The system used to format and organize files on a disk. This includes directory structure, permissions management, metadata, and more. The current default file system for the Mac OS is HFS+
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Where is system.log located? (In the filesystem, outside of Console.app)
Where is the system.log file actually located? I know of course that I can view its contents in Console.app, but I just want to know where this text file is actually located. Or is it an almagamation ...
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/.fseventsd (File System Event Store) is empty?
For some reason my /.fseventsd directory (for the File System Event Store) is empty. I suspect this isn't normal, especially because the .fseventsd directory on my external drives have about 15 files ...
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How to batch rename images, in reverse numerical order?
My camera names its images IMG_0001.jpg, IMG_0002.jpg, IMG_0003.jpg, etc.
I have about a thousand images and would like to rename them without having to do it manually if possible.
Is there a good ...
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“Open with” in Finder.app gives duplicate entries [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to omit apps from external drives in “Open With” menu?
in finder's open with menu are a lot of dups. I am running latest OX X and patches.
I googled and found ...
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Is there an application for creating an text inventory of media files and/or applications
For insurance purposes, I would like to keep a list of the following:
All of the movie files on my Mac
All of the music files on my Mac
All of the applications on my Mac
The lists needs to be ...
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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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How can I ssh mount an Ubuntu server's filesystem?
I posted this question on Stack Overflow, and the one response mentioned, "I guess from your mention of opendiff that you're using Mac OS. The recommended way to get sshfs on Mac OS used to be ...
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Why don't Projects folder and subfolders dynamically update with file system changes?
After spending a long time debugging Sublime Text 2, I discovered the bug is in OSX.
The Finder does not dynamically update changes in the file system for the Projects folder and subfolders.
Why ...
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How to make Smart folder like physical folder with the combined contents of two folders
I have an application which looks for its data (*.txt) files in a folder. I have two folders containing text data that I need to keep separate, but it would be useful to have the application see the ...
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Partition one disk with 2 different filesystems
Can I partition my portable 2.5 hard disk into 2 parts and then have one part as a Mac (ext journal) partition and the other as a NTFS filesystem?
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Fresh install or Cloning when migrating from HDD to smaller SSD (considering fragmentation, mostly)?
I own a mid 2010 6,2 MBP and I am considering the upgrade to a SSD. I would probably get a 256GBs SSD and replace my optical drive for the older HDD, so I can have a little more of capacity, as I ...
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“Application opened for the first time” warning after every reboot
I have a problem with Lion 10.7.5.: the system does not remember that I already opened applications before. After every reboot, every time I open an application it displays the warning as if it's the ...
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Permission Problems for copied files from NAS
I access my Synology NAS via AFP and can open/edit all of my files directly on it. But when I copy a file to my desktop I can't open it. Finder tells me I don't have appropriate permissions.
When I ...
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Is it possible to edit the path and view the folder path in the Finder?
I'm not sure what it is called on the Mac, but when I open my Downloads folder (or any other folder), I'm referring to this file explorer window that shows me my file structure.
I know there are ...
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How to copy a “corrupted” (but seemingly-working-just-fine) large VDI file off OSX?
I need to copy a 87 GB VDI file (the virtual disk of a VirtualBox Virtual Machine), off my old spring-2010 MacBook Pro (SSD) to then transfer it to my new work machine.
This Virtual Machine itself ...
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Move Large, Frequent files closer to center of HDD
Is there a native/third-party utility (or native trick) to move large, frequently-used files closer to the center of the disk?
I was under the impression that the OS tried to automatically optimize ...
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OS X Lion All Files Showing as Type of Document
I had an issue where my MacBook Air would not start a couple days back, so I reinstalled the OS. I ran the reinstallation from the recovery partition. Ever since then, almost all of my files show as ...
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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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Finder adds resource fork files
I am working on automating a manual backup process which I do about once per month when it is time to rotate some backup media. The process involves backup files that are located on some FreeBSD ...
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I want to install Adobe CS 6 on an external hard drive but can't select the install location
My SSD is formatted case sensitive, so when I attempted to install I got this:
Installation on case sensitive volumes isn't allowed. Please choose a case insensitive location.
But I can't select ...
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fsck and Disk Utility won't repair Volume: invalid b-tree node size
I accidentally wrote some .iso data to a disk through dd by mistake. I cancelled the command after just 2 seconds but that was enough to wipe the first EFI partition (200MB) and a bit of the second ...
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Can't open example files in LyX (greyed out)
I am trying to bring up LyX on a mac. One of the first things in the tutorial is to go look at the file named example_raw.lyx.
I know the file is on my machine because I found it using terminal, ...
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Will setting a cron job to delete ._ shadow files on a linux share work?
I recently tarred up a directory to send to a remote linux system. When I untarred it, there were ._ files tossed into the target directory.
I did a search and found articles of people being ...
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Open File window badly framed
Whenever I need to open a file from any app the finder window is extremely bad framed. The toolbar gets most of the space on the window and I always have to widen the window towards right in order to ...
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Wisdom of storing help files in user directory
What is the wisdom of storing the following reference files in the user's directory?
Might I have done something when installing XCode for them to go to ~/Library instead of, say, /Library ?
1.8G ...
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What techniques for disk, volume and file system management are possible with OS X, but troublesome within Disk Utility?
In the past, Disk Utility was the best starting point for the vast majority of disk-related tasks.
As technologies within (or possible with) OS X have developed – without equal development of Disk ...
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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 ...
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3answers
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Why isn't finder finding all files?
I had a Smart Search for my Photo Stream files located at ~/Library/Application Support/iLifeAssetManagement/assets/sub/, searching for JPG and PNG files. I found that not all files were showing up. ...
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Will this bitscrubber in fact scrub away bits rather than writing to a new file?
I have a Unix-y bash script and a Python script:
#!/bin/bash
for item in $*
do
for file in `find $item -type f`
do
bitscrubber_internal $item
done
rm -rf $item
done
and
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What does this mean: “mds: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch. ac:2 am:51”
mds: (Warning) FMW: event:1 had an arg mismatch. ac:2 am:51
This error shows up in my system.log file regularly. Searching on Google turns up few useful results.
One search result points to ...
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Search all hidden .htaccess files inside a folder and run a terminal command?
Searching for the issue, I found this Q&A:
How can I show only an .htaccess file in the Finder?
[...] you could create a symlink to the file in its directory, omitting the dot in the name:
...
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Whenever I try to delete a file in Finder I get “Finder wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this.”
I can't figure out why Finder isn't letting me delete files under my home directory without providing my password. Here's a listing of some files on my desktop:
~/Desktop steve 526$ ls -l@ flower*
...
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Filesystem check on startup
as Mac OS X in part is an *nix operating system. Will the filesystem of my computer be checked periodically? How to check when the next check will be triggered, if it is checked periodically?
My ...
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How can I specify a smaller block size for a Ramdisk?
I use a ramdisk to speed up a git repository with a lot (> 60k) of small (~200 bytes) files.
Is there a way to create a ramdisk with a smaller block size?
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Easiest way to browse iPhone filesystem
What method of browsing the root filesystem is least likely to make any modifications to it? Hooking to a pc is an option. Jailbreaking is not an option for this question.
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Where does iPhone save temp files? [closed]
I was doing a very important recording on the soundcloud iPhone app and it ran out of battery. When I charged it up soundcloud app doesn't have the recording anywhere. On the iPhone filesystem where ...
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Best file system for an external hard drive sharing between OS X and Windows
I would like to buy an external hard drive that I'll use on Mac OS X and on Windows, but I don't know the best file system for it (reading and writing on the both system).
I know I can used FAT32 ...
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Can you reinstall OS X on a FileVault 2-encrypted drive?
I've been researching FileVault 2 to make sure that I understand it before I enable it on my Mac. While reading Macworld's Complete guide to FileVault 2 in Lion, I encountered an unexpected caveat ...
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Installing iOS SDK (Xcode) portably?
Is there any way to install the entire Xcode and iOS SDK developer suite on an external hard drive, and run it? When I open the .mpkg, I get "
Xcode and iOS SDK can't be installed on this disk. You ...
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1answer
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Installing gcc without admin?
Is there a place to install command line programs on OSX without an admin password? I've tried /bin and /usr/bin, and I have permission for neither. Like a ~/Applications, but for the command line.
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Unremovable directory
I have a problem with a seemingly unremovable directory/bundle. I moved Spotify.app from /Applications to the Trash and later tried to empty the Trash.
The empty trash progress bar shows up but then ...
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Linus Torvalds and the OS X Filesystem
Back in 2008, Linus Torvalds famously said in an interview that "OS X in some ways is actually worse than Windows to program for. Their file system is complete and utter crap, which is scary." I've ...
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How do I rename a file in git that differs by case only?
In my git (Xcode) project, I committed a filename with improper case. Now I went to try to rename it, but when I commit, I get:
fatal: Will not add file alias 'MyProject/MyFile.h' ...
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`open http://foo.com` and specify the chrome user which is to be used
Using the open command from terminal I would like to be able to specify the chrome the specific chrome user to open the url with? Local Chrome users are outlined here.
Essentially I have a local ...
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3answers
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New programs must be launched twice in 10.7.3?
I noticed recently that new programs (newly installed or downloaded) are not opening on first try on my MacBook Pro, or on my wife's MacBook. Both are running 10.7.3.
On first launch, new programs ...
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Why is FAT16 limited to read-only with TrueCrypt on Snow Leopard?
I'm experiencing a problem with TrueCrypt. The problem is described elsewhere but not resolved for me.
When attempting to mount encrypted containers, the following error is generated:
hdiutil: ...
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Where are audio device files in OSX?
Probably because OSX uses different naming conventions for devices files and because OSX uses Core Audio audio subsystem (not ALSA or OSS) there are no devices such as:
/dev/sdp
/dev/audio
/dev/mixer
...
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Setting user & group in a new installation (Mac)
Our product is an Audio Units that needs to be installed in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Components/
In order to allow automatic updates, we need to create the Audio-Unit bundle (ourapp.component) with ...
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How to confirm that a file has copied to a new disk without any errors?
I'd like to copy files from one external drive to a network connected drive.
I want to make sure that there are no errors.
I know of MD5 hash files that I see for large single files that are download ...
