Tag Archives: mac

Mac Mail – Ghost Unread Count

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So, after having the problem with ghost unread mail appearing on my iPhone, I then had to deal with this on the Mac Mail app. This has happened before, and can usually be simply fixed by clicking on the offending folder (usually Inbox), then clicking on ‘Mailbox’ in the menu bar, then clicking on ‘Rebuild’ …

Re-enable Java 6

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If you are running Mac OS X 10.8 and have installed Java 7, as well as the latest Java Update from Apple (Java 2013-002) and have found that some things don’t work with Java 7, and you wish to change back to having version 6 as your default Java installation, then you can download the …

Creating never booted images – 10.8 – InstaDMG

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I’m going to run through the process of creating a never booted image using InstaDMG on Mac OS X 10.8, Once this has been done it will be ready to deploy using Deploystudio. First, you will need to ensure that you have the Command Line Tools installed, you can download them from the Apple Developer …

SugarSync Issues – not syncing

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SugarSync is a cloud based data syncing service, similar to Dropbox, but with a higher storage allocation for a free account (5GB as opposed to 2GB with Dropbox) and a few other features which put it above Dropbox in terms of value. For a full list of benefits versus other cloud syncing services, check out …

Mountain Lion on a USB

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Ok, so to get Mountain Lion onto a USB use the same method as on Lion First of all, you will need the following 1. Install OS X Mountain Lion.app (4.37GB download from the Mac App Store) 2. 8GB USB Key Once you have these you will need to get the Mountain Lion Disk Image, …

VNC into another Mac – Command Line

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To open a VNC connection to another Mac from the Command Line is very simple, you just need to open Terminal and enter the following open vnc://username@IPADDRESS This will then launch the screen sharing app and connect to the machine requested, you will then be presented with a login box, so enter the password for …

NFS mounts – No Path to Directory

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So the other day I was trying to configure a Mac server to export the /Users directory and I kept getting the error mentioned above ‘No path to directory’, which was odd, but it seems that NFS is not a fan of aliases, and I had moved the Users directory onto another hard drive (as …

Install Word 2007 using Wineskin

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Make sure you have the latest version of X11, you can download this from http://xquartz.macosforge.org/trac/wiki always choose the stable version, download the DMG and double click on the XQuartz.pkg to begin installation, click continue or next on all default options, then reboot the machine Next download Wineskin http://wineskin.doh123.com/tiki-index.php?page=Downloads Install by dragging into /Applications/Utilities Run Wineskin Winery …