Reply #12: I'm clueless on that one, too. I was intitated into the cult of mac in 2001 by maniacs. [View All]

[freshwest]

It was a Borg-like moment, really. I could not resist, LOL. I'm not sure I have much more than a beginner's grasp of OSX at this point. I buy books and read the stuff on line, but I forget everything.

I'm also the kind that doesn't read instructions. Or can't read them, more like it. My learning seems to come from experimenting. Fortunately nothing has blown up irreparably.

But I can't deal with Windows anymore, so half of these things go over my head. I think that Linux is like a grandparent or big brother of mac operating systems, but haven't missed Windows, Microsoft, etc. I'm not willing to go back, although my machine would run Windows through Bootcamp if I sprang for the program.

But I'd need more hard drive space, as I'm always having to burn things to disk to make more room. I'm glad you found a repair professional to help you so easily. I don't understand why Microsoft didn't fix their Vista glitch.

My biggest problem is some incapabilities with different versions of Quicktime and iTunes I'm running now. They don't really help you with things like that, I guess they figure I should know. For most things, though, if worst comes to worst, there's always putting the start up disk in the computer, which is probably tricky, and I thouhght after the few first posts here that is what you were going to have to do to regain control.

I only have one really smart thing to say: Redundancy & Backup. If everything blows up, and it will since no hard drive lasts as long as you want it to, you'll be glad you did. My hard drive went belly up in a wink a few years ago and I hadn't backed up. I was fortunate to find a place to retrieve my thousands of hours of work, creating and downloading all kinds of files. It took them almost an entire 7 days and night to slowly get my data off the fried drive and it'll never happen again. Run that backup all the time!