Mac OS X 10.4.9 (#10): Reducing system volume; Quicken: .Mac backup failure (cont.)

Troubleshooting solutions for Mac OS X 10.4.9 today include a way to reduce overall system volume, which was dramatically increased after the update.

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CNET staff

Sept. 2, 2009 1:14 a.m. PT

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[For complete coverage of Mac OS X 10.4.9 troubleshooting issues, see our special report]

Reducing system volume We continue to report on a situation where the system volume scale is significantly louder under Mac OS X 10.4.9. The same volume setting under Mac OS X 10.4.9 represents a much higher actual volume relative to earlier releases of OS X.

As previously reported, the opinion on this change is split, with some users seeing the volume increase as a significant improvement -- allowing higher volume than was previously accessible -- while others see it as a problem -- making even the lowest volume setting too loud for some purposes, and eliminating the lower range of volume.

MacFixIt reader Michael Henderson offers an AppleScript that can set the volume to levels lower than can be accomplished by tweaking of the slider.

Open Script Editor (located in /Applications/AppleScript) and enter the following:

tell application "System Events"
tell process "System Preferences"
set volume 0.01
end tell
end tell

then click the "Run" button. Modify the variable "0.01" to set volume at the desired level.

Quicken: .Mac backup failure (cont.) Several users have corroborated an inability properly backup to .Mac servers from within Quicken 20006/2007 after the update to Mac OS X 10.4.9. In many cases, when backup fails, repeat attempts are successful.

Some readers have resorted to manually copying the Quicken data file to the .Mac iDisk, though doing so does not offer the benefit of encryption offered when backing up directly through Quicken.

MacFixIt reader Bob Cuilla writes: