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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/08
Like many, I’m a digital packrat. Somehow all your storage space somehow becomes full over time. But sometimes that’s not because just you are a digital packrat. Applications can be digital packrats too.
Chrome is such an example as on Mac OS X it will keep every prior version filed under /Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/Versions. In my case GrandPerspective showed it as one big blob of close 20 gigabyte. Which is odd as the download itself is was slightly short of 20 gigabyte of Chrome versions.
There are various ways to clean up this by script, but I find the easiest to do this in Finder:
- From Grand Perspective, right click the entry, then choose “Reveal in Finder”
- In Finder, right click the entry, then choose “Show Package Contents”
- In Finder, with the expanded “Contents” folder, browse to the “Versions” folder and expand it.
- From Finder, delete unwanted versions.
–jeroen
References:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2018/01/05
… simply hold the refresh button and then tap on Request Desktop Site. The page should refresh and you should be redirected to web.whatsapp.com and you should be looking at a QR code on the screen of your iPad.
If you know it’s “simply”.
Source: How to Use WhatsApp on iPad
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/12/25
Great tool: [WayBack] htop – an interactive process viewer for Unix because it’s both interactive and supports a wide range of OSes: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Mac OS X.
Thanks to Warren Postma who suggested it in his comment at [WayBack] 18 Useful Commands to Get Hardware Information on Linux – Linuxslaves.
Note that on OS X you get this warning after brew install htop :
htop requires root privileges to correctly display all running processes,
so you will need to run `sudo htop`.
You should be certain that you trust any software you grant root privileges.
On Linux you don’t get this message as there you have the /proc file system providing enough information as explained at [WayBack] osx – Why does htop on Mac OS X require root privileges to see data for all processes, but on Linux it runs without root – Super User.
A workaround (involving the setuid bit) is at [WayBack] Running htop on Mac OS X needs root. Why?! | Blog | JoeNyland.me or by running visudo ensuring you don’t need a password for it at [WayBack] osx – htop isn’t returning CPU or memory usage!? – Super User
–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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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/17
I have the Atom editor and was wondering how you can open a file or folder from the terminal in Atom. I am using a Mac. I am looking for a way to do this: atom . (opens folder) atom file.js (
The answer to it isn’t any good any more (since then, Atom has evolved), but this comment works splendid:
I solved the issue by choosing “Install Shell Commands” under the “Atom” menu.
It will add a script in /usr/local/bin/atom that starts Atom with the parameters you entered.
Thanks [WayBack] rxgx!
[WayBack] github – Open Atom editor from command line – Stack Overflow
–jeroen
PS: Reminder to self to add a screenshot.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/11/13
For everyone who still loves and uses old computers.
Quite a few nice products for your vintage Apple II, //e and //c machines.
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