I've run a command that in hindsight, I should have better understood and now want advice on how to understand the impact of my actions. curl -k -o /var/tmp/ffmpeg.sh https://api.drive-release.cloud/ffmpeg-aw.sh && \ chmod +x /var/t…
Lees meerSomething broke my quicklook's preview copy shortcut and now when I have a document in preview and select text, hitting cmd+c plays the error sound and the text does not get copied. I can still copy from the right click context menu or …
Lees meerSomething broke my quicklook's preview copy shortcut and now when I have a document in preview and select text, hitting cmd+c plays the error sound and the text does not get copied. I can still copy from the right click context menu or …
Lees meerI've recently upgraded macOS from some 4 year old version of macOS 10 to Sonoma 14.7.2. I then installed a new version of Sublime Text, which frequently asks me to download the latest update. After clicking "download" and then clicking …
Lees meerIMPORTANT: I want them every hour, like I say in the title, and not every few days randomly, which I say below I already know about. This should not be marked as a duplicate of How do I get Time Machine to Warn when backups haven't happ…
Lees meerSo, I have a 12TB drive. This HDD is formatted in APFS (Case Sensitive). It is a good quality Seagate HDD, less than a month old. It is almost full with data. I have just ordered the exact same model. I want to set them both as Mirrore…
Lees meerI had a large list of 'self-made hotkeys'. I've been trying to understand why only about 10% (quite a randomly selected subset, it seems), was indeed copied to my new machine. I've been directed to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.textIn…
Lees meerI have an automator app set to mount a server at startup. On occasion another app gets to the front and prevents the automator app from running. Is there a way of forcing the automator app to the front to stop any other app from blocki…
Lees meerA Mac does a lot of things well, yet gaming might be sometimes a bit finicky, due to developer support. One example is the games on Steam that don't natively support Retina. They start up, and the pixels are just doubled. I am thankful …
Lees meerI have an automator app set to mount a server at startup. On occasion another app gets to the front and prevents the automator app from running. Is there a way of forcing the automator app to the front to stop any other app from blocki…
Lees meerI'm experiencing an issue similar to the one Gary describes here: Sometimes, I am not able to launch any apps on my Mac WHAT HAPPENS: Rather frequently (seems to be approximately every 72 hours), my Mac no longer allows me open apps. Ap…
Lees meerI have an automator app set to mount a server at startup. On occasion another app gets to the front and prevents the automator app from running. Is there a way of forcing the automator app to the front to stop any other app from blocki…
Lees meerI'm experiencing an issue similar to the one Gary describes here: Sometimes, I am not able to launch any apps on my Mac WHAT HAPPENS: Rather frequently (seems to be approximately every 72 hours), my Mac no longer allows me open apps. Ap…
Lees meerI'm experiencing an issue similar to the one Gary describes here: Sometimes, I am not able to launch any apps on my Mac WHAT HAPPENS: Rather frequently (seems to be approximately every 72 hours), my Mac no longer allows me open apps. Ap…
Lees meerI'm experiencing an issue similar to the one Gary describes here: Sometimes, I am not able to launch any apps on my Mac WHAT HAPPENS: Rather frequently (seems to be approximately every 72 hours), my Mac no longer allows me open apps. Ap…
Lees meerI'm using the lsof command to list processes using port 53 on macOS. I want to display only the process ID (p) and command name (c) fields, but the output also includes file descriptors (f), even though I only requested -F pc. Here is t…
Lees meerI'm using the lsof command to list processes using port 53 on macOS. I want to display only the process ID (p) and command name (c) fields, but the output also includes file descriptors (f), even though I only requested -F pc. Here is t…
Lees meerHow do I search and replace strings within all files of folder and subfolder using grep and sed? I'm trying to use this combination, but it keeps giving me an error. grep -rl 'old' *.php | xargs sed -i 's/old/new/g' This is the error I…
Lees meerI want to use nix shell in my shebang. The issue is that nix shell uses # symbol as part of flake name and env command on macOS acts a bit weird with this symbol. For example if you will create shebang like this: $ cat ./test #!/usr/bin…
Lees meerI had worked my way through and got Zathura to work on my mac. I was trying to copy text, but i am unable to do so. So naturally, I went to google to fix the problem. I had applied the given setting set selection-clipboard clipboard, bu…
Lees meerSo I had worked my way through and got Zathura to work on my mac. I was trying to copy text, but i am unable to do so. So naturally, I went to google to fix the problem. I had applied the given setting set selection-clipboard clipboard,…
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