Finishing with Safari

Right, for some unclear reason I was still browsing with Safari. With 10+ tabs open and some flash content running it turned out that Safari was using 700-800 Mb RAM with large variety of apps running in browser. So switching to Chrome as we speak. Seems memory usage is smaller with it and browsing quicker. Outrageous use of resources by Safari.

Cleared browsing history in Safari and gradually I also get back harddrive space. Tried to quit it but now its just beachballing, probably cleaning after it self right now as free space amount on harddrive is constantly rising.

Damn spindump

I now switched to 13" MacBook and used Migration Assistant to move old system to new one. For some reason many apps became unresponsive and spindump process was running and consuming processor time.
Disabled spindump for now to see if that helps abit.

Disable sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.spindump.plist

Enable sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.spindump.plist

Time machine errors

So after few months of successful backups it just stopped to work. Investigated the issue and it seems that Time Machine is unable to determine which are "System files and folders" that is by default defined as exception in Options.
From log perspective it means you get lines like
"FindSystemFiles Finding system files..."
"FindSystemFiles FSOpenIterator failed"
to Console and backup hangs.

This option can be replaced with excluding next items

/Applications
/bin
/Library
/private
/sbin
/System
/usr

like instructed here.

Also my MacBook got new 7200 rpm harddrive. Old one started to make weird noises. Its "hello, I am going to break soon > do something" type of noise. You know it, when you hear it!

App Store account

Small howto for Estonia. Needed to obtain free software from Apple AppStore.

Do not delete account !!!

Mail really screwed me in the ***!

I created another account to Mail with different sending address in Mail. Mailbox was duplicate to existing POP3 account. I did it because I needed sender email address I had defined to signing certificate. All worked fine until emails getting in started to appear as dublicate in Mail. Decided to remove accout that was created with this email address defined in certificate. Bang, all data from orgininal POP3 Inbox was also gone.

Now trying to recover with Prosoft Engineering Data Rescue II

Mail and digital signatures

How to add certificates to Mail and digitally sign documents. Also note that you need to close Mail app before certificates are imported.

iMovie 08 - no chapters...

... nor iDVD export. For those who still live in present day, Apple has made available iMovie 06 as addon install for iLife 08.