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Mac OS X Disaster Relief, Updated Edition
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by Ted Landau
Sales Rank: 1296132
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$0.94
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Paperback: 712 pages
Publisher: Peachpit Press; 1st edition December 24, 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 032116847X
ISBN-13: 978-0321168474
Product Dimensions:
9.3 x 7.5 x 1.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
Product Description
Ted Landau, founder of the MacFixIt Web site, has made a career of helping others keep their Macs running happily. In Mac OS X Disaster Relief, Updated Edition, the author of the best-selling Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters trains his diagnostician's eye on Mac OS X, with a brand new appendix devoted to Mac OS X 10.2 (codename "Jaguar"). The appendix includes descriptions of Jaguar's new features as they relate to troubleshooting, coverage of how Jaguar's new features modify what is stated about previous versions of Mac OS X in prior chapters, new troubleshooting tips and information that's specific to Mac OS X 10.2, and updated information that's relevant to all previous versions of Mac OS X. Full of tips, tools, and preventative measures, this easy-to-follow guide not only gives you specific solutions to a raft of Mac OS glitches, it also helps you prevent disasters and sharpen your own diagnostic skills.
The same philosophy that underlies Sad Macs operates here: You can fix most Mac problems yourself. What you get are smart, commonsense solutions and sound maintenance advice, delivered in plain English. But just because Mac OS X Disaster Relief, Updated Edition eschews jargon doesn't mean it lacks depth: the book covers Mac OS X 10.2's new features, the pros and cons of updating system software, Library directories and folders, files and font maintenance, crash prevention and recovery, printing and networking problems, Unix commands for OS X, and more.
Book Info
Full of tips, tools, and preventive measures, this easy to follow guide not only gives you specific solutions to a raft of Mac OS glitches, it also helps you prevent disasters and sharpen your own diagnostic skills. Softcover.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Customer Reviews & Comments
This review is from: Mac OS X Disaster Relief: Troubleshooting Techniques to Help Fix It Yourself (Paperback)
Mac OS X should be considerably more reliable than earlier versions of the Macintosh operating system. But things still go awry from time to time, and users need a completely new set of skills to trouble-shoot the new OS. Ted Landau's "Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters" is the standard trouble-shooting guide for the classic Mac OS. But Mac OS X is a very different animal, and it's obvious the author is still learning the ropes of the new operating system. The trouble-shooting advice in this book sometimes seems to employ a "shotgun" approach instead of the methodical zeroing in on a well-understood problem that marked the earlier book. That's not to say there aren't some useful nuggets here. I've found the discussion of the many "Library" folders and their contents provides a useful starting point for my own trouble-shooting. Like Landau's earlier book, this book often refers readers to the author's web site, for more up-to-date information. The site was once a great free resource for Mac trouble-shooting, but now almost all the site's resources are available only to paying visitors. Sadly, the book's many references to the site now feel like something entirely other than helpful advice. Much like OS X itself, "Mac OS X Disaster Relief" feels like a work in progress. Perhaps the second or third edition will equal the quality of Landau's earlier book and earn the right to be called "indispensable."
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Mac OS X Disaster Relief, Updated Edition
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Price: $0.94
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