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filesystem

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    show full path of a selected file in Finder

    Hello, 1. is there a way to show the full filesystem path of a selected file in Finder? 2. And to copy this path to the clipboard, e.g. in order to be able to paste it to the Terminal? Thank's in advance!
  2. K

    iPad Pro and mp3s on the file system

    I use my iPad for more or less anything not work related. I've even used it to DJ at some fairly large festivals/venue (it was a very useful backup when my laptop died at burning man). Unfortunately, my main music computer is on an older version of MacOS (I can't upgrade as I have some older...
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    mount -uw fails with aerror 66 what to do?

    so i am running mac os 11 beta on a macbook2016. i open the terminal and type sudo mount -uw / to mount the system volume with write access. bud then i just get an aerror 66 is there anything i can do to be able to write to the systemvolume again? i also have sib and sib root authentication...
  4. imrazor

    Cross platform file systems (Mac, Linux, Windows)

    I've been trying for a while now to find a good file system to format external drives with. For a long time the best choice was plain old FAT32, but since it has a 4GB (or is it 2GB?) file size limit it's not good for transferring large video files, or holding games that use large archive files...
  5. Defie22

    Read&Write permissions problem

    Hello. I'm uploading files from my Windows 10 PC to my external HDD (MacOS Extended) connected to Mac Mini (model 2012 - OSX 10.13.2). After the upload I don't have read & write rights on the Mac Mini. So I have to choose the files and set correct rights for my user name (get file info/+...
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    Editing WhatsApp filesystem

    Hi everyone, recently I wanted to transfer my whatsapp chat and media extracted from an iPhone backup and copy the files into a jailbroken one. What I did is extracting ChatStorage.sqlite on my computer (it is the file with all the messsages I suppose) and all the media related to each chat...