Change default font size in Mail.app
November 28, 2008
Now this is useful! I have 456 Berea Street to that for this. I often get emails sent though as HTML with a font size of 10 – and this looks too small in OS X. using a terminal command after making sure you have quit mail.app, allows you to set the default font at any size you wish. My preference is 12.
write com.apple.mail MinimumHTMLFontSize 12
Restart mail.app et viola!
Third New Logic Board for Mac Mini
November 4, 2008
For the second time in 3 months my Mac Mini Logic board died. I’m under applecare so there’s no problem getting it fixed but…
New Logic board =
- additional itunes authorisation,
- messed up date and time by resetting it to 2001!
- Missing time-machine volume as it’s registered with a different logic board and therefore won’t use it as a backup volume anymore. So I effectively lose my previous time machine backup and over write with a completely new one.
- Networking issues due to messed up IP address, which had reset itself to… God knows what.
These are small but very niggly problems when all you want to do is dive right in and use your own system that you’ve spent a long time setting up for yourself
Itunes Problem: I now have 4 out of 5 of my allowed authorised itunes – 3 of those 4 are this same machine. I can’t de-authorise because the previous logic boards are dead, so I would have to do a full de-authorisation via apple and start over.
This is a bit of a mess, but thanks to Carbon Copy Cloner, I was able to continue working while my Mac Mini was being repaired, with a full backup version of my system from my firewire backup drive. Time Machine on the other hand, was rendered utterly useless because my backup mac is a G4 running Tiger and therefore not compatible with Time Machine. Carbon Copy has now become my principle backup method and rather than once per week as a backup for my Time Machine backup, I will now use it daily and relegate Time Machine to a short-term file-recovery backup rather than rely on it for my system backup.
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