There is a neat trick to help export your mail in Entourage 2008. If you drag a folder out of the folder list, and onto your desktop, it creates a .mbox file just for that folder. This is a good way to move emails from Entourage to many other formats, especially if you’re only concerned […]
You may to wish to back up your mailboxes, messages, addresses, and account settings as part of your regular backup strategy. To back up this information, make copies of the files listed below. Copy all the files located in ~/Library/Mail. Copy the file “com.apple.mail.plist,” located in ~/Library/Preferences. This file stores the preferences you set in […]
If you are having odd issues with a mail message attachments, before you start tearing the system apart, try rebuilding the mailbox. Â Occassionally, I will receive a call complaining that the user can not open a particular PDF with Preview, Acrobat Reader, or quick look. Â Yet, the message when forwarded somewhere else opens fine, the […]
One method to setup a Windows drive letter mount on is to use the command line interface. Â The Net Command controls a large number of windows functions, including File Share (Net Use), Printing (Net Print), Time Syncronization, Â Account information, and much much more… For our purposes the Net use command, would look like this: net […]
Indigo 4.0 We’re happy to announce the immediate availability of Indigo 4.0. See below for a list of new features. New features: Indigo 4.0 now comes in 2 flavors: Pro and Lite. Pro is basically everything: all features of 3.0 plus the new features. Lite is a less expensive version that has some high-end features […]
Tidbits has an article on Five Tips for Reading Apple Security Articles. My own view is that almost every situation we have heard about, what has infected the macintosh has been a trojan. Not a computer virus… But the Tidbits article does point out items which you should be aware of when reading Computer Security […]
MacJournals News : Legal Copy We had planned on including the transcript of the HD screen full of tiny disclaimer text in Apple’s new ‘Legal Copy’ television ad, featuring Justin Long as ‘a Mac’ and John Hodgman as ‘a PC,’ in the next issue of MDJ. Honestly, though, once we got it entered, we realized […]
“Editor’s Note: This story is excerpted from Computerworld. For more Mac coverage, visit Computerworld’s Macintosh Knowledge Center. I’ve been on the front lines of the Mac-PC war for as long as I can remember. My first work computer was an IBM PC with an 8088 CPU. I liked it so much I forked out the […]