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I've been using my Leopard's new Time Machine for backing up my Macbook Pro for the past two months with no problems. The other day during a routine back up I got the message "Time Machine Error, Unable to complete backup. An error occurred while creating the backup directory." By the way, I'm using a 1TB Time Capsule to perform my Time Machine Backups.

Picked up the phone and called Apple Support. Here are the steps.

1. Shutdown my Mac
2. Unplug the Time Capsule (why no on/off switch?)
3. Launch Disk Utility (Go to Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities )
4. Open Finder (or double click hard drive)
5. On the Left side you should see you Time Capsule, select it, if necessary click connect as and login.
6. Open up your back up folder and you should see a dot sparsebundle file. Click and drag that over to the left side of the Disk Utility.
7. Select the Time Capsule in the Disk Utility and click repair disk.

 

Now here is the interesting thing. While I waited hours for this repair to take place I launched my VMWare Fusion running Windows 2003 and got the blue screen of death. A message appeared that asked to shutdown windows and allow it to run chksum. I shutdown windows from VMWare after running chksum windows booted fine.

 

I have no idea if the VMWare crash was related to the Time Machine error, but it is possible.

 

After the Disk Repair completed, Time Machine is up and running again.

 

What happens if you forget your ColdFusion Administrator password or for some reason your CF Admin password won't work?  This actually happened the other day.  After moving all my data from my iMac onto an Intel MacBook Pro running Leopard, I found ColdFusion 8 was not starting up.  Decided to uninstall and reinstall ColdFusion hoping this would solve my problems. 

After a couple failed attempts, the install worked and I saw the beautiful Cold Fusion Administrator Setup/Migration screen.  For those not familiar, this is not the regular login screen, but the final step of the install process.  At this point, you enter the ColdFusion administrator password you just created during the installation.  Well, my password would not work.  CF kept returning "Invalid password". 

Hmmmm, I'm "this" close to finishing the install and my password won't work.  Is this some cosmic joke?

Well, I did some poking around my hard drive and discovered a solution.

1. Shut down ColdFusion 8.  On the mac I launch the Terminal located in the Utilities folder.
   • Enter  sudo /Applications/JRun4/bin/jrun ‚Äìstop cfusion
2. Use Spotlight to search for the file "neo-security.xml"
   • On my Mac ...
     /Applications/JRun4/servers/cfusion/cfusion-ear/
     cfusion-war/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib/neo-security.xml
3. Select the file and do Command – I to bring up the Info panel
4. You'll need to make sure you have Read-Write permissions.
    
   
    
   
5. Open neo-security.xml in any Text Editor
6. Look for the line
   • <var name='admin.security.enabled'>
                <boolean value='true'/>
     </var>
7. Change the value to false
8. Restart ColdFusion 8
9. Browse to the http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/
10. Click on "security" on the left side.
11. Make sure you turn the Administrator Authentication back on and enter a new password.
     
    
     
    

Happy coding...

Disclaimer... I'm not a Unix Guru, by any stretch. In fact, I avoid the terminal and that's why I'm doing this post. Hopefully, I'll help get you started using subversion on your Mac. Here we go.

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After years of dating the most popular OS in school, I'm dumping her. Why did I stay in the realationship for so many years. You've heard the excuses before...

• More applications are written for Windows,
• Look at all the money I've sunk into third party applications.
• There is one application I MUST use for my job and it's only on Windows.
• The hardware is cheaper
• Etc.

I fall in to the "one application I must use" camp. The application is Microsoft SQL Server.

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