BootCamp: OSX (El Capitan) and Windows 10

The only reason I'm posting this is because I was stuck for a few hours and the internet had tons of conflicting fixes for this that led me nowhere. Still stuck with GPT errors and a whole lot of general bollocks. For some reason this refused to work on the USB port on the left of my macbook and for reasons known only to Job's & Gates' lovechild,  worked on the one located on the right. Sorcery.

This is what worked for me, I can't guarantee that it will work for you and I'm by no means a Mac expert - so use at your own risk. Caveat emptor. No screenshots because of reasons.

What you need:

1. MacBook or other Mac Computer that is listed here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204990
2. Windows 10 64-bit ISO.
3. A fresh USB stick, 8G or more would be fine.
4. At least 100GB free on your Mac for a 64GB Windows install.


What's next?
0. Update your mac if needed.
1. Run bootcamp and select the two options

- Create a Windows 7 or later setup disk

 - Download the latest windows support software from Apple

1.1. Click Continue, grab a beer. or three. This takes a while.

2. Exit bootcamp. Because of reasons.

3. Fire up bootcamp and this time select the option to install (only).

4. Drag a partition size that suits you, I went with 64GB - then click Continue

5. Magic happens then the computer would probably reboot right into OSX. Manually reboot and this time hit the Option Key, Feel free to bang away at it. (Disclaimer: Do not bang away at it.)

6. When presented with boot options, please ignore the Windows option. Select UEFI boot.

7. Oh looky, run through the windows install until you get to the Disk screen. At this point choose your desired windows partition created in step 4 and then click format. The next button magically appears and you should now be able to proceed with installation.

8. Magic happens again, then a couple reboots later and Win 10 is done. Grab another beer. or three.

9. The next time you bring up the dual boot screen, Only OSX and Windows would be presented and the UEFI option is gone.

10. Happy dualbooting. Hell you'd be happy too after six beers.

 

Windows Batch Script to remove spaces from filenames

Part of managing Moodle( for me) includes using a Windows Streaming Server to host large media files.
On several occasions, files have been sent with non-web-friendly filenames with spaces et al to be uploaded.

This script fixes that.

This is a windows batch script, which needs to be executed in the folder containing the files, and will replace the spaces and dots in the filenames. Simply copy the script below, name it remove_spaces.bat and execute in the folder needed.

Pretty handy stuff.

Credit to http://www.computing.net/answers/programming/batch-script-to-replace-filenames-h/16301.html

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
for %%j in (*.*) do (
set filename=%%~nj
set filename=!filename:.=_!
set filename=!filename: =_!
if not "!filename!"=="%%~nj" ren "%%j" "!filename!%%~xj"
)

**Updated on 05-07-2012
To remove underscores, use the following in place of lines 5 and 6
 ...
set filename=!filename:.=!
set filename=!filename: =!
...
 -n