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2006 / synchronizing accounts in .mac

« on: December 03, 2006, 10:38:25 PM »

QUOTE(dolphin @ Dec 3 2006, 12:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Liz, I don't know if I have your answer or not; however I had trouble with .Mac when I first got into it. It wouldn't sync among other things. I wrote .Mac support and it took awhile (a couple of weeks), but they finally got my problem solved. Wish I could be of more help.

Roy

TNX Roy, well I guess I am on the right track since I have started a thread with mac support and have gotten a couple of answers possibly leading to the answer.

  I thought everybody had left Techsurvivors I've been away so long.

Liz

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2006 / synchronizing accounts in .mac

« on: December 02, 2006, 07:50:31 PM »

QUOTE(Liz @ Dec 1 2006, 05:39 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey Y'all,    I recently purchased my permanent . mac account, but the trial account is still set to open when I click Mail. I have Panther and .mac sync must be setup to operate automatically with Tiger. There is a procedure for synchronizing the old and new in Panther; somewhere I read " sync for systems earlier than 10.4".  I didn't have time to pursue it at the time.    Now I can't find it again  .

Will someone, please, come to my rescue again?

 

Liz

Well! Guys did I ask the wrong question? Or what? Is the old gang there any more?

I've been really preoccupied with various things including putting our little log cottage on the market, not leaving a lot of extra time to be on line. We expect be moving back to the city in a couple of weeks.    

I finally ordered Pogue's book Mac For Dummies. Not much quality, free time to study right now though. My answer is probably somewhere in it's pages.

Let me know if the old gang is still hanging out here.

TNX,

Liz

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2006 / synchronizing accounts in .mac

« on: December 01, 2006, 04:39:55 AM »

Hey Y'all,    I recently purchased my permanent . mac account, but the trial account is still set to open when I click Mail. I have Panther and .mac sync must be setup to operate automatically with Tiger. There is a procedure for synchronizing the old and new in Panther; somewhere I read " sync for systems earlier than 10.4".  I didn't have time to pursue it at the time.    Now I can't find it again  .

Will someone, please, come to my rescue again?

 

Liz

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2006 / Eliminating addresses from forwards

« on: July 24, 2006, 04:18:24 PM »

QUOTE(kbeartx @ Jul 24 2006, 04:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I don't know that that can be done.  

What you're wanting to do is edit your saved mail msgs and then re-save them, yes?

I depends on the way the webmail 'app' that BS uses was written [whether it was designed w/ this feature or not].

I suspect not.

Since you use webmail, your saved msgs are all on the server, and not on your computer.  

If you want to free-up some space, you're gonna hafta save the mail as text files on your Mac and then delete the saved msgs on the server.

You might be able to do this via drag-and-drop [try that first, it'll be less work], or by copying-and-pasting the parts of the msgs you wanna save into a word processor file [one or many].

<-added the closing "quote" tag.

It appears I began writting above the end or your message.    
Noticed it when previewing my reply.


I also have ThunderBird. That is what I use now, almost exclusively; don't have to have an active browser with TB. IE gets Bell South mail which means starting IE up to delete the messages.

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2006 / Eliminating addresses from forwards

« on: July 24, 2006, 02:14:47 PM »

QUOTE(jepinto @ Jul 24 2006, 11:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Liz:  Are you saving the sent items to your web space?  In the sent mail folder?

If you want to save the items you've sent, you can open each message and do a Save As... and download the message to your computer.  And then delete the messages from your webmail folders.

Is there a reason you are using the Bellsouth webmail interface instead of using Mail to download your email?  (I think I remember you are on Bellsouth..)

What I'm talking about is forwards. I have an aunt who sends these deliteful forwards that may have been to three or four other groups of people before she forwards on to her group. They have to be extremely desirable for me to keep. Then, there's the stuff from everybody else.

I have learned to delete the address from those I forward. What I'm trying to do now is to delete them from the forwards I already have in folders, in order to free-up webmail space.

My daughter mailed a picture of her new house, but I got a message stating that I didn't have enough space to receive it; to delete anything I don't want to save in order to receive it. No! I don't save anything anywhere but in folders.      

If you are talking about Apple mail (I guess that is what it's called); it hasn't worked since I've had the computer. If it was disabled by a previous user or I need some expert assistant to activate it, I'm not sure.

You are correct that I use Bell South. BS is my internet provider.

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2006 / Eliminating addresses from forwards

« on: July 24, 2006, 08:27:39 AM »

QUOTE(Gregg @ Jul 24 2006, 08:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You mean deleting the addresses?

I'm not sure what webmail files are (pardon my lack of knowledge), but I suspect just deleting addresses from the header of a file will not significantly reduce the size of the file. To really save space, the files should be compressed. Then if you need to look at one, it has to be expanded (that is, un-compressed), then deleted when you're done so as not to take up space again.

I use Aladdin's DropStuff to compress and their Stuffit Expander to "decompress". (er- expand. Sorry for mixing terms!)

Hi Gregg,

I did mean deleting the addresses. When I opened a webmail folder ( wrote files before) and deleted the addresses, opened again to see what changed; nothing had changed. The address are all still there.  Sooo, what's next?  

We'll "talk about" compressing and expanding another day.

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2006 / Eliminating addresses from forwards

« on: July 24, 2006, 07:42:48 AM »

QUOTE(sunset @ Jul 24 2006, 01:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Liz,

I'm not familiar with Thunderbird but this is what I've always done:  drag to highlight the part of the message you want to copy, excluding all those addresses.  This can include graphics as well as the text.  Then just hold down the Apple key and tap the 'c'.

Click in the message area of a 'new message' window and paste what you've just copied, Apple/v.  Just type in the person's address and the Subject line.  It's easy and quick.  

Laurel

Laurel,

Those shortcuts will be handy. (Kimmer) gave me instructions, and after several tries, I was finally successful in getting rid of some of those "bulky" addresses. (I attribute a lot of my ineptness to my advanceing age and being relatively new to computing)

My current project is eliminating the (forward) addresses from my webmail files. Space is limited and fills up fast without diligence.

I've been thinking about copying them, deleting the files, then creating all new files. Will that work or is there a better application for that as well?

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2006 / Eliminating addresses from forwards

« on: July 17, 2006, 09:08:56 AM »

I am currently using Thunderbird. Haven't tried to get rid of those addresses with this one but did on the other e-mail program. I only deleted the whole e-mail. And I know I couldn't have done anything wrong.

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2006 / Eliminating addresses from forwards

« on: July 17, 2006, 06:35:25 AM »

Hi, I sometime like to forward cute things that are forwarded to me by e-mail.
I also have some saved in files. I would, however, like to be able to eliminate the other addresses that accumulate when one has been circulated alot.

Could someone give me the technique for achieving this?  

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2006 / IE Freezing Upon Opening

« on: July 07, 2006, 10:47:59 PM »

QUOTE(kelly @ Jul 5 2006, 11:48 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

No. I'm not familiar with her Liz.

Hope that Book helps you.

http://www.halfpricecomputerbooks.com/resu...;sb=bargain_bin

Hi Kelly, my book Mac OS X fast & easy is being sold at the above web site. Thankfully, Books-A-Million had it and at an even better price.(on the clearance table)

I think I'm getting in really good shape here. The next project could be to do some upgrading. Will I ever need help then!!

Krissel, for the encoragement.

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2006 / IE Freezing Upon Opening

« on: July 06, 2006, 08:12:02 PM »

QUOTE

If you want to reset the cookies, disconnect your modem cable....

Success!!  
Krissle, I just couldn't leave IE in limbo.  

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2006 / IE Freezing Upon Opening

« on: July 05, 2006, 09:37:53 PM »

QUOTE(kelly @ Jul 5 2006, 08:46 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

IMO. Cookies don't matter that much. But whatever.

http://komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=1662

Not a Fan of Ms. Komando myself. She is useless for macs.

See if your Library has anything by David Pogue.

http://www.davidpogue.com/

I bookmarked David Pogue.

Are you familiar with the name Lisa A. Bucki? I bought her book, Mac OS X fast & easy. She doesn't cover everything in the book, but it was an answer to prayer when I was struggeling so at first. Nobody I know personally has a Mac.  

Would you educate me a bit about cookies? I think I know, at least, in part what the do.

What if I delete the cookies for say my account with my cell phone company? Did I loose that info and have to reestablish the account online? Or are they a convenience in some way? CC mentioned cookies expiring; I noticed the Bell South  cookies have different expiration dates, one was 2009, another 3 days , and another today.

What does IMO stand for?

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2006 / IE Freezing Upon Opening

« on: July 05, 2006, 06:06:57 PM »

QUOTE(kbeartx @ Jul 5 2006, 04:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

IMO, you should not be using IE at all on OS-X.  

It's been YEARS since it was updated [MS canned development on IE shortly after Apple introduced Safari], and no longer works correctly on many web pages.
This is the first I've ever heard of this.  Can your source provide more info?

I realize that about IE; it was there when I got my little third hand  jewel.

IE may be lost to me, although, I doubt it. So far it continues to freeze. I clicked the  Bell South icon on the desktop and got it to open. Then it started with the cookie "thing".

I may have discribed that site a little inaccurately. However, that was the way I had remembered it.    

Find it at:  Komando.com/tips/index.aspx?id=1662

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2006 / IE Freezing Upon Opening

« on: July 05, 2006, 02:44:34 PM »

QUOTE(sandbox @ Jul 5 2006, 07:22 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hey Liz, did you delete the old cookies?

If your home page does a cookie update whenever you open the page then you may be blocking the natural path for that page and the result is a freeze?

You may be able to read the source code for that page and see if it has such cookies?

Do a quick change to Google as a home page to test this theory.

If IE opens without a freeze on a google home page then you can assume that the home page your using has timed or dated cookies.  

I haven't had a chance to test your theory yet, however, my homepage is my internet provider, Bell South. I made it the Firefox homepage and it is normal.

I deleted some Bell South cookies very recently; saving the ones that looked like my personal info such as name, password, etc. Everything was fine until this AM.

Before I made the change to be notified when a cookie was to be installed, I was looking for four that I had put in by (not sure now exactly what to call it, they are nevertheless spying ) companies that do "market analysis".

The cookies, according to someone else I trust, are similar to a "do not call" list for telemarketers. If the cookies are in place you are suppose to be left out of those analyses. It wasn't obvious which ones they are, making it difficult to delete many.

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2006 / IE Freezing Upon Opening

« on: July 05, 2006, 05:25:28 AM »

Hey Y'all, (As usual) I was trying what I hadn't tried before. Wanting to control

the cookies that accumulate, I chose to accept or reject them manually. Each time

I've tried to launch IE today, and the home page is to open, I go through the

sequence of accept cookie, accept, etc...IE freezes at about the fourth "accept" cookie

pop-up .

If IE should open I would immediately reset cookies to accept as before.

(Unless, someone can tell me a better way to manage them.)  

My question is, "WHAT DO I DO NOW?"

Incidentally, FF is working fine now.