How To Fix “iCloud Account Could Not Be Removed” Error on OS X Yosemite 10.10.5

Author: , November 24th, 2022

PROBLEM: Unable to sign out of iCloud on OSX Yosemite or disable Keychain SOLUTION: Delete the following, then reboot:

How To Export Apple Email Rules

Author: , November 10th, 2015

Quit Mail. Look for a file called MessageRules.plist under ~/Library/Mail. Depending on your Mail version it could be under ~/Library/Mail/V2/Maildata as well. Copy that file. It can be edited with vim or the PList editor. I find it much easier to work with as text in vim.

How To use the MacBook Air SuperDrive on other Mac computers

Author: , June 11th, 2013

Edit the file: /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.Boot.plist Make sure that the two lines “Kernel Flags” and “mbasd=1” exist:

How To Reinstall Property List Editor For XCode 4

Author: , July 25th, 2012

As of XCode 4, Apple no longer supplies the Property List Editor application with its developer tools. Here is how to get it back: Step 1 Get your copy of Snow Leopard, either on disc or in disk image format. Insert disk or mount disk image. Step 2 Download Pacifist, an application which allows you […]

How To Reset Safari Configuration Files

Author: , September 19th, 2011

Quit Safari and move the following files to the Desktop for safe-keeping, then restart Safari. ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.Safari/cache.db ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safari.plist Lion Hint: To find the Home folder in OS X Lion, open the Finder, hold down the Option key, and choose Go > Library

How To Fix A Broken Login To Mac App Store

Author: , February 2nd, 2011

rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.appstore.plist rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.storeagent.plist rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/*