i was looking at a movie than suddenly for the very first time (after 3 years using mac) my laptop hanged and window opened that i should press the power and bibing sound I restart it and then i realized that my system changed it name ?my previous mac name was soltans mac and now it changed to soltans mac (2) why ?
tanks in forward /Users/soltan/Documents/soltan mac 2.tiff
What would cause this and how to correct this issue? Here is a pic. I can no longer open these files and when I click on the it opens disk u.
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MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3), 4GB RAM - GeForce 8600M (512MB) GT
I have a mac pro 2x2.66 intel I'm running os x 10.4.11 (i know i'm going to wipe and install soon) I have a 27" apple led connected with the atlong dp400Â first, the issue doesn't seem to be hardware related and is user specific.Â
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