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One of the most basic and helpful troubleshooting steps you can take is to change a file or folder’s permissions if you or an application cannot properly access it. Sometimes the permissions information can become corrupt, but other times, especially when copying a file from another hard drive or network drive, Mac OS X is [...]

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When you double click a file in Mac OS X, Finder tells you that there is no default application specified to open the file. When this happens, Finder does not open the file unless you tell it which application can read the file. How do you determine whether you have an application that can read [...]

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When you double click a file in Mac OS X’s Finder, it wants to open your file either in an application that cannot read them or in one that is not your preferred application for those particular files. How do you tell the Finder to open certain files with a different application? How about changing which [...]

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Exactly one year ago, Cal wrote in to ask, “I once had ‘hidden files’ on my mac – running tiger. Now every application and file is visible, but ghosted back. How can I undo the view hidden files?” I am sorry, Cal, that I am only responding to this question now. I recently bought a [...]

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