Problem Mountain Lion is downloaded directly from the App store. When it installs it creates a small hidden partition on your hard drive by default called Recovery HD. If you ever need to recover your Operating System you can access this via booting into the recovery. But because both the operating system and the recovery… Continue reading Create a minimal OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Recovery Disk
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Format your external disk into Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)
Solution Most External drives come preformatted with the Master Boot Record (MBR) partition scheme. If you are formatting your external drive to use as a recovery drive you will need to format to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) Navigate to the Utilities folder by using the shortcut Command-Shift-U in the finder or type in “Disk… Continue reading Format your external disk into Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)
“The installer can’t create the folder” when installing updates for Office 2011
Problem On Installation, the following errors are displayed. “The installation failed” “The installer can’t create the folder “/var/folders/r_/3sgz48xx27v_r138s4zbk3300000gp/T//Install.450dgBIAO” (This is an example file path. The actual path name will vary.) Cause The installation folder is locked. Solution In Finder, at the top, click Go -> Go To Folder Then Type /private/var/folders/r_/ Then press Enter. Open… Continue reading “The installer can’t create the folder” when installing updates for Office 2011
“Can’t Load Visual Basic for Applications” when launching Read and Write Gold for Mac
Problem Launching Read and Write Gold and Microsoft Office word produces the following error: “Can’t Load Visual Basic for Applications “Make sure Visual Basic for Mac is installed on your computer. If Visual Basic for Application is installed make sure the path to the installation folder does not contain any characters outside of the system… Continue reading “Can’t Load Visual Basic for Applications” when launching Read and Write Gold for Mac
How to write to NTFS drives in Mac OS X
NTFS writing is not officially supported in Mac OS X Problem By default, Mac OS X can not write to NTFS formatted drives (see here for more information) without a third party driver. Solution Open Terminal. Go to your Applications folder. Open the Utilities folder. Open the Terminal application. Enter the following code and press… Continue reading How to write to NTFS drives in Mac OS X