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ive been having some issues with ram lately, and found a solution on apples website that has helped. i hope this might come in handy for someone else.
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sooner or later you will run into a point in time, where os x will not allow you to empty the trash. sometimes this is due to a locked file, incorrect permissions etc…
well you can use a nifty freeware apple script called trash it or you an open the terminal and use the following command.
sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash/*
make sure that the command above is typed exactly as shown or you may screw your drive up pretty bad [i.e. delete everything on your hard drive]. so use caution when using this command.
Matt is a Systems Development Director for a multinational franchise. Matt has lived and worked in Hawaii, Chicago, South Florida and currently resides outside of Atlanta. He enjoys his hobbies including Technology, Gadgets/EDC, Fountain Pens, Wetshaving, Clocks, Antiques & Coffee. He even roasts his own coffee weekly.
ok, so you have xp/vista installed on your mac. after getting xp/64bit installed and everything working, i really don’t want to risk having something wacky happen to the partition. well after doing some searching i found a pretty cool little app that can help clone your boot camp partition. its called winclone and its free!
(DONATIONS ACCEPTED)
here are some of the features…
* Clone Windows XP or Windows Vista with ease.
* Clone to your Bootcamp partition either on a separate drive or on the same that contains your Mac OS X partition.
* Creates image documents that can be stored on any media and double-clicked to open in WinClone.
* Verbose logging so you know what is going on
* Built on the open source ntfstools, which are included in Winclone, so you don’t have to install anything else.
* Fast: Restore a 10 GB image in less than 10 minutes.
* Create a Bootcamp partition from within Winclone.
* Do it all from the boot drive: You don’t need to boot from a Firewire drive to clone the Windows partition.
* Clean and uncomplicated interface
Matt is a Systems Development Director for a multinational franchise. Matt has lived and worked in Hawaii, Chicago, South Florida and currently resides outside of Atlanta. He enjoys his hobbies including Technology, Gadgets/EDC, Fountain Pens, Wetshaving, Clocks, Antiques & Coffee. He even roasts his own coffee weekly.
when formatting an external HD today [Mac OS Extended Journaled(HFS+)] i ran into the following error.
“partition size not a multiple of 4k”
after a quick google search, i found the following fix:
“When formatting using Disk Utility, remember to select GUID Partition Table as your “partition map scheme” instead of MBR (Master Boot Record).”
basically do as follows:
you now should be good to go and the drive should function correctly. yay!
Matt is a Systems Development Director for a multinational franchise. Matt has lived and worked in Hawaii, Chicago, South Florida and currently resides outside of Atlanta. He enjoys his hobbies including Technology, Gadgets/EDC, Fountain Pens, Wetshaving, Clocks, Antiques & Coffee. He even roasts his own coffee weekly.
9:20pm – let the install begin. installing a fresh copy of the new OS X Leopard
9:35pm – installer disk finishes checking consistency of the install dvd.
9:36pm – i top off my glass of scotch – brb 😉
9:38pm – installer begins installing OS X Leopard on volume “Untitled” – i swear there wasn’t any pr0n on that drive!
9:41pm – installer calculates that it’s going to take about 59mins to install – i hope it counts better than “XP”
9:43pm – doh! guess it doesn’t count that well… now it says 1h20m – we shall see
9:56pm – 25 mins remain or so it says – i shall cross my fingers
10:19pm – Installer has finished – rebooting!
10:21pm – Welcome Video starts playing. nice stuff. i start filling out setup questions, language, country, user migration, wireless service, apple id, create acct, select picture for acct, .mac.
10:27pm – All done, checking out interface, very pretty, dock is neat, nce stuff so far.
10:30pm – apple updater already asking to update – doh! – Remote Desktop Client (3.2 client update)
10:31pm – iTunes is the same version as before, this was a slight concern to me.
10:32pm – installing a few quick apps. LittleSnitch, Quicksilver, 1Password, smcFanControl, FireFox then going to pay some attn to the wife 😉
Matt is a Systems Development Director for a multinational franchise. Matt has lived and worked in Hawaii, Chicago, South Florida and currently resides outside of Atlanta. He enjoys his hobbies including Technology, Gadgets/EDC, Fountain Pens, Wetshaving, Clocks, Antiques & Coffee. He even roasts his own coffee weekly.
