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Oops. Malware for the Mac. Yikes. No porn sites people! It's just dirty!! (said in best church lady voice)
Maybe it should be pointed out that this malware prompts you to ask if you want to install it (pretending to be a video codec). Unlike much Windows malware, which can infect just by going to a website (if your computer is not up to date with patches).
ah, yes. Good clarification. Thanks Tommyrot.
Just installed Leopard on the Mini. Yay!
Quick (and hopefully easy) question. I have an external USB drive I want to use for Time Machine that has 100GB of stuff I don't want to lose. I figure I'll use the Disk Utility to partition the drive into two volumes. If I do that, will all the existing data be erased? Or will it be saved onto one of the two partitions?
In Leopard, you can resize disk partitions without losing data. Or so I hear. I haven't tried it yet personally.
OK........
Not wanting to take any chances, I plugged in another external HD I have that's formatted with Windows NTFS. It is recognized as read only. Any way to make it writable without reformatting it?
Any way to make it writable without reformatting it?
No.
Yeah. I figured. I found another old drive laying around, stuck it in an enclosure, and am using it for a temporary backup.
So, I originally set up my iPod nano on my PC, and then switched it over to my Mac. Now iTunes won't update firmware for it, as it's originally formatted as a PC iPod. If I restore it, will that allow it to reset to a Mac iPod, and become update-able?
Another iTunes question: I bought a new computer. How do I get iTunes from my old computer to my new one, with all my music and videos?