Category Archives: Bug Report

Files Gone on Drobo FS with OS X Lion? Get ‘em back!

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Using DroboFS and OSX Lion only to discover that your Drobo shares have no content!? Yikes! But fret not, you merely have a small corruption problem brought on by the firmware, and in moments you can force a rebuild of that database and all your files will be back safe, happy, and sound with no data loss. Here’s how. Continue reading →

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1Password Woes with Safari Extension (fix)

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Walt Stoneburner

Safari 5.1 and 1Password 3.7.x not playing well? Getting a Database error? No such column? Overview key missing? Try this… it worked for me. Continue reading →

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MySQL Cascade Delete Problem

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

MySQL 5.1.51 introduced a nasty little bug that has the potential to really cause some production servers some ill — cascading delete and updates can sometimes fail if you’re dealing with “too much” data at once. Where “too much” is a relatively small amount. You may get bit if you have a one-to-many relationship. Continue reading →

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WPF Responsiveness Problem

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Ran into an interesting problem where a WPF application was acting really, really, really slow. So slow that moving the application window was jumpy. Selecting items in a grid would take several seconds. Scrolling a list box of simple items … Continue reading →

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Pages: 16 Exabytes

Posted on May 10, 2010 by Walt Stoneburner

Pages just asked OS X for 16 Exabytes. Got a clue just how large that is? Continue reading →

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Drag’n'Drop Problems with Parallels 4

Posted on September 9, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Since installing Snow Leopard, I can no longer Drag’n'Drop files from Windows to the hosting OS X environment, though the inverse works just fine. Is anyone else having this problem, because I’m not seeing much about it on the Parallel’s forums. I think the bug is real. Continue reading →

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Safari 4 Beta – OS X Users: Wait

Posted on February 25, 2009 by Walt Stoneburner

Installing the new Safari 4 Beta gave a great browser experience, but it stopped OS X’s Mail from working. Uninstalling it restored normality. Anyone else getting this? Continue reading →

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Macbook Pro Screen Goes Dark on Wakeup

Posted on June 13, 2008 by Walt Stoneburner

My MacBook Pro should have woken up when I lifted the lid, but all was dark. However, while checking the battery level, I noticed it had woken up. The problem was the backlight wasn’t coming on. Here’s the solution. It isn’t the brightness button either. Continue reading →

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iChat Problems: Fixed

Posted on December 15, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Got Leopard? Find that iChat isn’t working? Do you run Parallels? Guess what, that may be it. What? You’re not running Parallels at the same time you iChat? Not relevant, Parallels has network services active even if the client isn’t. Here’s the workaround to get you chatting… Continue reading →

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OS X 10.5.1 Finder Crash – repeatable

Posted on December 3, 2007 by Walt Stoneburner

Found a very simple way to crash the Finder in OS X 10.5.1 – while repeatable for me, do other people’s desktops do the same thing? (No data loss, just Finder windows close.) Continue reading →

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