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I finally convinced my wife to switch to an apple. She now uses a MacBook Air and I have been using the mbp for some time now. I have a 320 gig USB external drive that I use for time machine backups. My question is this. Can I use the same USB drive to backup two machines or do I need...

Thank you for your help. That corrected it for me. Do you have any idea how that would have changed in the first place? I obviously don't know enough about the Mac OS to make a change like that and it did not show those system files to begin with. Thank you Javier

I need some information. I don't know how I got a ".DS_Store" file on my desktop and every time I delete it, it comes back. Any ideas on what causes that file to be created and how I can remove it permanently from my desktop? I am running Mac OS X version 10.7.3. TIA Javier

How to enable the root user OS X Lion From the Apple menu choose System Preferences.... From the View menu choose Users & Groups. Click the lock and authenticate as an administrator account. Click Login Options.... Click the "Edit..." or "Join..." button at the bottom right. Click the...

I am trying to allow the root login on my 13" MacBook. I found the following instructions on the web: ============================================ How to enable the root user OS X Lion From the Apple menu choose System Preferences.... From the View menu choose Users & Groups. Click...

I spoke with an apple tech who told me that it is a known issue with this model. He said to upgrade to 4gigs and it should be OK. I told him I already had done that. I updated the memory two weeks after the OS upgrade. Maybe you need 8Gigs. Please let me know how yours acts after the...

I installed Lion over Snow Leopard a few months ago. I am fed up with all of the bugs in Lion and would like to go back to Snow Leopard. Can anyone offer some advise on using "Disk Utility" to format the drive and installing Snow Leopard? TIA Javier

I have a 13 inch MacBook with a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and 4GB 667 MHz DDR 2 SDRAM running Mac OS X version 10.7.2 and I have had it with Lion. I want to go back to Snow Leopard. I am tired of all the system freezes I have encountered with Lion. My problem is that I don't know how to go...

Well I couldn't wait till the week-end to do the OS install. I did it last nigh. I liked it so much that I did it again this morning. Actually I ran into a bit of a snafu last night. During the first go-around, I told it not to migrate data from and then I created my account, using the same...

Well thank you for your help. I will be re-installing Lion this coming Monday and I will posting results.

OK got it. Since I didn't create a clone, I would use the Time Machine backups to bring back all of my data. Now on the rare chance that a clean install does not correct my problem, I can use my "Snow Leopard" dvd to re-install that version of the OS without any problems, right?

OK but since I am formatting the existing drive prior to re-installing the OS, where would I be migrating data from? Now after the re-install is complete, I should be able to load all of my old data from the backups that I have been taking on a weekly basis, right? Thanks for the reply Javier

That is why people post questions on this forum. We want to get honest answers, helpful suggestions all else can be kicked to the curb. My system is a 13 inch MacBook 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 Gig 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM however that is the limit. I can't run 6 Gig on my system. If I can't...

First to Dr X, thanks for all your help, and yes I backup all of my data on a weekly basis. As for reading the article on how to create a bootable disk, been there done that. I do have a bootable USB thumb drive. The initial question was is there anything I should look for in paticular while...

I recently upgraded my 13 inch MacBook to Lion. I opted to do the download rather than pay the extra cash for the DVD. Shortly after the upgrade, I started experiencing problems with my MacBook. There are times when I boot up and it is unresponsive. Yesterday, I took it to the Apple store to...

I actually re-installed it earlier today, in case it was due to some quirk that occurred during the initial install. After the installation, I left the computer running for the next 30 minutes. During this time, the index did complete. I still see a lag from the time I click on my user...

I upgraded my MacBook to Lion. Soon after that, I noticed that it was very slow in responding to log into. My first response was to upgrade the memory. I now have 4 Gig of memory. This did not get rid of my first problem. Secondly, I have noticed that my machine will boot up and be...

We currently have three Windows 2008 servers. The first is the domain controller which we all authenticate too, DNS, DHCP. The sencond server is used as a file server. The last server is configured as a Term server. People can log into it from home and have access to all of their...

I was talking with my boss about switching from Windows Server 2008 to a MAC server. He hates MAC's but has been switching to Apple's. He mentioned that the Apple server is only good as a file server or print server. I have never worked with an Apple serever so I don't have an opinion on the...

I was able to correct my problem. I created a new account and I checked to see what the new account contained on the PATH variable. I then re-set my PATH to the correct values. Just in case anyone is interested or has the same problem, OS X (10.6.2) the default path should look like this...