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lbhammond at comcast.net lbhammond at comcast.net
Sun Mar 5 19:38:24 PST 2006


Jay-
Thank you.  but I am addicted to iphoto integration w/mail.  Also, i automatically open into mail when responding to many links and listings.  Ideas?
Lisa

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Lisa b.Hammond
Production Design & Styling
206.579.4550

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Jay Reiter <jayphotos at tcq.net>
> Lisa - I had very similar issues with mail on my G4iBook running Tiger - 
> and the same report from Apple techs - I downloaded Thunderbird from 
> Mozilla and have been in mail heaven ever since.
> 
> lbhammond at comcast.net wrote:
> > Hello.
> > my G4iBook/os10.3.3 began keyboard symptoms while in the mail program last 
> > 10/05.
> > These were first: no response to the "reply","reply all" both in the mail 
> window  
> > and in the main mail tool bar.  "forward" and others seemed ok.
> > Then the keyboard started to not respond to "delete", then typing would 
> decrease 
> > and finally not accept more that one letter to a line. Ultimately, the 
> "send"key 
> > won't respond. Ultimately, the keyboard symptoms migrate into "apple works and 
> > text-edit".
> > I have had the apple store people do software repairs and hardware checks and 
> > clean reinstalls and archive installs and  then
> >  give me a brand new G4 iBook with os 10.4 and all the updates. and then the 
> > symptoms reappeared on the new machine that night!?. 
> > and the apple store people went thru it all again but tried different things, 
> > including trashing and rebuilding the mail plist and tried trashing my 
> > administrator accounts and rebuilding and trying with their personal accounts 
> in 
> > my programs, andever kind of custom reinstall for mail.....and everything they 
> > could think of.
> >  At least twice during all of these attempts, apple used their hardrives to 
> > backup my info: one of these times they unknowingly used a corrupt hard drive! 
> > The other times they used my backup for the data transfer.
> >   The software and applications I have and use are not advanced: iphoto, 
> itunes, 
> > mail, epson perifreals, palm handheld, adobe photoshop elements.
> >
> > The things I have tried to keep saved to my desktop are: my desk top text 
> files 
> > and the updated Quicken 14.0.2 data files.
> >
> > I cannot give you an exact play by play nor have I been given every repair 
> > report as apple did not generate a customer copy each time.
> >
> > I currently cannot use my mail program. I was told at the apple store, that 
> now 
> > they don't know what it could be and that I will have to send it to cupertino 
> > for repair. 
> > I don't know what to do.
> > Please help me.--
> > Lisa b.Hammond
> > Production Design & Styling
> > 206.579.4550
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