatically synched back up to the real...
Posted by WSE, on Oct 18, 2005 at 11:34 PM, in macOS
Matt, thanks for your suggestions. I turned off... 652 Views / 3 Replies  
Matt, thanks for your suggestions. I turned off each and every conduit, it still resets with each synch! Any further suggestions appreciated.

I will try to do some experimentation, like backing...
Posted by WSE, on Jul 17, 2005 at 01:39 AM, in Applications
Treo Palm reboots resets with each synch 652 Views / 3 Replies  
I have a Treo 650 (Verizon model) and am running 10.4.2

Since 10.4.1, even single time I synch, after it completes normally and the Treo screen says "cleaning up", the Treo does its own soft...
Posted by WSE, on Jul 16, 2005 at 12:32 AM, in Applications
Spotlight will not find content in a mounted Disk Image 629 Views / 0 Replies  
Despite an Apple article to the contrary at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300896

Spotlight will not file text within the content of files on disk images created in Disk Utility,...
Posted by WSE, on May 3, 2005 at 03:43 AM, in macOS
Spotlight will not search content of mounted Disk Images 2,274 Views / 1 Replies  
I am not surprised. I am about to post a New Topic about this, here is the information:

Despite an Apple article to the contrary at:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=300896
...
Posted by WSE, on May 3, 2005 at 03:42 AM, in macOS
Fixed the problem --- here is how 468 Views / 1 Replies  
OK - I called AppleSupport and they solved it. In case this is happening to you, this is what they guy had me do:

1) Logout as a user
2) In the loginwindow, instead of typing in my username,...
Posted by WSE, on Apr 30, 2005 at 02:19 PM, in macOS
Tiger permissions wrong on Disk Images, Mail.app won't open either 468 Views / 1 Replies  
Tiger treats file permissions on Disk Images differently than 10.3.9 and it is causing me big problems.

After converting to Tiger, files on encrypted disk images can still be opened and read; but...
Posted by WSE, on Apr 30, 2005 at 11:59 AM, in macOS
Powerbook will not wake up, PMU reset does not help 885 Views / 2 Replies  
Any comments on why this happens?

Occassionally both my wife and my 15" Powerbook G4 (1.25 MHz) will not wake up from sleep.

I hold down power button to force a restart, push control command...
Posted by WSE, on Feb 7, 2005 at 12:35 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Battery won't charge, won't discharge 514 Views / 2 Replies  
iBook G4 running 10.3.5. When plugged into A/C adaptor, battery level stays constant, won't charge but doesn't discharge. I have verified it is not a battery problem, because two different batteries...
Posted by WSE, on Oct 10, 2004 at 10:40 PM, in Mac Notebooks
further testing on the above issue 490 Views / 1 Replies  
At the suggestion of a very astute friend, I tested whether the problem is equally bad when printing to this printer wireless (connected to an AirPort Extreme Base Station) or direct via USB port......
Posted by WSE, on Sep 3, 2004 at 02:07 PM, in macOS
Printing color pages on black & white printer 490 Views / 1 Replies  
I have a brother MFC 9700 all-in-one printer/fax/scanner which works reasonably well with OS 10.3.

One annoying problem is printing color pages on this black & white printer. Under System 9,...
Posted by WSE, on Sep 3, 2004 at 12:43 PM, in macOS
Re: airport off, will not turn on 1,776 Views / 5 Replies  
BINGO!!!!

Configure IPv4 was set to "Manual" -- don't know how that happened. But as soon as I set it to DHCP, airport immediately turned on.

T H A N K Y O U !!!!!


Bill
Posted by WSE, on Jul 12, 2004 at 06:32 AM, in macOS
Re: Re: airport off, will not turn on 1,776 Views / 5 Replies  
Thanks for your suggestions - keep them coming! I booted the computer off an external hard drive and airport worked normally, proving it is not a hardware problem.

While booted off the external...
Posted by WSE, on Jul 11, 2004 at 10:49 PM, in macOS
airport off, will not turn on 1,776 Views / 5 Replies  
Running 10.3.4 on relatively new Powerbook G4. Turned Airport off while on airplane. The menu item to turn it on appears as it normally does. When I select it, airport does not turn on. It ignores...
Posted by WSE, on Jul 11, 2004 at 02:08 PM, in macOS
hung during optimization now acting weird 1,279 Views / 3 Replies  
While installing 10.3.1 via Software Update, my Powerbook G4 hung during the optimization process (45% complete). I waited hours, no progress, so I force quit.

Now it takes forever to launch...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 31, 2003 at 05:51 AM, in macOS
lost Mail.app rules -- which file contains them? 710 Views / 1 Replies  
I have about 15 rules to custom sort my emails. Suddenly they are all gone. I have a backup of my entire hard drive, if someone could please identify which preference file contains the rules, I'd...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 27, 2003 at 11:48 PM, in macOS
Re: PDA/Phone Samsung i500 & Kyocera 7135 12,496 Views / 21 Replies  
I have the 7135 and use it with a Powerbook G4 running 10.3.1 and Palm 4.1

It works well enough, but I used to have a Handspring Treo 270 and the user interface and general user experience was...
Posted by WSE, on Dec 4, 2003 at 03:20 AM, in Consumer Hardware & Components
Mail.app stops downloading emails midstream 474 Views / 0 Replies  
In 10.3 sometimes Mail just hangs, stops downloading emails midstream. In the activity viewer I can see it downloading an email, then it times out and stops trying. At the top of the main window,...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 27, 2003 at 11:26 AM, in macOS
I walked my white-spotted Powerbook G4 into the... 3,148 Views / 39 Replies  
I walked my white-spotted Powerbook G4 into the Genius Bar at the Apple Store where I bought it on Nov 4th. It is Nov 14th and I just called Apple Repair status. They have no idea when the LCD...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 14, 2003 at 11:15 AM, in Mac Notebooks
Solved! Not a bug but a "feature" 1,370 Views / 17 Replies  
As it turned out I had to make a trip to the Apple Store today (white spots on new Aluminum Powerbook 15 inch, they are getting me a new screen).. and I demonstrated the problem to them.

The reply...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 4, 2003 at 09:21 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: Expose keys stopped working 1,370 Views / 17 Replies  
Thanks for the suggestion, but no, I have not ever installed USB Overdrive.

Please keep the ideas coming!
Posted by WSE, on Nov 4, 2003 at 01:39 AM, in macOS
I tried this, and unfortunately it didn't work. ... 1,370 Views / 17 Replies  
I tried this, and unfortunately it didn't work.

For the time being, I've got a workaround using F11 and F12 and option-F11 instead of F9 and F10, but I sure would like to know why this is...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 3, 2003 at 05:04 PM, in macOS
Yes, it is system-wide. I created a brand new... 1,370 Views / 17 Replies  
Yes, it is system-wide. I created a brand new user, and that user has the same problem, and it survived a restart.

I suspect there is an undocumented keystroke combination that disables those...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 2, 2003 at 01:01 PM, in macOS
The preference pane will allow me to set any of... 1,370 Views / 17 Replies  
The preference pane will allow me to set any of the normal keystroke combinations for Expose, (including using control, command, etc) but any combination that involves the F8, F9 or F10 keys will not...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 2, 2003 at 11:49 AM, in macOS
Using the Expose preference pane, I can get any... 1,370 Views / 17 Replies  
Using the Expose preference pane, I can get any key combination to work EXCEPT F8, F9 and F10, and when I try those, I get the greyed out image of Expose with the "you can't do that" white circle...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 2, 2003 at 10:10 AM, in macOS
Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work.... 1,370 Views / 17 Replies  
Thanks for the suggestion, but it didn't work. Any other suggestions appreciated.
Posted by WSE, on Nov 2, 2003 at 02:56 AM, in macOS
Expose keys stopped working 1,370 Views / 17 Replies  
I must have hit some hidden keystroke combination that disabled the ability for Expose to work via keyboard shortcuts.

When I use either the default F9 or F10, or even if I specify another...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 1, 2003 at 08:02 PM, in macOS
Mail.app doesn't see unread emails in 10.3 481 Views / 2 Replies  
My company uses SSL encryption for POP email uses. In 10.2 I had no problem downloading email from the company email server.

In 10.3, Mail.app acts as if there is no unread email, even though by...
Posted by WSE, on Oct 31, 2003 at 03:13 AM, in macOS
re- partitioning Hard Drive with Disk Utility 10.2 478 Views / 1 Replies  
I have a large LaCie drive with several partitions. I would like to make one partition larger and another smaller, and Disk Utility gives me a warning that changing the size will result in loss of...
Posted by WSE, on Oct 25, 2003 at 01:50 AM, in macOS
moving print settings and location settings between powerbooks 466 Views / 0 Replies  
Any help appreciated -- where are the files associated with Network Preferences (ISP phone numbers, ethernet settings etc) for the various locations that I have taught to my Titanitum Powerbook?
...
Posted by WSE, on Sep 26, 2003 at 12:33 AM, in Mac Notebooks
moving virtual PC (virtualPC) to a new computer 710 Views / 4 Replies  
Thanks for this advice on moving the image, what about moving the VirtualPC application itself?

Also I recall that I had to be connected to the internet to install Windows XP within VirtualPC, do...
Posted by WSE, on Sep 25, 2003 at 09:40 PM, in Mac Notebooks
moving virtual PC (virtualPC) to a new computer 710 Views / 4 Replies  
I just bought a new powerbook G4 and my old powerbook G4 has Virtual PC on it. I want to move it over without going through the extended work to reinstall the connectix version, upgrade to microsoft...
Posted by WSE, on Sep 25, 2003 at 07:30 PM, in Mac Notebooks
Re: Re: How to use Mail.app with encrypted disk images 955 Views / 4 Replies  
Would it really be that fast to defeat DiskCopy? The application does not seem to quit after multiple password failures, but there is a popup window that must be clicked to get a new password...
Posted by WSE, on May 1, 2003 at 02:04 PM, in macOS
Re: Re: I got Mail.app to work with encrypted disk images 816 Views / 5 Replies  
-->> They would have to open my Keychain first. It is my understanding that the passwords themselves are encrypted. They could do brute force guessing of my Keychain password, but it is not as if I...
Posted by WSE, on Nov 8, 2002 at 09:54 AM, in macOS
I finally got this to work... see for details: ... 811 Views / 4 Replies  
I finally got this to work... see for details:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=130919
Posted by WSE, on Nov 8, 2002 at 04:06 AM, in macOS
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