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How to remove caches from the machine It is recommended to delete the caches from your machines as generally these are of no use and occasionally caches become corrupted, impacting the performance and stability of your Mac. Deleting caches won't interfere any process going on your machine and should be done as there may be quite a few extraneous cache files in your ~/Library/Caches folder.. However, over time a cache speeds up your computer (assuming that you do some things repetitively), so if you aren't experiencing any problems, you may want to leave your caches alone. On the other hand, if it has been a long time since you have deleted your caches, or if your machine is running slowly, or if you are experiencing uncertain problems, it might be a good idea to flush them. While Apple doesn't recommend doing this routinely, they indicate that it is a good idea in certain situations. Some other famous sites also recommend this.There are two steps to delete cache from your...

Acrobat crashes while trying to launch The other step that you can perform if Acrobat or any other Adobe application is crashing, is to work with the plist files. i. Go to your account and open Libraries. ii. Locate preferences and open this folder. iii. Find the preferences file and move it to the desktop. iv. If this does not helps, then move whole Adobe folder to the desktop and then try to launch Acrobat and this time it should work. These few steps are the most popular and easy ones to follow in order to stop Acrobat from crashing and quitting unexpectedly.

Why Acrobat may quit unexpectedly and how to fix it? Sometimes you might get a prompt that "The Acrobat has unexpectedly quit". There are many reasons that may cause this and also there are multiple fixes, one of which might work for you. The very first reason is Mac OS X is designed in such a way that all the application should ideally be in Applications folder, if in case it is not, then, it might try to play with you. 1. So if the application is installed anywhere else apart from Applications folder, then uninstall it using uninstaller found in /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Installers. 2. Then reinstall it and make sure it is installed in Applications folder. If Adobe Acrobat is crashing, start troubleshooting from this step and proceed to other ones.

How to force quit an application in Mac This post will update you process to force quit an application if in case it is creating any issue or is freezed. Just as we used ctrl+alt+del in PC we use force quit in Mac. The process to force quit an application is by pressing command+option+escape which will take you to the window to select the application that you want to force quit. Using Force Quit with Finder : Unlike the applications force quit can never be used to quit the Finder. Mac has designed Finder to be open evey time no matter what are you doing on the machine it will be running at the background. On force quit window in front of Finder you will find an option of restart rather than force quit. So the idea is, never waste time searching option to quit finder, Mac will never allow you.

Unable to trash/delete items Sometimes you might face the issue that you are unable to delete items on your Mac. If this happens the reason would be in right on that file which means the permission assigned to your id is 'Read only'. All you have to do is, change the permissions and you will be able to delete/trash the file. The steps are: 1. Open 'Get info' of the selected file by pressing Command+I in combination. 2. In this window, where the option Sharing & Permissions is mentioned, expand it and change the rights from drop down menu. 3. Once done reopen try to trash it and will be deleted. This could be done only if you have made changes in the rights or you are admin on the Mac machine. This will surely resolve the issue of being unable to move items to Trash.

While trying to save settings in IE it does not saves it Sometimes when you make changes in your Internet Explorer and when you restart the machine next time it resumes old settings and you find that your settings are gone. The solution is very simple, find the .plist file saved in the library and delete it. Now launch IE all over and then try to make changes as soon as the application is launched. This is one of the most annoying act of IE while working on a Mac and I suggest using Safari or the choice of webmasters... Firefox.

How to recover text from a damaged document in MS-Office Launch MS Word in Mac OS X. In the Word menu, click on Preferences . Now under Authoring and Proofing Tools , select General . Please don't forget that the Confirm conversion at Open check box is selected, then OK . Click Open on the Standard toolbar. On the Enable pop-up menu, you need to click Recover Text from Any File . Open the document and its done. This is no trick, Microsoft has given this option if any of the file gets corrupted.

How to connect to FTP using Safari Ever thought while working on an important project what will happen if your Interarchy or any other FTP application stops working? Now if you have Tiger or later version you can use your Safari to connect to FTP and transfer files without dedicated FTP client. The step is very simple, all you have to do is type the details of the FTP site as below and hit return/enter key. The format is ftp://username:password@domain.com , by using this trick you can get your project moving on till you IT guy comes to fix the FTP client issue. SFTP might create issue while connecting, FTP is recommended.

How to change permissions on a file Here is the simple step to change permissions on a file. If read access is given to a user it can be converted to read/write access. In order to do this, we just need to open 'Get info' window, down the bottom there is an option of ownershiop and permissions. Select the drop down and change the permissions on this file as per your requirements.

How to change default application to open a file Sometimes we need to open a .pdf file and it opens in Word. It could be an error and sometimes it could be a necessity to change the default opening application as per your choice. Here is the simple way to do it. We have to use ' Get info ' in order to make this change. To reach ' Get info ' just select the file and hit Command+i . Once you get this window, you have to select the "Open with" and choose the application that you need to set as default application to open a specific file type.