Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters: And What to Do About Them - Softcover

Two Time Winner of BMUG Choice Product Award "Choice Product for 1994 and 1995. The best book for finding out what is wrong with your Mac and dealing with it. A book that every Mac owner will need sooner or later." -BMUG Newsletter Praise for the first edition of Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters:"I know of no other resource, book, or software that explains system errors, what causes them, and what to do about them as completely and cogently as Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters. Having saved my bacon several times over, it has earned a permanent place of honor on my bookshelf." - Bob "Dr. Macintosh" LeVitus, Mac book author and MacUser columnist "Everyone should buy this excellent work (and under no circumstances lend it out!)." - MacEasy Magazine Have you ever been stuck at startup, confronted by a disk icon with a blinking question mark inside it? Does your Mac ever freeze, failing to respond to any keyboard input? Or have you been plagued by the infamous system bomb alert box? Maybe it's just that your Mac can't find your printer, or a document won't open, or a file stubbornly refuses to be deleted.Solutions to these and hundreds of other problems--including the very latest ones caused by Power Macs, PowerBooks, and that pesky System 7. 5--are covered in this completely updated edition of Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters. From fractious fonts to the ominous sad Mac icon, this troubleshooting handbook covers the whole range of Macintosh (R) problems from symptoms to causes and solutions. Symptom by symptom, Macintosh expert Ted Landau comes to the rescue of your malfunctioning Mac, walking you through exactly what can go wrong and how to fix it. Inside, you'll find: *The latest information (almost every page has been rewritten for this edition) about how to diagnose and solve the problems that can occur while using a Mac *Two entirely new chapters that detail problems and solutions specific to PowerBooks, Power Macs, System 7.5, QuickDraw GX, file sharing, and more *A Symptom Index offering a listing of every error message and major symptom discussed in the book *Self-contained Fix-It sections that delve into the details of the most important and useful techniques for solving problems *Tips on how to prevent these problems from happening at all.Using a nontechnical, step-by-step approach, Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters provides disaster relief at its finest, for all levels of Macintosh users.Whether you've just purchased your first Mac, or you're a seasoned user who devotedly totes around your copy of the first edition, this new book is crammed full of updated and vital fix-it information you can't survive without! 0201409585B04062001