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Windows 8 opens full screen photo app when opening pictures

2013-06-14T16:04:59Z

Problem

When you want to view pictures in Windows 8, it will open the full screen photo app by default.

Cause

This is a default utility that Windows 8 have implemented. You can change it to open in Windows Photo Viewer.

Solution

Press and hold the Windows Key and press C.
Click on Search and type Default Programs.
Click on Default Programs and click on Set your default programs.
On list click on Windows Photo Viewer and click on Set this program as default.
Click on OK.

Create a minimal OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Recovery Disk

2013-06-14T15:00:13Z

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 are stored on one hard-drive you may encounter issues running this recovery partition if the system disk has become dysfunctional.

It is therefore advised that you create a minimal OS X recovery disc in case you experience any issues with accessing your recovery partition.

Your Mac must have a local hidden Recovery HD partition; If you are unsure whether your Mac has one please follow this link to ensure it does:

You need an external disk with 1GB space minimum in order to continue.

Your account must be an Admin Account to do this.

Solution

Download the “OS X Recovery Disk Assistant” from the following link: support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
Click on the Download button
Please ensure that before you run the RecoveryDiskAssistant.dmg file you must make sure that the external drive you will be using is in the format Mac OS Extended (Journaled) If you are unsure how to check this or need help formatting your drive into this type, then please follow this fix.
Navigate to your downloads folder (by default to the right of your dock by the trash) and click on it to show its content.
Open RecoveryDiskAssistant.dmg
Navigate to the Utilities folder by launching Finder and using the shortcut Command-Shift-U
Click “Authenticate” and then enter your User password.
Once copied over, open the Recovery Disk Assistant from the Utilities folder and click Open.
In the license agreement, click Agree
It will then display a message that say “Connect a USB drive, select the disk and then click continue” Please plug in your external drive (which you have ensured or recently formatted to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) from step 3)
Select the drive and click Continue
Authenticate this by entering in your password
Please wait a few minutes as it creates the recovery disk.
Once completed quit the application and eject both the mounted image and the external disk from your desktop.

Format your external disk into Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)

2013-06-14T14:39:10Z

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 Utility” via Spotlight.
Plug your external drive into your Mac (you will then see it appear in both disk utility and your desktop)
Select the external disc (do not select the volume entry which is below)
Click the Erase tab
In the format table please select Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) in the list of options
Click on Erase and confirm that you wish to do this.
Once the disk has successfully formatted it should know in the Partition Map Scheme that it is GUID Partition Table.
To remove the disk click on the eject button and remove once it has fully ejected.

“The installer can’t create the folder” when installing updates for Office 2011

2013-06-14T14:36:58Z

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 the folder that is displayed in the error (varies).
Right click (Hold CTRL then click one button mouse) select “Get Info”.
Click Sharing and permissions.
If “username” is there (username being your name) Click the cog icon and select “Apply to enclosed items”
If not, then click the plus and then click “User name” and then click choose. Your username will be added.
if username has Read Only permissions you will need to click and change to read and write permissions and then follow the above step to “Apply to enclosed items”.

“Can’t Load Visual Basic for Applications” when launching Read and Write Gold for Mac

2013-06-14T14:30:07Z

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 code page
(such as Cyrillic characters on an English system) and contains fewer than 255 characters.”

Cause

Visual Basic for Applications is corrupted or not correctly loaded.

Solution

Quit the Applications and close any errors.
Try a customized install of Microsoft Office for Mac.
- Install Office for Mac and instead of selecting a Full installation, you should select a customized install and not install any other Application than “Visual Basic for Applications”

The only other option that is available at this moment in time is a full uninstall of Microsoft Office

Download and run the Microsoft Office Removal Tool.
Once uninstalled, fully Re-Install Microsoft Office for Mac.

Error 404 when viewing a page protected with a .htpasswd file

2013-06-14T14:23:15Z

Problem

When you attempt to view a page that is located within a CMS (Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, etc) site folder and uses a .htpasswd file, you are redirected to the site’s 404 error page.

Cause

When authentication is needed, it may be searching for a files on the server with the name “401.shtml” or similar. This request is instead handled by the CMS and results in a 404 (not found) error.

Solution

This has been tested with Drupal but should work for other Content Management Systems.

Open the site’s .htaccess file for editing.
Look for the following lines of code:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Change it to the following:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !\.shtml$ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
Save the updated file to the server.

.gitignore file not ignoring it’s specified files

2013-06-14T14:18:21Z

Problem

You have a repository with a .gitignore file. However, the files are still showing tracked changes.

Solution

Using GIT Bash, navigate to the repository folder (e.g. “cd C:\Projects\Web”)
Make sure you commit any changes before proceeding to the next step.
Run this command to empty the repository’s index: git rm -r --cached .
Once that has finished, run this command to reindex: git add .
Make a new commit, e.g. git commit -m "Reindexed to fix .gitignore"

Find the full path to a file on a web server

2013-06-14T14:15:25Z

You may need to know the full path to a web directory, perhaps for a script that requires it or setting up a .htpasswd file.

To do this, create a PHP file in the directory you want to find the path to.
Put the following code into it:
<?php echo dirname(__FILE__); ?>
Run the file on your web server and the full path will be displayed.

How to write to NTFS drives in Mac OS X

2013-06-14T13:47:44Z

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.
1. Go to your Applications folder.
2. Open the Utilities folder.
3. Open the Terminal application.
Enter the following code and press Enter:
sudo nano /etc/fstab
You will need to enter your password and press Enter.
- It won’t show any characters when you type.
- If you do not have a password then set one first.
A terminal text editor will appear. Take note of the name of your NTFS drive. For this example, we will assume the drive is labelled “Windows”.
Type in the following, replacing “Windows” with the name of your drive:
LABEL=Windows none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse
Press Ctrl+O, then press Enter.
Press Ctrl + X to exit the text editor.
Open Disk Utility.
1. Go to your Applications folder.
2. Open the Utilities folder.
3. Open the Disk Utility application.
On the left, click on the NTFS drive.
At the top, click on the Unmount button.
This will change to a Mount button. Click it again and close Disk Utility.
Unfortunately, this will stop the drive being shown in Finder. To workaround this, put the following line into Terminal and press Enter:
open /Volumes
This will show all the currently connected drives. From here, you can drag your NTFS drive to the sidebar in Finder and have it kept there.

Remove Weekends from JQuery UI Datepicker

2013-06-14T13:22:36Z

To remove weekend days from the JQuery UI Datepicker plugin, add the following CSS to your stylesheet:
.ui-datepicker-week-end{display:none}