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The X Lab™ is a private venture dedicated to providing outstanding troubleshooting information and services to users of Apple® Mac® OS X.

Looking for help with a Mac OS X problem? Consult the X-FAQs, a small sample of the detailed troubleshooting information available in our Troubleshooting Mac OS X books.

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2009.03.20 Announcing Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Leopard® Edition

After months of work, Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Leopard Edition is now available.

Covering Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard exclusively, the latest edition of Dr. Smoke's comprehensive troubleshooting e-book is packed with new and updated information, including new chapters, new appendices, and plenty of high-resolution screen shots.

The price remains a superb value at US$19.95 for a single-user license, with download following the approval of your secure payment via credit-card or PayPal®.

You can also purchase Troubleshooting Mac OS X, Leopard Edition for delivery on CD or in a specially-priced combination of download and CD. Multi-user licenses are also available.

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2008.10.19 New X-FAQ: Sharing an external drive between a Mac and a PC under Leopard®.
Our latest X-FAQ, "Sharing an external drive between a Mac and a PC under Leopard," discusses sharing external drives both physically and over a local network, including some suspected bugs in file sharing using SMB.
2008.10.11 New X-FAQ: Repairing a FileVault®-protected Home folder
Our new X-FAQ, "Repairing a FileVault-protected Home folder," addresses the repair of the encrypted disk images used as the Home folders of accounts protected by FileVault. In particular, it provides a detailed procedure for repairing encrypted Home folders under Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard as the procedure employed in earlier versions of Mac OS X does not work under Leopard.
2008.10.08 New X-FAQ: Shared printers cannot be seen on the local network
Our new X-FAQ, "Shared printers cannot be seen on the local network," addresses an issue where printers shared by a Mac running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard cannot be seen by other Macs on the local network.
2008.10.04 New X-FAQ: Sparse Bundles Defined
Our latest X-FAQ, "Sparse bundles defined," provides a definition for this new disk image format introduced in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard®.

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