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The 'C' key lets you boot to a CD or DVD in your optical drive, it doesn't do anything to help boot back to OS X installed on your hard drive. You want to hold down "Option", also known as "Alt" during startup and select where you want to boot. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3777 Trevor

Quote: Originally Posted by renegade01 ...I thought something was amiss because I had a space in the hard drive name. Unfortunately, when I tried: sudo chflags -R nouchg "/Volumes/MP Storage" ...it resulted in this: Password: chflags: "/Volumes/MP: No such file or directory chflags: Storage": No such file or directory [Process completed] That's a bit like what you would get if you omitted the quotes....

It sounds like Spotlight may be indexing the drive. Unless you explicitly specify that Spotlight not index that drive, or wait until Spotlight is dons, you won't be able to eject it easily.

The computers have different names right? Both are OS X 10.5.8?

Quote: I think need a good program which will show me all the files installed for any given app! Try Hazel http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php . When you drag an app to the trash it finds all or most of the other files it installed and moves them to the trash too.

Quote: Originally Posted by TheJavarod So, where in the world do i look for the problem? I know just enough about my computer to get into trouble, and enough to realize my limits in this case. Open Activity Monitor, which will give you some indication of what is going on, how much RAM is being used, and how hard your CPU is working. How much RAM do you have?

I'm pleased you like it. It would be neater, though, if you could save it as a script and have a means of running scripts so that you don't have the app appearing in the Dock. QuicKeys does that, but Sorry, I know nothing about Quicksilver.

Using the script provided by ganbustein Code: tell application "Finder" set the_selection to the selection end tell repeat with each_item in the_selection tell application "Microsoft Entourage" open (each_item as alias) end tell end repeat I was able to create a Service to attach a file selected in the Finder and attach to a new Entourage message. Open Automator Select the Service template At the top set:...

Quote: Originally Posted by Las_Vegas With your configuration, does the server appear in the Shared list in Finder? Are you able to log into it with any account? Once it's appearing to the Mac, the personal account information is entered into the Login window when connecting. It can be saved to the Keychain at that time for automatic connection in the future. The funny thing is that other systems are appearing in the Shared listing of...

Yes, just drag the Spotlight action from the middle column of Automator to the right side of the Automator window. The search criteria delineated above can then be applied in Automator.