Dr. Smoke,Kappy, Neil & Sampson!

It's gonna take Dr. Smoke, Kappy, Neil & Sampson to solve this problem!
I've seen it posted here and on the internet and NO ONE has ever solved it.
I (and the other's who have posted) have been burning CDs & DVDs with no problems from the day we bought our machines. And then one day - BAM - we get the error code: *Burning the disc failed because communication to the disc drive failed, error code 0x80020022*. It happens only when I try to burn data to the DVD for back up. The drive still plays DVD, CD and records data to the CD.
There seem to be many guesses on the internet and I've tried them all. Including changing brands of DVD. The first half of the spindle of Sony DVDs worked fine, but I tried Apple brand just to be sure and the same thing happened. I've tried burning everything from 4 GB to a 100k jpeg. Burning at the slowest speed possible. Burning from the desktop or from Toast. Nothing works. Same error message.
Some say it is a software problem, some say hardware... I think software because it can do everything else just fine. But I'm certainly no expert... that's why I'm here, looking for expert help.
Let me know if you guys have any suggestions, I'm willing to try anything.
Here is the info about my drive:
PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-K04F:
Firmware Revision: I437
Interconnect: ATAPI
Burn Support: Yes (Apple Shipped/Supported)
Cache: 2000 KB
Reads DVD: Yes
CD-Write: -R, -RW
DVD-Write: -R, -RW, +R, +RW
Burn Underrun Protection CD: Yes
Burn Underrun Protection DVD: Yes
Write Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO
Media:
Media Type: CD-ROM
Blank: No
Erasable: No
Overwritable: No
Appendable: No
And my photos that I'm try to back up are from:
iPhoto: Version: 5.0.4
Thanks in advance for your help!

Exact same problem... the only difference... I cant burn NOTHING, NOWHERE... not on finder, disk utility, toast, roxio, nothing.
This is the info on my drive:
MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123:
Model: MATSHITACD-RW CW-8123
Revision: CAD4
Serial Number:
Detachable Drive: No
Protocol: ATAPI
Unit Number: 1
Socket Type: Internal
i cant read a DVD+R DL that I've got... I've got a lot of important info on it, and i cant read it... my drive just spits it out like the other disks... this is pretty frustrating... I've searched all over.. and no answer.. the only one i found... didn't work... so... HELP ME... PLEASE!!!

Similar Messages

How do I set up LabVIEW V6.1 to output analogue signals using a LabJack U12 interface card?

Hi there,
I have a LabJack U12 interface card that has two analogue outputs, AO0 and AO1. What I would like to be able to do is set up LabVIEW V6.1 to eventually control the dimming of some external lights, from say a simple control on LabVIEW's front panel.
I will have some external circuitry connected to the interface card to perform the dimming of the lights, so all I will require is a variable voltage on the output of the card. I think the specification of the card is 0 to +5 volts for the two analogue outputs. I have tried looking on the website for LabJack (www.labjack.com) for any ideas, but with no success! Please find my LabVIEW file as an attachment.
I would be very grateful for any help on this matter,
Neil Sampson.
Attachments:
Basic_ver6_2_1.vi ‏158 KB

On the labjack downloads page:
http://www.labjack.com/downloads.html
Pick "Labview5 VIs" download. In the zip file is ljacku50.llb, which contains EAnalogout.vi for outputting an analog signal.
2006 Ultimate LabVIEW G-eek.

Lights on, but nobody home???

Hello everyone, hope you can help.
I'm working on a customers 20" Intel iMac G5 (early 2006). It turns on but there is absolutely nothing on the screen. The CD tries to load, but very weak. There is little to no noise from the hard drive.
Not sure if I should take the cover off and hit the reset or what. Key command C or Option didn't bring up anything.
Thanks for your help in advance!
Phil W

I appreciate your concern, elmac! You sound like you care and I like that...I am a caring person too.
I've been working on computers for quite a while, but only two years on Macs and that's not an everyday thing. I feel that the Apple discussions, have some of the best technicians in the WORLD....like some of the guys I see on my right as I'm typing this....Dr. Smoke, Kappy, Don Archibald, etc... I'm smart enough and have the experience to know if a suggestion "anybody" gives me on this site will screw up someone's computer. Thanks for your suggestions, they are valuable! Hope to work with you in the future!
God Bless,
Phil W.

...and i keep getting an error saying one file (background: smoke and laser, or some other such ****

previous reply was to try to install in Compatability Mode....this won't work unless the program is already loaded....now what??? so frustrated as I have two jobs on deadline and need to stamp my logo....
error message 1305 error reading from file
c:\ProgramData\Adobe\Photoshop Elements\7.0\PhotoCreations\backgrounds\Performance Stage Smoke & Laser.jpg. verify that the file exists and that you can access it.
RETRY. CANCEL

Error 1305 indicates that there could be a problem with either your optical drive or the installation media. Please see Error 1305 when you try to install an Adobe product (Windows) - http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-1305-try-install-product.html for more details.

Power cord plug in overheated, black smoke and extremely hot...

My daughter has had the Macbook for less than a year. She says it has always sparked when plugging in/out but tonight
black smoke started coming out of the box where the prongs are. I am extremely upset...this could have caused a fire.
I understand we can probably get a new one as it's under warranty, my concern is still the fact that it overheated in the
first place.
We do not have an Apple store in our small town and she needs a replacement asap. Should I just call the support
helpline? I'd like to think they'd take this seriously...
Here's a photo..the prong where it's burned was extremely hot, the other prong cool. ://

Except that it is normal under many circumstances.
Any capacitive load on a circuit will tend to resist changes in voltage, with the result that plugging in a capacitive load will often cause a small spark to form. Similarly, an inductive load will tend to resist changes in current, which is why unplugging a running electric motor will also often cause a small spark to form. The transformer in a power adaptor, when connected at the other end, is a capacitive load.
The trick, of course, is being able to differentiate between these effects and sparks caused by short-circuits in the socket or plug, which can be extremely dangerous fire hazards. Certainly if there are other indicators of a short-circuit, like heat being generated, then it must be checked out. In fact, if there's any uncertainty, it should probably be checked out.
However, explaining that there can be sparks in a perfectly functioning socket is not the same as telling people that sparking can, or should, be ignored. If anything, it's telling them not to ignore it, but to investigate it.

Colour Management - who does what - Some thoughts now the smoke is clearing

First up, thanks very much to everyone who contributed their ideas and expertise to my recent query here, when I was seeking help for a problem with colour management issues when printing a magazine I edit. I have a ton of suggestions to work through and study but the smoke is slowly clearing and it raises some interesting points which I think are worth recounting.
First of all, I have been editing short run magazines now for 25 years, at first part time and later on a professional contract basis. I am not a trained graphic designer nor a trained printer. I did start out training as a graphic designer, many years ago but gave it up for a career in IT (as a networking specialist). That was full time until 10 years ago, although I did some freelance writing and editing in my spare time.
And yes, I did start originally with scissors and cut and paste, and moved on through black and white with spot colour and Pagemaker software to full colour and InDesign today. One thing which may be different about my experience to most of yours is that I am a PC user and always have been. All my editing and graphics work has always been done on a PC - Pagemaker was our DTP package of choice for a long time and we supplemented this with Corel-Draw (which has a range of graphics handling options). All my software is legal and I always register it and keep it up to date. I have used the same graphic designer for quite a few years now and whenever we upgrade our software he goes and gets trained on the latest release.
Around 10 years ago I was offered the chance to edit a specialist short run magazine (not the current one). This was a chance I took and gave up the day job and became a full time freelance. Editing is not my main or only source of income. I am also a freelance writer and photographer and heritage consultant and I have a specialist image library.   I sell my own sell my work - articles and pictures - to the national and local press. I also write books (non fiction) on commission. The magazine editing is really an extension of my interest in historic landscapes. I have never had any complaints, or problems, with the freelance work, photos and archived images I sell. Clients include national newspapers here in the UK, national magazine groups and my books are available in national bookstore chains. I supply my work digitally, naturally, and it includes photos I have taken myself and items which I have scanned into my library of historical images and store on line. No reported colour management issues there.
I have always enjoyed a good relationship with my publishers and printers because I seek to be as professional as possible, which means delivering my stuff on time, to the required standard so that minimum intervention is required from them. This does assume that I have a clear brief from them on what they need from me.
Recently this approach has not been enough to avoid colour management issues with the short run magazine I currently edit. I have been wondering when and where things went astray and date it back to the upgrade to InDesign two years ago. However it may have its roots in my earlier decision to use PCs not Macs for my work.
Until 4 years ago I had used the same printers for magazine editing for many years. They were a well respected firm specialising in short run magazines. They were not far from where I live and work and if there was a problem I would go over and discuss it with them. They were happy, and competent, to handle Pagemaker files generated on a PC and convert my rgb images to cmyk if there was any concern about the colour balance. On a few occasions I paid them to scan a photo for me. However 4 years ago the owner decided to retire and shut up shop. I needed to find a new printers and it had to be someone who specialised in short run magazines and could meet the budget of the charity I edit for. Also someone who could handle copy generated using Pagemaker running on a PC. I chose a printers I had used briefly in the past where I knew some of the staff and was promised PC based Pagemaker would not be a problem. I even got this in writing. I started to send them proofs generated using Pagemaker v7 on my PC.
I soon found that although they had agreed they could handle Pagemaker on a PC in fact they had only a few PC based clients and were using a single ageing PC running Pagemaker to proof their work. In fact nearly all their jobs were Quark based. I was also told we had to supply CMYK images although not given any further requirement so I now did the conversions from rgb to CMYK using my PhotoPaint software. (There are quite a few settings in Corel for the conversion but there was no guidance by the printer on which to use so to be honest it did not occur to me that it might be a problem).
Now of course I understand that the drive to get customers to supply CMYK images was a Quark driven requirement back in the late 1990s. I did not and do not use Quark so knew nothing for this. I did have some early colour problems and font incompatibilities with the new printers and was pressured by their senior Graphic Designer (who designed for their own contract clients) to upgrade to InDesign and provide them with a .pdf, which I was assured would solve all my problems. The .pdf would be the same as the final printed magazine because "it would not require any further intervention by the printers".
I expect you are collectively throwing up your hands in horror at this point, but I think he was speaking genuinely. The creation of a .pdf using InDesign, is widely promoted as the ultimate answer to all printing issues.   I have encountered it recently with a lot of printers' salesmen and my friend, who edits a learned journal, has just been told the same thing by her printers, to get her to upgrade to ID. Incidentally she also uses a PC.
So we upgraded our design process in house to InDesign and our graphic designer went on a course, two courses in fact. When we came to produce our first .pdf using ID, the printers' Senior Graphic designer came on the phone and talked our designer through the ID Export function. I think he may at that time have told him to create a preset profile with MPC and the defaults, but to be honest I don't recall. We were never sent anything in writing about what settings we needed to match theirs. I continued to have intermittant colour management problems but put this down to my photos. Things came to head with the most recent issue where the colours were badly out on the cover, supplied by a press agency and taken by a professional photographer. The printers seemed to have little or no idea about possible causes.
Initially I thought that part of the underlying cause must lie in some mismatch between what I was sending the printers and what they expected to receive so I asked them to specify what I should send. All they said was use Profile preset as MPC setting and accept the defaults which accompany it.
So I came on here looking for a solution. A lot of people were keen to offer their own experience which I really appreciate. However the messages could be conflicting. Some of you suggested it was the underlying cover photo which was at fault, some that it was my monitor which needed better calibration.
Many of you here said that part of the problem, if not the whole problem, was the way I was generating my CMYKs for the printer and I should use Photoshop to do this. You also mentioned a number of possible colour management settings which I should try.
At times the advice seemed to change tack. There were suggestions that the colour management issues I had were nothing to do with the printers, that it was up to me not them. Quite a lot of you said I needed to be better informed about Colour Management issues. I agree, but I had never had any previously (maybe good luck, maybe good support from my previous printer) so I was not even aware that I needed to be better informed. Some of you mildly chastised me for not finding out more and doing more to manage my own colour management with the switch to ID. To which I can only say if I had needed to train up, I would have done. I did not realise I needed to. Nor was my designer aware of the issues as colour management was not really covered on his ID courses which were about typesetting and design.
Some of you even seemed to hint that unless I was prepared to use an expensive high end printer or effectively retrain as a print specialist or get my graphic designer to do so, then I probably shouldn't be in the magazine editing game at all. OK maybe that is a bit harsh but you get the drift.
The fact is that printing is much more accessible these days to all sorts of people and in particular to people with PCs. My brother lives in a large village in an isolated area and produces a village magazine which has been a great success. It is in black and white with spot colour but he would like to move to an all colour issue. He is a bit nervous of the colour management issues as he has no experience of graphic design and is his own designer using a low end entry level design package. He too uses a PC. The printers reps all tell him the same thing they tell me, that all he needs to supply is a .pdf using InDesign.
Somewhere I feel a black hole has developed, maybe back in the 1990s with Quark 4.11. A lot of printers standardised on that, and set up a work flow and prepress dependent on CMYK images as provided by the clients. They assumed the the clients would doing their own colour management. This approach also assumes everyone is using Quark on a Mac with the full range of Adobe software. When it became possible to generate .pdfs using InDesign, this was held out to users as the Holy Grail of magazine printing, even though their workflows and prepress were still based on Quark 4.11 principles. Any underlying colour management issues the clients now have to tackle themselves.
So now we have the situation in which I find myself, having to learn from scratch a good deal about colour management issues so that I can tell the printers what is needed for my magazine. Meanwhile all the printing salesmen, the ones I encounter anyway, are still busy pushing the InDesign to .pdf as the "be all and end all" solution. Some re-education is needed for all parties I think.

I am glad to see that the sun is peeping through the clouds.
I apologise for my Aussie-style straight talk earlier, but as I said before it was not directed personally at you but in the direction of others whom you epitomize, repeating a conversation I have had many times over the last 10 years or so where respectable, well-meaning photographers, designers and other contributors refuse to accept that colour management is being thrust upon them.
It is a simple fact of life, there is this 'new' thing that has butted into the very root of our trades and changed the most basic principles of printing and photography. We expect that this kind of thing does not happen but the industry we now work in is not the same one we trained in twenty years ago.
Many printers are still struggling with the same conflict, so many tradespeople cannot accept this change.
This is exacerbated by the fact that colour management is so complicated to learn and implement and confounded by the fact that the default settings and a clumsy workflow often yield acceptable results with incorrect, generic settings, hence the old 'use InDesign and make a PDF and it will be ok' route.
When the chain of colour management includes the photographer, the photographer's client, the designer, the other designer maybe, the prepress person, and the platemaker, and a single incorrect click by any one of those can kill the CM it is not surprising that in the end when someone is looking back to see where it fell over they usually never find out.....   They will meet someone who says ' I never touched it, I simply opened the file and scaled it and closed it'. And that person will be a reputable photographer or designer (and CLIENT) who has no idea they just broke it. So what do we do? We go with the generic setting that seems to yield adequate results therefore avoiding the confrontation.
You need to understand the situation of the printer who took his business through the 'early' days of colour management, we had all kinds of very reputable sources supplying incorrect files, we did not have the expertise yet to be able to address the entire workflow, it would have meant training photographers and designers all through the best design houses and national institutions, because they blamed the printer. Only in the last few years have I seen these people coming around to the fact that they bear responsibility for implementing their own cm and maintaining it through their own work.
Sadly, many high end sources are still not there, and I mean HIGH end! Probably the ones that don't even visit this forum because they want to keep blaming the printer... They tend to live with the poor quality reproductions and just pull up the worst ones and fiddle with those and try to avoid the 'elephant in the room'.
I am sorry to say that it was not practical for a printer to reject mismanaged files for fear of losing clients who would happily accept less than perfect results in order to avoid the painful truth that was being told to them. The best thing we could do was to gently make those clients aware that their workflow was imperfect and hope to show them how we could help... Many print shops do not have someone knowledgeable enough or patient enough to do this, or the boss does not understand the issue either and tries to work around it to keep his jobs flowing in the expectation that all those experts in the chain will eventually tame the thing.
The many experts on this holy forum are waaaaayyyy ahead of the printing industry in general and photographers and designers in general in their understanding of colour management workflow. I have seen first hand how reputable local industry people and trainers alike are spreading misinformation and bad techniques, when I discovered these forums back in about 2002 I found that they opened up a whole new galaxy of knowledge and facts that actually worked and made sense, unlike what I had been told locally.... This forum taught me what the Adobe text books did not, the Tech' teachers did not, local 'experts' did not!
I tell all interested people to join these forums and learn to discriminate between the good and bad information.

Transparent smoke text after effects CS5.5

Hello all,
Need some help here. I'm sure this has been asked but as you search there's a million posts that come up and to read through all is, lets just say time consuming. I wish I had more time to learn AE but I've been working with tutorials until I find time.
I've made a fabulous Smoke Text effect that I then insert the .mov file into Final Cut Pro. The smoke effect I downloaded from the tutorial has a black background and therefore when rendered out, it's a basic white text against a black background. Once in FCP, I have to turn the file's opacity down in order for it to layer over a video file and not black out what I layer over it.
I need help. How can I make the file transparent? A simple toggle of the transparency grid isn't going to do it. I need to make or find a video of smoke that is transparent? Any help is greatly appreciated

I apprecaite the quick response and I will look into the resources you recommended. However, I don't think my problem is exporting at this time. In order for me to find an output module of RBG+A, I needed to go to cutsom. It wasn't there until I toggled the transparency grid (unless I botched that up) and then used a custom output with RBG+A. It didn't work.
I believe the Smoke movie file that was recommended to be used in the tutorial is the issue and the thing I need to make transparent. I apprecaite your patience.

I hope it's Kappy reading this. My HP Laserjet successfully installed but can't create a print queue...

Hello Kappy - Thank you for persevering with my printer issues. Firstly, I use Firefox, recently updated & as yet have not discovered how to monitor downloads. The software for HP Laserjet 2200 was eventually automaticallly, and therefore correctly, installed.The Add Printer Pane accessed via the + button in the Printer & Scanner window is blank - the Name & Location and Print Using & Add areas are all grayed out, therefore I can't locate the printer driver even though it is in the Printer folder. I messed around with HP Direct Protocol & Line Daemon functions, entering my IP address, just to see if I could locate the printer driver - I could. However, I get a pop-up window which says 'Unable to verify the printer on your network' but it gives me the option of going ahead anyway, which I did. I was able to create a print queue, able to give a print command, the printer window opens, but the printer appears as 'busy', but of course it's not printing. To look at the issue from another perspective: previously I was running 10.5.8 on my old Power Mac G5 and a week before I shifted over the iMac I paused the printer but when tried to resume printing I got a pop-up message saying IPadmin > enter administrator name + password. Which of course I couldn't do - I discovered this was a bug afflicting10.5 & 10.6 operating systems; the only way I could get around it was by re-creating myself as a new administrator, which I did, and got the printer going again. So, if I have a "Network" printer perhaps there's another route to get the driver recognized... What do you think?
Alex Carr

Morning Alexander Carr,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Use this article to troubleshoot printer issues in OS X.
For more information on this, take a look at this article:
Troubleshooting printer issues in OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3147
Best of luck,
Mario

How do I make a title disappear in smoke or just vanish

Hello, I've searched for tutorials regarding this but couldn't find anything but how to make writing out of clouds and title appear from smoke. I want to make a title on a black backround disappear in smoke or vanish in smoke or smth like it. Does anybody know any tutorial that explains this? Also the writing shouldn't be from smoke or cloud or anything, just tipical font, but when it disappears it should disperse in smoke like it's flown away. I would really appreciate some help please!!!
Thanks!

There are about a zillion ways to do this. A quick Google Search brings up dozens of tutorials. Like this one, or this one, or . . . If you want to look at video tutorials just click the word videos in the left column.
Some use 3rd party plug-ins, some use stock footage, some use displacement. The process usually involves displacement maps or turbulent displace, some blurring, and some smoke. Smoke can be generated with fractal noise, particle systems, stock footage, or simply filming some smoke against a black background.
Hope this helps. It's too complicated to put the entire process in a post.

I just tried to move a folder I had under favorites to an external drive and it disappeared (puff of smoke)

I just tried to move a folder from under favorites (in finder) to an external drive and it disappeared (puff of smoke) - how can I undo this (find it)

Hi..
Not a good idea to move a system folder to an external drive as you have discovered.
Go to Finder > Preferences > Sidebar then reselect the box for the folder that disappeared.

Need suggestion for creating 'whispy smoke'

Hi All,
I'm trying to figure out a way to create a cartoonish looking whispy smoke. I've played with Trapcode Particular and that creates some very realistic looking smoke, probably too realistic. I've played with CC Particle World, and also tried painting the smoke and then animated it on with a mask and a stroke set to reveal the original based on the mask. Nothing really gets close to what I'm looking for. Here's a sample of the client's original art:
Any suggestions for how to achieve this?
Thanks,
CJ

Trapcode 3D Stroke with taper enabled.
Mylenium

Thanks Neil. Though I have purchased Mountain Lion from Mac App stores before HD crash, this is not shown in the list of purchases.why?

Thanks Neil. Though I have purchased Mountain Lion from Mac App stores before HD crash, this is not shown in the list of purchases.why?
regards,
[email protected]

If you go to System Preferences > Network do you see other networks listed on the left panel? Is the lock in the lower left corner closed? If not, highlight your network, then close the lock so you block other networks.

Siebel 8.x and OPA 10.3.0: 'WD Smoke Test' error - 'Failed to load case'

Hi Experts,
I installed OPA Connector for Siebel and installation finally completed successfully. After that, I went to "Finalize & Validate Installation" step. I updated <ds_url>, <wd_ext_url>, <wd_int_url> with the correct host & port.
But when i click "WD Smoke Test", I'm getting following error on server console(deployed to weblogic).
ERROR com.oracle.determinations.web.platform.controller.actions.StartSessionAction - Transaction result errors for case ID [,SADMIN,0-1,AdminSmokeTest]:
ERROR com.oracle.determinations.web.platform.controller.actions.StartSessionAction - Failed to load data: Error running sub-process 'Policy Automation RetreiveSession Impl' at step 'Retrieve Session'.(SBL-BPR-00183)
ERROR com.oracle.determinations.web.platform.servlet.WebDeterminationsServletUtility - com.oracle.determinations.web.platform.exceptions.error.FailedToLoadCaseError: Could not load case: ,SADMIN,0-1,AdminSmokeTest
com.oracle.determinations.web.platform.exceptions.error.FailedToLoadCaseError: Could not load case: ,SADMIN,0-1,AdminSmokeTest
     at com.oracle.determinations.web.platform.controller.actions.StartSessionAction.getResource(StartSessionAction.java:85)
     at com.oracle.determinations.web.platform.servlet.WebDeterminationsServlet.doGet(WebDeterminationsServlet.java:80)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:707)
     at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper$ServletServiceAction.run(StubSecurityHelper.java:227)
     at weblogic.servlet.internal.StubSecurityHelper.invokeServlet(StubSecurityHelper.java:125)
In the opened popup, i got the following error:
[An error occurred while loading case ID ', SADMIN, 0-1, AdminSmokeTest'.
This error has been logged and is available in the application logs.
For support and assistance please contact [email protected]]
Please suggest.

Hello,
Can you please navigate to Adminstration - Business Process > Workflow Deployment and check how many Active instances are present in Siebel Repository.
It looks to me either "'Policy Automation RetreiveSession Impl" workflow is not active or "'Policy Automation RetreiveSession Impl" workflow is active twice.
In either case please active WF or expire both version and activate freshly.
Best Regards,
Nishant

The backup disk image "/Volumes/Data/Neil-MacBook Pro (171).sparsebundle" is already in use. error message. How do I fix? Ideas

"The backup disk image “/Volumes/Data/Neil-MacBook Pro (171).sparsebundle” is already in use"
OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)
" error message just started
Mountain Lion
OS X 10.8.1 (12B19)
MacBookPro 2.53 Corei5
All software update installed
Time Capsule : 1TB, 599 of 998GB used
What causes it?
How do you fix it?
How do you stop it happening again?
Any ideas please

Thanks for fast response.
I already tried C12, no luck. I did read C17, but that did not help either.
I agree that Apple should really spend a bit more time on ensuring this common problem is resolved more quickly
But where to do you sent this request to? Doesn't seem easy to find a person to send it to.
I dumped by corporate wIn-pc environment that I was forced to use for the past ...forever. Have been delighted with the Mac experience..... for 24 months..but these type of un-resolved matters with terse error messages reminds me of the bad old days.
I had the problem 2 weeks ago and solved it by "clicking about" after reading the forum Can't remember what i did though. V. V. V. frustrating when the Mac is a business tool. I don't want to be a mechanic, I want to be a driver.
Thanks again for your help

Question for Kappy: Best guide for moving a user to a new Mac?

Really anyone could answer, but Kappy, you gave me such a great, detailed step-by-step guide on migrating to a new drive ( My 3rd Party SSD won't mount ) that I use it religiously. I wanted to ask you if you could point to the best process for moving a user from one Mac to another, the absolute best way. I typically use this website:
http://pondini.org/OSX/Setup.html
But I thought I'd ask for your sage wisdom first.
Thanks for reading!

Lord Zero wrote:
Thanks Baby Boomer. I will probably stick with the pondini site, then, being that a 3rd party is more likely to discuss the warts in the process.
Pondini (RIP) was a valuable contributor in the Community. Thankfully, his websites live on!!!

Dr. Smoke,Kappy, Neil & Sampson!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for