So, I'm going to document what problems I currently have with Active Directory home drives stored on windows SMB shares.
In the past when we put our macs on the active directory logins, I always untick the "Force local home" in the active directory options. The main reason is so that users take with them all of their account settings and preferences where-ever they login. This does however come with problems. It seems the mounted home drive has some permission issues which some applications have real problems with.
In the past I have installed Network Home Redirection (NHR). At login, this script runs whenever it detects the user to be a network user. It then creates a local temporary folder and creates alias' from particular folders on your home drive to the local folder. From the perspective of an application running, it thinks that these folders are normal local folders which they tend to prefer.
The default NHR setup redirects folders of known problems in OS X 10.6. But I don't think it is updated anymore. I have been constantly adding and taking away folder re-directions for the application we use in the computer suites.
Here I shall document current problems with network home preferences where NHR has worked.
Adobe Acrobat Pro 9
Seems to Crash when opening a document
Redirected folder: ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Acrobat
Seems to have fixed the crash
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Monday, 10 March 2014
Friday, 22 February 2013
Creating cogs in Illustrator
Thought it worth remembering (although it is very easy) but I wanted to create cogs in Illustrator. Luckily there are lots of youtube videos on the subject, here are two good ones:
and also this one:
The first involves making a circle, drawing a box whose centre is lined up with the circles but is draw on the edge of the circle. This box is then rotated around the centre of the circle by clicking on the box, clicking the rotate tool, and 'alt' clicking on the centre of the circle.
The second involves cutting a circle using rotated and copied lines and circles, and deleting the cog bits from the outside.
I prefer the first method, as cog notches do not wedge shaped the wrong way.
and also this one:
The first involves making a circle, drawing a box whose centre is lined up with the circles but is draw on the edge of the circle. This box is then rotated around the centre of the circle by clicking on the box, clicking the rotate tool, and 'alt' clicking on the centre of the circle.
The second involves cutting a circle using rotated and copied lines and circles, and deleting the cog bits from the outside.
I prefer the first method, as cog notches do not wedge shaped the wrong way.
Monday, 13 August 2012
Current NHR LIclean.hook
So, after a few years of using NHR I've had to add a few more exceptions. Instead of writing them down I thought I'd might as well just paste the LIclean.hook file here:
#!/bin/sh
#set -xv; exec 1>>/tmp/out 2>&1
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin export PATH
#The line above is used for logging and troubleshooting only - if you need to troubleshoot this script, remove the "#" from the line. Once you are done, put the "#" back at the beginning of the line.
logger "LoginHook: Starting for $1"
#Update on June 27, 2006 - added support for 10.3 clients and other improvements
#Update on July 10, 2006 - added feature so that all local users will bypass redirection.
#Update on October 18, 2006 - added $1 directory in /tmp for better folder structure.
#Update on July 13, 2007 - added Leopard compatibility
#Update on July 19, 2007 - added line to delete Clip Gallery Preferences, if they have not already been removed from the local admin's account.
#Update on April 28, 2008 - took out iHook application, as some users didn't like seeing the iHook window during login.
#Update on August 20, 2008 - due to ACL's put on user home folders starting with 10.5.4, this will now remove the ACL so that redirection can still take place on the folders with Deny Delete ACL's.
#Update on September 3, 2008 - added Office 2008 support
#Update on September 17, 2008 - deleted EOF commands, as it was causing issues with some PPC machines.
#Update on October 5, 2008 - added support for SMART board software, as they store caches in ~/Library/Application Support
#Update on March 5, 2009 - fixed issue with finding local users that matched part of the username (added -x to grep)
#Update on March 11, 2009 - added support for Adobe Acrobat 9
#Update on April 17, 2009 - added support for Adobe CS4
#Update on August 17, 2009 - added support for iMovie 09 with network homes
#Update on September 23, 2009 - added support for users with "." in their shortnames (thanks to Ben Gollmer for this addition)
LocalAdminUser=`dscl . -list /Users uid |grep 501 |awk '{print$1}'`
Local=`dscl . -list /Users |grep -x $1`
#This script will re-direct several folders from a user's network home location to the local machine to help with performance.
if [[ "$1" == "$Local" ]]; then
exit 0
fi
eval home_loc=~$1
#This section will verify that there are no DENY DELETE ACL's on the folders - and if so, remove the ACL so that redirection can still take place.
aclline=`ls -led "$home_loc"/Library/Caches | grep "deny delete" | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'`
chmod -a# $aclline "$home_loc"/Library/Caches
aclline=`ls -led "$home_loc"/Library/Fonts | grep "deny delete" | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'`
chmod -a# $aclline "$home_loc"/Library/Fonts
aclline=`ls -led "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/Gallery | grep "deny delete" | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'`
chmod -a# $aclline "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/Gallery
#This section will delete the Fonts, Microsoft User Data, AppleWorks User Data, SMART Board Gallery folder and Microsoft Preferences folders from the current user's network home location
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Caches
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Fonts
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Documents/AppleWorks\ User\ Data
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/Gallery
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Google
#This section will clean up the local drive, so that iMovie 09 will work with network homes
rm -rf /iMovie\ Events
rm -rf /iMovie\ Projects
#This section will make a folder for the current user in /tmp
mkdir /tmp/$1/
mkdir /tmp/$1/Adobe
#mkdir /tmp/$1/Adobe/Acrobat
#mkdir /tmp/$1/Adobe/Illustrator\ CS4
mkdir /tmp/$1/Google
#This will copy several Microsoft folders of the local admin user (make sure this account was the first account set up on the client - with UID 501) to /tmp.
cp -R /Users/$LocalAdminUser/Library/Preferences/Microsoft /tmp/$1/Microsoft/
rm -f "/tmp/$1/Microsoft/Clip Gallery Preferences"
cp -R /Users/$LocalAdminUser/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office /tmp/$1/Office2008
cp -R /Users/$LocalAdminUser/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data /tmp/$1/Microsoft\ User\ Data/
#This will create the iMovie 09 folders needed to work with network homes
mkdir "$home_loc"/Movies/iMovie\ Events
mkdir "$home_loc"/Movies/iMovie\ Projects
#This will create an AppleWorks User Data folder in /tmp.
mkdir /tmp/$1/Appleworks
#This will create the user's Caches folder in /tmp.
mkdir /tmp/$1/Caches
#This will check for the Notebook application (SMART) and create a SMART folder in /tmp (if needed).
SMART=`test -e /Applications/Notebook\ Software/Notebook.app && echo Yes`
if [[ "$SMART" == "Yes" ]]; then
mkdir /tmp/$1/SMART
mkdir -p "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/
fi
#This will change ownership of all files in /tmp/$1 to the current user
chown -R `dscl /Search -read /Users/$1 UniqueID | awk '{print $2}'` /tmp/$1
#This will create the Microsoft and Adobe folders, inside the Application Support folder, for the user.
mkdir "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft
#mkdir "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe
#This last section will set up symbolic links for the current user.
ln -s /tmp/$1/Caches/ "$home_loc"/Library/Caches
ln -s /Library/Fonts/ "$home_loc"/Library/Fonts
ln -s /tmp/$1/Appleworks "$home_loc"/Documents/AppleWorks\ User\ Data
ln -s /tmp/$1/Microsoft/ "$home_loc"/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
ln -s /tmp/$1/Microsoft\ User\ Data/ "$home_loc"/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data
ln -s /tmp/$1/Office2008/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office
ln -s /tmp/$1/SMART/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/Gallery
#ln -s /tmp/$1/Adobe/Acrobat/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Acrobat
#ln -s /tmp/$1/Adobe/Illustrator\ CS4/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Illustrator\ CS4
ln -s /tmp/$1/Adobe/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe
ln -s "$home_loc"/Movies/iMovie\ Events /iMovie\ Events
ln -s "$home_loc"/Movies/iMovie\ Projects /iMovie\ Projects
ln -s /tmp/$1/Google "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/
logger - "LoginHook: Finished for $1"
#sendLogon extras (IP address and Port number has been taken out)
/usr/bin/sendLogon 123.456.32.1 1234 $1
/usr/bin/sendLogon 123.456.32.2 1234 $1
/usr/bin/sendLogon 123.456.32.3 1234 $1
#!/bin/sh
#set -xv; exec 1>>/tmp/out 2>&1
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin export PATH
#The line above is used for logging and troubleshooting only - if you need to troubleshoot this script, remove the "#" from the line. Once you are done, put the "#" back at the beginning of the line.
logger "LoginHook: Starting for $1"
#Update on June 27, 2006 - added support for 10.3 clients and other improvements
#Update on July 10, 2006 - added feature so that all local users will bypass redirection.
#Update on October 18, 2006 - added $1 directory in /tmp for better folder structure.
#Update on July 13, 2007 - added Leopard compatibility
#Update on July 19, 2007 - added line to delete Clip Gallery Preferences, if they have not already been removed from the local admin's account.
#Update on April 28, 2008 - took out iHook application, as some users didn't like seeing the iHook window during login.
#Update on August 20, 2008 - due to ACL's put on user home folders starting with 10.5.4, this will now remove the ACL so that redirection can still take place on the folders with Deny Delete ACL's.
#Update on September 3, 2008 - added Office 2008 support
#Update on September 17, 2008 - deleted EOF commands, as it was causing issues with some PPC machines.
#Update on October 5, 2008 - added support for SMART board software, as they store caches in ~/Library/Application Support
#Update on March 5, 2009 - fixed issue with finding local users that matched part of the username (added -x to grep)
#Update on March 11, 2009 - added support for Adobe Acrobat 9
#Update on April 17, 2009 - added support for Adobe CS4
#Update on August 17, 2009 - added support for iMovie 09 with network homes
#Update on September 23, 2009 - added support for users with "." in their shortnames (thanks to Ben Gollmer for this addition)
LocalAdminUser=`dscl . -list /Users uid |grep 501 |awk '{print$1}'`
Local=`dscl . -list /Users |grep -x $1`
#This script will re-direct several folders from a user's network home location to the local machine to help with performance.
if [[ "$1" == "$Local" ]]; then
exit 0
fi
eval home_loc=~$1
#This section will verify that there are no DENY DELETE ACL's on the folders - and if so, remove the ACL so that redirection can still take place.
aclline=`ls -led "$home_loc"/Library/Caches | grep "deny delete" | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'`
chmod -a# $aclline "$home_loc"/Library/Caches
aclline=`ls -led "$home_loc"/Library/Fonts | grep "deny delete" | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'`
chmod -a# $aclline "$home_loc"/Library/Fonts
aclline=`ls -led "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/Gallery | grep "deny delete" | head -1 | awk -F: '{print $1}' | sed 's/^[ \t]*//'`
chmod -a# $aclline "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/Gallery
#This section will delete the Fonts, Microsoft User Data, AppleWorks User Data, SMART Board Gallery folder and Microsoft Preferences folders from the current user's network home location
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Caches
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Fonts
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Documents/AppleWorks\ User\ Data
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/Gallery
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe
rm -rf "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Google
#This section will clean up the local drive, so that iMovie 09 will work with network homes
rm -rf /iMovie\ Events
rm -rf /iMovie\ Projects
#This section will make a folder for the current user in /tmp
mkdir /tmp/$1/
mkdir /tmp/$1/Adobe
#mkdir /tmp/$1/Adobe/Acrobat
#mkdir /tmp/$1/Adobe/Illustrator\ CS4
mkdir /tmp/$1/Google
#This will copy several Microsoft folders of the local admin user (make sure this account was the first account set up on the client - with UID 501) to /tmp.
cp -R /Users/$LocalAdminUser/Library/Preferences/Microsoft /tmp/$1/Microsoft/
rm -f "/tmp/$1/Microsoft/Clip Gallery Preferences"
cp -R /Users/$LocalAdminUser/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office /tmp/$1/Office2008
cp -R /Users/$LocalAdminUser/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data /tmp/$1/Microsoft\ User\ Data/
#This will create the iMovie 09 folders needed to work with network homes
mkdir "$home_loc"/Movies/iMovie\ Events
mkdir "$home_loc"/Movies/iMovie\ Projects
#This will create an AppleWorks User Data folder in /tmp.
mkdir /tmp/$1/Appleworks
#This will create the user's Caches folder in /tmp.
mkdir /tmp/$1/Caches
#This will check for the Notebook application (SMART) and create a SMART folder in /tmp (if needed).
SMART=`test -e /Applications/Notebook\ Software/Notebook.app && echo Yes`
if [[ "$SMART" == "Yes" ]]; then
mkdir /tmp/$1/SMART
mkdir -p "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/
fi
#This will change ownership of all files in /tmp/$1 to the current user
chown -R `dscl /Search -read /Users/$1 UniqueID | awk '{print $2}'` /tmp/$1
#This will create the Microsoft and Adobe folders, inside the Application Support folder, for the user.
mkdir "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft
#mkdir "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe
#This last section will set up symbolic links for the current user.
ln -s /tmp/$1/Caches/ "$home_loc"/Library/Caches
ln -s /Library/Fonts/ "$home_loc"/Library/Fonts
ln -s /tmp/$1/Appleworks "$home_loc"/Documents/AppleWorks\ User\ Data
ln -s /tmp/$1/Microsoft/ "$home_loc"/Library/Preferences/Microsoft
ln -s /tmp/$1/Microsoft\ User\ Data/ "$home_loc"/Documents/Microsoft\ User\ Data
ln -s /tmp/$1/Office2008/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Office
ln -s /tmp/$1/SMART/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/SMART\ Technologies\ Inc/Gallery
#ln -s /tmp/$1/Adobe/Acrobat/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Acrobat
#ln -s /tmp/$1/Adobe/Illustrator\ CS4/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Illustrator\ CS4
ln -s /tmp/$1/Adobe/ "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe
ln -s "$home_loc"/Movies/iMovie\ Events /iMovie\ Events
ln -s "$home_loc"/Movies/iMovie\ Projects /iMovie\ Projects
ln -s /tmp/$1/Google "$home_loc"/Library/Application\ Support/
logger - "LoginHook: Finished for $1"
#sendLogon extras (IP address and Port number has been taken out)
/usr/bin/sendLogon 123.456.32.1 1234 $1
/usr/bin/sendLogon 123.456.32.2 1234 $1
/usr/bin/sendLogon 123.456.32.3 1234 $1
I've commented out a few lines so I could see what I've done in the past.
Addition:
so, I've now found that Adobe Bridge has trouble opening. After some investigation it looks like Bridge 4 (CS5) doesn't like symbolic links, but prefers to use the networked folder.
After looking into all the Adobe Applications, the only one now which needs the symbolic link is Adobe Acrobat Pro. So I'm re-writing this script to create a symbolic link from ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat a the local folder.
I'm also getting rid of the Adobe symbolic link so that bridge works.
Addition (08/11/2012)
A few months on and I soon realised that although Illustrator is behaving much better then it did do in the past, I found that if it did not have a symbolic link to the local drive it would have trouble saving and exporting files to the desktop, making it appear that the files were saved, when in fact they had 0kb! This caused a bit of trouble with students at the time, and backups had to be retrieved.
I then added a symlink with ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS5.
I also realised that if it was a new student which didn't have an Application Support folder, NHR would be unable to create an Adobe folder inside this. I hence added a few lines to make the folders:
~/Library/
~/Library/Application Support/
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/
Addition:
so, I've now found that Adobe Bridge has trouble opening. After some investigation it looks like Bridge 4 (CS5) doesn't like symbolic links, but prefers to use the networked folder.
After looking into all the Adobe Applications, the only one now which needs the symbolic link is Adobe Acrobat Pro. So I'm re-writing this script to create a symbolic link from ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat a the local folder.
I'm also getting rid of the Adobe symbolic link so that bridge works.
Addition (08/11/2012)
A few months on and I soon realised that although Illustrator is behaving much better then it did do in the past, I found that if it did not have a symbolic link to the local drive it would have trouble saving and exporting files to the desktop, making it appear that the files were saved, when in fact they had 0kb! This caused a bit of trouble with students at the time, and backups had to be retrieved.
I then added a symlink with ~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe Illustrator CS5.
I also realised that if it was a new student which didn't have an Application Support folder, NHR would be unable to create an Adobe folder inside this. I hence added a few lines to make the folders:
~/Library/
~/Library/Application Support/
~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Adobe CS 5 updates for Deployment through ARD - Adobe Application Manager
So, I want to update Camera RAW on all the apple macs. How do I do this as the installer is a stupid .app file and not a nice PKG file. Well, you use the "Adobe Application Manager" of course!
So I just downloaded version 2.1. Interestingly their installer for it is also an .app file!!
Well, I can't believe it but it is unbelievably easy to make a pkg file. My only thought is why they need to give you the application to do it. Can't they host it on their site?
Anyway, I took some screenshots, although it is very self-explanitory:
A little note:
I came back to this recently and found Adobe Application Manager had trouble loading up. I later found the correct Application Manager to load up is in Directory:
/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/OOBE/PDApp/core/Adobe\ Application\ Manager.app, which might not be very obvious!!
So I just downloaded version 2.1. Interestingly their installer for it is also an .app file!!
Well, I can't believe it but it is unbelievably easy to make a pkg file. My only thought is why they need to give you the application to do it. Can't they host it on their site?
Anyway, I took some screenshots, although it is very self-explanitory:
A little note:
I came back to this recently and found Adobe Application Manager had trouble loading up. I later found the correct Application Manager to load up is in Directory:
/Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/OOBE/PDApp/core/Adobe\ Application\ Manager.app, which might not be very obvious!!
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Adobe Creative Suite 5 - keeps asking for serial number
I recently installed Adobe CS 5 on a Windows Vista laptop. During the initial stage of the installation it did ask for a serial for which I put in the correct numbers. It told me everything was fine and installed.
I then tried opening Adobe Photoshop and it came up with the a dialogue box asking for the serial. I put it in, it gave me the green tick and told me everything was fine. The dialogue box disappeared and then reappeared wanting me to put in the serial, in a continual loop.
I tried serveral logins' including the administrators but none worked. I also tried a reboot.
I must mention that this laptop had Adobe CS3 installed previously which had stopped working due to a licensing error.
After trawling through the internet I initially found this post, and he posts again to say he has found a forum and found the only fix was to delete a database file. He failed to say which file, or even which post he had found!!
After some more looking, specifically for Adobe CS databases, I found this post. It mentions deleting:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db
I found the file, renamed it and tried Adobe again. Put in the serial and it works beautifully.
My conclusion was that this file had either gotten corrupt or had the wrong permissions.
I then tried opening Adobe Photoshop and it came up with the a dialogue box asking for the serial. I put it in, it gave me the green tick and told me everything was fine. The dialogue box disappeared and then reappeared wanting me to put in the serial, in a continual loop.
I tried serveral logins' including the administrators but none worked. I also tried a reboot.
I must mention that this laptop had Adobe CS3 installed previously which had stopped working due to a licensing error.
After trawling through the internet I initially found this post, and he posts again to say he has found a forum and found the only fix was to delete a database file. He failed to say which file, or even which post he had found!!
After some more looking, specifically for Adobe CS databases, I found this post. It mentions deleting:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe PCD\cache\cache.db
I found the file, renamed it and tried Adobe again. Put in the serial and it works beautifully.
My conclusion was that this file had either gotten corrupt or had the wrong permissions.
Monday, 12 December 2011
Photoshop CS 5 "Document was made in a newer version" work-around
I've just had a student struggling to open a photoshop file. The "error" that came up was something along the lines of:
This was not the case though, as the student had only ever used that computer to make the file. I checked his disk space of which he had 50MB free, and the photoshop file was 90MB. It could have been caused by a lack of disk space.
You could see OS X making a nice little preview of the file, and so I decided to try and open it using Preview (which does now open new PSD files). I opened perfectly in Preview and I selected "Save As" from Preview and saved it as another PSD file.
This opened without trouble in Photoshop, but I did notice it didn't have any layers. I did not ask the student if this was how he had made it, but I think it should have had layers. My conclusion is that Preview, upon saving, merges the layers. I'm also assuming that the PSD file was originally saved for "maximum compatibility" which saves a merged layer.
So, in ultimate conclusion, always "save with maximum compatibility" in Photoshop. This way you might have a better chance opening a "broken" file in Preview and saving it out of this.
Cannot open document as it was made in a newer version
This was not the case though, as the student had only ever used that computer to make the file. I checked his disk space of which he had 50MB free, and the photoshop file was 90MB. It could have been caused by a lack of disk space.
You could see OS X making a nice little preview of the file, and so I decided to try and open it using Preview (which does now open new PSD files). I opened perfectly in Preview and I selected "Save As" from Preview and saved it as another PSD file.
This opened without trouble in Photoshop, but I did notice it didn't have any layers. I did not ask the student if this was how he had made it, but I think it should have had layers. My conclusion is that Preview, upon saving, merges the layers. I'm also assuming that the PSD file was originally saved for "maximum compatibility" which saves a merged layer.
So, in ultimate conclusion, always "save with maximum compatibility" in Photoshop. This way you might have a better chance opening a "broken" file in Preview and saving it out of this.
Friday, 4 November 2011
Adobe CS 5 Error 16 - uninstall and reinstall adobe product
Just came across this today on a staff machine. When they tried to use indesign it would crash almost immediately. I then logged in under a local account and tried to use any of the Adobe Creative Suite products, all of which showed this error straight away.
I rebooted, reseting the PRAM and running /sbin/fsck -yf. No changes were made to the operating system and Adobe CS 5 still came up with this error, so the problem wasn't here.
I read up on it and it looked like it has something to do with licensing. I finally logged in as Root and tried all the Adobe products, and IT WORKED!
After running this it worked on all local logins.
Coincidentally, when the staff member logged in and ran indesign, it crashed straight away (no error). After this the error 16 occurred on all logins!! So it was something with her account which much change something somewhere. I shall look into this!
I rebooted, reseting the PRAM and running /sbin/fsck -yf. No changes were made to the operating system and Adobe CS 5 still came up with this error, so the problem wasn't here.
I read up on it and it looked like it has something to do with licensing. I finally logged in as Root and tried all the Adobe products, and IT WORKED!
After running this it worked on all local logins.
Coincidentally, when the staff member logged in and ran indesign, it crashed straight away (no error). After this the error 16 occurred on all logins!! So it was something with her account which much change something somewhere. I shall look into this!
Monday, 31 October 2011
Missing font Adobe CS 5 - Arno Pro
Just had a request to install Arno Pro. Of course I'd never heard of it, and doubted whether it had been installed as a default.
But, upon further investigation (Wiki) I found that it did actually come with Adobe CS3. With all the machines in college being re-imaged. Adobe CS 5 and the whole of Windows had probably been installed from scratch and hence Arno Pro would have been lost.
Thankfully I found the Adobe CS3 premium disk and found the fonts dmg file:
and within found the Arno Pro font family. odt. Sorted!
But, upon further investigation (Wiki) I found that it did actually come with Adobe CS3. With all the machines in college being re-imaged. Adobe CS 5 and the whole of Windows had probably been installed from scratch and hence Arno Pro would have been lost.
Thankfully I found the Adobe CS3 premium disk and found the fonts dmg file:
Adobe\ CS3\ Design\ Premium/Adobe\ CS3\ Design\ Premium/payloads/AdobeFontsAll/AdobeFontsAll.dmg
and within found the Arno Pro font family. odt. Sorted!
Thursday, 13 October 2011
Downloading Photos using Bridge
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| Downloading Photos using Bridge |
OS X - In ‘Finder’ go to Applications > Adobe Bridge CS5 > Adobe Bridge CS5
Windows – Go to Start > Adobe Creative Suite Premium CS5 > Adobe Bridge CS5
Monday, 12 September 2011
Creating Stripes in Illustrator using Patterns and Live Paint
I recently wanted to fill in a circle is some stripes in Illustrator, but alas it was not self explanatory. After looking it up on the old reliable internet I found quite a few posts describing a technique of copying and pasting lines throughout. Not really what I wanted to hear. The process I wanted was something along the lines of:
Mythical solution (does not really work this way, although I would like it to)
Mythical solution (does not really work this way, although I would like it to)
- Get the fill tool
- Select "Stripes"
- Fill object
I decided to investigate myself. I finally came up with a pretty close technique.
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| Making two lines into a "Pattern" |
- Draw a line and make it a stroked colour of some thickness
- Copy and Paste it next to the first, making it stroke a different colour
- Select both lines and go to - Edit > Define Pattern
- Click on "Live Paint" from the left toolbar
- From the Fill Colour box at the top you can select the striped pattern you just made
- Click on the object you want to fill with stripes
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| Star filled with striped pattern |
To change the colour of the stripes:
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| Changing the colour of pattern using "Recolor Artwork" |
- Select the fill (double click on it).
- Select "Recolor Artwork"
- Go get the option to change each of the colours in the fill:
Just found this post which describes a similar process using boxes, and dragging the boxes into the "Swatches" to create a pattern. Also how to rotate it, simply right click > Transform > Rotate and tick "Pattern". Nice.
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Wednesday, 27 July 2011
OS X 10.6.6 Active Directory login Extension Manager doesn't load
Well, what do you know. I updated from Dreamweaver version 11.0.0 to 11.0.3.4964 using AdobeDreamweaver-11.0-All-Update.dmg. Seems to work nicely now, I see a splash screen and next it tells me Adobe Extension Manager needs to load to finish the update.
Of course now this "Extension Manager" has the same problem DreamWeaver had. It just pops up and sits there not doing anything. But it does let Dreamweaver finish loading and lets me use Dreamweaver. The only real downside is that I get this message every time I load dreamweaver. In console I get about 20 similar error messages:
27/07/2011 15:04:35 Adobe Extension Manager CS5[3434] *** __NSAutoreleaseNoPool(): Object 0x210a5f0 of class NSView autoreleased with no pool in place - just leaking
Pretty funny: "no pool" and "just leaking"
On a quick search I found this post. Someone mentions a problem with Adobe Air but might be refering to a Windows problem. I shall update just in case.... updated from 1.5 to 2.3, which doesn't solve the problem.
I'll try loading this up using a local account, maybe it updates files on the Hard Drive, or maybe it updates files on the Users Home Drive?
Loaded it up on a local login to find that extension manager is a manager which helps control updates! I wish it could be easier, why another program? It updated Dreamweaver just fine. I think all it had to do was to log down that an update had been carried out.
It appears this Extension Manager runs on a "per user" basis, and hence does keep coming up on Active Directory logins until the process is complete. So if I don't want to see the error message again I'd have to fix the Extension Manager problem.
As a work around, I could copy whatever files it creates in a local users library to the active directory users library which might work, but it might create special codes.
OS X 10.6.6 Active Directory login Dreamweaver doesn't load
On trying to load Dreamweaver up on an Active Directory account running OS X 10.6.6 Dreamweaver trys to load but stops almost straight away with no error! It still runs but doesn't even load a splash screen. When logging in on a local account Dreamweaver works a charm.
A quick search drew up a few posts, heres an example. Most point to permissions issues on the "Configuration" folder in /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5. This was mainly caused by FileVault which is obviously more common then people using Active Directory logins. The only solution of which is to switch FileVault off! Of course we can't just switch off Active Directory logins though!
I do have NHR installed, and with the Caches folder being relocated to the local drive I know it is not this. I figured it might be another folder dreamweaver tries to use. Here are the other files:
A quick search drew up a few posts, heres an example. Most point to permissions issues on the "Configuration" folder in /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS5. This was mainly caused by FileVault which is obviously more common then people using Active Directory logins. The only solution of which is to switch FileVault off! Of course we can't just switch off Active Directory logins though!
I do have NHR installed, and with the Caches folder being relocated to the local drive I know it is not this. I figured it might be another folder dreamweaver tries to use. Here are the other files:
- /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver\ CS5
- /Library/Preferences/Adobe\ Dreamweaver\ CS5\ Prefs
there's also a plist file in the Preferences folder but I deleted it and it has not been recreated. Something like
com.adobe.dreamweaver
I've also been having a few issues with the Application Support folder, which occasionally doesn't let me write files or folders to it, which causes problems like these. I originally thought it was this which caused the problem, but since rebooting I can now access the App support folder and dreamweaver still doesn't work.
Just playing around with NHR. I've adapted the script so that it creates a symlink for /Application Support/Adobe rather then some of the folders inside. Should be simpler. Didn't solve the problem though.
An error does keep appearing which is related to the file used in /Library/Preferences. Called:
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Prefs
Whenever I load Dreamweaver up (or try to) this appears in Console
27/07/2011 14:04:59 Finder[2463] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
I've tried to create an alias of this file on the local hard drive which doesn't seem to make any difference. My only guess is this always comes up.
I shall endevour to locate any other files Dreamweaver may use. Upon loading dreamweaver on a local login I found a lot more files in the Configuration folder in Application Support. I also found that the "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Prefs" file had more text in, so I copied these over to the networked account to see if it would change anything. Nope.
If anyone has any other information I would be glad to here it. I'm going to have to revert to a local account to use Dreamweaver until then!!
Well, what do you know. I updated from Dreamweaver version 11.0.0 to 11.0.3.4964 using AdobeDreamweaver-11.0-All-Update.dmg. Seems to work nicely now, I see a splash screen and next it tells me Adobe Extension Manager needs to load to finish the update.
An error does keep appearing which is related to the file used in /Library/Preferences. Called:
Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Prefs
Whenever I load Dreamweaver up (or try to) this appears in Console
27/07/2011 14:04:59 Finder[2463] CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): Old-style plist parser: missing semicolon in dictionary.
I've tried to create an alias of this file on the local hard drive which doesn't seem to make any difference. My only guess is this always comes up.
I shall endevour to locate any other files Dreamweaver may use. Upon loading dreamweaver on a local login I found a lot more files in the Configuration folder in Application Support. I also found that the "Adobe Dreamweaver CS5 Prefs" file had more text in, so I copied these over to the networked account to see if it would change anything. Nope.
If anyone has any other information I would be glad to here it. I'm going to have to revert to a local account to use Dreamweaver until then!!
Well, what do you know. I updated from Dreamweaver version 11.0.0 to 11.0.3.4964 using AdobeDreamweaver-11.0-All-Update.dmg. Seems to work nicely now, I see a splash screen and next it tells me Adobe Extension Manager needs to load to finish the update.
Of course now this "Extension Manager" has the same problem DreamWeaver had. It just pops up and sits there not doing anything. But it does let Dreamweaver finish loading and lets me use Dreamweaver. The only real downside is that I get this message every time I load dreamweaver.
I'll try loading this up using a local account, maybe it updates files on the Hard Drive, or maybe it updates files on the Users Home Drive?
Wednesday, 19 January 2011
Adobe Acrobat OS X Active Directory Crash
So after fixing Adobe Acrobat admin password problem acrobat 8 loads up, but crashes after 20 seconds. I remember fixing this exact problem with Marketings' computer, Louise Webster I think.
Doh! I didn't write the solution in the blog!!! Lesson learned over and over again. So here's the brief explination I told Paul Jenkins by email:
Doh! I didn't write the solution in the blog!!! Lesson learned over and over again. So here's the brief explination I told Paul Jenkins by email:
Hi Paul,
I went over at 12 today to have a look. It appears to have problems on any active directory accounts which aren’t administrators. Its a permissions issue because acrobat (and lots of other programs) write temp files to the users home drive with the wrong permissions. The NHR program was installed but only redirects caches and fonts folders to the local drive, but still didn’t fix the acrobat problems. I found another folder which needed re-directing - “~/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/”
I made a folder in “/Users/Shared/Websterl/” and created an alias in her “/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Acrobat/” so it gets re-directed to the local drive. It only works on this machine for only her at the moment. If any more people have the same problem it would be worth adding an entry in the NHR program for acrobat.
I also noticed the programs and operating system weren’t up-to-date. I’ve set it updating adobe products. Louise said she’d get back in contact if she had any more problems. I didn’t get around to updating the operating system though.
Cheers
StephenI had a look at this folder and came up straight away with error! I remember not it was a folder within this folder: /Library/Application\ Support/Adobe/Acrobat/9.0_x86. So after redirecting this one it works. So to fix this problem for everyone, NHR program will need to do this as well! I'll find out how to do that tomorrow!
Unfortunately, NHR the full program redirects too many folders, i.e. Microsoft User Data, so I'll have to adapt the loginhook, logouthook, clean script files etc. But then I can copy them to all machines and it should be fine.
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