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How to share files or folders across different user accounts on Mountain Lion?
I have some files with an user account.I would like to share some of the files to another user on the same MAC. I copied the files to Public folder,but I am not able to view the files in the other ...
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Mount network volume as local drive for data recovery
Is it possible to mount a network volume so it's seen by OS X and data recovery tools as a local drive? Or are there any data recovery tools on OS X that work with network volumes? I'm using OS X ...
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Why are the alias so big in filesize in Mountain Lion?
I noticed the alias(es) that I create in Mountain Lion are very big in filesize (for example an alias to a folder is 5.8MB!)
Compared to Leopard, they were just about 500KB.
Why is this? and is ...
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Get info: sizes displayed in MB first
One thing that I miss and would like to have back, is when I get info on one or more files, the size displayed first is not the MB rounded one, it is the size in bytes.
The image below shows on the ...
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show long filenames immediately in Mountain Lion when hovering mouse and key press
In Leopard, at the finder, when a file/folder had a long filename (and it truncated it with an ellipsis "…"), I just had to press the option (alt) key and hover the cursor on that file/folder, and it ...
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How do I fix a bad file name encoding on an Intel Mac?
On occasion I get files that have names mangled (mis-encoded, often from an archive file) by the senders. How do I fix the encoding on an Intel Mac?
I am aware of Apple's File Name Encoding Repair ...
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How can one determine which user deleted a shared file on OS X Mountain Lion Server
My girlfriend is a lab technician at a small pharmaceutical startup. She created a very important Excel file and placed it in a shared folder on a server that the "IT" guy set up. The server runs ...
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Launching a new instance of something instead opening existing one?
Is it possible to have app launcher(Alfred or Spotlight) to launch a new instance of an app(Finder, Terminal) instead of taking me to existing instance?
I know this question: How to make clicking on ...
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If I save files in iCloud, where are they “really”?
If I save files to iCloud in apps in Mountain Lion that support such saving, where on my drive can I find these files if I want to run command line utilities on them, edit them in other programs, etc?
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How exactly does the new Mountain Lion filesystem work?
I heard that the new filesystem only allows one level of folders. How does it work exactly ? Will my existing beautifully organized folder-tree be collapsed into one folder when I upgrade? As a ...
