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VMware Fusion and Lion USB not working

August 21st, 2011 1 comment

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

Plex and Snow Leopard

September 3rd, 2009 No comments

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.

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Snow Leopard released on August 28th

August 24th, 2009 No comments

Been reading up on Snow Leopard. Apple have certainly bigged it up and made it look very impressive.

Lets hope that it lives up to the hype and most importantly my order from Apple arrives shortly after the 28th.

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