Mac OS X

See also: Category:Mac OS X

Time Machine

Time Machine Backup To Any Network Drive

Spotlight

How to re-index folders or volumes

DVD and Discs

Creating Playable DVD ISO from a VIDEO_TS Folder

In the Terminal: ^[1]

hdiutil makehybrid -udf -udf-volume-name DVD_NAME -o MY_DVD.iso /path/to/VIDEO_TS/parent/folder

Where /path/to/VIDEO_TS/parent/folder is the folder that contains the VIDEO_TS folder.

Burning an Image

This can be done via Disk Utility but to burn a disc via Terminal, use:

hdiutil burn image.iso

Terminal

OS X Terminal: A better ls

Perl

By default, in Leopard and Snow Leopard, you will see the following message each time you run Perl:

perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
	LC_ALL = (unset),
	LC_CTYPE = "en.US.UTF-8",
	LANG = "en_US.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").

I was able to fix this by adding the following to ~/.bash_profile:

# This setting is for the new UTF-8 terminal support
export LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8

Source: Fixing that really irritating perl: warning: Setting locale failed. on OS X leopard

Menu Bar Items

Super OS X Menubar Items - a large list of add-ons.

Generic PC Icon

Remove the Windows BSOD icon in Leopard, make OS X a little less smug

I created the icon on the right to replace the default icon.

Download here: File:New Generic PC Icon.icns

Installation

Open Terminal and use the following commands:

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/
sudo mv public.generic-pc.icns public.generic-pc.old.icns
sudo cp ~/Downloads/New_Generic_PC_Icon.icns ./public.generic-pc.icns

This assumes the new icon is located at ~/Downloads/New_Generic_PC_Icon.icns.

After a restart, you should see the new icon throughout the Finder.

Font Rendering

In Snow Leopard, smooth font rendering is disabled if OS X thinks that at least one of your displays is a CRT.

This can be fixed with the following command in Terminal:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 2

Or, for bolder rendering:

defaults -currentHost write -globalDomain AppleFontSmoothing -int 3

I had to first uncheck the "Use LCD font smoothing when available" option in the Appearance preference pane.

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Other

• Changing the Boot Camp Drive Icon

Troubleshooting

Ejecting a Stuck Volume

sudo hdiutil eject -force device_name

Source: Force Dismount a Stuck Volume

Console.app

I was having an issue where Console.app would close immediately after starting. The instructions in this thread fixed my problem.

Basically I had to clear out the contents of /private/var/log/asl

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