Mac Systems

Network volume icon is locked... Why?
Hi. OS X Tiger. This is weird and annoying. I connected to my iBook from my desktop machine, and replaced the icon for the volume with a picture of an iBook, by pasting it into the icon picture in the 'get info' panel. So far so good. What's weird is that now it won't let me change it. I pasted the wrong ... 11 Nov 2005 10:54

LaCie USB/ethernet drive
Wanting to share and backup files over a home network I bought a LaCie EDmini ethernet/USB drive. After several week of exchanging emails with LaCie's technical support and playing around with the drive I've yet to get it to work properly. Has anyone had success? The current problem is that the drive stores ... 9 Oct 2005 15:30

DEFRAGMENTING
Hi all, Does anyone knows if it is necessary for MAC to be defragmented. I downloaded a couple of mpg's and programs then eventually deleting them. Is it the same with Windows that u need to defrag your C drive in order to run your system faster? Lemme know..... thanks so much. ... 25 Sep 2005 23:08

Reformat USB Flash Drive?
Is there a way to re-format or "erase and re-initialize" a keychain-type flash drive gadget. I recently copied an Adobe Acrobat-prepared PDF document from my iBook G4 running OS 10.3.9 onto a Sonnet Piccolo 32 MB USB flash drive, and learned that a colleague was not able to mount the flash drive on his Windo... 25 Sep 2005 21:05

Free OS 10.4 Tiger
As another thread suggested some OS DVD's will only work on specific models... I bought eMac 10.4 Tiger disks on eBay which will not install on my G3 iMac. (Oddly enough my eMac OS Panther installed perfectly.) So, I will give these disks FREE to abyone who can use them. Request $5 shipping. John ... 23 Sep 2005 22:46

Update Questions
Alright, I am currently running my iMac G3 on a 9.2.2 system, but would like to upgrade to Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar. For some reason, I can't seem to find any information as to the price or the system requirements. The Apple site just isn't much help, and I can't run Tiger on it just yet. Anyone have any help for m... 20 Sep 2005 23:40

reset file associations
I know how to CHANGE the program assigned to open a file type (using the file inspector), but how do I RESET file type associations in OSX? I.e. if a program for some reason assigns itself to a file type improperly, how do I un-assign the file type? The Finder only wants to let me change the program, not choose n... 24 Sep 2005 17:41

"Invalid Node Structure" Repair Question
I'm running OS X 10.3.9 on a G4 DP 1.25ghz machine... I'm in the midst of running Disk Utility on an external firewire drive (150gig). It's found an 'invalid node structure' and is repairing the catalog b-tree. My question: How long should this take? It's been going for about 15 minutes so far (since findi... 15 Sep 2005 22:42

Keeping 2 OSX machines in sync?
Please excuse my cluelessness regarding this -- I've been using 2 Macs (desktop with OS 9.1 and laptop with OS 10.2.3, administrator is the only user.). I transfer files back and forth via a small Lacie drive to keep them both in sync. I'm about to upgrade both to Tiger, so this is the first time I'll be tr... 19 Sep 2005 16:37

Install from USB Drive
My iBook doesn't have a DVD drive but I need to install Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) (which I have on DVD disc). I do have an USB hard drive. How can I install Tiger with only a built-in CD-ROM drive and an external USB hard drive? TIA ... 25 Sep 2005 23:08