{"id":26,"date":"2007-06-08T09:59:28","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T09:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/partridges.org.uk\/tlog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2007-06-08T09:59:28","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T09:59:28","slug":"tobys-compendium-of-techincal-tips-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/08\/tobys-compendium-of-techincal-tips-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Toby&#8217;s compendium of techincal tips, #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just managed to lock up my Mac (which obviously isn&#8217;t possible), and had to remove the battery and power to hard reboot it. When I tried to restart NeoOffice (the mac equivalent of Open Office), it complained that my personal settings were already being used.<\/p>\n<p>A quick look on the web identifies that there is a lock file that is left over by NeoOffic, but not where this was on MacOSX.<\/p>\n<p>Its actually at \/Users\/&lt;account name&gt;\/Library\/Preferences\/NeoOffice-2.1\/.lock<\/p>\n<p>Delete the .lock file, or mv it to .lockold and NeoOffice works again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just managed to lock up my Mac (which obviously isn&#8217;t possible), and had to remove the battery and power to hard reboot it. When I tried to restart NeoOffice (the mac equivalent of Open Office), it complained that my personal settings were already being used. A quick look on the web identifies that there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/06\/08\/tobys-compendium-of-techincal-tips-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Toby&#8217;s compendium of techincal tips, #1&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/partridge.site\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}