Snow Leopard Issues and Errors

Together with improvements and tunings made by Apple, Snow Leopard also facing issues and errors with its current development serial 10.6. Usually the compatibility issue and errors occur due to change of API or new security enforcement made by Apple.

Thus, developers for the particular applications has to wait for the official release of Snow Leopard before they can continue with the development and updates. Therefore, until the developer update their application, in this post I will tell you which error and issue I bumped to and how to get over it.

The NovamediaDiskSupressor Alert on login

This alert happened due to Vodafone mobile 3G dongle which was installed when I was on Leopard. However, it seems that the driver or the services was running by a Power PC based application and it run on Rosetta emulation. This prompt appear after I logged in and it is because I chose not to install Rosetta on my machine. Perhaps, by installing Rosetta you might settle this alert to silent.

However, I’m intend to remove it because I no longer using the device and it is not an Intel architecture application nor Universal Binary. I hate Rosetta. Thus, this is what I did to get rid of this prompt:

Firstly, browse through to this folder from root /Library/LaunchAgents/ (on your hard disk, not your User folder).

Then, remove these files:

• cn.com.zte.usbswapper copy.plist
• de.novamedia.NovamediaDiskSupressor

Next, browse to /Library/Application support/

Then, remove these folders:

• Vodafone and/or
• Vodafone Mobile Connect

Lastly, go to System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items and remove mac_swapperdemon if available.

Font Errors Due To Duplications and Redundancy

After I upgraded to Snow Leopard, I run check my application one by one and I bumped with this error on my Mail, Safari and Chrome. The main reason was redundancy and duplication of fonts on my machine which later result in confusion (kind of).

Based on the screenshot above, you can see that I have 4 files of Arial Regular fonts. Here I will show you how to resolve the case:

• Run your Font Book application
• Click and hold the Gear icon on the top left of the application
• Select Resolve Duplicates
• Restart your machine

If the font error does not yet resolved,

• Run your Font Book application again
• Browse through every single font and delete them. Beware, some fonts come in bundle, means that if you deleted Font A, Font B might be affected too.
• Clear you font cache
  - Run Terminal
  - Run this command (single user) : atsutil databases -removeUser
  - Run this command (all user) : sudo atsutil databases -remove
• Once you’re done clearing the font cache
  - Run this command to stop the ATS server : atsutil server -shutdown
  - Run this command to restart the ATS server : atsutil server -ping