Path Finder

This would be a great first step. I have seen way too many 'minimum memory' Macs with issues similar to yours. Adding more memory will allow the system to be more stable, and some of these issues will fade away. I won't try to convince you that everything will be perfect simply by adding memory, but I think you will find these incidents may happen much less often. This can...

I'm running the latest update to Mac OS X Tiger on my powerbook and Dual Mac G5. I've downloaded rsyncx from VersionTracker to backup both systems to a folder share. The folder share is exposed from a XServe running Panther server. I mounted the folder share using the "Connect to server" dialog in Finder (cifs://username@xserve/sharename/). The command line I'm using...

There might come a day when the Finder ain't Carbon any longer. ...

so I look over and no icon for the share, minimized windows, not stuck in some odd spot on desktop, open finder ... not listed. ...

for those looking to customize SpotLight, here are some good tips: Now we can talk about how search results are presented. In the Spotlight menu, and also in the Spotlight window when results are grouped by kind, results are clumped into categories. What categories are shown, and in what order, is determined by your settings in the Spotlight system preferences, in the...

the Finder insists the mountpoints are aliases. ...

it's 3am time to bitch! :-D BUGS ---- Spotlight : Kind -> Others -> type dropdown typing in a word will autoscroll dropdown to matched listings. you can also use the mouse to click and navigate. both ways spurattically scroll back to the top though, regardless of what you're doing. Mounted volumes : When switching to another user without logging out (with...

I upgraded my 1.5 GHz G4 Powerbook (slot loading drive) to tiger last night. Everything seems to work, but I cannot eject the DVD. I have tried the following things: 1. Drag icon to trash/ eject from finder. Results in icon dissapearing but volume still exists under /Volumes 2. Open iTunes and use eject button there. Same result as above with the addition of a...

the G4 era had both CPUs on the same memory bus. So each CPU is only getting about half the bandwidth. With the G5 things get better, each CPU has an independent path to system memory, so whatever the memory bus speed is, those CPUs get it at full speed. ...

Is kernal task macOS? i mean is that the actual operating system? is there anyway (hacks or other) to strip it down a bit? its usually the memory hog. i've also found out that command+shitft+g is path in finder :D