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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 364: Solving Network, Startup, iTunes & Keychain Problems

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, News, How To, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 14 November 2011

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Dave Hamilton and John F. Braun are two of the leading experts on all things Mac (and beyond), and listeners from around the world listen to - and rely on - them to help solve their tech problems. Take a listen to today’s Mac Geek Gab to understand exactly why - these guys are true experts who know how to translate their knowledge into easy-to-understand terms just for you. Download the show to your iPod and take John and Dave along on a car ride (virtually, of course!) and you’ll understand why so many others do the same.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The Mac Geekerb, Number 364, for Monday, November 14th, 2011. Oh, Thanks, folks, and welcome to the Mac Observers, Matt Geek-Aub, the show where you send in your questions.

0:32.0

Maybe you send in your tips, we provide some answers for you,

0:35.4

we share some tips of our own, and together we all learn something new about our computers

0:39.9

and our eye devices, specifically our Macs and iPhones.

0:44.3

Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.

0:47.6

Here in Fearfield, Connecticut

0:50.8

with Max and I devices, China Sprun.

0:54.3

There we are, yeah.

0:55.7

So the Skype wires are working well today, John.

0:58.3

You sound good.

0:59.7

I like that.

1:01.5

And here we are.'s you know let's dive right in let's go to let's go to

1:06.1

sandy here see if we can see if we can kick this off with a couple of good

1:09.7

couple of good questions and a couple of good answers.

1:12.5

Sandy writes, I've got two problems that have been going on for a while

1:16.5

that I haven't been able to resolve on my early 2010 iMac.

1:20.9

Number one, there is a file I put in the trash called Lost and Found. Every time I try to

1:26.5

empty the trash, I get this error that says the operation can't be completed because the

1:31.2

item, DIR 808-277 is in use.

1:35.7

There are thousands of these files.

1:37.8

How do I get rid of them?

1:39.0

It seems to me I've had this problem before, but I can't for the life of me remember how I fixed it and

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