[Hidden-tech] Mac 10.4 Questions

[Robert Hafner]

Shel,

1. Stuffit still has a free version, which as available here - http:// 
www.stuffit.com/mac/expander/index.html. Chances are there was just  
some error and you should uninstall/reinstall it. I can't answer the  
router question without more information.

2. Click on the magnifying glass in the upper right hand corner to  
use Spotlight, which is great for searching, and then click  
"Spotlight Preferences". I couldn't see anything about forcing it to  
just look at file names, but you can limit the types of files it  
looks at so its not scanning everything on you.

3. Your disk space has little to do with how fast your computer goes-  
deleting files will only help if you're running with less than 2gb of  
free space. Your best bet would be to update your memory and/or  
reduce the amount of applications you have running at once.

4. If the company doesn't offer support, find a new company.


Robert Hafner



On Aug 23, 2007, at 8/23/07  10:24 PM, Shel Horowitz wrote:

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> I'd appreciate some help with a few snags I've run into with Mac OS  
> 10.4.10.
>
> 1) I tried to uncompress a new driver for my router, which all of a  
> sudden can only find the two hard-connected computers and not  
> anything over the wireless network. Stuffit Expander told me it  
> couldn't run without Stuffit Engine, which has unaccountably  
> vanished from my computer. Searching the web, it seems it's no  
> longer a no-cost product, and nor could I find any competitors.  
> Given how few files I need to decompress, I'm not in a great rush  
> to buy a file uncompressor.  What are folks using these days?
>
> 2) Is there *any* way to change the default setting on the Finder's  
> search function so that it searches a string in a file name, rather  
> than a text string within documents? I could literally write an  
> article while it searches and I always forget to change it.  
> Besides, it would save me oodles of time reconfiguring it every day  
> if I could default to what I need for 98 percent of my searches.
>
> 3) In general, performance on my G4 iMac has been absurdly slow for  
> several months. Yes, I have a lot of files--but  I also have 11.87  
> GB of unused disk space. It just crawls--like taking several  
> minutes over broadband to download the router firmware. Any  
> recommendations to speed it up? I was thinking I could off-load  
> several gigs to an external drive, and that might at least speed up  
> iPhoto. is that a good method? Are there better?
>
> 4) I'm using Spamfire 1.0. Recentl, I started having a problem with  
> some mail addressed to shel at principledprofit.com--but when I try to  
> rescue, Spamfire gives me: "Error 450 unable to find  
> principledprofits.com" (note the s in the domain--it's not in the  
> actual email). The company has closed its support department. Any  
> ideas?
>
> Thanks so much,
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