A Mac OS console application used to manage user preferences.
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What are the default permissions on the Applications folder in OS X supposed to be?
I was trying to run VirtualBox on OS X when I got the error:
Failed to open a session for the virtual machine tinyXP.
Failed to load VMMR0.r0 (VERR_SUPLIB_WORLD_WRITABLE).
Unknown error creating VM ...
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How does the defaults domain ‘Network’ work? (/Network/Library/Preferences/)
How does the Network preference/defaults domain work on Mac OS? I see it referenced in a lot of Apple documentation, but I don’t understand this particular preference domain.
I get the user defaults ...
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Is it possible to somehow default the OSX preview window size on open for PDF files?
I have had this bug-bare for a while where preview always opens documents too small, I'm visually impaired and want them to default to open with two options
Default width to nearly 100% of screen, ...
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Command Line method to backup using two Time Machine disks
Does anyone know of a command line method to select the active Time Machine disk? I would like to alternate between two backup disks for redundancy. I would like this to be automated, presumably via ...
