Disappearing Folders in OSX Lion
After installing Mac OS X 10.7 Lion I noticed folders were missing. For me the main issue was that the Library folder in my user account seemed to have vanished. As this folder holds nearly all the...
View ArticleCSV to .plist conversion
Property list files (.pfiles) store serialized objects and are often used to store a user’s settings. They are also used to store information about bundles and applications in OSX and recently iOS....
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OSX Lion 10.7.2 Tweetdeck Crashes
Tweetdeck has been crashing on startup recently, – seemingly without any kind of pattern. At first I attributed this to OSX Lion related issues, but sometimes having Firefox or Chrome open seemed to...
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MySQL not starting in MAMP OSX
Sometimes MySQL doesn’t come up again when attempting to start MAMP, – it just hangs after starting Apache. If you don’t want to have to reboot (and shutting down and restarting MAMP hasn’t helped)...
View ArticleSpeeding up Firefox on OSX
Firefox had been running really slowly lately and as I am an awful hoarder of tabs closing the application took forever. I’d heard that since version 3 there was a sql lite table that according to...
View ArticleHide or show hidden files quickly in OSX
How to setup some quick shortcuts to toggle visibility of hidden files in Finder In Terminal type: sudo nano ~/.bash_profile Append to the file the following: alias showFiles=’defaults write...
View ArticleUpdating git in OSX
Recently there was a critical vulnerability in git announced affecting many git users including myself on OSX. After downloading and installing the latest version of git and entering in Terminal git...
View ArticleSourceTree broke my SSH keys
Sourcetree is a great free git GUI client for Mac and Windows. A recent update (2.4) really broke my workflow however and it took me longer than it should have to figure out what the issue was. It...
View ArticleSSH Keychain Access in Mac OSX Sierra
Prior to Sierra keys were persisted between logins – and with an update to ssh Keychain is no longer used by default. It can get frustrating to be prompted to enter your passphrase for a key after an...
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