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How to create own filename extension?
I want to have an extension, named .content, to store all files in it that are linked to the filename. The extension ".content" should be recognized by the OS as a file extension rather than a regular ...
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Does OS X enforce a maximum filename length or character restriction?
What is the maximum filename character length of files in OS X?
Of secondary importance is whether some characters are allowed/disallowed in addition to any overall length restrictions.
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How did this ominous file end up in my Application Support folder?
Deleting this file will break the whole internets, for the sake of our children don't do it!.
The above quotation is the content of a text file called STR8369805638PUB6932583035105 that I found ...
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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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Find original filename after Data Rescue recovery
Recently, I lost 1,7TB on videofiles on my external hard drive. A terrible loss since it took me many evenings categorising all this data.
With a deep-scan with DataRescue 3, I was able to recover ...
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Double-clicking file from Finder does not open it in application [closed]
I have installed an application that is associated with a particular file type. When I double click a file of that type in Finder, the application starts, but does not open the file that was clicked. ...
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How to use Finder to find all files that do not match a certain criteria?
How can I use Finder's search feature to find all files that do not match a certain criteria?
For instance, all files that don't end in ".txt" in the current folder.
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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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Almost all files are locked in my Time Machine backups?
For some reason my files are getting locked in my Time Machine backups. I mean, when you "Get Info" on one of them, the "Locked" box is checked. Folders are NOT locked, though.
Is this normal? This ...
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Finder takes long time to load some folders
When opening some folders, the Finder takes a long time (30-60 seconds) to load all the files in it. Specifically, these folders typically contain 10-50 PHP files (which are text files), each about 10 ...
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Hiding emacs backup files in Finder
I would like to find a way to hide all the *~ files in Finder, which are used as backup files by Emacs. Is there a general approach to make Finder hide all the files with their names matching certain ...
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Adding tags to files in OS X: How to use, where are tags stored, and will they work on a network?
I've heard it is possible to add tags to a file's meta data in OS X, and have Spotlight search through such tags.
In a nutshell, how would one access this feature in Finder – not Spotlight ...
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How can I enable search by filename in finder on Lion
Before switching to Lion (on Snow leopard) I used to open a directory (like my Downloads) and start searching using the search box at the top right of the finder window for a file and there was an ...
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Force a file to overwrite instead of appending
I've got an application that won't overwrite a file with the same filename. It will only append the filename with a 'space 1'. If I write a file more than once I get something like this:
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