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Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly Mac troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we’ve got questions about target disk mode, energy saver prefs, Safari file issues, iTunes album artwork, iTunes sharing and more.

As always, your suggestions and questions are welcome. Questions for next week should be left in the comments. When asking a question please include which machine you’re running and which version of Mac OS X (we’ll assume you’re running Leopard on an Intel Mac if you don’t specify). And now, on to the questions.

computergeeksjw asks:

I have an old iMac Blue G3. The fliesystem failed, but I can’t reformat because there is a disc in the slot-loading drive. I tried the tricks I know like Open Firmware (gives me a weird error) and holding in the mouse button (I hear the drive spin up but nothing else happens). I have a newer G4 Quicksilver. Will it be able to boot up into Target Disk Mode even though the filesystem is damaged? (Then I can try to repair with Disk Utility or reinstall from there) or will it fail like a normal boot does?

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Ask TUAW: Target disk mode, energy saver prefs, iTunes sharing and more originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Ask TUAW: Target disk mode, energy saver prefs, iTunes sharing and more originally appeared on The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) on Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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