Macbook Air OSX 10.5.6 can't move docs or folders on desktop

Cannot move docs or folders on desktop. Cannot move items from trash to desktop.

I have the same problem. Certain emails will not load, usually those with attachements. Simple emails will move to Mailboxes and load - but those with attachments will not.
This goes on forever - tried repairing permissions many times. Installed mountain lion and still the same problem.

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You need to give us a lot more info.
I presume the MBA and the TC are the combo that doesn't work, although you don't clearly state that.
If the ipad and TC work.. are you sure the ipad is connected via the TC and not 3G network?
If it is then the TC itself is fine and the issue might be setup on the MBA.. although if the MBA works with other routers.. that rather confuses the matter.
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I have recently bought a Macbook Air OSX Version 10.9.4 and am trying to scan a document with several pages using the HP Photosmart C309a series. The printer is connected to my Macbook using a USB cable.
I've always been able to scan documents onto my computer using the HP Solution centre but this isn't available on apple software.
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Hello coco06x, and welcome to the HP Forums, I hope you enjoy your experience!
I see you are looking into scan options. I would like to help.
I would recommend going to Apple Scan and selecting show details. In the options box on the right, select format, and select PDF. Under PDF, check the box that says 'combine into single document.'
This should allow you to scan without issue.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you for posting on the HP Forums!
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Cannot move files or folders on the desktop. This occurred suddenly - don't know what happened or how to undo this. Nothing on the desktop is moveable.
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Take these steps if the cursor changes from an arrow to a white "prohibited" symbol when you try to move an icon on the Desktop.
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Select the icon of your home folder (a house) in the sidebar of a Finder window and open it. The Desktop folder is one of the subfolders. Select it and open the Info window. In the General section of the window, the Kind will be either Folder or something else, such as Anything.
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Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
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i am tryin to access old macbookpro harddisk on macbook air,when i connect it via usb i see the folders,but i dont see any files e.g. my saved photos,movies,docs are not there,its shows that 220gb is used,but no data is visible...all folder are empty.......can someone pls adv how to access data?

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I bought my macbook air off a friend, i can't install iPhoto or iMovie for free :(

Hi People,
me askign for help again i am affraid, mac newbie here..
i was lucky enough to purchase a pristine macbook air mid 2011 off my friend today and have been having some teething troubles.
one being i would really like to download imovie and iphoto, and i was told they were free....however it says that they have been downloaded by another user and now are £10.49 each?
I have done a complete system reboot (i accidently deleted the partitioned drive today and had to do an internet reinstall to mountain lion, then an update to maverick...took about 8 hours). as far as i know it is now factory resett, and app store is running with my user ID...
can anyone please help me (in idiot terms until i get used to the mac world), to get these two apps for free?
many thanks in advance
Ian

Addouk wrote:
imovie and ipho...
i was lucky enough to purchase a pristine macbook air mid 2011 off my friend today
They are free, your friend made a mistake,
he needs to open http://supportprofile.apple.com and log in with his Apple ID. Then, choose "Edit Products" and remove the MacBook Air.
that macbook needs to be disassociated with his ID
then recover ( http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/ ) the machine as new from box state with Imovie and Iphoto installed at that point under your user name / ID

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I just got a MacBook Air 11" 10.7.2 2GB/64GB. I love it, but the internal drive is sooo small. Occasionally I need to take projects home from work or travel with my computer. Is there any way to run apps (Final Cut Studio, CS5, Office 10, etc) from an external drive? I am trying to convert over from my Macbook Pro (running Snow Leopard) and I can't seem to find a solution.
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Samantha,
It's best to keep your applications on the internal drive and consider external storeage for your data.
Your choices are direct attached storeage to the USB port (external portable USB drives), storeage on your home or work network, or cloud-based storeage, like DropBox.
You can also look at slimming down your OSX installation on your MBA by removing unwanted fonts and printer drivers.
Btw, you will struggle to run CS5 and Final Cut Studio on a MBA with 2GB RAM. Only install the applications you really need on your MBA.
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So, I started up my Macbook Air yesterday and it wouldn't boot. Command-V at boot revealed that the filesystem is currupt; in particular, it hung up on a specific file (/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sqlindex-shm). The problem cannot be fixed by Disk Utility. The harddrive is encrypted with Filevault2.
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But it wasn't without a hitch. Several apps seem to think that they hadn't been run before (like dropbox and textwrangler). I assume that this might be caused by the Volume name change? Everything SEEMS fairly normal, though. So, at this point, I wonder how to proceed. Here are my options, as I see them:
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2. Install OSX Lion clean. I'd rather not do this, due to the problem of reinstalling apps, redoing cron jobs, etc. But at least this way I minimize the chances that other OS files are corrupt. If I choose this option, how can I minimize the pain of reinstalling apps? What about apps like MacTex and ParagonNTFS, that have files in places other than the Applications folder? Can I just copy those over, too?
So, which of these routes should I take? Or is there a third route that would be even better? Since I have full backups, it seems like I'm pretty flexible.
*(I should mention that for speed of backup, I excluded large, relatively expendable files, like VM hard disk files that I can remake, from my regular backups. So restoring from the day-old backup would be some trouble, on top of just restoring the old work.)

Thanks much, that seems to have worked!
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I purchased a used eMac for my daughter but it did not come with the discs. The previous owner wiped the system and now I need to install the OS to the eMac. I'd prefer installing OSX 10.5 since it will work on the eMac, but want to know if I can use the discs from an older Macbook Air with 10.5 discs for this eMac. Thanks in advance.

Thank you! I am a native Dallasite but headed north about 27 years ago. I now say I am bilingual--I speak both English and Texan!
As you are in the US, you can try a long shot action. Get on the phone and call Apple's Store at 1-800-MY-APPLE. Ask to speak to an operating system specialist. Give them the serial number of the computer. You can find the number easily inside the door for the optical drive.
If they have the software for your model/sub-model on their servers, they can burn you a copy at a nominal charge, usualy around US$16 per disk.
You can also ask if they have 10.5 available on disk. Some people get the right agent and find they can still get burned copies from Apple. Again, both are long shots.
Before going much farther, let's deal with the two elephants in the room:
Elephant #1: Even the fastest eMac (1.42gHz 2005) is going to be a struggle with the modern internet. You will have an old version of Safari that many sites will reject as out of date. The modern internet has abandoned support for the powerPC processor used in all eMacs. You can get a browser, TenFourFox, that keeps the sites from rejecting your browser because it causes the sites to show you are using a recent version of FireFox. However, it does not support Flash Player so videos are out. And it is slow. I use TenFourFox on an old G4 tower I keep running and, even on our speedy 50MBps cable conecction, many sites run slowly. That said, if you have older games contemporary with eMacs (2002-2005), they will do OK on faster eMacs. Same with productivity programs--Office 2004 runs quite nicely on G4 Macs.
You will not be able to find much new software that runs on that computer.
Elephant #2) A very large number of eMacs with USB 2.0 logic boards and 1.0 and 1.25Ghz processors have a fatal logic board fault that is not worth trying to fix, even if you can find someone who claims to be able to do it. See if the serlal number falls in any of these ranges:
G8412xxxxxx- G8520xxxxxx
YM412xxxxxx - YM520xxxxxx
VM440xxxxxx - VM516xxxxxx
If it does, my recommendation is to stop any action on the computer now and don't throw any money at it.
So we need to pin down your version (there were four versions in two "families"). Please use this Apple article to find which you have and tell us:
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