Ask TUAW: Syncing notes, iLife '09, iTunes downloads, keychains and more

I was having the same problem as Scott as I could not find that notes were syncing between my iPhone (3.01) and iTunes. After upgrading to Snow Leopard my notes now appear. That's the $29 solution for me!

A couple of Snow Leopard Dock questions: I have a late 2008 model 13" aluminum MacBook. 1. I've had this issue carry over from Leopard where if I close the lid while on, or awaking from a longer sleep, I have to hold the power down to reboot. Last night I was running Quicken 2006 (requiring Rosetta) and when everything restored, Quicken was frozen and would not accept any input. Normally, I would click its dock icon and it would read Not Responding and I'd Force Quit, but with the new Expose feature, it gave me no indication the app was Not Responding, and the option of just plain Quit didn't do anything. I had to go to the Command bar and select Force Quit from the pull-down menu. Is there a faster way to Force Quit with the new scheme? If an app is Not Responding, how will I know?

2. My Application and Documents folders in the Dock do not show the Application and Document logos on them. The Applications folder, for instance, displays the Address Book icon. Is there a way to make these folders display these icons?

Question for next week:

Did I miss something? The last I heard, Snow Leopard would now have the radically new feature of restoring files from the recycle bin. After installing, I promptly threw away the stock PDFs located in Documents and Downloads. When I opened the recycle bin, I had no contextual menu to restore files, just the same stuff offered by generic Leopard. Is restoring from trash another feature that is simply too difficult to implement?

I have a question for next week!!!

Unibody MacBook & Snow Leopard

I use Time Machine to back up my data to a Seagate HD. It is a 250GB HD that has 2 equal partitions. I am starting to run out of space on my backups partition and I would like to combine them back into one partition. But to do that I have to erase all of my previous backups, due to reformatting it. I would like to transfer the backup file to my computer's HD, make my HD back into one partition, transfer the data back, and continue backing up. The problem is that my computer will not let me copy the backup file off my HD to my computer. Is there any way to achieve this?

Question for next time:
I'm in the market for an LCD monitor (1920x1080) for an old PC. The PC is hidden out of site and all of my furniture (desk and bookshelves) are white, so a black monitor will look terribly out of place. Apart from the 30" Apple Cinema Display, what are my options for non-black monitors that will accept DVI's full resolution?

Hi there TUAW. How do I sync videos BACK to the iPhone photo album (camera roll) app ? Or is the only way to sync videos back to the iPhone is trough the iPod app ?

Dear TUAW,

Now with the release of Snow Leopard and it's built in MS Exchange Support I can finally get rid of Entourage and/or Outlook in VMWare. There is only one function I was looking for a long time when using Mail.app privately, but now using it for work it's a must due to mailbox quote, but even worse, and archiving solution at work, when at 75% of quote, it will archive all your email. For this most mail was stored in PST files, and now in nice mailboxes, but there are still some folders where mail is being stored via Exchange Server side rules; I'm looking for an solution which is comparable with Outlook's autoarchive where one can configure per folder the retention time; and when this time is exceed whether to delete permanently or to store it in an archive.

If one of you know such a solution I would be much appreciated.

Question for next time: What do you recommend for video management software? I'm looking for something along the lines of iPhoto, but for videos. I've got lots of short videos I've shot at events or on vacations, and would love a way to organize, store, and play them. Right now they're just nested in folders in my ~/Movies folder, but that seems inelegant. iPhoto can store videos, but plays them externally in QT. iTunes might end up working well for this purpose, and I've also looked at doubleTwist, but dT seems more focused on syncing your media with devices, while the storage/organization/playback features are secondary. So what do you say, TUAW? What's the best video management software on the Mac?

i have an old powermac 7200/120MHz (PC compatible), running(?) OS 7.something. i haven't used it in forever. I also have a current generation 13" 2.66GHz MBP running leopard (until this weekend, when i'll probably go snow leopard).

i have a bunch of old files and whatnot stored on that powermac and wanted to pull off some stuff, for nostalgia if nothing else (old clarisworks documents, pictures, etc).

assuming it even boots up, can i do that? and how? ethernet hookup to the MBP? will that mount/be recognizable in today's world. it's like a time capsule (of the analog variety, not the apple product), and i can't resist peeking inside.

Hi,
Before I make the leap and update to Snow Leopard, I just wanted to be certain that it won't affect my Boot Camp partition!? I'm running the Windows 7 RC. Also, does anybody know of any issues with the Boot Camp 3.0 drivers and the Windows 7 RC?

Thank you all in advance for your help!

Ned.