How To Find the Grab Hand Move Tool in Preview

Author: , 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.

How To Fix Excel for Mac Arrow Keys Do Not Move Cell Cursor

Author: , 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 […]

How To Fix Safari Using https instead of http

Author: , 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

How To Install a .pkg file from the Command Line on MacOSX

Author: , August 12th, 2016

sudo /usr/sbin/installer -pkg /path/to/yourFile.pkg -target /

How To Fix “dyld: shared cached file was build against a different libSystem.dylib, ignoring cache”

Author: , 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!

How To Create a Bootable MacOSX USB Flash Drive

Author: , 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 […]

How To Eject a Volume from the Terminal Command Line in MacOSX

Author: , December 8th, 2015

As always, YMMV…

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 Disable the Bash Terminal Bell

Author: , July 7th, 2015

The Readline library has a bell-style variable that controls what happens when Readline wants to ring the terminal bell. If set to ‘none’, Readline never rings the bell. If set to ‘visible’, Readline uses a visible bell if one is available. If set to ‘audible’ (the default), Readline attempts to ring the terminal’s bell. Edit […]

How To Get a Count of Open Files by User on MacOSX

Author: , June 18th, 2015

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