I recently discovered that my MacBook Pro had developed a fault whereby the DVD drive would read any DVD I cared to insert but would no longer accept blank DVDs. This turned out to be a known issue with certain brands of drive that Apple use, or just dirt on the lens (take your pick …
Category Archive: Mac Geekery
Dec
01
Hidden Files in Mac OS X
Having finally got around to uploading the original rss4jsp projects into SourceForge this evening I found myself with a problem – I was uploading all sorts of stuff that was not applicable. For example, Apple creates a .DS_Store file in every folder viewed by the Finder, to store information about how the folder looks in …