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What Volume Format did you choose? "MacOS Extended (Journaled)" is the default, I believe. Did you click on the hard drive (even though it did not have a green arrow) to tell the installer app that it is the drive you'd like to install on?

Do you have any backup applications installed (or previously installed)? Is this computer your very own, and generally only on your own home network? Got .Mac? Check your console and system logs for clues as to what was running at the time it backed itself up. Also, check Activity Monitor...

Perhaps I presumed too much. Where is your music being stored?

Launch the terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) Type the following command at the prompt: sudo find / -name iTunes\ Music including the backslash (copy and paste it as is might be easier) , then hit the return key. Type your password. You should get back one line for each "iTunes...

Well, first things first. What have you done to resolve the immediate problem? Crashing apps can cause havoc on your hard drive. Particularly if they are writing to the drive when the crash occurs. How do you know if the app is writing to the drive when it crashes? You don't, unless it crashes...

Don't forget to back these things up, just in case... :)

If it's not an Al-Book (aluminum Powerbook) and indeed a true Ti-Book (Titanium Powerbook) then the only problems will be whether or not there are OS 9 drivers on the partition you are installing OS 9 on. 9.2 is the recommended minimum version for practically any OS 9 installation these days...

Actually, after creating the new Applications folder, copying the old Applications folder's contents to the new folder, then deleting the original Applications folder, renaming the new Applications folder to just "Applications", restart the machine. The icon "should" get updated. You may...

set thePath to alias "Macintosh HD:Users:someuser:Desktop:Automator + ARD Examples:Projects:Ask a Question:question.sh" set new_file to choose file with prompt "Open file to be edited" default location thePath http://www.apple.com/applescript/releasenotes/192OSX.html :D

I also work in IT, but my path to IT was through publishing -- at the time, nearly all Macs, for good reason -- in a large department of a very big company. We pretty much had to be our own IT department unless it was a network problem. Thanks for the unbiased information, robyn1. Some...

Path to the JAVA application? Version of the JAVA application?

Back up your stuff now. Then, logging out should present you with a dialog box saying File Vault needs to recover free space (or something like that... Let it do that. Since you deleted 20G of files, it could take a very long time indeed. If that doesn't fix it, you may need to run Disk...

Disk Utility: Repair permissions?

You could use a series of password protected disk image files instead of folders... Look at the options for the Disk Utility. You can choose to convert a folder to a disk image. Options for disk images is encryption and writable. Probably not a good idea for individual default home folder items...

Yes. Fred, you need to look also in /Library. That is, at the main level of your hard drive, there is also a library folder that can contain cmis. Check there. Move any you find to a neutral location (not your desktop). If that fails to resolve the issue, then I would then suspect a corrupt...

What did you do with the Contextual menu items you found? Move them to /Users/Shared temporarily. Log out, then log back in. Use the machine for a while and try the routines that normally cause your Finder to crash. Crashing gone? If so, it's one of those Contextual menu items that was...

I'll buy mine as soon as I can get my hands on it, but that's just me. :) Time Machine itself looks to be worth more than $130 to me (even more so if recovery from catastrophic failure [dead drive?] is snappy). Mail 3, iChat, Calendar, Spaces, Boot Camp... That doesn't even count the stuff they...

What's the serial number? I think you can look up the warranty info on Apple's web site. You generally don't need to supply a receipt if you registered the product. It's all based on the serial number though, so you could call the local authorized service center and they could possibly tell you...

stock RAM?

When did you get your MacBook and why didn't you use the Migration Assistant? Anyway, quit Mail. There is another file you need besides the Mail folder. Library/Preferences/com.apple.mail.plist So, copy that mail folder and plist file over, then launch mail and see if those files are...