10.5: Avoid 'resource busy' errors in Disk Utility
In attempting to use Disk Utility to make a .dmg image file archive of a volume on my Mac under Leopard, I got a new error message that did not appear before with Tiger: Unable to create "Drive To Backup" (Resource busy). Apparently in Leopard, you have to first unmount the volume you want to back up before you attempt to backup the image from the File » New » Disk Image From menu selection. [robg adds: A commenter on the queue review site notes he had the same problem, but believes it to be a bug (which he filed). In the interim, though, this solution works.]
published on Thursday, the 8. November 2007, macosxhints
10.5: Change the Dock's background and separator
I know a lot of you are not a fan of the 3D dock, however I love it. One thing that was bugging me was that little curve that was in it. It seemed so unnecessary and I felt made the dock look a little too busy. In trying to see if I could remove it, I found out that whole background is one PNG image. The image is found here: /System » Library » CoreServices » Dock. Control-clik on the Dock file and select Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Once inside the dock's package contents, you need to go into the Resources folder. There is a bit of an unknown here: The dock's background image is called scurve.png, and if you're doing this as you read, you'll see there are several scurve files. The one that worked on my system was scurve-l.png. You may have to try some of the other scurve files (they range from sm to xl) to get this to work. Copy scurve-...
published on Monday, the 29. October 2007, macosxhints