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Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Mike Hudson — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:10:34 -0000

Hi Mike, You may want to check your 'login items' .. To do this, launch System Preferences from the Applications Finder Window, Now Click on Users & Groups, highlight your user, and click login items at the top. Try disabling all of them, and enable one at a time and reboot to see which is causing the issue.

You may also want to check out CleanMyMac http://www.mikesel.info/cleanm... this can check for and remove orphaned settings and files etc.

Let me know how you get on.
Cheers
Mike

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Kiki — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:03:37 -0000

WORKED GREAT!! THANK YOU!!

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Mike Raison — Sun, 19 May 2013 10:36:06 -0000

Everytime I start up my imac i get a window saying "You can't open the application tar because PowerPC applications are no longer supported" - I've deleted all my PowerPC applications, but this still keeps coming up and I can't find the application tar anywhere?? I'm running OS 10.7.5 - any ideas or help would be gratefully recieved, thanks very much, Mike

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Christian Koefoed Johnsen — Sun, 12 May 2013 13:27:49 -0000

It did work for me!

Re: FIXED: Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?

Andrew Rhoades — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 10:18:42 -0000

Thank you for this tutorial! Very helpful!

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

JoeBob Scruggs — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:01:17 -0000

Thanks J Dr!

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Matt — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:33:14 -0000

I realize that my comment is a bit late. I agree that typing one line of code is easy. However, for those who want the ability to quickly change this setting, an automated script is a great way to go! Using Automater is fairly straight forward and the author did provide great instructions. Took about 30 seconds to create and test. Thanks T.H.!

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Jadem — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 01:25:48 -0000

So true!

Re: Disable spotlight indexing – OS X Lion and Mountain Lion

ds001 — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 17:37:00 -0000

worked for me. watched as 3 external drives being indexed dropped from the spotlight menu. thanks for the tip.

Re: Disable spotlight indexing – OS X Lion and Mountain Lion

Antonio Murillo — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:41:43 -0000

(I disabled it accidentally when was turning of some lion's eye-candy effects trying improving CPU usage even more)

Re: Disable spotlight indexing – OS X Lion and Mountain Lion

Antonio Murillo — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:38:14 -0000

Thank you very much Mike!!!!

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

disqus_p6srZoaEar — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 02:10:49 -0000

Thank you, it works :) !
I used the "automator" way
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Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Chris M — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:44:39 -0000

The thing with this is this: How can typing one line of code be harder than going into Automator and creating a script? You will lose most people once they fire up Automator. I speak from experience having tried one of these and I stopped and asked myself, "dude, you would've been done already if you typed the one line and stopped messing around". It's all good either way, I'm just trying to save people time by working smarter, not harder.

Re: FIXED: Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?

Mike Hudson — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 17:23:03 -0000

Glad it helped out :)

Re: FIXED: Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?

Umair Hoodbhoy — Sat, 02 Feb 2013 15:21:43 -0000

Not only does this work, but it makes iTunes loading super quicker. Thanks.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Mike Hudson — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 08:03:06 -0000

This means that they are hidden. Do you want to unhide them?

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Jacqueline — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:38:17 -0000

You know why my files are transparent after I unhidden them?

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Jacqueline — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:36:01 -0000

Thanks it worked with TRUE, but my folders are transparent how can I change that?

Re: FIXED: Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?

Mike Hudson — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:38:58 -0000

You could try that, but I'd suggest using a decent app cleaner to remove it and all it's dependancies first. There's a good chance it may leave some bits behind, which means the problem will return once installed. Either way, let me know how you get on.

You could try CleanMyMac if you dont have any app maintenance tools installed - http://www.mikesel.info/cleanm...

Re: FIXED: Do you want the application “iTunes.app” to accept incoming network connections?

mattone — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:34:08 -0000

Hi Mike. Thanks for the help with this. When I run this terminal command, I get a very long list and files (+/- 100). I'm hesitant to chuck all these files. Wouldn't be easier to reinstall iTunes?

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Mike Hudson — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 16:01:53 -0000

Hello

If you ensure finder is in focus, then click Go > Home, with hidden folders enabled you will see the 'trash' folder (slightly greyed out - see attached) in there should be what you are looking for.

Thanks
Mike

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

Mike Hudson — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 15:59:57 -0000

Glad the post helped :o) - Thanks for taking the time to comment.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

arcseldon — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 16:59:47 -0000

Thanks very much to everyone that contributed to this post. The comment by T Hazlett to use Automator did exactly what I needed too.

Re: Disable spotlight indexing – OS X Lion and Mountain Lion

M.Carlsen — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:53:20 -0000

This suggestion does NOT work. Spotlight will NOT be disabled even though the terminal states that it HAS been disabled. Apple has lost total control of their protocolish weird OS !!!!
PS - the -a option SHOULD included the boot drive... as hinted by 'man mdutil' only it does not... It includes everything BESIDES the boot drive. That one you have to do separately. Still nonsense to do as it does NOT work. Only remedy is this:

1) Open System Preferences and goto Spotlight
2) Enter the Privacy Tab
3) Drag in all the disks you want disabled.

This WILL disable spotlighting on those volumes... But who know when they release OS Valley Monkey 13.5 that feature will probably also not work. Or better yet.. Be sandboxed. In 5 years we wont be able to use our Mac because Apple is sandboxing all the code... This is all becoming a really Pathetic reality.

Re: Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion

JRod4U — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:27:11 -0000

I was able to view hidden files, but I can not find the file://localhost/users/username/.Trash/iTunes Music where all my music has ended up. Can you explain to this dummy where I go to find it? Thanks in advance!