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I mean urls like www-math.mit.edu/~stocker/18354.d/dimensional1.pdf What do you call them?
So, you wanna be able to put an icon in /Downloads that points to www-math.mit.edu/~stocker/18354.d/dimensional1.pdf? Why not just save it to that location?
I don't want to save it at all. I am trying to STOP it from being saved. I just want to read it and go on. That's how it worked with OS 9.2x (and Netscape 6.x).
Oh, OK. I assume you mean pdf's you've "linked" to by putting them in the Bookmarks menu. I was thinking Unix-style fileystem links, or MacOS aliases (which afaik are still supported). Does it happen with other kinds of links, say www.some.com/anypage.html?
No, I mean "links" I only clicked on that lead to the download of a .pdf. I do not save them as bookmarks or anything else. I DONT WANT TO SAVE THEM except deliberately. No, .html links are not automatically saved - I can just view those (or save them if I choose).
Hmm, sounds like you need to download/enable support for a pdf reader plugin.
I have no trouble reading the .pdf links I click on. I have both Adobe Reader 5.0 and 6.0 (which comes up depends on whether I'm working from OS X or Classic). The PROBLEM is that the .pdf is saved to the Desktop automatically.
The file has to be transferred to your machine before Acrobat can open it. It may be that previous versions of the browser put the file in the 'cache' directory, or they might have kept it in memory. I'd track down the cache first, and look there. The advantage of a 'Downloads' directory is that it doesn't clutter the desktop. The advantage of the Desktop is that it is easy to find the ones you want to delete.
You're right. I took a look, and I have many MB of stuff in a slew of Cache folders, and checking them found web pages I've looked at. I guess I can't fight Cache(s), but now the question is why looking at .pdfs puts them on the Desktop instead of in a Cache. I had looked at the Reader Preferences, and they don't give one any choices in this regard (that I could find).
It's a browser preference. Look for a 'download directory' option.
The only download preferences in Netscape are "Open the download manager", "Open a progress dialog", and "Don't open anything". Intentional downloads, however, go to Home automatically, while .pdf (link) downloads go to the Desktop. It seems to be a OS X preference, but I can't find anything relating to donwload destinations in System Preferences.
Thanks for the hint, Rane: System Preferences, Internet, Web. :)
???? - is that a path? I don't see it in System Preferences.
I wonder if they changed System Preferences somewhere along the line. I'm running version 10.2.8. In 10.2.8, i start System Preferences and click the "Show all" icon. In the "Internet & Network" section, I click the "Internet" icon, which opens a panel with four tabs: .Mac, iDisk, Email and Web. The last tab identifies the default browser and specifies were files should be downloaded to, with a "Select..." button to change that location. Which version are you running?
10.3.5. There is no "Internet" icon in the Internet and Network group, only .Mac, Network, QuickTime and Sharing. None of these have anything equivalent to what you describe under "Web". But it occurred to me that perhaps they moved such preferences to Safari - and that is the case. If one chooses Safari as one's web browser, one can choose the download location. One also chooses one's "default" web browser in the Safari Preferences. I've taken a chance and changed (in Safari), "Remove Download List Items" from "Manually" to "Upon Successful Download". Now I'll see if that affects what they call "Safe" files (which includes .pdf files) downloads. Stay tuned....
(I only just now read #55 again. I guess I did that, and it didn't work for Netscape.)
[Mac Help] says you can choose the startup disk (OS 9 or OS X) if you "hold down the Option key as you restart your computer. You'll see the available startup disks and can select one." But when I start up holding down the Option button what I get is a window showing only an OS X icon and two "buttons", one of which (an arrow in a circle) does nothing and the other of which (a right-facing arrow) completes the startup in OS X. Is there another way to start up in OS 9? (It is OS 9.2.2 on this machine.)
Hmmm...no answers to #57. Maybe I'll be luckier with I learned about OS X "Maintenance" and other stuff from the article "Prevent Mac Disaster", from Macworld, 2/05. In order to expedite maintenance I downloaded OnyX. This has buttons for running Maintenance Scripts (which otherwise would almost never be run, since my computer is usually not on when they are run automatically), and for "Cleaning" (deleting log files and caches and some other stuff). The article did not say, however, if there is any "Maintenance" or "Cleaning" that for some reason I should NOT do. Not all the categories are self evident. Does anyone have any do and don't suggetions regarding running OnyX?
Further to the same question in #58: when I run Cleaning on all categories of files in Onyx, I get one error message, Error 1, which reads find: /private/_tmp_/printing.523/Preview of "....[long title]....". Doesn't anyone else running Mac OS X use Onyx for maintenance and cleaning?
I guess no one runs Onyx....sigh. Mac users might try it, though: free download. But let me ask a new question. I am using Terminal to ftp files to a remote server. I do this with the put command and drag and drop the file into it. It looks like this: ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html local: /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html remote: /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||55412|) 550 /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html: No such file or directory As you see, it doesn't work. However, if I put the index.html file in the root direction, as /index.html, and then put that, it works. That looks like this: ftp> put /index.html local: /index.html remote: /index.html 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||55433|) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for /index.html 100% |*************************************| 3827 3.14 MB/s 00:00 ETA 226 Transfer complete. 3827 bytes sent in 00:00 (22.07 KB/s) What is the problem with putting the file from a deeper directory?
You might want to try "cd'ing" to the correct directory. Either use: ftp> cd /R/NSS/nss-tnc/ ftp> put index.html or cd to each directory in turn, then put. I've found that BSD versions of Unix utilities (which is what your Mac uses, and no, it doesn't matter what "BSD versions" means), are quite limited compared to their counterparts on Linux. However, you can download the versions used on Linux distros (the GNU tools) and put them on your Mac. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to read: http://snow.prohosting.com/guru4mac/opensource_sw_macosx_2k2.html You may also want to check out the Gentoo on Mac OS X project. (http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/macos-guide.xml) (I find gentoo's portage much more easy to use than debian's apt-get. To use the commandline apt-get tools, you must either know the exact name of the package you're downloading, or browse through some [imho] unfriendly text-based and gui-tools. portage puts directories for each of its packages in directories (under /usr/portage on Gentoo Linux), which you can browse at your leisure. Interestingly, portage was also inspired by the ports system from BSD, on which MacOS is based.
Thanks! I think I'll keep it simple, and cd to the directory with the file (which is simpler than moving the file into the root directory, as I did). I recall my first procedure working previously, however, so I wonder what has gone wrong. I don't think I upgraded - although I did clean all caches. Maybe that lost some links. Is there a cache I should leave alone?
Not that I know of.
The other answer is to use the extended form of the put command, specifying different source and target names. put index.html /path/to/index.html
Too bad "help put" in ftp isn't more informative, like the man pages. I'll try #64.
Re #64: do you mean like ftp> put index.html /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html ? This didn't work. Changing directory also didn't work. It gave ftp> cd /R/NSS/nss-tnc 550 /R/NSS/nss-tnc: No such file or directory The problem seems to be with the specification of the root directory as /. Is there a more specific way to specify the root?
Is /R/NSS/nss-tnc the path to where the file is on the Mac or where you want to put it on the server? If the former, then you need to use 'put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html index.html'; if the latter then you first need to create the subdirectories.
Re resp:61: aptitude isn't too bad for browsing apt packages. dselect and taskselect suck mightily. Dependency handling is still sometimes confusing, though.
Actually, I prefer synaptic. In my experience, when you uninstall stuff with aptitude, it also uninstalls a ton of stuff you DIDN'T want uninstalled along with the stuff you *did*. If I were in to such monstrous bogosities, wouldn't I be running Windows?
Re #67: I think the point you raise is where the problem is. ftp> is on the server to which I have "ftp'd", so that most commands apply to the directory at that server. However drag-and-drop of a file in Mac OS X is *supposed* to make the root directory referenced to the Mac directory. It does, in fact, do this, if the file is in the Mac root directory. However the problem is that a path instruction is not followed. That is, ftp> put index.html works if I first put index.html in the Mac root directory, but ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html doesn't, even though the path from the Mac root is properly specified. I think I mentioned that ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html index.html did not work. Here, let me try it again... ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html index.html local: /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html remote: index.html 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||60791|) 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for index.html 100% |*************************************| 3827 211.26 KB/s 00:00 ETA 226 Transfer complete. 3827 bytes sent in 00:00 (23.46 KB/s) HEY! It worked this time. What the heck..... Well, if this has solved the problem, then I thank you heartily.
Ah. No worries.
In #60 above, you report that
put /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html
doesn't work, with the error, "550 /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html: No such file or
directory", and in #66, you note that
put index.html /R/NSS/nss-tnc/index.html
didn't work, either. Note that in both cases, the remote path is the same as
the Mac path: "/R/NSS/nss-tnc/". I don't know which remote machine you are
using, but it seems unlikely that it would have a directory named
"/R/NSS/nss-tnc/".
I find the report that
put /index.html
worked to be curious: Do you have 'write' access to the root directory on
the receiving machine? More importantly, where did the file end up on that
machine?
I noticed that also, that that path is not on the remote machine. It seems to be a syntax problem. It appears it has to be <put [path/file] [file]>, not <put [file] [path/file]>, as first suggested here. I am already connected by SFTP to the ultimate directory on the remote machine when I drag and drop the file I want to transfer. Given that ftp> <put [path/file] [file]> works, I too am a little suprised that just put /[file] works if the file is in the Mac root directory. Maybe I don't need the file name in the path, but it doesn't hurt? I'll try that: ftp> put /R/NSS/nss-tnc index.html local: /R/NSS/nss-tnc remote: index.html /R/NSS/nss-tnc: not a plain file. Nope. The file name has to be part of the path.
Is there a way to turn off the "suggestions" (prior urls) window that comes up when entering a url or site ID at a site you have previously visited, in Firefox? I couldn't find such an option in Preferences. This annoying feature (to me) is worst on some sites that require your ID and PW, and the suggested ID list obscures the PW entry box, so you *have* to use the list to continue.
This is the menu layout in NS 7.0; FF should be similar but may not be identical: Preferences > Smart Browsing > Location Bar Autocomplete If you don't want it to suggest anything, ever, uncheck the box; if you want adjust the options, hit 'Advanced'. If you're getting suggestions for information you're entering into forms within pages, look for Privacy > Save Form Information and tell it not to; you may also want to "Clear" saved information. Note also that if you just keep typing, as the options for completions narrow, the list'll get shorter. You should also be able to use the arrow keys to select an option and either tab or enter to select it and move on to the next box (or not).
(I though I had responded...but it's not here, so...) Thanks! I had not thought that the form information preferences would be under Privacy. I shouldn't have assumed anything when dealing with such applications.
But I thought the Mac was supposed to be intuitive and easy-to-use...
The OS usually is. Third-party apps aren't always. Mozilla/Netscape, like most open-source apps, isn't really known for a consistent and well-thought-out user interface. Menu options even sometimes move around between minor releases.
Don't go overboard. The Mac OS X Help is pretty poor, not having explanations, or even definitions, for many terms and procedures.
The OS usually is. Third-party apps aren't always. Mozilla/Netscape, like most open-source apps, isn't really known for a consistent and well-thought-out user interface. Menu options even sometimes move around between minor releases. Don't throw that "like most open-source apps" around TOO much. M$ changed plenty between Windows 95 and 98, and between 2000 and XP, both minor upgrades. As for "third party apps aren't always", i thought there were supposed to be Human Interface Gidelines, too...
sure there are, but when different programmers with different views on the most usable or intuitive layout work successively (and often without much communication) on a design, it'll change. Eventually it'll stabilise, but it may take a while. And don't be too sensitive about finding meaning where there wasn't any. "like most open-source apps" doesn't exclude closed ones, it just means that it's common among open ones. it's probably just as common among closed apps with similarly large communities of uncommunicative developers.
True enough.
Also, remember that Mozilla was originally written for Windows, then ported to the Mac. That usually entails some compromises. It's hard to satisfy the UI guidelines of both operating systems, especially since people tend to expect an app to work the same on different platforms. Open-source apps are getting better at UIs, but they have a ways to go. GNOME certainly is better than it used to be. GIMP has improved considerably in the 2.x releases; it used to be a great example of what *not* to do.
Open-source apps are getting better at UIs, but they have a ways to go. I think closed-source apps are getting worse. Mac used to have one interface paradigm (two if you include desk accessories, which even before multitasking could coexist with the single application on screen). Now it has two (three by the latter criterion.) Add another for apps written by Microsoft (which I hear always diverge from the Mac HIG). And another for text-based apps (such as Terminal, telnet programs, and non-IDE-based programming tools). As for Windows, there's one interface for (Windows) Explorer and one for My Computer. Add another for Media Player. And another for WinAMP... Since its inception, DOS/Windows has had no fewer than 9 major or minor interface changes, including: The change from tabbed to overlapping Windows in version <3.1 The addition of DOS Shell in DOS 4 The change to Program and File Managers in 3.x The change to My computer and Explorer in 9x/NT 3.51 and up. The cosmetic (but imho awful) change in Windows XP; The cosmetic (and slightly nicer) putative change in Longhorn. The ditching of components in Longhorn. The addition of an allegedly decent command line shell in Longhorn; The constant (and progressively stupider) interface changes in Control Panel. Oh, AND some time soon, the change to a database filesystem. Of course, KDE and GNOME have undergone various changes, too. But it's no worse than Windows. Finally, MS have compounded the error by allowing you to change to something that looks vaguely like the old interface at each turn, and then keeping those options around. MS software is anything but simple or consistent, unless you have been brainwashed into thinking it is, which they seem to have been able to do with most people with an alarming degree of success.
Returning again to #59 inre the Cleaning function of OnyX.... the complete error message I get whenever I run it is ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Error: 1 find: /private/_tmp_/printing.523/Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues Article Series- justi#14D6A.prvw: No such file or directory find: /private/_tmp_/printing.523/Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues Article Series- justi#14D6B.pset: No such file or directory find: /private/_tmp_/printing.523.1/ Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues Article Series- justi#14DF3.prvw: No such file or directory find: /private/_tmp_/printing.523.1/ Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues Article Series- justi#14DF4.pset: No such file or directory find: /private/_tmp_/printing.523.2/ Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues Article Series- OK -------------------------------------------------------------------- It appears that "Cleaning" is trying to find some files that are not there. But why does it think they are there? Or am I misinterpreting what the error message is trying to tell me? I certainly don't need/want any files about "The Heifer Project". I can find the directory /private/_tmp_/printing.523.1/ (etc), and it contains all that gibberish, but why is this creating an error?
Seems like the file name may have special characters in it that are not being properly handled by the cleanup script. If I have a file named "-rf /" and I can get some administrative task to pass that as a command line input to the 'rm' command, we have something to look at. If the admin task correctly tokenizes my file name, then the 'rm' program will remove it. If the admin task fails to correctly pass it, then I may be able to get the task to recursively '-r', forced '-f' remove files starting at '/'. A huge problem. I leave it as an excercise for the reader how to create a file named "-rf /".
I'm not even sure what of that is a file name. If I go to the last directory, say printing.523, and list it, I get [Rane-Curls-Computer:/private/_tmp_/printing.523] ranecurl% ls -al ls: Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues Article Series- justi#14D6A.prvw: No such file or directory ls: Preview of A video that never mentions Heifer Project International shows why their premise is wrong - An Aticles From The Heifer Project- A Bad Approach to Solving World Hunger Problems - An All Creatures Animal Issues Article Series- justi#14D6B.pset: No such file or directory total 0 drwx------ 4 ranecurl wheel 136 30 Nov 12:18 . drwxrwxrwt 11 root wheel 374 22 Oct 2004 .. So, what is all that gibberish starting with ls: Preview.... ? It certainly isn't files in the directory. Do you think it would resolve the problem (with that directory) if I emptied it? If so...how do I do that? It's not as those are files I can rm. As far as I know, I don't even need those directories "printing.523.x".
If you go to _tmp_ and try to 'rm -rf printing.523' it probably says it can't remove the dir because it's not empty? Have you done an fsck on this? From inside printing.523 does 'echo *' show anything?
Yup, it says it isn't empty. echo * inside printing.523 yields tcsh: echo: No match. I don't know how to use fsck in this circumstance. Is there a way to empty a directory from outside it?
rm -r directoryname If it complains you may also need the -f switch, which overrides some safeguards. (The "f" stands for "force.") I'm a little suspicious that printing.523 isn't actually a directory, but rather a file that has become marked as a directory due to some kind of filesystem error. In UNIX, directories are just a special type of file.
I took this discussion to agora as there is a bigger crowd there. So I have tried rm -rf <directory>. Didn't work. But if printing.523 *isn't* meant to be a directory, how do I make it what it was meant to be (a file). Here is an ls of the directory in which it is: drwxrwxrwt 11 root wheel 374 22 Oct 2004 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root wheel 204 7 Sep 23:54 .. drwx------ 3 ranecurl wheel 102 21 Oct 2004 .KerberosLogin-501 drwx------ 3 ranecurl wheel 102 21 Oct 2004 501 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 652 21 Oct 2004 mcx_compositor drwxrwxrwx 3 root wheel 102 21 Oct 2004 printers drwx------ 4 ranecurl wheel 136 2 Dec 15:06 printing.523 drwx------ 5 ranecurl wheel 170 22 Oct 2004 printing.523.1 drwx------ 5 ranecurl wheel 170 22 Oct 2004 printing.523.2 srwxrw-rw- 1 root wheel 0 21 Oct 2004 slp_ipc drwxrwxrwt 7 root wheel 238 22 Oct 2004 tmp There appear to be five directories created recently (Oct 2004), but I don't know how. Only the printing.523.x directories show up as error when cleaning with OnyX. The one in question got modified in some fashion while I've been fooling around with it so it has the recent date (but I can't tell you what specific action did that). I presume "root" are those created on an installation (I may have upgraded to OS 10.3.9).
I assume you've already run a disk check? (I don't know what OS X calls it...probably Disk First Aid.)
fsck won't want to run on a mounted file system. I don't know how to tell OS X that it should force an fsck on next reboot. On my linux there is /.autofsck to control this. Also shutdown(8) has a switch to force it. I suspect man 8 shutdown should be your starting point.
Re #s85ff: I solved the problem, with help from http://forums.macosxhints.com/index.php. The problem was that the long garbage after the find: in #85 above isn't *in* the file, it is the *name* of the file, which choked OnyX. What I finally did was sudo'd the folder _tmp_ to my desktop, renamed the files with the long names, moved them to trash, and emptied trash. It did not work to empty trash without first renaming the files. I could then sudo _tmp_ back into its directory (for whatever good that is - everything seems to work find without it there).
New problem: is there any way to stop OSX from sorting files in a folder alphabetically? Usually I like files alphabetical, but this time I transferred the contents of two digital camera cards to the desktop, and wanted to append the files in one to the end of the list of files in the other. The file (image) names were, however, overlapping between the two cards, so when I copied and pasted, the files got mixed in, since the automatic file naming on the two cards significantly overlapped. In fact, I am not even sure the files on the one card appeared in the folder on the desktop in their original order. (I had taken the camera battery out to recharge it, which caused the file naming on the card and date to change, and I forgot to reset the date for a few images.) SO... how do I transfer the files from the card to a folder on my desktop, and append files from two cards, keeping their original order? Or, in general, how can I create a folder so the files are in the order I place them there rather than being automatically alphabetized?
You can probably sort by date instead of by filename. I'm not sure how to do it in OS X, though. It may be as easy as clicking the column heading.
Whaddayouknow! It works! Why isn't that in Mac Help? But this still doesn't solve my problem totally. I would like the files in the same order as on the card *regardless* of the name or date or whatever associated with each. For example, for the images for which I had not reset the date, it was recorded as the date the camera was made (or thereabouts).
I don't think you're going to be able to preserve the file order when copying from once device to another. Even on a single device it's not always consistent. For example, on a DOS filesystem, if you delete a file in the middle of the directory, the next file you create may very well take that "slot" and end up in the middle.
Pretty crumby design.... One should have the option to set the default file sort for every folder or volume. However I am getting around the problem by downloading the camera card with the camera software: this renames all the files in an order corresponding to the order on the card - which is not automatically sorted by the camera. However downloaded the files from the two cards (to separate folders) both start with PIC00001. Now to try to append one onto the other....
How does one save the configuration (SSID and WEP) for future connection of a Mac laptop to a wireless base station? I can connect, but could not find the way to save the configuration for later connections.
Let it add the info to your keyring.
How is that done? If you can tell me, I can try it the next time that Mac laptop is available to me (in a week or so).
It's been a while since I did it, so I don't remember. I think it was a checkbox or a dialog query when I first signed on the the secured network.
I looked for that but nothing was apparent.
A game application that I used now and then stopped working. When clicked on, the icon "exploded" as usual, and a spinning wait icon appeared, but then everything stopped and the app did not open. Thinking the app had gotten damaged, I download a new one, but that did exactly the same thing. Therefore the problem appears to be in my OS 10.3.9 system. I therefore downloaded the 19.3.9 installer again, and ran it. I had expected that it would give me a dialog because I was reinstalling it on top of the same installed system. But it went ahead, and installed it. However doing so did not help the game app to work: it failed to open in exactly the same manner. In hunting for info on the Apple site for reinstallation, I found mention of reinstalling with an "erase and install", but no explanation or instructions for that. Should I have done something different to reinstall a fresh copy of the system?
Further to #105: my cosole.log file contains the following after I try to upen the subject game: Mac OS X Version 10.3.9 (Build 7W98) 2007-09-07 14:01:26 -0400 2007-09-07 14:02:46.905 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava: uncaught exception NSInvalidArgumentException (*** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value) 2007-09-07 14:02:46.905 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava: exception = *** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value 2007-09-07 14:02:46.906 MahJong Solitaire[359] AppKitJava: terminating. Does this offer any clues as to how I could correct the fault? I have discovered from further reading that reinstalling the 10.3.9 upgrade does not replace the current System, and whatever bug there is in it that causes the problem. I need to use an install disc, which could do an "archive and install", a function not in the upgrade. I can buy such an 10.3.5 install disk on Ebay, and then would have to upgrade and update to 10.3.9 with downloads.
(Must not be many Mac users listening in here. But just in case.....) Does Mac OSX "Tiger" (10.4) support the Classic interface? I am running 10.3.9, which does, but I could not find any mention of Classic (9.2.2) in the Tiger user's guide.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't "Classic Interface" really a dual-boot setup?
Not sure what "dual boot" means, but one can choose the startup sys in the System Preferences in OS 10.3. Also, in OS 10.3, if one starts an OS 9 app, "classic" starts up automatically. There is also a OS 9 menu in the menu bar. Does OS 10.4 have those?
10.4 supports the Classic environment on PPC Macs, but not on Intel Macs.
Thanks!
Terminal in Mac OS 10.4 under File has an Open choice where ssh and sft servers can be saved after being created in Connect to Server. I just discovered that OS 10.5 doesn't have that option, and you choose a server in a menu in Connect to Server. In setting up servers in that menu I made some mistakes, but these were saved too. I'd like to delete them. How can I do this? I did notice that the most recently used server goes to the top of the list, so bad ones eventually settle to the bottom, but there must be some way to remove those bad ones.
Well, here's another OS X question: In Alpine on Grex I would like to select a URL viewer. In Setup there one may make a choice but entering the path to a viewer after URL-Viewers = ..... How do I write the path to a particular viewer application in Mac OS X?
Or can that only be done if I'm running Alpine ON the Mac? Here's a puzzle I encountered on a MacBook running OS 10.5: I was using Terminal to connect to a UM server and copying URLs from messages in Pine to paste to Firefox. I was going between Terminal and Firefox in the Dock. At some point in going back and forth I noticed that the Terminal icon in the Dock was showing the name Firefox, but it was bringing up Terminal, so I didn't think much of it at the time. However after the computer had been shut down and restarted, Terminal had disappeared from the Dock - and, apparently, from the computer! Find found nothing called Terminal. This seemed strange so I ran Disk Utility (everything was OK) and thought I would have to reinstall Terminal. But in the middle of the night it came to me that perhaps Terminal had gotten renamed and, sure enough, in the morning I found it in the Utilities folder but with the name Firefox! Renaming was easy and things were back to normal. How did Termenal get renamed Firefox while I was swiching between the two applications? ?
Any Mac OSX users around here. Questions don't get answers. Trying again anyway, since the Adobe online support system is useless unless one has a support contract. I created a bunch of PFD of images in a HP scanner. Adobe Acrobat 9 will open them, but Adobe Reader 9 will not. Or rather, it opens them as a solid gray page. The PDFs created by the scanner are in PDF ver. 6.x, so I tried using the Optimizer in Acrobat to make one "compatible" with Acrobat 9, but this did not help the Reader to open the PDF. Suggestions?
Sure is lonesome around here.... But I found the solution....Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader are incompatible. If I want Acrobat available for its editing and other functions, Reader must not be installed. Adobe doesn't tell you this anywhere, as far as I could find. They could even build an automatic warning in the software to tell you if both are installed....but no. I got conirmation of this by a long google search with a variety of search terms.
Wow, that is silly about reader/acrobat... No pretty quiet around here. It's not like the old days. Got a real strange look from someone the other day while wearing my grex shirt. I had to explain that there was a time before IM.
I ran the Sophos 7.0.5 Anit-Virus scan on my OS 10.4.11 laptop and received the following errors: New volume detected at / Error: corrupt file at: /Applications/Parallels Desktop.app. Error: threat detection engine found an unrecognised file format at: /Applications/Stuffit Install/StuffItStandard2009.dmg. Error: corrupt file at: /Applications/MacLinkPlus Deluxe.app/Contents/MacOSClassic/MacLinkPlus Modules. Error: corrupt file at: /Users/ranecurl/Documents/Parallels/Windows Vista.pvm. Error: corrupt file at: /Applications/Papers.app. Can anyone tell me what "corrupt" means in this regard? I do have Windows Vista, which can run under Parallels, installed. This might be seen as a corrupt Mac file (?). The other stuff is all OSX.
Sounds like reboot and run the file system check tools.
I had not run "fix permissions" first in Disk FirstAid. Next time I will do that before running the virus check. But, what might the scan consider as "corrupt"? That was my question.
I've been backing up a MacBook on a wired LAN with Mac G4 using Retrospect. I've done this several times, but suddenly I get a "client not visible on network" dialog. I get this with the MacBook connected to the LAN ethernet hub with different cables. I've run the Disk Utility on the MacBook - and the MacBook firmware has also been updated. The MacBook will print to a printer on the LAN. I also cannot conect directly to the MacBook from the G4 anymore, as I could before to share files (the connection attempt times out). What should I look for to fix this?
How are your IPs assigned? Static or DHCP? From command prompt you can try to find the hardware address of each machine. In Linux the command is /sbin/ifconfig. Probably the same for you. If the IPs are similar except for the ending part try to ping A from B and B from A. You may be able to determine something with the 'arp' command after the ping. If there is physical connectivity between the machines and the IPs are correct there will be an arp entry. If there is a problem like a deaf or mute card/cable/port, then you will likely end up with a blank or incomplete arp entry for one of the directions.
DHCP. Thanks for the suggestions.
I took the MacBook to the Apple Genius Bar at Briarwood and they (eventually!) found out that its firewall had been turned on. Neither my wife or I intentionally turned it on, but sometimes when new virus software downloads there is a dialog about security. One of us may have hit the wrong button. However this only allowed me to make a file sharing connection to the MacBook from the G4. Retrospect would still not make a connection. Therefore I uninstalled Retrospect (and its client on the MacBook) and installed an upgrade. SUCCESS. I think what happened that at some time in the past, perhaps with a firmware upgrade on the MacBook, the Retrospect client on the MacBook was made inoperative. So all is sunshine again....except the CD drive on the G4 doesn't work anymore. Sigh.
New question: We have a CD-ROM that we would like to copy on the MacBook. It is protected in some fashion. The original opens a video menu after the CD is inserted and one can view an assortment of videos. We burned a copy of the CD but the copy does not open to the menu, though it appears to have exactly the same files (unless it has hidden files). How can we hack our way past the copy protection? I can open any of the files on the disc in Terminal for editing (which will show hidden files), but I don't know what I should look for.
Problem solved. I discovered the "DVD Ripper". That's after I looked up the file extensions - .VOB, .IFO and .BUP - to see what they are. This led me to discover that I have iMOVIE and iDVD on this computer: undiscovered (or at least unvisited) worlds...
How can I print to a printer on ethernet from OS X Terminal? lpstat or lpq don't find any printers on the network. I get an "Unable to connect to server" error.
You have several choices: