Edit names in Top Sites 7.0.1
Hey everybody,
In the old versions of Safari, namely that ones before Safari 7.0, the Top Sites page have an edit button that enable us to delete, pin, change position and change the site's name. Now, I'm using Safari 7.0.1, which shows the options to pin or delete a site if I hover the mover over it, but I didn't find the option to change its name.
For instance, if I add Rotten Tomatoes to top Sites it shows "Movies | Movie Trailers | Reviews - Rotten Tomatoes" when I want it to show just "Rotten Tomatoes". It occurs with several other sites.
I know it is a minor issue, but, is there a way to overcome it?
Tks in advance!
Ignore my first reply to you.
Open a Finder window. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following:
~/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist
Click go then move the TopSites.plist file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test. If that doesn't help, delete the cache.
Back to the Finder. From the Finder menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type or copy paste the following
~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/Cache.db
Click Go then move the Cache.db file to the Trash.
Quit and relaunch Safari to test again.
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https://autodiscover.xxx.org/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml
I get an error that says
"a positional parameter cannot be found that accepts argument '-AutoDiscoverExternalUri'.
Can someone point to me what I am doing wrong with the command and whether I should be concerning myself with adding that line? By the way the
InternalUrl information is already configured on the system. Also should I edit the certificate to add autodiscover.xxx.org?
Thank in advance for your support.
TD
TDHi Tapera,
Thanks for the question.
SRV record is a good idea. You can set the SRV to
https://web.abc.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml but you must make sure the
url can be resolved from External clients.
In addition, there is still a issue. It is hard coded that Outlook will find the autodiscover by the orders below:
1. Access autodiscover via SCP in AD.
https://web.abc.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml
2. If SCP access fails, it will try:
https://abc.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml
3. Then
https://autodiscover.abc.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml
4. Local XML file
5. SRV record
As you can see, Outlook will try SRV record at last. Therefore, it will still try to access
https://autodiscover.abc.com/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml each time you run Outlook. Then the certificate warning will still persists.
I have a workaround solution. You can do a local policy to disable the autodiscover to access the
https://autodiscover.abc.ocom/autodiscover/autodiscover.xml by:
1.
On the Outlook client machine, open regedit and add the following key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\12.0\Outlook\Autodiscover
"ExcludeHttpsAutodiscoverDomain"
"ExcludeHttpsRootDomain"
2.
Then set the value to “1” on the above two keys.
Thanks,
Simon -
.Mac "Start Site" not the top site in iWeb site organizer
My first iWeb site I created is for my family stuff. Mildly personal.
My next one will be more friends/work.
But, when I test out the iweb help entry that says the top site in the site organizer is/will be the start site, it does not hold true when I publish them.
The help says:
Your start site is the one that opens when you type this URL (address) into a browser (don't type the brackets):
http://web.mac.com/[YourMemberName]
To change your start site:
Drag the site you want to be the start site so that it appears first in the site organizer.
But, after I publish, the start site is still the old start site. Is this a timing/web cache issue? Or, bug? Or, how can one fix this?It could be a cache issue, but I think this is less likely. Never hurts to emtpy your browser cache though. I have seen one other person who's sites are stuck like this. Couldn't tell you why. She is stuck using the long URLs to specify each site. Maybe this is a bug in iWeb. I don't know.
But here are some things you could try...switch the order of your sites again in the Site Organizer, publish, switch them back and republish. Or you might try a "Publish ALL to .Mac".
The object here is to get iWeb to generate new index.html files that redirect to your choice of a start page. For a little background, if you look in your iDisk inside the Web folder. There is a folder called Sites. Inside Sites, there is a folder called iWeb. Inside the iWeb folder you will see the first of two redirection index.html files. This first one is what allows the short URL to work...
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Now if you open up the site folder inside the iWeb folder, you will see another index.html file among all the other files there. This is the second index.html file that redirects to the same start page as the first. This allows the "long" URL to be used...
http://web.mac.com/yourname/iWeb/sitefolder/
I have seen situations where either one of these index.html files have not been generated or altered to reflect changes in the Site Organizer...usually the outer index.html file inside the iWeb folder. So anything that you can do to make iWeb publish new files should work....changing the order of your sites, erasing the files from your iDisk and republishing, changing the names of your sites, doing a Publish ALL. Try these things and see if your problem isn't resolved...
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