OK - See if you can work this one out - Isync problem

I just had to have a new hard drive installed in my powerbook. All seemed well until I tried to Sync my laptop with .Mac. In short, whilst I can log into .Mac on the net and access my email and address book easily enough via the web, I cannot log into my .mac account via System Preferences in order to initiate sync'ing. I note under 'Advanced' that there is no computer registered but pressing' Register This Computer' has no effect. The warning messages coming up simply state I cannot access the .mac synchronisation server. I have checked, rechecked and triple checked my .mac password - it clearly works given I can log in via .mac on the web!! Thus I am baffled.....
Ideas?!!
Mike
12" Powerbook Mac OS X (10.4.4)

Nearly same here - in the menubar it says (in german, i'll translate) "no status, sync deactivated".
In the .mac system prefs theres no computer registered and I always get the error message "sync not available, blabla, unkown error, check account settings and network settings"
Well, both are right, im 100% sure.
I already trashed the dotmac prefs, changed and rechaged my settings - nothing changed.
All right after I reinstalled my system and imported my data (with this assistent) from my backup on a firewire-hd...

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First off, I use FireFox, not Safari (Safari is great, but FF works better for me)...
So here's the deal: I use MySpace as means of making some important contacts. I have a Power Mac G5 connected to a Linksys router (Model# RT41-BU) which is behind a Motorola SB-5100 cable modem. I also have three Windows XP machines on the same network.
I have no problem with any other website except MySpace. As soon as I log in, I can usually get to 2-3 pages fine. As soon as I click to access probably the 4th page, I start timing out. My computer will stall for up to 1-2 minutes. Eventually the page will either load (usually just partially at this point) or I will get a time-out error (btw, by "stalling" I mean I just sit there and wait, and wait, and wait for a page to load...NOT that the actual computer has frozen and is not responding).
If, after getting the time-out error, I then click “Try Again” the page will usually then IMMEDIATELY load w/ no problem (occasionally I will get the timeout page again after a few minutes).
If I choose to QUIT Firefox during the stalling, but BEFORE I get the time out error, and immediately open it back up, I start stalling again (at this point it’s merely trying to load my homepage, which, of course is apple.com/startpage).
If I try to go to the EXACT same pages on my Windows XP machine using Firefox I have absolutely NO problem loading any pages whatsoever…UNLESS:
If I, again QUIT Firefox on my Mac BEFORE getting the timeout error…walk 5 feet over to my Windows machine and try to load my home page (Yahoo.com), it will stall. I usually have to then wait about 1-2 minutes, and it will start back up again, and I then have no problems.
Here’s where it gets REALLY interesting:
If I DISCONNECT my Linksys router, and plug my Mac DIRECTLY into the back of my cable modem (in other words, disassemble the network, and have the modem shooting stright to the mac), I DON’T have this problem. I can log into MySpace hit any page, just as I can with my Windows machine.
Because the problem DOES NOT occur to my Windows machine while it’s ON the network, and DOES NOT occur with my Mac when it’s OFF the network, all signs point to some sort of issue with certain Macs running on certain Linksys routers. There must be some sort of conflict between the two, but I IMAGINE that there HAS to be either some sort of tweak or some sort of patch that will fix this issue.
I have had this issue from day one of owning this computer (about 4 months). It has never worked on the router properly.
I have tried reformatting the machine and reinstalling everything. No change.
I have tried lowering the MTU on both my router configuration and mac network config anywhere from 1400 to 750, with no noticable change.
I have tried several different browsers (Firefox, Safari, IE for Mac & even Opera) but still have the same results.
I’ve gone into the “about:config” page of Firfox and turned on network.http.proxy.pipelining and set the max requests to 16, with no new results.
I have tried disabling javascripting…nothing.
I have also tried contacting Linksys, and the only thing they can suggest is lowring my MTU again (It’s obvious by talking to them that English is also not their first language)
Here’s something weird as well:
WHILE the page is stalling to load, I can open the Network Utility and run a continuous ping to the page I’m trying to hit and get a consistent response on EACH ping, even though the page won’t load.
My cable modem and router BOTH operate on DHCP (IP address and DNS servers are assigned automatically – NOTHING that I know of is entered in statically).
The only thing I haven’t tried is upgrading the firmware on my router. I’d really like to use this as a LAST resort – HP ruined a DVD writer I had once with a firmware upgrade that went wrong.
I’d really like to get this fixed. I have friends in a band that are out on the road right now, and with the exception of wasting valuable minutes on my cell phone, this is the only way I have of keeping contact with them. It’s really irritating that I have to use my Windows machine…despite the fact that it’s only a few feet away, I SHOULDN”T HAVE to.
Anyone want to try and tackle this one?
Much appreciated,
--Jbj

Hi bmb,
So here's the deal: I use MySpace as means of making some important contacts. I have a Power Mac G5 connected to a Linksys router (Model# RT41-BU) which is behind a Motorola SB-5100 cable modem. I also have three Windows XP machines on the same network.
Does this happen only when you try to access MySpace website? Any other website works fine?
If I DISCONNECT my Linksys router, and plug my Mac DIRECTLY into the back of my cable modem (in other words, disassemble the network, and have the modem shooting stright to the mac), I DON’T have this problem. I can log into MySpace hit any page, just as I can with my Windows machine.
Smells like DHCP spaghetification...
I have tried reformatting the machine and reinstalling everything. No change.
No good, unless you tried anything funny when installing MacOS X, networking issues have are not magically fixed by re-installing the OS. This is a habit coming from the Windows world...
My cable modem and router BOTH operate on DHCP (IP address and DNS servers are assigned automatically – NOTHING that I know of is entered in statically)
What about your Mac (and the rest of your PCs)? How do they get their TCP/IP settings (manually or via DHCP)?
Your issue(s) smell DHCP big time, go to System Preferences-->Network-->Ethernet/AirPort (whatever you use to connect) and click on the TCP/IP tab. Set Configure IPv4 to Manually and post back.
How are your computers connected to the Linksys box (wired/wirelessly)?
Macs running 9.x, Macs running 10.4.x and SGI workstations running Irix 6.5.x

If you can figure this one out your a Saint

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when you burn it, do you click burn in iDVD, or do you save it as a disk image, and then burn that?
if you save it as a disk image, see if the powermac can read the disk image.
if you do burn it in iDVD, save it as a disk image, mount the disk image, and drag the video_TS folder onto DVD player, or go into dvd player and say "File > open VIDEO_TS folder" navigate to the VIDEO_TS folder and say open, you can test your DVD that way.
to burn the disk image, go into Disk Utility (Apps > Utilities > Disk Utility) press burn, navigate to the disk image, click Burn, set your settings (speed, ect) and it will burn and than varify the data, you can cancel it at this stage if you wish.

Blue Screen After Load, No Safe Boot, No Reinstall possible. Think you can figure this one out??

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Ok so i got this laptop in a few days ago here are the problems and the things i have tried. This laptop when it came to me did not have a hard drive, so obviously no OS. Upon installing a hard drive then trying to load Yosemite from a USB stick, I turn mac on, sleep light will blink 5 times then boot, Will come to normal gray screen then apple logo, will then load the OS install, but go straight to a blue screen with vertical lines. Tried different hard drive, tried different RAM sizes and speeds, tried different OS, tried CD instead. Have done numerous PRAM and SMC resets. trying Safe mode gets me a panic cpu 4 caller error then restarts. I have tried using a hard drive that had an OS already installed and will go straight to blue screen after loading. I have tried fsck -fy in single user mode. I do get that disk2s3 is write protected in single user mode, but im pretty sure that its the OS disk. I do not see a second hard drive in single user mode but i believe that because its not partitioned yet. Any ideas community?

Tried doing OS X lion by CD now, and will only get half way through load bar before the apple logo and loading bar disappears and then it will sit at a gray screen.

Ok, im new to numbers but i cant work this one out. In column A is an average of hours worked. I have 4 columns. A and B have different values. Column C is an average of hours worked. When column C is less then 8 i need column D to equal column a

Ok, im new to numbers but i cant work this one out. I have 4 columns. A and B have different values. Column C is an average of hours worked. When column C is less then 8 i need column D to equal column A. When column C is equal or greater then 8 i need column D to equal the sum of A and B.

Hi Lucas,
Try this:
Formula in D2 (and Fill Down) =IF(C2<8, A2,A2+B2)
The IF function follows the logic of if, then, else.
IF(this is true, then do this, else do that)
If it is raining, then stay at home, else hold a picnic .
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Work this one out.. 5c not charging but not usual suspects

This is my girlfriends daughter's iPhone 5c, was a new handset from Apple end of last year but near the end of previous year warranty so isn't in warranty. Phone has never been abused and is mint.
One day it just stopped charging. Plugged it into another Apple charger, nothing. Searched online and assumed power socket was faulty. Took the phone to a repair shop and they said it charged ok on their charger. Got home, nothing went back to the shop.. They tried their charger and it would very slowly charge. They tried it on OE chargers, other makes etc and nothing! They also tried two new charging ports in the phone and it was still the same, they said the battery was not to blame. It would only charge on this one specific charger which is a cheap dedicated charger. So bought this cheap charger and the phone would charge after a very long time and the battery drains in a couple of hours to nothing. Fast forward to last night when she broke this dedicated charger (keeps breaking where she pulls the lead not the plug!)
This charger that will work is 0.1amp. isn't that low?
now now last week I ordered a new battery to try that, just fitted it and nothing! Still the same.
The charger it works in must be the key here. I looked inside the cable and it's just two wires so I'm wondering if it's something to do with the data part of the lightning cable effecting it charging some how.
the amount of cables she has gone through is amazing, every one is kinked near the lighting connector and looks like she stands the phone on the cable when charging and also pulls it out by the cable. Obviously she doesn't do any of that as you can imagine a teenage girl wouldn't!
ofcourse now I can't even charge it on this other charger because she's broken that too!
I'm now wondering with the fact it only charged with this two wire charger whether a previous broken cable has shoffer something in the phone and caused damage that way? It's something to do with the difference between a dated cable and just this dedicated charging cable showing up the issue. If this phone shop hadn't had the dedicated charger it'd never started charging before.
The shop have washed their hands of it and said they have never known an issue like it!

You have tried a new cable? It's unclear how many you have that are damaged but a damaged cable can cause shorting which will prevent charging. If the cable is used for an extended period it could damage a charger or phone.
If you can get it working you may want to coat the lead in sugru.
https://sugru.com/about
It could give it extra support around the lightning connector, or you could create a larger connector to allow her to remove it without tugging on the wire - a sure way to destroy Apple cables.
I think you should probably take it to Apple, they will be able to tell you what is failing or charge you for a replacement which may be a better option than assuming what parts have failed. If you can't get it working with 'known good' leads & chargers all you can do is assume the phone is faulty (possibly the battery or port is damaged). You can purchase replacement parts & try fitting them yourself but it is often better to get it exchanged with one from Apple.

If You Can Solve This One, Then You Seriously Win

Here's the deal. I have a 3G 15gig iPod that I refuse to let die. It has a new battery that I recently installed.
It will not charge through firewire to the wall or to my macbook pro, nor will it charge through usb (which goes without saying on 3G's). There are 2 ways to give it power, my roommates Bose iPod soundsystem, and my G4 tower at home through firewire. No other way to give it power. (Read: firewire seems messed up.)
Something is corrupted and I've tried every possible way to erase the disk and corrupted files to allow me to Restore the system firmware. The iPod is hasn't worked in some time. A PC will recognize it (but not in iTunes) so I've formatted it on a PC to FAT32 through Windows XP. Then plugged into my macbook, no dice. I thought erasing the corrupted files on the PC would do something, but it didn't.
On a mac, it will recognize the iPod through USB, not through Firewire. Incidentally, I can run Disk Utility and format the pants off the thing, but to no avail. I've erased and formatted, in Mac Os Extended, and in Extended (Journaled), I've even done the "Zero Out Data" erase, which turns the entire disk into zeros--but that doesn't work either. No matter what I do, the iPod will show me the Folder icon after starting up.
When the iPod is recognized through USB, it will be formatted through Disk Utility, but not through iTunes, which claims that "iPod must be connected through firewire to restore." The hitch of course, is that the iPod refuses to be recognized on firewire.
Recently, after doing the Zero-Out-Data erase, iTunes didn't refuse to Restore because of USB, but instead gave me the 1418 error as I tried to Restore through USB.
So my question, how can I fix this sucker without buying a new harddrive?
How can I restore an iPod through USB, or how can I get my macbook pro to recognize my ipod through firewire?
Much, much obliged if you have any input.
--David.

I'm thinking of purchasing a new hard drive, as I think that is the problem. Would this likely allow me to charge my ipod again via firewire and restore it, etc.? Or does the fact that I can't connect via firewire mean there is something deeply wrong? (ie a new logic board would be in order)

?!?! See who can figure this one out first...

ok, so this has been happening on and off for the past 3 months, just curious if anyone else has had this happen as well.
so im working in Logic (this happened in 7 and now 8 as well) and i get done with my session and im going to close logic for a bit. so i quit the program. the logic screens go away and its still thinking for a sec before it completely quits out. as soon as it completely quits, they grey screen of death starts making its way down my monitor. it ONLY happens when quitting logic, and not all the time, just whenever it feels like it i guess.
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just for the record, ive RTFM and it says nothing about this
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I know it's a lot of work, but maybe you could test by using an external drive to boot off of that has a clean install with logic and trying running it for awhile with the same projects and see if it ever happens again.

You are an iPod expert if you can solve this one

Here's what's happening:
~I plugged my iPod into the wall, and it worked perfectly fine...UNTIL I hit the play button. Then it starts to make a clicking noise approximately every five seconds
~I wiped out all of the songs by manually restoring it, but when I went to plug it back into the wall again, all of the songs magically reappeared (I'm stumped as to how that happened)
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~Both the software folder symbol AND the sad iPod icon have appeared but switch off and on.
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~Reinstalled iTunes with all of the software updates.
~Plugged and unplugged it from the wall charger to give it back the little life it appears to have left.
My warranty is long expired so this is my last attempt to fix it. I'd rather not have to go and spend another 250 bucks on another 20 or 30 gb so any help is appreciated. Thanks for reading!

There is a pretty comprehensive post written by another forum member which is about the sad iPod icon or the folder and ! icon.
The Sad iPod/folder and ! icon.

Stacks - I don't know if anyone can figure this one out?

Okay I just got a new MacBook Pro and it had the stack folders on the bottom of the dock (pre-installed) Download and Documents. Here's the problem, I hit and moved the Documents stack out of the area of the dock and it removed the stack. I know this seems simple but check this out. I tried to look up the files that were in the Document Stack and it wasn't on my computer at all. I used Spotlight and it didn't help at all. Here's something else, my VMware Fusion program had an error after I moved the Stack Folder. I had Windows Vista on the Virtual Machine before this happened with the Stack Folder. Now there's no Vista on record or ON MY COMPUTER! I had to re-install all programs..
I didn't have time machine setup because I didn't think I needed it so soon.
Can anyone help me find out where my files are in the Stack Folder that was removed from the dock....?
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*Hi ruhig, Welcome* to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
It takes a while to figure out how the Apple Forums are organized.
You have asked a technical question in an inappropriate place. You are forgiven as a newcomer.
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In this forum you will find lots of threads re frustration with forum organization so don't feel bad it you didn't get it right the 1st time. Explore a bit and it will come to you.
There is a wealth of knowledge in the forums. Come often, browse, read threads and learn. 99% of the threads I read I don't post on. On those for maybe 5~10 % I learn something. Now if half vast, see below, could just remember it.
Enjoy, JP
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Bet you cant figure this one out...

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Motherboard: K7N2 Delta MSI (tried it on Asus A8... Motherboard aswell)
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This Sound Blaster Card freezes with a looping sound on every game I try playing on my PC. Figured it was the Sound Blaster card when I took it out the computer ran fine with the integrated sound card. Put the SB back in and updated every driver, BIOS, video driver, IRQ settings, check the voltage, EVERYTHING... Yet still freezes.
Bought another Sound Card Audigy 2 value... Froze with no sound, and have to reboot. I am pretty frustrated now that I have switched the power supply, motherboard, processor, RAM just to figure this problem out.
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If you know what is causing this... I will love you forever.
Thanks

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So you think you are an Java uber-geek? Then figure this one out. . .

Ok, uber-Java geeks, let's see if you can figure this one out. It' s butt-ugly and got me totally stumped.
This is in a Tomcat 5.5 environment.
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Tomcat provides a utility for pre-compiling JSP into Servlet class files. This can also be done in ANT. You can precompile the JSP which will create the inner class file and then compile the Java files that need the inner class file. It may take some tweaking to get all of the classes to compile in the correct order.
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I am very disappointed with iTunes. I have 1200 songs and I can't play them. I try to play them and before one song finish a song starts playing. This then results in hearing two songs at the same time. I will like to know if you can fix this. I feel li

I am very disappointed with iTunes. I have 1200 songs and I can’t play them. I try to play them and before one song finisha song starts playing. This then results in hearing two songs at the same time.I will like to know if you can fix this. I feel like listening with the iTunesplayer is useless.

I don't know man I too hope apple will do something this new I-tunes blow my top lost my whole tune!!!

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Can you run that on Access?
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Any reason why you're running SQL Server on live, and Access on dev? You're making a bit of a rod for yourself there.
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Back in the days of leopard, the dashboard widgets would come to the foreground but you could still see what you were working on. Now I've updated to mountain lion and the work is no longer visible when I activate dashboard. Can I change that back?

back in the days of leopard, the dashboard widgets would come to the foreground but you could still see what you were working on. Now I've updated to mountain lion and the work is no longer visible when I activate dashboard. Can I change that back?

Go to system preferences, mission control, and unselect "Show Dashboard as a Space". While you're there, you may want to make dashboard set to a hot corner "Hot Corners" button at the bottom.

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