Errata
The errata list is a list of errors and their corrections that were found after the product was released.
The following errata were submitted by our customers and have not yet been approved or disproved by the author or editor. They solely represent the opinion of the customer.
Color Key: Serious technical mistake Minor technical mistake Language or formatting error Typo Question Note Update
Version | Location | Description | Submitted by | Date submitted |
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Section 20.1.4.3 20.1.4.3. Impersonating Internet Explorer |
The book recommends enabling Safari's Debug menu using Tinker Tool or a command-line command. |
Anonymous | Feb 11, 2009 | |
1 Missing CD-ROM downloads page |
The link given for downloading the application 'SuperGetInfo' is dead (404: not found): |
John DeStefano | Jul 01, 2009 | |
Printed | Page 6 Last paragraph of sidebar "Nostalgia Corner" |
"... consult the downloadable Appendix F (at www.missingmanuals.com)..." |
Anonymous | Aug 21, 2008 |
Printed | Page 12 Figure 1-2 |
Reads: You can right-click on laptop trackapds, too. |
Anonymous | Oct 08, 2008 |
Printed | Page 13 first full paragraph |
The comment about 'stealing a good idea from microsoft' is totally fictional. Right-clicking was in many windowing systems before microsoft even thought about a graphical user interface. |
Anonymous | Oct 26, 2008 |
Printed | Page 13 3/4 of the way down "TIP" section |
The "tip" states you can 'right-click' using a Mac laptop's trackpad...see page 467. It is actually on page 468. |
Anonymous | Dec 26, 2008 |
Other Digital Version | 24 Troubleshooting Moment -- Fixing the Sidebar |
The Confirmed Errata item listed as being on Page 21 is actually on Page 24. The page number should be corrected in the online errata listing. |
Anonymous | Jun 09, 2009 |
Printed | Page 25 Tip |
The tip about changing between open windows of the same application: |
Anonymous | May 20, 2009 |
Printed | Page 103 Limit by recent date |
Only today, tomorrow, and yesterday works correctly. |
Anonymous | Mar 20, 2008 |
Printed | Page 109 on the box: problem solution hour for the spotlight use examples as a math calculator |
on the brazilian portuguese edition of the book, the mathematical functions sqrt() and pow() |
Anonymous | Jun 20, 2009 |
Printed | Page 145 PPPoE |
In the OSX leopard missing manual (Pogue), in the section about network preferences, he mentions a "show pop-up menu" which would allow me to a) turn off the PPPoE menulet and b) set up an "offline" location which wouldn't look for an internet connection. I can't find the "show" menu. Is that an error, left over from previous versions of OSX, or am I just looking in the wrong place? |
Anonymous | Aug 07, 2008 |
Printed | Page 153 Second bullet point under "Quitting Programs" at top of page |
Premature reference to the "heads-up" program switcher: |
Anonymous | Aug 12, 2008 |
Printed | Page 153 4th paragraph |
Reference to page 133 (for "heads-up display") is incorrect. Should be page 155. |
Anonymous | Oct 26, 2008 |
Printed | Page 153 2nd bullet |
The reference to "page 133" for heads-up display should be "page 155". |
Anonymous | May 03, 2009 |
Printed | Page 156 Troubleshooting moment sidebar - end of 1st paragraph |
"don't not work" - delete "not" |
Anonymous | Apr 28, 2008 |
Printed | Page 156 Troubleshooting Moment |
"...the F9, F10, and F11 keys...are mapped to the Mac's speaker volume!" |
Anonymous | Aug 12, 2008 |
Printed | Page 165 8th paragraph |
Is: "Use the heads-up switcher (page 133), ...". |
Anonymous | Oct 26, 2008 |
Printed | Page 178 4th paragraph under tip |
I hypothesize there is a third way to drag a window from one screen to another. Earlier today I was in a meeting and inadvertently dragged a calender window from one screen/desktop onto my second screen. I was dragging the calendar window to a new location on my screen and then--like Alice falling through to Wonderland the "wall" tumbled and the calendar window slipped over to my second desktop/screen. |
Anonymous | Jan 17, 2012 |
Page 206 9 th para |
Unable to locate or download Quicken PDF files to transfer data from Windows to the Mac Thank you. |
Anonymous | Jul 10, 2008 | |
Printed | Page 215 Under the heading 'Weather' |
The reference (Figure 5-29, lower left) should read (Figure 5-30, lower left) |
Anonymous | Jun 06, 2008 |
Printed | Page 246 second paragraph - synch with a Palm organizer |
In the larger world of Macintosh this may be minor, but I have wasted hours trying, unsuccessfully, to isync the data on my Palm Tungsten E2 with ical and address book. Isync doesn't even see my Palm handheld. |
Anonymous | Oct 15, 2008 |
Printed | Page 246 N/A |
I have a Palm Tungsten E... The answer in regards to the issue of trying to sync a Palm Tungsten E2 with 10.5.8 is complicated etc.... I had to manually install Version 1.3 of Apple's Palm OS Conduit for iSync (meant for 10.3.9 but thankfully still compatible with 10.5.8/10.5.9)... My research indicates that there are several different builds of Palm Desktop available & supposedly they're all PowerPC only (not Universal Binaries...) |
Craig W. Davis | Nov 14, 2015 |
Printed | Page 291 near top |
"Create a Second Partition." This 1st option is not available for an internal 2nd drive on a Mac Pro! |
Scott Andrews | Dec 28, 2008 |
Printed | Page 299 penultimate paragraph |
Windows files in Fusion are stated to be in Home--Documents--Virtual Machine folder. I am running Windows in bootcamp using Fusion 1.1.3 and this folder does not exist on my hard drive. Where is this folder? I would like to back it up. |
Anonymous | Aug 23, 2008 |
Printed | Page 307 The 7th paragraph |
The paragraph under (sub)header "Number of Recent Items" contains a typo: |
Anonymous | Nov 03, 2008 |
Printed | Page 344 "Power Users' Clinic" window |
I have never been able to get a .pkg file in the Macintosh HD->Library->Receipts folder to install. I believe that in OS 10.5.X in order to save the updates from the Apple website one must select "Download Only" in the Software Update->Update menu and collect them from the "Downloads" folder to a convenient place. I usually take a picture of the screen showing the Software Update list and stick them all in a folder with the date I download them. In older versions of the OS there was a "Package" folder in the Library folder and the updates were stored there. |
Arthur J. Groll | Dec 05, 2009 |
Printed | Page 355 Figure 10-1 |
Calculator, show paper tape. Book says go to View-> Show Paper Tape. It actually is Window->Show Paper Tape. |
Bob Neale | Jan 01, 2009 |
Printed | Page 365 Bottom 1/3rd of page, below 'Tip: The "time zone" pop-up...' |
Text in March 2008 printing: "Now, when you arrive in the distant city, use the Time Zone pop-up menu at the top-left corner of the iCal window to tell iCal where you are." |
Anonymous | Aug 17, 2008 |
Printed | Page 385 Missing Information |
For those using Preview to manipulate photos, Preview offers excellent scanning capabilities not mentioned in the Missing Manual. |
Charlie Reich | Mar 20, 2011 |
Printed | Page 393 Figure 21-2 |
It says "This column view shot". The screen shot is in icon view. |
Anonymous | Feb 11, 2009 |
Printed | Page 434 The eject button that doesn't |
Having received a mini-disk as sole instruction manual for a new radar detector, I needed eventually to read it. Used to the disk drawer of the iBook, I had no idea that a major problem could arise with the optical reader of the MacBook Pro recently acquired. |
Anonymous | Jan 18, 2010 |
Printed | Page 439 2nd paragraph in Box Gem in the Rough |
States that you may burn multisession DVD-Rs,as well as CD-R discs. According to Apple Disk Utility help, only CD-Rs can be burned in multisession. |
Anonymous | May 21, 2008 |
Printed | Page 483 Power Users' Clinic, paragraphs 7 and 8 |
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Ole Michael Selberg | Aug 11, 2010 |
Printed | Page 495 First paragraph, fourth line |
When you say "It would take a password guessing computer 149 trillion years before" guessing the FileVault password, you give a misleading view of the protection accorded by FileVault in light of the fact that it would take a human with a can of CO2 less than half an hour to discover the key. See http://citp.princeton.edu/memory/. People need to be aware of this vulnerability. Do not leave your laptop unattended when the memory is powered on. |
Anonymous | Aug 26, 2008 |
Printed | Page 508 "Gem in the Rough" section |
Dear Mr. Pogue: |
Anonymous | Nov 10, 2008 |
Printed | Page 674 UP TO SPEED box (bottom), 1st paragraph |
The text reads "If you have DSL service, you may be directed create a PPPoE service." |
Anonymous | Oct 11, 2008 |
Printed | Page 685 Next to last para, starting with "? Share your connection from ..." |
The sentence "If you select AirPort, you create the Software Base Station effect described in the next section." belongs in the next paragraph that starts with "? To computers using ..." This makes it consistent with the first paragraph on page 687, i.e., the Software Base Station effect shares a wired internet connection, via the AirPort, wirelessly. |
Roger Tremblay | Jan 13, 2010 |
Printed | Page 704 Figure 19-6 |
'(page 799)' should read '(page 709)' |
Anonymous | Jun 10, 2008 |
Printed | Page 705 Fourth line of the paragraph "acheter un routeur" |
This is a remark about the "FRENCH" book (ISBN : 978-2-212-12308-1), but the "problem" may come from the original version.... |
Anonymous | Sep 15, 2008 |
Printed | Page 708 2nd paragraph |
Attaching photos, when photo's are dragged as described in the paragraph and also referred to in Fig. 19-7 the image fills the page. No icons appear. |
Anonymous | Nov 27, 2008 |
Printed | Page 758 |
An error of omission: I wished to put several of my Safari bookmarks into subfolders of the primary folders. Safari does have this obvious and elementary capability, but there is nothing in your book about it. It should be there. |
Anonymous | Aug 22, 2008 |
Printed | Page 820 Boxed grey area, Workaround Workshop |
I have a brand new refurbished iMac direct from Apple USA, it shipped with Leopard installed and the Note from the Author or Editor: |
Anonymous | |
Printed | Page 835 Top of Page |
The page currently reads, "The trick is to press the Shift key as the machine is starting up. Hold it down from the startup chime until you see the words "Safe Boot" in red lettering. |
kehrer1701 | Jun 15, 2009 |
Printed | Page 835 last line of first list item |
In the Sixth Printing, there is a page number error, I believe. It refers to p. 779x. I can find nothing on that page that appears to refer to a disk check having to do with my hard drive. |
Anonymous | Jul 22, 2009 |
Printed | Page 874 2nd paragarph |
the index title should be 'E', not 'D'. |
Anonymous | Jul 06, 2008 |
Printed | Page 876 Last entry on the page |
"heads-up display, 133" should be "heads-up display, 155" |
Anonymous | Aug 12, 2008 |
Printed | Page 876 The last line of the second column |
Index entry for heads-up display gives page number 133 that is incorrect. It should be 155. |
Anonymous | Oct 26, 2008 |
Printed | Page 882 left column |
There should be an entry or entries regarding the location of the page references to the "missing CD" files and links. It is frustrating to check the index for "Quay" for example only to find no mention of it, even though it appears in the book. |
M.Paris | Feb 05, 2009 |