IBook is STILL resetting

I put a topic on a few days ago:
"I started up my iBook G4 one morning and my documents and programs were still there, but none of my settings were there and my programs had been reset, I lost all my iPhoto pictures, iTunes stuff, aim settings, etc. Then every hour or so, safari resets itself again, and I lose my bookmarks and everything. What do I do?"
And the previous instrutions "http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107854" I received has not worked. Some other things are that every time I log out and log back in, a new user folder has started. Also, nothing is saved when I log back in. Then whenever I'm using safai, every few minutes it says " A keychain cannot be found to store "Safari." But the previous help was partly right, since I have found my old user files and everything, but I would like to restore (if possible) my computer to that user, like the way it was before. I really need to fix this problem quickly so help would be amazing!

The Genius Bar helped me out!
Apparantly a new home folder was created essentially creating a new user on the same login some how... So all of my folders and preferences were stored away and just had to be moved back into my old home folder.. Kind of confusing. Not sure how that happened, but it's fixed now.
All I had to do was select all the folders and move them into my original home folder and log out (even though I'm the only user) and log back in, and everything was restored!
I felt kind of silly for not figuring that out myself, but that's why I paid the extra $$ for the extended warranty, plus the Genius Bar people are GREAT and can always help! That's why I bought a mac as opposed to those other (microsoft) computers!

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=( My iBook is still dead!!! (with included symptoms of a dying iBook)

I bought my iBook last May2004. I loved my iBook and took really good care of it. After one year of usage, all of a sudden my iBook stopped working -- a month after my warranty had expired... It all started with the "sleeping problem" -- when it didn't want to go to sleep even after my lid was already down... there were even times when it got really hot in my bag because it didn't sleep... then sooner the problem got worst... it wouldn't boot normaly -- it would boot 1 out of 4 times of trying to boot-it-up... I also got the weird screen with different funky colors... then one day, all I hear is my iBooks fan when I press the power button... I brought it to the Mac Shop in the Philippines and they are charging me about P30,000 ($555-US) because they said it "might" be the logic board. I decided not to get it fixed here because I couldn't afford such amount... when I went to pick it up and got their invoice, their invoice mentioned "probable logic board failure"... the word "probable" kinda smells fishy... did they really check what was the problem?... ANYWAYS,... 5 after I took it back from the shop I decided to remove the battery and let it sit there for awhile...3 months after, I used my power cord to power up my laptop and used my boot cd to boot up my iBook...supprisingly, it worked... then I decided to shut my laptop off and get my battery charging... after my battery was fully charged, i turned my laptop on again and it was still working... , i unplugged my power cord and left my laptop running on battery and it still worked...BUT,... when I got tired of enjoying my again working iBook, I put my laptop in a sleep mode by closing its lid... then its LCD lights didn't automaticaly turn-off like usual even if the lid was already down... so I opened it again and pressed my space button to try to get it running but now it just went to a blank screen... again, all I hear is a fan when I turn it on and that was the last of it working... what's up with my beloved iBook?... I personaly know 7 other people (friends)experiencing the problem -- not including those I've meet in the internet -- you don't wanna know how many they are. PLEASE HELP! MY iBOOK is still DEAD!!!!!!
Note: Phrases that are underlined and are in bold letters are the usual symptoms of a dying iBook G4. Believe me. I've search all over this discussion board since 2005 and all I see are people expressing their deep sorrow and grief about their dead iBook G4. I miss me iBook so much and all that is in it. It is still sitting in my bag waiting to be resurrected. A few days ago I planned to get a MacBook because I really missed my iBook, but upon stumbling upon this Discussion Board again, I still feel much dissatisfaction from both old and new users of iBooks and MacBooks -- from the same logic board issues. I dare you find it out yourself by surfing around this Discussion Board.
To those who are in my shoes: "I feel your agony"
To those who's iBook still works: "You're one of the lucky few...but just wait...huh."
To those who are planning to buy one: "True. iBooks and MacBooks are really cool with very cool design and very good OS. But my friend, think it over plenty of times. Im not telling you to not buy one but its really painful to wake-up one day and your beloved iBook/MacBook is DEAD and its now just as useful as a paperweight or probably a doorjam or maybe even a cutting board. Believe me, I know."
Unless APPLE would decide to backup their systems with a 3year warranty(WHY NOT?), I wouldn't....
Mr. Steve Jobs, Sir, with full respect, that's my dare to you.
ilogboy
Feb. 21, 2007
iBook G4:1064MHZ/256MB/40GB/COMBO Mac OS X (10.3)

on some G4 iBooks similar problems could be caused by display cables - they wear out and can cause electric short
or color issues.
in any case it supposed to be diagnosed properly.

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I update today the ibook app to the feb 9 update and the app does not work!, it shows my book for a moment and then reset to the main screen. I reset my ipad, power off, resync and still not work, any idea what could be happening?
Thanks in advance
Daniel

Hi and welcome Daniel...
Open iTunes. On the left side of the iTunes window under Library select Apps. Right or control click the iBooks icon then click Delete.
On your iPad. Press and hold the iBooks icon then tap the circle with an x in it. Tap delete.
Click here to download and install a new iBooks app.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8
From the iTunes menu bar click Store / Check for available downloads.
When the installation is finished connect the iPad to your computer. Select Apps in the iTunes menu (just to the right of Summary and Info) then click the Sync button bottom right side of the iTunes window. That will sync a new copy of the iBooks app to your iPad.
Carolyn
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Ibook wants to reset every 10mins

my friends ibook keeps poping up with the following screen:
every 10 mins or so. once she has reset it, it comes back again and makes her reset her computer. she has tried resetting the PRAM, PMU etc but that hasn't helped
any ideas?

Hi Richard,
What you are seeing is known as a Kernel Panic.
For help in resolving this refer to:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106227
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25392
& Dr Smoke's: Resolving Kernel Panics.
Note Dr Smoke's advice at the top of his page:
"Before you begin...
The procedures defined herein constitute a testing road map and should be followed in the order specified. Read this FAQ thoroughly before proceeding in order to familiarize yourself with the steps and assure you have the necessary resources available.
Best of luck, and do post back more advice once you have read and acted on the above links.
Adrian

I have a ibook need to reset my password forgot the password

reset password for ibook osx

Some links.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/4481678#4481678
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274?viewlocale=en_US

My phone froze so i tried to reset it but it is still reseting

my phone froze so i tried to reset it but it is still reseting

I am having the same problem, the message comes up saying that 'ipod' ipod's cannot be restored, what does this mean? i posted one before but no one has replied yet?

If i can not find the disk that came wit the computer can i still reset it?

Computer has been sitting around for a long time and has a lot of thing that i dont need any more and need it to be a lot faster then what it is and would like to restore like you do an iphone are an ipad. Can i still do that if i don't have the disk it came with?

Hello ut2729,
If you are running Lion or Mountain Lion, this can be achieved using the Recovery HD.
OS X Mountain Lion: Erase and reinstall OS X
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH11273
You can erase your Mac and then reinstall OS X using the built-in recovery disk. Before you erase and reinstall, back up your essential files. If you’re installing on a portable computer, make sure your power adapter is connected and plugged in.
Important: To reinstall OS X, you need to be connected to the Internet.
Choose Apple menu > Restart. Once your Mac restarts (and the gray screen appears), hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys.
If you’re not connected to the Internet, choose a network from the Wi-Fi menu (in the top-right corner of the screen).
Select Disk Utility, and then click Continue.
Select your startup disk from the list on the left, and then click the Erase tab.
From the Format pop-up menu, choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled), enter a name for your disk, and then click Erase.
After the disk is erased, choose Disk Utility > Quit Disk Utility.
Select Reinstall OS X, click Continue, and then follow the instructions.For more information about reinstalling OS X, see this help topic:Reinstall OS X
You can also create an external recovery disk. For more information, see this Apple Support article:
About Recovery Disk Assistant
Cheers,
Allen

Pages Templates still reset currency...

Is there anybody who is struggling with this as well?
I thought this would be a really obvious bug and they's fix it in 09, but nothing.
Whenever I create a Pages Template with a currency other than British Pounds and save it, after opening it is reset to Pounds - it's a simple and obvious bug and I wrot eto Apple as well, so they should be aware of it, but nothing happens - am I the only one here?
Cheers - Christoph

Hi Fruhulda
If you insert a table in a Pages document (same behavior with Numbers) and set a cell as currency one using $ if your system's setting is €,
if you save the document as a template, the documents created from this custom template will contain a currency matching your system's setting.
It's really odd.
I wish to know if the OP used the Feedback link or if he reported to the BugReporter area.
There is a quick and dirty workaround.
Don't save as a template but as a standard document and create new documents with this script.
--[SCRIPT openFakeTemplate]
Enregistrer le script en tant que Script ou Progiciel : openFakeTemplate.xxx
Sous 10.6 un progiciel se nomme Application.
Si c'est un Script, déplacer le fichier créé dans le dossier
<VolumeDeDémarrage>:Users:<votreCompte>:Library:Scripts:Applications:
Il vous faudra peut-être créer le dossier Applications.
menu Scripts > openFakeTemplate
Si c'est un Progiciel, laissez le sur le bureau pour y glisser l'icône d'un pseudo_modèle Numbers ou Pages.
Dans les deux cas, un clône du pseudo_modèle sera ouvert avec un nom horodaté.
--=====
L'aide du Finder explique:
L'Utilitaire AppleScript permet d'activer le Menu des scripts :
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Cochez la case "Afficher le menu des scripts dans la barre de menus".
+++++++
Save the script as Script or Application Bundle: openFakeTemplate.xxx
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Maybe you would have to create the folder Applications by yourself.
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If you saved as Application (bundle), leave it on the Desktop so you will be able to drag & drop on its icon a fakeTemplate's one.
In both cases, a dateTime stamped clone of the fakeTemplate will be open.
--=====
The Finder's Help explains:
To make the Script menu appear:
Open the AppleScript utility located in Applications/AppleScript.
Select the "Show Script Menu in menu bar" checkbox
--=====
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2009/09/29
property permitted4 : {"com.apple.iwork.pages.sffpages", "com.apple.iwork.numbers.sffnumbers"}
property permitted5 : {"com.apple.iwork.pages.pages", "com.apple.iwork.numbers.numbers"}
property permitted : permitted5 & permitted4
--=====
on run (*
lignes exécutées si on double clique sur l'icône du script application
• lines executed if one double click the application script's icon *)
tell application "System Events"
if my parleAnglais() then
set myPrompt to "Choose an iWork’s document"
else
set myPrompt to "Choisir un document iWork"
end if -- parleAnglais
if 5 > (system attribute "sys2") then (*
if Mac Os X 10.4.x *)
set allowed to my permitted
else (*
it's Mac OS X 10.5.x with a bug with Choose File *)
set allowed to {}
end if -- 5 > (system…
my commun(choose file with prompt myPrompt of type allowed without invisibles) (* un alias *)
end tell
end run
--=====
on open (sel) (*
sel contient une liste d'alias des élémentsqu'on a déposés sur l'icône du script (la sélection)
• sel contains a list of aliases of the items dropped on the script's icon (the selection) *)
my commun(item 1 of sel) (* an alias *)
end open
--=====
on commun(source)
tell application "System Events" to tell disk item (source as text)
set typeID to (type identifier) as text
set nomSource to name
set ext to name extension
end tell
if typeID is not in my permitted then
if my parleAnglais() then
error "“" & (source as text) & "” is not a Numbers or Pages document!"
else
error "«" & (source as text) & "» n’est pas un document Numbers ou Pages !"
end if -- my parleAnglais()
end if -- typeID
set nomCourt to text 1 thru -(2 + (length of ext)) of nomSource
set nouveauNom to nomCourt & my dateTimeStamp() & "." & ext
tell application "Finder"
set dupli to (duplicate source) as alias
set name of dupli to nouveauNom
set dupli to dupli as alias
open dupli
end tell
end commun
--=====
on dateTimeStamp()
return (do shell script "date +_%Y%m%d-%H%M%S")
end dateTimeStamp
--=====
on parleAnglais()
local z
try
tell application "Pages" to set z to localized string "Cancel"
on error
set z to "Cancel"
end try
return (z is not "Annuler")
end parleAnglais
--=====
-- [/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 29 septembre 2009 18:46:11

HT5622 what to do if your ipod says ipod is disabled connect to itunes can i still reset my ipo useing a computer

i do not know

First try to recover your original password.ID so you can redownload iTunes purchases
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Downloading past purchases from the App Store, iBookstore, and iTunes Store
Place the iOS device in Recovery Mode and then connect to your computer and restore via iTunes. The iPod will be erased.
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If recovery mode does not work try DFU mode.
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iOS: How to back up
If you restore from iCloud backup the apps will be automatically downloaded. If you restore from iTunes backup the apps and music have to be in the iTunes library since synced media like apps and music are not included in the backup of the iOS device that iTunes makes.
You can redownload iTunes purchases by:
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IPhone 5, backup on computer is password protected, forgot password, still have phone, just want to reset the password so i can create a new backup!

I have an iPhone 5.
At some point, I backed it up to my PC, with a password.
I have forgotten the password.
I still have the phone.
I can no longer back it up to the PC.
I want to wipe the backup, password, etc, and start again.
Surely that can't be impossible!

Thanks both - do you think it's worth giving this a shot?
http://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/972853
Once iTunes is set to encrypt iPhone backups, switching this feature off requires the password. What if the password is forgotten or unknown? You can still reset iTunes to make a fresh backup without encryption. Follow these steps to uncheck Encrypt iPhone backup:
Perform these steps at your own risk!
1. Delete any Mail Exchange accounts on the iPhone.
2. Delete old encrypted backups from iTunes.
3. Use iExplorer or ssh to delete the file /private/var/Keychains/Keychain-2.db from the iOS filesystem. Note: this step will clear stored passwords from your device.
4. Restart the iPhone.
5. Connect the iPhone to your computer and open iTunes.
6. Uncheck the box next to Encrypt iPhone backup.
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When successful, iTunes should begin backing up the iPhone to an unencrypted backup. If this does not happen, start a new unencrypted backup manually.

.mac account expired, but iBook still trying to connect?

Hi all, I'd love some help. Let me try to breakdown the issue as best I can:
My girlfriend's iBook is an older, 30gb model, which she's had for several years. 30gb is simply not enough, as you can imagine, even for her simple music and net needs. Recently, with very little memory remaining, she began to notice that memory was getting eaten up, even though she wasn't adding any files, was regularly clearing her browser cache, etc. So I began to investigate this problem.
First, I deleted all Garageband-related material, freeing up about 3.5gb! Good riddance. Next, per instructions I'd seen elsewhere, I checked the Console to make sure that the regular maintanence programs have been running recently. They have.
But in console I also noticed a lot of repeating command lines, which is the main part of my question now. When she first got the iBook, she had a year's subscription to .mac, which is a sort of networked backup and web-sharing service as best I understand it. She never renewed her subscription, but the "network" icon remained in Finder.
However, it appears to me that her iBook is still trying to connect to the .mac network. Here are (what I hope are) the relevant command lines I see being repeated endlessly in console:
"dotmacsyncclient[486] Failed to login to account - command failed: .Mac rejected either your user name or your password. Please verify your .Mac member name and password in the .Mac preferences in System Preferences."
AND:
"webdavd[600]: network_mount: WebDAV protocol not supported; file:
mount.tproj/webdav_network.c; line: 2703"
*So... MY QUESTIONS:*
1. What are these command lines about? How can I make them stop?
2. I believe that these repeated behaviors may help explain why memory was "disappearing" on her computur. Can anyone verify this? If not, can anyone offer an alternative explaination?
3. Any other simple, effective suggestions for freeing up more memory?
THANK YOU very much in advance for your patience in reading and helping me understand what's going on here! Arigato gozaimashita!
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This problem appears to have been fixed by turning "iDisk Syncing OFF" -- see this thread for details:
Topic : WebDAV File System Authentication
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2082353&start=0&tstart=0

Can't delete free books from iBooks

I tried to download a bunch of free books from iTunes. The download just won't work. Finally I decided to just try and delete them from my bookshelf. Nothing I tried worked;
1) Selected the undownloaded books in question and pressed "delete". Nothing happened. They are in the "Books" folder, not "purchased"
2) Set "Show Purchased" in the iBooks settings to off.
3) Deleted the iBooks App from my iPad. Deleted the books in question from my PC. Even went into the folders and deleted them. If I've deleted the content from my ipad, and from my computer AND told iBooks NOT to sync from iCloud AND told iTunes NOT to sync any books at all, then how is it that iBooks is still showing me books I clearly do not want anymore on my device. No matter how many times I uninstall and reinstall iBooks, those holding images for the books in question still keep coming up.
It really doesn't say much about a book app when the simplest thing (deleting unwanted books) needs a visit to the support pages.

Books not actually on the iPad will not show up unless you have Show All Purchases set in teh setting app. Even then they will be indicated with a small cloud icon. These will always be in teh Purchsed collection, but can also show up in other collections if you choose to place them there (moving to another collection doesn't effect the Purchased collection).
To delete a book, tap Edit (upper right corner), tap each book to be deleted, Tap Delete (upper left).
If for some reason this doesn't appear to be working correctly, two things to look into:
Open the Settings app > iTunes&App Stores. Check to see if automatic downloads are tuned on for iBooks. If so, turn it off.
Try a reset: Simultaneously hold down the Home and On buttons until the device shuts down. Ignore the off slider if it appears. Once shut down is complete, if it doesn't restart on it own, turn the device back on using the On button. In some cases it also helps to double click the Home button and close all apps from the tray before doing the reset.
Since you have such heartburn over the need to visit this site, you may want to consider having a look at the user guide. It may prevent the need to do so: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf

Annoying iBook G4 Audio Problem

My iBook is about a year and a half old and currently running OS 10.4.10.
I have, intermittently had sound problems where the right speaker would cut out partially or entirely. This is not the speaker balance issue that some have found and the various types of hardware resets have not had any impact.
Recently, the sound seems to be primarily coming from the left speaker only. I say "primarily" because the right speaker is producing sound, albeit at a very low volume. The headphones work fine.
Ideas? Suggestions? Software? Hardware? This machine is just a year and a half old and I'm pretty disappointed to be encountering difficulties at this stage of the game. Unfortunately, I'm away from San Francisco for another couple of months and will be unable to visit my local Apple Store for assistance until then.
Of course, this is the first Mac for which I have not purchased AppleCare. I shudder to think what this annoying problem is going to cost me to fix.

Hi !
Sorry for my poor & bad english …
Well, my iBook G4 12" 1,2 ghz, running OS 10.5 has almost the same problem for some weeks.
Facts =
Left speaker OK / Right speaker not functional
With headset : Left & Right OK but left iBook speaker still running !
Checking sound pref panel & utility sound & midi configuration, finding nothing except : playing test of speakers in "utility sound & midi configuration" very strange because if channel 2 is selected on right speaker no sound is produced, if channel 1 is selected on right speaker so LEFT speacker play !!!
Reseting Pram & Vram did nothing.
Hardware or Software malfunction ?

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