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erics, November 18th, 2018
I installed an old version of Adobe software on my new Mac and as usual, it installed some daemons that are undesirable. Here is how I got rid of them via the Terminal. Note: Adobe installs daemons in the user context, so do this as your regular user login, not as root. shell> launchctl list […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Adobe, apple, daemon, Disable, howto, Kill, launchctl, MacOS, macosx, Shell, Stop, Terminal, tips, Unload
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Author:
erics, November 28th, 2017
Launch System Preferences Select Users & Groups Select Login Options Select Join next to Network Account Server Select Open Directory Utility Click the lock and enter your password to make changes In the menu bar of Directory Utility, select Change Root Password Create a strong, unique password
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Change, change password, Directory Utility, High Sierra, MacOS, Password, root, Sierra, System Preferences
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erics, April 12th, 2017
You can associate a file extension with an app (such as MacVim) via the “Info dialog”. Just select the file and hit Cmd-i, then go to the “Open with” tab, select app and hit “Change all…”. This will change the default application for that file type.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: App, apple, howto, Log, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Open, tips
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Author:
erics, April 11th, 2017
Press Option+Space and the cursor will change to the grab hand move tool. Roll your mouse wheel for vertical scrolling, hold down shift to switch to horizontal scroll mode.
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Cursor, Grab, Hand, howto, macosx, Mouse, Move, Preview, tips
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Author:
erics, April 5th, 2017
As per MS Support page: “My arrow keys don’t move from cell to cell” Press SHIFT+F14 to toggle the Scroll Lock to the off position. Applies To: Excel for Mac 2011 Cause: Scroll Lock is turned on and causing the arrow keys to scroll the workbook area. Solution: Turn off Scroll Lock. Typically, when a […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Arrow, Cursor, Excel, howto, key, Keyboard, Mac, Move, MS Excel, tips
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Author:
erics, September 30th, 2016
For the Mac, you need to do three things in a row: 1. Quit Safari 2. Delete ~/Library/Cookies/HSTS.plist 3. Reboot
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, DNS, howto, macosx, Safari, tips
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Author:
erics, August 12th, 2016
sudo /usr/sbin/installer -pkg /path/to/yourFile.pkg -target /
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, cli, Command, Command line, howto, Install, installer, macosx, OSX, Package, pkg, sudo, Terminal, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, July 28th, 2016
MacOSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard running on a Mac Pro 2009 8-way After a system crash, using the backup drive, this error started to appear: dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache To fix it, execute the following in Terminal: sudo update_dyld_shared_cache -force As always, YMMV!
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.6.8, apple, Cache, dyld, dylib, Force, howto, macosx, Shared cached file, Snow Leopard, sudo, tips, update_dyld_shared_cache
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Author:
erics, June 11th, 2016
As the root user, execute: “/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia” –volume /Volumes/{USB_DRIVE_NAME_HERE}/ –applicationpath “/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app” Be sure to include the required double-quotes, or use backslashes to escape the spaces in the path. Full instructions may be found on the Apple site: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 Turn on your Mac by pressing the power button Press […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10, 10.11, apple, boot, Bootable, Drive, El Capitan, Flash, howto, Mac, macosx, Reinstall, tips, USB, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, December 8th, 2015
As always, YMMV… 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 #!/bin/bash # Usage: eject [fullpath to mount point] DISK="${1:-/Volumes/YourUSBFlashDriveName/}" df -h "$DISK" > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then diskutil unmountDIsk `diskutil list "$DISK" | grep ^/dev/` else echo Volume $DISK is not mounted…skipping. fi #!/bin/bash # Usage: […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, bash, cli, Command, Command line, Disk, diskutil, Drive, eject, Flash, howto, List, Mac, macosx, mount, Terminal, tips, umount, unmount, unmountDisk, USB, volume
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