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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

MGG 397: Geeks Have The Beans … And They Spill Them

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

Tech News, Technology, How To, News, Education

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2012

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Have Mac or iOS questions or problems that you just can’t figure out? Mac Geek Gab has your answers. Submit your questions to Dave & John and they’ll dig in and get you your answer. Want to know how to safely move your iTunes library? Need to find duplicate files on your hard drives? Is Gmail’s “All Mail” folder confusing your Mac’s Mail.app? Listeners just like you wrote in with these questions this week and they got answers. You can hear the answers, too - it’s free! Just press play, or even download and queue up for your next commute. What are you waiting for?

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0:00.0

The Mac Geek Abbe number 397 for Monday, May don't know. Good ratings folks and welcome to the Mac Observers Mac Geek Cab.

0:28.6

The show where you send in your questions, we provide some answers, you send in

0:32.2

your tips, we provide some tips of our own. We mix a little cool stuff found into the whole pot there and together hopefully by the end we've all learned several things new about the Mac and other Apple products

0:46.8

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

0:50.0

I like several that's good, that's sufficiently ambiguous.

0:54.0

But it's more than one.

0:56.0

I think we can guarantee that we will always help you learn at least one thing about your Mac or I device or life in general.

1:05.0

That's the world.

1:06.0

Here in Fairfield, Connecticut, John F. Braun.

1:08.0

Hello?

1:10.0

All right.

1:12.0

You know, we, last show we mentioned the MacIqab crew forums and so I figured

1:19.2

it would be appropriate to start this show with a question that we answered in the forums from

1:27.0

listener Sebastian who wrote I'm using iTunes 1061 on a dual 1.4 gigaherst G5 running Leopard 1058.

1:36.0

I'm now at the point that every time I open iTunes it crashes shortly after opening it.

1:41.0

I trashed the P-list file for iTunes. It then allowed me to download one

1:44.2

podcast before crashing again. Here's what I want to know. Is there a way I can share the iTunes

1:51.8

library between my G-5 and my Macbook Pro?

1:55.8

I wanted to see if the, I'm wondering to see if the crashing still persists if I bring my iTunes

2:00.8

to my Macbook Pro, smart move, and use it there to download my

2:04.5

podcasts and add new music to my iTunes library. I don't want to lose on my

2:08.4

playlist trying to resolve this crashing issue. Okay, so yeah, to share the iTunes library with another computer, it's

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