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Outlook 2019 – “The operation cannot be performed because the message has been changed.”
Update 16 Sept 2022: From the comments this post doesn't appear to be a solution to the problem.If you find a solution please comment belowToggen Outlook 2019 account is IMAP User keeps getting "The operation cannot be performed because the message has been changed."...
Getting WordPress 5.5 Sitemaps Working with Nginx
Using the nginx recommended config from https://www.nginx.com/resources/wiki/start/topics/recipes/wordpress/ The following config works. Please note the following considerations You need to tell Nginx to send all requests for /robots.txt and /wp-sitemap*.xml to...
Stop New Kernels Becoming the Default – Fedora 32
I have 2 things that require I stay on the current version of my Fedora 32 kernel NVidia proprietary driver that doesn't seem to auto install despite being dkms enabledVMware® Workstation 15 Pro version 15.5.6 build-16341506 which won't run on kernels later than...
From Clonezilla Image to VMWare Workstation – A Journey
When I have to work on ancient Windows NT4, XP, 7 out of Microsoft Support systems I sometimes take a disk image using CloneZilla or Disk2VHD just in case I want to access the data if things go skew whiff or there is a need to refer back to it later...
How to find the Windows Subsystem for Linux Home Directory for the Current User
I'm currently use a Windows 10 Pro VMWare Virtual Machine on my Fedora 32 installed workstation but getting it's getting recursive as I've installed Ubuntu in the VM. This is how to locate the home directory of the linux user cd %LOCALAPPDATA% ::...
Removing C:\Windows.old
Windows 10 ProVersion 2004 (OS Build 19041.388) In an elevated command prompt Trying to delete C:\Windows.old getting access denied Also got "The data area passed to a system call is too small." while running cacls Commands to run to delete C:\Windows.old takeown /f...
Docker on Fedora 32
Commands to run to get moby-engine running on Fedora 32 # as root or sudo'd dnf install grubby grubby --update-kernel=ALL --args="systemd.unified_cgroup_hierachy=0" # check the output of the above grubby --info=ALL sudo mkdir /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd sudo mount -t...
PDF Poster
Start with a wide long image. This is just a screen shot of my desktop. widescreen.png Convert it to postscript using convert from ImageMagick # install ImageMagick sudo dnf install ImageMagick convert widescreen.png widescreen.ps Use poster to chop and format the...
July 2020 VMWare Player and Workstation won’t compile their modules on kernel 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64 Fedora 32
So just had to downgrade my running Kernel to use an earlier one using: grubby --set-default /boot/vmlinuz-5.6.19-300.fc32.x86_64 I couldn't get the the vmware modules to compile on 5.7.6-201.fc32.x86_64. These things change rapidly and they will probably make an...