Since when I tried out the very first
Macintosh, in 1984, Apple has always impressed me with the quality
and the cleverness of its products. But yesterday, while I was
backing up to a new flash key my Firefox profile, I got the following
error alert (the grey highlight is mine):
In itself, to get a cryptic error
message was not a big deal. It only meant that a check had caught a
very unusual error condition for which no explicit message had been
created. I did what I always do when confronted with something
unknown: I copied the error message into the clipboard and pasted it in Google’s
search field.
It turns out the nowhere is error code
-8084 to be found. Apple in 1998 published a list of errors, but
it stops at -5553 and is pre-system X.
I discovered that the problem
disappeared after quitting Firefox. The most logical explanation is
that Firefox had opened a file with an exclusive lock, thereby preventing the system from reading it.
But it is a disappointment that
Apple no longer publishes a detailed list of errors, even if it might
be partially obsolete as soon as it is written.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for this article. I'm following your blog for a while now - enjoying it. Do you have any plans to shed some light on a topic of online data room services ? Thanks in advance for your reply!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you like it! As you can see from the dates of the most recent articles, I have been neglecting this blog. Concerning the type of services you mention, I would be very careful. Call me paranoid, but I try to use clouds as little as possible. It is appealing to have critical data stored in an [allegedly] secure place, but I would also rely on "old fashion" back-ups!
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