Well, NetLogic in Stevenage sorted out my MacBook with its poorly hard drive and that meant that I had to reinstall Leopard from scratch. But that works beautifully and it has made me sort out all the useless extraneous rubbish that I had on the hard drive. I could really do with replacing it with a larger one ...

Chris

My installation of Leopard on my machines (I bought a Family Pack at the Regent Street shop) coincided with hard drive problems on both my iMac and my MacBook. I chose the Upgrade option for the installation on the iMac, and that seemed to work fine; but the MacBook would take only an Erase and Instal, for some reason. And, although I keep the files synchronised between iMac and MacBook, it was only once I had completed the installation that I remembered some files that I had not updated ...

However, then I had problems with the Keychain and RapidWeaver: the application would try to access the Keychain (after presenting the Allow/Deny alert) and would then take an age to complete the startup process, with the file loading grinding really slowly. It would take a long time for Force Quit to arrive on the scene and then the whole iMac would limp until I rebooted it. After taking advice on the RapidWeaver Forum, I deleted my RapidWeaver references in Keychain and ran Onyx to clean up the links etc ... Then it worked fine. But Time Machine was not working as I had hoped. Its backups seemed to be complete ones and it ran out of disk space quickly. So I made 3 backups of all my stuff and reinstalled Leopard using Erase and Install and all works beautifully.

I am really pleased with Leopard now; my advice to all is to Erase and Install after you have backed up ALL your current files. And I now have a 1TB Iomega external drive to take Time Machine (bought from Cancom in Cambridge).

Chris

Well, it didn't take long for Filemaker to gain compatibility with Leopard, but now there is another toy to play with: Bunto. Have a look at the Preview page for more details. But it looks great and I am sure that the functionality is just what I wanted. It might challenge SOHO Notes for dominance as the automatic database for my personal use.

Chris