A Mighty Mouse and a Mighty 1 year Old Clash
I've got a mouse question about, uh, the Mighty Mouse (the one that allows has five buttons, and a scroll dot. it was included in my quad purchase a couple of months back).
My one year old son likes the red light underneath my mouse, and will try to grab it any chance he gets. One of these times, he was successful, and proceeded to bat the mouse around while playing Beethoven's 5th Symphany on my keyboard (or at least it looked like that).
After reclaiming my mac station, and renaming a couple of files he changed, I checked out my mouse.
The mouse works fine, except for one thing. I can't use the scroll function on the mouse. I can use the primary and secondary buttons, the side buttons, and even bring up Expose, but the scroll function has ceased. (Funny thing though, it will scroll if I use the Netscape browser... yuck).
Is there something I've overlooked to bring the scroll function back?
Thanks!
Quad G5, Coded Named: Mistress Mac OS X (10.4.5)
I've had a 1 year old, a keyboard, and mouse clash, but never with such fatal consequences.
The MM scroll function is a little delicate IMHO. When new Apple products come out, there is almost always a tear down article on SlashDot or Ars Technica. Sometimes they even get stuff back together, so you may search for such an article, but I wouldn't put much faith in a solution.
The MM might be covered under your computers warrenty, if you want to go that route; I would leave 1 year old home when youu visit the store with mouse in hand.
Good luck.
PowerMac G5 1.6GHz Mac OS X (10.4.5)
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no archive/ backup is perfect, HD clones can be set to make incremental additions, same as time machine however, though they are more time involved in doing so.
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Drawbacks:
1. Time Machine is not bootable, if your internal drive fails, you cannot access files or boot from TM directly from the dead computer.
2. Time machine is controlled by complex software, and while you can delve into the TM backup database for specific file(s) extraction, this is not ideal or desirable.
3. Time machine can and does have the potential for many error codes in which data corruption can occur and your important backup files may not be saved correctly, at all, or even damaged. This extra link of failure in placing software between your data and its recovery is a point of risk and failure. A HD clone is not subject to these errors.
4. Time machine mirrors your internal HD, in which cases of data corruption, this corruption can immediately spread to the backup as the two are linked. TM is perpetually connected (or often) to your computer, and corruption spread to corruption, without isolation, which TM lacks (usually), migrating errors or corruption is either automatic or extremely easy to unwittingly do.
5. Time Machine does not keep endless copies of changed or deleted data, and you are often not notified when it deletes them; likewise you may accidently delete files off your computer and this accident is mirrored on TM.
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7. TM is a backup and not a data archive, and therefore by definition a low-level security of vital/important data.
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10. TM working premise is a backup of a users system and active working data, and NOT massive amounts of static data, yet most users never take this into consideration, making TM a high-risk locus of data “bloat”.
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12. TM like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
13. *Level-1 security of your vital data.
Advantages:
1. TM is very easy to use either in automatic mode or in 1-click backups.
2. TM is a perfect novice level simplex backup single-layer security save against internal HD failure or corruption.
3. TM can easily provide a seamless no-gap policy of active data that is often not easily capable in HD clones or HD archives (only if the user is lazy is making data saves).
#2. HD archives
Drawbacks:
1. Like all HD-based data is subject to ferromagnetic and mechanical failure.
2. Unless the user ritually copies working active data to HD external archives, then there is a time-gap of potential missing data; as such users must be proactive in archiving data that is being worked on or recently saved or created.
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Thank you for any help :)Hi Clinton,
Thanks for your reply. This is what was included and I think per part its not unfair:
Item Number
Description
Price
Amount Due
Customer KBB
661-5868
Display Clamshell, Glossy
£ 188.00
£ 188.00
661-6158
Board, Logic, 2.4 Ghz
£ 315.00
£ 315.00
S1490LL/A
Hardware Repair Labor
£ 24.00
£ 24.00
VAT
£ 105.40
Total
£ 527.00
£ 632.40
It just seems strange that so much has gone wrong with such a young, and expensive machine.
Cheers
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My bill, and my 80 year old mother-in-law......
As detailed in the email below, My mother in law went to a local (Brea, Ca) Verizon store to join the world of smartphones. What transpired next was a colossal misadventure that has yet to be fixed by either the local Verizon Store Manager or Verizon
A couple of weeks ago I stopped by your store to relate an incident that
occurred between a member of your staff and my nearly 80 year-old mother in
law.
My mother-in law was in the market for a smartphone. We had done extensive
research together online and had made some decisions about which way to go.
That matter seemed dormant until I received a phone call one evening from
your store. A sales person rather abruptly told me my mother-in-law was in
your store looking to make a purchase of a smartphone. This purchase
however required her making changes to the account. I did not fully
understand what I was being asked, but I knew she had wanted to make this
move to a smartphone so I played along with your staff's recommendations.
Your sales person deemed it necessary to change our plan to a "share
everything" plan with some 8GB of data. This seemed high, but I was told by
your sales person that with this change "it included" a "jet pack". He
further explained that with the 50$ rebate the total cost of the device was
only 20$. That sounded like fun so I agreed. I inquired as to what phone
she had settled on, and the sales person responded,"I'm talking her in to
the Lucid2." My mother-in-law must have physically reacted to this
characterization because he quickly changes his vocabulary to "I'm advising
her to look at the Luicd2"
At no time did your sales person mention either the 20$ *monthly
charge*for the jet pack, no did he mention the 35$ charge for setting
up the new
jet pack. Had he provided full disclosure at the time of the phone call the
answer would have been "no".
We have been with Verizon for a *long time*. We have always been treated
with respect, and afforded a level of service that allows us to trust you
with (pardon the pun) our friends and family. My parents are now on
Verizon, as are all of my other family members. And we hope to continue
with Verizon for years to come.
When I spoke with you a couple of weeks ago I asked you to undo the changes
made by your staff member, and to date it looks as though you are holding
up your end of the bargain. Our newest bill has now arrived, and I invite
you to look it over to fix the final detail of this disastrous experience.
Specifically the 170$ cancellation fee for the ill-fated jet pack.
My wife and daughter are still holding out for this matter to clear up
before we try to get them a smartphone, when they do upgrade we will stop
by and seek you out.
Respectfully,
Patrick
----end of email----
We are now headed to our 4th month in dealing with this matter. Really? 4 months? You guys are better than this. The initial boondoggle took place on May 9, 2013. My visit took place on or about on June 20, 2013. And here are headed toward Sept with little resolved. Except the fact that we now know, the representative needs a little help fulfilling his promises. My bill is up to date with the exception of the $170.00 cancellation fee that I was told would be "taken care of". But now it appears that (maybe) the manager is encouraging his staff to pray on 80 year old grandmothers and sign them up for stuff they have no hope of understanding, and hoping we'll just shut up, pay up and go away. Or maybe he's hoping Big Brother will step in so he doesn't have to be the bad guy toward his staff.
So let's go Verizon, I got better things to than babysit your Managers and their promises.
>>Personal information removed<<
Message was edited by: Verizon Moderatorpmhoward777,
Thank you for reaching out to us. I am sorry to hear of your long experience with this issue. We certainly want to make sure that all issues are handled quickly and efficiently. We by no means want you to feel that we are preying on your mother in law,so we want to look into this immediately. Could you please first search and follow me tonyg_vzw and then DM me your mobile # and billing password for account so we can review exactly what all has transpired. We look forward to finding an overall resolution and making you a happy customer again.
Thank you,
tonyg_vzw
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okay so I have a ipod clasic and its around 6 years old ,I havent used it for more than 4 years old and i tried to turn it on but it wont turn o. I connected it to my mac and it shows the apple sign but doesnt turn on i tried pressing the hone button and the pause one together and now it says disk mode but once its out of the disk more it goes back to the apple sign and wont charge.help.im confused!!
Hi nupurfromcali,
Welcome to the Support Communities!
The articles below may be able to help you with this. Click on the links to see more details and screenshots.
iPod only shows an Apple logo and doesn't start up
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1399
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1339
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