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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, January 4th, 2018
I was running out of memory constantly on Yosemite 10.10.5 and found the following article: https://discussions.apple.com/message/26929324?start=555&tstart=0 Edited and reposted without permission below… Disconnect any external or secondary monitors, if any is present. The video memory allocation leak can also happen if you have a system with an integrated card, like Intel, with no external monitors […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10, howto, Leak, macosx, Memory, Memory Leak, PRAM, PRAM Reset, Reset, SMC, SMC Reset, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, January 29th, 2017
I wanted to send email from cron for various reasons, but the emails would bounce with an error 554: 554 5.1.8 : Sender address rejected: Domain not found Clearly, Postfix was using the “internal” hostname of myappledesktop.local (MacOSX has TWO hostnames! also, myappledesktop.local is not the real hostname ;-). So, I needed two things: 1. […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10.5, Bounce, cli, Command line, Email, FQDN, howto, macosx, mail, main.cf, PostFix, Send, tips, Yosemite
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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, 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, March 30th, 2015
defaults write com.apple.finder InterfaceLevel standard
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, Finder, howto, macosx, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, March 24th, 2015
System Preferences » Keyboard » Text » Uncheck “Correct Spelling Automatically”
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10, apple, Check, Correct, Correct Spelling Automatically, Disable, Keyboard, macosx, Spell, Spellcheck, System Preferences, text(), turn off, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, March 24th, 2015
I have an older host running MacOSX 10.6.8 Snow Leopard and I mount disk resources from there onto my new iMac 5K running Yosemite 10.10.2 Every now and then I get an error about sharingd crashing, and my network drives disappear. The quick way to get them back is to simply quit and restart Finder […]
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: 10.10.2, apple, Finder, howto, macosx, Share, sharingd, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, March 19th, 2015
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: apple, defaults, defaults write, howto, key, Key Repeat, Mac, macosx, Repeat, tips, Yosemite
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Author:
erics, November 20th, 2014
Enter the following command in Terminal… To turn it OFF: launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist To turn it ON: launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
Categories: How-To's, Technology Tags: Disable, howto, macosx, Notification, Notify, tips, Yosemite
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