Safari (2.0.1?) & verizon DSL

After a service outage due to V's stupidity; I have been unable to get to the .mac website on safari 2.0.1 on my PM G4. on my iBook, I have been able to verify if it is a problem with Safari 2.0.1 as the iBook running safari 2.0's ican get there w/o a problem. Interestingly, I can get to my person specific .mac site on the PM (where it says 'hi jared, lists mail, etc)- just not the generic one.
I get the error message of verizon being unable to verify my user name and pword. Every so often, I get that same message on tv.yahoo.com; but I can click on my bookmark for that site and it works once more.
Prior to this service interruption, I had no such problems on any site. The site works fine on IE however. I have corected permissions and trashed keychains as well as trashing my cookies- but the problem remains: I cannot get verizon to recognize my user name when I try to get to the website www.mac.com (and the V tech said i ought to use IE)

I also just upgraded to Safari 2.0.1, running OS X 10.4.2. I also just installed the version 1.1 of the 2005-007 Security Update. I'm not seeing any problems with the items you mention. I trust you restarted after upgrading and have the new version of 2005-007 installed.
You should run Disk Utility and repair disk permissions. You should also restart your machine from either your Tiger DVD or another bootable Tiger disk and run repair disk on your disks. It's likely that the issue you are seeing is the result of a preexisting condition. Also, run Font Book and check for duplicate fonts (detail in second message of <<a href="/webx?14@@.68b57421"> Michael Kluskens1, "Safari freezes Tiger", 02:16pm Jul 27, 2005 CDT>). Disk Utility and Font Book are in the Utility folder of the Applications folder.
I hope you maintain regular backups, with DVD-RW's you should be able to backup your files (everything except movies and music) every day easily for a month or two if you use an incremental backup program (Retrospect for example).

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This is my first post.
warning: it's long, just trying to include details
I lost all my bookmarks/folders in Safari -- after a Verizon DSL install-induced browser hi-jacking. See http://www.red-sweater.com/blog/?p=78
for a story that captures my own experience nearly to the last detail. But, unfortunately, unlike the blog author my bookmarks.plist was not a back up of my extensive bookmark collection -- it was a big zero, like some other responders to that reported.
I am just your basic user, and couldn't follow the code discussion toward the bottom of the blog, it's over my head. But, although not knowledgable, I am desperate and persistent and rarely accept "can't be done" answers, even if I don't really know what I'm doing and keep getting that same answer.
I tried all the standard suggestions so far, searching .plists, searching my hd for anything safari, anything bookmark, anything .html. Read many of the discussions on lost bookmarks, tried everything I could understand how to do.
I stumbled upon in the ~/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari over a thousand files with crazy number/character names that all have suffix ".webbookmark" I probably did have over 1000 bookmarks. When I double click one of those .webbookmark files in that folder, a webpage springs forth in Safari, one of my former bookmarks. Also, click in the finder on one of those ~.webbookmark file and 'get info' and it shows the .html file name and bookmark name for it.
I believe this is somehow my old bookmark collection, and not a history cache, for various reasons: upon clicking, I recognize the webpage that appears and I know bookmarked anywhere from a few months ago, as well as some oldies, but have not visited recently. Random spot checking seems like sites I recently visited but did not bookmark are not showing up.
Would not be fun to double click every one of the 1000+ .webbookmark files in the metadata/Safari to open the page it represents and then "add bookmark" in Safari, to restore my bookmarks. Is there some automatic way of doing that? Am I not understanding the metadata folders enough and have tricked myself into believing they are my real bookmarks and not history or useless stuff. It's totally possible my ignorant forays and fleeting glimpses (but not, out of the corner of my eye....) are fool's gold.
Can someone let me know whether this is worth pursuing, and if so, how, and if so how so in plain terms because of my limited knowledge and floundering around without understanding what I'm doing and what it means.
I know, I know, I should have backed up before I did the *&^@! install, I should back up before I do anything, and do it regularly anyway. Don't laugh too hard now, but get this, when I did back up before, I didn't know what I was doing and just backed up "documents" folder (see, told you I was ignorant; but, older and wiser now...) But I had no idea something like connecting DSL would screw up my browser (and my apple mail -- that's a different awful story too, still unresolved) and who knows what else.
No, I have not used another browser since early 2005, and wasn't as 'bookmark crazy' then as I've been the last few years (or my life wasn't as complicated then and I didn't need to bookmark a lot of important, and I mean important, as well as obscure sites, that I don't need on a daily basis, but do need, but don't want to search through thousands of google hits to find the right one, when I realize I need it again...). Yes, sure, i will salvage what I can from IE and Netscape although they're way incomplete and frozen in time of simpler days.
A thousand curses upon evil Verizon DSL provider who thinks browser/mail/etc. hi-jacking is fun and smart PR. After this disaster, do they really think I'm enthusiastically telling everyone to use them?
I will appreciate any help. (and it's understood if the real answer is "can't be done;" worth trying here though) Just point me to the right discussion if this has already been attended to.
Thanks!
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Hi Starman and Rachel, many thanks for replying, although I was praying someone was going to hand me the magic bullet! Nonetheless, it was useful you confirmed my suspicion that the mysterious metadata cache I stumbled upon while floundering around in desperation, did have some bookmark information for me, but also, unfortunately, that there was no quick and easy way to transform it back into a bookmark list, or know whether it really has what I need. Rats. Seemed worth asking the experts though, and it was.
Starman -- yes, in 2005 I used IE and Netscape, so I was able to salvage bookmarks from there, but unfortunately since 2005 my life became extremely complicated and the most important bookmarks are from that lost window of time. (Why didn't Verizon trash those browsers and bookmarks too, or instead of, Safari? Figures. They somehow just knew how to go straight for the jugular.)
Rachel, thanks for the suggestion about using BBEdit, etc., but I'm too amateur to know what those are or how to use them, but if I did, it didn't sound like it would necessarily be easy or a guaranteed success.
The IT helpdesk at the university I work for mulled it over and they too told me basically what you two did -- no obvious solution; some custom scripting might be able to do something, but that was beyond the scope of their help services.
So... looks like I am just going to have to open that metadata cache folder and start clicking and bookmarking if I want to find out if it is even worth doing and restores the most important bookmarks from the past 2 years. Maybe do 20 a day or something when I'm brain dead anyway after work. If not, there's always plan B -- spending a lot of time googling to find lots of little obscure needles in thousands of haystacks.
Such is life.
I haven't had the strength yet to deal with what happened to my AppleMail and have resorted to using webmail. Time to search the Mail discussion groups. I've had a lot of Mail problems since I started using it 2 yrs ago and the thought of disentangling another Mail problem makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. It's even more infuriating when the problem isn't even related to something kooky in Mail, or something crazy I brought on myself, it is sheerly the result of Verizon's malicious activities.
Thanks again for your help, it is wonderful when people freely and altruistically donate their time to share their knowledge, and their brainpower, to help each other.
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The Interface that connects to the Router/Internet, needs to be drug to the top of Network>Show:>Network Port Configurations and checked ON.
Was the Router always in the line, or new? Did you power down the Modem & router, wait 2 minutes, power up Modem, wait 2 minutes, power up Router?
Try this on a Mac in Terminal after those have been reset...
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en0 if Ethernet, change accordingly to the enX at the top of the list in Network Port Configurations.
Are the Macs set to "Using DHCP" in Network>TCP/IP?
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Verizon DSL wiped out bookmarks

I just installed Verizon DSL and it wiped out all my Safari bookmarks. I'm maddern' ****. I called Verizon - they said to call Apple and offered me a month of free service (which we may not keep anyway).
When I installed their dsl, it required adding their bookmarks ("fun favorites") to my browser. There was no option to deselect. It didn't add their favorites, and ended up deleting everything, including links on the bookmarks bar.
It left Firefox bookmarks alone. Luckily, I had backed up my bookmarks (by importing to Firefox) a few months ago, but I still lost a lot of bookmarks. I just exported the Firefox bookmarks and imported to Safari.
It also messed up the "address book" folder in the bookmarks, though my mail address book seems ok.
So, let Verizon buyers beware!!
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I just installed Verizon DSL and it wiped out all my Safari bookmarks. I'm maddern' ****. I called Verizon - they said to call Apple and offered me a month of free service (which we may not keep anyway).
When I installed their dsl, it required adding their bookmarks ("fun favorites") to my browser. There was no option to deselect. It didn't add their favorites, and ended up deleting everything, including links on the bookmarks bar.
It left Firefox bookmarks alone. Luckily, I had backed up my bookmarks (by importing to Firefox) a few months ago, but I still lost a lot of bookmarks. I just exported the Firefox bookmarks and imported to Safari.
It also messed up the "address book" folder in the bookmarks, though my mail address book seems ok.
So, let Verizon buyers beware!!
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Say thanks by clicking "Kudos" "thumbs up" in the post that helped you.
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Silly question, maybe. I want to change from Verizon DSL to cable, but cable company doesn't supply router. can I use my Airport Extreme as wireless router?

We currently have the following wireless home-network configuration, powered by Verizon DSL.
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Apple Airport Extreme Base Port A 1408
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Thinking I’d get wider wireless coverage throughout my 2 bedroom home, I purchased the Airport Extreme. It is connected to the router via its sole usb port. The result was only a tiny increase in speed, and no increase in coverage, so I don’t know why I have it.
We now want to change from DSL to cable, thus ditching Verizon. Our new cable provider supplies the cable box, but no router for wireless networking.
Here are my questions.
Can I use the Airport Extreme (AE) as a wireless router?
If so, how should I hook it up? Should the usb cable go from the AE to the cable box, and all the other devices connect wirelessly?
If not, how should I be using the AE to some advantage? What can I get out of the investment?
Thank you very much for your help! Beatriz

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Note that you need to get just a modem. You don't want a modem/router combination. That will make using an AEBS effectively nearly impossible. You will need to ask specifically for just a standalone modem, and that you will supply your own router.

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I have successfully used a wired dsl connection with my iMAC G5. But, I tried to just disconnect the ethernet cable from my computer and put it into the Airport Extreme and that didn't work. I used the utility to set up the base station and the network, but I'm not sure if I did it properly.
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Just finished solving this problem. I am not a strong tech guy, but I know that since it works for others it is just a question of poking and pushing. Anyway it was nine hours in the making...
My snow airport working with an airport express had been bullet proof with verizon dsl for a couple of years. I wanted to upgrade since I am now Intel mac and hit the blinking amber light.
I am only going to be able to give the big picture... The AEBS found and worked with all my computers from the beginning, so the problem became that the default IP Address and Subnet Mask were wrong and never automatically adjusted by the assistants.
Take your working plug-in ethernet connections or the working snow connections from the Airport Utility Internet Connect page. I used the manual configure process to access the info screens.
I copied all the numbers down, but I believe you only have to insert the IP Address, Subnet Mask, Router Address and DNS servers. I put "dsl.verizon.net" in the domain search box.
Go up to the IPv4 pull down menu and select manual and put in the numbers you copied. Then click Update. When the software returns control, the AEBS will still be orange.
Toggle the IPv4 to "using DHCP" Click Update.
This should bring the green light.
I think I then updated the Network Preference Pane, probably had to manually put in my wireless password again. Browser and mail program worked.
I think that was all. I may have had to repeat the toggle to make it stick, but I am operational for the last several hours, including the airport express, a G4 laptop and a Sony PC.
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Problems setting up Verizon DSL (DHCP) and AirPort Extreme

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EPrint does not work after new wifi router on Verizon DSL

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I have an iMac, and have a Verizon DSL account. Recently, my Mac Mail keeps requesting the passwords on my account every few minutes, and will not allow me to send messages using Mac Mail. I cannot edit the outgoing server; how can I send emails?

I have an iMac, and have a Verizon DSL account (3 email addresses). Recently, my Mac Mail keeps requesting the passwords on my accounts every few minutes, and will not allow me to send messages using Mac Mail (the message says that the outgoing server was rejected. I cannot edit the outgoing server, and the keychain will not save my passwords (the ports are valid). How can I change the outgoing server to send emails, and how can I avoid having Mail request my passwords every 2 minutes? Verizon, as usual, will not provide support to iMacs.

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