Author:
erics, July 28th, 2019
When I upgraded to Mojave, my laptops were no longer able to connect to my desktop. Deeply frustrating. Long story short, combo of factors: – Mojave filesystems on disk now default to APFS containers – APFS filesystems can ONLY be shared out via SMB! – Hostname resolution in Mojave also seems broken So, the fix […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: AFS, APFS, Default, File sharing, Finder, howto, MacOS, Mojave, Sharing, SMB, tips
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Author:
erics, February 16th, 2019
As of Mac OS X Lion 10.7, Terminal provides Services for opening a new terminal window or tab at the selected folder in Finder. They also work with absolute pathnames selected in text (in any application). You can enable these services with System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services. Look for “New Terminal […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Finder, howto, Keyboard, MacOS, macosx, Menu, Mojave, Open, Services, Terminal, tips, window
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Author:
erics, March 30th, 2015
defaults write com.apple.finder InterfaceLevel standard
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Finder, howto, macosx, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, March 24th, 2015
I have an older host running MacOSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and I mount disk resources from there onto my new iMac 5K running Yosemite 10.10.2 Every now and then I get an error about sharingd crashing, and my network drives disappear. The quick way to get them back is to simply quit and restart Finder […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10.2, apple, Finder, howto, macosx, Share, sharingd, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, October 29th, 2014
SET THE DEFAULT TO SHOW Run this command in a Terminal window: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES Relaunch Finder: Hold down the Option/ALT key on your keyboard, then right-click the Finder icon in the dock and select Relaunch. SET THE DEFAULT TO HIDE defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles NO then relaunch finder as above.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Command, Command line, defaults, defaults write, Exec, Execute, Finder, Hide, howto, MacOS, macosx, OSX, Show, Terminal, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, June 30th, 2012
In Terminal, run the following command: defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles YES To make the command take effect, you need to restart the Finder. One way to do this is to hold down the Option key, then click and hold on the Finder icon in the Dock. When the contextual menu appears, select Relaunch and the […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: defaults, defaults write, Files, Finder, howto, Show All Files, Terminal, tips
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Author:
erics, August 14th, 2011
In the Terminal application, type the following: sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder Then, click on an empty spot on your desktop – NOT in an existing Finder window. Now, type Command-N or select New Finder Window from the File menu. To end your root Finder session, type ^C in the Terminal window. Notes: You won’t be able to […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Finder, howto, Leopard, macosx, root, Snow Leopard, Terminal, tips
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Author:
erics, August 19th, 2010
In Terminal: [code] defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder [/code] To make them visible: [code] /Developer/Tools/SetFile -a v {filename} [/code] A great article: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10344207-263.html
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Finder, macosx
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