Solving technology problems, one at a time
Sometimes for whatever reason, Time Machine doesn’t auto-delete backups to make space for new ones. If you have this problem you might try getting it going again by manually deleting one or two of the oldest ones. Here’s how to safely do this, using the Time Machine interface.
Enter Time Machine and select the backup you want to delete.
Continue readingA few months ago, I needed to revise an HTML file that is used many times across a large website. Most of the key code associated with this file is contained in centrally-located includes, but as luck would have it, this time the entire file needed to be revised – even the user-customized bits. That meant that almost a thousand files would have to be replaced. Worse, they were not entirely the same, since they were customized by the users to some extent.
After checking a few of them, I found there were enough commonalities to serve as the basis of a regular expression search. They always started with a comment, like this:
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Symptom: hyperlinks that worked in a Powerpoint file no longer work in the published Presenter or Powerpoint presentation based on that Powerpoint.
This is because Flash Security treats local content differently than the content on the internet.
The solution is to put the published files onto a web server and access it using the URL (like: http://yoursite.com/yourpresentation.htm).
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