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Earlier this year I purchased a Mac Mini Server with Snow Leopard Server. I did this so I could set up shared calendars with my family, facilitate wireless Time Machine Backups, host a local update r...
Answered by msilver : Apr 28 2010 11:47 PM
At the risk of sounding like a troll, I'd say that Zip drives were obsolete almost a decade ago. Sure you can read AND write to them, but they're magnetic, and they were susceptible to the cli... full answer >
I needed to find a file from a retired OS X machine. I still had the Time Machine backups, but by default, Time Machine only looks at the current machine's backup set.
The solution is simple--...
Answered by msilver : Dec 06 2009 05:16 PM
I haven't tested these, but I've read two ways to do it.
One is to remove the Adobe Air Framework from the /Library/Frameworks/ directory, reinstall Adobe Air using their installer, and then... full answer >
Answered by bjorn_swift : Nov 16 2009 01:50 PM
There is probably a better way of solving this, but the following worked for me.
Get a list of ports that wine-devel depends on:
$ port deps wine-devel
Full Name: wine-devel @1.1.33+darwin_10
B... full answer >
Here's a great list of seven new Snow Leopard-only Services -- the system-wide functions (like "Search in Google") that are available via the application menu in most (but not all) Mac p...
Came across this handy little gem while reading the galleys for Snow Leopard: The Missing Manual. Great news...works for Leopard too!
This may come as a shock if you think you know your Mac prett...
As of Snow Leopard, there is no more explicit Archive and Install or Erase and Install option when you're installing the operating system. You can fake it pretty easily, though. From the Mac OS X ...
I use more than one Mac, and I'm always worried I'm going to merge some sync data and accidentally end up with duplicates of everything. Here's a tip from the Mac OS X Snow Leopard Pocket ...