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This Apple Care article should be saved for reference, as it is likely to recur.

If renaming a file you may get a message that said either “You don’t have sufficient access” or “You don’t have appropriate access privileges.” This may mean you tried to repair this situation by make a change to the Sharing and Permissions listings in the Finder’s Info window for a folder, and then select the “Apply to enclosed items” option from the Info window’s Action pop-up menu. You’re especially likely to see these symptoms if you do this for the Home directory itself. Here is the solution for a problem, an unannounced feature of Leopard.

If your computer won’t start up normally, you may need to use a disk repair utility to fix the issue. Mac OS X includes two utilities for this—Disk Utility and fsck. You can also use these even when your computer starts just fine but you want to check the disk for possible file system issues. For Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later, check out “About live verification in Mac OS X 10.4.3 or later”. Apple Care

PRAM has been with Mac from the beginning. it has been used to keep the time zone, startup volume and speaker volume. Resetting of the PRAM thus required resetting the computers time. Mac OS X stores even more in PRAM, such as kernel panic information. This Apple Care article describes what Mac OS X stores in PRAM.

Resetting your Mac’s PRAM and NVRAM

If unable to reset the clock in an older Mac, it may indicate a PRAM battery change is necessary. This list has the Mac and battery part number.

DiskWarrior 4.1 features full compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5.x (Leopard). Primarily, this release includes the ability to repair Time Machine backups by working with damaged directory hard links.

Please note that the new startup CD will start up the same set of Macs as your current DiskWarrior CD. Your new CD will not start up any Mac that your current DiskWarrior CD can not.

This KB article addresses a concern that if your hard drive fails when does your Mac warranty kick in? Upon failure, not caused by “normal use”, Apple will coordinate with DriveSavers and OnTrack, data recovery companies. More …
Is this in reaction to the Intuit date deletion problem wherein numerous recommendations were made about data recovery?

Version 5.0 includes a number of excellent features. As before, it provides detailed information on every Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported OS versions, expansion options. MacTracker also includes Apple mice, keyboards, displays, printers, scanners, digital cameras, iPod, Apple TV, iPhone, AirPort Base Stations, Newton and Mac OS versions.

New features in this update:

• Leopard compatibility
• New update engine
• iCal integration for tracking the warranty status of your Mac
• iTunes version compatibility information to iPod models

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Manuals have not evolved to match the web’s fix-it pages. Maybe it is because it is not practical. What is important is that users have available substantial resources for fixing most anything. The New York Times has a number of suggestions about what you can expect to fix yourself. The article gives some reasons why you might want to have your iPod repaired by a 3rd party or yourself rather than Apple which might not return the very same iPod to you. More …

LeopardTechTool Pro 4.6.1 has been released by Micromat, and brings Leopard compatibility. Subscribers will receive an email with a subscriber specific link to download the update.

With Leopard having problems installing while the eDrive is active, and Alsoft recommending running DiskWarror from the booted CD and never while booted from the drive to be repaired, why install any disk repair software?

Have you returned your Mac two or three times and it is still not fixed? A user had replaced his Mac twice and had a problem with the third, decided to email Steve Jobs.Openswitch carries an individual posting entitled, The office of Steve Jobs called me today. More …

Not much is being said about it. A few comments from each founder. The public comments mainly think both will disappear in a orginization that is PC centered., bashing Apple often. More …