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unknown posted:Has anyone dealt with enterprise macosx management of like 50+ laptops?
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decypher posted:I really want to use iCloud Photo Library, for some stupid reason, but it's been frustrating with my setup. iCloud library and photostream has been consistently hosed for me for a while now. if I put a large quantity of photos into iPhoto it just does the first few hundred then stops letting new images come in from other devices and stops syncing out to others.
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Feb 8, 2017 01:49
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Two posts in one day, yeesh. I've got a file in the trash can that won't delete. It says "The operation can't be completed because the item "Photos Library.photoslibrary" is in use. This particular file was deleted from an exFAT external drive. I've tried going into the command line to rm -R but to no avail, it returns that the 'Directory not empty." Which is cute because I was under the impression that's what the -R flag did. I've tried using the inum method which entails finding the inum for the folder/file and trying to delete using that. Didn't work, spit back the same error message rm did intially: Directory not empty. Lastly, I booted into Windows 7 to see if it was any easier in Windows. Nope. How do I empty this Trash? edit: Hi! Just wanted to add that searching lsof for the file in question produces zero hits. decypher fucked around with this message at 06:46 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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Feb 8, 2017 03:30
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TACD posted:I feel like I should be the kind of person who'd love Alfred but when I've tried it before I wasn't sure what I wanted it to do... like, I have no use for anything as complicated as what you've described but I'm sure there's other handy things it does I don't know about. What are some of the really fundamental / basic things it does that you love? It's been a long time since I've used Alfred without the power pack and looking at the site, it seems that Alfred without power pack isn't really that much better than spotlight. Stuff to do with vanilla Alfred: * The exact thing you want to do with searching for a file and opening it in Finder. You can also quick look the found file. * Same thing but for strings inside (text-based) files * App Launcher with fuzzy find. EG "acm" for Activity Monitor, "rdp" for Microsoft Remote Desktop * Calculator. Just invoke Alfred and type some math. Does scientific too * Web Searches - "imdb arrival", "g impeachment" (google), "gi cats wearing hats" (google images), "amz lube" (amazon), etc to open site in default browser with search term * "spell rediculous" / "define blissom" to quickly verify spelling or define a word * System commands - empty trash, sleep, screensaver, volume/mute, force quit an app, etc Once you've gotten used to using vanilla Alfred for basic stuff take a look at the power pack -- that's where it gets badass (but does require some effort to get setup and customized). * Clipboard Manager - save a rolling history of your clipboard so you can quickly find that thing you copied yesterday. Also, tracks images/files on clipboard, not just text. You can blacklist apps (1Password, Keychain) if you don't want sensitive passwords to be kept in history. * Snippets + Text Expansion - save frequently used blocks of text and quickly navigate/paste them. Can also set a snippet to a trigger for text expansion. Instead of typing out your mailing address, type ::address:: (or whatever you want the trigger to be) and it'll get auto replaced with your address. Instead of typing out similar email responses to customers/users over and over, make an email snippet for ::passwordreset:: or whatever and let Alfred type the body of the email for you. If you write code or config files, make snippets for functions you use a lot or blank config files or whatever. * Control iTunes * Contact search - copy to clipboard, send email, make phone call directly from Alfred * Send quick/one-off commands to Terminal (or iTerm, i think) * 1Password integration - invoke Alfred, "1p forums.somethingawful.com" to open a new tab in default browser and auto-login to the site * Workflows - this is where the real magic happens. Create or download workflows to do poo poo that Alfred doesn't do out of the box. There are shitloads of workflows available on Alfred forums, packal.org, and GitHub. Some workflows that i use: * Spotify Mini - search and control Spotify from Alfred * Units - unit (length/volume/mass/temperature/etc) conversion. Figure out how many grams are in a ton, cm in a mile, etc * KeepingYouAwake or Caffeinate - prevent computer from going to sleep * Google Authenticator - this isn't very secure but it saves me a ton of time. Keep your gAuth keys in a local file and get your 2FA tokens in half a second without pulling your phone out of your pocket * Lock Screen - I made a very simple workflow to hit a single key to lock my screen when I'm walking away from my desk (I don't like hot corners but you could do the same thing that way without Alfred) * SpeedTest - run a quick speed/bandwidth test and send output to Notifications * Timezones - quickly find the local time in Djibouti or wherever * ft/tf - select a folder in Finder and run "ft" to open a terminal and go to that folder; "tf" does opposite and opens current terminal path in Finder * Alfred Emoji - slack-style emojis in any app (basically a big set of snippets). Type :fire:  :wrench: or whatever to auto insert emojis in email/browser/etc. The MacOS Emoji keyboard is a pain in the rear endHonestly, there's nothing Alfred can do that you can't do with another app or a few extra clicks but once you commit to keeping your hands on the keyboard and getting in the habit of using Alfred as much as possible, you'll end up saving tens of minutes per day and it really adds up. decypher posted:Two posts in one day, yeesh. rm -R (or -r) is recursive delete to get subdirectories, -f is "force" which is what you probably want, just be careful with it since you can gently caress poo poo up real bad if you accidently rm -f important OS files. Try "rm -f Photos\ Library.photoslibrary" (or if that's actually a directory that contains subdirectories, "rm -rf Photos\ Library.photoslibrary") and see if it works? Lawen fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Feb 8, 2017 |
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Feb 8, 2017 16:31
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decypher posted:I really want to use iCloud Photo Library, for some stupid reason, but it's been frustrating with my setup. You can upload the photos using the iCloud web app, although 500gb might not be fun to upload that way.
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Feb 8, 2017 17:11
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flosofl posted:If you want to find a phrase IN a file, just use the keyword "in <string>" and it will offer up a list of files that contain <string>. I think the ordering is last touched. Lawen posted:It's been a long time since I've used Alfred without the power pack and looking at the site, it seems that Alfred without power pack isn't really that much better than spotlight. Stuff to do with vanilla Alfred: Without much ado posted:With Spotlight, you can hold Command when you're highlighting the file of interest, and this will show you the file path. You can then keep holding Command and hit Return, and this will open Finder and put the focus on the file you were searching for.
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Feb 8, 2017 22:31
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TACD posted:Cheers guys - some of this does sound quite handy (though a lot of these things are now in Spotlight anyway, it definitely feels like one of those products Apple will just duplicate and then forget about). Things like Alfred have been around longer than Spotlight, and Apple hasn’t copied them yet.
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Feb 8, 2017 22:33
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TACD posted:Cheers guys - some of this does sound quite handy (though a lot of these things are now in Spotlight anyway, it definitely feels like one of those products Apple will just duplicate and then forget about). I will give it another go for sure. I learned quick that if you can't see a way to do something where you think it should be, hold Command and/or Option
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Feb 9, 2017 02:13
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I would totally be on board with Apple ripping off Alfred's clipboard manager, because then they'd probably put one on iOS as well. Now that I'm used to it I don't want to use computery things without a clipboard manager.
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Feb 9, 2017 06:11
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Reminder that iOS didn’t have a clipboard at launch.
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Feb 9, 2017 06:17
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I like that Alfred's faster; I mostly use it as an app launcher, so its DB being just /Applications (and /Applications/Utilities) works a lot better than spotlight's searching everything and also the internet. I don't need the wikipedia page on "activity" or every email I've ever gotten with "activity" in it, I just want activity monitor. decypher posted:Two posts in one day, yeesh. cd ~/.Trash rm -rf * maybe 'pwd' in between to be extra certain you're in .Trash Also, ensure you aren't using your trashcan as a storage box or whatever, because that'll nuke whatever's in there. If that still doesn't work, sometimes you end up with .Trash directories in external volumes, so plug in the disk and check if it has a .Trash at the top? I don't remember if OSX still does that or not, though.
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Feb 9, 2017 06:22
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Zenostein posted:cd ~/.Trash I’d do sudo rm -rf ~/.Trash /Volumes/*/.Trashes Takes care of trash folders even on secondary disks and it operates on the trashes directory explicitly so there’s no risk of running it in the wrong directory.
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Feb 9, 2017 06:30
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Platystemon posted:I’d do Good point, you can just delete .trash without breaking anything. Also thanks, I'd initially wrote ~/.Trashes, then when I went to double check I saw it was just .Trash. I was kinda wondering where I'd gotten .trashes from, and that explains it. I guess because of -f it won't throw an error for say, a bootcamp volume? (Or if there aren't any connected drives)
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Feb 9, 2017 06:39
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quote:/.Trashes/501/Photos Library/Photos Library.photoslibrary/resources/modelresources/54/121/6yrL+h89R4G2amwrepZr8g: Input/output error I never noticed this error until now. Maybe a bad block on the partition? I'll look into that unless there's another idea.
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Feb 9, 2017 06:43
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Zenostein posted:Good point, you can just delete .trash without breaking anything. By default rm will ask whether you really want to delete things you don't have write permission for. The -f switch tells it in advance that your answer will always be "yes, I do want to delete that". Use -f when you're absolutely sure, there's a lot of readonly files, and you don't want to have to punch Y followed by return a billion times.
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Feb 9, 2017 09:58
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Cool and pretty screensavers - know any? Or a good site to find some?
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Feb 9, 2017 18:47
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jackpot posted:Cool and pretty screensavers - know any? Or a good site to find some? I use Padbury Clock Aerial is super popular at my office
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Feb 9, 2017 20:18
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jackpot posted:Cool and pretty screensavers - know any? Or a good site to find some?
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Feb 9, 2017 22:43
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TACD posted:Personal favourites: Read sheep, was dissapointed when it wasn't these guys:  Do these exist for Mac somewhere?
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Feb 9, 2017 22:48
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Selklubber posted:Read sheep, was dissapointed when it wasn't these guys: I miss cool poo poo like that
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Feb 10, 2017 00:18
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I wonder if you can still get flying toaster somewhere.
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Feb 10, 2017 04:35
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I wonder if you can still get flying toaster somewhere. Yep. After Dark: Flying Toasters
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Feb 10, 2017 05:14
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Happy Noodle Boy posted:I wonder if you can still get flying toaster somewhere. This guy redid the After Dark pack in CSS, it's pretty neat. I use toasters for my homepage. Rimjob Rodeo fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Feb 10, 2017 |
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Feb 10, 2017 16:06
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The lock screen hotkey is ctrl+shift+eject/power. HTH.
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Feb 10, 2017 18:49
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tuyop posted:The lock screen hotkey is ctrl+shift+eject/power. HTH.
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Feb 10, 2017 19:51
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I'm doing a complete reinstall from scratch for my 2011 Macbook Pro, too many weird little glitches are happening, some apps are nonresponsive or acting weird, etc. I've got my important documents backed up via dropbox, photos are synced via iCloud, everything that iCloud can back up is checked in the Control Panel, and I've got a Time Machine backup of the full drive. I've never had to do this with OSX but it feels like it's time. My questions: Is there anything else I'd need to double check before the flatten+reinstall process, can I pull individual files/directories from Time Machine (i.e just my photos, documents), and if things totally get screwed up, can I do a full rollback from my Time Machine backup?
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Feb 10, 2017 20:03
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GobiasIndustries posted:I'm doing a complete reinstall from scratch for my 2011 Macbook Pro, too many weird little glitches are happening, some apps are nonresponsive or acting weird, etc. I've got my important documents backed up via dropbox, photos are synced via iCloud, everything that iCloud can back up is checked in the Control Panel, and I've got a Time Machine backup of the full drive. I've never had to do this with OSX but it feels like it's time. You can browse your Time Machine using Finder. The directory should be Backups.backupsdb on the root of the drive. Restoring from a time machine backup is one of the options you're given when reinstalling OS X, so a full rollback is possible as well.
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TACD posted:Personal favourites:
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skull mask mcgee posted:You can browse your Time Machine using Finder. The directory should be Backups.backupsdb on the root of the drive. Restoring from a time machine backup is one of the options you're given when reinstalling OS X, so a full rollback is possible as well. Thank you. Pulled the trigger, took a while to do a reinstall from USB. I used migration assistant (because it prompted me to do so) to move just my "documents & data" which will take ~ 8 hours so, it's a waiting game at this point.
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Feb 12, 2017 02:03
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Does anyone here use a Pomodoro app that they like? I'm looking to try it out at work.
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I just use https://tomato-timer.com/ , good luck being more productive friend!
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Feb 13, 2017 03:26
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Mike Danger posted:Does anyone here use a Pomodoro app that they like? I'm looking to try it out at work. 30/30 is the app you're looking for.
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Mike Danger posted:Does anyone here use a Pomodoro app that they like? I'm looking to try it out at work. i like Be Focused it's freemium on the app store
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Feb 13, 2017 12:50
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Vulture Culture posted:I find a hot corner really useful here too
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I just had to wipe my MacBook and backed everything up bar Word 2011 because my university offers the 2016 Office package for free. I have now realised that my referencing package plugin (Refworks Cite N Write) doesn't work with Word 2016. Anyone have any hot picks? I would drop the money on Endnote but I only have one semester left.
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Feb 13, 2017 21:21
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:I have BetterTouchTool set to interpret a five-finger swipe down as sleep display/lock. It's super convenient and really something that macOS should have by default. That seems a bit of a niche to cater for when most people only have 4 fingers per hand.
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Dugong posted:I just had to wipe my MacBook and backed everything up bar Word 2011 because my university offers the 2016 Office package for free. I have now realised that my referencing package plugin (Refworks Cite N Write) doesn't work with Word 2016. Anyone have any hot picks? I would drop the money on Endnote but I only have one semester left. Zotero?
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Dugong posted:I just had to wipe my MacBook and backed everything up bar Word 2011 because my university offers the 2016 Office package for free. I have now realised that my referencing package plugin (Refworks Cite N Write) doesn't work with Word 2016. Anyone have any hot picks? I would drop the money on Endnote but I only have one semester left. I like Mendeley.
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Dugong posted:I would drop the money on Endnote but I only have one semester left. You can't pony up for an upgrade to X8 or whatever? Think it's $108 for students.. Meanwhile, upgrading a 2013 rMBP 15-inch to a new 2016 15-inch rMBP.. using the Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter, Apple's own Thunderbolt cable and Migration Assistant- what the heck, they're both SSD based and throughput as measured by MA maxes at 85 MB/sec?! Seems pretty low for what ought to be a throughput at least 2-3X higher..
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Are you sure it's even transferring over thunderbolt? I posted a few weeks back about a 2016 -> 2016 migration a friend and I did and how Sierra's MA refuses to copy over TB. It kept silently defaulting to wifi. None of the geniuses at the store could get it to do anything else and none of our ideas worked either. Instead of a 30-minute migration, it took most of the day. As I said at the time, it just works!
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