Operation on file .vmdk failed

If you are running one of the VMWare products, such as VM Fusion on the Mac, then you may have run into an error similar to this “Operation on file “/Virtual Machines.localized/VIRTUALMACHINENAME.vmwarevm/VIRTUALMACHINENAME-s012.vmdk”failed. If the file resides on a remote file system, please make sure your network connection and server where this disk resides are functioning …

Image Capture Extension error

If you are getting this error on 10.7 “Image Capture Extension is trying to modify the printer settings, Type the name and password of a user in the Print Administrators group to allow this” it is most likely down to the User not running as admin, with a scanner connected to the machine the simple …

Dealing with Directory Corruption

If your Mac is running slow, there is a chance that you could be suffering from Directory Corruption, to find out if you are the you will need to do the following Open Disk Utility and click on your system volume, then choose Verify Disk If all is well then it will tell you with …

Repair Permissions

This is the most simple of maintenance tasks and one of the most overlooked, many people will take their machines to shops as they believe their machine has a serious problem, which can usually be fixed by this one task. To do a permissions repair you have 2 options, using the Disk Utility app (recommended …