From markwt at mac.com Mon Jul 21 13:27:19 2008 From: markwt at mac.com (Mark Taintor) Date: Mon Jul 21 21:14:52 2008 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard drive recommendation? In-Reply-To: <02F11609-FEEE-439F-BD66-FADE9641FAEE@analogdigital.com.au> Message-ID: <6A791DC3-5763-11DD-BF6A-00039348F756@mac.com> I'm looking to buy backup hard drives for my 3 college age children who all have Mac laptops. Any recommendations for good drives for them? I'm thinking in the 160 - 200 GB range. Thanks, Mark From randy at macattorney.com Mon Jul 21 22:56:00 2008 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Mon Jul 21 22:56:18 2008 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard drive recommendation? In-Reply-To: <6A791DC3-5763-11DD-BF6A-00039348F756@mac.com> References: <6A791DC3-5763-11DD-BF6A-00039348F756@mac.com> Message-ID: <2D9E22F3-5FC7-445E-A710-F6ECEAE3701E@macattorney.com> On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Mark Taintor wrote: > I'm looking to buy backup hard drives for my 3 college age children > who all have Mac laptops. Any recommendations for good drives for > them? I'm thinking in the 160 - 200 GB range. If you are good with a screwdriver and you are willing to put together your own external hard drive (which is so easy that I've known 80-year old grandmothers to do it), you can have a premium one for about $70 to $80. If you are interested, let me know and I'll recommend a case kit and a drive to put in it. ___________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________ From markwt at mac.com Tue Jul 22 00:35:45 2008 From: markwt at mac.com (Mark Taintor) Date: Tue Jul 22 00:35:59 2008 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard drive recommendation? In-Reply-To: <2D9E22F3-5FC7-445E-A710-F6ECEAE3701E@macattorney.com> Message-ID: Randy, I'm very interested in knowing about DIY solutions. Recommend away! Thanks, Mark On Tuesday, July 22, 2008, at 12:56 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Mark Taintor wrote: > >> I'm looking to buy backup hard drives for my 3 college age children >> who all have Mac laptops. Any recommendations for good drives for >> them? I'm thinking in the 160 - 200 GB range. > > If you are good with a screwdriver and you are willing to put together > your own external hard drive (which is so easy that I've known 80-year > old grandmothers to do it), you can have a premium one for about $70 > to $80. If you are interested, let me know and I'll recommend a case > kit and a drive to put in it. > > ___________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies From randy at macattorney.com Tue Jul 22 03:17:17 2008 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Tue Jul 22 03:18:26 2008 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard drive recommendation? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7D91C029-AE90-4959-B50D-B3437893766A@macattorney.com> On Jul 22, 2008, at 12:35 AM, Mark Taintor wrote: > I'm very interested in knowing about DIY solutions. Recommend away! Plumax PM-350F2-POB Black Firewire/USB 2.0 (Oxford 911) Hard Drive Case Kit External Enclosure for 3.5 Inch HDD, w/ Ball Bearing Fan & Anti-Shock $26 with $6 shipping http://www.dealsonic.com/plpmsicoslus.html SEAGATE - ST3200021A BARRACUDA 7200.7 $49.00 with free ground shipping 200GB IDE ULTRA ATA100 8MB CACHE 7200RPM 1 Year Warranty http://shop.adc-ast.com/cgi/display.cgi?item_num=ST3200021A So, for a total of $81 shipped, you can have an ultra-premium 200GB FireWire hard drive. Or, if you prefer something that is already put together: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/NPFW7250GB/ (But note that you don't know what brand drive is in this case.) ___________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________ From tom578 at rochester.rr.com Tue Jul 22 05:47:04 2008 From: tom578 at rochester.rr.com (Thomas J. Fobia) Date: Tue Jul 22 05:47:10 2008 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard drive recommendation?- Randy Singer In-Reply-To: <2D9E22F3-5FC7-445E-A710-F6ECEAE3701E@macattorney.com> References: <6A791DC3-5763-11DD-BF6A-00039348F756@mac.com> <2D9E22F3-5FC7-445E-A710-F6ECEAE3701E@macattorney.com> Message-ID: Hello Randy, Please add me to the list and send your recommended case kit and recommended drive. Have a G4 Laptop that quickly running out of space! Firewire or USB is fine! Thanks. Tom F. On Jul 22, 2008, at 1:56 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > > On Jul 21, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Mark Taintor wrote: > >> I'm looking to buy backup hard drives for my 3 college age children >> who all have Mac laptops. Any recommendations for good drives for >> them? I'm thinking in the 160 - 200 GB range. > > If you are good with a screwdriver and you are willing to put > together your own external hard drive (which is so easy that I've > known 80-year old grandmothers to do it), you can have a premium one > for about $70 to $80. If you are interested, let me know and I'll > recommend a case kit and a drive to put in it. > > ___________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies From randy at macattorney.com Tue Jul 22 20:53:40 2008 From: randy at macattorney.com (Randy B. Singer) Date: Tue Jul 22 20:54:00 2008 Subject: [X-Newbies] Hard drive recommendation?- Randy Singer In-Reply-To: References: <6A791DC3-5763-11DD-BF6A-00039348F756@mac.com> <2D9E22F3-5FC7-445E-A710-F6ECEAE3701E@macattorney.com> Message-ID: <5EC4BCAC-1264-45F5-A276-98E67490F25D@macattorney.com> On Jul 22, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Thomas J. Fobia wrote: > Please add me to the list and send your recommended case kit and > recommended drive. Have a G4 Laptop that quickly running out of > space! Firewire or USB is fine! Thanks. I posted the information to the list. If the specs of what I posted don't suit your needs, let me know and I can recommend something else. ___________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________ From themacintoshlady at earthlink.net Thu Jul 31 21:32:34 2008 From: themacintoshlady at earthlink.net (J) Date: Thu Jul 31 21:32:43 2008 Subject: [X-Newbies] How to unlock keychain that has never been locked? In-Reply-To: References: <51CD63AC-4636-11DD-8FA2-00039348F756@mac.com> <067ABA81-42E5-424D-9148-465FB69F1CE1@macattorney.com> <0489C4AB-64F4-4F7D-903A-5D640C7FA1DF@tampabay.rr.com> Message-ID: <1521FE92-95F6-4E91-9B9A-F7A349C04790@earthlink.net> Key Chain - driving me nuts. I have never 'locked' my key chain but I always check the box that asks me to remember passwords in it, for all my FTP stuff especially. Once in a while I have to go in and see a password I have forgotten. Press 'i' and 'show password' and bingo there it is. Suddenly it is now asking me for a password to do this, when I have never 'locked' my keychain! What password does it want? This is making me crazy. I have never locked it. How do I 'unlock' it? On Jul 1, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > > On Jun 30, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Pat Kane wrote: > >> I've been using my imac (2.4 GHZ, 4GB memory, 10.5.1) since Jan.2 . >> Around the middle of February, I installed Adobe CS3. I also had >> Painter X installed and about 300 photos in iphoto. In short, I >> didn't have too much on my new imac. >> So, middle of February, there's a prompt from Software Update, and >> I say "ok." My imac then tells me there's not enough room on my >> 750 GIG hard drive for the update. >> Do I make an appointment with the Genius Bar, or can I solve this >> on my own? I have no idea what has clogged up my imac, but it's >> telling me I now have less than 3GIG of disk space available. I >> must admit I've been putting this off because I love my imac, >> but ... I really would like to have things as they should be. >> Anyone ever run into this? > > Usually I only hear from someone with this problem two or three > times a year, but for some reason this is the third time this month > that I've heard from someone with this problem. > > Your Mac has filled up with something invisible that is out of > control, so logically it must be either a log, a cache, or an index > file. > > Generally it is one of the first two, but I've seen it also be a > corrupted Spotlight database. > > So lets start with the most likely culprits. > > The first thing to try is simply restarting your Mac. If that > doesn't help... > > Run Cache Out X to clear caches, and then MacJanitor to clear your > log files: > > Cache Out X (Free) > http://www.trilateralsystems.com/CacheOutX/ > > MacJanitor (Free) > http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html > > If these don't work, let me know, and I'll tell you how to delete > your Spotlight database and have it rebuild itself. > > > > ___________________________________________ > 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 > ___________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > X-Newbies mailing list > X-Newbies@listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x-newbies From maclist at analogdigital.com.au Thu Jul 31 22:46:57 2008 From: maclist at analogdigital.com.au (Christopher Collins) Date: Thu Jul 31 22:47:18 2008 Subject: [X-Newbies] How to unlock keychain that has never been locked? In-Reply-To: <1521FE92-95F6-4E91-9B9A-F7A349C04790@earthlink.net> References: <51CD63AC-4636-11DD-8FA2-00039348F756@mac.com> <067ABA81-42E5-424D-9148-465FB69F1CE1@macattorney.com> <0489C4AB-64F4-4F7D-903A-5D640C7FA1DF@tampabay.rr.com> <1521FE92-95F6-4E91-9B9A-F7A349C04790@earthlink.net> Message-ID: I think it relates to the password on your username that you use to login to your Mac. As in your Administrative password. cjc On 01/08/2008, at 2:32 PM, J wrote: > Key Chain - driving me nuts. > > I have never 'locked' my key chain but I always check the box that > asks me to remember passwords in it, for all my FTP stuff especially. > > Once in a while I have to go in and see a password I have forgotten. > Press 'i' and 'show password' and bingo there it is. > > > Suddenly it is now asking me for a password to do this, when I have > never 'locked' my keychain! > > What password does it want? This is making me crazy. I have never > locked it. How do I 'unlock' it? > > > On Jul 1, 2008, at 1:21 AM, Randy B. Singer wrote: > >> >> On Jun 30, 2008, at 5:11 PM, Pat Kane wrote: >> >>> I've been using my imac (2.4 GHZ, 4GB memory, 10.5.1) since Jan.2 . >>> Around the middle of February, I installed Adobe CS3. I also had >>> Painter X installed and about 300 photos in iphoto. In short, I >>> didn't have too much on my new imac. >>> So, middle of February, there's a prompt from Software Update, and >>> I say "ok." My imac then tells me there's not enough room on my >>> 750 GIG hard drive for the update. >>> Do I make an appointment with the Genius Bar, or can I solve this >>> on my own? I have no idea what has clogged up my imac, but it's >>> telling me I now have less than 3GIG of disk space available. I >>> must admit I've been putting this off because I love my imac, >>> but ... I really would like to have things as they should be. >>> Anyone ever run into this? >> >> Usually I only hear from someone with this problem two or three >> times a year, but for some reason this is the third time this month >> that I've heard from someone with this problem. >> >> Your Mac has filled up with something invisible that is out of >> control, so logically it must be either a log, a cache, or an index >> file. >> >> Generally it is one of the first two, but I've seen it also be a >> corrupted Spotlight database. >> >> So lets start with the most likely culprits. >> >> The first thing to try is simply restarting your Mac. If that >> doesn't help... >> >> Run Cache Out X to clear caches, and then MacJanitor to clear your >> log files: >> >> Cache Out X (Free) >> http://www.trilateralsystems.com/CacheOutX/ >> >> MacJanitor (Free) >> http://personalpages.tds.net/~brian_hill/macjanitor.html >> >> If these don't work, let me know, and I'll tell you how to delete >> your Spotlight database and have it rebuild itself. >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________ >> 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 >> ___________________________________________ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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