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The simplest approach, I think, is to use Shift-Command-5, not Shift-Command-4. Shift-Command-5 brings up a small screenshot panel that lets you choose among the different types of screenshots. When y …

From what I've read, a given MacOS folder can hold up to 2.1 billion items. That may be lower if you're using a particularly old system, but it still takes an extraordinarily large number of items. …

Yes, you can simply put the DMG in the trash and delete it. If it was an encrypted disk that's all you need to do, because even if someone recovers it they won't be able to decrypt it without the pass …

I'm a bit confused. In Big Sur, the main tab of the Keyboard preference pane in the System Preferences app looks like this: If you set the "Touch Bar Shows" and "Press and hold Fn keys to" pulldown m …

The risk, honestly, is that if you make a mistake you percolate that mistake through that entire section of the file system. That can be tremendously time-consuming and headache-inducing to undo, assu …

Short answer: I don't think you can change or add to the defined groups. As best I can tell groups are defined on the system level, based on Apple-declared uniform type identifiers (UTI). I suppose on …

We can monitor folders in at least three ways: Using AppleScript Folder Actions, which can monitor when files are added or removed form a folder, or when the folder window is opened, closed, or moved …

System Events is a faceless background app provided by Apple that gives AppleScript access to certain system functions and attributes. For example, we can use the app to change the desktop picture, co …

I use this script set up as a folder action. Basically, whenever I make a screenshot, this script activates, opening the folder I use for screenshots in the Finder, and opening the screenshot in Previ …

This isn't regular expressions; I'm afraid you've faked yourself out. in most of Apple's document apps, there's a distinction between search for "..." (placed within quotes) ... (entered without quote …

Here's a partial solution that might serve until I can see something more effective. Instead of trying to track down the correct place to modify the Finder settings under the hood — which is surprisin …

You might try using a logout hook. Login and logout hooks are deprecated, but I believe they still function. Mounting the volume should not be a problem; a user LaunchAgent would handle that nicely. T …

The unix command you used in terminal was the following: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES This adds a key to the Finder user defaults — _FXShowPosixPathInTitle — and …

Launchd jobs run with a default shell that does not import any of the typical environment variables you'll see in an interactive shell; in particular the PATH variable lacks any directories that your …

Unix, on the other hand, tends to use the name of the executable, which is in the MacOS folder inside the app bundle. … The normal way to run two instances of an application is to use the unix open command with the -n option, e.g., one of these: open -n '/Applications/FireFox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox' open -n -g org.mozilla.firefox …