Favourites in Drive 3.0

I just got an upgrade to Nokia Drive 3.0. The main improvement seem to be that it's finally possible to use a favourite place as destination. But when I go to the favourite list it's empty. How do I synch it to show my favourite places?

Kosh,
I would really love to see Drive and Maps communicate with one another. It's quite frustrating to have all of my locations stored in maps and not have access to them in Drive, or having to add a new location twice (once for each app). This really doesn't make any sense.
I don't know if it's something with the APIs on WP7 but I really think locations/places should be something that are shared between apps. Store a location in Nokia Maps and have access to that location in any app that deals with location (Drive, Local Scout, other navigation apps). Even the people Hub could benefit from this. Editing a contact I could more easily add their locations that way I could easily navigate to their home or work, as well as, set up an appointment with them .
It sounds like WP8 APIs will be much easier at pushing addresses so maybe you're just waiting for that?

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External hard drive - mac specific or generic?

While I was browsing external hard drives I noticed that there was one that said it was specifically for Mac - I think it was Western Digital. So I was wondering is there a reason to pay extra for a Mac specific external hard drive, or just to use a standard one?
My current WD one is OK (other than the error -36 which means I can't actually copy anything to it without a lot of mucking around) and I'm not really interested in any 'special features' that might come with them, I just use it for archiving & backup.

The upgrade to OSX 10.6.3 (available today) may fix your -36 error, sleepydwarf. It is amongst the items listed as addressed by it - see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4014
There are two reasons why some drives tend to be classified as "Mac drives".
Firstly, for best performance on a Mac the drive should be formatted using either the GUID or Apple Partition Scheme, and the HFS (extended) file system. This lets you deal with files over 4Gb in size, provides faster and more reliable operation than FAT32 , etc etc. It also allows you to easily install OSX on the drive from your OS DVD if you wish to, so that you can boot from it.
I presume the WD drives are provided in this format. (Though you can always reformat a drive that isn't when you get it simply by using Disc Utility, of course)
Secondly, WD , for example, often install additional software on their drives for automated back up purposes etc. Generally this stuff is Windows only and can cause problems when the drive is used on a Mac. Sometimes it makes them next to useless as boot drives etc.
I suspect that WD , in this case , are reacting to the huge amount of criticism that has come their way when people try to use their external offerings on Macs (to the point where many of us strongly recommend against people purchasing them these days).
Another thing that matters when choosing a drive for Macs, though, is the interface itself. Sure, Macs can use a USB drive, but for an external drive FW400 is substantially faster, and FW800 simply blows USB away when it comes to transfer speeds. If you are shopping for a drive it is well worth the extra in most situations to get one that uses FW800.
The favourite external drives of most of the long term users here are the "OWC Mercury" range - see http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/ They are sold under other brand names in different parts of the world (In Australia they usually go by under the "Pleiades" brand name - not sure which hunk of the globe you are in) . I have five of them, and couldn't recommend them highly enough. You can either buy them with the drive installed, or add a drive of your own choosing. Quiet, cool, extremely reliable, and easy to update with a new drive when larger ones come along at lower prices (as they inevitably do).
Make sure you take a look at them if you are drive shopping. They beat the pants off the offerings from other , better known, makers.
Cheers
Rod

I want to put my iTunes library on an external hard drive but leave my favourite songs on the computer to access without the external hard drive and when using iMovie. Is there a way to do this?

I have filled my hard drive, half with music, half with photos. I want to take my music off, and put it onto an external hard drive. However, I would still like to have access to favourite songs and playlists when the external hard drive isn't plugged in. I would also like to access this music to use with iMovie. Is there a way to do this?

You will have to engage a split library which means you will have to start answering questions on this forum because you will need to learn a lot about how iTunes works in order not that have a big mess at the end of it all. It also won't be easy when the time comes to relocate it all to different drives.
You can go to advanced preferences and turn off organize media and copy to items to media folder when adding items to library. Next read about how to selectively consolidate items to the external drive.
Sept. 2010, Consolidate selected content - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2589812 and April 2014, https://discussions.apple.com/message/25414357
"...selected the new tracks directly in iTunes, Control-clicked on the selection, and saw that now you can consolidate selected items." - http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20090919000326840
Remember that when you start iTunes without the external drive turned on iTunes will present you with a bunch of broken links. If you have automatic downloads enabled with iCloud you may have to turn that off to prevent iTunes from repopulating your drive trying to deal with those "missing" tracks.
If you add tracks in bunches to iTunes and want them to go to different media folders you will need to either add them by holding down the option key while dragging if the desired media folder is not the one set in preferences, or by changing the media folder in preferences. Changing media folder preferences only applies to new files added, not old ones.
Okay, I am going to stop typing because you might just reply to me, "Oh, okay, forget it," and I don't need the exercise.
What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
More on iTunes library files and what they do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITunes#Media_management
What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
Where are my iTunes files located? - http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1391

Drives in favourites bar won't go away

Hi all,
Since upgrading/migrating from MacPro Lion to MacMini Mountain Lion I have had a few problems, some have resolved, but others... well here goes.
Finder:
I have re-applied a new command (new email with selection ⌃⌥⌘N) but it does not work at all. It did in Lion.
Certain USB drives are showing up in the Sidebar that shouldn't be. Even when I remove them from the Sidebar they return.
This leads me to think there is some wierdness happening in mym system but can't see where...
I have used onyx for do a bit of safe maintenance, I have used the restore partition to repair disk (none was necessary) and also repair permissions.
Same conditions exist.
Can someon please help me on this.
Just to be clear, the system is not unreliable other then the annoying "HDMI screen goes dead and moves windows unnecessarily thing" (do you know a fix for this?)
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Here's the problem:
Note the location of the disks "Work" and "Elements". They shouldn't be in the favourites, and they shouldn't be in such a wierd order.
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Editing Favourites in Nokia Drive 3.0

Can anyone please tell me how to edit favourites, i.e. How to delete or change name. As an example, when saving your position it seems that the name used on the favourite is taken from the map and if the map is not updated with the correct adress I need to change this (this is a fact with my home adress). Further more I cannot find avway to delete a saved favourie. Am I missing something here? As far as I can see nothing much new with this version of Nokia Drive.
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Just as the answer above.
To access the favourites, you first have to "Set destination" and from there choose the favourite list.
Also mind that the favourite list in Nokia Drive is totally separated from the favourite list in Nokia Maps...

Sidebar favourites start to point at wrong drive randomly and I have no idea why?

I have 3 firewire drives connected to my iMac, "Media Drive", "Media Drive Mirror" and "Media Drive Mirror 2". Media Drive is my primary work drive and the other two are mirrored backups. I have links to my working directories on the primary drive in the my Sidebar Favorites and every few days they start to point at the mirrored backup drive instead. Because I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do a nightly backup mirroring the two cloned drives, it does not check to see if newer files are on the backup drives. This has caused me to lose valuable work because there have been two occasions when I was unknowingly saving to one of the cloned backup drives instead of the primary work drive. When Carbon Copy Cloner ran that night, it deleted my new files because they were not present on the primary drive. Why is the OS suddenly and randomly pointing itself to the backup drives? I think it may happen after a computer restart, but I'm pretty certain it has happened without a restart as well because I don't generally need to reboot my iMac very often and I only put it to sleep at night not powered off.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated?

I have 3 firewire drives connected to my iMac, "Media Drive", "Media Drive Mirror" and "Media Drive Mirror 2". Media Drive is my primary work drive and the other two are mirrored backups. I have links to my working directories on the primary drive in the my Sidebar Favorites and every few days they start to point at the mirrored backup drive instead. Because I use Carbon Copy Cloner to do a nightly backup mirroring the two cloned drives, it does not check to see if newer files are on the backup drives. This has caused me to lose valuable work because there have been two occasions when I was unknowingly saving to one of the cloned backup drives instead of the primary work drive. When Carbon Copy Cloner ran that night, it deleted my new files because they were not present on the primary drive. Why is the OS suddenly and randomly pointing itself to the backup drives? I think it may happen after a computer restart, but I'm pretty certain it has happened without a restart as well because I don't generally need to reboot my iMac very often and I only put it to sleep at night not powered off.
Any insight would be greatly appreciated?

Help, lost favourites and can't sync with external hard drive

I transferred my itunes to a lacie external drive because my ibook disc was full. I've changed my advanced preferences but my ipod won't sync with it and all my playlists have disappeared. Thanks in advance for help.

It could be the cable or the drive may have failed. Plug in another external HD and see if that works OK, if it does then that points the finger at the EHD.
Roger

Help/explanation needed - Using an external hard drive

Hi everyone,
I bought an external 250gb hard drive as my MBP was very close to full capacity. Yesterday, I had a bit of a scare...
1. I backed up my Aperture Library onto the external hard drive.
2. I had about 500 of my favourite images rated 5 star and so I selected these and set up a new project.
3. I went through my Aperture library deleting folders/projects that I have completed.
4. I went back into the 5 star ratings and they did not exist. I assume this is because I deleted the master files.
5. I wanted to have the 5 star images on my laptop and so I connected my external hard drive once again. [This is where I felt I lost control and understanding of what was going on].
6. I looked for the seperate Aperture files but could only find a file called Aperture Library. I clicked on this but nothing happened at all [I had thought that it would open up Aperture with the previous library].
7. I dragged the library onto my desktop and waiting for all the images to reload onto my laptop. I then saw that everything was as it was previously, i.e. all the files and images existed. However, my hard drive space was even lower [I assume this was because the current workflow that I had left on the laptop was now duplicated?].
8. Then I got a message saying my iDisk space is critically low and may damage my Aperture library. Moments later the majority of my images disappeared and a red space appeared where every photo had previously been. Since I have 2 weddings that I am yet to deliver I was very panicked. I tried to drag and drop the Aperture library once again and the message came back that the operation could not be completed due to the current file already existing.
9. I unplugged the external hard drive and the photos re-appeared [much to my delight]. However, my concern is that I really don't understand what happened and more importantly why. I will need access to the data on the external hard drive in the event in the near future and am worried that the same thing will happen next time I connect it.
As a result of all this I have some questions, as follows:-
- Have I adopted the completely wrong approach to backing up data?
- Can the master files be compressed as I shoot RAW and these are huge files?
- Why could I not use the Aperture library stored on the external hard drive without downloading it back onto the laptop?
and a more general question about file storage...
- I am confused as to how much hard drive space is being used on my MBP. I have 13gb in Aperture, 1gb in iTunes and 1gb in iPhoto. However, I only have 50gb available, so half the capacity is currently being used. I know that Aperture and Garageband applications use about 10gb between them and there is of course the operating system, but 50gb in total seems a lot. On investigation in the finder screen I see that on my personal drive the Aperture, iTunes and iPhoto data is stored there. However, it is also stored under pictures and music respectively. Does this mean that it is storing duplicate copies of this data and that is the explanation for such high hard drive usage? If this is the case, can one be removed?
I appreciate that this has been a long email, but I felt it was important to illustrate the steps I have taken. As you will no doubt glean from this post I am not the most computer literate person. Any help/explanation would be most appreciated.
Many thanks,
Jamie

Hi Jamie.
I am not sure what went wrong with your setup but I will let you know my configuration as an example and you can decide if you think it is a good way to have it. I am asuming you are using ver 1.5?
Like you I have only a Laptop (G4 17" 1.5Ghz 2 Gig Ram - would love a macbook) so hard disk space is a premium. I also have an external firewire drive to hold all the HiRes RAW images. When I download my images from the Camera I do it manually into folders on the external drive (Cataloged by Date and maybe description of location). I then Import the images from those folders into Aperture but use the option when importing to "Store Files - In their current location".
My Aperture library file is on my laptop so all that it has to store is the "Preview" file that gets generated automatically (in the preferences I have it set up to the resolution of my laptop 1440pix so that if I did a slide show it is only as big as my screen - anything more is a waste of disk space IMO.)
I do it this way so that it is easy to find and work on my files with other programs such as Photoshop by going straight to the image rather than exporting from Aperture.
Obviously I cant edit the RAW files while the drive is disconnected but I can still do ratings and keywords without the original files being there.
I hope this helps.
Regards
Andrew
G4 17inch Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 Gigs RAM

How do I get my data from Sync account after I reformat my computers without backup favourites?

Hello,
I formatted my computer without backup all of my favourites in Firefox. I have Firefox sync account set up before that between the 2 computers but both of them have formatted. Now, how do I get the data out from my Sync account? Did Firefox save my data on their server and how can I check that?
Thanks,

Also:
*If you have regenerated your Sync key or reset your Sync password, you can not recover your previous data
*IMPORTANT - write down your Sync key as instructed in the original set up of Sync
*if you have another device (computer or mobile) paired to the computer where you are having a problem, you can either:
*#pair the problem computer to that other device
*#get the Sync key from that other device
'''<u>Remember</u>''', Sync was never intended for backup. The reason for its existence is to sync-up 2 devices. To back up your Firefox profile, which you should do frequently, to another drive or a pin/thumb drive or other backup media, see:
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
*https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile
*http://kb.mozillazine.org/Recovering_a_missing_profile

My hard drive removed from a laptop no photograph files left can I recover them?

Please HELP with advice someone if you can. I had a white unibody laptop which was snow leopard but upgraded to Lion. A couple months ago my daughter splashed a small amount of water on it whilst it was unplugged when I was working on it. No apparent damage but the battery was low. Later after I forgot about the water splash I (stupidly) unknowinlgly plugged into a power source but it must have 'blew' as it never started up. I may have tried a few times after trying to power up, including holding down power key for a good while but nothing dead.. kaput.
A few weeks ago I got myself a new laptop, with mavericks on it. But I really needed my data off old laptop, so I took it to a simply fix it store who do apple repairs, and they took out the hard drive and put it in a case that could be plugged into my new laptop. I got it home and tried it, but it would not open iphoto obviously because, different system/update issue ect. SoI searched to see if i could find the photo files maually but ll I could find were a few files from my documents. Everything that was on the desk top, music and photo files were missing!. I took it back to simply fix it and they said that they searched everywhere and tried booting it up on an older sytem but they could not find any of the files that were missing.
I am gutted, as all my personal photos of which I never backed up are gone. I really need /want some of these pictures back . Does anyone know what may have happened? The guys at simply fix it said , all they done was removed the hard drive, and encase it. They never moved files or anything. Is it possible they may have been damaged with the water and plug into electric? Or could it have been me trying to start it up after water damage and I ruined part of hard drive.
The rest of my applications and documents are all ok, its weird just music , desk top, and photo files gone.
Is it worthpaying for a data recovery which simply fix it will charge me £100?
Any advice much appreciated. Sorry I cant tell you what sytem my old mac was as I dont have the hard drive with me to find out it was bought in Jan 2011 new white unibody snow leopard.
Thanks in advance.

Hi Again, Well I found Carbon Copy Clone on my old hard drive so I didn't even need to download it. I just dragged it onto my desktop and I did as you said. Using CCC and within the folder of users which has my folder of old hard drive there now shows a file called.autodiskmounted (whatever that means) and then it has a version of my hard drive below that called hard drive 1, which has nothing, but above both of these folders, there is a folder with an old user name which shows up empty on the hard drive when I search it, but actually shows lots of folders on the CCC. So without getting too excited, it lists some folders and amongst them are folders I cant see normally in the old hard drive, like my safari settings and favourites, and movies music and pictures. However in the movies pictures and music folders I can only see a blackish square that looks a bit like a blank screen with the text.localised after it .
Does this mean anything to you / Is there apossibility they may be there? When I selected my new laptop as the destination i got this message below so I did not proceed any further as I'm not sure it will back up the files I need..
To avoid system instability, CCC has applied a filter that will exclude system files from the backup task.
If you would like to restore your Mac OS X system files, restart your computer from the backup volume and try the backup task again.
If you are trying to restore a single item or folder, click the "?" button for additional suggestions.
Is it worth giving it a try? Thanks for this btw, its further than I've got before!!

Time Machine hard drive is not sleeping.

I have been using a 1TB Maxtor Basics (Seagate?) external USB hard drive for Time Machine on my iMac for over a year now without any problems, until recently. Between backups, the Time Machine HD does not go to sleep anymore. I am certain that until recently it would automatically go to sleep between backups and wake itself for each scheduled hourly backup. The USB HD is now running constantly when the iMac is awake. Has anyone else had this issue? Can anyone confirm that their "Time Machine" does in fact sleep between backups?

tuttle1150 wrote:
Hey Pondini. It appears my Internal HD is not sleeping either.
Since you've already replaced the preferences file (the first suspect), there may be something using both disks. If you're running any anti-virus software, turn it off (or uninstall it). Exclude both from Spotlight Indexing, if you haven't already, via +System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy.+
If that doesn't help, use the +Activity Monitor+ app (in your Applications/Utilities folder), to see what's running. When it starts, select either +All Processes+ or +Active Processes+ in the toolbar, and sort the list by the +% CPU+ column, so the highest numbers are on top, and select the CPU tab towards the bottom. Some system processes run more or less continually, so it's not easy to see what's using the disk(s), but you may find something. If the process(es) involved aren't familiar to you, post their names here (and/or check this out: http://triviaware.com/macprocess/all)
I would like to do an "Erase and Instal"
That's extreeeeeeeemly unlikely to change anything, unless you have some software that you loaded for the Maxtor (if so, just delete it and Restart).
As another poster (Kiraly, I think) says, that's like fixing a dripping faucet by tearing out the kitchen!
but although I know my Documents are backed-up, where are the other things like all my emails and stickies, favourites, notes etc. filed?
What are you contemplating? Erasing your HD, installing OSX, applying the "combo," and selectively restoring things? If so, that's a large project, with very little chance of success.
First, make a second full backup on a separate external HD, via the Restore tab of Disk Utility, CarbonCopyCloner, SuperDuper, or the like. It's rare, but on occasion a backup drive fails during a restore, and everything is lost.
Then, here's what you'd be looking at:
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• Erase your internal HD, per the yellow box in #1 of [Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks|http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of the +Using Snow Leopard+ forum).
• Quit Disk Utility, and install OSX from your Snow Leopard Install disc.
• Set up a temporary User Account (different from any on your backups).
• Go through the set-up procedure for your Internet connection(s), power settings, and other system-wide settings and preferences.
• Download and install the "combo" update, to get back to your current version of OSX.
• If you've upgraded either OSX or iLife since purchasing your Mac, find the disks with iLife and restore those apps.
• Find all the discs for 3rd-party apps and install them. Re-enter any purchase keys.
• Find the websites for all downloaded 3rd-party apps, download and install them. Re-enter any purchase keys.
• Restore whatever data you saved. See #28 in [Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions|http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/FAQ.html] (or use the link in *User Tips* at the top of this forum) for some common data.
• Re-enter all your Users' preferences and settings, including email accounts: account info, passwords, server names, etc. (if you didn’t save them).
• Wonder what you missed, and find out the hard way . . . for months . . . or longer.
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Is it really worth all that?

I cannot copy or transfer mp3 files stored on external drive back into itunes so i can listen to book again

Hi,
I mostly use itunes for listening to audiobooks which I have been collecting for years. Have hundreds of them. A few years ago when computer too full and my itunes library too big I carefully copied the books onto an external hard drive as mp3 files and then removed them from itunes. (At that stage I really wanted a non itunes library backup as I had already lost library a couple of times....now I understand the itunes back up a bit more and can use it.)
However I have lots of my favourite books on an external drive and I want to listen to them again. I cannot go to the folder holding a book, select all the the mp3 files that make up the book and drag them into my itunes music file as I can with a mp3 disc. There are 73 files on the first book i want to move!
Itunes has been selected as the default player and will play the files but I cannot transfer them.
Under details on a file it reads NOT PROTECTED
I am the administrator of my computer, indeed am its only user.
Cannot think of anything else that might be useful.
hope you can help
Elizabeth

luckily that is also backed up on the external drive too so I'll try looking there, but do you have any thoughts on why I can't get the backed up files to stay on the PC correctly ? because until they are back on my PC I can't use it or get the rankings back right?

Can you share large files on iCloud drive like dropbox?

I am exploring how to use iCloud drive now...and had a basic question. Can you share large files from it in a similar way as you can with dropbox? This is a great feature of dropbox...or google drive when mailing large files just doesn't work.
I have a Yosemite beta currently, and it doesn't look like you can do this.
I also was wondering if anyone has figured out how to make an alias of the iCloud drive on the desktop rather than always opening a finder window in order to drop files into iCloud drive....
Yosemite Beta and Mavericks, iMac 2012/Mac Pro/Mac book air

I am exploring how to use iCloud drive now...and had a basic question. Can you share large files from it in a similar way as you can with dropbox?
Have a look at the iCloud Drive FAQ: The file size limit is 15 G: iCloud Drive FAQ http://support.apple.com/kb/HT201104
You can store any type of file in iCloud Drive, as long as it's less than 15 GB in size. There's no restriction on file type, so you keep all of your work documents, school projects, presentations, and more up to date across all of your devices. Learn more about managing your iCloud Drive files.
If you make an alias to a folder on iCloud Drive, you can drag it to the Favourites in the Finder sidebar. That is the best I could do.

Can't boot up - damaged hard drive?

I've put all info here so hope it helps - 3 questions at bottom.
My system:
iMac G4 800MHz 80GB HD can't remember how much RAM but I think I'd put the max possible in it.
Mac os: 10.4.11
partitioned for 0SX and classic 9.9.2 (approx split 90%/10%)
The problem and what I've done so far:
The machine was running slow, then kept hanging. I checked and there was only 3GB free space so started to clear out some files (removing document files and Quicktime as I was going to reinstall it due to an error I'd received trying to open a movie file). The machine then either got stuck in a loop or hung trying to empty wastebasket. I moved some files from wastebasket to the desktop and moved a few at a time to wastebasket and emptied. Then it kept freezing, and I kept having to force a shutdown by pressing the power key for a few seconds.
During all of the above there was no (and thinking about it there hasn't been for a while now) startup chime.
I tried normal and safe boots and then reset the PRAM. Then it chimed on startup but wouldn't startup.
I've tried starting up from the original OSX10.2 disks supplied with the mac and a OSX10.4.3 disk. Only the latter will boot but only occasionally when holding down the C key on startup. If it does boot up this way it freezes after I get about 20% of the way through using disk utility or I try to install the system software.
Now either using disk utility or system software install, they do not recognise the disk.
When trying safe, single user and verbose boots, after about (est) 2-3 mins I get after about half a screen of text ending with:
diskOs10: I/O error.
Invalid key length
(4, 16111) -which I assume is the problem location on the disk
** volume check failed
syncing disks... Killing all processes
continuing
done
CPU halted -then the computer turns off.
As I haven't opened the computer up at all, I was hoping that it was a software problem that could ulimately be resolved by reformatting and reinstalling system software but with all the forced shutdowns and restarts (including having to restart with mouse key held down to remove/change installer disks) I fear the worst and think the hard drive is terminal or an outside chance that the superdrive is somehow at fault.
All of the above has happened in the last 24 hours.
I would like to try to at least copy off my email messages (100's) before giving up and replacing the internal hard drive.
Three questions:
1. Is there anything else I can do to try to reinstall system software?
2. I also have a MacBook (OSX 10.5.7) and a couple of LaCie 250GB firewire drives - is there any way I can hook these up or boot from the the MacBook or its DVD drive to see what's on the iMac G4 in it's current state?
3. Is replacing the hard drive straightforward or should it be done by a pro? (back in the day I often switched and replaced internal hard drives in old beige macs 6100's and as recently as tower G3's/G4's but I haven't looked inside a iMac other than to add RAM.)
Please help!!

Success! - this was my solution - it may help someone else avoid the three weeks of trial and error that I've been through.
I tried an older version (3.0.2) of DiskWarrior without success (web info suggests I'd need 3.0.3 or later) but I had managed to create disk images (.dmg) of the old partitions using DiskUtility onto an external firewire drive which I could mount successfully. At this stage I could to see all of my original files so rather than upgrade DiskWarrior on a 'maybe', I bit the bullet and reformatted the disk with the same size partitions and names as before in the hope that I would be able to clone from the dmg files.
I reinstalled OSX 10.3.4 and updated to OSX 10.4.11 to get back to where I'd started. I then tried using Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the disk images onto the new partitions but it kept crashing after a few hours. I also tried cloning to another IDE drive in another G3 (running 10.3.9) which also crashed. This left me thinking that the original problem had been that the hard drive was somehow in a knot and the 'knot' was still contained in the dmg file.
When I reinstalled OSX 10.3.4, I couldn't avoid using the setup assistant but as I didn't know a lot of the settings (I guess there are ways of getting this info from the dmg file but I didn't know how to and also, I wasn't sure if using OSX 10.4.11 settings in OSX 10.3.4 would cause more problems) I just entered basic details, restarted and updated to OSX 10.4.11. I then ran Software Update which updated a number of items.
I then used Migration Assistant to copy all of my settings and applications from the mounted .dmg file and it recovered most of my settings and applications. The applications work pefectly and didn't even ask for serial/validation details. I needed to spend an hour or two comparing two finder windows - one showing the mounted .dmg disk and another my new hard drive replacing newly installed Mail, Address Book and Safari files with the files from the .dmg file (Users, Preference and Application Support files etc), a restart or two later and it all appears to be working perfectly including all of my mailboxes, messages, contacts safari favourites etc .
Amazingly, it's a 80GB hard drive that I know was pretty full (showing only 3GB free) when I had the crash, the .dmg file is 67GB but now only 43GB disk space is used! As far as I know I haven't left anything out that I had on the disk before but as it all appears to be working well I really don't care!
I've already made new disk images!

Importing favourites folder as a whole from backup to Firefox

I have recently reloaded windows and wish to import my favourites folder that is in a backup folder on my C drive to Firefox but I seem unable to do this. Even as single files using the import/export facility under 'bookmarks'. Please could you help? Thank you.

Firefox has a built-in PDF file reader.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/view-pdf-files-firefox-without-downloading-them
The issue with Adobe Reader isn't popularity or "poor user reviews", it is because there are multiple security problems with Adobe products which never seem to get fixed. Most web browsers have their own PDF flle readers these days, which allow the user to view those files from within the browser without needing a plugin.

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