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Based on your description of a one-button mouse, I don't know if you are referring to the trackpad or to an actual mouse. Did you buy an Apple mouse with your MacBook Pro?

If you have an old third-party, two-button, USB mouse, you can plug it into the MacBook Pro. It will run immediately on the OS X side without installing any additional software, and I'm sure it will run on the Windows side without too much hassle.

Yup. My Razer Copperhead gaming mouse works like a charm both on the Mac and with Paralells emlation. It's a bit "choppy" when emulated, but it's not too annoying.

J

As for your apostrophes, did you type the entry directly in the browser's blogging window, or did you copy and paste it from a word processor or text editor? If you copied and pasted, that's where the problem arose. In the future, you will need to convert to plain text before copying. Apple's TextEdit application has that option under the Format menu. If you typed the entry on the Windows side, you probably know how to convert to plain text in the appropriate application already).

If you were on the Mac side while writing the post and did it directly in the browser's blogging window, try different browsers (Safari, Firefox, Camino, Opera -- all are free). Personally, I don't think it was the browser that did it. I've never had that trouble with any browser. It only happens when I copy and paste rich text from a word processor or text editor into Yahoo! Mail or Blogger.com or some similar blogging site.

If you are using Word Press for your site (I'm just wildly guessing based on your site's appearance), keep in mind that there is a free Mac version right here: Word Press 2.0.2 That may help too.

Just curious: Had you already tried your Razer Copperhead mouse before I suggested it? I cannot tell from the way you wrote it.

I hope you're having fun with your new Mac. I also hope you will find time to explore Mac OS X as much as you can and not stay on the Windows side too much. Pretty soon, with the exception of gaming, you may start to wonder why you would ever want to go to the Windows side again. ;-)

P.S. As a former Macintosh Network Administrator, I will be glad to suggest all sorts of excellent applications for you (including lots of great freeware). The MacUpdate web site is a great place to start, as is Version Tracker.

Hi Welfl,
Those apostrophes was actually just becuse the keyboard is new to me. I used the tilted onces since I didn't find the "plain" one where I expected it to be on the keyboard (typed it up in a hurry). I found it later though in the upper left corner of the keyboard :)

Thanks for the application tips! My biggest problem right now is that I used Thunderbird for email on the PC. For some odd reason. the nice people at Mozilla didn't make an importer for "Thunderbird" (it self), only for other mail programs. It probably hasn't occured to them that people switching might want to use the same email program? Oh well. I'll just use the standard Mail-software from Apple then.

I assume you mean you wanted to import Windows Thunderbird directly into Macintosh Thunderbird, but there is no option to let you do that. If that is the case, read this:

"If you start using Thunderbird on Windows and then later decide to get a Mac, you can take the mail store from your Windows machine and copy it over to your Mac and have it work seamlessly. This is a feature unique to Thunderbird and should be well appreciated in a corporate environment where a variety of desktop operating systems are used." - ArsTechnica

I've never done that, but I suspected it was true since it is a cross-platform application.

You may already know this, but: The location of the actual Thunderbird mail storage folder in OS X (where you will copy the Windows version of the storage folder) is in the Library folder that is located inside your home folder. Your home folder has an icon shaped like a house and will have your name on it. Once you are in your home folder, open the Library folder, then the Thunderbird folder. I hope the rest will look fairly similar to what it looks like in Windows.

If that fails, there are also a couple of ways to transfer your messages from Apple's Mail.app to Thunderbird; therefore, if you were successful in importing your messages from Windows Thunderbird into Apple's Mail.app, you can then export from there:

A script to export Mail's mboxes for Thunderbird.

Here is a very helpful set of free Apple Mail scripts that adds lots of functionality to Mail: Mail Scripts 2.7.10. In order to access them with ease on a regular basis, you will need to open the AppleScript Utility (in the Applications folder) and set its icon to appear in the menu bar.

Finally, I've used both Thunderbird and Apple's Mail extensively. There are great features in both, and I really like both, but I find that Apple's Mail is far more versatile and user friendly than Thunderbird, especially in importing and exporting messages.

I hope this helps.

Hi Welfl.
I can hereby confirm that "you can NOT take the mail store from your Windows machine and copy it over to your Mac". Tried at least 5 different ways of doing it and it failed horribly ever time. As soon as you start tampering with the mail-store, Thunderbird won't restart.

Not a problem though. It took Apple Mail about 7 hours to import all my 79900 emails (I have a copy of all my emails, all the way back from 1996), but now it works like a charm. Some of it's features are actually better than Thunderbird so I don't think I'll bother to switch back to Thunderbird again.

Thanks for helping out!

Hello,

At the office, I'm planning to buy the new iMac 20in Intel Core Duo. Here, a few people are on PCs and a few others on Mac. I need to have access to both systems. Right now, I have a PC with Thunderbird running.
I will have both systems installed with bootcamp and a third FAT32 shared partition for all my documents, so I can access them read+write from both systems.

If I install Thunderbird on WinXP and also on Mac OS X, can I configure them to access the same mail folders on the shared disk so that I always have access to my emails from both systems ? I'm doing this because if I'm working in a WinXP software, I won't need to switch to Mac OS to access my emails (if Thunderbird is on Mac OS), and vice-versa if Thunderbird is on WinXP. I may work on one system for a few hours, then switch to the other. I may spend a day working on one system and on the other system the next day. I don't want to change to the other system just to check my emails.

From what I have red here, does not sound good.

Thanks a lot.

Hi Martin,
You can't share your Thunderbird email across platforms. Just moving it from one platform to another was a nightmare and in the end I gave up and just used Apple Mail instead. Less hassle and it just as good if not even slightly better than Thunderbird. I'm actually glad that moving it from PC to a Mac was so bothersome :)

Then again, why would you like to have it shared between platforms? I also thought initially that I'd use BootCamp for PC stuff, but I've found that I really just need Paralells. The only thing you can't do in Paralells is games and 3D. All other applications runs (almost) faster than they did on my old Toshiba - and that's using emulation - running Windows XP in a window on the OSX desktop... Pretty sweet! Now I just press the Apple-key and Tab to switch between Mac and PC applications. Paralells is only $40, so it won't ruin your budget either :)

Hello Jensa,
Thanks for your fast reply. I saw how Paralells works and it is very interresting. I found this about sharing Thunderbird and Firefox profiles.
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/firefox-thunderbird.shtml
It's for Linux but it gives me a little hope.