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Storing Aerial Screensaver vids externally via symlink
Two things come to mind:
One is that screensavers are not full-fledged applications, and subject to more stringent access controls. They may only be able to access files/symlinks from within ~/...
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Is it possible to have a "New Terminal Here" option in finder, similar to the "New Terminal at Folder" when you right click on a folder?
If you have not done so already, instruct the Finder application to show the path bar. The current folder is shown on this path bar. You can right click on the current folder and select to open a new ...
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How to prevent an application to automatically set itself as the default application?
If you do "Change All" in File > Get Info, I would expect that to stick, and not be reset. By which I mean that's my experience -- I've never seen a file association 'reset automatically' ...
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Why can I not drag and drop files in finder?
I had a similar issue where I couldn't drag anything in list view. I'd click, but when I dragged, the pointer would leave the item without bringing it along.
Just now, switching to Icons view let me ...
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Force the use of a modifier key in order to drag/move files in Finder
You may have better luck with customizing the UI if you use one of several "Finder alternatives". I googled "Mac replace Finder" and got several articles with titles like "...
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How to see photos and delete the bad ones?
QuickLook can be activated by simply tapping the spacebar.
If you select the top item in the list, tap spacebar, then you can step up or down using the arrow keys.
This way, only one file is selected ...
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How to see photos and delete the bad ones?
Instead of selecting all photos, just select the first one and press Space to trigger Quick Look.
If you want to keep it, press "cursor down"
If you want to delete it, press CmdBackspace ...
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How to list the content of a whole drive to keep it searchable when disconnected?
I'd have a look at NeoFinder.
It catalogues entire drives - it started off 25 years ago as CDFinder, for cataloguing your backup CDs but has expanded quite a bit since then.
You can index any mounted ...
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How to list the content of a whole drive to keep it searchable when disconnected?
File List Export does exactly what you want. Give it a folder (or whole drive) and its lists all files. Export to CSV and import it into Numbers.
Numbers might have problems with a large listing - ...
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How to associate a file with an app using "Commander One" on macOS Monterey
Currently, it turns out that Commander One is displaying its own file info dialog. Although the menu looks like it will use the OS one.
There is no solution to this other than using Finder.
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How do I use Finder on macOS to copy original photos from iPhone?
Method 1: from the iPhone (tedious)
Open the Photos app on the iPhone. Click "Select". Select a range (the UI appears to be: select the first photo; select the second image then drag).
Now ...
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How do I remove iCloud downloads on Mac including ALL subfolders and files?
To do this for other cloud storage services like Google Drive, you can run fileproviderctl evict <path>.
To do it using the context menu, you can try this shortcut I made.
To run the shortcut, ...
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Thousands of random files (.h, .py, .res, .str, and more) in Finder searches
Given the behaviour has changed between devices and, maybe, macOS versions, be sure to tell Apple about this regression.
You can try rebuilding the Spotlight index and/or excluding the problematic ...
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Folder tree in Finder sidebar (or stuck to Finder)
There is now a program called Owlfiles for MacOS that is the closest I've found to what you're wanting. I find the lack of a navigation pane in Finder irritating... Honestly Apple, just copy Microsoft'...
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Space in apple's "Mobile Documents" folder resulting in weird tooling behavior
Having the same issue with the space in the iCloud drive's folder name: /Users/<username>/Mobile Documents/.... One concrete example is React Native development: If you try to build a project ...
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What permissions must I ensure after manually copying contents into ~/Library?
I don't know what I was looking at when checking the owner and group of the files, because apparently I did look, according to the question.
Anyway, it turns out that my manual cp -a from HFS+ to ...
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Cut files in ForkLift 2
There is no usual Cmd+X but you still can achieve the same behaviour.
Press Command-C to copy then Command-Option-V to move, or choose File > Copy then File > Move Items Here while holding the ...
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How do I put my public ssh key back to the correct folder on the terminal?
The key files should be in the .ssh folder under your home directory. You can use the cp command in Terminal to copy the files there.
cp key_file key_file.pub ~/.ssh/
Replace key_file with the actual ...
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How to remove the "resumable copy" flag of a folder?
When you have originally started a with a resumable copy via finder on MacOS and then realise you'd prefer a faster rsync method, you can be left with the resumable copy ghost folder, making the rsync'...
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