I have had a problem on my Mac mini for several months. Time Machine hangs after backing up a small amount of data, and refuses to continue. I can leave the machine running for days and nothing happens. This is the sort of thing I see when I click on the Time Machine icon . . . → Read More: Time Machine backup stalls if NAS volumes are mounted
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I have done this a couple of times in the past, and the solution is not well documented by Apple: I use Aperture 3.0 to manage my digital photographs (tag them, edit them, organize them, and so on). I don’t like the idea of storing my photographs inside the Aperture library. An Aperture bug could destroy or damage them them, and recovering them from a backup could mean loosing my latest pictures. So I store them externally (on a server in my case, but it could also be on an external USB-drive attached to my computer) and link to the original images when using Aperture. That is what Apple calls “using referenced masters”. What I have done in the past, and again a couple of weeks ago, is to replace the server that the photos are stored on. The new server has a different name and network address, so of course Aperture can’t find the referenced masters of my photographs. This needn’t be obvious immediately – Aperture keeps a lower resolution copy of each photograph in its library, so until you need to access the full-resolution version of the picture, you don’t see that the connection to the external master copy has been lost. By the time that last happened, I had re-formatted the original disks and sold the server. Really, the only thing I needed to do was to globally edit the old path to the top directory where the photos were stored – replace the server name or network address with the new one, and everything would have been OK. Scanning the documentation and the Apple discussion forums didn’t give me any help on how to do this. Apple foresees you wanting to move referenced master photos from one drive to another, but assumes that you still have the old drive and that you want Aperture to do the moving for you. If that is the case, you can use the “Relocate Masters” command. But there is no obvious way to change the address of the masters if you don’t have the old drive. Continue reading Relocating referenced master images in Aperture Using a Snow Leopard Server, (OS X 10.6.x) it seems that administrators have a problem if they have used Apple’s Managed Client for OS X (MCX) to provide software updates to their clients from their local server and then want to switch back to having the clients get the updates from Apple’s servers. The problem seems to lie with Apple’s Managed Preferences, which is part of MCX. Here is what I understand happens, and a solution: Continue reading Resetting Software Update to use Apple’s servers Alice in Wonderland on the iPad The iPad seems to have quite a potential to shake up the market for eBooks. (Click the pic to view). On almost the same subject – we saw the Alice film in 3D at the weekend – and thoroughly enjoyed it! (Via Daring . . . → Read More: Alice on the iPad I have seen several articles over the years indicating that there are no problems in using a standard / client version of OS X as a server instead of using the OS X Server version, which is a darn sight more expensive. And indeed I have used a Mac mini with a client version . . . → Read More: Using Snow Leopard instead of Snow Leopard Server? The Mac mini I set up with Snow Leopard Server had previously been acting as a server using the client version of OS X. While I was setting up the server again after installing the Server operating system, I decided to also combine the existing external data drive with a second drive and make . . . → Read More: Recreating the correct links to files in iTunes I picked up a new copy of OS X 10.6 Server on EBay for 177 Euro (instead of the 499 Euro it costs if you buy it new from Apple) and have installed it on my 2006 Intel Mac mini. I had one issue at the start of the installation, whose solution is not . . . → Read More: Installing Snow Leopard Server on a Mac Mini The Apple Store yesterday in Frankfurt’s Fressgass’ If you have ever bought an Apple product, you know their packaging is usually exquisite. Well, the same applies to their stores before they open. The Frankfurt store pictured above opens at the beginning of January, and work is still going on inside. However, the logo is . . . → Read More: Apple Packaging Apple is building a new 1 billion dollar data center, five times larger than it’s existing one in California. Supposedly, to start offering “cloud computing” services (i.e. allowing users to store their data on the web, or use web-based applications). Everyone’s major concern about cloud computing, is “What happens to my data if . . . → Read More: So where’s the backup going to be? Apple’s OS X has one “feature” which periodically causes me a lot of grief. Not often, because once I have fallen over it, it takes several years until I forget and make the mistake again. I use Windows PCs at work, and there, if I copy a directory’s contents into another directory, it effectively . . . → Read More: Copy folders like in Windows, on the Mac |
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