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Can't push "Apply to enclosed items" button

kris — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:34:31 +0000

If the "Apply to enclosed items" button is grayed out on a mac (OSX) it is probably an ACL problem.
To fix it – turn off ACLs on the troubled drive.

sudo fsaclctl -p /Volumes/volumename -d

imac restarting

kris — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:50:36 +0000

The other day I had an aluminum imac that was restarting(rebooting) itself out of the blue. After a while it got so bad it couldn't even start up any longer. It would start to boot and then restart and start to boot again. So here's some Apple magic that fixed it.

Reset PRAM and NVRAM: Hold down Command, Option, P and R at boot up (hold till you hear the startup sound for the second time.

Reset SMC: Unplug the power. Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds. Release the power button. Plug it back in and boot it up.

So far, everything is fine now.

(http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379 & http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964)

Mac: Doesn't play well with others. Doesn't Share. *UPDATED

paul — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 23:58:00 +0000

Vista cannot authenticate when trying to attach to a file share (SMB) on our old 10.2 Mac Xserve. Fixing the problem involves weakening the security of Vista file sharing, but we're all friends here behind the firewall, right?

I stole these instructions from z3r010 on vistax64.com:

1. Open the Start Menu.
2. In the white line (Start Search) area, type regedit and press Enter.
3. Click Continue for UAC prompt.
4. In regedit, go to:-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlLsa

5. In the right pane, right click LmCompatibilityLevel and click Modify.
NOTE: If it doesn't already exist, create a DWORD value named LmCompatibilityLevel

6. Set the value to 1
7. Reboot

*UPDATE 8-25-2009 – I just had this same problem in Windows 7 and this solution fixed it. -Kris-

Shiny iMac screen is annoying!

paul — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:15:00 +0000

I was editing an ad today that was mostly black with a gradient grey. I couldn't see ad! All I could see was my face reflected in the monitor. This is a problem with the new iMacs.

I found a website that sells matte stickers for your iMac: Photodon. I didn't order one, because it's $45 and today is the first time that I've had a problem seeing the screen. But I wanted to document the website in case I get annoyed in the future (or someone else gets annoyed).