The OFFICIAL Mac User Support Thread

[jaguarr]

How much is Leopard, and will I need to reinstall all my applications after installing Leopard?

No, you won't need to reinstall your applications after installing Leopard. Cost depends on where you by it from:

http://www.google.com/products?q=ma...US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wf

jag

 

[Raiden]

Thanks for the info.

 

[Malice]

still waiting for jaguar to send me a mac....

 

[jaguarr]

still waiting for jaguar to send me a mac....

It'll be there any moment, now. Don't leave the house until it arrives!

jag

 

[Mrh7448]

External Hard Drive issue...I've tried to find this online but haven't had much luck I just find stuff about initializing.

I have an external Hard Drive that someone borrowed and tried to plug it into their PC. THe PC wouldn't read it and now when I plug it back into my Mac it comes up with the Dialogue box that it can't be read and needs to be intialized, ignore or eject.

It won't read on any of the Mac's at work and on the Intel one it the box and disc don't show up at all. I have a lot of info on this thing I need if possible.

Any Suggestions?

Also if you hit initialize, that doesn't automatically reformat does it? It opens up the disc utility and then you reformat from there...a lot of sites are unclear about this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

 

[jaguarr]

If you initialize your hard drive, it will reset the partition and therefore lose your data. Whoever borrowed your hard drive did something funky to it trying to get it to work. If they just plugged it in, saw they couldn't read it (because it was probably formatted in HFS+) and then unplugged it again, you wouldn't be having this issue. They may have tried to initialize or format it themselves, actually, or let Windows do something it shouldn't have done. Go buy a copy of a piece of software called Disk Warrior. It may be able to help you rescue your data. That's the best suggestion I've got for you.

jag

 

[Mrh7448]

If you initialize your hard drive, it will reset the partition and therefore lose your data. Whoever borrowed your hard drive did something funky to it trying to get it to work. If they just plugged it in, saw they couldn't read it (because it was probably formatted in HFS+) and then unplugged it again, you wouldn't be having this issue. They may have tried to initialize or format it themselves, actually, or let Windows do something it shouldn't have done. Go buy a copy of a piece of software called Disk Warrior. It may be able to help you rescue your data. That's the best suggestion I've got for you.

jag

Thanks for the help. Yeah I don't know what happened. He had downloaded the drivers and I don't know if windows did something or not. I ended up just reformatting. I don't think I lost as much as I thought, but it's still a pain.

 

[iambilly81]

so i want to be able to clear out my mac hard drive to the way it was right when i got it out of the box.

granted at page 55, im sure its been talked about before. can anyone help me out with this. ive been searching online but havent found anything that helps.


thanks in advance

 

[jaguarr]

so i want to be able to clear out my mac hard drive to the way it was right when i got it out of the box.

granted at page 55, im sure its been talked about before. can anyone help me out with this. ive been searching online but havent found anything that helps.


thanks in advance

I'm guessing you want to sell it or give it to someone else? Run the restore discs, erasing the drive, then when the reg screen comes up click through the first 2 settings about location and hit apple-q and click shutdown. Next time someone starts it they will get the reg setup screen just like as if it were new.

jag

 

[iambilly81]

I'm guessing you want to sell it or give it to someone else? Run the restore discs, erasing the drive, then when the reg screen comes up click through the first 2 settings about location and hit apple-q and click shutdown. Next time someone starts it they will get the reg setup screen just like as if it were new.

jag

thanks man

 

[Cmill216]

Does anyone know if there's a YouTube search box add-on out there for Safari?

 

[jaguarr]

Does anyone know if there's a YouTube search box add-on out there for Safari?

I'm a Firefox user, so I won't be of much help to you on this one. I would think there would be one, though.

jag

 

[Scarlet spidey]

I see nothing.

jag

It says "Are you ready for Tiger? Crucial has the Mac memory upgrades" something along those lines.
(I'm only a few months late on this reply.)

 

[Matt Murdock]

Does anyone know if there's a YouTube search box add-on out there for Safari?

At this point, I believe, there isn't a way to do so. I'll search the net and see what I can find.

 

[Golgo-13]

I'm trying to connect to my colleges FTP server. First of all i typed in the address in the browser, and that didn't work. Then i went to 'GO' >'CONNECT TO SERVER' and typed it i there and that didn't work.

I e-mailed my professor and she said that she had no problem getting in, so the server isn't down;

what am i doing wrong?

 

[jaguarr]

I'm trying to connect to my colleges FTP server. First of all i typed in the address in the browser, and that didn't work. Then i went to 'GO' >'CONNECT TO SERVER' and typed it i there and that didn't work.

I e-mailed my professor and she said that she had no problem getting in, so the server isn't down;

what am i doing wrong?

I've found the built in FTP client on Mac OS X to be flakey sometimes, particularly when trying to connect to Windows based servers. Give Cyberduck a try instead. It's free and is badass:

http://cyberduck.ch/

jag

 

[Golgo-13]

^Thanks, i'll give it a try.

 

[strikezone89]

probably a stupid question but I got a job and we have to repair pcs/macs and i just wanted to know is there a command line for mac's?
kinda like the Command Prompt for Pc's?

 

[jaguarr]

probably a stupid question but I got a job and we have to repair pcs/macs and i just wanted to know is there a command line for mac's?
kinda like the Command Prompt for Pc's?

>Applications>Utilities>Terminal

Be careful. It's a full-blown UNIX command line, so you can do alot of damage if you don't know what you're doing.

jag

 

[Golgo-13]

Is there anyway to put security features on a specific folder that you create, rather than creating another user name and adding security for that specific user?

 

[Matt Murdock]

From the terminal, just do "chmod -x <foldername>" on the folder.

That's that.

To restore it, do "chmod +x <foldername>"

 

[jaguarr]

Is there anyway to put security features on a specific folder that you create, rather than creating another user name and adding security for that specific user?

There are ways to do this, but maybe you can give me a little more information on what you're trying to do. Are you wanting to secure say a folder on your desktop so that you are the only one that can access it? Anything that's in your user folder is going to be unavailable to other users on your system or network unless you share it out specifically, but if you leave your computer unlocked and logged in to your account, anyone who walks up to your desk is going to be able to access your system. Describe what you're trying to do and we'll go from there.

jag

 

[jaguarr]

From the terminal, just do "chmod -x <foldername>" on the folder.

That's that.

To restore it, do "chmod +x <foldername>"

Ehhh, I tend to discourage people from playing around with terminal commands unless they really know what they're doing.

jag

 

[Matt Murdock]

That's true. They could end up destroying their mac from the inside out.

 

[Golgo-13]

There are ways to do this, but maybe you can give me a little more information on what you're trying to do. Are you wanting to secure say a folder on your desktop so that you are the only one that can access it? Anything that's in your user folder is going to be unavailable to other users on your system or network unless you share it out specifically, but if you leave your computer unlocked and logged in to your account, anyone who walks up to your desk is going to be able to access your system. Describe what you're trying to do and we'll go from there.

jag

Basically what i put in bold. I want to add a security feature just to certain folders on my desktop, that say, require a password to get into. Is that possible.?

Appreciate it.