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Finder restart issue

siteadmin — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:11:29 +0000

I was recently working on an issue where the finder would restart every time it mounted a server share. The restart was quick, almost like a flash. At first, I thought something was wrong with the server, but after bring up the console to look at errors, I found this error at the client end.

terminate called after throwing an instance of ‘IAException’

To resolve the probem, I just deleted the .DS_Store file in every folder of that share. But I believe that the problem could occur on a single workstation too with a corrupt .DS_Store on a volume.

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10.5 Leopard installer unable to see internal drive

siteadmin — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:13:57 +0000

I finally went to install 10.5 Leopard on my laptop and immediately ran into trouble. The install utility would not recognize my internal hard drive. The ‘Install location’ was blank like there was no hard drive. I switched from the 10.5 installer to the Disk Utility on the install DVD and tried to reformat the drive, but Disk Utility was unable to format the drive, giving a ‘Resource Busy’ error.

I finally booted the laptop into Target Disk Mode and connected it an old iMac G4 and was able to format the hard drive that way. Afterwards the 10.5 Leopard intall ran without error.

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Search for files in Unix

siteadmin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:11:01 +0000

I am always having to search for the exact syntax on this command, so I want to document it. This command works on almost any any linux/unix including MacOS X/
find / -name “MyFavoriteFile”

Find is the actual command. The / is the start location. In this case, it means root of the drive, so find will search the entire volume. If you know the files is in a subdirectory, you can specify that. -name specifies to look for a name and then the filename must be in quote. Variables can be used like “*.txt”.

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Resolving Mac OS X permission problems (How-to)

siteadmin — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 02:13:45 +0000

When you move files from one Mac to another or from one account to another, you run into problems access the files. You will see a folder with a big red minus on it and a polite message like the following one saying that you do not have sufficient privileges. And you thought it was your computer.

These type of problems come from Mac OS X’s Unix heritage and the extremely strong security. Just because you have access to a folder does not mean that you have access to all of the folders inside of it.

Caution: Do not try this tip on the System, Library, or Users folder because these folders have special permission settings to help your computer work.

Fixing this permission problem is simple. Just open the top level folder that you do have access to and select Get Info from the File Menu. Next, turn the triangle down by Ownership and Permissions and then again, turn the triangle down by Details. Click the ‘Apply to enclosed items’ button at the bottom. Accept the warning dialog box that follows and you should have access to the items inside.

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