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OS X El Capitan downloaded but is not installing – how to fix it?

When upgrading one of our MacBook Pros today we found that El Capitan downloaded but did nothing else, still showing “download” in the App Store:

Clicking on the “Download button here does nothing. Selecting the “Updates” tab shows this:

Not super handy. However, assuming that it downloaded correctly we can kick off the installer from the Applications folder:

This one’s easy – open it as though you would any application and you should see:

Sorted. Good luck installing the new OS and enjoy! We’re pleased so far.

October 9, 2015
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 and Mac OS X – will no longer open

After upgrading Lightroom 5.6 to 5.7, it refused to open with the error:

Library not loaded: @executable_path/../Frameworks/asneu.framework/versions/a/asneu

This problem stems from the fact that the system drive is a case sensitive file system; in a similar vein, we were recently unable to install Adobe CC on a similar system as it is also incompatible with a case sensitive file system. We fixed our Lightroom issue by changing the path from:

/Applications/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.app/Contents/Frameworks/asneu.framework/Versions/A

to:

/Applications/Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.app/Contents/Frameworks/asneu.framework/versions/a

The above assumes a normal install to the /Applications directory. If you are game to try the change yourself, you make the change via Terminal:

cd /Applications/Adobe\ Photoshop\ Lightroom\ 5.app/Contents/Frameworks/asneu.framework

sudo mv Versions versions

cd versions

sudo mv A a

Now try and start Lightroom and you should be successful.

December 2, 2014
How to auto mount samba or cifs shares in OS X Mavericks

After mounting your shares using Command+K in Finder, go to:

Settings -> Users and Groups -> Click on the lock to allow changes

Select “Login items” at the top, click on the plus symbol, then find your server on the left pane:

Click on the samba/CIFS share you wish to automount, then select “Add”; you should now see it in the list:

In theory, to hide the Finder window which opens when it is mounted you select the “Hide” tickbox on the left side of the share name. This doesn’t seem to work, however! Click on the lock to prevent further changes, restart and you should see your shares automount on boot.

July 3, 2014
OS X Mavericks: How to show the date in the menu bar

This one is nice and easy – go to System Preferences -> Date & Time -> Clock and then tick “Show Date”:

A small thing, but quite useful.

June 28, 2014
How to hide user account names on OS X Mavericks’ login screen

For those who don’t want the available users to be publically visible to whoever wakes up or powers on your Mac, there is an easy way of hiding the list – or just select members. In a Terminal window run the following:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add [username]

You can do this to multiple accounts at once;

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add [username01] [username02] [username03]

To find the username that OS X uses for each user account, do the following:

Go to System Preferences -> Users and Groups -> Click the lock to allow changes -> Right click on a username -> Advanced Options

Under the section:

Account Name

…you will see the account name which OS X uses for that user account.

June 24, 2014