A client of mine has got a couple of servers that I haven't touched in years and somewhere along the line I've lost track of the login credentials for them. I do however have the computers, and their passwords, saved...
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I had a company-owned MacBook Pro that was locked to an Apple ID using a company email address. Whilst I had the Apple ID password, I only discovered that the laptop was locked to a personal Apple ID after we...
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I recently took on a new client and in the process migrated their 3CX instance onto a new host as part of their onboarding process. In doing this, I took a backup of the previous system, spun up a new...
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I had a bunch of zip files from a Google Takeout that I needed to extract on macOS and deal with the contents. As it turns out, a LOT of the files in the archives had unicode characters in their...
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I use Firefox containers a lot when I'm working for a number of different clients - e.g. I'll have a container in Firefox for each regular client so I can log into their Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace tenancy and...
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I was recently dealing with needing to fill in a PDF form and then supply it to someone as a flattened PDF so that they couldn't (easily) edit it. I don't know what the creator of this PDF did however...
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I've had a couple of clients with a Synology syncing to Dropbox via Cloud Sync and after Dropbox upgraded their tenancy to use the new Dropbox Team Space, syncing stopped, and it couldn't be set up again. When you remove...
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Microsoft have recently changed the default font in Office to Aptos. Apart from the visual changes, this seems to cause problems with Acrobat Distiller and creating PDFs from Office documents. When creating a PDF, instead of the PDF opening at...
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I've got a few decently-specced Synology servers out there that seem to be constantly running with nearly 100% CPU usage caused by synoelasticd. This task is the main process behind Synology Universal Search. From what I've read, the issues often...
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I have a client with a strange, ongoing issue with their email. Particular emails – in this case invoices I send them from Xero, land in the Inbox and then a few seconds later they disappear and end up in...
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