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Installing the Dongle Driver on Mac OS X 10.9.x and above

Posted on December 17, 2013 by jason

Serendipity Blackmagic, Megarip and Veripress were affected by a Sentinel dongle driver error that caused an operating system crash when attempting to run the Server on Mac OS X 10.9 and above. A new Mac OS X 10.9+ compatible dongle … Continue reading →

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Crash Logs on Mac OS X

Posted on July 15, 2013 by jason

If you are running Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress Server or Client on Mac OS X and either of them crash, then it is very useful to get the crash log from the Mac for the application that had the problem. This can … Continue reading →

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Running Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress as a Windows background service

Posted on July 15, 2013 by jason

In some cases, system administrators may wish to run the Serendipity Blackmagic/Megarip/Veripress Server as background service on Windows. This may be for security reasons or to prevent accidental shutdown of the server by users. The Windows Task Scheduler is used to … Continue reading →

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Mac OS X Lion / Mountain Lion excessive Dock CPU usage

Posted on April 2, 2013 by jason

Some users running on Mac OS X Lion 10.7.x or Mountain Lion 10.8.x may encounter an operating system “spinning beach ball” hang lasting several minutes when deleting 1000+ jobs from the Queuemanager. During this time the Dock will be unresponsive … Continue reading →

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Using a Solid State Drive (SSD) for Working Paths

Posted on March 8, 2013 by jason

Working Paths are the folders used by the Blackmagic / Megarip / Veripress Server to store and process jobs. There are four paths:- Raster – holds all the imaged and rendered previews, jobs and print files while they are live … Continue reading →

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