I have a G5 and added 2.5 GB of RAM sometime ago. I added 2 1GB sticks and two 256MB sticks. The computer was fine. Recently I checked the system profile and it only showed I had 512MB of RAM. I moved the sticks around and when I placed the sticks starting with the outside slots and worked in, it will recognize the first two slots but not the other two.
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PowerMac G5
Mac OS X (10.4.11)
I inserted the DVD and opened it up to the find the VIDEO_TS folder, I moved it to the desktop, after it downloaded I then moved it to the movies folder under finder. I have tried to open it in iMovie, but it will not recognize it. Do I need to convert the VOB files or something? Do I need software like Toast or is there anything I need to download online?
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G5 Dual 1.8
I have a G4 PowerMac with two 80 GB hard drives. When I boot up the computer, it boots up from the primary drive and runs fine. At this time, both my primary and my secondary drives are accessible and visible.However, when I boot up the computer using either the Tiger or Leopard DVDs and then run Disk Utility, it only recognizes my secondary hard drive and not my main hard drive.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
thinking about putting the image to an external, as a seperate partition.
then use the usb stick, as my usb stick. Good idea?
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So I took out the RAM and put it back in. No dice, so I tried it again. This time the Mac booted up like normal. I thought that was it.
Except now, every time she moves the Mac much at all (which is somewhat important, being a laptop and all) something apparently gets jostled and the computer resets. One of these times, it beeped at her three times again, but I was able to boot it back up without having to touch the RAM again.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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iDisk, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Under Trash I have 'POP Account' and 'On My Mac'
When I select a message and press delete I get a warning saying:
The message ... could not be moved to the mailbox Deleted Messages POP Account
The destination mailbox Deleted Messages POP Account does not allow messages to be moved to it.
I can drag a message to the 'On My Mac' folder and select delete and this removes the email - but seems wrong.
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The disk cannot be partitioned because some files can not be moved.
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What does this mean and how do i do this? I opened disk utility and can't work it out.
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I don't have anything to backup to, so what can I do?
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