AGGh! I've had a technologically painful morning/day... so please bear with my frustrations. Three major issues right now. And one crazy scary question. First in regard to my ibook 1.42, 1 g ram:
Is 10.4.4 better, more stable – a good upgrade from 10.3.3?!?
I have had suuuuch issues with type organization – and have never recovered from innocently and destructively using font book 8 months ago. My widget fonts are barely legible, I’ve clean installed and updated three times. I have insanely long lists of fonts in all programs and they are not organized and difficult to control. What happened to the ease and simplicity of adobe ATM from years ago? I’ve picked up a design project (trying to come back again), and am petrified that there is no hope with all of my issues.
What do I do?!? Do I really need to erase my hardrive and reinstall and then do everything all over again? Or can you somehow ?seems impossible to fathom? Clean out your current system completely and reinstall – without reformatting your harddrive?!?
Is there some reason Microsoft 2004 (mostly Word) is seemingly on a straight up attack on my sanity and ability to get projects done? Is there another word processing program that you can seamlessly use with the pc world – I have to go back and forth often for work, and receiving and sending files to clients. This has happened seeeveral times now – with no seemingly direct correlation to running off the battery or plugged in. While typing in Word 2004 11.1.0 (therefore there is no reason for the computer to sleep (or I have paused for only 1-3 minutes; screen saver is set for 5 on battery and long time on adaptor setting)) the screen has switched straight to a black screen – I can hear the computer is still on, and sometimes, when I’m lucky I can barely see the widgets if I send my mouse to the hot corner. In the past 50%of the time closing and reopening the computer (as if waking from sleep) has brought the screen back alive. WHAT is happening?
I just lost major refinements on a paper I’ve been working on. Yes, I know I should save it every other second, but then what the fellz is auto save in Word for, and auto recovery and all that poop doing?! I have issues with Word in several different situations and computers lately.
Ohhhh, and I’m so distraught – my baby, my honey, my lovely original ti powerbook … when I opened it up yesterday, only 1/3rd of the screen was there. The rest of it is like a melted version of the colors behind it…. I’m so upset. Obviously it’s old – I know and screens are often the first thing to seriously go… and I’ve had issues many of times; but it’s been an amazing trouper… and I need it and I can’t handle it dying… isn’t’ there anything I can do? I was close to having everything backed up on it, but then I had to erase that to back up the quite erratic ibook a month ago when I was sure it was about to fritz out! Saving the ti – do I make it a target disc on my ibook via firewire to salvage it’s contents. Is there any hope? I have techtools, which I will try, but not until I have gotten this freakin paper out! (yes the apple care has run out) it was running 10.3.9 being as how I have reg numbers for that software, but not the new versions that run on 10.4….. ughhhhh.
I know I’m whining, I apologize but I am soo upset, too many issues at once on both computers leaving me loosing my work and my mind!
Is 10.4.4 better, more stable – a good upgrade from 10.3.3?!?
I have had suuuuch issues with type organization – and have never recovered from innocently and destructively using font book 8 months ago. My widget fonts are barely legible, I’ve clean installed and updated three times. I have insanely long lists of fonts in all programs and they are not organized and difficult to control. What happened to the ease and simplicity of adobe ATM from years ago? I’ve picked up a design project (trying to come back again), and am petrified that there is no hope with all of my issues.
What do I do?!? Do I really need to erase my hardrive and reinstall and then do everything all over again? Or can you somehow ?seems impossible to fathom? Clean out your current system completely and reinstall – without reformatting your harddrive?!?
Is there some reason Microsoft 2004 (mostly Word) is seemingly on a straight up attack on my sanity and ability to get projects done? Is there another word processing program that you can seamlessly use with the pc world – I have to go back and forth often for work, and receiving and sending files to clients. This has happened seeeveral times now – with no seemingly direct correlation to running off the battery or plugged in. While typing in Word 2004 11.1.0 (therefore there is no reason for the computer to sleep (or I have paused for only 1-3 minutes; screen saver is set for 5 on battery and long time on adaptor setting)) the screen has switched straight to a black screen – I can hear the computer is still on, and sometimes, when I’m lucky I can barely see the widgets if I send my mouse to the hot corner. In the past 50%of the time closing and reopening the computer (as if waking from sleep) has brought the screen back alive. WHAT is happening?
I just lost major refinements on a paper I’ve been working on. Yes, I know I should save it every other second, but then what the fellz is auto save in Word for, and auto recovery and all that poop doing?! I have issues with Word in several different situations and computers lately.
Ohhhh, and I’m so distraught – my baby, my honey, my lovely original ti powerbook … when I opened it up yesterday, only 1/3rd of the screen was there. The rest of it is like a melted version of the colors behind it…. I’m so upset. Obviously it’s old – I know and screens are often the first thing to seriously go… and I’ve had issues many of times; but it’s been an amazing trouper… and I need it and I can’t handle it dying… isn’t’ there anything I can do? I was close to having everything backed up on it, but then I had to erase that to back up the quite erratic ibook a month ago when I was sure it was about to fritz out! Saving the ti – do I make it a target disc on my ibook via firewire to salvage it’s contents. Is there any hope? I have techtools, which I will try, but not until I have gotten this freakin paper out! (yes the apple care has run out) it was running 10.3.9 being as how I have reg numbers for that software, but not the new versions that run on 10.4….. ughhhhh.
I know I’m whining, I apologize but I am soo upset, too many issues at once on both computers leaving me loosing my work and my mind!
