Nope. None at home; I think one here at work.

Firefox is pretty memory hungry. How much memory do you have on both machines, do you know? I'd try disabling the extension at work also and see if it improves things also.

Bon Bon, I'd C&P to an empty document and save the new doc over it. Since you tried selecting another printer, you are not printing to a file that is really a printer. I don't suppose you have "print selection" checked, with nothing selected or worse one space selected? That is one way to get word to print nothing:

signed

Someone who has made every possible stupid mistake using word.

Mac question:

I just got an external HD for the Mini. It connects via USB and came preformatted with FAT32. Since it may be useful to occasionally use it to transfer files to my XP machine, I'd like to leave it as FAT32.

There's not a lot of room on the Mac's internal HD, so I thought I'd move everything in the Movie folder over to the new external drive. This sort of worked -- I control-dragged the Movie folder over, and everything transferred fine. In addition, the sidebar automatically points to the new location. However, when I use the FrontRow thingie, it can't find any movies. And the internal HD is showing no additional free space, so I can't move the Movie folder back.

Soooo... how do I get FrontRow to see the new Movie folder, and how do I get the internal HD to free up the space?

Here's another question. I got this Mac used and FileVault was turned on. I want to turn it off as there's nothing especially valuable or private on this machine and I find it more annoying than anything. When I tried to turn it off, I got the following message:

Turning off FileVault requires an additional 4092.0 GB of free disk space to create an unencrypted copy of the home folder.

WTF? The total drive is only 80GB! Is this somehow connected to my previous query?

You may be doing this already and I just missed it, but when I did something similar with all my music, I created an alias folder in the old location that pointed to the new.

I don't think it's print selection-- not only because that's not what it looks like from the print dialog, but at least the printer icon would come up in the tray, and something would come out of the printer. C&P seems to work-- ISTR having a problem with it at some point so I want to see if there's some other solution to nip this in the bud. Obvs if no one here has seen this before I'm SOL.

I'll try that sarameg.

So I just let FileVault recover unused space and now it tells me "Turning off FileVault requires an additional 4084.0 GB of free disk space..." Woohoo! 8GB down 4084GB to go!

Again, WTF??

You're turning off FileVault by going through System Prefs, Jon? Just to make sure I understand the situation. Because it seems like a weird freakign situation.

You're turning off FileVault by going through System Prefs, Jon?

Yes.

Also, I created a Movie folder alias in my user folder (where it was before I moved it), but FrontRow still doesn't see it.