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Final Cut Pro (FCP) 4.5 and Compressor AGP error

Applications/Software

For those that get the “This software requires” AGP card error when running Final Cut on a machine that has a PCI-Expresss video card instead of AGP, there’s a really easy fix: Go to Applications folder Right click on Final Cut Pro HD, choose Show Package Cont...

4.5
AGP
compress
error
Final Cut
MacBook
MacBook Pro
PCI
PCI-e

Burn DVD from VIDEO_TS folder (Mac OS X)

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

To burn a UDF DVD that plays in standalone DVD players, fire up Terminal and type the following:hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name <dvd_text> -o <dvd_name>.iso <path/to/folder>The dvd_text will be the disc’s title. Make sure to use the...

burn
DVD
Mac OS X
video_ts

Turn off Spotlight indexing in Snow Leopard

MacOS, Windows, and Linux OS X Snow Leopard

In some cases, constant indexing of files inside large compressed files (eg: Netboot images) can cause a machine to become unusable. Simply unchecking options in System Preferences >> Spotlight will not help prevent Mac OS from constantly attempting to ...

file indexing
Mac OS X
mdutil
Snow Leopard
spotlight
spotlight search

Mac OS Applications folder slow to load / populate

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

As mentioned in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2730568?start=0&tstart=0, either deleted or rename the .DS_Store file in Applications.mv /Applications/.DS_Store /Applications/.DSStoreoldThe app list should populate much faster on the next folder brows...

"mac os applications"
applications folder slow

Disable Mac OS X Lion 10.7 Startup Chime / Sound

MacOS, Windows, and Linux OS X Lion

Write a couple of Mute/Unmute shell scripts as outlined below, add them to the login and logout hooks.Mute Startup Sound in OS X LionThe files and the parent directories must have the following permissions:-rwxr-xr-xowner: rootgroup: wheel

Mac OS 10.7
OS X Lion
start up chime
start up sound
startup sound

Mac OS X - Energy Saver preferences won't save

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

Log in as an admin, run the following commands from Terminal:sudo rm /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.AutoWake.plistsudo rm /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plistsudo rm /<user>/Library/Preferences/com....

display sleep
energy saver
Mac OS X

Black screen after Windows 7 install on late 2009 iMac

MacOS, Windows, and Linux Windows 7

Boot into MacOS, install either NTFS Mounter or NTFS 3G in order to make the NTFS partition writable.On the Windows OS drive, delete the existing ATI driver:/Windows/System32/Drivers/atikmdag.sysReboot into Windows 7, download the latest ATI HD 4850 driver fro...

black screen
graphics driver bootcamp
late 2009 imac
Windows 7 on iMac

Apple Mail Crashes on startup

Email

If Apple’s mail app crashes on startup, then force a rebuild of its database by removing this file and any other files with the same prefix :/Users/<username>/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/Envelope IndexThere may be multiple Envelope Index temp files present....

Apple Mail
rebuild Apple Mail database
rebuild OS X mail

Changing column width in Finder (Mac OS X)

MacOS, Windows, and Linux

To adjust the width of all columns in a Finder window, hold the Alt/Option key down while dragging the resize handle. All future windows will open with this new default column width.

finder column width
Mac OS X finder