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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.

I have a MacBook Pro running Leopard, build 9F33 and within the past month downloaded the Palm Desktop for Macintosh from the Palm site. It appears that no isync conduit for Palm is provided by Apple.

I wish you had just said either "it can't be done" or "it can be done but it's complicated. Here's how ..."

I did find on the web suggestions about using software called Missing Sync, but have also seen posts saying it doesn't work with Leopard either.

If you have correct information about this I'd be most grateful if you would share it.

Thanks,
Susan

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.

Snow Leopard 10.6.X makes it even harder now because some of the .pkg files install as standalones and some require some of the additional files that appear with them to install.) But it appears that Apple's update strategy is in a state of transition and there seems to be a lack of consistency.

(I hope I'm not "out in left field" on this!)

Your books are great!

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.
The dwarfish user handbook provided by Apple signals nevertheless in his final recommendations that only 12 inches CD are permitted and that smaller items could be get caught. Very true, but what a stupid warning for a major problem.

AppleCare was unable to solve the problem and directed me to the nearest technical support center, situated at 60 miles, and at my own expenses. For AppleCare was not going to intervene for the MAJOR MISTAKE I had committed. I did not read the manual ? Sorry, but even the very last remarks of the micro-manual must be observed. Good day, sir.

Now the end of the story.
Because the recommended support center showed unattainable by phone nor mail, I decided to intervene myself. And I forced the mini-disk out whit a flat piece of wood.
After the extraction the reader seemed somewhat unhappy, rather noisy when in use. But this seems OK after some practice. Apple nevertheless asks me to get to another support center to verify if really nothing went wrong.

The missing manual may be not concerned with hardware, but he should mention the incompatibility of some readers with disks other than 12".

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.

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.

Dear Mr. Pogue:

"Gem in the Rough" provides incomplete instructions on connecting 2 x Macs via Ethernet connection. The first two paragraph's provide "How To" w/respect to the physical connection; however, it abruptly stops there and picks up with establishing a "Wireless Connection." The Apple Assistant is little help in guiding me through the remainder of establishing a Network. I'm stuck.

My Story...can you all help: In my situation I'm trying to migrate my iTunes, iPhoto, and Documents from my 2002 iMac to my new MacAir...this is more of a challenge than I anticipated for several reasons:

* "Leopard" does not support my iMac...thus I can't move my files to the Time Capsule and then drag them into my MacAir.

* Airport Network: Back in the day....I didn't purchase the Airport option. Unfortunately, they don't make Airport cards for my old iMac to do wireless...ergo, no Wireless networking option.

* FireWire Network: MacAir doesn't support a FireWire connection...crazy...thus I can't establish a FireWire Network. I was "eyes wide open" on the "FireWire" issue upon purchase, but didn't think through the secondary/tertiary effects.

Respectfully,

Allen Ford
allensford@mac.com
540-720-0879

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.

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.

Mike Freeman

I have a brand new refurbished iMac direct from Apple USA, it shipped with Leopard installed and the
Leopard "Up to Date" Upgrade Disk. You suggest performing a clean install of Leopard is need be, the
problem is when we try this the following pops up:

"Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer"

There is no way around it, we refurbished buyers need to buy a new copy of Leopard. I have looked around,
no solution so far. I do know your solution offered does not work, checked the Apple forums and others
agree....

Solution?

I tried to install Leopard as a clean install on my secondary iBook, same no-go as above.

Note from the Author or Editor:
Refurb might be a special case.