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Comment on why is my mac running so slow? by Michele Warhurst

Michele Warhurst — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:59:34 +0000

I clicked on MacKeeper and it went do my downloads but I deleted from there without installing, then emptied my trash and cleared my cache and cookies… My computer is running awfully slow all of a sudden. Any suggestions?! When I open terminal to view everything installed it all means nothing to me.

Comment on disable captive network assistant by David

David — Tue, 21 May 2013 16:09:31 +0000

Thank you! I spent ages trying to work out how to get on to a public network which didn’t play nicely with Captive Network Assistant. Following the above steps solved my issue and now I can login through the browser!

Comment on how to check what’s been installed on your mac by philastokes

philastokes — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:45:50 +0000

The “sudo cat /private/var/log/install.log | open -f” command in the post shouldn’t need sudo.

Good catch! Thanks for the correction. Post updated.

Comment on how to check what’s been installed on your mac by Lauri Ranta

Lauri Ranta — Tue, 21 May 2013 12:42:48 +0000

The “sudo cat /private/var/log/install.log | open -f” command in the post shouldn’t need sudo.

There is also /Library/Receipts/InstallHistory.plist, which contains a complete history of installed packages.

You can use bzip2 -dc (decompress to stdout) to search the archived files:

bzip2 -dc /var/log/install.log.{2..0}.bz2 | grep Installed

You can see what files were installed by a package by using lsbom:

lsbom /var/db/receipts/com.adobe.pkg.FlashPlayer.bom

Comment on ‘delete’ doesn’t send files to Trash by Peter

Peter — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:51:25 +0000

Thank you

Comment on re-install Kindle by Audrey Davis

Audrey Davis — Sun, 05 May 2013 19:48:22 +0000

Thank you so much…this helped A LOT!!! I followed all of the steps and now my Kindle books are all coming up on my Mac. Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU!!!!!!

Comment on Mail won’t remember passwords by Amy

Amy — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:52:25 +0000

Wish I’d seen this post before driving 150 miles roundtrip to the “Genius” Bar!

Comment on how to remove ‘Top Sites’ in Safari by jomama

jomama — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:10:05 +0000

Thank you. Most. Annoying. “Feature”. EVER.

Comment on learning the Terminal – Part Two by philastokes

philastokes — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:48:20 +0000

You can't actually hide files in Terminal. It's just a question of how you list them. In Terminal, $ ls will show what you'd see in the Finder. Whereas $ ls -a will show all files. On the other hand, do you mean the Finder always shows your hidden files? If so, then paste this into Terminal to hide them again:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles False; killall Finder

Comment on learning the Terminal – Part Two by Jerrod

Jerrod — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 07:39:32 +0000

hey phila, this is probably very late but i was wondering if you could help me out with something? i worked corners and google’d almost everything i could think of but i cant seem to find a solution.

in all honesty, i either got lost or made a slight error in doing this, and now everytime i open terminal, my hidden files show, no matter what. i just cant find what command will fix it.

if you could reply, or email me, itd be greatly appreciated, just trying to fix this.
thanks.