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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Always open a file in a specific program
I'm having an issue with forcing a file of a certain type to always open with a specific program. In this case, it's .indd (Adobe InDesign) files. I have Adobe CS6 installed, and also Adobe InDesign ...
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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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Are .apple files potentially synonymous (or a wrapper to) .dmg files?
We lost a .dmg file on an harddrive. Our tech guy was able to recover files from the drive but not one of them is a .dmg file. But they are a lot of .apple file. Can the .dmg file we are looking for ...
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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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File System seems slow/unresponsive: how to measure/test?
I'm running a MacBook Pro, Mid 2010 model, that I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. Around that time, or maybe shortly after, I began noticing some problems that I can only attribute to a general ...
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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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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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OSX partitions wiped by NAS RAID
So I messed up when I thought it would be a good idea to stick some hard drives into my NAS. It's now changed the partition table to a RAID0 one and my data has vanished. What are my best chances of ...
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Difference between du and Finder file sizes
I was having a look at the size of libBLAS.dylib at some location in my Mac and du showed it's file size as 572K while the allocated file size (showed by Finder) was 1.4MB. I've read that the lack of ...
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What are Mac alternatives to Storage Spaces in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012?
I like the Storage Spaces feature in Windows 8/Windows Server 2012, but since I'm mostly working on Mac computers I would like to know if there are any Mac alternatives or equivalents.
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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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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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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 do I format an encrypted Integral Secure Key?
I just bought an Integral Secure Key from the Apple store but am fed up with having to use its own software just to transfer files to it as it does not appear as a normal USB drive in Finder.
How can ...
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Is it possibile have different files in different desktop?
i'm new with mac, the multiple "space/desktop" function is very cool, but it would be better if i could have different files and folder on each of my space.
For example, i want to set up a space for ...
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Is there any way to view the names of files from before iTunes renamed them?
So here's my sad story guys. I'm a songwriter and I have a ton of audio files on my computer. I spent the last week or so going through them all (some were in iTunes, some were scattered across the ...
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Is there a virtual filesystem plugin for iTunes Playlists?
There are a number of apps that for various reasons do not support the ability to drag songs out of iTunes and drop it onto the app. This becomes taxing whenever I'm working with a compilation of ...
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How can I change permissions of mount point of a network resource on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard)?
I want to give another user permission to a mount point of a network resource. The directory mode is 700 and the owner is, of course, the logged in user who created the mount point.
I have programs ...
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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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Most efficient way to get all files in a directory
I have a million+ files spread across four fiber-connected arrays. I need to get the path, filesize, and last_modified date to insert into a mysql database. What would be the best way to do this?
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What documentation exists to explain TheVolumeSettingsFolder on OS X?
looris@Palace-of-the-Nine-Moons:/tmp $ tree /TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/
└── HFSExtentTables
└── OVDBHDR4R6PVQJPJRE6QTLCBNS
├── 8PHMGCTSVNFUN915KNSCRDST3K
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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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Where is “Contact” information stored within iOS4
I have a problem in iOS4.0.1 on my 3GS where not all contacts I have saved show up in the "Contacts" app or tab within "Phone". However, when I enter names in a new text message contact field, they ...
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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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Finder move does not merge but replaces old folder, how to get old folder's contents
I moved folder named FOLDERA to another folder where same name folder exists. Finder asked me to replace? I complied thinking that it will merge two folders like windows. It completely replaced my ...
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Difference between “Plain Text” and “Plain Text Document” in Mountain Lion?
I'm new to Apple and Mountain Lion so please bear with me if this is a obvious question.
I have to files with the txt extension which has been created by a small program I've written.
The method for ...
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Large copied folders. Byte sizes same, but file counts different
I have a few very large folders copied that have the exact same byte size as their originals, but different file counts (off by 1-10 items) than what they should have.
No errors were reported during ...
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Is there a best / OSX-specific way to force all files created in a directory to have certain group ownership?
Basically I need any file filefoo that is newly created by userfoo or userbar, both members of groupfoo, in /Users/Shared/SpecialDirectory to have the same ownership that would be achieved by that ...
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Adobe Help Manager stalls extracting downloaded content
Adobe Help Manager is supposed to let you store help files offline, and keep those files updated. For the past couple months, whenever I try to update content I simply get stuck at "Please wait while ...
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MBP 13 Retina - Installing Windows 7 and Moving files to external disk
I have a Macbook Pro 13 Retina and I wanted to bootcamp Windows 7 and install a game or two but I only have a SSD 128gb so I would like to install the bootcamp and then move the files to external ...
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System Apps Not Appearing
I tried to move an app on my jailbroken iPod touch 4th generation to the system partition to free up space. I moved the app from /var/mobile/Applications to / and then created a symlink in ...
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iTunes and OpenMeta syncing
I'm looking to create a utility that would sync iTunes and OpenMeta ratings and comments. Mainly to avoid duplicate information, and to have both accessible in iTunes and various apps I use (Alfred, ...
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How to open a file and app from within a web browser
Is is possible to trigger a file to open in textedit and trigger terminal to open from an HTML link?
For example,
<a href="file://Applications/Folder/file.txt">Open file</a>
<a ...
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ZEVO: anyone have access to a current road map?
I've recently installed ZEVO on my Mac Pro and I'm looking forward to what ZFS will provide with data integrity, pool management and drive handling.
Wondering if there is a current road map?
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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 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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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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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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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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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 ...
