Category: Applications

Can’t install OS X on a newly partitioned firewire drive

Posted on October 13, 2004 by ellen

Since upgrading to 10.3.5 and Final Cut Pro 4.5 HD I have been having no end of problems with Final Cut crashing on launch (solved that one here) and with “log and capture” freezing toward the end of a tape.

I decided to revert to using OS X 10.3.4, and attempted to install it on a new 200 GB Firewire drive I had laying around.

I started up using the Panther install disk, then opened Disk Utility, and partitioned the drive. Then I opened the installer and attempted to install OS X onto it. However the three partition icons for that drive all had the little red “stop” sign over them, and selecting any of those icons got me this message:

“You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. You cannot startup your computer using this volume.”

Quitting the installer and then restarting it made it recognize the partitions as bootable, and the problem was solved.

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Final Cut Pro HD 4.5 quits on launch under OSX 10.3.5

Posted on October 2, 2004 by ellen

The other day, almost without thinking, I hit the “install” button on software update, and upgraded to 10.3.5. Since then, I can NOT run Final Cut Pro 4.5. It always unexpectedly quits on launch. I

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Final Cut: Color Corrector causes color inversion and posterization on Freeze Frames

Posted on September 14, 2004 by ellen

In Final Cut Pro, using the Color Corrector filter over the Cross Dissolve transition when applied to Freeze Frames sometimes causes a color inversion and posterization effect. I’ve found two ways around this: 1. Use

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Photoshop Slowdown when using Color Picker

Posted on September 10, 2004 by ellen

I noticed a dramatic slowdown after installing Panther when using Photoshop 7, particularly when using text, layer effects, and also when using the color picker. After some experimenting I found that changing to the Apple

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Using Safari with Novell Groupwise WebAccess

Posted on July 13, 2004 by ellen

I use Novell’s Groupwise at work, and when out of the office often use their WebAccess. There is a problem with using Safari with Groupwise WebAccess where the key buttons that enable you to write

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Mail.app won’t reply to some emails sent from aol.com

Posted on July 1, 2004 by ellen

The other day I received an email from an aol member. When I tried to reply to their note, I found that I couldn’t! Hitting the reply button or selecting “reply” from the menu did

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Retrospect 5 for Mac won’t see files on Samba Shares in Panther

Posted on June 16, 2004 by ellen

Apparent solution: upgrade to Retrospect 6 – it sees the files again, but then I have been getting Assert Error 1582 on starting the backup. Looking at the Dantz Knowledgebase, it says to patch Retrospect

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Troubleshooting AOL connections on OS X

Posted on May 23, 2004 by ellen

If your AOL suddenly stops connection or never would connect on OS X, here is a possible solution: Do you connect through a Linksys Router? If so, go to their site and get the firmware

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Macromedia Extension Manager unexpected quit on startup

Posted on April 1, 2004 by ellen

After installing Panther and Macromedia Studio MX 2004 and using them for about 2 weeks, Macromedia Extension manager suddenly stopped working. Every single time I would try to start it, it would unexpectedly quit. It

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