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Good Evening. I've been experiencing issues in regard to chaining to location of where screen shots are saved on my machine. Previously, my settings were to have screenshots saved into a "Screenshots" folder within Dropbox. I wanted to change the location of the folder to go within my Documents...

Hey folks, I'm away from my home setup for a while but upgraded my new 12" 1.33 iBook to a SSD. Problem now is that I have no FW drive around, no USB stick and the DVD drive isn't working :D The only thing I have is a BlackBook, a 10.5 dmg and a FW cable. So I thought it should be possible to...

Hello everyone, I have a CentOS file server running SMB and I am unable to mount it in macOS using Terminal. I have ran the following commands and receive errors: $mount -t smbfs //username:password@server_ip/share\ name ~/local_dir mount_smbfs: URL parsing failed, please correct the URL and...

I just noticed that there is a hidden .Trash folder at the root level of my hard drive which contains a few files from 2014. Why does this folder exist and how did the files get there? I understand that the normal .Trash folder is in the user's home directory.

Hi guys I used the following terminal commands to stop MacOS automatically mounting an external USB drive... sudo pico /etc/fstab UUID=NUMBER none hfs rw,noauto Source: https://www.cnet.com/uk/how-to/how-to-prevent-a-volume-from-mounting-at-boot-in-os-x/# (The USB drive is attached to a...

Hello everyone, I am new here on the forum and hope that I am posting this question in the right category since its mostly a terminal prompt/OS X question. I have a 2011 i7 Macbook Pro with a data doubler/HDD installed in the optical drive slot. My main drive in the original slot is an SSD. My...

I used Recovery OS Disk Utility to mount (unlock) a Core Storage encrypted volume, then Terminal to attempt HFS-to-APFS (no conversion). I can't recall whether the (Command-Q) quit from Terminal was preceded by Command-W closure of the window. I probably did exit before the quit. When I first...

Prior to installing macOS 10.12.5 I had enabled reading AND writing my Bootcamp partition (formatted NTFS) with terminal. For those who aren't familiar sudo nano /etc/fstab [ENTER] LABEL=BOOTCAMP none ntfs rw,auto,nobrowse [control-o] [ENTER] [control-x] [ENTER] Then use "open /Volumes" to...

Today I tried to run an ifconfig in my terminal and encountered this problem : Last login: Fri Apr 21 14:10:52 on ttys000 -bash: export: `{PATH}:/tools': not a valid identifier -bash: touch: command not found bogon:~ robertmccormick$ ifconfig -bash: ifconfig: command not found I've...

I am using the Terminal App in El Capitan 10.11.6 I have moved my, "Mail" and "Mail Downloads" Folders to the following locations: /Volumes/ST-Cuda-4T/AppleMail/Mail /Volumes/ST-Cuda-4T/AppleMail/Mail Downloads From the following location in the Terminal I have tried creating Symlinks...

Hi All, My school installs an extra start up screen in the macbook and macbook air when you start the machine. the company logo comes up and you have to hit the enter key, then it goes into the regular start up user screen. Where you THEN pick a user and login name. HOW can I remove this first...

I have an iMac a couple of years old. Can't give any specs because I am locked out of it. I believe it is either el Capitan, not upgraded to Sierra. I tried to login recently using a valid password. I couldn't get in. After several tries, I got in but a Keychain Access message saying "System...

Hello... So I am trying to salvage an external drive that will not show up in the Finder or Disk Utility. It's a 3TB Seagate with FW800 and mini USB ports. I've tried multiple cables on multiple ports on multiple macs with multiple versions of OSX. No dice. It does seem to turn on when supplied...

Hi, With my Nvidia GT 120 unrecognised it is time to find an alternative solution. If with El Capitan I was able to boot easily under Windows with the help of Bootchamp, today the same software doesn't work anymore under Sierra. The command line bless is not supported due to SIP as far as I...

Sorry for my bad english. But i neeed your help guys! I need to login via ssh to ubuntu servers, easy yeah? But I have some troubles: I need to log at 200 servers ... its possible manually but toooo long and boring here is my routine: 1) ssh -i "PathToKey/Key" ubuntu@serverAddress Its always...

hello, i try to set a file access to immune (+i) with chattr and terminal responds cmd not found. are there any terminal commands similar to chattr un ELcap that can do the exact job, without altering any other attributes and how to type in in terminal thanks

I got a MacBook Pro 15˝ built in 2015 (MacBookPro11,4). In order to calibrate the built-in monitor, I have to identify it and figure out if it uses a white LED-backlit for instance. I found two Terminal codes. ioreg -lw0 | grep \"EDID\" | sed "/[^<]*</s///" | xxd -p -r | strings -6 This code...

Hi all, I'm having a strange issue with Terminal. I have to navigate to a folder which is on my Desktop: - at command prompt I type cd Desktop and all good, I navigate to the Desktop; - I type cd folderName and I get "No such file or directory". The folder is clearly on my Desktop and if I...

Hi, I'm currently trying to repair my External HD using Terminal as the "First Aid" option is greyed out in Disk Util (See Image Below) without losing any data on the drive itself. Whenever I try to use the "repairvolume" command it comes back at me with this: > diskutil repairvolume...

Hello, sometimes I have problems with my touchbar, right now my volume and brightness control do not work. Sometimes it is something else, you know what I'm talking about if you have one of the new Macbook Pros. I know that there is the useful Terminal command `killall dock` which restarts the...