Hi, I have a 27" Imac and want to use an old 19" monitor as an external unit. I have it hooked up and turned on. Just the old wallpaper shows on it. There isn't an icon or anything diff on my iMac screen for it. How do I use the external? I realize this is pretty dumb, but I'm a newbie here and my Mac expert son is in NC....
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Connecting external monitor to 27" iMac
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Hey Irishbill. I'm assuming you have your 19" connected to your iMac already...once that is done try this:
Click on "system prefreneces"
Click on "displays"
Click on "detect displays" and follow along from there.
I should finally have a Saturday morning today to get my geek on (be online and at my computer) all morning, so if that does not work or is confusing post back and I'll try to walk you through in another fashion.
Click on "system prefreneces"
Click on "displays"
Click on "detect displays" and follow along from there.
I should finally have a Saturday morning today to get my geek on (be online and at my computer) all morning, so if that does not work or is confusing post back and I'll try to walk you through in another fashion.
Sounds like you are just about there. Just play around with display settings a bit more. Within display preferences you should be able to click on each monitor and adjust the resolutions for each separately.
Glad it's working out for you Bill. Welcome to the fold.
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Here's another one....problem, that is.....My old Mac was a G5 20" iMac that I had an orange Lacie HD hooked up to. The old iMac died two weeks ago, power unit i was told, so I financed my new 27". I hooked up the Lacie to the new one and eventually two icons popped up on my screen with one saying "2008-09-20 MyBackup-01". I tried to open it to extract my 12000 photos that i want to put on my new iMac, but when I click thru to 'iPhoto Library' I get a dialog box that says "The folder 'iPhot Library' can't be opened beacuse you don't have permission to see it's contents.".......How can I ut my photos on the new iMac. BTW, I no longer have the orange Lacie itself, just the icons on my desk top.......
Here's another one....problem, that is.....My old Mac was a G5 20" iMac that I had an orange Lacie HD hooked up to. The old iMac died two weeks ago, power unit i was told, so I financed my new 27". I hooked up the Lacie to the new one and eventually two icons popped up on my screen with one saying "2008-09-20 MyBackup-01". I tried to open it to extract my 12000 photos that i want to put on my new iMac, but when I click thru to 'iPhoto Library' I get a dialog box that says "The folder 'iPhot Library' can't be opened beacuse you don't have permission to see it's contents.".......How can I ut my photos on the new iMac. BTW, I no longer have the orange Lacie itself, just the icons on my desk top.......
Congratulations on your new mac.
I am by no means an OS X expert, but this sounds like you do not have the proper permissions as the current user to access the files. The one user that does (and can access any file on your system) is the "superuser" or "root". You need to enable root first in order to do so. Do this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/11778.html
Then log on to root and you should be able to copy them to your home directory. Then log back out and back in as your regular user.
I had a similar problem and this is what I did. Good luck.
Brandon
I am by no means an OS X expert, but this sounds like you do not have the proper permissions as the current user to access the files. The one user that does (and can access any file on your system) is the "superuser" or "root". You need to enable root first in order to do so. Do this:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/11778.html
Then log on to root and you should be able to copy them to your home directory. Then log back out and back in as your regular user.
I had a similar problem and this is what I did. Good luck.
Brandon