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VMware Fusion and Lion USB not working

Dale — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 13:59:38 +0000

I upgraded my Mac to OS X 10.7 Lion the other day and found that USB devices no longer worked.

They appeared in device manager saying they could not start.

I found the following fix on the VMware forums :

You can check if you have non standard permissions by opening a terminal and running:

ls -ld /

You should see output like this:

drwxr-xr-x 53 root wheel 1870 Aug 4 12:43 /

If the permissions are different than above you can reset them using the following steps (for Fusion 3.1.3):

Shutdown Fusion.

In a terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)

sudo -s
chown root:wheel /
chmod 755 /
Reboot

Start Fusion and try connecting a USB device.

Source : VMware Forum

Microsoft Office 2011 Mac & Exchange 2010 Archive Mailbox

Dale — Wed, 25 May 2011 19:02:31 +0000

By the way a little bit of Information. Did you know that Office 2011 for the Mac does not support Online Archive Mailboxes!!! DOH!!! Why Microsoft didn’t add this in I dont know.

Here’s the official word from Microsoft on the subject :

Outlook 2011 for Mac (formerly known as Entourage) and previous versions of the Mac client do not include support for accessing the online archive mailbox. However the Mac Business group is looking at supporting this with a future update but there’s no confirmation or time line though.

Macbook Pro 2011 ThunderBolt to DVI

Dale — Wed, 25 May 2011 18:59:39 +0000

If you have a 2011 Macbook Pro and cant find a thunderbolt to DVI lead anywhere then dont worry the MB570Z MiniDisplay Port to DVI lead works fine.

Plex and Snow Leopard

Dale — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:26:00 +0000

I upgraded my mac mini to Snow Leopard last week. Had to go back to Leopard as Plex doesn’t work properly. The remote is all over the place. Playback stutters. Not good.

Also within 20 mins of having it up and running Photo Booth Crashed!!!! It never has before.