Adobe Encore Disc Burning

I've run across an issue in our lab where the Adobe Encore CS5 app failed to burn a DVD of a project. It gives an error of: "OSStatus Error = -5000". According to Google, this is an error that occurs when the filesystem can't write to a particular location.

After running FSEventer to watch where Encore wants to write, I find it trying to log the Video TS Layout inside it's own .app bundle!

When the user has full permissions to write, Encore creates this file: /Applications/Adobe Encore CS5/Adobe Encore CS5.app/Contents/MacOS/DualLayerVideoTSLayout.log

When a user does not have write permissions, Encore complains. There are a couple options to fix this;

1) Give the world write privileges

chmod o+w DualLayerVideoTSLayout.log

2) Change the group to your standard users group




chgrp staff DualLayerVideoTSLayout.log

or my favorite...

3) Symlink the log file to tmp

ln -fhs /tmp/DualLayerVideoTSLayout.log /Applications/Adobe Encore CS5/Adobe Encore CS5.app/Contents/MacOS/DualLayerVideoTSLayout.log

So if you ever run into Adobe Encore CS5 failing to burn, check this log out!

DeployStudio freeze users home directories

I've had a chance to check out the new DeployStudio "Freeze home directories content (restore at reboot)" feature of rc127. It's a check box in the Configuration Task of a workflow.

The script that runs at first boot checks for any existing backups. If none are found, it uses ditto (ditto --rsrc ) to create a copy of each home directory from /Users to /private/dss_homedirs_ref/.

If there is an existing backup of a user in /private/dss_homedirs_ref/, the script uses rsync ( rsync -av --delete ) to restore the home folder. A word of caution here; If there is an existing backup and changes have been made to the user's home directory, the rsync command will delete the files that don't exist in the backup after a reboot. This is great for a lab Mac, where you want the same home folder every time the machine reboots. Its not so great for a faculty machine, be careful and test!

By default, the Shared folder is not included in the backup and restore process.

Check out the actual script here: http://pastie.textmate.org/2141011

PSU MacAdmins Conference 2011 Videos

Check out all* the videos and slides from the 2011 PSU MacAdmins Conference.

http://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/penn-state-mac-admins-podcasts/id429872255

*Presentations made by Apple Employees are not available for download.

DeployStudio BackupRestore Scripts 0.7.1

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- Added flag to remove user cache folder before backing up home.

- Testing new DS_INTERNAL_DRIVE variable command.