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Hi to all, this one goes to all the MacBook /Pro owners, who killed their Superdrive with Apple´s firmware update 2.1 (in august 2007). Apple doesn´t give any support at this time for users, who updated their firmware in the Matshita UJ 857(D)-drives and in the most cases Apple only suggest to exchange the drive (for the lucky MacBook owners who have warranty). Otherwise you only have the possibility of changing the superdrive with all the costs. I was one of the MacBook owners without warranty and a superdrive, that can´t read DVD or CDs after installing Apple´s firmware update. The total costs for a new superdrive: ca. 400 EUR (500 $?). But before repairing my MacBook, I decided to browse all possible forums and I found the following: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?...6036648#6036648 (scroll down to J.Noir´s post!) After resetting PRAM and SMC (OK, nothing changed after doing that...) I installed this firmware patch and the complete functionality of my Superdrive was back. Now it reads all type of media again and i saved a lot of money. I´m not sure, if this helps all the unlucky MacBook /Pro-users who killed their drives but I think, it´s worth to give it a try. Attention! It´s not an Apple firmware update, it´s made by ´ben11´, who had also killed his drive with that terrible update.

I´m using TClock for skinning the complete taskbar

My November desktop... http://diemuse2006.deviantart.com/art/Mac-...-on-XP-70089419 WinXP with complete freeware modifications to Mac OS Leopard (I love the Aqua wall...).

@iRaptor: The Spotlight is made with the freeware MacSearch, and i modified the ´pressed´-state with a picture, taken from one of my Macs with Leopard. The icons (TigerLaunch, Spaces, AirPort etc. ) are also taken from my original Leopard. I´m using TClock so nearly the whole menubar is a giant ´startbutton´ with complete windows-functionality, that´s important for me. TClock uses a .bmp as a startbutton, so I modified a picture of my original menubar (from one of my Macs), that it can used by TClock as a startbutton. RKlauncher is modified by me, that it fits the authentic look of Leopard. Hope that it´s helpful, sorry, for the only ´conversational´ English, I´m from Germany.

My Leopard emulation... It has the spaces icon in the menubar and the new speaker icon, the new font in the menubar and the new spotlight.

On my Twinhead 17P running XPSP2: emulating Leopard On my MacBook running Mac OSX: emulating nothing but waiting (and waiting and waiting and waiting) for Leopard

Hello to all, I´ve a problem with the systemfont in a few applications. The font lines are so close together that some texts are unreadable. (Picture) After the first time recognizing this, I changed one of the systemfonts with TinkerTool. But nothing changed. Can anyone help me finding the mistake? Where or what font I have to change or where is the wrong setting. Thanks for all your help. Sorry for the bad english, I´m from Germany. (MacBook Core Duo 2Ghz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, Mac OS 10.4.9)

Thx to you. No. The hardware info on my MacBook only says, that it can read / write all R/RW-media, but nothing about DLs. I read that only the new Matsushita UJ-857D in the MacBook with Core 2 Duo can read and write DLs. The "old" UJ-857 (without ´D´) in the "old" MacBook with Core Duo can´t do the job.

OK, thx. I checked this (no DL´s) and than I asked my Mac dealer. The Core Duo MacBook doesn´t read and write doublelayer DVDs (with the UJ857-SuperDrive). Only the new Core 2 Duo MacBook is able to read and to write DL´s.

Hello, today I bought some EMTEC (BASF) DVD+Rs Double Layer. But my MacBook can´t recognize it. I thought that my MacBook (Core Cuo, 2GHz, Sept. 2006, SuperDrive) could read and write DVD+R DL. On the Apple page i found out that the new MacBook (Core 2 Duo) defintely has a SuperDrive with DL compatibilty. But I can´t find any information bout my "old" MacBook. Maybe it´s only a problem with the type of DVD+R DL? Thx in advance for your help.

I´m a german attorney at law (in Berlin) and I love my new MacBook at work. I also use a Twinhead efio 17P, but my fav is my MacBook (Core Duo 2.0 GHz, 1GB RAM, 60 GB HDD, BootCamp, WinXPSP2 with Flyakite, Mighty Mouse and Apple keyboard).

Thx celticsun, but with your trick with terminal I erased my HDD! No, I´m just kidding, thx for your detailed answer. There is indeed no message by the system and the files seem to stay in the trash. It´s only in 50% of all cases emptying the trash, the other half the trash works fine. Short description again: I delete a file. I click on the trash, "empty trash" (or similar, in German "Papierkorb leeren") and after that, no paper-sound appears and the trash is still filled. I open the trash in the finder and there are my deleted files. I click on each file and every file i clicked on disappears, seems that Mac OS now realizes that the files are deleted yet. You see, there´s always a possibility to empty the trash. Restarting the MacBook or only the Finder doesn´t change anything. the files are still in the trash until clicking on them as described. Sometimes the trash works fine. The problem stays although made every update (actual 10.4.8). Ah yes, I´ve BootCamp (most actual version) and WinXP installed on my MacBook (Mac OS 30GB, WinXP 25GB). The permission repair was made from system disk and startup disk. Like I said, unimpressed trash. Hope, my description can help you and so me. Thx for making such an effort, celticsun and all the others.

Thx for your answer, but no, no external drive. There are always different file types and never a running app belonging to them. I handle it the same way like on my windows system. There it is also not possible to delete files, while they´re used by an application. I searched for a "force empty trash" function in my TinkerTool but I didn´t find it. Are you sure you mean Tinker? If yes, where can I find it?

Thx for your fast answers. @nightcrawler1089: In the finder, it´s the same like using the bin in the dock. But after restarting the finder (I use TinkerTool that adds a "Quit Finder" or in german "Finder beenden" to the findermenu) the bin always behaves in the correct way. But where is the fault in the system? It solves the problem but what leads to this wrong behaviour of the rec bin??? @shmengie: Yes, that was also one of my first attempts to solve the problem after asking a friend, a Mac specialist. Unfortunately the recycle bin was unimpressed. Maybe there´s no solution for it. Maybe the Leopard recycle bin works correctly and so i have to wait until spring 2007 for a working bin. Further ideas and suggestions are welcome.

Hi to all, at first I wanna say, that I´ve searched the whole forum and I found no solution for my problem. I´m using the actual version of MacOS 10.4.8 and there is a prblem with my recycle bin. After deleting a file, i can see that the recycle bin is filled, of course. But after deleting the items from the bin, it nevertheless shows it filled and after opening it in the finder, the files are still in the recycle bin. after clicking on each they disappear and after clicking on the last, the bin is really empty. This is happening only sometimes. In 50% of all cases it works, and in the other 50% it doesn´t. Does anyone know, why the bin reacts like this? Is this a known problem? My config: MacBook 2GHz, 1GB RAM, 60GB HDD, actually updated OSX 10.4.8 At last: please excuse my english, I´m German Thx in advance...