Category Archives: Solutions

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Slow startup and sleep problems on MacBook Pro 2,2

Posted on January 17, 2010 by Dae

Once I noticed that the booting process of my MacBook Pro 2,2 extended to 5-7 minutes (the longest phase of the startup process was the blue screen which usually appears right before the desktop) and additionally, sleep (hibernate) mode stopped … Continue reading →

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“Building boot caches” error when changing startup disk

Posted on December 11, 2009 by Dae

Once I tried to change the default startup disk on my Mac running Snow Leopard and the following error appeared: “you can’t change the startup disk to the selected disk. Building boot caches on boot helper partition failed”.

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“Failed to expand the files” error

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Dae

Getting “failed to expand the files” while installing Canon camera software, such as ZoomBrowser Ex? Just turn off your antivirus.

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BBEdit preview shows raw PHP code

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Dae

If your BBEdit preview shows raw PHP code, go to “Preferences” and configure a “HTML web-site” with “Use local preview server” ticked.

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