On May 13, 2007, at 7:08 AM, Shel Horowitz wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > I recently upgraded my desktop Mac from 10.2.8 to 10.4.6. In > general, I'm happy with Tiger, but there are a couple of things > that drive me nuts: > > 1. Printing > I had a few presets that I set up under previous versions of OS X, > including a toner saving module and then full strength printing at > 300, 600, and 1200 dpi. For some reason, this printer driver > defaults to printing back to front in its automatic setting. In > other words, if I'm printing a 20-page document, page 20 comes > first and page 1 comes last. I can set it manually to print front > to back, but it's three extra clicks--which adds up given how many > times a day I hit print. Also, and even more problematic, setting > the page order has to be done after selecting the preset, or else > the paper handling defaults to reverse printing again. And it's > totally arbitrary whether I get the preset I select. > > I printed out a 100+-page e-book that I wanted to archive, and > carefully selected one of the full-strength presets--but I got it > in toner-saver mode. And many times, I'm printing a digest of one > of my discussion lists, which I read once and throw away, and > request the toner-saver setting, but get a nice dark archival- > quality print. > > I cannot figure out how to access the presets and change their > settings to incorporate my paper choice, or to change the paper > handling default, or to assure that the setting I choose is the one > I receive. > > 2. Sherlock > 95 percent of the time, I can search for what I want by filename-- > but the default of searching for internal content is brutally > slow.I did figure out how to search by filename, but not how to set > it as the default--and therefore I get bogged down in the slow > search while I'm setting the criteria, since it starts searching > immediately. Surely there must be a way to change the default! > > 3. This is a problem that existed in 10.2 as well: programs > quitting themselves for no reason. The culprits are Word (2001 > version) and Eudora 6.2.3, paid version. I try to have Eudora be > the front application when the mail comes in, and I try to load > Word first (they compete with Spamfire, which loads itself > automatically even though I keep deselecting that option). These > things help, but I still probably find Eudora quitting a couple of > times a day and Word a few times a week. On my laptop, running I > think 10.4.2, Word will quit the first time I hit Save As but then > after I reload, it's fine. If the mail comes in when something else > is the front app, Eudora will usually but not always quit--but it > will also quit for no apparent reason at other times, whether it's > the active app or not. Don't know about your particular issues but I have had good luck solving other OS X issues here: http://discussions.apple.com/index.jspa and here: http://www.macosxhints.com/ Bill Carr Bottlenose - Wine & Spirits eBusiness Specialists (877) 857-6700 http://www.bottlenose-wine.com Download vCard