The other day I was trying to access some restricted preferences on a 10.6 client, bound to a 10.6 Server that no longer existed, and because of this, I had no way of removing the restrictions Or so I thought, thankfully Apple had provided a Knowledge Base article detailing how to manually flush the cache, …
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USB Key Labelled EFI Boot
If you have created a Mac OS X bootable USB Key and it shows up as EFI Boot when you are at the boot selection menu then you can rectify this via the following Terminal command sudo bless –folder /Volumes/VOLUMENAME/System/Library/CoreServices –bootefi replace VOLUMENAME with the name of your USB Volume, so I named my 10.8 …
Command Line File & Folder Manipulation
This time I will run through a few of the useful tasks that can be accomplished via the command line regarding file and folder manipulation cp used to copy a file or folder, some examples of usage are below cp donkey.txt monkey.txt this will copy a file called donkey.txt and call the copy monkey.txt …