Recent content by Tarz

Actually, I wouldn't think you'd need to learn much at all, really. In fact, if you want to keep it simple, just download and install RsyncX (a Google search will take you to it). There's a GUI tool in RsyncX that will mirror one drive/folder/etc. to another. RsyncX will have to backup...

I've added the information provided here to the original article on my site. Thank you for the "enhancement" to my OS X mental knowledgebase! (BTW, the reason I didn't suggest using the app name in the Kill statement was that in some cases it isn't obvious what the app name will look like...

I know, and I agree that they're often easy to use. Unfortunately in the company I work for, every software purchase requires us to run the license agreement past our Legal department (which usually takes a couple of months) and our Division VP, and our CEO. Rather than jump through all those...

From my blog at: http://mikesalsbury.com/mambo/content/view/162/2/ Like any UNIX based operating system, OS X has a pretty versatile command line. You can do quite a lot with it. For example, I've written scripts that backup an OS X system to a server. Using the SSH capability, I can...

A corrupted OS X font cache will cause all sorts of layout and display problems with fonts. Unfortunately there's no simple tool or utility available with OS X by default for cleaning up a font cache. That's why I developed a script to clean up a machine's font cache and force a reboot (which...

The users whose Macs I administer often ask me if I can retrieve a slightly older copy of a file they've been working with. For example, on Wednesday morning they might be asked to restore a paragraph they were told to delete on Tuesday. Ideally, they'd like to be able to bring back that file...

Being a lazy Mac Admin, I prefer not to have to visit users' machines in order to get relatively simple tasks done. For example, if I needed to setup a local account on someone's Mac so that someone else could use it, I wouldn't want to have to walk over to another building to do that. I also...

Last year I began implementing Mac OS X 10.3 at the company where I work. One of the issues I had to tackle was backup of client systems to a central server. I tried several off-the-shelf products but none of them were quite right. Some required the administrator to be logged in and run the...