macosxtips.co.uk — One-line Terminal commands for changing hidden preferences in Mac OS X Leopard. Change settings for Spaces, Stacks, iCal, Spotlight, Dock, Finder, Safari and Time Machine that aren't accessible through the application or system preferences. All are easily reversed using a different Terminal Command.
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happylinuxguyNov 27, 2007
Where's the command to bring back the size column for the find window? Then I'll be happy.
Closed AccountNov 27, 2007
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tippisNov 27, 2007
No. It affects most non-Mozilla browsers.I suggest using the link at the bottom of the page: <a class="user" href="http://www.digg.com/bugreport">http://www.digg.com/bugreport</a>
tekhnaNov 27, 2007
Is there a terminal command to unlock my keyboard? Oh wait, it wouldn't do me any good because I couldn't type it in. Since my Leopard install my MacBook has become unusable due to this keyboard lockup issue. I am going back to Tiger until Apple admits the onus is on them and fixes this damn bug.
signal15Nov 27, 2007
This works. Set the drive up as a local backup drive and start the backup. Cancel out of it, delete the folder it created. Then put it on the network, connect to it, and fire off your backup. Works fine for 2 of my machines.The reason you need to delete the folder it created is because for local backups it just uses a directory structure, and for network backups it creates a sparseimage because it cannot tell what the underlying filesystem is, and it may or may not support resource forks.I want to know how to turn on encrypted backups. This functionality existed in the pre-release versions of Leopard, but seems to have been removed.
illwilNov 27, 2007
If someone typed it up for you and had it formatted correctly and placed it in a file on a jump drive, would you be able to (with the trackpad) select the text and drag in to the terminal window? Or, if the terminal only takes direct text input, could you hook up a keyboard via USB?
monkeyfartsNov 27, 2007
Yes, but it gets to a point where it's too omission, so I do think tapaul has a point here. There's a fine line between simplicity and usability, and with Time Machine I think that Apple has put too much emphasis on simplicity. I can't think of any reason that I shouldn't be allowed to change basic settings, like time between backup intervals, right there in the GUI. It's not like it would add clutter. Just a simple dialogue box would suffice. It would be nice to be able to do more than turn TM on/off and select your backup drive without having to dig through the terminal to do so. :)
allywilsonNov 27, 2007
Not a Mac user (at the moment, have been in the past) but I think you're right. I also think it was a daft tip to be honest. *.app's are just directories, they're not binaries. Why not just change the permission on the icon within it? I'm guessing that supposed tip will cause problems somewhere else (correct me if I'm wrong - but disallowing rights to an entire directory just for an icon seems a little over-kill).
sirconfuciousNov 27, 2007
I would suggest not using the spotlight "icon" fix if you ever want to use spotlight but just don't want the silly icon to be showing all the time. what the "fix" does is simply make the spotlight executable not, well, executable by anyone. Your machine will try to run it, then puke. I'd imagine there are some interesting problems waiting to crop up from this as the services application will try to re-run spotlight because its not running, and will fail over and over again...
collywollyJun 4, 2008
So Linux has some obscure command and it is difficult to use. Apple has some obscure command and it's a "hidden feature".Fanbois.