Tidy Up Mac

startup was incredibly slow and sometimes the finder would keep relaunching itself on its own once the operating system was up and running. Also, when i tried safe boot, the login window would appear and then it would flick to a black screen. ...

startup was incredibly slow and sometimes the finder would keep relaunching itself on its own once the operating system was up and running. Also, when i tried safe boot, the login window would appear and then it would flick to a black screen. ...

Hi everyone, Hoping someone can help me. I have 2 macs - a powerbook g4 and a 20inch new thing with the intel core duo thing/ tiger ::ha:: My question is, when I took my powerbook to get fixed up a while ago I was told i had some software issues with access rights/permissions - and that applecare didnt cover it. My apple fixer man told me to download some utility which will...

This weekend I did a tidy up, and removed a lot of redundant equipment. This led me to change my network a little bit. ...

d Office, seems to have solved config problem, but not sure if we now have duplicates of some components. Have run Norton Utils, but not sure what to do to clean up everything. ...

Anyhow, I conceeded that a fresh install was my only option, so I bought a new external hard disk to back up my files and reinstall OSX. ...

You have a very tidy desk! ...

ID, just to tidy things up, but I'm wondering if I'm asking for trouble. ...

Wow. And I thought these people on this forum knew EVERYthing! ;) Seriously, thanks a lot for all the great information. However, I hardly ever keep/read old e-mails. Once I reply to them, I delete them. I'm very anal and like to keep a tidy e-mail inbox. LOL So, that's really the only reason why I was checking into Mail in the first place--I was thinking that I could inport...

I've been using a Unix script to back up my internal PowerBook drive to an external FireWire drive. ...