MacPilot
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Frequently Asked Questions
Where is the documentation?
Aside from this documentation, many of the features have help tags associated with them. In the main list, the yellow bar at the bottom describes the currently highlighted feature. In other areas, moving the mouse over a control and pausing will show a tooltip. At this time, these are the only help features we offer. For additional assistance, please Contact Support.
Removing Spacers From the Dock
Spacers can be removed by dragging them out of the Dock as you would an application or file icon, or by right/control-clicking on the spacer and selecting "Remove from Dock."
What are the gold badges next to features?
These gold badges indicate the logged in user must be an administrator to change this feature.
"Dashed" checkbox - what does it mean?
The dashed checkbox means the feature has not been configured, and is using the operating system default setting whichever that may be.
Creating and Restoring Save Points
Save Points allow you to create a list of saved settings in MacPilot. This can be useful to deploy a series of settings across multiple computers, on a new installation, or revert to an earlier state.
Create a Save Point
- Click the General tab on the main toolbar.
- Configure settings as desired.
- Press the hammer and wrench icon at the bottom right hand corner of the window.
- Drag the configured settings into the save point list.
- Press the Save button.
Restoring to a Save Point
- Click the General tab on the main toolbar.
- Configure settings as desired.
- Press the "play" icon at the bottom right hand corner of the window.
- Choose the Save Point file.
- Follow all on-screen prompts (if any)
Startup Chime Not Muted
Occasionally, it will appear the startup chime is not being muted. And, in functionality, this may be correct. However, in technically it has been. Sound like techno babel? Perhaps a bit. To explain this, we need to go into a bit of detail. The feature does work perfectly, if the system configuration does not change. MacPilot looks at the current volume for the current output channel (speakers, headphones, internal speaker, etc.). Then, on shutdown, saves the system volume level for that output level and mutes the system. If the audio output source changes between shutdown and boot, the chime will be muted for the wrong source. For instance, if you shutdown while headphones were plugged in, and then booted with speakers plugged in, the system would notice the headphones were no longer plugged in and revert to the volume settings for the speakers instead of being muted. Unfortunately, as it currently stands, there is no easy workaround for this as it is just how Mac OS X is programmed. Each output source will always have its own unique volume settings. Since MacPilot is not running while your computer is off or while it is starting up, there is no way for the program to determine the correct source of action if the volume output location has been modified.
Feature Requests
- Ability to customize Internet Config on Mac OS X to change the default handler for file types.
- Ability to have the Apple Help window be moved into the background.
- Ability to set a preference or a group of preferences to be prevented from syncing in a MobileMe environment.
- Add a setting to enable/disable auto-quitting X11 when X11 child apps quit.
- Add a setting to control the delay.
- Add a way to easily edit the hosts files.
- Edit custom terminal commands
- Automate tasks by dragging and dropping (ie. cron)
Known Issues
- Changing sleep mode (ie. hibernation) may not work on Snow Leopard.
