avparker.com » mac http://www.avparker.com Andrew V Parker's life one post at a time Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:20:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The importance of backups http://www.avparker.com/2008/02/29/the-importance-of-backups/ http://www.avparker.com/2008/02/29/the-importance-of-backups/#comments Sat, 01 Mar 2008 08:40:41 +0000 andrew http://www.avparker.com/2008/02/29/the-importance-of-backups/ Continue reading →]]> My hard drive on my macbook failed a few weeks ago. I’ve resurrected the original hard drive (not the failed one) till I get around to buying a new one. Luckily I had backed up my photos the night before (yay for rsync!), so I didn’t lose anything really important.

I’m seriously considering getting a Time Capsule, since I need a wireless router anyway, and automatic wireless backups would be awesome.

]]> http://www.avparker.com/2008/02/29/the-importance-of-backups/feed/ 0 Deleting locked files from a USB drive in OS X http://www.avparker.com/2008/02/22/locked-files/ http://www.avparker.com/2008/02/22/locked-files/#comments Sat, 23 Feb 2008 05:26:27 +0000 andrew http://www.avparker.com/2008/02/22/locked-files/ Continue reading →]]> I ran into the following dialog when trying to “Empty Trash” in OS X (10.4)

The problem was caused by a couple of hundred locked files on the USB drive, which OS X happily sent to the trash but would not let me delete. Normally you can just restore a file from the Trash to a normal file, and then alter the properties (File -> Get Info in the Finder). But since the files were on a USB drive I couldn’t see them in the Trash.
So the files were effectively stuck, and I couldn’t empty the Trash without hitting “continue” a couple of hundred times (and the locked files would still be there, so that would happen every time).

After a quick google, and a look at man chflags, I found a solution. Open terminal, and run the following commands (replacing DRIVE with the volume name of your USB drive)

NOTE: run the following command at your own risk!


find /Volumes/DRIVE/.Trashes -type f -exec chflags nouchg {} \; -print

After than, “Empty Trash” worked as normal.

]]> http://www.avparker.com/2008/02/22/locked-files/feed/ 0 Totoro finally arrives! http://www.avparker.com/2006/07/09/totoro-arrives/ http://www.avparker.com/2006/07/09/totoro-arrives/#comments Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:43:16 +0000 andrew http://www.avparker.com/2006/07/09/totoro-arrives/
  • the packaging is excellent, the box is incredibly thin
  • it looks a lot like my old ibook, just a bit thinner and wider
  • the screen is great, a big improvement the ibook
  • the keyboard seems good
    • Obligatory unpacking photos follow... Continue reading →]]>     My MacBook finally arrived last weekend. It’s small and white, so I’ve named it ととろ (Totoro) :-)

    A few quick notes:

    • the packaging is excellent, the box is incredibly thin
    • it looks a lot like my old ibook from the outside, just a bit thinner and wider
    • the screen is great, a big improvement over the ibook
    • the keyboard seems good

    Obligatory unpacking photos follow…

    MacBook box - it's a slim little fellow!

    Unpacking the MacBook

    Unpacking complete

    I had to wait 4 weeks for the white 2.0GHz MacBook stock to arrive. I was considering paying the extra $200 for the black because I was sick of waiting. They look nice, like the old pismo powerbook, but also a lot like a normal pc laptop, and it just doesn’t seem like it’s worth the extra just for the color (although something less prone to scratching might be nice).

    Now I have to install the 120G drive in it and get everything transferred across!

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