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by Christopher Breen

Directly accessing the Downloads folder

Reader Charles Bilkin is unsatisfied with a Safari feature, he writes:

When I used Safari running under Tiger, my downloads would go to the Desktop. Now that I’m using Leopard, they go into the Downloads folder. I know that my Desktop is cleaner now, but I don’t like having to open my Downloads folder whenever I want to get a file I’ve downloaded. Is there some way to turn this off?

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Sending iCal invites to the many

Reader C wishes to communicate with several people at once. The initialed one writes:

Can I make iCal email an event to more than one user?

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by Christopher Breen

Troubleshooting .Mac iCal syncing

Reader Turner Kellogg is unhappy with .Mac’s inability to sync his calendars. He writes:

For some reason I’m no longer able to sync iCal with .Mac on my home computer. When I try, I get a warning that tells me I have inconsistent data. I thought inconsistent data was the whole point of syncing! I’ve tried resetting the calendar in my .Mac preferences several times with no luck. I’ve also unregistered my Mac and then reregistered it to see if that would help. The next time I sync I get the same thing even though I have it set to replace the data on my computer with what’s on .Mac.

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New year, old business
Before I leap into the business of a new year, it’s time to clean up issues remaining from the year just departed. Along those lines, reader Jim Schoster follows up on last year’s Broken iDisk Syncing with this:

Thank you for your helpful article about iDisk. Where do I find the .sparsebundle file to delete?

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Solutions to your most vexing Mac problems

by Christopher Breen

Hiding iWeb pages
Q: Every time I make a page in iWeb, a link to it appears in the navigation bar at the top of every page. I’d like to make some pages accessible only through links that I put on particular pages in the site. Is this possible?– Amal Chandaria Read More…

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Solutions to your most vexing Mac problems

by Christopher Breen

Converting unprotected DVDs
Q: Over the past 18 months, I’ve taken about 15 hours of video of my baby. I loaded the videos into Apple’s iMovie and then burned DVDs in iDVD. (I didn’t have the hard-drive space to keep the videos on my Mac.) Now I want to make a highlights video–but when I load the DVDs, I can’t find the original files. What do you suggest?–Carrie Roberts Read More…

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Mac 911 … Solutions to your most vexing Mac problems

by Christopher Breen

The not-in-a-playlist playlist
Q: I often receive MP3s that are copied to iTunes’ library when I open them. As time goes by, the library gets filled with stuff I don’t want. The stuff I do want is already sorted into playlists. Can I make a smart playlist with songs that are not in any playlist?–Bruno Grieco Read More…

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Mac 911 … Solutions to your most vexing Mac problems
August 6, 2007

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