Andy's Un-Official Unsolicited Mac Advice Thread

[DavidTO]

time for a house call.

I posted on this issue a while back (see sequence of posts starting back here (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=682357&postcount=2403)) and had to go to the apple forums to get sorted out (go here (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5939591#5939591) if you want to have a look). I'll fix you up :thumb


So Doc. Is it faster? Or do they just look better now? Or both?

[BradfordBenn]

Hello oh wizards

So here is the situation. I have a MacBook Pro. Wife has a iMac 21". Have a Airport Extreme Base Station. We are both running Leopard. Wife's iMac is connected wirelessly, my MacBook on occasion. Have a powered DLink USB2.0 Hub connecting HP Printer and a Iomega 1/2Terrabyte Drive.

So I wanted to copy stuff to the Hard Drive. Like all my photo files, about 30GB at the moment. So I figure go to Servers under the Leopard Finder Panel, then go to Office, then go to the Iomega HHD. Then start copying folders over. Right?

No good. It would not connect. So I tried doing it wired. Nope, still can't connect. Go over to Wife's machine. She can connect no problem. Huh :scratch ?

So I figure reboot MacBook. No change. Reboot Airport, I can connect. But I cannot seem to copy all the stuff. I get an error saying "Sorry, the operation could not be completed because an unexpected error occurred. (Error code - 1407)" I am not sure what an expected error is except in baseball... but this error or a similiar one keeps popping up and I cannot copy the stuff over succesfully.

So that is problem 1, any idea why it is being so finicky?

Problem 2
So then I disconnected the drive from the Airport. Yes, I disconnected the users first and followed the basic rules. Then I hooked it up via Firewire 800 to my MacBook Pro directly. I then double clicked the folder I wanted to copy to, the message was "The folder 'Photos' could not be opened because you do not have sufficient access privileges." Huh? Again?

So what am I missing?

[DavidTO]

Put the drive back on the LAN. From your wife's computer Get Info on the drive, and under permissions select "Ignore Ownership on this Volume."

See if that helps. :thumb

[DoctorIt]

So Doc. Is it faster? Or do they just look better now? Or both?dunno about speed, it was never really slow (or maybe i thought it was because it "appeared" to be loading a thumb), but yeah, all my images look great in coverflow. probably is faster since I've stripped off the useless embedded preview images with CTX

[BradfordBenn]

Put the drive back on the LAN. From your wife's computer Get Info on the drive, and under permissions select "Ignore Ownership on this Volume."

See if that helps. :thumb

Ummm I could not find the permissions section with those options. I saw permissions but not those.

A few captures...

http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/photos/232436534-L.png http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/photos/232436527-L.png
http://bradfordbenn.smugmug.com/photos/232436543-L.png

I am also wondering if it is just something silly about the drive since it is also kind of new (two weeks and I have been on the road for a week).:scratch

[DavidTO]

Hmmm. Maybe try connecting it directly?

The option is at the bottom of the info window:

http://myskitch.com/davidrosenthal/cocothumbx_info-20071214-224402.jpg

[gus]

time for a house call.

I posted on this issue a while back (see sequence of posts starting back here (http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=682357&postcount=2403)) and had to go to the apple forums to get sorted out (go here (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=5939591#5939591) if you want to have a look). I'll fix you up :thumb
cool..ta mate. Im all over it.

[gus]

How do i put a password in the mac ? In the event of my house being broken into & the mac disappearing i would at least like to know it is locked when i turn it off.

[SloYerRoll]

Here's a good place to start gus, if you want to read up on security.
http://www.securethoughts.net/leopard/accounts.html

Not ultra technical and easy to read.

[gus]

Here's a good place to start gus, if you want to read up on security.
http://www.securethoughts.net/leopard/accounts.html

Not ultra technical and easy to read.
cool..tks mate :thumb

[Poseidon]

Maybe I am not looking in the right place, but can I run a pair of 27" monitors on a "standard" Mac Pro?

[colourbox]

Maybe I am not looking in the right place, but can I run a pair of 27" monitors on a "standard" Mac Pro?

The tech specs page for the standard configuration says "NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI and dual-link DVI)." That means you get two video ports: a single-link DVI port that can drive up to 1920 by 1200 pixels, and a dual-link DVI port that can drive up to 2560 by 1600 pixels.

27" monitors come in a variety of resolutions. As long as your 27" monitors do not exceed the pixel dimensions listed above, you can plug them in right away. The dual-link DVI port is mostly intended to support the Apple 30" Cinema Display, but can drive anything smaller.

[DavidTO]

Gus, you could check this (http://www.gadgettrak.com/products/verey/?lang=en) out, too. I haven't used it.

[SloYerRoll]

That's pretty sweet David!
I assume it's only the iMacs that have the camera built in so it can grab screen shots?

[gus]

That's pretty sweet David!
I assume it's only the iMacs that have the camera built in so it can grab screen shots?
Thats cool...slo...dont all the new laptops have the camera also ?

[DoctorIt]

Thats cool...slo...dont all the new laptops have the camera also ?yup, they do. and that IS cool!


btw, random contribution to this thread: installed Leopard last night on the old Powerbook G4. It was a clean install, as it was actually starting to act up (it would forget what time it was everytime it was shut off, lose all network info, and more), everything went very smoothly and all is well now, I swear it even runs a bit faster. All told, even with full wipe of the drive, it only took about 1 hour.

[Poseidon]

The tech specs page for the standard configuration says "NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single-link DVI and dual-link DVI)." That means you get two video ports: a single-link DVI port that can drive up to 1920 by 1200 pixels, and a dual-link DVI port that can drive up to 2560 by 1600 pixels.

27" monitors come in a variety of resolutions. As long as your 27" monitors do not exceed the pixel dimensions listed above, you can plug them in right away. The dual-link DVI port is mostly intended to support the Apple 30" Cinema Display, but can drive anything smaller.

A pair of 1920x1200 Dell 2707's? How would I total the pixels between the 2, I know it works on a pair of 204B's they are 1600x1200 each and it works fine.

I am going back and forth now, either a pair of 24's, a pair of 27's, or that single 30". Probably a Dell 3007 HC if I do the 30" Monitor....

[DavidTO]

Thats cool...slo...dont all the new laptops have the camera also ?


Yep. iMacs, MacBooks and MacBook Pros. The Cinema displays are rumored to be getting them.

[DavidTO]

How do i put a password in the mac ? In the event of my house being broken into & the mac disappearing i would at least like to know it is locked when i turn it off.


Gus,

Anyone with a bit of Mac smarts can reset the password on your computer. They just need access to your computer and the install disk.

If you want true, unbreakable passworded security, then you would use FileVault. This is hard-core encryption. What you use is decrypted as you use it. Lose your password, and you are totally screwed. No way in. Not that I know of. It's skeery secure.

If you want to keep the odd bit of info secure (ID numbers, bank account info, etc.) use Keychain Access. You have a Keychain by virtue of the fact that you have a user account. You can add secure notes to it. When you go into Keychain Access and try to read a note you will be prompted to enter your Keychain Password. This is another level of security for that type of info that you want to safeguard.

[bigwebguy]

Gus, you could check this (http://www.gadgettrak.com/products/verey/?lang=en) out, too. I haven't used it.

http://www.orbicule.com/undercover/

[BradfordBenn]

Hmmm. Maybe try connecting it directly?

The option is at the bottom of the info window:

http://myskitch.com/davidrosenthal/cocothumbx_info-20071214-224402.jpg

Well I got to spend about an hour on SOS Apple tonight. Turns out that I had a doozy and it still ain't fixed yet. For some reason the Airport assigned Permissions like you said. So I had to connect via USB directly to it to turn those off. They said those turning on was a Leopard issue (bug). I also ran a disk verify and there was a problem on the drive. So that problem was solved.

So then it was all working just hunky doory. Right up until I try to connect to it via the hardwire connection. Then it starts getting kind of wonky. If I restart the base station, it comes back up no problem. So this one has them and me scratching my head. The other thing is I have a question into Iomega to see if there is a sleep circuit in the drive that might be causing it to unmount.

Still not quite there yet.:scratch

[DoctorIt]

what gives?! my quick look button is missing! I only noticed this after installing Leopard on MrsIt's powerbook the other day. She has it, I don't.
:dunno

my quick look works fine, tap space bar see large preview, but no button

should look like this (grabbed from apple.com (http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/quicklook.html)):

http://doctorit.smugmug.com/photos/233540230-M.jpg

[colourbox]

what gives?! my quick look button is missing! I only noticed this after installing Leopard on MrsIt's powerbook the other day. She has it, I don't.

I am not using Leopard right now but in OS X in general, the toolbar can be customized, sometimes accidentally. Right-click on it, choose Customize Toolbar, and see if the button can be added back in.

[DavidTO]

I am not using Leopard right now but in OS X in general, the toolbar can be customized, sometimes accidentally. Right-click on it, choose Customize Toolbar, and see if the button can be added back in.


That's the ticket!

[colourbox]

I just remembered how one might accidentally remove a button. Command-drag will rearrange or tear off toolbar items, just like on the menu bar. if you meant to Command-drag a file but landed on the toolbar, a button might go bye-bye. Inexplicably there is no undo for this. Maybe in Leopard?

[DoctorIt]

I am not using Leopard right now but in OS X in general, the toolbar can be customized, sometimes accidentally. Right-click on it, choose Customize Toolbar, and see if the button can be added back in.sweet. imagine that, you can right-click right in the toolbar!

even better than all better now. :D

[Osprey]

I got a question.....When I open photoshop CS3 I can see thru it to my mac desktop and any other app that is open. I don't remember it this way on CS2 on windows...

Does anyone know how to make the photoshop background or workspace opaque?

Thanks for the help..


Roger

[Mike Lane]

I got a question.....When I open photoshop CS3 I can see thru it to my mac desktop and any other app that is open. I don't remember it this way on CS2 on windows...

Does anyone know how to make the photoshop background or workspace opaque?

Thanks for the help..


RogerThat bugged me in CS2, but CS3 it's easy to overcome. Just hit the f key to switch through the options that are available to you. Also try hitting the tab key and once you see what you can do with that hold the shift key and hit tab. Then for the menus on the right look up in the top right corner for arrows and hover over them to find the "collapse to icons" (or "expand dock" depending on how it's currently set). What else. The new menu system is freakin' awesome IMHO.

hth

[DavidTO]

If in Leopard, you could also assign PS to it's own Space.

[cmason]

sweet. imagine that, you can right-click right in the toolbar!

:D

Right-click?! Thought Mac's were allergic to more than one mouse button :rofl

[DavidTO]

Right-click?! Thought Mac's were allergic to more than one mouse button :rofl


Go. Away.

[colourbox]

Right-click?! Thought Mac's were allergic to more than one mouse button :rofl

Actually, just to set the record straight, right-click support has been in Mac OS since the mid-1990s at least. When Apple bought NeXT to create Mac OS X, NeXT OS already supported right-click. I've been using Macs with two-button mice for as long as I've been able, which might have been Mac OS 8 or 9.

Popular Mac applications like the Adobe, former Macromedia, and Microsoft Office suites have included extensive right-click menus on the Mac for many years.

Only some myopic Mac users are allergic to right mouse buttons. And I think they've been missing out.

[DavidTO]

Actually, just to set the record straight, right-click support has been in Mac OS since the mid-1990s at least. When Apple bought NeXT to create Mac OS X, NeXT OS already supported right-click. I've been using Macs with two-button mice for as long as I've been able, which might have been Mac OS 8 or 9.

Popular Mac applications like the Adobe, former Macromedia, and Microsoft Office suites have included extensive right-click menus on the Mac for many years.

Only some myopic Mac users are allergic to right mouse buttons. And I think they've been missing out.


I like my answer better. :D

[Richard]

Actually, just to set the record straight, right-click support has been in Mac OS since the mid-1990s at least. When Apple bought NeXT to create Mac OS X, NeXT OS already supported right-click. I've been using Macs with two-button mice for as long as I've been able, which might have been Mac OS 8 or 9.

Popular Mac applications like the Adobe, former Macromedia, and Microsoft Office suites have included extensive right-click menus on the Mac for many years.

Only some myopic Mac users are allergic to right mouse buttons. And I think they've been missing out.

The single button mouse was fine in 1984. Software was a lot smaller and simpler, so there were many fewer options to contend with at any given time. But software has metastasized. I can't imagine ever using a single button mouse again, though. Combination mouse and keyboard clicks detract from the convenience of both keyboards and mice.

OK, David, I'll go away...but I'll probably be back. :wave

[DavidTO]

OK, David, I'll go away...but I'll probably be back. :wave


Point is, this whole debate re: mac/two-button mice is so old and out of date. If you're going to pick on the platform, you're gonna have to do a whole heckuva lot better than that!

[SloYerRoll]

I don't have any issues w/ the single click since I'm glued to the keyboard for shortcuts anyway.

Does apple have an answer to holding onto the single click mouse though? It seems like there would be a pretty big outcry for a right click mouse on any stock machine if it wasn't available.

[DavidTO]

Does apple have an answer to holding onto the single click mouse though?


Yeah. The fact that they only sell multi-button mice, and have done so for years.

[Richard]

Yeah. The fact that they only sell multi-button mice, and have done so for years.

Do the laptops have two buttons as well? Just curious.

[DoctorIt]

Do the laptops have two buttons as well? Just curious.buttons are soooo outdated. :lol3

the macbook/pro touchpads are all sensitive to 1 and 2 finger taps (left/right click respectively), as well as vert and horiz scrolling. bloody beautiful I must say.

physically, no, just one big button for the times you don't like to tap.

[SloYerRoll]

Yeah. The fact that they only sell multi-button mice, and have done so for years.Hey David.
I don't doubt you for a second. But can you link to it?
Every Mac proprietary mouse I've seen in one click.

[DavidTO]

Hey David.
I don't doubt you for a second. But can you link to it?
Every Mac proprietary mouse I've seen in one click.


Yep. (http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/)

[SloYerRoll]

Yep. (http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/)Very cool. I read about the mighty mouse, but didn't know details.
Mighty mouse has only been out since the end of 05 though. Correct?

[gus]

Yep. (http://www.apple.com/mightymouse/)
I bought one of these last month. I wished i hadnt. Its jamed. I think its too fine an instrument for a big dirty sweaty hand.

[DavidTO]

I bought one of these last month. I wished i hadnt. Its jamed. I think its too fine an instrument for a big dirty sweaty hand.


The little scrolly ball? Just turn it off/unplug it and run it on your jeans (upside down) a few times. Fixes it for me everytime. There are more complicated methods of cleaning the ball I could link you to if you want. The thing is genius for me, since I do so much horizontal scrolling in Final Cut Pro. But I do understand why some would not like it.

[DavidTO]

Very cool. I read about the mighty mouse, but didn't know details.
Mighty mouse has only been out since the end of 05 though. Correct?


Sounds about right. Hence my comment that it's been out for years. :D

The OS has had support for multis for much longer, as CB pointed out. So they didn't make them...big deal. Really. My wife would not know what to do with it. There are plenty of users who don't want and don't understand 2 button mice, and for them it would not be a feature. It's hard for y'all to understand, but it's true, and I think it's most likely the reason why Jobs took so long to approve a multi. Because this one is a single-button mouse until you configure it to be a multi. So it's a user based decision.

[SloYerRoll]

don't want and don't understand 2 button miceOh what I want to say there:wink

Thanks David.

Cheers,
-Jon

[BradfordBenn]

Two button mice are for beginners, I am now up to six buttons (http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/mice/devices/191&cl=us,en). I only have four of them programmed but hey there is room for expansion :rofl

[BradfordBenn]

Well I got to spend about an hour on SOS Apple tonight. Turns out that I had a doozy and it still ain't fixed yet. For some reason the Airport assigned Permissions like you said. So I had to connect via USB directly to it to turn those off. They said those turning on was a Leopard issue (bug). I also ran a disk verify and there was a problem on the drive. So that problem was solved.

So then it was all working just hunky doory. Right up until I try to connect to it via the hardwire connection. Then it starts getting kind of wonky. If I restart the base station, it comes back up no problem. So this one has them and me scratching my head. The other thing is I have a question into Iomega to see if there is a sleep circuit in the drive that might be causing it to unmount.

Still not quite there yet.:scratch

So I got to spend two hours on the phone with Apple tonight and it is still not quite working but I learned a few things:

1) GUID format is better for harddrives connected to Airports. (I wish that was in the documentation cause now I have to backup the drive to reformat it to help it would help)
2) Things never break when you are on the phone with Tech Support
3) Having two computers attached to drives hanging off the Airport seems to confuse my Airport
4) Creating a dummy user profile seemed to help :scratch :dunno Not using it, just creating it.
5) Never dress the wires until everything is working :cry

Anyone else using Leopard to connect two computers to a USB drive hanging off a Airport Extreme?

[gus]

To...can this imac i have burn DVD's ? & if so...what is the programme name i should search for.

[DavidTO]

To...can this imac i have burn DVD's ? & if so...what is the programme name i should search for.


Should do. It's one of the current aluminum ones, right? Not white? Then it does burn DVDs.

What kind of DVD do you want to burn? Data? Movie?

Data: use Finder

Movie: iDVD

[gus]

Should do. It's one of the current aluminum ones, right? Not white? Then it does burn DVDs.

What kind of DVD do you want to burn? Data? Movie?

Data: use Finder

Movie: iDVD
Its a new aluminium alright. I just want to burn some photos.

[DavidTO]

Its a new aluminium alright. I just want to burn some photos.


Edit:

Here you go (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42663).

[gus]

Edit:

Here you go (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=42663).
ahh...sandshoe

[BradfordBenn]

This might be a little like using a sledgehammer to hammer a finishing nail :rofl but I use Toast to do my burning. The big reason is that I can just say "Burn all this stuff and figure out how many DVDs I will need". It will allow for spanning multiple DVDs

[greenpea]

This question is for those of you who have a .mac account...

I noticed you can use your own domain name for a .mac account web page, but does this also work for .mac account email addresses too
(i.e. andrew@MyDomainName.com)?

[grassy]

After 20+ years in the IT sector, I still find this a "religious" argument that will never be settled..mac vs pc...and lately..Nikons/canons/Pentax seems to fall in the same category...

Like beta and VHS (remember those) the market did decide..beta was better but lost due to many reasons..

For computers ...Business Week stated in '06 - "But Apple has just 5% of the $75 billion home PC market " ...that has been steady give or take a few points for a long time...

As a consumer...I try to avoid proprietary systems or buying orphans…so I not only look at the box..which is really secondary, but what programs I want to run on it…if you were a developer, which market would be your first choice ? ...and lastly the cost because there really is no inherent value in technology...as soon as you buy, you find it less expensive immediately or something better has come out...

The days of the mac being the clear winner in the desktop publishing market or processing market and the pc being the "business machine" are really over however, I think the mac still has a clear advantage in the music scene...

Just my thoughts :)
Ian.

[CatOne]

The Mac also has a pretty clear advantage in the photography scene amongst the "thought leaders."

The entire LR team uses Macs (well, save the poor sots who have to do the PC port, which has a lot more problems than the Mac version -- look at their forums ;-)

[SloYerRoll]

I'm realy not trying to pick a fight w/ this. But where is this documentation that prove clear advantages from an end user standpoint?

I would think this info would be more widely used as leverage in the never ending Mac/Windows debate.

I'm always open to new info. I've just never head anything like this.

[grassy]

The Mac also has a pretty clear advantage in the photography scene amongst the "thought leaders."

The entire LR team uses Macs (well, save the poor sots who have to do the PC port, which has a lot more problems than the Mac version -- look at their forums ;-)

No offense intended but Mac users consider themselves "thought leaders."
What a Hoot !!!!!!!!!!!!!:rofl Have you any idea how that sounds ???

What is a LR team ?? are you referring to that klunky package by adobe ?

"thought Leaders"....good one :D :D :D :D ....perhaps Apple could use that in their next ad..

[DavidTO]

No offense intended but Mac users consider themselves "thought leaders."
What a Hoot !!!!!!!!!!!!!:rofl Have you any idea how that sounds ???

What is a LR team ?? are you referring to that klunky package by adobe ?

"thought Leaders"....good one :D :D :D :D ....perhaps Apple could use that in their next ad..


OK. This stops here. No trolling, baiting, or bashing. :D

You can trash Apple all you want right here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=75639). :deal

[CatOne]

No offense intended but Mac users consider themselves "thought leaders."
What a Hoot !!!!!!!!!!!!!:rofl Have you any idea how that sounds ???

What is a LR team ?? are you referring to that klunky package by adobe ?

"thought Leaders"....good one :D :D :D :D ....perhaps Apple could use that in their next ad..

The "thought leaders" are among photographer, not among computer users.

I'm saying... pick an influential and technologically savvy photographer, and see what they are using (Mac or PC). You're backwards on your assessment.

[SloYerRoll]

The "thought leaders" are among photographer, not among computer users.

I'm saying... pick an influential and technologically savvy photographer, and see what they are using (Mac or PC). You're backwards on your assessment.There are allot of incredibly talented/smart photogs that use PC's. So back to the question you may have missed: What is the clear advantage you mentioned?
The Mac also has a pretty clear advantage in the photography scene amongst the "thought leaders."
Mac's are great machines, I'm not debating that. But it sounds like your basing your assessment on opinions of your mentors. I'm more interested in data showing the reasons for your comments. :ear

[ian408]

So I have a question. How come you can't just go down to the Apple store and
buy a freakin' bluetooth/wifi card and install it in a mac pro yourself?

Ugh.

[gus]

No offense intended
But you will imply it anyway.

Move on if you intend to start baiting...this is not the sort of forum that tolerates it. If there is nothing for you in a thread then simply move on.

[DavidTO]

So I have a question. How come you can't just go down to the Apple store and
buy a freakin' bluetooth/wifi card and install it in a mac pro yourself?

Ugh.


Dunno. The only thing I can tell you is that you can use a USB one, for about $20, but it won't wake from sleep like the built-in ones do.

[greenpea]

This question is for those of you who have a .mac account...

I noticed you can use your own domain name for a .mac account web page, but does this also work for .mac account email addresses too
(i.e. andrew@MyDomainName.com)?
So no one is using .mac? :scratch Not a good deal? Wrong thread?

One negative thing about Apple, is the documentation sux, otherwise I wouldn't be posting this question on a photog forum.

[ian408]

Hi Andrew.

I had a .mac account for about a year. I decided not to renew. But only because
the services that are of interest to most people are of no interest to me.
I don't need backups and I don't really need the e-mail and up until recently,
I didn't need the 1:1 dealio that keeps all of your macs in sync with one another.


Ian

[zweiblumen]

So no one is using .mac? :scratch Not a good deal? Wrong thread?

One negative thing about Apple, is the documentation sux, otherwise I wouldn't be posting this question on a photog forum.

I think you can, but don't quote me on this. A quick call to apple care would be the best way to get an answer for this.

[DavidTO]

I use .Mac, but simply don't know the answer to your question. :dunno

[DavidTO]

I use .Mac, but simply don't know the answer to your question. :dunno


Actually, I don't understand your question. Why would you need .Mac to get involved in your custom domain email? Why not just configure Mail.app to get that mail? What is it that you're trying to accomplish?

And lastly, seeing as how I don't really understand your problem, I'm not really sure if this (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1288484&tstart=0) is the answer you're looking for. :D

[DoctorIt]

One negative thing about Apple, is the documentation sux, otherwise I wouldn't be posting this question on a photog forum.Really? Are you referring to the Apple support forums? I've gone there twice when I stumped the folks here, and found my answer in a few minutes. :dunno

[Richard]

Mac's are great machines, I'm not debating that. But it sounds like your basing your assessment on opinions of your mentors. I'm more interested in data showing the reasons for your comments. :ear
I can think of a couple of historical reasons that help explain the predominance of Macs among photographers.

In the bad ol' days, Apple did a much better job of making sure that the color of printed output matched the color on the screen. In large part, this was because Apple controlled all of the hardware then, printers and monitors as well as the CPU, whereas anarchy reigned in the PC world.

The other key point is that Photoshop was originally developed on Macs for Mac only. PC versions were not even available until four years later, and for a number of years after that, development was still done on Macs, then ported to PCs. As a result, PC versions always lagged behind the Mac, much as Mac versions of the Microsoft Office suite lag behind Windows today. Nobody likes to wait for the latest and greatest.

This gave Apple a tremendous head start among photographers. Since Macs have always been more user friendly than Windows--and switching platforms has a cost--there was never any reason for the early users of Photoshop to switch once the Windows versions reached parity with the Macs. By then, it was too late for Windows: everyone knew that photographers used Macs, so newbie photographers naturally gravitated to Apple. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Regards,

[greenpea]

Actually, I don't understand your question. Why would you need .Mac to get involved in your custom domain email? Why not just configure Mail.app to get that mail? What is it that you're trying to accomplish?

And lastly, seeing as how I don't really understand your problem, I'm not really sure if this (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1288484&tstart=0) is the answer you're looking for. :D

I have a family web site (gorohoff.com) that I set up years and years ago with a hosting company that was affordable at the time. Over the years the hosting company has become (relatively speaking) very unaffordable, and I've been too lazy to move my site. My site is just simple HTML web site, but the hosting company also hosts my email addresses (which members of my family are using for there personal email).

I really need to move my family web site to a new less expensive hosting better solution, and I thought I could do that and add some other cool features by moving it all to .mac. I need want to preserve the domain name and keep everyones email addresses. I suppose I could just find a third party to do email hosting for me and get .mac for the web hosting.

[greenpea]

Really? Are you referring to the Apple support forums? I've gone there twice when I stumped the folks here, and found my answer in a few minutes. :dunno

I haven't done a lot of heavy searching on the Apple support forums, however I did search all over Apple's help and .mac's help. Couldn't find my answer. Apple's help seem to all be limited to the most basic sort of technical questions.

Thinking back over the past year, I think I've gotten my best mac support from dgrin. :D But it was dgrin members that did a lot to convinced me to make the switch to mac.

I guess its time to start posting questions to Apple's forums.

Thanks.

[SloYerRoll]

everyone knew that photographers used Macs, so newbie photographers naturally gravitated to Apple. It became a self-fulfilling prophecy.Well put Richard. This is what I thought. But now I know thanks to your post.

BTW Macs are prevalent in all the creative fields. I do allot of design work and all the design/Illistrator forums I belong to feel the same way about Macs.

[BradfordBenn]

Really? Are you referring to the Apple support forums? I've gone there twice when I stumped the folks here, and found my answer in a few minutes. :dunno

Any hints on searching cause I am getting a lot frustrated with my results of getting a hard drive connected to Airport Extreme and now every so often when I insert an audio CD to rip to iTunes it just plain disappears. I am beginning to think about format and reinstall but the tweaks to get everything working again has me concerned.

[DavidTO]

Any hints on searching cause I am getting a lot frustrated with my results of getting a hard drive connected to Airport Extreme and now every so often when I insert an audio CD to rip to iTunes it just plain disappears. I am beginning to think about format and reinstall but the tweaks to get everything working again has me concerned.


yeah, try something like this in google: site:apple.com airport hard drive connect

What kind of tweaks did you do? How did you install the first time, or were you new to the whole thing? :ear

[BradfordBenn]

yeah, try something like this in google: site:apple.com airport hard drive connect

What kind of tweaks did you do? How did you install the first time, or were you new to the whole thing? :ear

Okay, so I did the same search as you suggested and got the same results. Mine were a little different with airport extreme, but same no solution.

By tweaks, I probably should have said installing all the applications. Adobe Creative Suite 3, Lightroom, Office, VMWare Fusion, Boot Camp... etc. It is more about getting all the applications working and authorized again since the Creative Suite was an upgrade from Windows.

The way I did the hardware process was as follows:


Purchased Wife an iMac in May - connected perfectly well to Linksys infrastructure.
July wife purchased me a MacBookPro - also got Airport Extreme to get N speed as well as share drive and USB printers. Hooked up small (60GB) Western Digital Drive. All worked fine once put in a powered USB 2.0 hub. This was running Tiger.
October did the upgrade to Leopard to do BootCamp mainly. Stuff started acting a little quirkly. I thought it was due to the fact that the Western Digital Drive is USB powered.
November I purchased an Iomega UltraMax 500GB drive from the Apple store. Figure it comes preformatted and has seperate power supply.
December started calling Apple for support. They recommended I reformat the drive in GUID format, so I backed up everything and tried that. No change. They then recommend I create a different user and make sure that works. Well it doesn't always work under that user so it does not look like it a user issue.


The part that really has me puzzled :scratch it works fine on my wife's iMac. If I logoff and logon I can get the drive for a few minutes but then it can go out in the weeds and I cannot get the drive back. In addition I cannot to the drive via IP address either. But it works fine from the wife's iMac running Leopard as well.:bash

I can also connect to it from a desktop Windows machine.

I have called Apple support two times now with still no resolution. It is limited to my MacBookPro.

[DavidTO]

Interesting, as I find that Leopard is MUCH more reliable for network stuff, although I haven't done exactly as you've done.

How did you do the Leopard upgrade? The safest way is to do an archive and install. It saves all your apps, docs and network settings, but replaces every bit of the system. It leaves the old system on there, in case there are things you need from it, and labels it "Previous System". Anyway, for future reference, that's the best way to upgrade.

Anyway, it sure looks like you're not alone in this, from what I've read. You could check this out (http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070814114528854).

This is from macfixit.com, on a premium (subscription) page:

Thursday, November 29 2007 @ 09:01 AM PST
Mac OS X 10.5.x Special Report: AirPort Disk problems

Leopard's support for AirPort Disks (a USB disk connected, and accessed through, an AirPort Base Station, as a way of sharing a hard disk between multiple computers, often including Windows machines) is not all that it might be. The AirPort Disk Utility is gone, and Apple has a note saying they expect you to connect directly from the Shared section of the sidebar. But readers are reporting a variety of consistent symptoms, suggesting that this is not working correctly.

Wrong share One variety of problem is that the wrong share is being seen. From one reader:

After upgrade to Leopard, the airport disk shows up in the sidebar but I can only access the shares, even though it shows I'm connected as a privileged user.

Another:

On my Airport Extreme (Gigabit) model I have no guests allowed and security by user name. My wife and I have read/write access and kids are read-only. What this normally means is that when you login/mount the Airport Extreme disk you see multiple volumes (the kids are on Windows so this still works). They see the main (read-only share) and a personal read/write share. On my MacBook Pro I used Apple's Backup to backup my data to that personal share. With Leopard, however, I only see the main share, not my personal one.

Another:

I upgraded to Leopard the other night and when i first log into my user account it will recognize the usb shared drive and i can access it but if I put the computer to sleep and wake it up it will recognize that i have a shared drive but it logs me in as a guest and then says that it is not connected. i have to restart Airport just to both recognize the disk and allow me to access it.

Wake from sleep issues That last note raises a second variety of problem: after sleep, connectivity is altered or lost:

When I boot my mac (I've a macbook first generation), the AirPort disk is perfectly recognised, but when the mac goes to sleep status, after wake up, the disk isn't recognised. Although the other pc with linux can see it perfectly, my mac connect to the airport disk as guest (but in the airport disk configuration, I don't permit connections as guests). Only way for the correct connection with my user is to restart the airport base, not the mac.

Another:

If the airport extreme box is freshly restarted the airport disc can be mounted and seems to work OK. But after my PB wakes from sleep the connection is lost and nothing short of rebooting the airport express seems to work. Other computers on the network with file sharing enabled seem to work OK.

Not working at all In the worst case, the ability to connect simply goes away:

My AirPort disk was working since I (clean) installed Leopard on my Mac Pro until two days ago. All of a sudden, my AirPort disk just unmounted itself. Trying to remount it gave me errors, even when I try the "Connect to Server..." option in the Finder Go Menu.

Solutions? Solutions are hard to come by.

One reader suggests using CIFS instead of Bonjour to access the AirPort Disk (essentially pretending that you are a Windows machine?).

Another reader suggests using the AirPort Disk Utility from Tiger, but it is not clear that this ultimately improves connectivity.

The Time Machine connection It may be relevant to note that AirPort disks don't work with Time Machine. This was a promised feature, but it was subtracted from Leopard at the last minute, apparently because of reliability issues. Generalizing, we may conjecture that Leopard was released with known AirPort disk connection reliability issues.

Conclusion The automatic discovery of File Sharing computers in the Finder sidebar, and the ease of connection with those computers, along with the ability to designate shared folders at last, is a major Leopard boon; but it would appear that the attempt to integrate AirPort disk connection with the same interface is not working properly.

[BradfordBenn]

Interesting, as I find that Leopard is MUCH more reliable for network stuff, although I haven't done exactly as you've done.

How did you do the Leopard upgrade? The safest way is to do an archive and install. It saves all your apps, docs and network settings, but replaces every bit of the system. It leaves the old system on there, in case there are things you need from it, and labels it "Previous System". Anyway, for future reference, that's the best way to upgrade.

Anyway, it sure looks like you're not alone in this, from what I've read. You could check this out (http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20070814114528854).

This is from macfixit.com, on a premium (subscription) page:

Thanks for the link. I did the upgrade already, still no change. In terms of the Leopard upgrade I was not experienced enough to know how to do an archive and install. Now I know for next time.

The current work around is to log off, log on with the dummy user, connect to the drive, log off, log on with my real account, connect to the drive and do my stuff first. If it is a small amount of files, I just put them on a thumbdrive and walk down and use the wife's iMac. It is not insurmountable it is just plain disappointing.

But on the plus side, I am learning stuff and I did get a new camera for Free Loot Day so I now have something to file the drive up with :):barb

[DavidTO]

You could try booting up in safemode, see if that helps. That will start up with only essential OS stuff loaded, none of the other stuff that your apps need. You can't really work in it, but it would be interesting to see if it works better. You hold the shift key after the start-up chime to invoke safemode.

[BradfordBenn]

You could try booting up in safemode, see if that helps. That will start up with only essential OS stuff loaded, none of the other stuff that your apps need. You can't really work in it, but it would be interesting to see if it works better. You hold the shift key after the start-up chime to invoke safemode.

Can I start crying now? So now it starts disconnecting while copying files:dunno

I got it connected and started copying a big batch of files (the original files from lots of playing whoops I mean using the new camera) it said it would take a while (1 hour +) so off I went to do other things. Well it has now made a rant on my blog (http://blog.bradfordbenn.com/?p=115)

Thanks one and all for the help, I think that this one is an issue with software in the OS on my MacBook as it will not connect via IP address either.

[DavidTO]

That really sucks. Sorry you're having a problem.

At this point I would reinstall the system software, via archive and install.

[BradfordBenn]

That really sucks. Sorry you're having a problem.

At this point I would reinstall the system software, via archive and install.

Yea, I am getting pretty close. What has me thinking though that it is an airport problem is that today it kicked the wife out also. I am beginning to think that the better answer might be to just hook the drives up to a desktop machine and share them. So I went to see if one can share a volume (http://www.apple.com/support/leopard/sharing/) and it doesn't look like it.

Anyone know if it can be done? The Google search resulted in Server solutions.

[DavidTO]

Yea, I am getting pretty close. What has me thinking though that it is an airport problem is that today it kicked the wife out also. I am beginning to think that the better answer might be to just hook the drives up to a desktop machine and share them. So I went to see if one can share a volume (http://www.apple.com/support/leopard/sharing/) and it doesn't look like it.

Anyone know if it can be done? The Google search resulted in Server solutions.


Yeah, you can share. You would have to sign in as a user to the computer that has access to the drives, though, I think. Or maybe as a guest would work for accessing the drive. But you can do it. I don't do exactly what you do, so I'm not really sure what kind of behavior (aside from it working) that you're expecting.

[BradfordBenn]

I think there may be some experimenting going on over the next few days...

[Mike Lane]

If your desktop is a PC running vista, you'll never get it to share a volume with a mac.

Maybe not never, but if it can be done, it isn't at all easy. I've tried and searched and pondered and :scratch and messed with all the vista settings I can find (yes that one, and that one too) and hoped and :splat

Vista sucks. That's right PC-ers, it sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks.













Sucks!

[jdryan3]

If your desktop is a PC running vista, you'll never get it to share a volume with a mac.

Maybe not never, but if it can be done, it isn't at all easy. I've tried and searched and pondered and :scratch and messed with all the vista settings I can find (yes that one, and that one too) and hoped and :splat

Vista sucks. That's right PC-ers, it sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks, sucks.

Sucks!

Wow! I do (did) that all time with 3 Macs and 3 PCs running both XP Home and XP Pro. Yeah, you have to setup shares, and kill that Windows firewall, but it worked. Moved gigs of images back and forth, including to attached external drives. It was weird enough with XP and no server, but Vista is worse? One more reason to add to why I'm glad I moved to a MacBook Pro. :clap

[BradfordBenn]

I want to share Mac to Mac. For sharing to Windows machines there are thumb drives and USB hard drives and DVD...

However using Vista at the office for some stuff, it is a little challenging at times. I would not say it downright sucks, you just have to know specifically what to tell it. The change between Windows at the office and Mac at home has shown me that both (and probably any) Operating System has its flaws. But when one really sits and thinks about all the different permutations of Windows/PC hardware out there that Windows can support and how it hits 80% of the market pretty darn well it is amazing to think about.

is it perfect? Nope, is Mac perfect, nope. It is just deciding what is the right tool for you as the user.

[ShepsMom]

I installed Leopard a while back, my Safari disappeared, i actually never used it. But now, i have to get so certain websites and it wont let me go there without Safari. So i made my search for Safari download and found nothing, except upgrade for Leopard, but i can't upgrade it because i don't have the original. I tried to inistall previous versions without any success. :scratch

Anyone?

[SloYerRoll]

Safari 1.2:
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/safari.html
EDIT:
can't test this to be a non upgrade version since I'm not at home. But I'm fairly confident you can install w/ no issues.

Safari 3 Beta:
http://www.apple.com/safari/download/

Let me know if you need any other resources.

Cheers,
-Jon

[ShepsMom]

Thank you John, but i've tried that, it wont work. It tells me my system unable to run it. I'm assuming because of Leopard?

[SloYerRoll]

Sounds like you should post in Andys unsolicited Mac advise thread?

Wish I could have helped more.

Cheers,
-Jon

[pathfinder]

The Safari on Nightingale's Mac with Leopard is Safari 3.0.4, just like on my Mac running Tiger 10.4.11

You mean you can't download Safari from the Apple website?

Here is the link -- http://www.apple.com/safari/download/ But it apparently does not list Safari for Leopard, but I will bet Safari for Tiger will run just fine.

No Browser? How about Firefox on Leopard - It works too.


Have you downloaded all the updates for Leopard from Apple Logo>Software Update also?

[caroline]

This is driving me totally nuts and has been happening apparently randomly for a couple of weeks - the sound of a bell (like an old fashioned door or bicycle bell) comes from my Mac. Sometimes it rings just once, other times 3 or 4. It happened on 10.4 etc and still does in Leopard. I have noted the times when it happens - inconsistent, always have lots of apps open but nothing that has any kind of alarm set, and I can't think why this is happening - :scratch:scratch

Caroline

[ShepsMom]

I have FF and Camino, i need Safari for a specific website to d/l a software (it's a download link).
It lets me d/l Safari, but when i go to save it to my HD it says precisely:
"You cannot install Safari Update 2.0.1 on this volume. This software requires Mac OS X 10.4.2."

Mine is 10.5.1, and yes i have everything updated from Apple site. My updates run automatically.

:scratch

[ShepsMom]

I was sent to this place regarding my issue with Safari browser. I hope someone can help me out here.

I've never used Safari with my Tiger software, but when i updated to Leopard, Safari it simply disappeared. Now, i can't get it back, i tried Apple website, but they don't provide d/l for 10.5.1, they only have Tiger version which doesn't run on my system.
I have all my updates in check, how can i get safari back? :dunno

Anyone has any ideas?
Thanks!

[photocat]

Go to your Hard disk, in Library, receipts, there should be a package with Safari that works for your system.
If not, if you have your original system disks, you should be able to find the installer package for Safari on that one too.
If you have a mac account, try the iDisk and see under software if you find Safari there...

I think it is telling you that the original software package of Safari is not there. So it keep saying that you need Safari first in order to install this update. Which is not a full application, only an update. I am looking if I can find you a package to install safari

[ShepsMom]

Nope, i've looked, no package exists, only bookmarks from when i had it LOL.
Oh boy!!.

[ian408]

Is it gone or gone from the dock? Open the finder and look in the applications
folder. It should be a "compass" icon.

[Andy]

What website on earth would *only* allow Safari? I've never heard of such a thing :)

[ShepsMom]

It's a link to d/l for this software.

http://www.dxo.com/intl/photo/free_demo

They sent me email for d/l page with trial version,
Here is what email says:

"For Macintosh users:

If you see only a list of meaningless codes displayed on your browser when you hit the link above, you should set “Safari” as your default browser to be able to download DxO Optics Pro demo version. To set “Safari” as your default web browser, launch “Safari”, go into the “Safari” menu and click on “Preferences”, set your default web browser to “Safari” and close the window;
Because the Macintosh clock sometimes synchronizes itself automatically, some demo versions may expire earlier than the 15 days specified. We do advise that you deactivate your automatic clock synchronization (in "System Preferences / Date and Clock) to fully enjoy your version."

[Andy]

It's a link to d/l for this software.

http://www.dxo.com/intl/photo/free_demo

They sent me email for d/l page with trial version,
Here is what email says:

"For Macintosh users:

If you see only a list of meaningless codes displayed on your browser when you hit the link above, you should set “Safari” as your default browser to be able to download DxO Optics Pro demo version. To set “Safari” as your default web browser, launch “Safari”, go into the “Safari” menu and click on “Preferences”, set your default web browser to “Safari” and close the window;
Because the Macintosh clock sometimes synchronizes itself automatically, some demo versions may expire earlier than the 15 days specified. We do advise that you deactivate your automatic clock synchronization (in "System Preferences / Date and Clock) to fully enjoy your version."
And you tried Firefox?

[ShepsMom]

Yep, and Camino and IE. Neither will work. :dunno

What i need is an original Safari that came with my Tiger, which i no longer have.

[ShepsMom]

It's gone. I actually have a discussion in 'Phinishing Forum", sorry if this is a repeat thread.

[DavidTO]

It's gone. I actually have a discussion in 'Phinishing Forum", sorry if this is a repeat thread.


I've merged it into the Unsolicited thread.

[DavidTO]

What i need is an original Safari that came with my Tiger, which i no longer have.


Why would you want that when you're running Leopard?

First, I think it must be there. What are the chances that you unknowingly threw away an application? Did you do a lot of throwing away in your applications folder? Have you searched for it with Spotlight?

Second, if you have deleted the app, then you could reinstall the system software. Or try doing an update first.

[ShepsMom]

I probably deleted it, i just can't remember. :dunno
I was thinking reinstalling Tiger back and go from there.

[StevenV]

Marina, that page works just fine for me using Firefox 2.0.0.11 on my Mac.

[ShepsMom]

And you running Leopard? All i get is bunch of jumbo-mumbo codes :scratch:scratch:scratch:scratch

Wait, this page you're looking at is fine, i'm talking about d/l page:

http://octopus2.dxo.com/4.5/Mac/Demo/DxODMSetup.dmg

[DavidTO]

And you running Leopard? All i get is bunch of jumbo-mumbo codes :scratch:scratch:scratch:scratch

Wait, this page you're looking at is fine, i'm talking about d/l page:

http://octopus2.dxo.com/4.5/Mac/Demo/DxODMSetup.dmg


In FF, right-click on the link in this quote, and choose "Save Link As". It will download the file just fine.

Not sure why it's such a PITA, but that'll work for you.

[ShepsMom]

HALLELUJA!!!!! David for President :barb:barb:barb

[BradfordBenn]

This is driving me totally nuts and has been happening apparently randomly for a couple of weeks - the sound of a bell (like an old fashioned door or bicycle bell) comes from my Mac. Sometimes it rings just once, other times 3 or 4. It happened on 10.4 etc and still does in Leopard. I have noted the times when it happens - inconsistent, always have lots of apps open but nothing that has any kind of alarm set, and I can't think why this is happening - :scratch:scratch

Caroline

Do you have Growl installed? You can check under System Preferences. It might be triggered by something unexpected.

[BradfordBenn]

Howdy Gang-

I thought I bookmarked the page, and I remember seeing it somewhere, but the search function returns way too many to wade through so I figured I would ask as I figure someone would have it at their finger tips... where are the directions for calibrating a Mac monitor by eye?

[DavidTO]

Howdy Gang-

I thought I bookmarked the page, and I remember seeing it somewhere, but the search function returns way too many to wade through so I figured I would ask as I figure someone would have it at their finger tips... where are the directions for calibrating a Mac monitor by eye?


Sys Prefs>Displays>Color>Calibrate. You just follow the steps, take your time and make sure you squint your eyes just right as you adjust the sliders to make the apple disappear. At the end choose gamma 2.2.

[BradfordBenn]

Well I have figured out that astigmatism and calibration can give one a headache! So after getting some help from the wife, I think I got it as best as we can get it. So what should the white point be at?

Also will a calibrator like a Huey work on a MacBookPro monitor?

[StevenV]

In FF, right-click on the link in this quote, and choose "Save Link As". It will download the file just fine.

yea, what David said. [whatever].dmg is a file to be downloaded, not a page to be read.

[SloYerRoll]

will a calibrator like a Huey work on a MacBookPro monitor?Yes. But be careful when moving your laptop around. If you go from a dark room to outside and don't have the ambient light sensor to make adjustments. Your display will "think" it's still dark and be adjusted accordingly.
To fix this, just connect your sensor and let it take an ambient light reading. It should do all the heavy lifting for you.

[gus]

How in gods name do i find out whats running on this thing :scratch (new imac that is)

Something is severly slowing it down & i mean between 3 to 5 mins just to save a 3 meg jpeg to desktop from CS3. The colour wheel just sits there spinning & it eventually sorts it chews it.

I have nothing open but sometimes i have bridge but it is doing it with just CS3 open :dunno

BTW...its random...it can run full speed then choke without warning. I only have a dot beside email & finder so i assume they are running in the background.

[blalor]

How in gods name do i find out whats running on this thing :scratch (new imac that is)

Something is severly slowing it down & i mean between 3 to 5 mins just to save a 3 meg jpeg to desktop from CS3. The colour wheel just sits there spinning & it eventually sorts it chews it.

I have nothing open but sometimes i have bridge but it is doing it with just CS3 open :dunno

BTW...its random...it can run full speed then choke without warning. I only have a dot beside email & finder so i assume they are running in the background.
Try Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities). I also have two command-line aliases I pull off the bench for these kinds of thing: qtop and mtop. qtop shows the process using the most CPU (but doesn't poll; just a quick snapshot). mtop does the same but with memory instead of CPU.

qtop:
ps -x -a -c -r -o pcpu,pid,command | head

mtop:
ps -x -a -c -m -o %mem,rss,pid,command | head

Look at your free memory, too. If you're running low, restart the app that's using the most. That's usually Safari, after it's been running for a while. :dunno

[photocat]

BTW...its random...it can run full speed then choke without warning. I only have a dot beside email & finder so i assume they are running in the background.[/QUOTE]

In your applications folder, go to utilities and then hit the top app, which should be activity monitor. When you look for all processes, it will show you which apps are open, and which ones are big memory eaters.

If you have time machine activated, it slows down photoshop when it is making a backup...

You can find the specs of your imac when you click in the left upper corner, the apple, about my mac. It should tell you what computer you have, what system is on it, and what the memory specs are.

Another reason for slowing down a computer can be that the harddisk is too full, but since you say it is a new computer, I think we can rule that one out.

It is also good to now and then in the same utilities folder go to disk utility, and hit the repair permissions button, and restart after that. That takes care of slowing down faults.

[SloYerRoll]

qtop:
ps -x -a -c -r -o pcpu,pid,command | head
mtop:
ps -x -a -c -m -o %mem,rss,pid,command | head

Gottaa love terminal! A main reason most *nix developers switched over to mac was due to having a command line client. They didn't have one for years. Even though terminal is part of the foundation of the Mac OS.

[gus]

Try Activity Monitor (in /Applications/Utilities). I also have two command-line aliases I pull off the bench for these kinds of thing: qtop and mtop. qtop shows the process using the most CPU (but doesn't poll; just a quick snapshot). mtop does the same but with memory instead of CPU.

qtop:
ps -x -a -c -r -o pcpu,pid,command | head

mtop:
ps -x -a -c -m -o %mem,rss,pid,command | head

Look at your free memory, too. If you're running low, restart the app that's using the most. That's usually Safari, after it's been running for a while. :dunno
tks...85% idle ..260 gig free atm on the HD but its running ok. Its saying 1 gig ram active with just CS3 open sitting idle, is that ok ?

I will need to look at that info when its choked but unfortunately its so choked it cant get to anything as it just sits there stalled.

On my PC i used to just CTL-ALT-DELETE & all was in front of me.

[BradfordBenn]

Another option (which takes more resources but it might be more user friendly) is there is a widget "iStat Pro" that can show stuff like this on a widget in your dashboard.

[gus]

Ok..i just caught it during its freak out & in the activity monitor its saying "photoshop not responding'

[SloYerRoll]

Cs3?

[gus]

Cs3?
yep

[SloYerRoll]

Aren't there issues in all kinds of forums about CS3 and OS X compatibility issues?

[Andy]

Aren't there issues in all kinds of forums about CS3 and OS X compatibility issues?
:scratch

Bah. I don't have any and have had CS3 since day one and I use it every day on my Mac Pro and on my Macbook Pro.

[SloYerRoll]

So how do you explain Gus's issues?

Adobe's FAQ's and press releases all have said that there are known compatibility issues that are being worked on. So to just dismiss it since you are one of the lucky to not have issues doesn't solve gus's problem.

The following is just a 30 second Google research job. I bet I could find allot more if I dug it up. This isn't a Mac/PC thing Andy. I'm just trying to help out and get to the bottom of Gus's problem by providing my meager input.

Acrobat 8 Professional
update scheduled for January 2008.
Photoshop Elements 4 and earlier
"Likely to encounter issues for which there is no resolution."
Creative Suite 2 and earlier
"While older Adobe applications may install and run on Mac OS X Leopard, they were designed, tested, and released to the public several years before this new operating system became available. You may, therefore, experience a variety of installation, stability, and reliability issues for which there is no resolution. Older versions of our creative software will not be updated to support Mac OS X Leopard."
Photoshop Lightroom Adobe has now released Lightroom 1.3 (http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3810) for Leopard compatibility. Versions 1.2 and earlier are not compatible.
Happy new years!

[DoctorIt]

So how do you explain Gus's issues?

from Adobe:
Creative Suite 2 and earlier...CS3 is not earlier than CS2.

[Mike Lane]

Yes there are CS3 Leopard compatibility issues but afaik gus' issue isn't one of them. Mostly it's a problem using the input boxes for various tools.

[ian408]

:scratch

Bah. I don't have any and have had CS3 since day one and I use it every day on my Mac Pro and on my Macbook Pro.

Nor do I. Same set up.

Of course, there have been periodic updates since the release. Be sure you're
up to date.

[Andy]

Go Army! (http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2007/12/20/apple-army-hackers-tech-security-cx_ag_1221army.html)

[David Taylor]

My daughter is trying to use the internal microphone and the isight on a white imac 24 to record a video. When she uses imovie HD to play it back, the audio contains a high frequency and pitch 'beep beep beep' for the length of the track, but you can still hear the underlying audio. You can also hear it while you are recording, but it is not as loud.

I tried to replicate the problem using a macbook merely 10 feet away, but couldn't.

Interestingly, she says that she used garageband to record some audio and there was no beeping.

:dunno Any ideas???

[ian408]

:dunno Any ideas???
Check the connections. Also, you don't happen to have a cell phone or worse,
a blackberry anyplace near do you? Stuff like that sometimes has a negative
effect on speakers/etc. Especially the BB.

[David Taylor]

Check the connections. Also, you don't happen to have a cell phone or worse,
a blackberry anyplace near do you? Stuff like that sometimes has a negative
effect on speakers/etc. Especially the BB.
Nope, none of those. Just the usual assortment of cable modem and wireless router etc. Tried unplugging all accessories and it still persists. :scratch

[DavidTO]

What software is she using to record?

[patch29]

Anyone one else having issues tethering a Canon 5D to their mac via OS EOS Utility via Mac OS 10.5?

I can connect via 10.4 without a problem, with 10.5 it shows a message similar to "LCD busy..."

My 30D and 1DmkII both connect with EU and 10.5 without a problem, just hoping someone here has a solution so I don't have to reboot off a back up drive to edit my camera settings on the 5D. I only need to change my copyright notice from 2007 to 2008.

[DavidTO]

Anyone one else having issues tethering a Canon 5D to their mac via OS EOS Utility via Mac OS 10.5?



Yes, but my problem is strictly monetary. I can't find a cable long enough to reach from my computer to B&H, where my 5D sits, waiting for me. :wxwax

[David Taylor]

What software is she using to record?
It's imovie hd.

So after much frustration and tinkering, it seems as if the beeping is coming from within the body of the imac. You cannot hear it normally, but the internal mic sure does. I have to wind the input vol down and crank up the noise reduction in editing to remove it. :cry

Guess it really means it's time for an ext mic :rolleyes

[blalor]

Guess it really means it's time for an ext mic :rolleyes
Or a call to Apple... :D

[DavidTO]

Yes. The internal mic is not something to rely on for that kind of stuff. It's good for chat, but as far as anything that you'll be scrutinizing more than that, external is the way to go. :thumb

[gus]

So how do you explain Gus's issues?



Its slowly getting better...yeah i know that isnt how things work but its not doing it as often & when it does freeze, its not for as long...maybe 20-30 sec now.

I thought these were supposed to be the ultimate no hassle machine ? Funny how it can just start doing that when i have not downloaded ANY programmes or changed any settings. It just decided to start doing it out of the blue.

[SloYerRoll]

Sorry you've had a tough time w/ your machine Gus. It always sucks when you have such high hopes and it turns out to feel like junk. No matter what the product. Especially when this forum creates such a mystical aura of goodness around Macs.

I think Ian's suggestion is your best course at this point. Force run your updates to make sure it's not a bug that's been fixed by adobe.

[gus]

I think Ian's suggestion is your best course at this point. Force run your updates to make sure it's not a bug that's been fixed by adobe.
Yeah...the rainbows & glitter falling into the candyland world only have a warranty for 60 days...then its back to reality.

Im trying ians update suggestion today actually.

[DavidTO]

Gus, when is the last time you restarted the iMac?

Also, have you checked your PS Performance prefs?
http://img.skitch.com/20080101-xun38hqxcpfr4rqwanb812tycq.jpg

[gus]

Gus, when is the last time you restarted the iMac?
About 30 mins ago...then maybe 5 or 6 times yesterday & then maybe twice a day ..everyday. Im a eletrician with a 90 year old timber home...not much that gets as hot as this Imac stays on in this joint thats for sure. Its only on if im about the place.

[gus]

Also, have you checked your PS Performance prefs?

No...how do i find that ?

Also do i need to clear my cache like i did on my PC & if so where do i find it ?

[SloYerRoll]

Doesn't answer your previous post.
But you may want to also try optimizing Ps (http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=317280&sliceId=1) on your machine.

[DavidTO]

No...how do i find that ?

Also do i need to clear my cache like i did on my PC & if so where do i find it ?


Photoshop>Preferences>Performance

[patch29]

Yes, but my problem is strictly monetary. I can't find a cable long enough to reach from my computer to B&H, where my 5D sits, waiting for me. :wxwax

I waited a long time to buy one and then bought used. :deal

I have already started planning the purchase strategy for the 5D replacement. :D

[gus]

Photoshop>Preferences>Performance
ok..its got 70% of 2 gig avail to it & 240 gig hard drive also avail. The other settings are same as your ('cept my vid card kicks your vid cards arse)

So how do i clean up Leopards cache then ?

Ive googled it but dont really get a straight answer for leopard.

[DavidTO]

ok..its got 70% of 2 gig avail to it & 240 gig hard drive also avail. The other settings are same as your ('cept my vid card kicks your vid cards arse)

So how do i clean up Leopards cache then ?

Ive googled it but dont really get a straight answer for leopard.


Try OnyX (http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/onyx_leopard.html). You can do that and much more.

[Richard]

BTW...its random...it can run full speed then choke without warning. I only have a dot beside email & finder so i assume they are running in the background.

Hey Gus,

I've been following this thread and am curious about what's causing your problem. Your machine is powerful enough that you shouldn't have hangs unless something is pushing it to its limits. Have you noticed any pattern to what you are doing in CS3 when the problem occurs? Also, do you regularly receive large attachments in email?

Question for Mac experts: Does OS-X do background file indexing from time to time? My parents' OS-9 iMac comes to a crawl whenever that kicks in, though IIRC, it does show a dialog that lets you cancel it. :scratch

[gus]

Tks richard...no i dont get any emails really. Im not into it.


The machine crashes daily..sometimes 3 times a day...it hangs in just normal use & then crashes & wants to report home to mum with what ever is wrong with it so dont anyone tell me macs dont crash. My old XP clanker beside has a better track record than this thing. This is a clean new machine with up to date software...not some refurb job either. At least the mac recovers from the crash much faster than my PC.

As for the Photoshop 'hanging' , nothing else is running. At the most i may have one or 2 web pages open. No pattern just usually always with saving a normal sized jpeg (about 2-4 meg) from PS to pictures.

[DavidTO]

Tks richard...no i dont get any emails really. Im not into it.


The machine crashes daily..sometimes 3 times a day...it hangs in just normal use & then crashes & wants to report home to mum with what ever is wrong with it so dont anyone tell me macs dont crash. My old XP clanker beside has a better track record than this thing. This is a clean new machine with up to date software...not some refurb job either. At least the mac recovers from the crash much faster than my PC.

As for the Photoshop 'hanging' , nothing else is running. At the most i may have one or 2 web pages open. No pattern just usually always with saving a normal sized jpeg (about 2-4 meg) from PS to pictures.


There is something wrong. This is not expected or normal behavior. May not help you much, that statement, but you absolutely should not be having these problems. It's just not normal. Ask Doc to go over your system. He should know what to do.

Those crashes are not the Mac crashing, but the application. There's a difference. The Mac is still up and running fine, just not the application. For the Mac to crash, that's a kernel panic, and is pretty darn rare. Also, KPs are almost always hardware related.

So, which apps are crashing? Is it always PS, or are there others? If it's always PS, then there's an issue with your application install, or your preference files, or something along those lines.

[gus]

There is something wrong. This is not expected or normal behavior. May not help you much, that statement, but you absolutely should not be having these problems. It's just not normal. Ask Doc to go over your system. He should know what to do.

Those crashes are not the Mac crashing, but the application. There's a difference. The Mac is still up and running fine, just not the application. For the Mac to crash, that's a kernel panic, and is pretty darn rare. Also, KPs are almost always hardware related.

So, which apps are crashing? Is it always PS, or are there others? If it's always PS, then there's an issue with your application install, or your preference files, or something along those lines.

It crashes just surfing the net...i will look deeper into it later. Out the door to work now. Tks.

[Richard]

It crashes just surfing the net...i will look deeper into it later. Out the door to work now. Tks.

It's sounding like a hardware issue to me. You should run hardware diagnostics (I forget what Apple calls them) and let us know what you find.

[cabbey]

Question for Mac experts: Does OS-X do background file indexing from time to time? My parents' OS-9 iMac comes to a crawl whenever that kicks in, though IIRC, it does show a dialog that lets you cancel it. :scratch

Yes, there are some cron jobs that fire off nightly at between 2 and 4 am localtime, or abotu 10 to 15 minutes after you boot up if they haven't run yet today. They'll grind the disk pretty hard, but that's about it. They're also niced down almost as low as they can go by default, so everything else on the box should have a higher run priority. I've had them kick off during a big recompile and they barely dent the recompile time... doing little bits in the background as they can until the compile is done, then coming out to play and finishing their work while I'm testing the fix and/or swearing at the build logs.

[colourbox]

Question for Mac experts: Does OS-X do background file indexing from time to time? My parents' OS-9 iMac comes to a crawl whenever that kicks in, though IIRC, it does show a dialog that lets you cancel it. :scratch

In OS 9, I think there was a Find by Content Indexing feature that showed those symptoms and had a cancel button. It can't be cron jobs, because OS 9 doesn't have them, only OS X. You might look around for Find by Content Indexing preference. I can't remember how it worked.

OS X has Spotlight, but that is completely different than the OS 9 indexing. Spotlight may churn if you mount a new volume full of files and it hasn't been indexed, but it shouldn't just happen otherwise and there is no cancel button.

[DavidTO]

Looks like Apple may make a laptop dock (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/03/apple_filing_proposes_imac_like_notebook_docking_station.html) after all.

[zweiblumen]

Looks like Apple may make a laptop dock (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/03/apple_filing_proposes_imac_like_notebook_docking_station.html) after all.

Bugger. I'm planning on getting a new mac soon. But I don't think I'm going to wait for this. Seems like they may take a while to get that out the door. But I have to say, having a laptop that I could bring home and turn into a 24" iMac would be perfect.

[gus]

Looks like Apple may make a laptop dock (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/03/apple_filing_proposes_imac_like_notebook_docking_station.html) after all.
That would be one way of cooking your dinner if the kitchen stove was on the blink.

[ChrisJ]

Looks like Apple may make a laptop dock (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/03/apple_filing_proposes_imac_like_notebook_docking_station.html) after all.
Hmm... interesting... but I'd rather be able to use the laptop display AND an external monitor.

[DoctorIt]

Looks like Apple may make a laptop dock (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/03/apple_filing_proposes_imac_like_notebook_docking_station.html) after all.Hype, 100% hype. Do you know how many napkin scribbled patents a company like Apple must file on an almost daily basis, "just in case"?

[ian408]

Hype, 100% hype. Do you know how many napkin scribbled patents a company like Apple must file on an almost daily basis, "just in case"?

Not many. Patents aren't all that easy to file. But I bet they teach engineers to
write stuff like that down.

Too bad the laptop is closed when it gets stuffed in the doc. Makes it a tad
bit unusable without a monitor.

[bigwebguy]

but what if...just if...the dock IS the monitor

creepy

ooooh.

:s85

[zweiblumen]

Not many. Patents aren't all that easy to file. But I bet they teach engineers to
write stuff like that down.

Too bad the laptop is closed when it gets stuffed in the doc. Makes it a tad
bit unusable without a monitor.


Looks like the front *IS* the monitor and it plugs into the DVI to display. Either that or you end up looking at the closed laptop through a hole in the front of it :rofl

[cmason]

Not many. Patents aren't all that easy to file. But I bet they teach engineers to write stuff like that down.

in the corporate environment, patents are dirt simple to apply for. Most companies have it down to a formula, with staff, legal and otherwise to make it effortless for the technical staff to file any idea, crazy or otherwise as a patent. The cost is tiny compared to the potential revenue, or better yet, legal leverage.

[BradfordBenn]

Looks like Apple may make a laptop dock (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/03/apple_filing_proposes_imac_like_notebook_docking_station.html) after all.

About time.

Now regarding two monitors, my nice Lenovo work laptop has a VGA and DVI output on the dock, so with the laptop closed I have two monitors. And they are positioned and sized to match :)

[DavidTO]

About time.

Now regarding two monitors, my nice Lenovo work laptop has a VGA and DVI output on the dock, so with the laptop closed I have two monitors. And they are positioned and sized to match :)


Cool!

No reason why this one couldn't do the same (support 2 displays).

[StevenV]

that means you have to buy two monitors, though. if it's a dock for laptops, the laptop already has a monitor, it makes more sense (from a user perspective) to let me use it. at my office I have my (pos dell) laptop plugged into a docking station with an external monitor so I get two.

[DavidTO]

that means you have to buy two monitors, though. if it's a dock for laptops, the laptop already has a monitor, it makes more sense (from a user perspective) to let me use it. at my office I have my (pos dell) laptop plugged into a docking station with an external monitor so I get two.


Yup. There's also something to be said for the lack of clutter in this design, the minimal amount of desk space it uses.

We'll see. It may never come out, anyway! :D

[noeltykay]

I had been happily using my Canon Elura 100 with my FW400 port up until I upgraded to Leopard. The FW400 port is home to my Lacie 250GB FW 400 external drive and prior to upgrading to Leopard I had no problem sharing the port when I needed to transfer video form my camera. Now that I have upgraded to Leopard the port recognized the external HD but not the camera. I tried uninstalling all cables and rebooting...to no avail. I tried daisy chaining the camera by using the extra FW400 port on the back of the Lacie...again to no avail. I am extremely disappointed as it should "just work".

I also tried using all the different USB 2.0 ports. I checked the camera in the System Profiler and it appears when plugged in....it's just that iMovie won't recognize. In order to further troubleshoot I connected my wifes Canon SD450 digital point and shoot to see if I could transfer a small video file from it...although the camera appears on the desktop when connnected I am unable to import the video using iMovie....this is really beginning to frustrate me as it should simply work.

I was able to connect the Elura 100 using my FW400 cable to a friends iMac running Leopard natively.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

[MooreDriven]

Looks like Apple may make a laptop dock (http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/03/apple_filing_proposes_imac_like_notebook_docking_station.html) after all.

It's the one thing my MacBook is lacking (besides a Quicken solution). When I hook up all the cables to an external monitor, keyboard, mouse, speakers, etc., it's not the prettiest thing. However, the docking station shown is not really what I would be wanting anyway.

I'm not sure why Apple did not create a docking station. They do everything else so well, it's a bit surprising they've never created one. I'm sure a lot of MacBook users use external monitors, keyboards and mouse. Then again, maybe not.

Dale

[colourbox]

I'm not sure why Apple did not create a docking station. They do everything else so well, it's a bit surprising they've never created one.

For a season or two, you could see Apple's original docking station (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_Duo#Docking_stations) sitting in the background on Jerry Seinfeld's desk at home. Later the Mac on Jerry's desk got updated, as it often did on that show. You can play "Identify Jerry's Mac" when watching the reruns; the model in the background a good way to figure out the season of the episode you're watching.

[BradfordBenn]

that means you have to buy two monitors, though. if it's a dock for laptops, the laptop already has a monitor, it makes more sense (from a user perspective) to let me use it. at my office I have my (pos dell) laptop plugged into a docking station with an external monitor so I get two.

Yup I understand the concern. I took your approach for a while then at work I was able to get a second monitor. Having two monitors that are the same size and resolution and in the same plane became much more fluid to work with. It started to turn into one big monitor (kind of like the huge cinema displays)

[gus]

I still cant stay logged into smugmug for more than a day. It just drops itself out. Is there a setting im missing here ?

[DavidTO]

I still cant stay logged into smugmug for more than a day. It just drops itself out. Is there a setting im missing here ?


Didn't this happen before and you had private browsing turned on in Safari?

[gus]

Didn't this happen before and you had private browsing turned on in Safari?
Its def turned off. Has been since we did it weeks back.

[Andy]

Predictions (http://www.macworld.com/article/131399/2008/01/predictions.html).

[BradfordBenn]

iToothbrush:crazy :lol4

[Andy]

Its def turned off. Has been since we did it weeks back.
Gus, be sure you have cookies enabled, and be sure you are logging in and out from www.smugmug.com - more help here (http://www.smugmug.com/help/acctlogin).

[cabbey]

Its def turned off. Has been since we did it weeks back.

Aren't the login credential cookies scoped to your IP address? Any chance your ISP is giving you a new address every few days Gus? Mine's done that a few times when things have not been behaving quite right on there end.

[DavidTO]

Cool!!!

I just upgraded my UPS from my old POS that I've had for ages, and which was grossly insufficient. :D

Anyway, I put the install disk for the auto shutdown stuff that comes with it (via USB), and there was no Mac installer....so a little hunting, and I found out why.

It's built in to OSX. Plug the USB cable in, and your System Prefs automagically change to give you control of shutdown of the APC!!!!

http://img.skitch.com/20080105-fh5y676dkmdgtn6q8y34mb2nq9.jpg

[ian408]

Which UPS model did you end up with?

[DavidTO]

Which UPS model did you end up with?


Heheh. It's right there in the screengrab! :deal

APC Smart-UPS 1500

[ChrisJ]

Cool!!! ... It's built in to OSX.
I totally agree, that is coo!. :cool

[gus]

Gus, be sure you have cookies enabled, and be sure you are logging in and out from www.smugmug.com - more help here (http://www.smugmug.com/help/acctlogin).
Smugmug is the only site the mac wont stay logged onto out of about 10 other sites :dunno

if it can be done broke...im your man :thumb

[gus]

Guys...whats really driving me absolutely bloody crazy with this computer is that i cant do a full screen flick through of a folder full of photos.

On my PC it was just a matter of opening a photo with xp via a 'right click' & then there was a fwd & reverse arrow at the bottom of the page. man it was just easy.

Now the only way i can have similar is with that 'flick though book' style in which the photos are so pixilated that they are impossible to view.

I was at a mac shop the other day & there was some mac boffin with his pants down telling me that it was my fault that they were pixilated as the files were simply too small....well they are 2 to 4 meg ! (i can see the flamin' size written there & i have just done the save from CS3 at that bloody size so i know that they are not too small. He wouldnt believe me.

Any ideas ?? You cant tell me apple have neglected this...there must be an easy way to see my photos full screen ...one at a time with a click of the mouse.

[Richard]

I'm sure there's a way to do it, and someone will let you know soon, but in the meantime, why not just open the folder in Bridge and use a small thumbs panel and a large preview panel? Or just select all, and hit Cmd-L for a slideshow. I loathed Bridge in CS2, but it is working great for me in CS3 on my new machine.

[gus]

I'm sure there's a way to do it, and someone will let you know soon, but in the meantime, why not just open the folder in Bridge and use a small thumbs panel and a large preview panel? Or just select all, and hit Cmd-L for a slideshow. I loathed Bridge in CS2, but it is working great for me in CS3 on my new machine.
Tks richard...i didnt think of using bridge. I actually love bridge in CS2/3. Yeah there has to be a way to do it other than that you would think.

[W.W. Webster]

Any ideas ??Have you checked whether Preview will do the job for you?

If you have it set up in your dock and then just select and throw all the images of interest at it, you can then conveniently browse through them in sequence or selectively as you wish. :wink

[gus]

Have you checked whether Preview will do the job for you?

If you have it set up in your dock and then just select and throw all the images of interest at it, you can then conveniently browse through them in sequence or selectively as you wish. :wink
Tks mate but i shouldnt have to throw images into a file that i want to see. I should be able to just open any file at random with my large jpegs in it & flick through them at full (or half) screen size. :scratch

[DoctorIt]

Any ideas ?? You cant tell me apple have neglected this...there must be an easy way to see my photos full screen ...one at a time with a click of the mouse.This is CS3's fault, not Apple. You'll need 2 things:
1) turn off the default icon/thumbnail creation in CS3
Photoshop > Preferences > File Handling... there under "File Saving Options" uncheck "Icon" for sure, I have them all unchecked, and I don't remember what default is, but I know the Icon is what gives you the crap pixelated view in Coverflow.

2) to fix the ones that are already pixelated, you have to strip off the icons. Go get CocoThumbX (CTX), here (http://www.stalkingwolf.net/software/cocothumbx/).



Mate, you asked this once already, did you try the fix and it didn't work? If so, let me know, something else is up.

history...
First asked here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=682357#post682357) (me).

Then you asked here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=702323#post702323).

I give you a link to the Apple forums here (http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?p=702457#post702457), where it's explained very well, and CTX is praised by many folks for fixing the issue.

[W.W. Webster]

I should be able to just open any file at random with my large jpegs in it & flick through them at full (or half) screen size. :scratchI'm not sure we're on the same wavelength. :huh

By 'open any file ...' do you mean 'open any folder ..."?

I'm not suggesting the experience would be precisely the same as you have been accustomed to on the dark side, but if you drag any folder of JPEGs to the Preview app (whether in the dock or otherwise) the images in the folder are all immediately available to browse in a window as large as you wish - allowing you to go forward and back to your heart's content.

[gus]

I'm not sure we're on the same wavelength. :huh

By 'open any file ...' do you mean 'open any folder ..."?

I'm not suggesting the experience would be precisely the same as you have been accustomed to on the dark side, but if you drag any folder of JPEGs to the Preview app (whether in the dock or otherwise) the images in the folder are all immediately available to browse in a window as large as you wish - allowing you to go forward and back to your heart's content.
What im talking about is if i create a folder from CS2 in xp on my PC....i save large jpegs to it > right click > open a photo > then there are arrows at the bottom of the page to move to the next one or go back.

I was wanting leopard to have a similar ability to simply allow me to open a folder with say 50 x 3-4 meg photos in it & open them to view each one at a good screen resolution. i mean they are big files. The files are a set size so the platform should automatically have the ability to open them correctly without killing a chicken on the 3rd moon of a leap year.

[W.W. Webster]

What im talking about is if i create a folder from CS2 in xp on my PC....i save large jpegs to it > right click > open a photo > then there are arrows at the bottom of the page to move to the next one or go back.The only difference would be that rather than right click to open an image in the folder, you would 'open' all the images by dragging the folder to Preview. Then you would advance from image to image in much the same way.

And you're not limited to JPEGs - RAW images are handled the same way, as the Mac doesn't care what they are.

[gus]

The only difference would be that rather than right click to open an image in the folder, you would 'open' all the images by dragging the folder to Preview. Then you would advance from image to image in much the same way.

And you're not limited to JPEGs - RAW images are handled the same way, as the Mac doesn't care what they are.
ok..what is & where do i find preview ?

[W.W. Webster]

ok..what is & where do i find preview ?It should be in your Applications folder - it comes bundled with every Mac. :D

[gus]

It should be in your Applications folder - it comes bundled with every Mac. :D
Ok..now that applications folder is empty. Should it have something in it that says 'preview'?

[W.W. Webster]

Ok..now that applications folder is empty. Should it have something in it that says 'preview'?Which Applications folder are you looking at - the one at the root of your hard drive or under 'Users'?

[DavidTO]

ok..what is & where do i find preview ?


Preview is in your applications folder.

If you do what Doc suggests you'll fix the problem that PS made, and you'll be able to preview simply by selecting the image in the finder and hitting the spacebar, then using the arrows to navigate. It's called Quicklook, and it's awesome. :thumb

[gus]

Preview is in your applications folder.

If you do what Doc suggests you'll fix the problem that PS made, and you'll be able to preview simply by selecting the image in the finder and hitting the spacebar, then using the arrows to navigate. It's called Quicklook, and it's awesome. :thumb
There has to be another way & i will find it or do a lot worse than sam.

[DavidTO]

Gus, the applications folder that you're looking at (the empty one) must be in your Home folder. You want to look in the root Applica