I had to reinstall a mac, booted to “internet Recovery” and wiped my harddisk.
When I tried to install MacOS High Sierra – I got the error:
“The recovery server could not be contacted.”
This is not because Apple’s servers are busy but because the date on the mac is wrong.
1)
Quit the installer
2)
start Terminal
set the correct date via the “date” command
in the format:
MMddHHmmYE
e.g.
date 0401123018
which is : 17/4-18 time 12:30
3)
restart the installer
For some reason Win7 updates now takes “forever” on new PC’s.
I got 2 brand new DELL Laditude 14 (e7450) with Win7 pro. pre installed.
As first thing I always run “Windows Update” however for some reason it cant find any updates and Windows updates just seems to run without getting any updates.
After installing KB3153199 , things where much better and Windows Update now works again.
Here is a direct link to the 64bit version:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=52232
From OSX 10.10.4 You can turn on trim support for third party SSD drives
In Terminal write
sudo trimforce enable
More info:
I’am a long fan of Clonezilla, which I have been using many years cloning
both Macs & PC
With Yosemite, Apple made a change to the disk partition system
From the old HFS+ to CoreStorage, which makes it impossible to use Clonezilla to clone Macs.
The CoreStorage system is supposed to work better with FileVault (Apples file encryption system)
Its possible to make a image of mac running Yosemite (with CoreStorage), but once trying to clone the image
to a other Mac this will boot up with a “forbidden sign”
The work-a-round for now is to convert from ”core storage” to HFS+
before cloning, then Clonezilla etc.will work again.
{ Do this on you own risk – remember to backup 🙂 }
Open ”Terminal”
Write:
diskutil cs list
(you will see something like this)
Logical Volume Group 8B0FF229-63B8-428E-8671-A3B174538C6A
=========================================================
Name: SSD
Status: Online
Size: 119174365184 B (119.2 GB)
Free Space: 18907136 B (18.9 MB)
|
+-< Physical Volume FDFD9954-D68A-41A2-ADC5-28352E3F74BD | —————————————————- | Index: 0 | Disk: disk0s2 | Status: Online | Size: 119174365184 B (119.2 GB) | +-> Logical Volume Family EA6FB1F0-9A71-4631-8886-540BBA5D3399
———————————————————-
Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: None
Conversion Status: NoConversion
Conversion Direction: -none-
Has Encrypted Extents: No
Fully Secure: No
Passphrase Required: No
|
+-> Logical Volume B4283DB8-1F41-4E11-8192-9097C39CD332 —————————————————
Disk: disk1
Status: Online
Size (Total): 118803136512 B (118.8 GB)
Conversion Progress: -none-
Revertible: Yes (no decryption required)
LV Name: SSD
Volume Name: SSD
Content Hint: Apple_HFS
In Terminal write:
diskutil coreStorage revert {logical volume name}
e.g for above:
diskutil coreStorage B4283DB8-1F41-4E11-8192-9097C39CD332
This process will take at most 10 seconds – once this is done you can clone
to a image which will boot on a new Mac.
For more info on Yosemite & CoreStorage- see this article at Arstechnica
Today I had a older HP Elite 8100 SFF – I had to add some RAM , when I powered up the computer
the blower started to blow really loud and then nothing more happened.
The solution where to remove the ram and re-insert them and the HP started
happily again ..
When I tried to upgrade a old Mac Pro from 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) to 10.7.x(Lion) I got this error:
First I thought my Time or Date on the Mac where wrong – but no it was correct.
I tried to install from a disk-image (DMG) the solution where to drag (copy) the installer to
e.g. the Applications folder and then re-run the installer.
I had to setup a Synology 1813+ server which should be a easy task.
you can do this by using ‘Synology Assistant‘ or via http://find.synology.com
I where able to see my new NAS but not connect to it (connection failed…)
When I looked up the (DHCP) IP address of my new Synology server at my Firewall (which block DNS requests)
it turns out the Synology NAS wanted to connect to Google DNS (8.8.8.8 / 8.8.4.4) once I allowed it to do this
I where able to configure it.
I have a 6.5 GB .PST (Outlook format) which I need to hand over to a user who does not have Outlook.
(and are using a Mac).
I had a Win8 PC with Outlook 2013, so what I did to help him out – I created a new account
on www.outlook.com (former hotmail.com) but you cant import PST files into outlook.com via the web interface.
So I started my Outlook 2013 – and used “Add account” with the credentials from outlook.com
Once I had this – I tried to open my 6.5GB PST file – which opened fine – I thought I where able to drag’n’mail online, but
after 30 sec. I got this message:
..Sorry Exchange ActiveSync doesn’t support what you’re trying to do.
Google told my to setup the outlook.com account and re-open the PST file in Outlook 2010
Which I did – since I tried to open a Outlook.com account in Outlook 2010 I
apparently first need to install the ” Microsoft Office Outlook Connector Setup”
On my Mac i use Adobes Creative Cloud Packager to distribute the Adobe CC software to my users
though packages.
Today when I launched this tool I got a :’Oops something went wrong…’ error and the program quits.
The solution where to remove the CCP folder under
~/User/Library/Application Support/Adobe/CCP
Once this has be done, restart the CCPLauncher – as all preferences has been trashed , you will be asked
for your Adobe credential (once).
iPhone5 – iOS7.0.2 Instagram not working , I got this error:
{“status” :”fail,”,”message”:”login_required”}
The solution was to reset all settings on the iPhone .
Settings->General->Reset ->”Reset All Settings”
Voila 🙂
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