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Having saved my bacon several times over, it has earned a permanent place of honor on my bookshelf. - Bob Dr. Macintosh LeVitus, Mac book author and MacUser columnist  Everyone should buy this excellent work (and under no circumstances lend it out!). - MacEasy Magazine  Have you ever been stuck at startup, confronted by a disk icon with a blinking question mark inside it? Does your Mac ever freeze, failing to respond to any keyboard input? Or have you been plagued by the infamous system bomb alert box? Maybe it's just that your Mac can't find your printer, or a document won't open, or a file stubbornly refuses to be deleted.Solutions to these and hundreds of other problems--including the very latest ones caused by Power Macs, PowerBooks, and that pesky System 7.  5--are covered in this completely updated edition of Sad Macs, Bombs, and Other Disasters. 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