First thing I see in the morning is an email from GFI saying “YOU HAVE A FREE UPGRADE ZOMG!”. Mailarchiver 6 is out, and it boasts quite a few new features, none of which are documented yet - they still only have the MA5 manual up on their site.
I download the update, schedule an outage (it’s not really used by anyone apart from us, the IT department), and start the upgrade. I get to the ‘You need to update your auditing database by doing this chant/sacrifice:’ part, and the next button proceeds to do sweet f–k all. The installer doesn’t lock up, I can still click back, just not next. How’s that for an error message?
The error, in fact, is that MA5 needs to be upgraded with the latest updates before you can upgrade.
If you’ve come across this issue, here’s the link to the file you’ll need to install in order to progress any further: http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID003336
Now all I need is some documentation on the new features. It appears that an outlook plugin they’ve made (which I can’t find) allows users to mount their archive in their outlook. If this also allows them to move things to the archive, say, old emails from their 20gb+ worth of PSTs, then this will save admins a lot of time. I’ll find out when I get time.
- NM
So, I’m trying to start developing synflare.com, using my MacBook and OSX as a development platform.
I need GD for PHP, and I can’t be screwed compiling it from source (that’s why I’ve also moved from Gentoo to Ubuntu. Binaries make life easier). Fink is a brilliant service that provides an almost ‘apt’ way of getting and installing software. With Fink, I can issue a single command in terminal and have GD install itself.
My problem, however, was that Fink wasn’t installing. At the install volume selection screen, I wasn’t able to select my root volume. It’s reasoning was: “You cannot install Fink on this volume. Cannot perform symlink test on this volume because of a permissions problem. Try performing the “Repair Disk Permissions” function in Disk Utility”.
After several Verify and Repair permissions commands, I still had no joy. I noticed that the Disk Utility log was spouting the line: “ACL present but not expected for…”. After some investigation, those lines are merely informational. As Fink still wasn’t installing, I decided to fix them by running ‘chmod -a# 0′ on the directories affected. This still didn’t help! I was at breaking point.
I decided to fix it my way (read: quick and simple).
Entering the Fink Installer Package (right-click, Show Package Contents - in Finder), I could see three scripts in the Resources folder, one of which was VolumeCheck, which basically tells the Installer if you have permissions to the Volume in question. Editing this script, I made sure it did nothing but return an exit-code of ‘0′ back to the installer.
Hey-presto, it works, and there’s no noticable issues with Fink. GD installs perfectly.
In a nutshell:
- Copy the Fink Installer Package out of the DMG and into your home folder.
- Go into the folder where you copied the package, right click on the package and click ‘Show Package Contents”
- Navigate to the Resources directory, which resides inside the Contents directory.
- Delete the existing VolumeCheck script.
- Download this file - volumecheck - and extract it into the Resources directory in the package.
- Run the installer!
If you have this problem, and this fix works for you, be sure to post a comment - I’m interested to see how many people this happens to.
- NM
