Posts with tag: OS X
Good folders to exclude from Time Machine backups
Time Machine is a really effective tool for backing up everything on your drive. And when I say everything, I mean it — Time Machine indiscriminately backs up a lot of junk on your drive. And because of the techniques it uses and the way some files are used by your apps, you might find [...]
Leopard 10.5.2: external USB drive crashes Finder, possible fix
Yeah, I’ve been contending with Leopard / 10.5.2 since certain external USB drives began crashing Finder endlessly (until they’re yanked and Finder springs back to life). Using the Console app, I traced the issue back to this core error message from com.apple.launchd: com.apple.finder Exited abnormally: Bus error. I happened upon a solution that seems to [...]
Leopard (still) sucks at shared Windows SMB
Leopard has been pretty good to me so far, but the whole Finder automagically finding local Windows / Linux machines and mounting their SMB shares has been the one thing I’m classifying a total joke. I’m sure some Mac fans are about to pipe up and mention AFP and the like, but let’s face it, [...]
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