Laserwriter 360 and Tiger 10.4.6 Update
I have a Laserwriter 360 that is connected to my G4 via the an ethernet connection using an Asante adapter. When I first loaded Tiger, the printer worked fine. However, after I updated to 10.4.6 two things occurred. First - The update loaded a 2nd copy of Laserwriter 8 and second it now shows 2 images of the printer on the desktop (both of which are X'ed out). When I attempt to configure Laserwriter 8 it does not display any printers. I have tried everything I can think of to restore comunication with the Laserwriter 360. Nothing has worked. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
PowerMac G4 (AGP Graphics) Mac OS X (10.4.6)
Those AppleTalk-over-Ethernet to AppleTalk/LocalTalk adapters have a habit of not re-acquiring printers that drop out for any reason. The Asante is worse than the Farallon. The solution to this problem (which may or may not be your immediate problem) is to power off the printer and the adapter, power on the printer and make sure it is ready to go, then power on the adapter, then look again to see if the printer is there.
"LaserWriter 8" and "Multiple Printers on the Desktop, X-ed out" sound like you are running Classic. Is this a problem is Mac OS X 10.4, in Classic, or both?
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http://sourceforge.net/projects/leopardassist/
http://lowendmac.com/osx/leopard/unsupported.html
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Any advice?1. There are 2 Software Install and Restore disks
that came with our laptop, but it never asks for the
second disk to be loaded--it only loads one disk.
When I put in the second disk, it only has the Using
this disk.pdf in several languages on it. Shouldn't
it ask for the 2nd disk and is that probably where
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2. Why would the install disks not reload all the
applications as we had them orginally, or is this
related to Question #1 and there is something wrong
with those disks?
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3. I saved our entire hard drive to the
external--did that not include the applications,
therefore our iPhoto 5 is lost?
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4. Is there any recourse with AppleCare, in that I
know to save my files but would expect they would
return it with at least the same operating system as
when I sent it in?
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I know you are going to ask this: I have no idea how
iPhoto was loaded onto our computer. I did not buy
iLife 5 or 6 (iLife 4 came with our original laptop
purchase), but one day I was loading pictures and it
just appeared that way--I always assumed it came
through as one of the Software Updates I run every
night. But I know it was March 06, because the video
I took in February would not load onto iPhoto (had to
use the software that came with the camera), but the
ones I took April 1st did load onto iPhoto. The only
other way I thought was that AppleCare loaded it, but
it was in for service in November 05 and mid-April
06, nowhere near the time I noticed it being on the
laptop.
There are no free or automatic updates to newer versions of iLife. If your computer came with iLife 4 you have to buy iLife 6. -
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"OK, restart your computer, hold down Command-s and type in the following:
/sbin/fsck -y Enter
/sbin/mount -uaw Enter
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end of posted by: JoseAranda"
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My question is if I buy the Snow Leopard disc from Apple Store and upgrade from Tiger will automatic software update and other stuff work?
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I know I'm using an out of date version - but it's what I have...
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If I drop the VIDEO and AUDIO folders into a separate folder can I burn that directly using Apples built in CD burning tool? And will that create a DVD that will work on regular players?
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