Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category
Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/26
It should be all automagic as soon as I format an SD card as journaled HFS, but in case it isn’t, here are some links:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/03/19
With system account starting with underscore:
dscl . list /Users
Without underscore, so only regular accounts:
dscl . list /Users | grep -v ^_.*
Source: [WayBack] macos – How can I list all user accounts in the terminal? – Ask Different
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/14
There still is no ps xf on Mac OS X.
You need brew install pstree for that. Then you can excute pstree which gives you a treeview of the processes running.
via: [WayBack] command line – Linux’ ps f (tree view) equivalent on OSX? – Ask Different
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/02/14
I’m still amazed this is not in stock Mac OS X:
In Finder > Select a folder > Right click, we get a popup with an option to create a new folder:Is there a way to add menu item New Textfile for adding a new text file?
[WayBack] macos – Right-click, create a new text file. How? – Ask Different
One way is to use Automator scripts, but: scripting…
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/12
It looks like when syncing folders between Mac OS X (MacOS X?) and Windows, many directories get empty Icon? files have a size of 0 bytes.
None of these directories had custom icons, so I’m inclined to remove them all from the Google Drive folder:
find . -name 'Icon*' -size 0 -print0 | xargs -0 rm
as [WayBack] Didier Trosset answered at [WayBack] How to delete many 0 byte files in linux? – Stack Overflow
Before I do that, I need to read these in more detail:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/01
Free and – unlike the also free [WayBack] dupeGuru – finds duplicate files – hasn’t crashed on my system yet or fails to add folders:
Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Duplicate File Finder for files & folders. Download Duplicate File Finder for files & folders for Mac OS X 10.9 or later and enjoy it on your Mac.
[WayBack] Duplicate File Finder for files & folders on the Mac App Store
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/01
cd /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/Joshua\ Priddle’s\ MacBook\ Pro/Latest/Macintosh\ HD/Users/priddle
tmutil restore -v secret_docs.txt ~/
Learned from [WayBack] Restoring files from OS X Time Machine with Terminal.app:
- do not use
cp as it will give you wrong permissions
- do use
tmutil
More elaborate steps (including finding the backup in the first place) is at [WayBack] Commandline restoration of a file in Time Machine on OS X | Hacks for Macs
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/24
[WayBack] macbook – OS X 10.9.5 hangs with grey spinner; safe mode last message is “payload 2: device was reinitialized” – Ask Different
[WayBack] Recovery partition: “Restore From Time Machine Backup” stuck at 43.6% for more than 60 minutes – Ask Different
Steps since then:
- Restoring an image backup failed: same situation
- (it took an hour to verify the media, then an OK button appeared before continuing to restore in the middle of the night; actual restore took 4+ hours)
- Reinstalling OS X 10.9.5 failed: error -4403F
- Restoring a prior Time Machine backup hung at less than 50% (taking like 6 hours)
- Reinstalling OS X 10.9.5 over a different fiber connection worked
- Mounting the image backup succeeded, but took 3 hours to complete “verifying…”
- Migration Assistent on the image backup worked fine
In total it took 2.5 days to get the machine back in working condition.
Related links:
There was no transparent proxy inbetween the MacBook and Apple so these didn’t help:
What did help was ensuring there was only ONE NAT in between the MacBook and Apple.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17
The first trick works for WinBox 3.7 on Mac [download], the second doesn’t.
First trick:
To override your security settings and open the app anyway:
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In the Finder, locate the app you want to open.
Don’t use Launchpad to do this. Launchpad doesn’t allow you to access the shortcut menu.
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Press the Control key and click the app icon, then choose Open from the shortcut menu.
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Click Open.
The app is saved as an exception to your security settings, and you can open it in the future by double-clicking it just as you can any registered app.
Second trick:
Note: Another way to grant an exception for a blocked app is to click the “Open Anyway” button on the Security pane of System Preferences. This button is available for about an hour after you try to open the app.
To open this pane, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Security & Privacy.
Both from [WayBack] OS X El Capitan: Open an app from an unidentified developer
–jeroen
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