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Hello everyone...
My first post and I guess not the greatest start to joining the forum. I'm a photographer and moved to Mac about 4 weeks ago after years using and building PC's. Partly because I got sick of hearing clients say; 'do you not use Mac?', but mainly because I found Vista 64 unbearable and unreliable.
Sadly, I'm finding my Mac to be no better and am beginning to wish I stayed on PC as the transfer to Mac cost me double the money. I always assumed Mac did exactly what it said on the tin... meaning, it worked. Hmmm...
I'm here to seek resolution to a few problems, so I do hope someone can help and maybe my experience will get better.
This evening I has taken me 2.5 hours to type a small letter. All I wanted to do is send a letter to a picture editor. Here;s what's happening...
I'll start Open Office (which I've just input my years accounts on) and type a letter. Nope, wont work (times out). Reinstalled, still wont open (cursor just looks busy but doesn't do anything). Reinstalled the latest version of X11 to run with Leopard, tried starting one before the other... no joy. Downloaded and installed a script to do with font compatibility of the web and X11. Still nothing.
Eventually, I decided to reboot the machine, but it wouldn't do this via the menu, so I had to turn off the power. When I reboot Open Office worked, so I typed my letter. But now it wouldn't print. Despite setting everything to the A4 paper size, the printer was telling me the paper was too small (HP9180). This has never happened before, so I'm assuming its the Mac. I minimised the OO window and took a look at the printer settings, which were fine. Guess what, I now cannot maximise the OO window containing my letter. I click on the OO icon in the dock and it does nothing.
Can somebody help me before I throw this expensive paper weight into the garden!!!???
I've had other similar problems. I use a program called Focus by Hasselblad to convert my RAW images. For some reason, it wouldn't allow me to save files and then kept closing Focus due to an 'unexpected error'.
More stuff... I know I'm going on, but I need to get this working (and off my chest)!!!
I purchased a Maxtor external 1TB HDD (I have several 500gb HDD's and have to put some of my SATA drives from the PC into the MAC. Due to the PC drive format, I'm unable to write to the ex-PC HDD"s, so have been trying to copy the files over to the new external 1TB drive so I can format them. The message I'm getting... 'insufficient privilages'. I've formatted the external 1TB as FAT and Mac (after more problems trying to format as Mac) and get the same message. I get the same message when trying to copy bulk files from one external drive to another. I'm the administrator and the only user of the Mac.
Please can somebody help, as I just don't have time for this and its beginning to affect my business as I can't get the basics done. As I've moved my software licenses over to Mac and bought a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro, I'm more or less committed and fast becoming frustrated with the experience.
Cheers
Christian
www.christianhough.com
My first post and I guess not the greatest start to joining the forum. I'm a photographer and moved to Mac about 4 weeks ago after years using and building PC's. Partly because I got sick of hearing clients say; 'do you not use Mac?', but mainly because I found Vista 64 unbearable and unreliable.
Sadly, I'm finding my Mac to be no better and am beginning to wish I stayed on PC as the transfer to Mac cost me double the money. I always assumed Mac did exactly what it said on the tin... meaning, it worked. Hmmm...
I'm here to seek resolution to a few problems, so I do hope someone can help and maybe my experience will get better.
This evening I has taken me 2.5 hours to type a small letter. All I wanted to do is send a letter to a picture editor. Here;s what's happening...
I'll start Open Office (which I've just input my years accounts on) and type a letter. Nope, wont work (times out). Reinstalled, still wont open (cursor just looks busy but doesn't do anything). Reinstalled the latest version of X11 to run with Leopard, tried starting one before the other... no joy. Downloaded and installed a script to do with font compatibility of the web and X11. Still nothing.
Eventually, I decided to reboot the machine, but it wouldn't do this via the menu, so I had to turn off the power. When I reboot Open Office worked, so I typed my letter. But now it wouldn't print. Despite setting everything to the A4 paper size, the printer was telling me the paper was too small (HP9180). This has never happened before, so I'm assuming its the Mac. I minimised the OO window and took a look at the printer settings, which were fine. Guess what, I now cannot maximise the OO window containing my letter. I click on the OO icon in the dock and it does nothing.
Can somebody help me before I throw this expensive paper weight into the garden!!!???
I've had other similar problems. I use a program called Focus by Hasselblad to convert my RAW images. For some reason, it wouldn't allow me to save files and then kept closing Focus due to an 'unexpected error'.
More stuff... I know I'm going on, but I need to get this working (and off my chest)!!!
I purchased a Maxtor external 1TB HDD (I have several 500gb HDD's and have to put some of my SATA drives from the PC into the MAC. Due to the PC drive format, I'm unable to write to the ex-PC HDD"s, so have been trying to copy the files over to the new external 1TB drive so I can format them. The message I'm getting... 'insufficient privilages'. I've formatted the external 1TB as FAT and Mac (after more problems trying to format as Mac) and get the same message. I get the same message when trying to copy bulk files from one external drive to another. I'm the administrator and the only user of the Mac.
Please can somebody help, as I just don't have time for this and its beginning to affect my business as I can't get the basics done. As I've moved my software licenses over to Mac and bought a Mac Pro and a MacBook Pro, I'm more or less committed and fast becoming frustrated with the experience.
Cheers
Christian
www.christianhough.com