Hey All,

Got a question about Bookmarks, & the Safari & Firefox browsers.
i normally use Safari (i hope i'm smart enough to use it after reading
the earlier post about Safari not being "safe") but now & then if
Safari hiccups, i use Firefox.  i have a pretty extensive list of bookmarks
saved on Safari & i was wondering if there is a quick & EZ way to copy/
transfer/import those bookmarks into Firefox so i don't have to go
thru the whole process of manually entering & saving all those
bookmarks again?  Can the file containing the bookmarks for Safari
talk to or somehow be converted or translated into one that Firefox
reads & understands?  Thanx!

-Diana

Wow, thanx Charlie!


--- In MacHACers@yahoogroups.com, Charles South <south3@...> wrote:
>
> You might be interested in a 3rd-party add-on called AllBookmarks.
> This is a freeware 5-star rated (by users on VersionTracker) utility
> that will allow you to access all your bookmarks, regardless of
> whether they were created on Safari or Firefox.  The VersionTracker
> page is here:
>
> http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/32010
>
> Disclaimer -- I don't use this myself so this is not an endorsement or
> recommendation.
>
> There are other ways to do a one-time export from Safari to FireFox or
> vice versa but the problem would then be keeping the sets of bookmarks
> in sync over time.  However, to respond to your question, there is
> another freeware 5-star rated utility on VersionTracker which will do
> a one-time export out of Safari to just about any browser that exists
> on the Mac.  You'll find that one here:
>
> http://versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/19266
>
> Charlie South
> ___________________________
> On Mar 2, 2008, at 8:41 AM, princess90503 wrote:
>
> > Got a question about Bookmarks, & the Safari & Firefox browsers.
> > i normally use Safari (i hope i'm smart enough to use it after reading
> > the earlier post about Safari not being "safe") but now & then if
> > Safari hiccups, i use Firefox. i have a pretty extensive list of
> > bookmarks
> > saved on Safari & i was wondering if there is a quick & EZ way to
> > copy/
> > transfer/import those bookmarks into Firefox so i don't have to go
> > thru the whole process of manually entering & saving all those
> > bookmarks again? Can the file containing the bookmarks for Safari
> > talk to or somehow be converted or translated into one that Firefox
> > reads & understands? Thanx!
>

It's been years since I've used Internet Explorer on the Mac, so I
don't know the answer to Skip's question below.  Anyone else in
MacHacers better able to respond?

Safari has an "Import Bookmarks" item under the File menu which might
do it directly, if you point the open-file dialog at your IE bookmarks
favorites file.  I'd probably try that just to see what happened, but
I'm no expert on what Safari expects to see (or can handle) during
that import.  Once you had them in Safari you could use the methods
outlined earlier today to get them into Firefox.

Charlie South
_______________

On Mar 2, 2008, at 10:06 AM, Elton Mosher wrote:

> This raises a question I've not had time to pursue ... Is there an
> easy way to import Internet Explorer "Favorites" from a thumbdrive
> file into either Safari or Firefox?  I don't have IE on my mac and
> the favorites have been copied off an office computer I often use,
> then add the favorite file to other PCs which I visit from time to
> time (used as a portable set of favorites).  Obviously my Mac at
> home does not share any network with the PCs and I can only import
> via a thumbdrive.
>
> Thanks,
> Elton (Skip) Mosher

FYI, follow up on this:

> --- Niraj N Shah <nshah@...> wrote:
>[]
> >
> > The new Mac Office 2008 ships in Feb-2008.
> > So ... for a cost of $31,  I shall be getting a 3-license set of MS
> > Office 2008 for Mac.

I finally received my MS Office:mac 2008 from this Black Friday deal
today, and promptly installed it (minus Entouarge and Messenger). It's
a Universal Binary, so good for both of our MacIntel and PowerPC
laptops. So far so good, startup times for the main three programs
(Word, Excel, Powerpoint) are short. It has only one update, to the
Update program itself.

It unexpectedly comes with Microsoft Expression Media, on separate
media. I haven't installed that, still need to see if it has value for
me.

Computer Memory Vulnerable to Hacking

Visit the following URL:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080222/ap_on_hi_te/hacking_computer_memory

The other evening the DVD Player stopped responding and locked up
I had to resort to "kill" from the terminal as force quit wouldn't
work, but
force quit wouldn't work either.  I finally told it to shut down and
restart,
but moments later the finder responded that it could not shut down
mail - and neither could I including force quit and kill.  I hit the
power
button to shut down and restart.  Not a good thing,  in retrospect.

When the machine came back up DVD worked fine - but something
was amiss with mail.app - it thought I was a new user and wanted to
take me through the new account mail setup.  I didn't want to do that!

So I "cleverly" tried to recall all the mail support files I could
find think of,
but every time I tried something, I got the same results - I still did
not
want to reset everything to access my mail.

First I stupidly tried to tried recover my entire account from an early
morning backup - Time Machine (TM) is too smart for that - That would
hork (as Allison would say) up the setup and it knew it and refused
even after accepting my admin passwd for permission.

So I , again, cleverly decide to log in as my root account, logging
off the
user account.  So, as root, I told Time Machine to recover my user
account.
And it started doing that but quickly failed, reporting that it did
not have
permission to copy some Fonts (even as root!) from the Fonts directory
and TM stopped.  But my user account directory was GONE!?!  TM had
removed the directory in anticipation of replacing it - but couldn't!

Devastated I resorted to try to run TM on the remainder of my user
account.
I had to restore a few items at a time and even that would sometimes
fail
for reasons unclear to me.  I finally resorted to go into the TM backups
folders, navigating my way down to the time I wanted, on my backup
drive.
Still as root I copied user account folders back to the real user
account.
This finally resolved my mail.app problems.  But I learned several
things.

Even root on THIS machine seemed to have permissions problems - I should
repair permissions before I ever try to do this again.  I should
probably
copy or move data at the destination before I try to recover it, just
for, safety
especially if it is big or important.

TM is not perfect - but I had everything I needed to recover.

Caveat emptor,

Tim

Hello,

In case you have to provide tech help to someone else across the Internet,
there is a commercial service named LogMeIn.com that can be of significant
help.

LogMeIn has a free service that allows you to watch-n-control another
computer on the Internet.  Its been a big help in getting my Dad over his
tech stumbles as he learns about computers.

Works swell, it is free, go get it and start helping others by peering over
their virtual shoulders !

http://www.LogMeIn.com

   -- Niraj

( I get no benefit from suggesting the LogMeIn service other than reducing
your frustration$ )

:-)

>>> Original complaint:

>>> I did a software update on 1/16/08 which among other things updated
>>> my�
>>> Quicktime to version 7.4 (on an iMac G4 running OSX 10.3.9).
>>>
>>> I just now discovered that when I double click on any previously
>>> saved�
>>> .mp4 files, the Quicktime app only plays the sound now. The video�
>>> window doesn't show up.
>>>
>>> I tried playing over a dozen previously saved .mp4 movies and I get
>>> the�
>>> same result, sound only.
>>>
	 I emailed my issue to the iTunes Store Customer support folks and on
2/8/08 I got the following feedback:

Dear Carl,

I'm sorry to hear that you haven't been able to watch videos after you
installed the software update. I know how frustrating this can be. My
name is Calvin and I'm happy to assist you today.

To resolve this, I recommend uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes. You
may wish to begin by backing up your library:

How to back up your media in iTunes
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n302392

To uninstall iTunes, please follow these steps:

1) Choose Home from the Finder's Go menu. Open the Library folder, then
open the Preferences folder. Locate the following files and drag them
to the Trash:

com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist
com.apple.iTunes.plist
com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist

2) Go back to the Library folder, then open the Caches folder. Locate
the file called QCCompositionRepository-com.apple.iTunes.cache and drag
it to the Trash.

3) Choose Computer from the Go menu and open your hard disk (by default
it is called Macintosh HD). Open the Library folder, then open the
Receipts folder. Locate the following files and drag them to the Trash
(if you don't see all of these, just remove the ones you do see):

AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg
iTunes.pkg
iTunesAccess.pkg
iTunesX.pkg

4) Go back to your hard disk. Open the System folder, then open the
Library folder, then open the Extensions folder. Locate the filed
called AppleMobileDevice.kext and drag it to the Trash.

5) Choose Applications from the Go menu. Locate iTunes and drag it to
the Trash. (You will not lose the items in your iTunes Library by doing
this.)

6) Restart your computer.

Now that you've uninstalled iTunes, you will need to reinstall it. You
can download the latest version free of charge from the iTunes website:

http://www.itunes.com/download

After you've reinstalled iTunes, please ensure you have the latest
version of QuickTime installed. You can find the latest version here:

http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download

If you continue to experience difficulties with the iTunes application
after uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, you might want to contact
AppleCare Technical Support (there may be a fee associated with the
call). To find the appropriate phone number, please visit:

http://www.apple.com/support/contact/phone_contacts.html

I hope I have resolved your issue today. Have a wonderful day and Happy
iTunes!

Sincerely,

Calvin
iTunes Store Customer Support
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww/

----------------------------------------------------------------------
I hadn't gotten around to trying Calvin's approach until today.

In the mean time Apple came out with additional updates to iTunes
(7.6.1) and Quicktime (7.4.1).  I previously downloaded and installed
both of these updates, hopeful that they would fix the problem.  But
alas, neither one helped with the problem.

So today I tried Calvin's procedure above.  One note: I could not
locate the file called QCCompositionRepository-com.apple.iTunes.cache.

Anyhow, I did everything per the procedure (as long as I could find the
subject file) then re-installed the latest iTunes program (7.6.1).

Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem either.

I would think that by now Apple would be getting so many complaints
that they would figure out how to do a patch to fix things.

There is still the option of downgrading to prior versions, but that
doesn't seem very appealing.  I keep hoping Apple will fix this.

Why do I feel like I am beating a dead horse?

Carl

Great news:

There is a solution!

It came from iSquint.

I had been using iSquint for a long time (in conjunction with web sites
such as YouTube) to convert downloaded files into a Quicktime playable
format (namely .mp4 format).

The prior version of iSquint was 1.5.1.

I just tried to download a video and started to use iSquint to convert
it (to see if it would work) when a window popped up announcing that
the iSquint application has been updated to version 1.5.2 and it said
that this newer version would correct the problem with video not
showing up in Quicktime.  So I immediately downloaded iSquint 1.5.2 and
used it to convert my file into an new .mp4 file and then double
clicked it to activate Quicktime, and Voila, it works.  Hooray.

The download installer also includes a second application called:
DeBreaker (280 Kbytes) which can be used to modify former .mp4 files so
that they can be viewed properly with Quicktime. I haven't tried that
yet, but will very soon.

There is a God!



On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:37 PM, Carl Cullings wrote:

>>>> Original complaint:
>
>>>> I did a software update on 1/16/08 which among other things updated
>>>> my�
>>>> Quicktime to version 7.4 (on an iMac G4 running OSX 10.3.9).
>>>>
>>>> I just now discovered that when I double click on any previously
>>>> saved�
>>>> .mp4 files, the Quicktime app only plays the sound now. The video�
>>>> window doesn't show up.
>>>>
>>>> I tried playing over a dozen previously saved .mp4 movies and I get
>>>> the�
>>>> same result, sound only.
>>>>
>  I emailed my issue to the iTunes Store Customer support folks and on
> 2/8/08 I got the following feedback:
>
> Dear Carl,
>
> I'm sorry to hear that you haven't been able to watch videos after you
> installed the software update. I know how frustrating this can be. My
> name is Calvin and I'm happy to assist you today.
>
> To resolve this, I recommend uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes. You
> may wish to begin by backing up your library:
>
> How to back up your media in iTunes
> http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n302392
>
> To uninstall iTunes, please follow these steps:
>
> 1) Choose Home from the Finder's Go menu. Open the Library folder,
> then open the Preferences folder. Locate the following files and drag
> them to the Trash:
>
> com.apple.iTunes.eq.plist
> com.apple.iTunes.plist
> com.apple.iTunesHelper.plist
>
> 2) Go back to the Library folder, then open the Caches folder. Locate
> the file called QCCompositionRepository-com.apple.iTunes.cache and
> drag it to the Trash.
>
> 3) Choose Computer from the Go menu and open your hard disk (by
> default it is called Macintosh HD). Open the Library folder, then open
> the Receipts folder. Locate the following files and drag them to the
> Trash (if you don't see all of these, just remove the ones you do
> see):
>
> AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg
> iTunes.pkg
> iTunesAccess.pkg
> iTunesX.pkg
>
> 4) Go back to your hard disk. Open the System folder, then open the
> Library folder, then open the Extensions folder. Locate the filed
> called AppleMobileDevice.kext and drag it to the Trash.
>
> 5) Choose Applications from the Go menu. Locate iTunes and drag it to
> the Trash. (You will not lose the items in your iTunes Library by
> doing this.)
>
> 6) Restart your computer.
>
> Now that you've uninstalled iTunes, you will need to reinstall it. You
> can download the latest version free of charge from the iTunes
> website:
>
> http://www.itunes.com/download
>
> After you've reinstalled iTunes, please ensure you have the latest
> version of QuickTime installed. You can find the latest version here:
>
> http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download
>
> If you continue to experience difficulties with the iTunes application
> after uninstalling and reinstalling iTunes, you might want to contact
> AppleCare Technical Support (there may be a fee associated with the
> call). To find the appropriate phone number, please visit:
>
> http://www.apple.com/support/contact/phone_contacts.html
>
> I hope I have resolved your issue today. Have a wonderful day and
> Happy iTunes!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Calvin
> iTunes Store Customer Support
> http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/ww/
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> I hadn't gotten around to trying Calvin's approach until today.
>
> In the mean time Apple came out with additional updates to iTunes
> (7.6.1) and Quicktime (7.4.1).  I previously downloaded and installed
> both of these updates, hopeful that they would fix the problem.  But
> alas, neither one helped with the problem.
>
> So today I tried Calvin's procedure above.  One note: I could not
> locate the file called QCCompositionRepository-com.apple.iTunes.cache.
>
> Anyhow, I did everything per the procedure (as long as I could find
> the subject file) then re-installed the latest iTunes program (7.6.1).
>
> Unfortunately, this did not solve the problem either.
>
> I would think that by now Apple would be getting so many complaints
> that they would figure out how to do a patch to fix things.
>
> There is still the option of downgrading to prior versions, but that
> doesn't seem very appealing.  I keep hoping Apple will fix this.
>
> Why do I feel like I am beating a dead horse?
>
> Carl

Hey All,

Am i supposed to be doing some kind of defrag periodically on
my Mac hard drive (i have a PowerBook G4, 60 GB internal drive)?
If so, how would i go about doing this?  Thanx in advance.

-Diana

Hey All,

Is iPhoto a HUMUNGOUS memory hog if you have a lot of pictures in
it?  i run iPhoto 5.0.4 on my PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz (OS X 10.4.11)
& it currently has 4720 photos loaded into it (spread across probably
20 or so albums).  My system memory is already maxed out @ 1.25 GB
so i can't upgrade that any more, unfortunately.

i've noticed for a long time now that whenever i try to do anything
w/iPhoto (opening it, quitting out of it, importing new photos into it,
etc.), unless i have just recently rebooted the system & have very few
other apps running, it seems to take FOREVER to do anything & also
slows down at least some of the other things currently running to a
CRAWL until the system eventually catches up to it.  It takes at least
5 minutes to open it, 15 minutes to exit/quit out of it, & anything else
might take 5 minutes or more, & in the interim if i try to do anything
(even on other apps), i'll get the dreaded "spinning beach ball of death"
for who knows how long.  When this happens, i typically have between
5 & 10 applications currently open & running (e.g., MS Word, Excel,
Safari, iPhoto, iTunes, FireFox, AOL, Skype) & i'll typically have 10-15
browser windows open, some of those w/5-10 open tabs.

When i have all these things open, everything seems to run OK unless/
until i try to do something w/iPhoto, in which case everything slows
to a CRAWL for 5-10 minutes.  After that, the system seems to "recover"
& go back to normal response times until the next iPhoto operation
that i attempt.

Am i overloading the system or is there something i'm supposed to be
doing w/iPhoto that i don't know about (like somehow "archiving" some
of those iPhoto albums in some way & offloading them from iPhoto)?
It's not as if i take a huge # of pictures, i'll import btwn 5 & 50 over a
period of a few days to a few weeks, & all the photos in iPhoto are
just an accumulation of all the photos over the last couple of years.

Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated (especially if i don't have
to cut down on the # of apps i'm running concurrently or # of windows
i have open, etc.).

Thanx.

-Diana

--- In MacHACers@yahoogroups.com, Mike Shulman <tripod2@...> wrote:
>
> Your version of iPhoto is pretty old. iPhoto 5.0.4 came out on
> 7/29/2005. The current version of iPhoto 7.1.3 is part of Apple's
> "iLife '08" suite of apps. Apple's iLife 06 had iPhoto 6.x.x.

Oh, i didn't even think of that.  i'm pretty sure i was given a much more
recent version of iLife as a gift, i should probably install a newer
version of iPhoto & try it out.  Do the later versions of iPhoto run
better/faster than 5.0.4?  Or is this something that is typical of iPhoto,
for it to get really bogged down & very slow when it contains a lot of
pictures?

> iPhoto has improved it's performance over the years. However, your G4
> is not much of a speed demon these days. How much free-space is
> available on the hard drive of your Powerbook?

Tell me about it!  But my PowerBook was also a gift 2+ years ago, so i
guess i really shouldn't complain.  i'd love to upgrade to a MacBook Pro
in the next year or so though, & have that 2.5 GHz processor & 2-4 GB
of RAM at my fingertips!  That's definitely more my speed (in more ways
than one)!  As far as free space goes though, i have around 17 GB free
these days (most of the time i try to keep it somewhere btwn 15 & 20 GB
free).

> Are there any apps or utilities set to load at startup on your Mac
> that you really do no need? Open the Users Preferences on your Mac,
> click on your account, and check the Login Items list. Some things
> listed there are important, others may not be.

You know what, i really don't think i have any apps that automatically
load @ startup.  It's really just the Finder, i pretty much open everything
else manually as i need/use it.  i'll double check the Users Preferences
just to make sure, though.

> You have a LOT of applications running at the same time on your Mac.
> Do you need access to all of them at the same time you are using iPhoto?

Yes, unfortunately i kind of do need usually at least 5 apps running
concurrently because of the way i work (i multitask a lot) & hop back &
forth btwn apps as i'm working so constantly opening & closing apps
wouldn't be very practical for me.  A lot of times i'll be updating Word &
Excel docs but need to cross-reference or access some content in iPhoto,
Safari, AOL email, even iTunes as i'm working.  You mean y'all don't actively
run at least 5 apps at the same time?  i thought everyone did that!

> Have you ran Disk Utility recently and "repaired permissions" on your
> drive? It may not help, but it wont hurt.

i haven't "repaired permissions" any time recently ... in fact, i'm not sure
if i've EVER done that, the only disk repair i've done in recent memory
is the one i posted about on here a month or so ago.  So i guess i'll
try the "repair permissions" just in case then, since you said it doesn't
hurt anything.

Thanx for the suggestions.

-Diana


> Mike
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 8:59 AM, princess90503 wrote:
>
> > Hey All,
> >
> > Is iPhoto a HUMUNGOUS memory hog if you have a lot of pictures in
> > it? i run iPhoto 5.0.4 on my PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz (OS X 10.4.11)
> > & it currently has 4720 photos loaded into it (spread across probably
> > 20 or so albums). My system memory is already maxed out @ 1.25 GB
> > so i can't upgrade that any more, unfortunately.
> >
> > i've noticed for a long time now that whenever i try to do anything
> > w/iPhoto (opening it, quitting out of it, importing new photos into
> > it,
> > etc.), unless i have just recently rebooted the system & have very few
> > other apps running, it seems to take FOREVER to do anything & also
> > slows down at least some of the other things currently running to a
> > CRAWL until the system eventually catches up to it. It takes at least
> > 5 minutes to open it, 15 minutes to exit/quit out of it, & anything
> > else
> > might take 5 minutes or more, & in the interim if i try to do anything
> > (even on other apps), i'll get the dreaded "spinning beach ball of
> > death"
> > for who knows how long. When this happens, i typically have between
> > 5 & 10 applications currently open & running (e.g., MS Word, Excel,
> > Safari, iPhoto, iTunes, FireFox, AOL, Skype) & i'll typically have
> > 10-15
> > browser windows open, some of those w/5-10 open tabs.
> >
> > When i have all these things open, everything seems to run OK unless/
> > until i try to do something w/iPhoto, in which case everything slows
> > to a CRAWL for 5-10 minutes. After that, the system seems to "recover"
> > & go back to normal response times until the next iPhoto operation
> > that i attempt.
> >
> > Am i overloading the system or is there something i'm supposed to be
> > doing w/iPhoto that i don't know about (like somehow "archiving" some
> > of those iPhoto albums in some way & offloading them from iPhoto)?
> > It's not as if i take a huge # of pictures, i'll import btwn 5 & 50
> > over a
> > period of a few days to a few weeks, & all the photos in iPhoto are
> > just an accumulation of all the photos over the last couple of years.
> >
> > Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated (especially if i don't
> > have
> > to cut down on the # of apps i'm running concurrently or # of windows
> > i have open, etc.).
> >
> > Thanx.
> >
> > -Diana
> >
> >
> >
>

Tim,

Thanx for that tidbit of info.  i don't always use FireFox, but sometimes
i'll have it open as a backup for Safari when Safari doesn't work right
if i'm trying to do certain specific things that Safari chokes on.  So even
when i do have FireFox open, it's used only lightly.  i use Safari pretty
heavily, & i think that eats up a lot of memory too, with the number of tabs
& windows i have open & also frequently trying to stream audio &/or video
while running the other 5-10 apps.  Man, i'll be so glad if/when i can
get a MacBook Pro or something comparable that's got some REAL
computing power behind it.

-Diana


--- In MacHACers@yahoogroups.com, Tim & Deb McCoy <mccoytest@...> wrote:
>
> I just might mention that Firefox (not the latest bata version) - over
> time -
> leak memory.  That is, it tends to user more memory over time.
> Restarting
> Firefox, on a daily basis, would probably help too. Only because you
> mentioned that you use Firefox...
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 6:52 PM, Mike Shulman wrote:
>
> Your version of iPhoto is pretty old. iPhoto 5.0.4 came out on
> 7/29/2005. The current version of iPhoto 7.1.3 is part of Apple's
> "iLife '08" suite of apps. Apple's iLife 06 had iPhoto 6.x.x.
>
>
> iPhoto has improved it's performance over the years. However, your G4
> is not much of a speed demon these days. How much free-space is
> available on the hard drive of your Powerbook?
>
> http://www.apple.com/ilife/iphoto/
>
> Are there any apps or utilities set to load at startup on your Mac
> that you really do no need? Open the Users Preferences on your Mac,
> click on your account, and check the Login Items list. Some things
> listed there are important, others may not be.
>
> You have a LOT of applications running at the same time on your Mac.
> Do you need access to all of them at the same time you are using iPhoto?
>
> Have you ran Disk Utility recently and "repaired permissions" on your
> drive? It may not help, but it wont hurt.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 8:59 AM, princess90503 wrote:
>
> > Hey All,
> >
> > Is iPhoto a HUMUNGOUS memory hog if you have a lot of pictures in
> > it? i run iPhoto 5.0.4 on my PowerBook G4 1.33 GHz (OS X 10.4.11)
> > & it currently has 4720 photos loaded into it (spread across probably
> > 20 or so albums). My system memory is already maxed out @ 1.25 GB
> > so i can't upgrade that any more, unfortunately.
> >
> > i've noticed for a long time now that whenever i try to do anything
> > w/iPhoto (opening it, quitting out of it, importing new photos into
> > it,
> > etc.), unless i have just recently rebooted the system & have very few
> > other apps running, it seems to take FOREVER to do anything & also
> > slows down at least some of the other things currently running to a
> > CRAWL until the system eventually catches up to it. It takes at least
> > 5 minutes to open it, 15 minutes to exit/quit out of it, & anything
> > else
> > might take 5 minutes or more, & in the interim if i try to do anything
> > (even on other apps), i'll get the dreaded "spinning beach ball of
> > death"
> > for who knows how long. When this happens, i typically have between
> > 5 & 10 applications currently open & running (e.g., MS Word, Excel,
> > Safari, iPhoto, iTunes, FireFox, AOL, Skype) & i'll typically have
> > 10-15
> > browser windows open, some of those w/5-10 open tabs.
> >
> > When i have all these things open, everything seems to run OK unless/
> > until i try to do something w/iPhoto, in which case everything slows
> > to a CRAWL for 5-10 minutes. After that, the system seems to "recover"
> > & go back to normal response times until the next iPhoto operation
> > that i attempt.
> >
> > Am i overloading the system or is there something i'm supposed to be
> > doing w/iPhoto that i don't know about (like somehow "archiving" some
> > of those iPhoto albums in some way & offloading them from iPhoto)?
> > It's not as if i take a huge # of pictures, i'll import btwn 5 & 50
> > over a
> > period of a few days to a few weeks, & all the photos in iPhoto are
> > just an accumulation of all the photos over the last couple of years.
> >
> > Any tips or suggestions would be appreciated (especially if i don't
> > have
> > to cut down on the # of apps i'm running concurrently or # of windows
> > i have open, etc.).
> >
> > Thanx.
> >
> > -Diana
> >
> >
>
> =
>

Mike,

Once again, thanx very much for all the helpful info!

-Diana


--- In MacHACers@yahoogroups.com, Mike Shulman <tripod2@...> wrote:
>
> Diana,
>
> Unless you are using your mac to do heavy duty video or audio work and
> need your data in very large contiguous blocks, you will not need to
> defrag your mac.
>
> The mac does it own defrag processes when it is idle. There is some
> good info from Apple here:
>
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25668
>
> An VERY good and free utility named OnyX can show you when your Mac
> last ran it's scripts that do the maintenance. You can also run the
> scripts with this app.
>
> Contrary to what was stated in another reply, they do not specifically
> happen at 2:00AM. Your mac has Daily, Weekly and Monthly scripts that
> it runs to perform maintenance on the drive's data.
>
> http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs/english.html
>
> There are different versions of OnyX for 10.4 and 10.5.
>
> For info on the scripts that the OS runs and what they do, look here:
>
> http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/maintscripts.html
>
> As always, backup your data. I would also avoid apps like "iDefrag" as
> they are a waste of time and money.
>
> Mike
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mar 12, 2008, at 8:14 AM, princess90503 wrote:
>
> > Hey All,
> >
> > Am i supposed to be doing some kind of defrag periodically on
> > my Mac hard drive (i have a PowerBook G4, 60 GB internal drive)?
> > If so, how would i go about doing this? Thanx in advance.
> >
> > -Diana
> >
> >
> >
>

--- In MacHACers@yahoogroups.com, Mike Shulman <tripod2@...> wrote:
>
> Your version of iPhoto is pretty old. iPhoto 5.0.4 came out on
> 7/29/2005. The current version of iPhoto 7.1.3 is part of Apple's
> "iLife '08" suite of apps. Apple's iLife 06 had iPhoto 6.x.x.
>

OK, it looks like i do have iLife '08 so i can update iPhoto to whatever
the latest version is.  Is it OK to install iLife '08 if i'm still running
Tiger & haven't gone to Leopard yet?  Also, when i install the new version
of iPhoto, will all the photos in the iPhoto library still be there or
will i need to import a bunch of stuff all over again?