Okay... in Tiger, the speech voices are in /System/Library/Speech/Voices, and I'm assuming the same for Leopard.

Does it work if you take the (assuming) Alex.SpeechVoice from the Leopard System and copy it into the Voices folder in Tiger and have it work as it does in Leopard?

Sorry, obscure question but interested if it works!

They're in the same place, however I'm not about to restart into Tiger. Will be able to tomorrow.

what the, another glenelg mac user? hello!

it's like 600+ mb for the file

Another Leopard question,

Does Time Machine on Leopard utilise only the space it needs on an external disk (in particular, an AEBS attached external drive) or does it demand an entire drive like SuperDuper?

Time Machine must be dedicated to the volume. You cant use it for other purposes. At least that is my understanding.

So if you wanted to use time machine to backup wirelessly on your AirDisk external drive, you can only have time machine use that drive and nothing else (like your iTunes library)?? That's shit if that's the case.

Apple mention on their website that multiple macs can use the same AEBS attached external drive to back up to. I'm amazed if you could back up multiple macs on one HDD, but could only have time machine backups on there.

Yep what time machine does is, lets say that you have a 100gb HD and you back up 50gb then you have 50gb of space you can use. In the new build of leopard you have the choice of not backing up system files so less space is used than in the older versions also in the install you have have the option of doing a restore of a time machine back up.

Note: lets say you have done a 50gb time machine back up then the next day you do another one it'll create another time machine back up folder and back up all of that 50gb again but it's done alot quicker because you've already done one back up.
Also in the new version you have the option to delete back ups after a set amount of time.

I'm still a bit confused, having not used it.

I plan on putting a 500GB drive on an Airport Extreme (n) base station. Time Machine can back up to this drive wirelessly (according to the MMDC07 Stevenote), which is great. But I also want to keep my iTunes library and other files on there because the 120Gb drive in my new MBP isn't going to be enough.

Will I be able to do this, or will I need to have 2 separate drives (1 for time machine and another for NAS) plugged into a USB hub plugged into the AEBS?

Cheers.

What time machine does is it'll make an exact clone of you HD hence your itunes will actually be in the same place as it is right now except within the time machine folder.

... actually, time machine backs up what you tell it to backup. Not your whole hard drive. Even then, it only backs up the changed files or the changes within the files so it doesn't hog up more space than it needs.

Could you not partition the HDD so one partition is used for iTunes, and the other for Time Machine?

Does AirDisk support mounting of multiple partitions on the one volume?

a little bird told me that the time machine backups may well be in one folder of any partition (as long as the partition isn't the source as well.

I don't know whether it's been highlighted, is the superb integration between Mail.app and iCal.

Anytime there is a date, time or day mentioned in an email, hovering the mouse over it brings up a hidden pull down menu.



Clicking on 'Create New iCal Event' then brings up another box where the details can be edited. So, so simple, yet so effective. Better than Mailtags.

I could, but my current external drive is only 200GB, which isn't going to be enough, so I'll either buy a single 500GB drive if i can have time machine + iTunes and other stuff on the one drive. Or if time machine want's a whole drive, I'll use my 200GB drive for that and get a 320Gb drive for NAS and plug them into a hub hanging off the AEBS.

Dunno, I don't even have my new MBP or AEBS yet. That's why I'm trying to find all this stuff out now..