On MacOSX 10.10.5 Yosemite, I was having trouble with Spotlight preventing the clean eject of an attached hard drive. Using the fuser command allowed me to see that it what the Spotlight-specific mds process preventing the eject.
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fuser-u/Volumes/Archive03
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Format the new USB flash drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and label it “MyVolume” Click the Mojave Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-mojave/id1398502828?ls=1&mt=12 Download the installer package from the App store – it will land in the main /Applications folder. Open Terminal and run:
dscacheutil -flushcache System Preferences -> Network -> Advanced -> DNS -> Add 1.1.1.1, 8.8.4.4 and 8.8.8.8 at the top. If they are already there, CHANGE THE ORDER!
Quit Skype From your Applications folder, drag the Skype icon into the Trash In the top Finder menu, select Go -> Go to Folder… or press Shift-Command-G to bring up the “Go to the folder” prompt Open ~/Library/Application Support and drag “Skype Helper” to the Trash Open ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft and drag “Skype for Desktop” to […]
Use Case: Export Apple Reminders from MacOS application to cleaned plain text, i.e. remove unwanted spaces, blank lines and square brackets PROCEDURE Click on a single item in the MacOS Reminders app list Select All (either Command-a or use Edit->Select All) Copy (either Command-c or use Edit->Copy) Open Terminal Run cleanme Paste the copied reminders […]
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 […]
The Problem Tried to install the latest version of cpan and got stuck. Tracked it down to the dependency module Mac::SystemDirectory which was failing to build:
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cpan[1]>install Mac::SystemDirectory
Reading'/var/root/.cpan/Metadata'
Database was generated on Sun,09Jun201907:17:02GMT
Running install formodule'Mac::SystemDirectory'
Running make forE/ET/ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz
Couldn't execute cc -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -fno-strict-aliasing -fstack-protector -Os "-I/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE" -c HASCOMPILEREZFt/TESTUSSI.c -o HASCOMPILEREZFt/TESTUSSI.o: Inappropriate ioctl for device at Makefile.PL line 14.
Requires a compiler
Warning: No success on command[/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE]
ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz
/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE -- NOT OK
Running make test
Make had some problems, won'ttest
Running make install
Make had some problems,won't install
Failed during this command:
ETHER/Mac-SystemDirectory-0.10.tar.gz : writemakefile NO '/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL INC=-I/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/System/Library/Perl/5.18/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE'returned status6400
The Solution Use the MacOS installer command to deploy the needed files:
erics, February 26th, 2021 
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