Self Help on the Macintosh
A word about Package Receipts
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A quick word about Package Receipts and why we care. The folder /Library/Receipts holds several files which end in .pkg just like an Apple installer package. These files are used by a few software p
Console Application
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Mac OS X keeps many records or logs of "things" that happen on the system. For example the printing system uses the Common UNIX Printing System or CUPS. The CUPS system writes a sentence or more of
3rd Party Disk Utilities
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Several 3rd party companies make disk repair and data recovery tools for Mac OS X. Search the web using a search engine or look at a software web site like www.macupdate.com or www.versiontracker.com
Single User Mode
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Single user mode is a method of booting the Mac OS into a text only interface in which your are the BSD "root" user. To boot the computer into single user mode hold down the apple key and the s key a
Terminal and CLI Tools
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
A more complex but very powerful set of tools that can be tapped for self help exist in the command line interface (cli) tools from the Darwin core of Mac OS X. These are tools familiar to many users
This short course is designed to help effect self help for users of Mac OS X 10.3+. Tools, common problems and best practices are covered.
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