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Apple OS X Lion
Drsfg commented on 10 May 2012
The upgrade messed up my mail settings, reactivating mail settings I had put away, but after deactivating them again, things seem to be working okay.

I didn't have any problems restarting, but I always repair permissions and check the drives integrity before I install an upgrade to the operating system.
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Thunderbird
Drsfg commented on 28 Mar 2012
My version of Eudora OSE has somehow developed a corruption and I can no longer access any of my emails. Does anybody think that having Thunderbird import the Eudore OSE data that I could then get to my emails?

I tried leaving messages at Eudora OSE's blog but I have received no responses. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[Version 11.0.1]



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Quicken 2007

Drsfg reviewed on 17 Mar 2012
I was glad to see this version of Quicken for one reason only: to access my legacy data, and this it does. And for that, the price couldn't be beat. I moved to MoneyDance mid-2006 because I was just fed up with Intuit's lack of Mac support/interest. And boy! was I happy I did. The (attempted) conversion to Quicken Essentials was a disaster. More than 50% of my data never made it over. I couldn't convert over to Quicken PC because I have many, many split transactions that have twenty lines or more, and they will not convert (I would have run Quicken PC through CrossOver).

So, when I moved to Mac OS 0.7 Lion, literally 10 years of data became unavailable. Until now. All the data seems to be there and that's great. And I think that that's what Intuit wanted to do. Provide access.

As far as I'm concerned, Quicken is no longer being developed for the Mac. I would advise ALL of you out there to begin looking at alternatives. I chose MoneyDance because it is fully cross platform. It has quirks to be sure, and I think some of those quirks are there in order not to look like it is a Quicken clone and risk being sued. There are other programs as well. Try them all and find which you like. Even if Intuit decided today to redo both platforms to be truly cross-compatible, I wouldn't/couldn't go back.

Face reality: Quicken is dead. May she rest in peace.
[Version 16.1.0]



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Apple Brother Printer Drivers
Drsfg commented on 18 Jan 2012
Well, I took the plunge and installed V2.8.1 on my MacBook Pro. My Brother HL-5370DW, which would not print two sided after the last update until I reinstalled the older driver, is working okay under this update, I very relived to say. My Brother HL-5280DW printer is at home and I'll try that tonight, but I am encouraged by what happened today.
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Apple Mac OS X

Drsfg reviewed on 26 Jul 2011
I installed this update through Software Update. The size of the file was 1/10th of what is being downloaded here. It was quick without any problems. Some people have stated that the About This Mac window notates the supplemental update. My window still says OS 10.6.8
[Version 10.6.8 v1.1]


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Drsfg replied on 26 Jul 2011
I think it's all a plot to make us think we're losing our marbles :o)
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PDF Browser Plugin

Drsfg reviewed on 17 Jun 2011
No longer works in Camino or Firefox. Completely crashes Camino, nothing renders in Firefox.

It does work in Safari.
[Version 2.4]


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Drsfg replied on 21 Jun 2011
But I'm not using 32-bit mode, why would one?
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Drsfg replied on 21 Jun 2011
This is from the Camino Project:

You recently submitted a Camino crash report[1], presumably triggered by viewing a PDF file. If you haven't already diagnosed the problem yourself, this crash is caused by version 2.4 of the SchubertIT "PDF Browser Plugin". Unfortunately, this newest version of the plug-in only supports Safari, per its "System Requirements"[2]. The previous version, 2.3.2, is still available for download[3] and works properly with Camino 2 on Mac OS X 10.5 and 10.6.
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Moneydance

Drsfg reviewed on 29 May 2011
I've been using Moneydance since 2006 and have been very happy with leaving Quicken behind. It is a good program. However, there seems to be a trend (Paperless is another example) where new versions, with "improvements" are actually worse than their older versions.

First, there appeared the inability to print reports in Portrait mode which appeared in v2010. This, I was told would require a complete rewrite that may still not be solved in v2011.

Now, in V2011, the split lines have been changed from single line to double line format "in a effort to be consistent with the companion entry format" (I am paraphrasing what I was told.)

Well, this may be well and good, BUT it makes working with the split lines and hence the program far more difficult and reduces efficiency. And the whole idea is to make life MORE efficient, NOT less!

I can deal with the print format problem, as I only print for tax reporting, but I cannot deal with the split format issue, which I use practically every day and with entries having at least 15 splits twice a month. So I returned to V2010 and entry speed immediately re-improved by leaps and bounds.

If you do lots of split transactions, beware of V2011!
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Carbon Copy Cloner

Drsfg reviewed on 13 Apr 2011
Absolutely fantastic. I used to use CCC years ago, but then it because Intel incompatible and I moved to Super Duper! When Leopard arrived, Super Duper! became glacially slow. Just tried to clone again 185 GB and after 12+ hours was only 75% done! Ridiculous! I tried CCC again, and it did the job in 3.5 hours!!!!!!!
My donation was for more than the developed asked. It's worth every penny!

The only thing Super Duper! does is that it will shut off your computer after the clone is complete. But the time savings is more important than that!
[Version 3.3.7]


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Drsfg replied on 03 Jul 2011
First, the cost has nothing to do with it. I have both CCC & SuperDuper! I will gladly pay the developer, if the program WORKS, which SuperDuper! does not. I was back and forth with their support team for days and they finally gave up and essentially said use CCC.

Being Lion ready doesn't mean a zit if the program doesn't work. And Lion is already coming under fire for breaking some important legacy programs, notably Quicken. I'm a sole proprietor and I need my machine to work 100% of the time. After the Snow Leopard mess forcing me to purchase a new printer, I'm not jumping to Lion until I know that ALL my critical programs (or satisfactory substitutes) will work with it. I'm old fashioned, I guess, but a computer is there to aid me in life, not just produce nice colors.
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SuperDuper!

Drsfg reviewed on 13 Apr 2011
Ever since getting Leopard several years ago, Super Duper! has been glacially slow. Unbelievably slow. My last clone was last year, cloning 121 GB and it took 11 (that's correct!) hours, averaging 3.13 MB/sec.

I tried again last night, with 187 GB and after over 12 hours, only 75% was done. I gave up.

Today I tried CCC: did the entire clone in 3.5 hours. Yes I have a lot of little files: over 7 million (mostly iCal backups) but still, CCC could do it, why not Super Duper?
[Version 2.6.2]



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FruitMenu

Drsfg reviewed on 03 Mar 2011
A thank you to the developer. This new version (V3.8.4) no longer interferes with BusySync. As I work by myself, my calendar must be in order, double bookings would be a disaster for me. I have now been able to use Fruit Menu again.

Thanks for the quick turnaround.
[Version 3.8.4]



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MoonMenu
Drsfg had trouble on 26 Jun 2010
I have my machine set to San Francisco time. Yet, no matter what I try, the time on the Moon Menu drop down is 7 hours too fast. How does one fix this? I have the preferences set to local time.
[Version 3.0.3]



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Xounds
Drsfg had trouble on 28 Apr 2010
There seems to be a problem with this version of Xsounds. When I put my machine to sleep (MacBook Pro 10.6.3) and then awaken it, my ethernet connection (through which I get my internet, and connect to my other computers, as well as my printer) is dead and I have to disconnect and reconnect the ethernet cable to restart it. When I remove Xsounds the problem goes away.
[Version 3.0.1]



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Eudora
Drsfg had trouble on 05 Mar 2010
Also, the read/unread button does not remove itself when you open a message as per the preferences.

This is a terrible update!!!! I'm going back to b8. b8 was much better!
[Version 8.0b9]



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Eudora
Drsfg had trouble on 05 Mar 2010
The classic view option (where the mailboxes are listed in a left-sided pane) no longer works.
[Version 8.0b9]



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Eudora
Drsfg had trouble on 26 Feb 2010
This version doesn't crash when you go to the help menu, thank G-d! But does anybody who how to change the "recipient" listing to a "from" listing? I need to know who my mail is coming from, not who it's coming to (which is me). Please, help!! I'll be eternally grateful!
[Version 8.0b8]



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Eudora
Drsfg had trouble on 04 Sep 2009
I also have lost my trash icon. Does anubody know how to add icons to the tool bar?
[Version 8.0b7]



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WindowShade X
Drsfg had trouble on 22 Sep 2008
BEWARE OF THIS UPGRADE!!!!!!!!!!

It causes MoneyDance to totally crash and not open!! Although I have backup, IT SCARED THE BLOODY S--T OUT OF ME! All my financial data evaporating in front of my eyes, and the thought of reconstructing this started pains in my chest.

Stay with the previous beta version (b1). It worked fine.
[Version 4.2b2]



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BART Widget
Drsfg had trouble on 02 Jan 2008
this new version doesn't seem to work. Is there something I need to do?
[Version 1.02]



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SiteSucker
Drsfg had trouble on 12 Dec 2007
Is it me? Every update to this program will not download properly using any version of Camino. Firefox yes, Camino no. And it is the only program I have trouble with.

Anyone else have this problem?
[Version 2.1.4]


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Drsfg replied on 12 Dec 2007
Well, it must be something else that's interfering with the download then, because every time I download, it's a partial one and the file cannot be extracted. Odd, isn't it?
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Drsfg replied on 13 Dec 2007
Yes. It also fails.
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Camino
Drsfg had trouble on 26 Feb 2007
Neither the alphas nor this beta render Citibank's web site correctly and is unuseable. Stable version 1.0.3 works great, and is my browser of choice on my MaxBook Pro (1st edition). Hope they can iron this out before 1.1 oficially is released.
[Version 1.1b1]


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Drsfg replied on 26 Feb 2007
How can it be Citibank's fault? Their site works with Camino 1.0.3, Firefox 2.0.0.2 and Safari. Something MUST be different with Camino 1.1 otherwise, there would be no need for it, right?

Regarding bugzilla, I do believe I mentioned it to them, but just like page rendering got all screwed up with new versions of Safari, Firefox and Camino on VSPs website several years ago, when you are dealing with password protected sites, there is only so much that the Mozilla people can do.
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Drsfg replied on 26 Feb 2007
Honestly, I don't remember the number. I don't keep track of these things - I'm not in the business of doing so. But again, I did look at the release notes, and there seems to be a lot of changes going on in how Camino is working. Yes, it could be a Citibank problem, but it does seem strange that Firefox uses the same underpinnings and the site renders perfectly with it and not with these new versions of Camino.
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Drsfg replied on 26 Feb 2007
I looked at Bugzilla and now I remember that the problem I was having with Camino originally was that Citibank was suggesting that I switch to Firefox. The site would work properly when I ignored what they told me to do. I remember, altering some code to make Camino look like Firefox to Citibank and this eliminated the warning. I will create a new problem for this problem: now the graphics/HTML is not rendering properly at all and you can't get into the site.
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Drsfg commented on 26 Feb 2007
See bug #371860
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Drsfg replied on 27 Feb 2007
I humbly regret to say that creating a new application support file for Camino did not work. Also removing any files in the InputManagers folder did not work either. The opening page still does not render properly and clicking on several items produces unreliable results. This is my (a layman's) definition of unuseable.
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