Disk Utility Wont Let You Restore in OSX (Leopard, Snow Leopard, Lion, Mountain Lion). i.e. “apple disk utility restore failure”

So you have a DMG that is a proper image, but every time you attempt a restore with the disk utility it fails with ‘invalid argument’ ‘unable to scan’ or ‘idontlikeyouthatway’. How frustrating. Good old Disk Utility used to be powerful right? So it turns out that you CAN restore that disk image with using […]


Windows Me or Lion?

Remember in Me, MS started their first attempt to hide the reality of the computer from the user? Apple’s new OS, Lion, does the same thing; it hides the ~/Library folder by default. I am sure all you that know anything about this have already run this command, but I am going to propagate it […]