Category: fixes
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Automountd trying to connect to Backups.backupdb
An explanation of why automountd is trying to find Backups.backupdb on the Internet… I woke up this morning with a warning from Little Snitch outbound firewall that automountd wants to connect to Backups.backupdb on port 111. Here’s what I’ve discovered since then. automountd is a system service which mounts and unmounts network file systems (NFS)…
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Caution filename not matched when unzipping multiple files
Fix for “caution: filename not matched” error when trying to unzip multiple files at once in Terminal. Solution for unzipping multiple zip files with a single command. Open up a Terminal window on OS X, go to the directory containing the zip files and enter this command: unzip *.zip The backslash escapes (prevents) the wildcard…
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How to Turn Off Safe Sleep
First find your current sleep setting by opening Terminal in OS X and entering this at the prompt: pmset -g | grep hibernatemode That should return you something like “hibernatemode 3”. Remember this number, send an email to yourself, write it down on a scratch pad, whatever it takes to remember your default mode. Mode…
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Can’t Wake MacBook Pro from Sleep
Open the lid and nothing? Tap keys, change brightness, close and re-open lid and your MacBook still in sleep mode? Solution: Turn off Safe Sleep. Or use Smart Sleep. If you open your MacBook lid and notice that you can’t wake your MacBook from sleep, it’s because of the Safe Sleep system Apple designed. This…
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Fix Front Row Crash while playing divx avi
While watching a tv series encoded with divx, in avi package format on a Macbook installed with Leopard, I noticed that Front Row would randomly crash and return to the desktop. First step in investigating what was causing the crash is to look at the syslog. Open up Terminal (Applications => Utilities => Terminal) Go…
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Hot MacBook Pro Temperature
To reduce the temperature of my MacBook Pro I use smcFanControl by Hendrik Holtmann.ย Normally my MacBook Pro would run somewhere close the 55-60C mark without doing anything intensive, say a 10-15% average CPU utilization.ย I found this somewhat hot for my tastes, especially when using the built in keyboard where it would be uncomfortably…
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Mac High CPU After Copying PDF Books ATSServer mdworker
I recently copied over a set of PDF ebooks from an external drive to my “home” folder (usually your login name under Places within Finder) and a few minutes after that my Macbook Pro fan started to go nuts and I noticed my CPU temperature was up near the 70 degree C mark. Cutting to…
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Apple Macbook short battery life problems
If you’ve noticed that your Macbook or Macbook Pro purchased in 2006 or 2007 is losing its battery life at an alarming rate, you’re not alone. Apple has had a very large batch of Sony lithium-ion polymer batteries for their laptops that are losing their maximum charge capacity very quickly. If you’ve noticed that your…