April « 2009 « How to Get it Working

Mac: Disk Utility, Format Fail

I see a lot of post or google results when i try to google: “file system formatter fail”.
i got this error when i was trying to format my 1 Tera Maxtor HDD to be Mac OS Extended (Journaled), the problem here is, it a previously a MS-DOS(FAT) format. So the partition is actually Master Boot Record for booting into DOS or Windows based computer.
To solve this, you will realise you have gotten that extra “Partition” tab along with the “Repair”, “Erase”, “Raid”, “Restore” tabs. Go to that tab and then under the advance option, select your partition to be “GUID”.
And tada, you will be able to properly format your HDD to Mac OS Extended.

Quite dump on Disk Utility to not automatically resolve this problem.

disk utility, formatter fail, mac os x

17Apr

Mac: Unlocking multiple file easily

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recently copied some files from windows drive into my mac and ended up with a lot of read-only files being locked.
is a pain to unlock that thousand over files to delete them! good i found this method

chflags -R nouchg <directory-name>

simply open terminal and type the above command in, it will recursively unlock all folders and files in that directory, the same goes if you are unlocking one file only:
chflags nouchg <dir-fileName>

chflags, mac locked file, nouchg

12Apr

Overcoming Gmail “All Mail” Folder in IMAP

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Wahoo! Google blog about this quite a while back and i didn’t realise it.
They have this new add-on currently experimental in their labs section, while gmail is still in beta, so almost everything is labs!

So the problem here is Gmail IMAP offer a very good means for almost everyone to sync their email in mail, iphone and thunderbird etc (outlook sucks in imap features, especially with gmail). BUT the “All Mail” label in gmail can get quite irritating when u start seeing duplicates emails in your “Inbox” and “All Mail” folder. and even more irritating when search produce 2 email of exact same thing from the 2 folders, of cos, there was recommendation like this to remove it from spotlight, but if your gmail account have 4gb of email, you are actually using 8gb to cache 4gb of your email.

So come “Advance IMAP Setting for Gmail”, simply go to “Settings” then under the “Labs” tab, search for:
Advance IMAP Controls
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