Command-t For Mac
Disclaimer Usually it takes destructive behaviour or terrible luck to ruin your Mac’s OS X installation beyond repair, but using the Terminal could potentially bypass such safety and enable a user to cause themselves serious headaches, or even (in extreme cases) a completely ruined operating system. This is very unlikely and as long as you steer clear from “sudo” commands which require you to enter your password, you should be perfectly safe. However, I strongly advise you to back up your Mac fully and proceed at your own risk! Some tips may only work for a particular OS, though I’ve taken care to only select Terminal commands which should mostly work on Leopard, Snow Leopard and Lion. Show Hidden Files Though OS X doesn’t really place much emphasis on hidden files and folders, some files and folders are hidden by default.
This is usually for good reason and deleting the wrong thing can cause issues, but if you wish to show the hidden files, then enter the following code. Killall Dock To undo this command and bring back Dashboard, just change “YES” to “NO” and restart your Dock by entering the killall command once again (note: the killall command can actually be inserted into the same line of code to save time, I’m making it separate here to give you a sense of what exactly is happening).
Mac Command Shortcuts List
Show The Library Folder In OS X Lion OS X Lion comes with the Library folder hidden by default but this can make troubleshooting any issues with your Mac, deleting the cache or just plain “tinkering” very difficult. In order to bring back the Library folder permanently, enter this command into Terminal. (note: You can also change jpg to png if preferred). Conclusion I hope that you’ve found some usefulness from these Terminal commands and that it encourages you to learn more about the power which can be unlocked from within the command-line. You can usually find an application which takes care of each of the commands posted above, but that’s a lot less informative and a lot less fun! For the command-line veterans amongst our readers; if you’ve got any Terminal commands or tips which I’ve missed (and I’m sure there are several), please let us know about them in the comments below.
Thanks Your command list helped me to find a folder and a file that the finder says it doesn’t exist. I am installing a program (Roambi ES4) that needs tomcat and mysql as prerequisites I installed everything following instructions but when I try to access the program interface trough localhost i get an error message: “A failure occurred connecting to the database.
Please ensure a database exists for the given host and name of the connection string or correct the connection string in the “db” entry in the configuration file located at: /Users/jorgediaz/.roambi/config.json” I had 1 week looking for the file or at least trying to find the.roambi folder. I also need to find a folder called “usr” in the root directory and the finder says it doesn’t exist.
When I tried to “make visible” the folder trough the terminal it says that the folder doesn’t exists. Thanks to your command list I get the correct directory and open in the text editor the config.json file with the terminal using the open -e command that you explain in your page I almost made a complete backup of the files and erase the hard disk to reinstall osx lion thinking that I had accidentally erased the usr folder Thanks to your commands i managed to know that the.roambi folder and the usr folder still actually exist and the config.json is either in the computer Thanks again but I want to know why is this nonsense behavior of the finder Is my 2,800 US $ new macbook pro crashed?
Or it is simply that I don’t know how to operate the finder??? I’m a switcher (my first computers were mac from 1985 to 1993 but after that I had to switch to windows because nobody was using mac at that time in my business area) Now I came back to mac and really don’t understand yet the finder it’s not intuitive I’m not a moron neither a border liner. Although I am not a technician guy, but I consider myself a blackbelt user nobody I know could do things I do with computers (99% willing – 1% knowledge) and I don’t understand how could this be so hard to understand Now I see that everything in windows is easy everything in windows have a wizard installer but for mac everything is a hard work and worst. A confusing one. Mostly because there is “n” folders located at different places called the same. (library is one example of system duplicated name of folders) nothing works with ordinary logic. If you installs a program and then you type the program name in finder maybe you get no answers or get 1 million folders but no one can be easily identified as an executable application so you never be able to know where is installed the application.
I installed mysql. But I cannot know where is installed it doesn’t appears in the application folder there are 53 thouthand folders named mysql in the computer but no one contains nothing that you could say it is an executable application if you download a file from internet to install a program it is downloaded to the DOWNLOADS folder. But after you double click it the download is erased without getting your permission so. If you want to reinstall it you have to redownload it in some cases.
Vba query coding in ms excel for mac. In this example, the data is in Sheet 1 and Sheet 2. • In the code window, copy and paste the above VBA code. You’ll have to copy and paste the code for both sheets if you want this functionality in both sheets.
And in other cases the new file you download doesn’t overwrites the older but downloads a new one in the same folder with a sequential number putted in the middle of the name. IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NAME????
If you are not aware, in Linux and Unix system (including Mac), any file with a ‘.’ in front is a hidden file and is not displayed by default. Mac doesn’t come with a quick and easy way to show the hidden file as Apple didn’t want you to tamper with it in the first place. Once you know how it works, it will be easy. The initial process of discovering the trick is the most difficult process though. In addition, the latest version of Mac (Lion) does hide the root folder and your User folder from the finder too.
You have to go to the Preferences to set the options for it to display. Comments are closed.