Mark Sloan
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An easy way is to open your hard drive in list mode, use Apple-J to bring up the options and check the box labeled Calculate all sizes. It takes some time, but it helps you see exactly where all your GB are and leaves the hidden directories alone.
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weird. my only guess is that the system is creating symbolic links or something to the files to force UNIX to copy them correctly. VERY odd behavior though… i’ve never used it before…
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It is more complicated than all that. OS X is on Apple TV and the iPhone as well as who knows what else that is secret. Add to that the huge changes in 10.5 and it isn’t about number of engineers really. It is all one bigger project that they kept expanding the scope of. That said, yeah, I doubt they expanded the team as needed.
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All true EXCEPT for the XP part. If you want to use BootCamp, then yes, you need what I believe is a 10GB partition of your main drive. I use Parallels though on an external FW drive and it works great too. A new version of BootCamp just came out, so I don’t know if that allows for FW booting of XP.
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I’ve heard a lot of people swear by Disk Warrior… though once something is messed up, I don’t know how much good it can do:
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iPhoto also lets you select many photos at once and do a rotate if you are using iPhoto to catalog the photos already, this is pretty quick. this is one of those Mac vs. PC differences… Macs put the tools in specific apps that integrate with one another whereas Vista/Windows is integrating more features into the “finder”/file browser itself.
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That sounds really weird. Two things, what text editor are you using to do the files? And second, have you tried turning of all Japanese fonts in FontBook? I’ve seen weird font corruption issues where fonts like Geneva get substitued by korean or japanese scripts for some reason.
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depends on what “bit the dust” means. if there are bad sectors, booting it up in a firewire case might work, but if it is a hardware failure you would have to pay big bucks to get files retrieved.
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what shared folder? across users on one machine? it is in /Users/Shared
is that what you are talking about?
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Even if it did, the 10.4 discs were probably pressed before the latest version of the Flash player came out, so you would need to update anyway. Especially if you have an Intel Mac you need the latest and greatest which may be pre-installed on a new system, but not part of a OS X install disc.
I seem to remember Flash working out of the box. But I can’t be sure and I didn’t see any documentation on the Apple site.