Taking a Break with Some Oregon Wine
Every once in a while I get a chance to take a break from my 7-day-a-week tech gigs and enjoy a good glass of beer or wine. This is one of the recent additions to my little wine collection – Purple Hands. The table wine is a blend – 85% Oregon Merlot, 10% Oregon Pinot Noir, 5% Cabernet Franc – and is incredibly smooth on tannin, rich with dark berry, plum and mineral spice, with slight hints of dark chocolate. If you’re a wine lover, check this one out.
Snow Leopard: .dmg and .pkg files not opening?
Like the booboo with .zip files, my installation of Snow Leopard was also having trouble opening .dmg and .pkg files. Installer.app would freeze. Bugger! After a little digging, the simple solution is to delete the “com.apple.finder.plist” file from your
Snow Leopard: Are your zip files not unzipping?
After updating my MacBook Pro to Snow Leopard, I noticed that I was unable to open .zip archives. I use The Unarchiver to open my Mac and PC-compatible archives. When I attempted to open a zip file, Unarchiver had been overtaken by Snow Leopard’s “Archive Utility”, and the Archive Utility.app kept freezing and required numerous Force Quits. I went through all kinds of debug actions, but nothing fixed the perplexing problem. I checked Google and found only one forum thread, but folks were suggesting that “Stuffit Expander” be used instead of Snow Leopard’s default utility. That’s not a solution, but a side-step around a critical booboo.
I recloned my hard drive and prepared to wipe everything and install a fresh copy of Snow Leopard. Literally on the verge of rebooting for the clean-sweep, I opened Disk Utility and ran the “Repair Disk Permissions” and “Verify Disk” functions.
Lo and behold, the zip archives are now opening with Snow Leopard’s built-in Archive Utility (which no longer freezes up). I re-installed Unarchiver and reset it as the default unzip app. All’s well, and I saved myself an evening of reinstalling all my apps. Phew!
If anyone else out there Googles “Snow Leopard won’t unzip” or “Archive Utility.app not working”, I hope they land here for the quick and easy fix.