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#1 2003-05-18 5:11 am
- benightedbastard
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OS X forum merger
OS X General and tips have merged into one forum, with OS X troubleshooting merging up into Balloon Help. There may be a slight moderator reshuffle between them, too.
For now, I think this forum is best served as a general discussion forum for OS X. Any problems/issues should preferably be posted in Balloon Help.
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#2 2003-05-18 7:08 am
- Blaze
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Re: OS X forum merger
Nice work. It's nice to see some of the clutter get streamlined.
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#3 2003-05-20 8:37 pm
- iZoe
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Re: OS X forum merger
I think you should've kept the "MAC OS X Troubleshooting" and ditched "Balloon Help"
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#4 2003-05-21 8:44 pm
- Macnerd588
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Re: OS X forum merger
so that's where the troubleshooting forum went! had me worried. kinda pointless dont u think? considering people use this forum for troubleshooting already. now this one will just be more crowded. stupid idea. no offense.
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#5 2003-05-26 5:39 am
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Re: OS X forum merger
Balloon Help was the original troubleshooting forum. As OS X moves to the mainstream, it only makes sense that Balloon and OS X Troubleshooting would merge (although now that I think of it OS X has the Help Center, not Balloon Help as OS 9 and earlier did).
Maybe we should rename it: "You Need Help". 
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#6 2003-05-26 8:54 am
Re: OS X forum merger
I'll repeat what I said on another discussion of this: Balloon Help is in the wrong category. it's stuck in the middle of a bunch of opinion-based forums, not the place I would go looking for actual help. and I think it'sunclear where to post questions about OSX issues: OSX or Balloon Help.
I appreciate the work done to streamline the forums.
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#7 2003-05-27 7:15 pm
- iZoe
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Re: OS X forum merger
"Balloon Help" harkens back to the 'ol OS days. Posting an OS X help questions just feels wrong. Plus a troubleshooting forum should be kept under the general X forum. Anyone who been needing help with the old OS has been posting under OS 9 anyway...
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#8 2003-05-27 11:03 pm
- benightedbastard
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Re: OS X forum merger
I agree the positioning could be better. As for the antiquity of the title, consider it a silent demonstration against the poor quality of OS X's help system.
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#9 2003-05-28 4:43 am
Re: OS X forum merger
OS X's help system IS horrible... but those balloons were amusing for about the first 5 minutes and then they became annoying, far worse than the dreaded Microsoft Paperclip.
As such, I find it really hard to bring myself to enter that area of the forum.
Maybe I should seek psychiatric help... ala "You Need Help"
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#10 2003-06-01 12:29 am
- brian_reilly
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Re: OS X forum merger
I'm cool with the merger and all, but perhaps you should get rid of the OSX Tips and Troubleshooting menu option on the forums main page. When you select it, it tells you, "The forum you have selected does not exist." 
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#11 2003-06-26 8:38 pm
- Blueboy626
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Re: OS X forum merger
And 25 days later...it still does not exist.
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#12 2003-12-03 4:25 pm
Re: OS X forum merger
not until reading this thread did i know that MAC OS X was not intended for troubleshooting. there's something counter-intuitive about that.
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#13 2003-12-12 1:19 am
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Re: OS X forum merger
Isn't 'Aprocryphon' a little non-secular? It also doesn't seem to be in any dictionary. I know I know it's a word form of apocryphal, but it's still not in the dictionary. I guess we have a little Biblical reference now in these forums.
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#14 2003-12-18 8:25 am
- benightedbastard
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Re: OS X forum merger
Wehey, I didn't realise someone had noticed the title change. It's more a literary reference than a biblical one.
I should really remove this or put up a new announcement, since the merger was a while back now.
Maybe tomorrow.
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#15 2005-06-28 11:37 pm
- MysticCow
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Re: OS X forum merger
benightedbastard wrote:
I agree the positioning could be better. As for the antiquity of the title, consider it a silent demonstration against the poor quality of OS X's help system.
I never found Balloon Help (on OS 9) to be helpful either.
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#16 2005-06-28 11:48 pm
- benightedbastard
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Re: OS X forum merger
Damn, I could have sworn I unstickied this a year or so ago. Maybe that got undone in the crash.
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