Snow Leopard on Sale
 

Didn't put it in the Mac thread but created a new one for visibility.

On sale as off about 30 minutes on the Apple store site.

£25 for single use licence and £39 for the family licence.

Delivery by Aug 29th.

Apple Store UK

Apologies if this has already been posted, but there's a very good website at iFixit: Apple Mac, MacBook, iPod, and iPhone Repair Parts which provides step by step instructions on how to replace nearly any part in nearly any mac- although sometimes it's a case of "easier said than done". Remember that Mac internals are not designed to be prodded routinely- antistatic precautions and a lot of restraint in the face of adversity is required! :cool:

What is the Mac equivalent of the Windows right click, i.e. to disclose a pictures properties?

Ctrl-Click

You can set up the apple mouse to right click in preferences. It has a sensor inside the mouse and you have to click it with just your right finger on the mouse - ie lift the left one clear.

I see that Snow Leopard is out on Friday :ok:

Well, that was quick and easy ;)

Snow Leopard installed, lots of free disc space recovered on the MB Air, usual improvements as expected :ok:

Not everything is sweetness, my Expresscard E-SATA access to my external drive is no go. Probably a driver issue which is not Apples fault. My raw files from my Canon 5D Mk2 will not open in CS3. They are not supposed to but with Leopard after clicking on a warning they did. Guess I will be sending Adobe $$$ for the CS$ upgrade.
Excel from MS Office 2004 has to have Rosetta installed to run.

The price of progress I suppose. I do feel that a lot of things are a bit faster and no doubt there will be developments that will make SL worthwhile down the road. I hope, :rolleyes:

Edited to add that I am finding a lot of instances of "cannot find file" in iPhoto.
I keep my photo library on an external drive to avoid running into capacity problems on my MBP internal drive, maybe there is a disconnect somewhere but it was not a problem prior to SL.

Quick and easy installation on my iMac, but Safari Ad Block requires it to be set to open in 32 bit mode.

Frankly I am left wondering what I paid £25 for.

Transferring Data
 

I have a 'Group' containing 50+ e-mail addresses in Entourage on my MacBook. Is there any quick and easy way to transfer the Group to Entourage on my desktop eMac without having to enter each one individually?

Cheers,

Neppie
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Just after a bit of advice on the best place to advertise to sell my old Macbook Pro. I just bought the new 17" Macbook Pro to use as a desktop after giving my Mini to a nephew (why didn't I have an uncle like me :{ ). That means my old 15" 2.33Gb (2006 Core 2 Duo) is surplus to requirements.

It's not in bad nick, I replaced the HDD with a 320Gb a few months back, just replaced the DVD burner yesterday as the old one had stopped writing and get it in full working order.

Looking on the web the going price in the USA is about $1250, but parts also seem to sell well - a new logic board is £799 + VAT :ooh:

There don't seem many on eBay, and their costs seems quite high these days. Any recommendations on whether I'd get more for the bits then complate and/orone know a good alternate UK centric site to advertise it on?

Up-to-date
 

The update under the heading of 'Up-to-date' on the Mac site for systems bought recently -- to upgrade from Leopard to SL -- seems to be offered only if you are in or around US.

I bought a MacBook on 26th July from a Mac Store in US. This laptop is now in India.

Just can't suss out how to have the $9.99 upgrade DVD delivered here!

Any ideas/ advice/ suggestions please?



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I cannot boot up my G5 Imac, any suggestions please?
 

I was having a tidy up (I thought) but when I next tried to boot up it wouldn't. Tried using the Leopard disc and that works for an instal but will erase all on the disc.
If there is no other option that is what I'll have to do, I think I've got most of it backed up.
Its a 150Gb hard disc but was practically full (only 3.5 GB left).

All thoughts welcome.:(

BusyB,

Try running Disk Utility from the Leopard install disk to see if it can recover the disk:

Leopard Install

You might have problems with only 3.5Gb free on the disk, particularly if applications are using a lot of virtual memory.

Applemacster

Thanks for the suggestion but when I tried that and tried to Verify it says
"Keys out of order
The volume Mac HD needs to be repaired":confused:

BusyB,

It sounds like the disk is pretty far-gone. The only applications which will help are DiskWarrior or TechTool Pro :8
Each comes with a bootable repair disk.

Applemacster

Thanks for the advice AM, I've ordered TechTool Pro. Even if that doesn't work I'm sure it will be useful.
Cheers:ok:

Network Question
 

I run 2 wireless networks at home. One, called "NETA" is a D-LINK wireless router and modem which gives all my Macs at home internet access. The other is an AIRPORT EXPRESS network called "Music Network" so I can use my Mac to play iTunes thru the stereo. Trouble is, when I am on the internet, I can't play music to my stereo and vice versa.

How can I 'bridge' the 2 x networks into one network so I can surf the net as well as play my iTUNES thru the stereo at the same time?

I remember being able to do this years ago when I had Airport extreme instead of the D-LINK router / modem but the dang thing broke down.

Thanks for your help.