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Re: Burner Drive, Printing, PDFs

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Jul 21st, 2004

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Originally Posted by DMR

"It gives an error message something to do with not enough memory. To me that's silly."

Although a bit of a long shot, and I haven't done extensive Mac work in a while- I do recall instances of "out of memory" issues which were not caused by applications themselves, but rather by the extenstions the apps used.

I think you are right. When I look at the pages that it prints and gives me that message there is usually an image or frame that printed incorrectly. But how do I fix that? :-|

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Re: Burner Drive, Printing, PDFs

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Jul 21st, 2004

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Originally Posted by kc0arf

Hello,

I think for sanity's sake, we should save the data from the hard drive, and do a re-install. That way, you get a good solid chance to see the OS, and learn about it from the ground up.

You would not be able to install linux on the Mac and preserve the files on the desktop. The installation would format that particular partition, and you would lose the files. You could format everything and put YellowDogLinux on the Mac, and that would work, but you will find that OS X has a very nice interface and works so well with what a Mac is meant to be.

YellowDogLinux is a fine product; it is great for older machines that cannot run OS X well (such as this Powerbook G3 333 Mhz that I have here!) but as a Desktop OS, it isn't completely finished as the Mac OS X is.

When you are ready, plan a day to rebuild this machine. Get the data off, and then come see us. If you want me personally around, I am usually around during the day - central daylight time. I am between jobs.

Christian

So, first things first. And this is where my mac abilites are lacking. Where can I save this information since I can't burn and there are too many files for my webspace.

And come see you? Where are you, who are you? etc...

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Re: Burner Drive, Printing, PDFs

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Jul 21st, 2004

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Originally Posted by Mac_Starfish

And come see you? Where are you, who are you? etc...

Christian meant a "virtual" visit- the "here" being this site.

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Re: Burner Drive, Printing, PDFs

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Jul 22nd, 2004

Hello,

I was gone today. My apologies to the thread.

Yes, I meant a come here to the website, and let's talk.

Where to save the files off... do you have a server that this computer is connected to? If so, move the data files to the server. If not, is there someone at your workplace that has an external cd-rom burner, such as an iOmega Zip burner thing? Or an external tape drive and run with Retrospect?

Personally, I am in Wisconsin. A Cheesehead. If I wanted to doctor my Apple Logo in the avatar, I would put a cheesehat on that. But that could look too weird.

Yeah. Network is the easiest solution to the backup problem. If you are low on diskspace, talk to the computer guy there to see if you can "borrow" for a temp timeframe some space. give yourself 2 weeks to do this, and get the data out of there, so that he can reclaim it in the short term, and you will remain in good favor with him.

Christian

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Jul 27th, 2004

Thanks guys for all the help.

I finally got talking to my boss and she wants me to just take it to her guy in Toronto. She didn't even know that someone had put Mac OS X on it and she wasn't too pleased.

You guys are great!!

If I have any other problems, this will be on the top of my list of places to go!

Hugs,

Starfish :o

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Re: Burner Drive, Printing, PDFs

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Jul 27th, 2004

Well now there's a twist we weren't expecting :mrgreen:

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Jul 27th, 2004

Hello,

I wonder if Starfish is a gal?

Hope all goes well with the computer.

Christian

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Aug 3rd, 2004

I FIXED IT!!! I FIXED IT!!!! :mrgreen: Just by simply installing 10.1 and adding in all the updates to 10.1.3

Thanks again guys!!!

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Aug 3rd, 2004

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Originally Posted by kc0arf

Hello,

I wonder if Starfish is a gal?

Hope all goes well with the computer.

Christian

Hey, I might be a gal but I now know how to fix this mac without taking everything off of it. hehe.

I even know what to do now when you get the screen of death. Ever get the screen where everything is grey with a small disk in the center with a question mark as the computer appears to be struggling to read it's own hard drive?

And hey, You've never seen me with a PC. :o

haha.

Later guys.

Starfish

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Re: Burner Drive, Printing, PDFs

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Aug 3rd, 2004

HEllo Starfish,

I am glad to hear that by insalling 10.1.3, that your computer is a happier computer, and things are going well for you. Yes, a lot of the older programs are going to still run, but they will run in what is called "classic" mode, and you will find yourself doing some dual setups to get classic to work properly.

For example, let's say you have Photoshop 5 on the computer. The program is a OS 9 program. Now that you are running 10.1, you have setup a printer to use in 10.1 IN order for Photoshop 5 to print, you will need to also setup a printer within the classic environment using the classic chooser.

Only when you upgrade your old programs to their OS X counterparts will you eliminate the need for classic.

Christian