Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Use qt-sync to change a movie's framerate without re-coding
QT-Sync for Mac OSX is one of the programs you look for when you have a specific need. In my case I wanted to adjust the framerate of a timelapse movie with re-encoding. Get it from here.
Friday, June 22, 2012
Replicate folder structure without files on Mac OSX
I was needing to replicate a directory and folder structure, without moving or copying files.
The following rsync command the the job nicely
It basically copies everything, but excludes the actual files ie just the folders. Thanks to user Paul R on superuser
The following rsync command the the job nicely
rsync -a /path/from/ /path/to/ --include \*/ --exclude \*
It basically copies everything, but excludes the actual files ie just the folders. Thanks to user Paul R on superuser
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Fixing duplicate 'open with' items in Mac OSX Lion
This happens now and again, ie I get duplicate 'open with' items in Mac OSX Lion, or it has old apps in there that are long gone.
Run this command in Terminal
then quit and restart the Finder
Run this command in Terminal
/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user
then quit and restart the Finder
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Howto: replace Time Capsule HD and retain the old backup
My Time Capsule
is now pretty old at 3 years, and the 500GB just isn't cutting it. Got
myself a shiny 2TB which I figure should be enough for a while.
You can find instructions for the physical swap lots of places on the Internet, most assume you want to start afresh with your backups. For some of my machines I do, some I do not.
If I want to keep and retain the old backups to be able to restore from them, then I need to copy over the data.
You can find instructions for the physical swap lots of places on the Internet, most assume you want to start afresh with your backups. For some of my machines I do, some I do not.
If I want to keep and retain the old backups to be able to restore from them, then I need to copy over the data.
- Go to each
machine that uses the Time Capsule, and turn Time Machine off
- Swap the
hard drive in the Time Capsule and re-assemble
- After
turning the Time Capsule on, use Airport Utility to format the new HD
- Take the
old HD and use a SATA to USB adapter to connect to a Mac laptop
- Make sure
this machine is connected by wired ethernet to the Time Capsule, gigabit
is best: there's a heap of data to copy!
- Mount the
(new) Time Capsule drive in finder
We need to copy the data into the folder called 'Airport Disk'
- On the old
HD look for the volume called 'Data' and in there 'ShareRoot' and in
there you'll find the disk images with all the old backups. Copy what
you need from here into the 'Airport Disk' mentioned above
- It'll take
a while, so be patient
- On the
machine whose backup image you just copied, restart Time Machine, you
may need to reselect the Time Capsule, and the first backup may take
slightly longer than usual.
- For bonus points, remember that all your data is on that old disk totally unencrypted. If you think you might need it, and you have Mac OSX Lion, then use FileVault 2 to encrypt it on the fly ie not loss of data.
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Monday, June 4, 2012
Howto clean up OSX Launchpad's Apps
If you've got a lot of non-existent or deleted Apps showing in Mac OSX Snow Leopard or Mac OSX Lion's Launchpad, you can start afresh by delete the Launchpad database, and that will make it rebuild a new one.
Or, wholely from the command line
$ rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db
and then kill the Dock
You may need to make your ~/Library folder visible first by doing
$ chflags nohidden ~/Library
- Navigate to ~/Library/Application Support/Dock
- Drag all the .db files to the trash
- Restart Dock
Or, wholely from the command line
$ rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db
and then kill the Dock
You may need to make your ~/Library folder visible first by doing
$ chflags nohidden ~/Library
Friday, June 1, 2012
avidemux crash on OSX Lion and Mountain Lion
I upgraded to an SSD (Crucial M4 256GB since you ask) and its great. As part of that I did a clean install of Mac OSX Lion and Mountain Lion, and then copied over a bunch of Apps, including Avidemux.
But it crashes on launch, and looking in the logs I see
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/avidemux2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libxml2.2.dylib requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
The easiest way to fix this is copy a new version over from the downloaded disk image, and then delete these two files: libxml.2.dylib and libiconv.2.dylib
But it crashes on launch, and looking in the logs I see
Dyld Error Message:
Library not loaded: /opt/local/lib/libiconv.2.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/avidemux2.app/Contents/Resources/lib/libxml2.2.dylib
Reason: Incompatible library version: libxml2.2.dylib requires version 8.0.0 or later, but libiconv.2.dylib provides version 7.0.0
The easiest way to fix this is copy a new version over from the downloaded disk image, and then delete these two files: libxml.2.dylib and libiconv.2.dylib
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