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  1. J

    Please help! Corrupt External HDD in MSDOS format not mounting osX Catalina after black screen crash, how do I use terminal fsck or diskutil?

    Hello I think my partition map is corrupted? can anyone help with my hard drive and using fsck or similar as disk utility cannot repair and I have tried fsck but need help with the process of it And to see if disk is being held by fsck_msdos or fsck_exfat command - tried ps aux | grep to see...
  2. dukee101

    Reopening a crashed app does so in a Terminal process [bug?]

    I'm running into an issue where if an app crashes, and I click 'Reopen', then macOS launches Terminal, and within Terminal, reopens the app. If I quit Terminal, that will kill the app as well. In the 15 years I've used macOS, I have never witnessed this behavior when clicking 'Reopen'. It's...
  3. outcoldman

    ShellHistory a new application that helps you to backup, synchronize and organize your shell history (50% off during launch)

    I am excited to show my new application, ShellHistory. I can say that I started working on it four years ago when I published my little shell script dbhist. That script was convenient. It kept shell history from many macs for the last years (close to 100,000 records). But it was a time for an...
    • outcoldman
    • Thread
    • bash fish history iterm shell terminal zsh
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Mac Apps
  4. imprvws

    Unable To Run Sudo On Terminal (Suspect Malware)

    When I Run Any Sudo Commands I get: sudo: /etc/sudoers is owned by uid 501, should be 0 sudo: no valid sudoers sources found, quitting sudo: error initializing audit plugin sudoers_audit This behavior starts at a failed mongodb installation and increased by the last 11.3.1 big sur update...
  5. M

    M1 activity monitor showing different SSD write reading than system terminal... Apple is hiding something

    Check out this video I saw on YouTube
    • MohdZafar
    • Thread
    • activity monitor apple code m1 mac macbook pro "13 2020 macos 11.3 ssd data written ssd swap ssd tbw terminal
    • Replies: 31
    • Forum: Apple Silicon (Arm) Macs
  6. blackxacto

    Turning off SIP & Disk Drill 4

    always before Disk Drill app I have turned off SIP by typing: csrutil disable. Then, to turn SIP back on i have always typed: csrutil enable. So now i am told to type: csrutil enable —without fs. What is the command fs in DD instructions. If i type it, what do i type to turn SIP back on? I...
  7. A

    UNABLE TO MOUNT WD MY PASSPORT 4TB EVEN AFTER FORMATTING IT TO EX-FAT. TRIED EVERYTHING. (ON M1 MacbookAir))

    Here's everything I've tried. 1) Since my Samsung T5 SSD is in Ex-fat format and seems to work properly. I backed up 3TB data and then formatted it to ex-Fat and moved the data back. It still doesn't seem to work. 2) I've tried using WD discovery to mount. It just doesn't work. Not even an...
  8. F

    Running .app folders without having permissions

    So, this is my situation. I'm a student, learning some Python and the linux/bash shell. I have a Mac running mojave with almost everything locked down. I can't access my terminal, and I can't modify the applications folder. I know the workaround with installing applications outside of the...
  9. T

    cpu Temperatures

    Hey i got a question. I have a widget installed named "fanny". that tells me the current cpu temperature. But also at the same time i have terminal running sudo powermetrics -s smc | grep -i „CPU die temperature“. Comparing now both temperatures there are off all the time. sometimes off by 10...
  10. K

    terminal cannot browse shares Big Sur

    mount a share like this: sudo open smb://user:password@NAS/share navigate to share cd share try to list contents ls ls: .: Operation not permitted
    • karos
    • Thread
    • big sur network terminal
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
  11. jumpcutking

    Help me: Terminal says: galaxy-note10??? on my MacBook Pro

    I'm a developer and a producer... sometimes I need to install applications and such to use for that purpose but I'm smart enough to know what not to download, check my sources, and when in doubt verify it is what it says it is. This morning my terminal should me this (my username is thanos...
  12. S

    G4 OSX Leopard Terminal window not active!

    Hi all, I have a fairly strange issue with my terminal in Leopard 10.5.8 - Upon opening terminal, it is active and in-front - When clicking terminal (anywhere) it gets pushed to the background - When trying to click terminal now, the mouse does not even recognise a...
  13. M

    Changed name to root user, Cannot do the same with terminal username

    Hello ... I'm very new to Mac... I had an user on my mac which I changed (just the name of it), then subsequently it led me to change the whole Apple id, so I went on to having a brand new everything after entering some info about birthdays and all that stuff. After doing all this, I pulled up...
  14. Teenso

    Trying to uninstall apps with terminal

    Good day community. I would like to see why I'm having issues with trying to uninstall an app through terminal. I was reading on the web that its possible to uninstall through terminal. The command line that I saw was $sudo uninstall file:// ( then you would drag the app from the application...
  15. S

    Terminal showing weird username

    My terminal user appears to be connected a some random device in its vicinity. At one point it used to be another ipad. fabian@android-8842627ef57bb8a3 ~ % - What does that actually mean and can i turn this behaviour off?
  16. M

    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...
  17. Tyrian Cedar

    The golden SD card format/partitioning on MBA for video editing + backups + storage

    Is the below current Format / Partitioning scheme I have on my SD card that is permanently be attached to my MBA 2013 'good enough', or what commands should one do to get it to stay mounted and high-performing ? /dev/disk2 (internal, physical): #: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER 0...
    • Tyrian Cedar
    • Thread
    • formats mba partitioning storage swap terminal videoediting
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: macOS
  18. B

    Weird message every time I open up terminal?

    Can anyone tell me what this is? I just installed python3 idk if this has anything to do with it. Thanks!
  19. stlow

    Apple Script to automatically force quit process?

    I hope someone can help me out with this. I have set up my photo library on an external drive that syncs to iCloud when I open the Photos app. Often times it doesn't start syncing by itself, so I found the very helpful tip to close Photos, quit certain processes in the Activity Monitor (see...
    • stlow
    • Thread
    • activity monitor apple script icloud photos script terminal
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: macOS
  20. X

    "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"

    Hello all, I have a 4TB drive that I have been using for about one year and half. It worked fine until this morning, when I unplugged it after selecting Force Eject and plugged it in again, it shows "The dish you inserted was not readable by this computer". Both my macbook and iMac indicated...
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