Computer boot-up troubleshoot Flowchart – StumbleUpon. This is very cool site. When you click on one of the troubleshooting steps, it takes you to another chart you can click on to further troubleshoot. This website allows the non IT professional to troubleshoot hardware and software issues on a computer. You might even put experienced IT people out of business if enough people used this.
iPhone: Troubleshooting MMS. Through suggestions from the Apple Support on what you can do if your MMS isn’t working properly.
This Macrumors post gives an excellent suggestion to help troubleshoot why this error may be occurring. Thanks plinden! ”
Open Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal
Before trying to remove it from the command line, you might be able to release the file from whatever’s holding it. To see what application is keeping it type (replace <filename> by the name of the file):
Code:
lsof | grep
That’s lower case LSOF | GREP …
If it returns the name of a recognizable application, try closing the app down. I’d do this rather than removing the file immediately since some apps recreate files they can no longer find.
Then you should be able to remove the file either normally from Finder, or by typing:
Code:
rm ~/.Trash/*
Of course, even this might not work … I was trying to help someone here yesterday with the same problem, but no matter what we suggested, he couldn’t delete the file from his Trash.”
If that doesn’t work then this file may help. Thanks teleromeo!
This is from Apple and a great step by step. Useful especially if you are responsible for troubleshooting a computer network.
Nice guide. Joe Kissell always has informative how-to’s and articles. He has some other stuff that I have checked out and found useful as well. If you find this useful you should support the guy.
Then you might want to download fseventer and it will tell you the following:
This is a helpful article that talks about the most common fixes if you have having problems with your iPhone. It also has information that is helpful in case you didn’t read the owners manual.
Some nice details about how FireWire ports can reset themselves if all power is removed. Click here to find out what has worked for others.
