Odds and Ends: HotSync Manager Partition Fix; American Express Security Update Probelms; Dual Optical Manual

HotSync Manager Partition Workaround Joaquim Baptista reports a workaround for Hotsync Managers limited partition support:

"HotSync Manager on Palm Desktop 4 is a carbonized application that cannot handle multiple disk partitions. You can neither hotsync nor edit the conduit settings unless the conduits and the user data are on the same disk partition. The unfriendly error message complains 'You do not have sufficient permissions. See your administrator.'

"If you like to keep user data on a separate partition, you can still fool the Hotsync Manager as follows:

1. Create a folder /Users/Palm that is on the partition holding the Mac OS X System (more likely, /Users/Palm should be on the partition holding "/Library/Application Support/Hotsync Manager/").
2. Copy the contents of ~/Documents/Palm to /Users/Palm. Use the finder, just to be on the safe side. The tilde (~) represents your home folder.
3. Replace the folder ~/Documents/Palm with a link to /Users/Palm. Using a Terminal window, type: cd ~/Documents ; rm -r Palm ; ln -s /Users/Palm Palm
4. And Hotsync will finally work.

American Express Security Update Difficulties Jeff Lin reports problems with American Express' Web site after applying one of Apple's routine security updates:

"After running the Security Update 8-20-2002 on OS X 10.1.5, I can no longer load the OFX (QFX) page of the American Express web site with IE 5.2.1. I consistently get the OfxHomePage-4000 problem code when I try. However, Mozilla continues to work without a problem."

Power Mac G4 Dual Optical Manual Omission MacFixIt reader John notes that the instructions in the Apple manual for adding a hard drive to the ATA 100 chain/drive bay in the new Power Mac G4 Dual Opticals lacks one important piece of info:

"There is a small screw above the drive bay which locks the bay to the back wall of the housing. Unless you remove this screw, there is no way to remove the drive bay."