Roxio Toast Titanium on Mac OS X opening / running very slow – hello DTrace!

If you find Toast is running very slow on your Mac and you've tried all the other fixes, check to make sure you don't have any mounts defined on your Mac as Toast will continue to try and mount them ad nauseum - thereby causing the slowness.  You can check Directory Utility to see if … Continue reading Roxio Toast Titanium on Mac OS X opening / running very slow – hello DTrace!

Finding / Eliminating rogue NFS mounts in Mac OS X

There is a handy utility called Directory Utility which allows you to configure connections to directory servers.  It also contains information for persistent NFS mounts across reboots.  If you ever wondered where these phantom mounts came from or you are trying to eliminate a mount that no longer exists go to /System/Library/CoreServices/Directory Utility. From within … Continue reading Finding / Eliminating rogue NFS mounts in Mac OS X