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Restoring finder icon
I have moved certain sections (downloads, music, pictures) of my user directory from my SSD to my HDD via symlinks. I have successfully changed over the image of the folder which can be seen in the ...
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How do I make a bash script so that I can drag its input on top of the icon?
I need to make a bash script to that I can drag a .rar file on top of it and then the script will receive the pathname of that file as argument 1 ($1). I have made the bash script, but how do I make ...
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Can I force finder to open without loading previous files?
Finder crashed recently and I had to force quit it. Problem is that now when I open something with it, all of the files that it had open previously (including the one that caused the crash) try and ...
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How to dock multiple screens in a single screen?
I am using Macbook Pro and I am trying to dock terminal in the bottom and my webstorm on the top left and safari in top right. I followed the suggestion but I can't get the dividie by holding shift ...
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How can I select all files within a directory with subfolders?
I'm in the process of cleaning up my wickedly bad "Digital Photos" folder. I've got a workflow I like, but I need a better way of selecting the files. What I'd like to be able to do is select a ...
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make new Finder windows open at current folder
In Windows when I browse in Explorer, if I open a new Explorer window, it is opened to the same location as the window I had selected when I hit Ctrl-N. Is there a way of doing the same with Finder? ...
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How to create own filename extension?
I want to have an extension, named .content, to store all files in it that are linked to the filename. The extension ".content" should be recognized by the OS as a file extension rather than a regular ...
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Force relaunch of Finder from terminal into background
For some reason, Finder is no longer running and will not relaunch using conventional methods.
I can, however, get it running with the following command in the Terminal:
prompt$ open -g ...
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Why does my Mac keep opening the application that were open when it shut down?
I have set my Mac to switch off on late evening, and switch on on early morning. I didn't use any third-party utilities to do this.
When it starts up, the Mac loads all the applications that were ...
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Finder window, Save As prompt missing sidebar entries
Check out this screenshot:
Why is everything missing in the sidebar? Normally I would see Desktop, Downloads, a custom list of favorite folders, Applications, Library, etc. Suddenly this started ...
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Mac asking for password for some files when deleting [duplicate]
This happens not for all files. When I move or delete some of the files on my external drive Finder will ask for password. Is it due to permission set on these files ? Can I use something like Sudo ...
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Finder: keep sort-by per-directory
Some directories make sense to be sorted by date modified, while others make more sense to be kept sorted alphabetically.
How can I make it so that finder will apply a specified sort by selection on ...
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Is there a way to omit certain directories from where Mac OSX finds applications for its Applescript dictionaries et al?
Mac OSX maintains a list of applications for Applescript dictionaries, for the open-with list in finder etc.
This list gets collected from local directories (e.g. /Applications) but it finds as well ...
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OSX Server File Sharing - Allow users to change password?
We are running OSX Server 10.7.5 in our small office. On the machine, in the Server application, I have each employee setup as a user, with file sharing turned on.
This allows each employee to login ...
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Symlink User Folders - Can I keep original Sidebar Icons? [duplicate]
I have my user folders (Music, Movies and Pictures) stored on an external drive, so I used terminal to delete the existing user folders on the boot drive then created symlinks to these folders and ...
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How to disable the docked Finder monitor pop-up on OS X?
Attached is the screen shot of annoying screen monitor round cornered box, not sure what thats called. I dont know how it appeared!!! I wanna disable it. The Command+option+escape window doesn't show ...
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How to change the background of an DMG Software License Agreement dialog?
When I create my own dmg-images, I always attach a software license agreement to them. When I opened the flattened image, I always got the Jaguar "X" in the background of the agreement dialog, where I ...
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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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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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How to add Outlook to “Share” popup menu in finder
Unfortunately I have an old habit to have the "send by email" when right click on a file in the Share option pop up window.
I would prefer to use the Outlook so I can email the selected file.
Right ...
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Multiple color Labels in the Finder toolbar
In my finder toolbar, I have the color label drop-down. I would like to have multiple instances of it with different colors pre-selected. However it isn't possible to even add more than one instance ...
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Finder spotlight tool not “grepping” through all file types?
We've got this development stack that's mostly javascript, and if I'm looking for a variable definition or something I can use Finder's spotlight tool to easily find the file that contains the ...
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Quick search in folder by key press
I switched from PC to Mac, in pc when you're in explorer, you press a key and it highlights the first result of a file/folder that starts with the pressed key, and when you press again it goes to ...
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Can you color label a file/folder in Finder using a keyboard shortcut? [duplicate]
Is there a faster way to label a selected file or folder without having to right-click and choosing a colour ? Such as a keyboard shortcut or another method to do this ?
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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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Finder always jumps to top of window in list view
When I expand or collapse directories in list view in a Finder window (every time i click on the expansion triangle), the window jumps to the top (with nothing selected).
I found this article: ...
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“Shared” section of the sidebar very long to appear in OS X 10.8.2
After being very satisfied with my MacBook Pro running OS X 10.6.8, I advised a non-technical-skilled relative to buy one, which she did. The MacBook Pro came with OS X 10.8.2 but there is a problem. ...
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Finder: Name of file won't go away as file title
Ultimately, this isn't a big problem but it is a bit annoying.
Something happened, at some point, to my Finder application. Even after restarting my computer (even multiple times since this first ...
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Sort Finder columns reversed
I can't get this reversed thing to work:
Tell application "Finder" to set the sort direction of the modification date column to reversed
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Python IDLE can't be opened by double-clicking .py files in Finder
I can't open .py files in IDLE by double-clicking them in Finder (IDLE is currently set as the default program for opening such files). Nor can I open those files by right-clicking and selecting ...
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Spotlight doesn't work anymore in OS X Mountain Lion
I can't get Spotlight to search for any documents.
When I search the Finder for documents, nothing happens and the Spotlight search through the menu bar only shows up web searches.
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Removed Movies folder, now want it back
That's it. I typed rm -r ~/Movies in the Terminal and entered the root password. Now I want to get this nice-looking Movies folder with a corresponding icon back to my home folder.
Folder was ...
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How to set multiple folder icons in finder (for symbol- and list-view)?
I'm using OS X 10.8.2. By default the system folder icons differ in symbol- and list-view in the finder. If I use the list view a small icon (16x16px) is displayed. In symbol view finder switches to a ...
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Cannot change Finder's “New Finder windows open” preference; it's grayed out
Why am I not allowed to change any of the preferences in Finder's General preference pane, except for Spring-loaded folders? I am allowed to change any of Finder's Labels, Sidebar, or Advanced ...
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How do I prevent 'Open with…' showing multiples of same app? [duplicate]
Anyone know why this happens and how to make it show only one instance of each?
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Finder shows stale directory listings from NFS server
I have an Ubuntu 12.04 Linux server sharing files via NFSv4. I mount the share on my MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.7.5. I have the NFS share set up to automount in Disk Utility with default mount ...
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Time Machine wiped my external drive despite pressing “Don't Use”
I have an external hard drive(formatted as FAT32) that has been in use on/off for years. I even had backups on it (not using time machine). I mounted this hard drive, it was taking a while to mount. A ...
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Non-recursive spotlight search?
When using the Spotlight search at the top right of a finder window, I often want the search to be non-recursive, i.e. only look at files in that specific directory, not any directories within it. 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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OSX Applications folder window has become 'unsortable'
OSX 10.8.2 (Mountain Lion)
My Applications folder has recently become unsortable when it's open in Finder. That is, all the various headers of each column in the Applications window are flat white ...
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Finder opens new window each time
I just created a DMG and threw some folders in it. If I double-click a folder it opens in a new Finder window each time. Folders outside of the DMG are still opening normally. Holding option when I ...
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Stop Finder/OSX From creating TemporaryItems and .apdisk on Network shares
I'm looking for some way to configure OSX to prevent it creating .apdisk files and .TemporaryItems folders on network shares.
These are created any time OSX accesses a shared folder on the network.
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How do I register new icons for samba shares in Finder?
I've finally managed to advertise shares using the dns-sd executable (with identical results on Mountain Lion and Windows). I can force any of the default icons to show up in Finder with a command ...
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Pressing CMD + Folder from dock opens finder at bottom page
When I press Command and click on a folder in the Dock, Finder should come up and show me it's location there. However, Finder shows up and the page is scrolled all the way to the buttom. So I have to ...
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How can I change the view options for all subfolders at once?
I want to adjust the view options of a folder and all of its subfolders, the end result being that they have identical view options.
I'm not sure where to start with this. I normally launch View ...
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Automatically hide latex aux files in finder (files with a certain extension)
I'm a LaTeX user in OSX. I use TexShop primarily. LaTeX automatically creates lots of helper files with various different extensions (.log, .nav, .aux, .out, etc).
It's almost never necessary to view ...
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Prompt When Ejecting Time Machine Drive
Whenever I eject the external drive that I use for Time Machine, I get this prompt:
However, in actual fact, this particular drive has got only ONE (1) partition, so it's rather annoying that I ...
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Duplicate entries in “Open With” menu in Finder even after rebuilding Launch Services
In Mac OS X 10.8.2, I have this curious problem. Every time I install a new updated version of one of several applications that I use, my system adds a new duplicate entry in the "Open With" ...
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Relaunch Finder link missing
I recently needed to show hidden files in my iMac 2011 and had to relaunch Finder to do so. Every tutorial I saw, said to ctrl+click on the Finder icon and then click "relaunch". The trouble is: I ...
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How can I convert .CR2 to .jpg?
Is there a simple tool that will convert .cr2 files (Canon RAW) to .jpg?
I know Preview does it well but I'm looking for something directly accessible from the contextual menu.
