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Useful Terminal Commands

Erase Hard Disk

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ empty /dev/disk1

Force rebuild of Finder Prefs

mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist ~/Desktop/

Make Library Folder visible

chflags nohidden ~/Library/

Cleanup Finder database

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Backup iPad on external disk (named “disk2s2”)

ln -s /Volumes/disk2s2/Documents/MobileSync/Backup ~/Library/Application\ Support/MobileSync/

Booting in verbose mode

sudo nvram boot-args=”-v”

Show full path names in all Finder windows

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES

Always use expanded save dialog

defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool TRUE

Change date to March 18th 2013 12:50 for fooling older MacOS X Installers

date 0318125013
code/terminalcmds.1591700294.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/06/09 12:58 by michfiel