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How do I find out what entitlements an app has?
Sandboxed apps have to declare their entitlements. Of course, that doesn't do me any good if I can't tell what entitlements it declares. A text editor that has entitlements for Core Location, Network Server, and my Address Book, without my…
Ken
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How do I make find fail if -exec fails?
When I run this command in the shell (in a non-empty directory):
find . -exec invalid_command_here {} \;
I get this:
find: invalid_command_here: No such file or directory
find: invalid_command_here: No such file or directory
find:…
Steven Fisher
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Where can I find the task manager in Mac OS X Lion?
Where can I find a task manager in Mac OS X Lion? I want to see the processes that are currently being run, and I can kill any process I like.
Firdous
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Where is the cron log file in MacOSX Lion?
I want to troubleshoot a cron job that worked fine until a recent modification, but I can't find the cron log file, where is it?
Ali
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Crontab Operation not permitted
I have the following crontab on my mac OS Catalina 10.15.1 :
* * * * * /Users/username/Desktop/cronjob.sh > /Users/username/Desktop/cronjob.log 2>&1
Within the command file is:
#!/bin/bash
touch /tmp/foo
However I was left with the following line…
Tian
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Image capture opens after iPhone is connected
Everytime I connect my iPhone to my laptop, Image Capture opens. How to I stop it? I just need to use iTunes, not Image Capture.
KMC
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Launchctl difference between load and start, unload and stop
I was reading through the launchctl man page and have a few questions about its functioning:
What is the difference between load and start, unload and stop?
Where do I find the job label for a daemon, is it in the plist file?
Jason Rubenstein
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What's the purpose of ~/Library/Containers?
I wonder what's the purpose of ~/Library/Containers?
I know that under ~/Library/Preferences you can find user specific app and system configuration plists. But I can also find them in ~/Library/Containers.
What kind of configuration is stored…
Alexander J
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How do you maximize windows?
Unlike Windows, you cannot maximize a window in Mac with a click of the button. The little green (+) button next to the red and yellow buttons at the left of the windows does some strange stuff sometimes when you click it and doesn't do the expected…
JFW
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How can I change Finder's sidebar icons in macOS?
Without using a 3rd-party application, how do I go about changing the icon in the sidebar for the Developer folder?
When I click on "Get Info" for this icon it's showing the icon does have the hammer icon but it's not showing in El Capitan in the…
Danijel-James W
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Can I make a symlink (to a .app folder) in Applications directory show up in spotlight?
I used brew to install MacVim and it put it in /usr/local/Cellar/macvim/7.3-61/MacVim.app
I would like to be able to go to spotlight and type MacVim to launch the app. I tried creating a symlink in the Applications directory to…
m_sharp
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Stop Safari window closing when only pinned tabs are left
Love that Safari 9 has pinned tabs, it was the last piece that enabled me to switch from Chrome. However, I often close all tabs except the pinned tabs. However, unless I make one of the pinned tabs active and then close the other tabs it closes the…
donut
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What are your favorite Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts?
What are your favorite keyboard shortcuts on Mac OS X?
radius
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Error opening a zip file: No such file or directory?
After 25 years on PCs I am delighting in learning all I can about working with my new Mac and OS X Mavericks.
I tried just now to open a zip file but was interrupted with an Archive Utility dialog:
Unable to expand "filename.zip" into "Downloads".
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user83364
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Keyboard shortcut to switch between applications in Mission Control
Does Apple have keyboard shortcuts to switch between applications in Mission Control? (Instead of hovering over with the cursor)?
e.g., which key combination cal I press to get me from "preview" to "app store?"
aeroxy
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