{"id":1723,"date":"2005-09-22T21:59:38","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T21:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1723.html"},"modified":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-23T19:30:11","slug":"mac-switching-update-thu-22-sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/22\/mac-switching-update-thu-22-sep\/","title":{"rendered":"Mac Switching update, Thu 22 Sep"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;m having trouble using MySQL Administrator to back up a remote database.  I can specify all the backup options, and select the tables I want to grab, but it quits on me as soon as I try to actually start the backup.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m also having trouble using MySQL Administrator to restore a backup to my local instance.  It just fails to open the .sql file with a non-informative &#8220;Error loading backup file&#8221;&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and it won&#8217;t let me save the password for a connection&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and it won&#8217;t let me save changes to any users after their initial creation&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>&#8230;and overall, I&#8217;m coming to the conclusion that MySQL Administrator, despite <em>looking<\/em> gorgeous, is actually a pile of crap.  I don&#8217;t <em>mind<\/em> doing all of my db admin from a command line; I just <em>prefer<\/em> not to.  I&#8217;m open to the possibility that there&#8217;s just something fundamentally wrong with the way I&#8217;ve got MySQL Administrator (1.1.0) installed, but MySQL itself (4.1.14) is running perfectly.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve installed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunpig.com\/martin\/archives\/2005\/09\/18\/mac_switching_update_sun_18_sep\/#comments\">Password Gorilla<\/a> as a password management system.  Main reason:  it&#8217;s compatible with <a href=\"http:\/\/passwordsafe.sourceforge.net\/\">Password Safe<\/a> for Windows, which is what I normally use.  It does the job, but not spectacularly.  Password Safe isn&#8217;t a particularly elegant app, but Password Gorilla makes it look like the belle of the ball.  If you happen to know of any alternative password management utilities, let me know.<\/li>\n<li>Minor note for the benefit of Google:  After installing Password Gorilla according to the instructions, double-clicking the gorilla-1.2.kit file didn&#8217;t work.  The Mac Mini&#8217;s installation of OS X Tiger comes with a 30-day trial of MS Office, and it Excel had already grabbed the .kit file association for itself.  The way I got it working was to re-map the association to <b>Launcher<\/b>, an application that comes with the Tcl\/Tk framework that is a prerequisite for Password Gorilla.  (Right-click on the .kit file, and select &#8220;Open with&#8221;.  Launcher sits in \/Applications\/Utilities)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m having trouble using MySQL Administrator to back up a remote database. I can specify all the backup options, and select the tables I want to grab, but it quits on me as soon as I try to actually start the backup. I&#8217;m also having trouble using MySQL Administrator to restore a backup to my &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2005\/09\/22\/mac-switching-update-thu-22-sep\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mac Switching update, Thu 22 Sep&#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":[132,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-techie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}