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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.1591700641.txt.gz · Last modified: 2020/06/09 13:04 by michfiel