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Question

Any Help On General Maintenance for my MacBook Pro?

May 12, 2011 7:52PM PDT

Hello-
I have a MacBook Pro with v. 10.6.7, Snow Leopard and Safari 5.0.5. I have had it for about 2 years and all I have done is occasionally restarted the laptop while holding down the Shift key. I was told this helps by doing something and brings it to the Safe Mode, clean out the cache in Safari occasionally, and do the Disk Utility by repairing permissions and it does not matter if you use it from the dock or boot up with the OSX disk in the drive to do a better job of repairing permissions. I also heard that makes no difference but I cannot get my permissions repaired unless I boot up using the boot disk and then repairing permissions.

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works when I click them
May 30, 2011 12:37AM PDT

if you look in imageshack under user preferences, "all images are PUBLIC by default" and I did not change it.

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That image link just takes us
May 29, 2011 10:06PM PDT

to the sign in page of Image Shack.

You have to "Share" your image and then find the url for it.

This is one from Photobucket

http://i854.photobucket.com/albums/ab101/mrmacfixit/Power%20Pane/PowerPane.jpg

You have to remove any tags from the url after you have posted it.

On the subject of pasting in the forums, the software being used has a problem. If you want to paste into your posts, you have to click the right most icon, next to the smiley face, which turns the text into plain text and allow the paste function to work correctly.

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well at least the link is there amongst...
May 30, 2011 12:10AM PDT

Mark & mrmac

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(NT) But I do have a Mac
May 30, 2011 3:04AM PDT
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naw
May 29, 2011 6:47PM PDT

you have a great approach. that is all that I would recommend you keep.

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I tried it again and after...
May 29, 2011 7:08PM PDT

after the link loads and it is image shack, the same window appears with one of the worst apps I have ever tired. I took a screen shot, which is a big deal that I know how to do that but I have no idea how to get it on here so you can see it. the app cleaner is the worst. I downloaded a trial version about 6 months ago and although they say they have the best customer service, I could not get any help for over a week. Long story but the application that hides image shack is not something I want to get involved with again.

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Not sure what is going on here but
May 29, 2011 10:25PM PDT

when I went to your image and was looking at it, a new page opened in Safari and the "real" ad opened.