Re: Layering (stacking?) windows with only title bars showing.

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Hi Rafael:

Your symptoms are consistent with the wrong user being logged in.

Yes, you do have to log in to your Mac with a user name and password. If
you are not aware of doing this, it may be because you had only one user
account on the machine and its password was blank, or you may have set a Mac
OS X preference to always log that user account in when the system starts,
without asking for the password.

Either way, on your machine's hard disk are a series of folders in a
hierarchial structure. The one of interest here is the "User" folder.
Within that, there's a folder for each user on the machine. These folders
contain *everything* that you are aware of on the machine: all your
documents, all your settings, all your accounts and passwords. When a user
logs in, that user needs to tell the system which folder to use. You do
that by entering your User Name at the startup or login prompt.

The way you are describing things, the system has no idea who you are, so it
can't find any of your confidential items. That's what makes me think you
are logged in with the wrong user name. It may simply be that your Keychain
has corrupted: look that up in the Help and if necessary, restore it from
your backup.

If what I am saying is not making much sense to you, that may not be
entirely MY fault :-) It may be time that you took your machine to someone
who does understand this stuff, so they can search your hard drive to see if
the resources the system needs are stored somewhere (perhaps, in the Trash).

Alternatively, you may choose to restore your entire User ID from your
backup.

Hope this helps

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"Rafael Montserrat" <rm1008@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1178158961.547745.185670@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hi John,

I'm not familiar with 'user id'. I don't recall having to log into
one account or another. one 'correct' account or another. I lookied
around various help sites and couldn't get any clarification. Only,
for now, is my Apple mail program askiing me for user name and user
id. They want a .mac user id, and I am not a .mac member, but I have
been using mac mail for some time. Maybe this is a message to go back
to Entourage.

What is correct user accoount?

Best, Rafael



On Apr 30, 10:06 pm, "John McGhie [MVP Word, Word Mac]"
<j...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi Rafael:

Are you sure you are logged in to the correct user account?

If you have logged in with a different user ID, nothing from your
previous
life will be visible.

But yes, it's still there on your hard disk, in the "other" folder of the
"Users" directory.

Cheers

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"Rafael Montserrat" <rm1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

news:1177966136.297078.260150@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hi,

I don't know if what has happened is related to my current work on
Word on this ng. A my personal settings are gone. Everything. I'm
having to reenlist in macmail, which means all my mail and settings
are gone. Had to redownload firefox. All my history and bookmarks
are gone. Anyway. I'm sure you get the picture. What's happened is
that MacMail froze, was frozen the whole time during my Word NG
participation this morning, and nothing would get it to close, the
beachball wouldn't go away. I tried to restart and that didn't work.
I tried to shut down and at first that didn't work until various
system wondows came up
(I don't remember what they were). None of the keycodes for dealing
with this kind of stuff worked Finally the computer shut down. I
opened it an hour later and all my material and settings are gone.
Macros, I imagine. My custom toolbars.

I'm devastated.

Any clues? Does my stuff exist anywhere? Shutting down the computer
isn't supposed to do this, is it? Maybe there's no connection with
the stuff I 've been doing with Word in the newsgroup hasn't got to
anything to do with this problem.

Thanks, Rafael

On Apr 30, 11:52 am, rafaelmontser...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hi little_creature,

Another thing that 's missing is my "Font" and "Font Size".

Rafael

On Apr 30, 11:21 am, rafaelmontser...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

10.4.9
w 2002

Hi little_creature,

I must have missed yours of the 22nd. I tried that. I played
around
with it. Don't remember what exactly I pressed (Arrange All) or
Bring
All To Front or when I Pressed option and it didn't exactlycascade,
it did that thing I've been wanting to get away from which is it
made
little windows of all the regular size windows (@9) I had open.
Then
I did I think 'Bring All To Front' and Word crashed. When I opened
it
the window the small window said that all changes were in a normal
file, the button was blue, and I pressed it. One doc. came up, and
all my menus were scattered around at the top of the screen. I
don't
think I lost any though. Many of them were custom toolbars, but
I've
learned to press the "save all" with the three-cascaded zips
frequently. Also, I now have the red and green wavy lines u8nder
incorrect words Spelling and Grammar check. Also, the 'work' menu
won't open at all.
Right now I did a sp[elling grammar check. Worked fine, but the
comment window after the grammar & sp check didn't come up.
I've never before used "arrange all" or "bring all to front",
and
I've never looked them up.

Yesterday I posted separately on this group about getting the black
bar option+command+minus (think-I know I pressed the right ones. I
just don't remember right now, and I'm wary of pressing/anything/
right now. I mention this because it could be related to the above.
I do have 10.4.9.

Best. Rafael

I must have missed yours of the 22nd. I tried that. I played
around
with it. Don't remember what exactly I pressed (Arange All) or
Bring
All To Front

On Apr 22, 6:28 am, little_creature <litttle.creature....@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Hello Rafael,
I'm currently out of mac so I will just direct you. If you go to
menu
Window, you can play with all the Arrange all ... options which
are
there if this will help you. I think casacde is PC feature, but I
cannot check it now.

Another thing to try I found on macosxhints.com
10.4:Cascadeall windows via a hidden menu option
Tiger only hintI've never seen this before, so I'm guessing it's
new
with 10.4. In any program that has a 'Window' menu, you'll find
"Bring
All To Front." However, if you hold down the Option key after
opening
the menu, this becomes "Arrange In Front." Select it, and you get
a
(nasty IMO) Windows-esque cascading arrangement feature.
Hope this will help a bit

On Apr 22, 12:16 am, Rafael Montserrat <rm1...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

OS 10.4.9
iBookG4
Word2004

How do I layer (stack) windows with only the title bars showing.
I
recall doing this, but I've forgotten, and Word help doesn't
understand my request. I think the windows stacked from upper
left
corner of the screen toward the lower right. If there were
multiple
windows, each title bar was visible.

Thanks,

Rafael





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