  | Since the release of Time Machine, backing your Mac up has never been easier. If you want to back up different sets of files to more than one drive, though, this script will help you do so. Time Machine, in typical Apple fashion, will seamlessly back up your data with little effort on your [...] This information is from Roxio: To perform a clean install of Toast. Please follow all of the instructions below: Please go to the following folder locations: BE SURE TO REMOVE THE FILES FROM BOTH LOCATIONS Macintosh HD> Library> Preferences Macintosh HD> Users> your username> Library> Preferences: trash the following files: * com.roxio.Toast.plist * Roxio [...] I’ve tried everything I know and searched everywhere, but I can’t find an answer to this problem. Several of my clients have this issue and now I have it, after adding two new accounts to Mail – both of the new accounts are effected, but the older ones work fine. Mail picks up email [...] From MacOSXHints… At my office, I needed to find a way to turn of the wireless network when someone plugged in their network cable. I also did not want them to be able to turn the wireless network back on until the network cable was unplugged. I came up with the fallowing solution. I [...] The full post on this is here, but I wanted to make sure that everyone saw this, since there is a lot of traffic on this issue…. I believe that a solution has been found in the Apple Customer forums… The following command, will reproduce the plist was not a dictionary error message… I ran across this today… And was very suprised… 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36803]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead of bootstrap_check_in(). Mach service: com.google.Keystone.Daemon 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36803]) Exited with exit code: 1 1/21/10 10:10:04 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon) Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds 1/21/10 10:10:14 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.google.keystone.daemon[36804]) bootstrap_register() erroneously called instead [...] This could be a sign of database corruption. For Exchange accounts, rather than rebuilding, create a new Identity and let Entourage sync back up. If you do have info in the folders “On My Computer”, then select work off line. Delete the Exchange account THEN do a rebuild. After the rebuild add the account back. Make a [...] It’s not a dictionary? Well, that’s right! My preferences aren’t a dictionary…. Updated 10/27/2009, with a potential solution… Updated 02/13/2010, with a solution… Seriously though, if you see the following in your console log: 9/18/09 12:36:49 PM PreferenceSyncClient[60967] Preference plist was NOT a dictionary. 9/18/09 12:36:49 PM PreferenceSyncClient[60967] Preference plist was NOT a [...] I haven’t seen this issue, but this Apple Support Forums discussion (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2072449&tstart=25 ), discusses a non-obvious troubleshoot step to take if you are experiencing seriously degraded download performance. Quit Safari In your home folder open Library –> Safari Drag your downloads.plist file to the desktop Open Safari Attempt an download, and compare the speed [...] You may to wish to back up your mailboxes, messages, addresses, and account settings as part of your regular backup strategy. To back up this information, make copies of the files listed below. Copy all the files located in ~/Library/Mail. Copy the file “com.apple.mail.plist,” located in ~/Library/Preferences. This file stores the preferences you set [...] | ||
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