Christopher Kibble's Technical Ramblings
  • Recovering Data from Synology Mirror on New NAS

    2020-06-30 Synology NAS

    So, my DS218+ recently died and I picked up a new DS918+. After setting it up with two new 4TB disks, I thought I was going to be able to put my two old 2 TB disks that were setup as a mirror in my old system and just copy the data over, but unfortunately that's not an option. The solution in the community seemed to be …

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  • Visio cannot open the file or a component in the file because it is corrupt (Visio 2016)

    2018-09-20 MSOffice Visio

    After upgrading a number of systems to Visio 2016, I started to hear more and more about old pre-2010 Visio files in VSD format that would no longer open and would throw the following error: The strange thing was that the files were still launching without issue for users who were still on Visio 2010 and 2013. The …

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  • Remove All Objects from an Excel Sheet

    2018-07-30 MSOffice

    After pasting some content into Excel 365 (2016), I found that I had brought along thousands of little objects from the source data. These were tiny invisible objects, but they'd constantly get in the way of me clicking into a cell, because I'd inadvertently click on one of the objects instead. While I should have just …

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  • Acrobat Redaction Bleeds into Multiple Pages

    2018-02-24 Acrobat

    I ran into an issue today where using redaction on a PDF in Acrobat X caused black marks throughout the document, even in places where I hadn't used redaction. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I was able to determine what I suspect to be the root cause, and came up with a resolution. To show you an example of the …

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  • Citrix - Installation Error DVCRenderingAdapter.dll Failed to Register

    2016-03-02 Citrix

    I recently was troubleshooting the following error on roughly 400 systems that we were deploying the Citrix Receiver v14 to: CustomAction +DVCRenderingAdapter.dll.827545C6_7013_4DE1_8E6C_DAEE4C57F54A returned actual error code -2147319780 (note this may not be 100% accurate if translation happened inside sandbox)MSI …

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  • Resolving VMWare Error "There are no un-bridged host network adapters" after Windows 10 Upgrade

    2015-08-17 VMWare

    After upgrading to Windows 10, all of my VMWare Professional v10.x guest machines lost their connection to the network. Taking a look at their network connections, I found that I'd lost the default vmnet0 network, and trying to add it back as a bridged network threw the error "There are no un-bridged host network …

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  • Fixing Error “Word Cannot Publish This Post” When Publishing from Word

    2014-01-11 MSOffice

    I recently had to troubleshoot an issue where a number of people were unable to publish to their blog from Microsoft Word 2010. They would get the error Word cannot publish this post, and pressing CTRL+SHIFT+I revealed error 701797 in the dialog box. The same error occurred on both SharePoint 2010 and WordPress. There …

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  • Problems with Notepad++ FTP_Synchronize Plugin

    2009-06-14 Notepad++

    I was excited to find out recently that Notepad++ has a plug-in that will allow you to edit files on an FTP server. The plug-in, which has come with Notepad++ since v4.7, is FTP_Synchronize. Unfortunately, although I’m on Notepad++ 5.2, the plug-in did not work out of the box for me. While I could connect to and browse …

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Chris Kibble

Technologist, PowerShell, Desktop Engineering, SQL.

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