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A Couple Small Time Machine Notes |
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Friday, February 19 2010 @ 05:05 PM EST Contributed by: Admin
I had to use Time Machine to recover my 10.6 Mac. Two little issues:
1) Quick Look didn't work. It would open up the big grey rectangle but not show anything--pictures, movies, PDFs, Excel files, nothing worked. I was at 10.6.1 and 10.6.2 was out but installing that update (and all the rest available at the time) through Software Update didn't fix it. A tip here http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-10398867-263.html suggested downloading and installing the combo update (also for 10.6.2) and that cleared it up. ("Combo Update" is Apple's term for "everything since the last .0", so the 10.5.8 combo update can be run on any system, 10.5.0-10.5.7, and it'll work.)
2) The system folder "/private" was visible in the Finder at the root level of my hard drive. Not a big deal, but since I never need to go there there's no need to see it all the time. Running "sudo chflags hidden /private", as suggested here http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=648139 did the trick.
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10.5's Dock still sucks |
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Wednesday, March 26 2008 @ 04:16 PM EDT Contributed by: Admin
The Dock in 10.5 still sucks, even after the 10.5.2 update that brought back hierarchical folder menus.
Let us recap:
10.0-10.4: you drag a folder into the Dock.
- Its icon appears.
- If you click on it, it will open its Finder window.
- If you right-click on it, you will see its contents in a
menu. This menu is left-justified, like all other easily-readable
text in the known universe, next to a nice, straight, vertical
column of small icons. Holding the mouse over any folder shows that
folder's contents, and if there is a subfolder you can mouse over
that to see its contents, etc. You can activate
any item—program, document, or folder—by clicking on it.
Very nice, neat, and efficient. Useful features, few clicks, mouse
motion is only required if you want to activate items or dig into
subfolders.
10.5.2: you drag a folder to the Dock.
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The icon is from one of the things in the folder.
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If you click on it, you see a fan or stack, depending on how
many things it has.
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If you right-click on it, you get a little menu with options.
Let's look these 3 things in a little more detail.
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Locate running as root? |
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Monday, November 19 2007 @ 03:49 PM EST Contributed by: Admin
UPDATE: I just tested this on my old 10.3 Mac... and the same thing happens! How long has this been the case? I could have sworn I've used 'locate' many times in the past and not seen other users' files. Hmm...
(OK, now onto the original post.)
One of the first things I noticed in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard seems to be a bad change and I can't imagine why Apple made it. 'Locate' has worked fine since 10.0 came out over six years ago. (UPDATE part 2: seems I'm wrong--testing 'locate' on a 10.3 box shows the same insecure behavior--so I guess the only new thing is that they show the warning. This is so, so weird--I swear it didn't used to do that. I thought OS X just silently used 'slocate' like most Linux distros do.) Now that I've updated to 10.5, when I say
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb it tells me
>>> WARNING
>>> Executing updatedb as root. This WILL reveal all filenames
>>> on your machine to all login users, which is a security risk.
Sure enough, if I 'su -' to another user, create a file with a unique name, switch back to me, and 'locate' that file, it pops right up. Why?
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