[X-Newbies] New HD weirdness? Mail problem too

[Al Poulin]

Sorry of the delay, but I hope this helps.

On Aug 12, 2006, at 1:24 AM, Mark Taintor wrote:

> I just installed a new hard drive in my G4/533/10.2.8. Don't know if 
> this makes any difference or not: the new drive is set to the slave 
> position, but I have it set to be the startup drive. I made a clone of 
> my original drive using Superduper. Everything seems to be fine, 
> except for the fact that when I click on an item in the dock to open a 
> new program, it opens with an additional icon down at the "far" end of 
> the dock and the little black triangle that's under open programs is 
> under the new additional icon rather than the original icon that 
> "permanently" resides in the dock. Any idea what's going on and how to 
> change it back?

True, it makes no difference that the new drive is set as slave.  I 
suspect that the Dock retains its original "aliases" from your original 
drive.  Try dragging the aliases out of the dock; they will go "poof."  
Then drag the corresponding applications' icons to the dock.  Then 
things should behave.  You might test this with one alias/icon first.
>
> Now for the Mail issue: About a week ago (before installing the new 
> hard drive) my darling 16 year old daughter decided it would be good 
> to put a bunch of her CD's onto the computer so she could play them in 
> iTunes. At the time I only had about 3 gig's of free space left on my 
> 40 GB hard drive. She came to me and said: "Dad, the computer says 
> that it's out of space. What should I do?" I deleted the new music and 
> restarted the computer. Everything seemed OK except that since then, 
> the action of the junk mail folder has changed. It used to be that 
> after I quit Mail, anything that was in the junk mail folder was 
> automatically deleted. Now, the junk mail stays in the folder until I 
> delete it myself. Is there a setting somewhere that will put it back 
> to the "Delete after quitting" status? I've checked the rules for what 
> to do with junk mail, but I don't see a setting for doing what it used 
> to do. Any help for this problem?

In Mail Preferences, open the Accounts pane, then select Special 
Mailboxes, and reset the instructions for Junk.

Al Poulin
Anger, hate, and revenge are for the devil, forgiveness is for God, 
proactive self-defense is for the rest of us.