Technical professionals. Trusted advisors. Certified expertise.

HCS Blog

Problem-solving by Apple Certified Professionals

Sam Valencia is an Apple Certified Trainer and long time member of the Apple Consultants Network.  Classroom and real world experience shape the tools and knowledge that Sam has acquired over the years.

Oct
01

FileMaker Server Web Services and OS X Server

If you install FileMaker Server web publishing services on an OS X Server machine it takes over the default http and https ports, 80 and 443 respectively.  What this means is that you cannot have FileMaker Server web publishing and built in OS X Server web services (ie. - Profile Manager) on the same machine.  Even if you then uninstall Filemaker web services, you may find that it holds on to the ports and you will not be able to load default OS X Server web pages.  You can usually check this by going to Activity Monitor, and search for httpd.  You may see multiple services owned by fmserver, which is the indication that FileMaker web services has taken over.

You can manually unload the processes but it will load itself up at next restart.  So try going to /Library/LaunchDaemons and look for com.filemaker.httpd.graceful.plist , com.filemaker.httpd.start.plist , and com.filemaker.httpd.stop.plist.  Remove them and restart.  Always back up these files first as a precaution.  I would also recommend stopping and starting OS X Server web services and/or Profile Manager and clearing your browser cache.

1
  6114 Hits
Sep
29

Apple Mail Address History

For quite a few versions of OS X, you could find the email address history for Apple Mail in ~/Library/Application Support/AddressBook/MailRecents-v4.abcdmr.  However, with Mavericks that file is no longer referenced.  So if you are ever tasked with a manual migration of Apple Mail data, you will need to know where to find this updated file location.  First we should note that Apple Mail is a sandboxed application.  So it's resources live in a protected area in ~/Library/Containers.  Drilling down a bit further, we will find ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.corerecents/recentsd/Data/Library/Recents/Recents.  That is the file you will need to copy over.  Secondly, Mavericks aggressively caches preferences so even after quitting and restarting Apple Mail, this change may not take effect.  One easy way to get around this may be to restart.  However, you can also kill a process called cfprefsd in Activity Monitory (or the command line) to clear this cache and Apple Mail should update its address history.

0
  6257 Hits

Locations


New York

Connecticut
Florida
Louisiana
Chicago

Corporate Headquarters
New York

80 Orville Drive Suite 100
Bohemia, NY 11716
Tel: (866) 518-9672
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Connecticut

65 High Ridge Road #510
Stamford, CT 06905
Tel: (866) 518-9672
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Florida

3321 SW 194th Terrace
Miramar, FL 33029
Tel: (866) 518-9672
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Louisiana

218 Barksdale Drive
Broussard LA 70518
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Chicago

4 Knollwood Place
Joliet, IL 60433
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

London

10 Grosvenor Court
Rayners Road
London SW15 2AX UK

Stay Connected

© Copyright 2023, HCS Technology Group. All Rights Reserved.