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Are the "timemachine" and "x2gouser" user-accounts required for anything specific? Can I just delete those 2 accounts?

I was looking at the MacIPpi file system in the terminal and discovered that there are 4 users: macipgw, pi, timemachine, and x2gouser. Also, the "pi" user has a bunch of empty directories in the home folder: Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music, Pictures, Public, Templates, and Videos. Is...

I have a printer connected to a Mac running Ventura and another Mac running Monterey. At some point I had a similar problem -- I think it was around the time I upgraded the printer-connected Mac to Ventura. I was able to print over the network after deleting the printer from the Monterey Mac...

OP update: I tried all of the software solutions that I could get my hands on, but could not get any of them to work. FWIW, I could not access anything on Macintosh Garden (I think the website doesn't accept connections from certain countries), so maybe there is stuff out there that would work...

Yeah. I got that. Still don't understand.

Thanks for the links. The relevant Mac is currently on an extended vacation in the back of a closet. I will be sure to check these out the next time I pull it out.

Sorry, but I don't really understand what any of that means. I know my way around the Mac GUI reasonably well, and I can follow very clear step-by-step instructions in the Terminal, but once you say "man page" my eyes start to glaze over.

I think I want to selectively sync one folder (or maybe more than one, but one should suffice for now) that is in my DropBox account to the shared APF volume that is on my MacIPpi. My goal is to have 2-way read & write access to the contents of that folder from my vintage Macs (68k & PPC) that...

Alternatively, is there any other easy way -- not using DropBox -- to reliably and efficiently have 2-way syncing between a folder in DropBox on my main Mac and a folder on the MacIPpi? I know sync is hard.

Is there an easy way to get DropBox on a MacIPpi? Would Maestral be a good option? I have a "Notes" folder in DropBox with several hundred text files. I can access it from my various modern Macs (mostly running Maestral) and iOS devices through DropBox. AFAIK, there is no good way to access...

The battery in my 12" Aluminum PB G4 doesn't hold a charge for very long. If it is fully charged and running off the battery it lasts about 30 minutes or so before dying. If it's fully charged and totally shut down (unplugged and sitting in a drawer), the battery is drained completely within a...

I was wondering how you would deal with opening the case with the wires threaded through the security slot battery. Now I see that you put in a little connector doohickey. I assume it's to unplug the battery in order to take apart the Mac. I assume I can find that kind of connector on Amazon...

Thanks for the reply. I'm looking for a solution that will work for System *6*. I might consider System 7.1, but 7.5 runs waaaaay too slow on a Mac SE for me to consider it.

I did the transfers using a MacIPpi -- I think that means I used AFP. I've been able to download other files to the SE with no problem. The issue was only with the PRAM-related stuff. Given that most of the PRAM-saving utilities which come with documentation say that they were designed for...

Sounds like a plan. Thanks!

My SE has a holder for a 1/2 AA battery.

Some poking around the forums turned up the coin-cell adapters. I did not see any posts about an external battery holder -- at least not any that didn't require soldering. Soldering is out of my comfort zone. If there are any non-soldering external-battery solutions I'd love to hear about them...

So I sorted out the decompressing-before-transfering issue, aaaaaand... it didn't make a difference. "PRAM Auto-Restore" still crashes when I try to select it in Control Panel (in System 6), as does everything else I try -- except for the ones that don't seem to do anything at all. If I could...

In theory, I could easily solve this whole issue by just putting in a battery. If I used the SE all the time I would probably do that. The problem is that it spends most of its life in storage. I can go months (or sometimes years) without powering it on at all, and then use it daily for a week...

Oh. Wait... A while ago I tried extracting files on the SE but didn't have any luck, so I was extracting them on my M1 Mini and then moving them over to the SE (via MacIPpi). But now I realize that maybe the modern Mac is part of the problem. Or is it? Hmmm... Need to experiment further. Stay...