I have two macs, i was able to install mavericks on my 17", i can't do it with my 13" MacAir, I get a drop down box after i login, I could use some help. George

I have two macs, i was able to install mavericks on my 17", i can't do it with my 13" MacAir, I get a drop down box after i login, I could use some help. The drop down box says, unknown error, George

Welcome to the Apple Support Communities
Pages for the iPad and Pages for a Mac are completely different, so you have to purchase them twice, one for the iPad and another one for the Mac. The only advantage is that, if you buy another iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, you will be able to install Pages for free on all of them.
As you are running Mac OS X 10.6.8 on the MacBook, you can't purchase Pages from the App Store, so you have to buy iWork '09 on a DVD on Amazon or eBay in order to install it

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Could use some help on positioning images

With help here, I'm making my way through ID novice to ID "dangerous". I sorta get layout and sorta get styling and now could use some help with sizing and positioning images.
The test is a 3-column newspaper that I let ID size when the document was created. All the text frames are linked. I now want to put some images on the pages and have the text wrap. I sorta understand wrapping and anchoring, the question is sizing.
Am I on the right path to start thinking that images often need to be sized to a column width or two (plus gutter)? If so, do I size images based on the frame size? For example, the columns show as 3.2222in and the gutter as .1667. Does that mean I want to set the image width to 3.2887 or are things just not that accurate? What are the best practices?
One related question on wrapping: it seems like anchoring the image allows wrapping around only one frame of text but not the other if the image spans two text columns. How do you place and image so that it wraps text in more than one column?
Also, do people make the image smaller than the frame to put a border in when wrapping text?
Thanks
Tom

Are you asking about image size as it is saved, or as placed on the page?
With older RIPS it was common to want to save images at the correct dimensions so when placed at 100% they would have the correct resolution. This was to reduce processing time. Today that is less of an issue and it is not at all unusual to scale images in the InDesign layout. (I'm talking raster here -- vector objects can be scaled almost infinitely.)
So, what is the correct size? There are a number of rules of thumb, but the basic one is that images should be placed so that the resolution, at the size they will be printed, is twice the value of the linescreen being used. Anything in the range of 1.5 to 2.5 is probably acceptable, and I know people who routinely send images at 1.4 times the linescreen.
For coated papers and reasonably good reproduction, 150 lpi is not unusual, with 200 lpi for fine art books, so you get the common suggestion that images should be 300 ppi. Newspaper printing is usually accomplished on fairly porous stock at much lower screen frequencies -- 80 to 100 lpi -- so you need considerably less image resolution.
How do you know what the resolution is at the size you've place the image? Look at the info panel with an image selected. You'll see too numbers, an "actual" ppi and an "effective" ppi. The actual number is simply the resolution recorded with the image at its dimensions when it was saved (and digital cameras often save images 20 inches or so wide at 72 ppi) and is basically irrelevant. The effective ppi is the one that matters. If it's too small, either reduce the size of the image on the page, or be prepared to live with less than stellar reproduction. If it's grossly over the requirement it usually won't hurt except for some increased processing time, but the extra image data won't improve things as it gets discarded by the RIP.
It's usually OK to downsample an image in Photoshop, though you will sometimes lose fine detail or subtlety in shading, but you'd probably lose the same things through scaling in ID. Upsampling never helps.
I presume you know that you can place graphical objects in several ways, either into an existing frame, at full size (whatever that happens to be and at the "actual" resolution) by clicking the loaded cursor on an empty spot on the page, or you can click and drag a new frame the size you want. When an image is first placed it will always be "actual size" unless some scaling factor has been applied to the frame in advance, so you may not see the entire image. You then have several fitting options available to either make the frame fit the image or the image fit the frame (and in newspaper work you pretty much only want to fit to or fill the frame proportionally).
I personally like keeping the images snapped to the column grid, but it's by no means an iron-clad rule. You want to avoid situations, though, where an image impinges on a column to the point that the remaining text is unworkably narrow.
I don't know why you are using anchored frames for your images (text wrap only affects text in the frame after the anchor point). It's not likely in a newspaper that you would want the pictures to move on the page if you edit the text. You can group the image, caption and story, if you like, so that they all stay together if you need to re-arrange the page or move them to a new location.
I don't know if I answered your question. Feel free to come back for clarification.
Peter

Powerpoint presentation I have stored in icloud until recently were syncing to Keynote on my iPad with no problem. Now when I open Keynote on my iPad there is nothing. I could use some help with this problem.

powerpoint presentation I have stored in icloud until recently were syncing to Keynote on my iPad with no problem. Now when I open Keynote on my iPad there is nothing. I could use some help with this problem.

Morning AndreD86,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
These articles explain exactly what is backed up by using their method.
iTunes: About iOS backups
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4946
and
iCloud: Backup and restore overview
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4859
Also we want to double-click the Home button and swipe the Task Bar to the right.
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I have loaded and reloaded Reader 9. I cannot open a pfd document.      I can save it to desk top then open it via a drop down box that has a "open with Adobe Reader 9". How can I avoid having to do this?

I have loaded and reloaded Reader 9. I cannot open a pfd document.      I can save it to desk top then open it via a drop down box that has a "open with Adobe Reader 9". How can I avoid having to do this?

Hello Michael,
Thank you for your response. My operating system is XP. When I try to open a pfd document I just get a series of letters and symbols in a dialog box. The top of the box says "select the encoding that makes your document readable". I can choose Windows, MS-Dos, or other (there is a long list to choose from). None seem to make a difference. If I save the document to my desk top I can right click on it and choose an option "Open with AdobeReader 9" and it opens fine.
Thank you,
Rick
New Edge Technologies
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 06:22:51 -0600
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To: [email protected]
Subject: I have loaded and reloaded Reader 9. I cannot open a pfd document.      I can save it to desk top then open it via a drop down box that has a "open with Adobe Reader 9". How can I avoid having to do this?
Hello:
What operating system does your computer use? What happens when you attempt to open a PDF document rather than saving it first? Please include any/all error messages. Also, have you tried opening documents from other locations or just one in particular?
Thanks,
     Michael
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My drop-down list won't appear anymore so every time I want to go to a new site I have to type it in where before my drop-down box would appear and I could just click it and hit search and go there how do I make my drop-down box come back

somehow I must've clicked a button that took away my drop down box when I go to use my Google search so different sites that I go to a lot I would always just click it when the drop-down box came up I would click again and hit search and you would bring that page up but even if I go to a site once I leave that I try to click and make the drop-down box come up again with the new search and it nothing happens so the problem is I need my drop down box to come back up to all the places that I visit kind of like a history of like I said I would just click and it would come up by itself now the drop-down box won't come up anymore so I need somebody to tell me what to do to bring my drop-down box back also I am new to computers so I don't know a lot so don't be real technical thanks for the help merry Christmas from Joe

It's not a matter of me assuming to restore it, once the error comes up, the only next step I can do is to restore it. I can't access any of the iphones settings in itunes or anything, it's a mandatory restore. If I just cancel the sync (before restoring) and disconnect the phone, all my apps crash on opening: aka unusable phone. So I have literally no choice but to restore every time the error shows up if I want my phone to work.
I have no idea where I may have duplicate files as it doesn't tell me, so if that is the problem (which I don't think it is) then I don't know where I have to go to delete the duplicates.
And the duplicate file error still doesn't explain why leaving iTunes to restore the phone doesn't work and me having to drag the window around. I know it sounds utterly ridiculous, my friend didn't believe me when I told him either but then I showed him and he was as confused as I am. If I just leave the restore to do its own thing at it's own pace, it will loa maybe 20% then fail for whatever reason.

I have started getting a drop down box wanting my password. This happens over and over again on my iMac version 10.7.4 ok using web mail and on my iPod have spent hours on the phone apple support keep blaming bt internet but they say the connection is ok

I have started getting the dreaded drop down box wanting my password this keeps repeating itself, I have spent hours on the phone, apple support keep blaming bt internet who have checked my connections and they are ok I am running version 10.7.4 can get web mail and mail on my I pod is fine any help would be much appreciated but in simple to understand terms thanks.

What application are you in when this happens?

Could Use some help...

Hey everyone, I was wondering if anyone would help me with this strange little problem I'm having.
I'm 15 and taking a Java class at the local community college, and our current assignment is to make a String class for java. anyway, here is my string class:
public class myString {
    private final int MAX = 50;
    private char[] mystr = new char[MAX];
    //constructors
    public myString() {
        char[] defstr = {'d', 'e', 'f', 'a', 'u', 'l', 't'};
        mystr = defstr;
    public myString(String str) { setStr(str); }
    public myString(char[] carray) { setStr(carray); }
    public myString(myString anotherStr) {
        mystr = anotherStr.get();
    //setters
    public void setStr(String str) {
        mystr = str.toCharArray();
    public void setStr(char[] carray) {
        mystr = carray;
    //others stuff:
    public char[] get() { return mystr; }
    //the lefts(maybe I did too many O_o):
    public char left(char[] carray) { return carray[0]; }
    public char left() { return mystr[0]; }
    public char[] left(char[] carray, int n) {
        char[] leftstr = new char[MAX];
        System.arraycopy(carray, 0, leftstr, 0, n-1);
        return leftstr;
    public char[] left(int n) {
        char[] leftstr = new char[MAX];
        System.arraycopy(mystr, 0, leftstr, 0, n-1);
        //System.out.println(leftstr); <- this gave me a good report.
        return leftstr;
    public char left(String str) { return str.toCharArray()[0]; }
    public char[] left(String str, int n) {
        char[] leftstr = new char[MAX];
        str.getChars(0, n, leftstr, 0);
        return leftstr;
}here is my main:
import java.io.*;
public class stringtest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        myString hfb = new myString("happy fun ball, still legal in 16 states!");
        char[] d00d = {'d', '0', '0', 'd', '!', '!', '1', '!'};
        char[] whatev = hfb.left(15);
        System.out.println(hfb.get());
        System.out.println(hfb.left("well, lets see this one", 6) +
            "\n" + whatev + "\n" + hfb.left(d00d, 4));
        System.out.println(hfb.lowercase("d00d, PWNED") + "\n" + hfb.uppercase());
}and here is the report it produces:
happy fun ball, still legal in 16 states!
[C@119c082
[C@1add2dd
[C@eee36c
[C@194df86
[C@defa1a
so I suppose you can already see my problem here. Now I put a println in myString. it was in the left(int n) function, just before the return statement. It printed "happy fun ball", so it worked. It was a good report.
when I return it, though, it gives me some hexadecimal number with a crazy symbol in front of it.
What throws me off more is that my get function works fine, and when I use it it shows a normal report.
So, yeah. any help is greatly appreciated. This is due tomorrow(hurray for procrastination), so I could use help soon.
Sorry if I seem to be rambling, its late, and I want to sleep :)

hmm..
I tried making one(which unfortunatly resulted in my direct use of the string class, rather than like an extra. I was hoping to avoid it), but it didn't change anything. Now I think I did something wrong, or perhaps I'm calling it wrong.
will it automatically get used if I do something like System.out.println(myString.left(5));?
Or do I have to get the left method to return a string?
and why does get() work correctly?
This whole thing is confusing me a lot, because it seems so inconsistent. I think its just evry language's deep, personal hatred for me :)
any further help is also appreciated, and thanks for replying so quickly :)

I could use some help with my html5 and my video

Hello all.
I've been reading up and working on my video issue for days. I feel like I'm very close. ANY help would be huge.
I've got two websites. Both of which have videos which my clients wants to be about to see on his mac, his PC and his iPhone and iPad. He's a multi-platform guy living in a multi-platform world.
The first website, has two videos on it.
http://www.ftworthfoundation.com/index2.html
It is very close to working... I can view all videos locally on safari and firefox.
However remotely I cannot see any videos with firefox.
Remotely- I can see all videos with Safari and IE and 1 video on the homepage with my iPhone. My first thought on this was that the video which wouldn't play was too large. I read somewhere that the iPHone will not load anything over 20MB... the .m4v was 33MB so I cut it down to about a 3rd of the size and re uploaded it (at 6.6MB) but it will still not play on my iPhone
here is my code for the videos. The video is formatted in .ogg, .mp4, .m4v and .flv... all videos are uploaded to the root directory.
<div id=Video1>
   <video controls width=448>
        <source src="excel_Construction_Commercial.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
        <source src="excel_Construction_Commercial2.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
            <source src="excel_Construction_Commercial.m4v" type="video/m4v" />
        <embed src="excel_construction_commercial.flv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="448" height="249" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreeen="true"></embed>
    </video>
    </div>
      <div id="VideoPlayer">
        <video controls width="448">
            <source src="Foundation_Repair.ogg" type="video/ogg" />
<source src="Foundation_Repair.mp4" type="video/mp4" />
            <source src="Foundation_Repair.m4v" type="video/m4v" />
          <embed src="Foundation_Repair.flv" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width=448 height="249" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreeen="true"></embed>
        </video>
        </div>
If anyone can help me on this I can probably tackle the 2nd website solo.
Thanks guys.
-D

Hi David.
Thanks for the reply. I am definitely moving the right direction.
I have changed my extensions but the video will still not play remotely. It does play locally.
Here is my new code
<video controls width="448">
            <source src="Remodeling.mp4" type="video/mp4">
            <source src="Remodeling.ogv" width="448" height="298" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"'>
            <source src="Remodeling.m4v" type="video/m4v">
            <embed src="Remodeling.flv" type=application/x-shockwave-flash wIDth="448" HeIGHT=249 alloWScRIPTACCESs="always" aLLOwfUllSCREeN=true></EmbEd>
            </div>
I'm thinking I have a MIME type issue as I read this article online.
Here is a link
http://diveintohtml5.org/video.html
It's a great website for anyone looking to understand how to create and export video to html5.
Anyway here is the section of article I'm interested in.
What’s the proper MIME type? You’ve already seen it; it’s part of the value of the type attribute on a <source> element. But setting thetype attribute in your HTML markup is not sufficient. You also need to ensure that your web server includes the proper MIME type in the Content-Type HTTP header.
If you’re using the Apache web server or some derivative of Apache, you can use an AddType directive in your site-wide httpd.confor in an .htaccess file in the directory where you store your video files. (If you use some other web server, consult your server’s documentation on how to set the Content-Type HTTP header for specific file types.)
Can anyone tell me how to change my MIME type? I can see my .htaccess.html file and I tried adding in
AddType video/ogg .ogv
AddType video/mp4 .mp4
AddType video/webm .webm
But the server will not let me upload the new .htaccess file. So I cannot change it.
I'm using GoDaddy and have complete admin rights rights as far as I can tell.
Again. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Could use some help on PSE6 vs. iPhoto

I'm not interested in starting a thread of just preferences between PSE6 and iPhoto (or any other utility for that matter). What I am interested in is some feature comparison that can help me decide which (if either) to use to organize my photos.
Some of my photos are in iPhoto and others are not. I'm in the middle of a cleanup of my Mac and getting the photos organized is part of the journey. I'm a little frustrated looking at iPhoto data files since I get data, the images, thumbs and, in some cases, a folder caller "originals". It seems I have a bit of work to find which file goes with which iPhoto entry.
My config already has PSE6. I also have CS2 on my PC laptop.
A friend said he uses Bridge and, in his case, an organizer from Nikon (his camera manuf.). I happen to have a couple small Canon's.
Any general guidelines for deciding on the best strategies for organizing and should/could PSE6 play a role?
Thanks

I read your post on another thread about picking Bridge or iPhoto, but not both. As you mentioned, with iPhoto integrated with other OS X apps it probably makes sense to use if fully on the Mac.
I started a thread on getting some help in figuring out which files and folders were iPhoto's (I've made quite a mess over the years). IP6 just asked me to do some sort of re-indexing (which I let it do) and now I have empty folders, etc. in the Pictures and iPhoto folder.
Thanks again for taking the time to post. I'm at such a starting point that ever bit helps.
Tom

Could use some help, SB Li

Hey community, usually I dont post on forums for help, but I really cant get this. Ive been doin some extensi've troubleshooting, and heres what i got. I have SB Li've! soundcard, re installed clean boot all that stuff with it, the card seems to work fine. My speakers wont play any sound. this problem started AFTER i formatted my computer for some random reason?The big thing i noticed is that i can listen with headphones hooked into my sound card, but not my speakers. My speakers wont play my Ipod when directly hooked into it. The speakers im using are some Boston brand i've never really heard of. its got a left and right speaker, and then a sub woofer. The left speaker plugs into the right speaker, the right speaker plugs into the woofer, the woofer has the power cord hooked into it and the audio jack that goes to the computer. All of this is plugged in correctly, they clearly have power. Do i have a bad audio jack?any help appreciated

its wierd tho, i remembered them working before the format. and the speakers have never been bumped real loud to where theyd die. when you plug them in you get the power on static but thats all i've heard from em. i kinda think its just the cord that connects them to whatevrt audio device they connect to.

Hey i could use some help on vidorea

hey i got the vidorea ipod song converter but i dont have the main part of it cuz i dont want it but with the converter it converts the songs but i still cant put them on my ipod please help!

the best place to get help with videora is at the videora forum
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Very new to flash, could use some help

Sorry the title isn't too descriptive, couldn't really think what to put there.
Anyway, i'm making an 'interactive map' for a game I play. I have the map itself, if was given to me by the game developers, but what i'm trying to do is place points on the map that, when clicked, present a menu that allows them to select an item to be placed. (In this case, the item would be an image.)
The reason for this, is the game is a third persons hooter and has turrets on the map that you can build, i'd like to make something for everyone to easily be able to share turret strategies, and thought this would be the best option. I've only used flash once or twice, and that was about a year ago when I was in college, so I don't really remember anything useful.
Thanks in advance.
PS: Another way I've thought of doing this was having the points be 'snap' points for the images, and having a menu that spawns the turret images on the map that can be dragged by the users to the 'snap' points of the map. Which way would be easier to accomplish, do you think?
PPS: Would it be hard to give users a way to save their map so they could link it to other people? Or perhaps something like some Flash Games have where they can copy a code and give it to people to input into the flash app/game, the code lets them view exactly what the original person was viewing.

Make those turret images as symbols, say a movie clip.
and now you can build a menu in movie clip when clicked on it.

Memory timings... I could use some help here!

I have a MSI K8T NEO FIS2R board. For long time I suffered serious system instability... due to bad memory. Anyhow, yesterday I got me some GEiL memory, 2x 512MB of PC3500 memory (type 433 Ultra DDR KHS)
Guess what? I can't get the system to run stable. I guess it has something to do with timings, although I don;t know how to set them.
Can perhaps anybody help me?
My other components should be good (strong PSU, enough cooling etc).

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As for the Geil mem, try upping the mem voltage..I use 2.75...try as someone said CPU-Z and auto settings and see where they go vs. the advertised ratings. Often people add 1 to Ras to Cas as was mentioned on Mushkin's site for AMD64's... I've read complaints about Geil but also good, so I dunno. Same for Corsair, Kingston etc... Add to the settings and then fine tune them, same rule of thumb for overclocking. It can get frustrating 'tho I know. I posted much on the Mushkins just because they worked right outta their cases at 2-2-2 at 400... Why the they stopped with the BH5's I have no idea... I got mine just in time as they were gone the next day or at least the true Black Hi-Perf Level II's except for 2700's & I knew the paired packs were the new "2-2-2 Specials" BH6's (also supposed to be good, just don't O/C as well). I've seen em on Ebay for alot of $$$. DDR2 is just around the corner, we'll have to see... This system was the easiest to set up and the funnest to play around with to see what it could do (I still often make changes just for the heck of it even 'tho it's rock solid already) vs. all the Intels I've built for others & myself in the past (nothing against Intel)... actually the P2-450 was also easy, just not so much fun..notihng like BSODs when you make slight changes to make things tedious pretty fast. This AMD just acts a little funny when it's not quite right.. Donno, maybe Buddha helped pick out the parts from the warehouse or something........ :hypecrite: I wish ya luck 'tho & hope you get it cruising asap.. deja vu!!

Working on epic slideshow....really could use some help please

I have combed the manuals, discussion logs etc. but am yet to find a simple answer to my questions. Maybe there are none. My grandparents both passed away in the last month. I am not only archiving my pictures but creating a slideshow using final cut pro 5.1.4. The pictures I have scanned are huge... a total of 180 years of life, hundreds of pictures, all scanned at 600 dpi because some where 2x2. Even then some pictures are 4000 x2800 and 20mb. I have resized them down to about 5mb or so. I have seemed to get rid of flicker and lag associated with such huge file. Still I am having a problem exporting......
There are so many audio/video settings it hard to know where to go. This will be watched by 50 family members and friends, most with HD widescreen Televsisons. When I watch it on my computer it looks exactly how i want it to. When i burn it to iDVD it starts having lag issues when doing mild pans and zooms....the transitions.. fade in fade out, typically...or cross dissolve look "framey" and low quality. In the days of research I've done I can't seem to find proper settings (yes even the manual) on how to set the codecs or whatever they are....It will primarily be watched on 16:9 widescreen I image....but anything from old 4:3 televisons to laptops too. What settings should I use?...Should I reduce all pics to minimal size? Why do my transitions look so low res...? If anyone has any insight, please help. I don't know the difference in 1080i50 or 1080i 60...I have heard NTSC is not the way to go for a slideshow.....please help. How should I resize, how should I export, what am I doing wrong? It looks great for the most part on my on MacBook Pro 2.5ghz 2g ram 15 inch laptop....why cant i get it to translate on the televison?
I know parts of this question(s) have been discussed and appreciate anytime in helping me grasp what I am missing. This is so very important to me...also Livetype was a disaster... looked liked graphics from a 1982 sci-fi movie...sigh....I have done this before with success, but not in about 5 years. Technology and HD era have surpassed me although some of my questions ares still basic.
Thanks in advance,
Tony
MacBook Pro 2.5ghz 2g ram Please help with FCP 5 slideshow technical difficulties

Yes I considered using iMovie or iPhoto because of the size of this project but had little or no control over motion. Despite my obvious lack of knowledge I know my way around FCP to the extent I've needed it.
Perhaps I have been over thinking/researching everything because this project means so much to me.
I just wanted to make sure I imported my media correctly (scanned tiffs and music only) and export it with the proper settings so that it looks as professional as possible and nobody has a problem playing it.
I have had success with several slideshows before, as well as fun DV videos of the kids. Without motion, no problem. With motion, just a few minor bugs (flickering) but was very happy with the end result. The difference then I suppose is that was using all digital pics from (at the time) a 3 megapixel camera. Not huge files, not scanned images. I used NTSC then but read in a forum somewhere that that was a quick way to degrade your production. I feel like I'm close. If it looks like I want it to on my computer I can't be that far off, right?
I appreciate the info on DVD's needing to be NTSC compatible. Maybe I should just go back to the standard NTSC format. Are all the other audio/video settings simply for uploading to the web and so forth? Is there a NTSC setting that you would recommend that is better for todays standard widescreen television? I do want the final show to be in widescreen.
Thanks David,
Tony

Accidentally erased my Applications, could use some help

Intending to install Windows with bootcamp, and to format the hard drive as a single journaled disk (forgive my almost certain misuse of terminology if my meaning is clear) to allow partitioning, I restored to my last backup in Time Machine (from 5 minutes earlier). Unfortunately I forgot that my Time Machine backup excludes Applications, Music, and Movies, and so there goes about 40 gigabytes and thousands of memories.
Anyway I'm dealing with the music photo movie thing, but what I'm wondering is if there's an easy way to get back all the basic applications; utilities, etc. That would be useful in reconstructing some sort of usable machine here. I went to my Snow Leopard Disk and now I've got iTunes, Mail, Safari, iChat, Address Book, iCal, Chrome, and a Utilities folder with Quicktime, Activity Monitor, and X11 (?).
Any tips?
Also I upgraded to 10.6.4, if that matters.

I ran the 10.6.4 update but still don't have any utilities or anything. I think at this point I'll just do a full reinstall, then restore certain folders (e.g. Documents, System, etc.) from Time Machine the old fashioned "Click 'Restore' in Time Machine" way. Should this work?
And I HAD been using Parallels, but found it remarkably slow in several respects, most notably when trying to play games. I figured I'd switch to Boot Camp, which I can only assume from what I've heard and what seems intuitive, runs the OS faster, and then set up Parallels (as I've heard one can) to access that partition. As I understand it you can use both; run your Boot Camp partition within your Mac side if you want to. If that's incorrect I think I'd still rather have a fast running Windows partition even if it requires a restart.
Any advice on whether I should go buy Windows 7 or use the XP I bought a few years ago when I first did Parallels?
Message was edited by: Brian

I have two macs, i was able to install mavericks on my 17", i can't do it with my 13" MacAir, I get a drop down box after i login, I could use some help. George

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