Author:
erics, April 23rd, 2021
Ever get the spinning beachball when trying to access the top menu on your Mac? SOLUTIONS Use the GUI Open the Activity Monitor application Select All Processes from the View menu Click on the SystemUIServer process, then click Force Quit. ~or~ Via CLI In Terminal, execute killall SystemUIServer
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Activity Monitor, All Processes, apple, BeachBall, Force, Force Quit, Hang, Hung, Kill, killall, killall SystemUIServer, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Menu, Quit, Restart, Shell, Spiining beachball, Stop, SystemUIServer, Terminal, Top Menu
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Author:
erics, February 26th, 2021
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 |
At first, I tried to disable the indexing via the mdutil command, but that just gave me […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10.5, apple, Disable, diskutil, eject, Halt, howto, Index, Indexing, Mac, MacOS, macosx, mdutil, metadata_never_index, Prevent, Spotlight, Stop, tips, Touch, umountDisk, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, October 29th, 2020
First quit Mail, if open. In Terminal, enter the following to disable the Data Detectors which could be responsible for the hang:
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defaults write com.apple.terminal DisableDataDetectors YES |
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Freeze, Hang, howto, MacOS, macosx, select, selection, Terminal, text(), tips
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Author:
erics, October 11th, 2020
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:
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sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume |
Full article at Apple Support “How to create a bootable installer for […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, boot, Bootable, Catalina, createinstallmedia, Download, Drive, Flash, High Sierra, Install, Mac, MacOS, macosx, Mojave, Reinstall, Terminal, USB
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Author:
erics, July 22nd, 2020
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!
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.14, Cache, dig, DNS, dscacheutil, Flush, flushcache, howto, lookup, MacOS, Mojave, Ping, tips, util
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Author:
erics, April 5th, 2020
As a non-root user:
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/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)" brew install cmake brew install openssl brew install mysql@5.6 brew services start mysql@5.6 brew link mysql@5.6 --force mysql |
Make sure your PATH contains /usr/local/bin
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: /usr/local, /usr/local/bin, 5.6, apple, Brew, cmake, Homebrew, howto, Install, Launchd, Link, MacOS, macosx, mysql, MySQL 5.6, mysql@5.6, openssl, Services, tips
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Author:
erics, March 27th, 2020
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 […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Delete, delete skype, howto, MacOS, Remove, remove skype, Skype, skype for mac, tips
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Author:
erics, November 24th, 2019
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine {dirname} ~or~ xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine *
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, attr, Attribute, Change, com.apple.quarantine, comacast, Delete, directory, howto, MacOS, macosx, Quarantine, Remove, Terminal, tips, Tree, xattr
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Author:
erics, October 9th, 2019
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 […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, array, input, List, MacOS, Multi, Multi-line, Multiline, Multiple, perl, Plain, Plaintext, Read, Reminders, STDIN, Terminal, text()
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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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