From 4.oiseaux at wanadoo.fr Thu Nov 22 09:58:34 2007 From: 4.oiseaux at wanadoo.fr (Keith Mills) Date: Thu Nov 22 09:59:09 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Bcc Message-ID: Good evening everybody. As usual I am looking for advice. I run a small charity helping needy children in Uganda. From time to time, I need to send out newsletters, information, "begging letters" and even Christmas greetings to our supporters. I am acutely aware that it would be wrong to put all the recipients contact details in the "Cc" field. So far, to avoid that, I have patiently sent out individual emails. It takes time, and as our mailing list grows as we become better known, it takes considerable time. I understand that I should be able to overcome this problem by using a "Bcc" field. It would ease my burden considerably. But .... I can find no way of using this facility with Mail. Am I missing something? Thanks in advance Keith Mills From mliii at earthlink.net Thu Nov 22 10:06:30 2007 From: mliii at earthlink.net (Mike) Date: Thu Nov 22 10:06:42 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Bcc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Keith, To include the bcc field in a new message window, click the Customize Header pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the address area of the window and select Bcc Address Field. It's not nearly as intuitive as it should be! On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Keith Mills wrote: > Good evening everybody. As usual I am looking for advice. > > I run a small charity helping needy children in Uganda. From time > to time, I need to send out newsletters, information, "begging > letters" and even Christmas greetings to our supporters. I am > acutely aware that it would be wrong to put all the recipients > contact details in the "Cc" field. So far, to avoid that, I have > patiently sent out individual emails. It takes time, and as our > mailing list grows as we become better known, it takes considerable > time. > > I understand that I should be able to overcome this problem by > using a "Bcc" field. It would ease my burden considerably. But .... > I can find no way of using this facility with Mail. Am I missing > something? > > Thanks in advance > Keith Mills > > > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies From 4.oiseaux at wanadoo.fr Thu Nov 22 11:34:11 2007 From: 4.oiseaux at wanadoo.fr (Keith Mills) Date: Thu Nov 22 11:34:49 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Bcc In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8a3ba487157cb6021454927c8baf89d9@wanadoo.fr> Thanks Mike Why couldn't I sort that out for myself. It's easy isn't? That is exactly why I need helpful people like you. Keith On 22 nov. 07, at 19:06, Mike wrote: > Hi Keith, > To include the bcc field in a new message window, click the Customize > Header pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the address area of the > window and select Bcc Address Field. It's not nearly as intuitive as > it should be! > On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Keith Mills wrote: > >> Good evening everybody. As usual I am looking for advice. >> >> I run a small charity helping needy children in Uganda. From time to >> time, I need to send out newsletters, information, "begging letters" >> and even Christmas greetings to our supporters. I am acutely aware >> that it would be wrong to put all the recipients contact details in >> the "Cc" field. So far, to avoid that, I have patiently sent out >> individual emails. It takes time, and as our mailing list grows as we >> become better known, it takes considerable time. >> >> I understand that I should be able to overcome this problem by using >> a "Bcc" field. It would ease my burden considerably. But .... I can >> find no way of using this facility with Mail. Am I missing something? >> >> Thanks in advance >> Keith Mills >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> X-Newbies mailing list >> X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > From markwt at mac.com Fri Nov 23 09:19:05 2007 From: markwt at mac.com (Mark Taintor) Date: Fri Nov 23 09:19:21 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Upgrading to Tiger (finally!) In-Reply-To: <8a3ba487157cb6021454927c8baf89d9@wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: <314FACBA-99E8-11DC-9427-00039348F756@mac.com> I'm finally upgrading my G4/533 to Tiger and have several questions before I do: 1. I don't have a DVD drive so I'm going to use my son's Macbook to help install. I'm confused though about the Target Disk mode. When I connect the two computers, which one should be started up in Target Disk mode - the G4 or the Macbook? Should they be connected while both shut down? Should one of them be started up before the other one? Any good online guides for this? 2. Although I know it's probably best to wipe the drive and do a clean install, I'd prefer not to do that. When I upgraded from 10.1 to 10.2, I believe I did an "Archive and Install". Any problems doing that with this upgrade? I do have a fresh backup in case anything goes wrong and have just run DiskWarrior so my current system should be in good shape. Thanks in advance for any help with this. And happy Thanksgiving to all the US folks on the list. Mark Taintor Chanhassen, MN USA From r.ramsowr at sbcglobal.net Fri Nov 23 09:36:22 2007 From: r.ramsowr at sbcglobal.net (Rick Ramsowr) Date: Fri Nov 23 09:36:34 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Bcc In-Reply-To: <8a3ba487157cb6021454927c8baf89d9@wanadoo.fr> References: <8a3ba487157cb6021454927c8baf89d9@wanadoo.fr> Message-ID: Your going to enjoy Tiger... have fun Rich Houston >>>>>>>>> On Nov 22, 2007, at 1:34 PM, Keith Mills wrote: Thanks Mike Why couldn't I sort that out for myself. It's easy isn't? That is exactly why I need helpful people like you. Keith On 22 nov. 07, at 19:06, Mike wrote: > Hi Keith, > To include the bcc field in a new message window, click the > Customize Header pop-up menu in the lower-left corner of the > address area of the window and select Bcc Address Field. It's not > nearly as intuitive as it should be! > On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:58 AM, Keith Mills wrote: > >> Good evening everybody. As usual I am looking for advice. >> >> I run a small charity helping needy children in Uganda. From time >> to time, I need to send out newsletters, information, "begging >> letters" and even Christmas greetings to our supporters. I am >> acutely aware that it would be wrong to put all the recipients >> contact details in the "Cc" field. So far, to avoid that, I have >> patiently sent out individual emails. It takes time, and as our >> mailing list grows as we become better known, it takes >> considerable time. >> >> I understand that I should be able to overcome this problem by >> using a "Bcc" field. It would ease my burden considerably. >> But .... I can find no way of using this facility with Mail. Am I >> missing something? >> >> Thanks in advance >> Keith Mills >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> X-Newbies mailing list >> X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >> http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > _______________________________________________ X-Newbies mailing list X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies From carolwm at netins.net Fri Nov 23 09:56:31 2007 From: carolwm at netins.net (Carol Weber Mckee) Date: Fri Nov 23 09:56:48 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2 Message-ID: <2ba08b65c3453400b601ec7620fbfcbc@netins.net> I have USB 1.2 If I buy a USB 2.0 portable storage device, will it work? I have a 700 MHz eMac running OSX 10.3.9. Thanks. Carol From caraloca at gmail.com Fri Nov 23 10:02:12 2007 From: caraloca at gmail.com (yoyo) Date: Fri Nov 23 10:02:17 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2 In-Reply-To: <2ba08b65c3453400b601ec7620fbfcbc@netins.net> References: <2ba08b65c3453400b601ec7620fbfcbc@netins.net> Message-ID: Yes but at the speed of the usb.2.0. to run it at better speed you should buy a usb 2.0 pci card then your portable will run fast. ======================= On Nov 23, 2007 11:56 AM, Carol Weber Mckee wrote: > I have USB 1.2 If I buy a USB 2.0 portable storage device, will it > work? > I have a 700 MHz eMac running OSX 10.3.9. > Thanks. > Carol > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > From chasm at mac.com Fri Nov 23 10:20:19 2007 From: chasm at mac.com (Charles Martin) Date: Fri Nov 23 10:20:32 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Re: Upgrading to Tiger (finally!) In-Reply-To: <20071123171920.E6F431EFF783@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20071123171920.E6F431EFF783@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: > From: Mark Taintor > > I'm finally upgrading my G4/533 to Tiger and have several questions > before I do: > 1. I don't have a DVD drive > > 2. Although I know it's probably best to wipe the drive and do a clean > install, I'd prefer not to do that. Mark: My advice to you would be "stop." You're really opening yourself up for a lot of unnecessary trouble by taking the more complicated path here. Save yourself a lot of time, frustration and effort and do the following: 1. Call Apple (or check your favourite Apple-authorised online merchant) and order the CD version of Tiger. Better yet, investigate buying an external firewire DVD drive (they're CHEAP these days!). Trying to install Tiger remotely via Target Mode is at best overcomplicated and at worst disastrous route. 2. While there's no need to wipe the drive clean (an "archive and install" as you have planned will probably be fine), I **would** strongly suggest the following routine: a. Repair permissions (and run Disk Warrior if you have it). b. Use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to make a complete bootable clone to an external HD. c. Test the clone by booting from it. d. Once you're sure you have a complete clone, ERASE the original HD. e. Booting from the cloned drive, use SD or CCC to copy BACK to the original HD. This has the effect of doing a massive defraging and re- check of all the sectors of the HD. This is, as Martha Stewart might say, a "Good Thing." f. Test the "refreshed" original HD by booting from it. g. NOW insert the CD version of Tiger or boot from your new DVD drive and proceed with the archive & install of Tiger. h. When finished, repair permissions again. i. Live a happy long life in peace and harmony. :) The whole procedure above won't take as long as it looks, and will be much less prone to any headaches. Have fun and welcome to Tiger! PS. The speed of your machine suggests to me that this is probably the last upgrade you should do to this computer. It's time to start thinking about your next machine ... From cliver at mercuryin.es Fri Nov 23 14:59:27 2007 From: cliver at mercuryin.es (cliver) Date: Fri Nov 23 15:00:15 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Re: Upgrading to Tiger Message-ID: <200711232359.AA720175288@mercuryin.es> I would like to upgrade to a proved version of the latest system (assuming the launch version might have unresolved bugs) and have loads of external drive capacity. Trouble is, I cannot find the original CDs that came with the machine. Can I still upgrade? What options do I have Clive (in Spain) From alpoulin at cox.net Fri Nov 23 17:35:13 2007 From: alpoulin at cox.net (Al Poulin) Date: Fri Nov 23 17:35:39 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Re: Upgrading to Tiger In-Reply-To: <200711232359.AA720175288@mercuryin.es> References: <200711232359.AA720175288@mercuryin.es> Message-ID: Normally, you do not need to use the original CDs for the machine to upgrade to Tiger from Jaguar (10.2) or Panther (10.3). I do not know about using the "Upgrade" option from the earlier versions of OS X. I recommend you do a bit of reading at Apple's web site about installing Tiger. Basically there are three options, Upgrade, Archive and Install, and Erase and Install. "Upgrade" is the easiest but the riskiest if you have possible issues in the old system, some third party software that is not up to standards, so many experts recommend not to use it. Archive and Install will put your old "System" aside and give you a completely new System that is Tiger. Then you can pick and choose parts of the old system such as settings drag over to the new system. Erase and Install completely wipes out the contents of your hard drive. With the first two options, you should back up any of your data files that you do not want to lose, just in case. With the third options, you must back up to pull back your data after erasing and installing. Your Tiger media will usually be a DVD, not a set of CDs. So your optical drive must be able to read DVDs or you have to find the CD version somewhere. After using the media installer, you may need to download the latest "combo" update for Tiger to get you to the latest version, now 10.4.11. Hope this helps, Al Poulin On Nov 23, 2007, at 5:59 PM, cliver wrote: > > I would like to upgrade to a proved version of the latest system > (assuming the launch version might have unresolved bugs) and have > loads of external drive capacity. > > Trouble is, I cannot find the original CDs that came with the machine. > > Can I still upgrade? > > What options do I have > > Clive (in Spain) > > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > From list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net Fri Nov 23 22:10:52 2007 From: list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net (Eugene) Date: Fri Nov 23 22:11:01 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2 In-Reply-To: <2ba08b65c3453400b601ec7620fbfcbc@netins.net> References: <2ba08b65c3453400b601ec7620fbfcbc@netins.net> Message-ID: <20071124061052.GB213@Macintosh.local> On Fri, Nov 23, 2007 at 11:56:31AM CST, Carol Weber Mckee wrote: > > I have USB 1.2 If I buy a USB 2.0 portable storage device, will it work? > I have a 700 MHz eMac running OSX 10.3.9. Your portable storage device will work, but only at USB 1.1 Full Speed (i.e. 1.5 MB/s) because your eMac has USB 1.1 ports. Unless you can add USB 2.0 onto your eMac, you cannot run your portable storage device at USB 2.0 High Speed (40 MB/s). -- Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ From web2005 at messyoptics.com Fri Nov 23 23:14:15 2007 From: web2005 at messyoptics.com (Carter Tomassi) Date: Fri Nov 23 23:14:25 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Switching drives In-Reply-To: <20071124061052.GB213@Macintosh.local> References: <2ba08b65c3453400b601ec7620fbfcbc@netins.net> <20071124061052.GB213@Macintosh.local> Message-ID: My G5 tower is running its original 160GB + a 300GB drive in the 2nd bay. The 300 is partitioned to hold a clone of the main drive + extra files in the 2nd partition. Cloning is done regularily with SuperDuper. Today I ordered a 750GB drive. My plan is to switch out the 160 for the 300, use the clone as the system drive, and install the 750 as drive #2. I am still running 10.4.10. Should I anticipate any problems with this procedure? Many thanks, Carter From psimpson_1 at msn.com Tue Nov 27 12:49:39 2007 From: psimpson_1 at msn.com (Paul Simpson) Date: Tue Nov 27 12:49:51 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard Drive Backup Questions Message-ID: I just inherited a 400mhz Power PC G3 with a MAC OS X Panther Ver 10.3.9 Operating System and want to back it up to a Seagate External Hard Drive which is Mac compatable. I erased the External Hard Drive which was NTFS formated as directed and am trying to reformat using the MAC. I'm given 2 format options and don't know which to choose - MAC OS Extended (Journaled) OR MAC OS Extended. My questions are: (1) Which format to chose?, and (2) What software should I use to backup the following data folders - music, pictures, favorites, and contacts? Any help will be appreciated. Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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MAC OS Extended (Journaled) OR MAC OS Extended. > > > > My questions are: (1) Which format to chose?, and (2) What software > should I use to backup the following data folders ? music, > pictures, favorites, and contacts? > > > > Any help will be appreciated. > > > > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/x-newbies/attachments/20071127/458ecb6c/attachment.html From chasm at mac.com Tue Nov 27 13:11:19 2007 From: chasm at mac.com (Charles Martin) Date: Tue Nov 27 13:11:45 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Re: USB 1.2 and 2 In-Reply-To: <20071127204955.69C311F95348@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20071127204955.69C311F95348@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: <16DC36EB-D540-4BB5-9921-2786A6CECA4F@mac.com> > From: yoyo > > Yes but at the speed of the usb.2.0. > to run it at better speed you should buy a usb 2.0 pci card then your > portable will run fast. With respect, this is bad advice. First off, Carol's USB2 device will NOT run at USB2 speed on her emac. The correct answer was "it will run, but at the dramatically slower USB1 speed." Secondly, there is no place in an eMac (which is a self-contained unit) for any PCI cards, so she cannot retrofit USB2 onto her eMac in any way, shape or form. Carol didn't specify exactly what sort of "portable storage device" she was going to use, but I would say that if she means a hard drive, the slower USB1 speed *might* be acceptable, but it would be a much better idea to spend a few extra bucks and get a Firewire drive instead. it will operate at full speed on her machine. If she means a "flash drive" or something similar, I'm not sure the difference in speed will be that much of an issue and that she can proceed with her plan. Cheers Chas From chasm at mac.com Tue Nov 27 13:16:20 2007 From: chasm at mac.com (Charles Martin) Date: Tue Nov 27 13:16:43 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Re: Hard Drive Backup Questions In-Reply-To: <20071127204955.69C311F95348@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20071127204955.69C311F95348@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: > From: "Paul Simpson" > My questions are: (1) Which format to chose?, and (2) What software > should I > use to backup the following data folders - music, pictures, > favorites, and > contacts? 1. It doesn't actually matter, but Journaled is probably better. 2. You can drag your entire User folder (which contains all of the folders you mentioned) over to another drive manually for backing up, but I prefer a product like SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to do a "clone" -- a complete and bootable copy of absolutely everything on the original drive to the new one. There is also a fine product called ChronoSync ($30, free 30-day tryout) from Econ Technologies that I use to keep individual folders on different drives or machines in sync. ChronoSync is available here: http://www.econtechnologies.com Cheers Chas From alpoulin at cox.net Tue Nov 27 13:47:01 2007 From: alpoulin at cox.net (Al Poulin) Date: Tue Nov 27 13:47:11 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard Drive Backup Questions In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <0d51eaf502b01cc7f6ef24d17af5d886@cox.net> On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Paul Simpson wrote: > I just inherited a 400mhz Power PC G3 with a MAC OS X Panther Ver > 10.3.9 Operating System and want to back it up to a Seagate External > Hard Drive which is Mac compatable. I erased the External Hard Drive > which was NTFS formated as directed and am trying to reformat using > the MAC. I?m given 2 format options and don?t know which to choose ? > MAC OS Extended (Journaled) OR MAC OS Extended. > ? > My questions are: (1) Which format to chose?, and (2) What software > should I use to backup the following data folders ? music, pictures, > favorites, and contacts? Hello Paul: Keeping things as simple as possible, you could just drag/copy your selected files to the external drive. For this it does not matter which format you use. If you keep all your data in the Documents Folder, I would drag/copy that in one hunk. But you need to know that you have no application which keeps its data within its own folder. Assuming that your G3 has its original, relatively small hard drive, by today's standards, and that your external drive hooks up via Firewire and is of generous size, I recommend you aim to make it a bootable drive. That is you would be able to start up your machine from the external drive, handy when you old, internal one breaks. For this, it is best to use the Journaled option which keeps track of your most recent changes in case of power out or other failure. Also, this means using either Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) which is free for a donation, or SuperDuper which has a nominal cost. Either one gives excellent service, but some people consider that SuperDuper is easier to use and more flexible in its features. Once you've set up your external drive this way and you can start up from it and work your data as usual, that gives you an excellent opportunity to give your internal drive some fresh legs with a reformat of its own, journaled, or course. Then you can use your back up software to load it from your external drive with your system and data. This process identifies and bypasses bad spots that inevitably develop on hard drive platters. Al Poulin From tjm at pobox.com Tue Nov 27 14:15:25 2007 From: tjm at pobox.com (Thomas McDermott Jr) Date: Tue Nov 27 14:15:28 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard Drive Backup Questions In-Reply-To: <0d51eaf502b01cc7f6ef24d17af5d886@cox.net> References: <0d51eaf502b01cc7f6ef24d17af5d886@cox.net> Message-ID: <474C96FD.8040003@pobox.com> Good evening, Just curious about creating backups as mentioned below. If I "clone" my macbook drive onto an external drive will it preserve my Itunes playlists and ratings or would those have to be recreated? Thanks Tom Al Poulin wrote: > > Hello Paul: > > Keeping things as simple as possible, you could just drag/copy your > selected files to the external drive. For this it does not matter > which format you use. If you keep all your data in the Documents > Folder, I would drag/copy that in one hunk. But you need to know that > you have no application which keeps its data within its own folder. > > Assuming that your G3 has its original, relatively small hard drive, > by today's standards, and that your external drive hooks up via > Firewire and is of generous size, I recommend you aim to make it a > bootable drive. That is you would be able to start up your machine > from the external drive, handy when you old, internal one breaks. For > this, it is best to use the Journaled option which keeps track of your > most recent changes in case of power out or other failure. Also, this > means using either Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) which is free for a > donation, or SuperDuper which has a nominal cost. Either one gives > excellent service, but some people consider that SuperDuper is easier > to use and more flexible in its features. Once you've set up your > external drive this way and you can start up from it and work your > data as usual, that gives you an excellent opportunity to give your > internal drive some fresh legs with a reformat of its own, journaled, > or course. Then you can use your back up software to load it from > your external drive with your system and data. This process > identifies and bypasses bad spots that inevitably develop on hard > drive platters. > > Al Poulin > > > > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > From carolwm at netins.net Tue Nov 27 16:29:55 2007 From: carolwm at netins.net (Carol Weber Mckee) Date: Tue Nov 27 16:36:20 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2.0 In-Reply-To: <20071127204955.40D8C1F95347@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> References: <20071127204955.40D8C1F95347@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: From: Eugene Subject: Re: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2 Your portable storage device will work, but only at USB 1.1 Full Speed (i.e. 1.5 MB/s) because your eMac has USB 1.1 ports. Unless you can add USB 2.0 onto your eMac, you cannot run your portable storage device at USB 2.0 High Speed (40 MB/s). Eugene http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- How do I add USB 2.0? Carol From gibsonm at bigpond.net.au Tue Nov 27 16:41:26 2007 From: gibsonm at bigpond.net.au (Mark Gibson) Date: Tue Nov 27 16:47:44 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20071127204955.40D8C1F95347@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: At 18:29 -0600 27/11/07, Carol Weber Mckee wrote: >From: Eugene >Subject: Re: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2 >Your portable storage device will work, but only at >USB 1.1 Full Speed (i.e. 1.5 MB/s) because your eMac >has USB 1.1 ports. Unless you can add USB 2.0 onto >your eMac, you cannot run your portable storage device >at USB 2.0 High Speed (40 MB/s). >Eugene >http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------- >How do I add USB 2.0? >Carol > >_______________________________________________ >X-Newbies mailing list >X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com >http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies Carol, Well if you have a machine with a separate monitor (like say a G3, G4 or G5) then you need to buy a USB 2.0 card and install it. If you have an "all in one" machine (iBook, PowerBook, eMac, iMac, etc.) then you can't without upgrading to a new machine that will come with USB 2.0 built in. -- Regards, Mark (}-: +61 (0)4 1927 7198 Skype / AIM / iChat: gibsonm1 Life's short - use a Mac. -- Unknown From desaeger at hcri.com Tue Nov 27 16:48:40 2007 From: desaeger at hcri.com (Robert De Saeger) Date: Tue Nov 27 16:52:29 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20071127204955.40D8C1F95347@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: you can't sadly to say robert On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:29 PM, Carol Weber Mckee wrote: > From: Eugene > Subject: Re: [X-Newbies] USB 1.2 and 2 > Your portable storage device will work, but only at > USB 1.1 Full Speed (i.e. 1.5 MB/s) because your eMac > has USB 1.1 ports. Unless you can add USB 2.0 onto > your eMac, you cannot run your portable storage device > at USB 2.0 High Speed (40 MB/s). > Eugene > http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > How do I add USB 2.0? > Carol > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies > From alpoulin at cox.net Tue Nov 27 18:10:57 2007 From: alpoulin at cox.net (Al Poulin) Date: Tue Nov 27 19:01:25 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Re: Hard Drive Backup Questions In-Reply-To: References: <20071127204955.69C311F95348@listserver.themacintoshguy.com> Message-ID: On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:16 PM, Charles Martin wrote: >> From: "Paul Simpson" > >> My questions are: (1) Which format to chose?, and (2) What software >> should I >> use to backup the following data folders - music, pictures, >> favorites, and >> contacts? > > 1. It doesn't actually matter, but Journaled is probably better. > 2. You can drag your entire User folder (which contains all of the > folders you mentioned) over to another drive manually for backing up, Yes, the User folder is what I should have stated earlier instead of just the Documents folder. Thanks, Chas. Al Poulin From randy at macattorney.com Tue Nov 27 18:15:17 2007 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Tue Nov 27 19:12:27 2007 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard Drive Backup Questions In-Reply-To: <474C96FD.8040003@pobox.com> References: <0d51eaf502b01cc7f6ef24d17af5d886@cox.net> <474C96FD.8040003@pobox.com> Message-ID: <09607B21-E050-4BB8-A47D-A6419F3DDA35@macattorney.com> On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:15 PM, Thomas McDermott Jr wrote: > Just curious about creating backups as mentioned below. If I > "clone" my macbook drive onto an external drive will it preserve my > Itunes playlists and ratings or would those have to be recreated? Ideally, if you use good cloning software, your clone will (just as it sounds) be identical to the original in every way. There is some controversy about the importance of metadata and if a clone that has not preserved metadata is a good clone. See: http://blog.plasticsfuture.org/2006/04/23/mac-backup-software-harmful/ That article is now somewhat out of date. SuperDuper! is now not the only cloning program that preserves metadata. I know that since that article was written, Prosoft's Data Backup 3 now preserves metadata. There is an all-new version of Carbon Copy Cloner, that does "block- level disk-to-disk clones" and reportedly it preserves all metadata. ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html ___________________________________________