OS X Technologies :: Load A File Into Ram?
Jun 26, 2012is it technically possible to load a file into ram?
I want this file to be as quick as possib le to open, so i'd like to put it in the ram.
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OS X Technologies :: (Error) ImportPluginLoading: Couldn't Load Plugin
Apr 26, 2012I'm using the mdimport command in my shell script to force spotlight to index a folder.
Here is the code statement in my script that uses the mdimport command:
 thefolder=`pwd`# Force Spotlight to index the foldermdimport "$thefolder" Whenever I run my shell script, I get this error : (Error) ImportPluginLoading: Couldn't load plugin 'Spotlight/Google%20Earth.mdimporter/ -- file://localhost/Users/test/Library/Internet%20Plug-Ins/Google%20Earth%20Web%20P lug-in.plugin/Contents/MacOS/Google%20Earth%20for%20Plugin.app/Contents/Library/ 'What is this error? Why is the Google Earth plugin getting loaded when I didn't ask for it?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: OpenOffice - Which File Type To Save As - Can Load The .odt File Just Fine
Jul 7, 2010Just put together a CV using Open Office, it's currently saved as a .odt. I'll be sending this out to a few companies and I'd like to know what the best file type is to select that will be readable by everyone? When I go to 'save as' I see a long list of options and I'm not sure which one to pick so that PC users can view.
Or can they load the .odt file just fine?
OS X Technologies :: Open A Very Old Cwk File?
Apr 8, 2012Is there a way I can use a very old .cwk file? I tried opening it in iWorks '06, the old version I have and it said it couldn't read it.
View 1 Replies View RelatedOS X Technologies :: Create A Log File?
Apr 24, 2012Been up for a while trying to figure this out with no luck. I created an app that will uninstall a program and all of it's files.Â
example try                   do shell script "rm -rf /Applications/TestFakeApp"          end try    try                   do shell script "rm -rf /Applications/TestFakeApp2"          end try    try                   do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.FakeTestApp.plist"          end try         try                   do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Preferences/com.FakeTestApp2.plist" end try         try                   do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/FakeTestApp*"          end try         try                   do shell script "rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/FakeTestApp" end tryÂ
there are alot more paths to remove but this is just a few for exampleÂ
I want to be able to create a log.txt file on the desktop to show what has been removed and or what could not be removed.Â
I then tried by creating a text document by usingÂ
do shell script "touch ~/Desktop/test.txt"Â tell application "Finder"Â open file ((path to desktop folder as text) & "test.txt") using ((path to applications folder as text) & "TextEdit.app")end tellÂ
but I don't know what to do next.Â
1. Have it check for each file to see if it was deleted or not
2. add it into the test.txt file
3. save the file once doneÂ
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Technologies :: Folder Action Does Not Run On SECOND File Only
Mar 7, 2012Does any one know of a bug or a log for folder scripts that do not run? I am trying to get a basic folder script (to replace %20 in the file name) of the Downloads folder.
When downloading multiple files (two or more) it runs only on the first file, successfully without error, and then never runs on the second file. If I move both of the files out of the Downloads folder and move it back it, the one file that does not get the folder action now does and everything is peachy.So it is not that the folder action is not scripted properly. It is just that the folder does not catch the second file download - guess maybe too fast? Has any one seen this or have this bug?
Info:15" Unibody MacBook Pro , Mac OS X (10.6.4)
OS X Technologies :: Formatting A .dmg File As Rdxx?
May 14, 2012I am trying to convert a .dmg file as an Rdxx (Read-only) image format by using the hdiutil command in Apple's terminal.Â
Is it the following command?Â
hdiutil convert -format Rdxx [input file].dmg -o [output file].dmg If it's not, then is there any way I can do that correctly?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
OS X Technologies :: Determine The Number Of Records In A File?
May 12, 2012I want to analyse record types from a large input file and so far have managed to extract different groups and created the relevant files. All I want to do now is count the number of records in each file so I can produce a report showing the different types but cannot figure out how to do this, I know it will be simple but I cannot get any command to accomplish this
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
OS X Technologies :: It Loads All File In The Folder When Tried Ro Move One
May 29, 2012I have a folder action set up to open movie files in a conversion app but every time I add a new file it loads all the files in the folder. How can i exclude a file that has already been opened by the folder action. I can't move the file due to queing up moves for conversion if the file is moved after it is opened the the program doesn't know where to look for it. Ive tried Filter finder items by last opened and set it as today but that did not work. It opened nothing. May I could set it up to know if the file has been there longer then 5 min that the folder action should not open it.Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Technologies :: How To Get A List Of File Names In To A New Folder
Jun 27, 2012if there is a way of having a list of image file names, searching for the images then putting them into a new folder? I'm guessing it can probably be done through mac scripting but I know nothing about scripting and genreally not great with technogy so ideally need step by step instructions!
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Jul 4, 2012I am trying to download a list of mp3 files from urls with the format [url] where the 000 portion of the file name increments into 001, 002, 003...
View 4 Replies View RelatedOS X Technologies :: Does The Exclusion Of A File Or Directory Remove Any Existing
Mar 15, 2012Does the exclusion of a file or directory remove any existing, already backed up versions of that file or directory from TimeMachine? I have a large file I don't want backed up every time I connect to my backup drive. It's 50GB+. I rarely touch the file, and when I do, I don't use it for anything that needs to be saved, it is a historical only version of my Parallels from an older Microsoft OS. I occasionally need to open it to just look at something, but never 'do' anything with it.Â
I want to exclude it, but don't want any older version of the file to be removed from backup. Does anyone know if exclusions are retroactive into the TimeMachine database? Given this is 50GB+, trying it to find out is a quite slow process.Â
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MBP, Mac OS X (10.4.8)
OS X Technologies :: Add The Correct Extension Based On The File Type?
Apr 6, 2012I have a set of photos I"d like to import into iPhoto, but iPhoto doesn't recognize them because they don't have file extensions. Could someone give me a script that will look at each file in a specific folder, check to see if an extension is present, and if not, add the correct extension based on the file type?Â
View 3 Replies View RelatedOS X Technologies :: Run Multiple Copies Of Skype By Launching The .app File
May 8, 2012I figured out how to run multiple copies of skype by launching the .app file from different osx user accounts in terminal. What I'm trying to do now is script this or automate opening terminal and typing the line with automator. The following is the line that I use.Â
su user2 -c "/Applications/Skype.app/Contents/MacOS/Skype && exit"Â
And I just change user2 to user3 for a third instance of skype and so on. how ot automate this process?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), 27" / i5 / 8GB RAM
OS X Technologies :: Add Account Privileges To A Newly Created File?
Jun 11, 2012I have multipe accounts on my Mac. Two of them need to share certain files, but not with everyone else so I can't use the Shared folder. When I create a new text file with AppleScript it has default ownership to the account that created it, but I need to give read & write privilages to it to the other account as well. I can do this manually, but there are lots of files sometimes. One trick I've found is to reset privilages from the next higher folder. This saves time, but sometimes I forget. Also when I do this it causes Time Machine to think all the files in that folder have been updated. If the folder is large it may cause Time Machine to purge a old backup version. What I'd like to do is find some AppleScript code I can use to add user "A" with read & write access to the permissions of a new file at the time my AppleScript creates that file.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 15 GB
OS X Technologies :: AppleScript To Append Fourth Line Of Text To File Name
Feb 19, 2012I have thousands of text files that are named with random unique numerical ID in a specific folder. The problem is I want to be able to do quick sort of the files by a category. The category of each text file is always written as the fourth line of each text file. I would like to write an Applescript to append the fourth line of the text file onto the file name with a underscore in-between. (i.e. Category_1235678.txt).
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Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X Technologies :: Cannot Find Past File Version Using Time Machine
May 2, 2012For some reason time machine does not react when I want to enter to find a past file version.
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Time Machine, Mac OS X (10.7.3), MacBook Pro / G-Raid2 640GB
OS X Technologies :: Ftp Upload Via Terminal - 553 Rename/move Failure: No Such File Or Directory
Apr 24, 2012Cannot seem to upload to a ftp server (permissions are correct on the home folder of the user!)But I get this result:
ftp> put /Users/[userfolder]/Documents/untitled.rtf
local: /Users/[userfolder]/Documents/untitled.rtf remote: /Users/[userfolder]/Documents/untitled.rtf
227 Entering Passive Mode (99,254,236,63,209,169)
553-Can't open that file: No such file or directory
553 Rename/move failure: No such file or directory Â
OS X Technologies :: Add Time/date Stamp To Screen Capture File Names?
Jul 4, 2012I'm trying to add time/date stamp to my screen capture file names. (at the moment it's just 'Picture 1' etc..)I've tried the following command in terminal but have not had success.
defaults write com.apple.screencapture name "datestamp" at "timestamp"Â
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Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X :: How To Use Image File To Load Operating System
Oct 6, 2009I have a .dmg of OSX. But how do I use a .dmg to load the O/S?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOS X Server V10.6 Snow Leopard :: How To Install Or Load A .sql File
Jun 5, 2012My web developer has given me a .sql file to load into MySQL. I have MySQL started with a folder selected and a password set from the Server Admin. However, that is all I know how to do. How do I get thie .sql loaded into the database or do I need to create a database. My website will not work without it.
View 7 Replies View RelatedMac Pro :: To Reinstall Fresh Lion OS X How To Load Copy Of Install File
Jun 28, 2014I would like to re-install OSX 10.7, how do I find the copy of the install disk? Can I just use a software process to re-install? Clean install, not a backup.
View 3 Replies View RelatedOS X Mavericks :: Finder Takes Literal Minutes To Load File Listing When Opened
Jun 30, 2014I updated my circa 2013 Macbook Air 13" to OSX Mavericks and a strange issue has started. Every time I open Finder it takes literal minutes to load the file listing, and while it loads it freezes the section where the file listing loads with whatever background it was opened over. This happens all the time, and once it finally loads, it will do the same thing if I try to go to a different folder. This renders Finder essentially useless and I have had to add a third party (forklift) app to browse and manage files.Â
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Aug 26, 2014I have a problem that when selecting a file that is either an attachment in email or is in my finder, double clicking on it fails to load the associated application successfully. For example, selecting a pdf file results in the pdf reader logo appearing on the lower bar on the screen, bounces up and down as if it is doing something, but just continues to bounce. I have to force quit it, then go to my application folder to load reader directly, and from within the reader I can then go and select the file. This isn't an application specific issue (It does it with Excel, Word etc).Â
It only started recently. I'm using a MBP summer 2010 with Mavericks 10.9.4. Everything else seems to work.Â
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
ITunes For Mac :: Purchased TV Series / Movies And Music Downloaded To External HD - File Will Not Load
Nov 30, 2014I have purchased itunes tv series, movies and music and have transferred them onto an external hard drive and tried to play them on my tv on a media hub. The file will not load. Is there some form of blocking by itunes or another p[roblem and how do I fix it?
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Windows
7
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Videos From Websites Do Not Load Or Load Slowly Spins
Apr 26, 2012videos from web sites do not load or load slowly spins
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May 21, 2012Certain webistes like [URL], take ages to load after i login. I have cleaned my cache , deleted cookies,etc.... In the apple store everything works fine , but not at home. When using other PC's / notebooks it all works fine, except my own Macbook. Other browsers on my Mc , have the same problem.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
OS X :: Finder Does Not Load/slow To Load Files In A Folder
May 26, 2010I have a problem where finder (under any condition even after a fresh restart) does not load the folder contents on my computer. Sometimes it loads after multiple restarts but somtimes it doesn't. I cannot browse through files anymore as nothing appears. Nothing also appears on terminal either. Here is a screenshot.
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Apr 29, 2012I just bought a Macbook Pro and I was trying to load my office 2007 and it wont load automatically like it did with my macbook.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X :: Hiding File Inside Image File / Unable To Access Hidden File?
Mar 24, 2008I managed to successfully hide the file: cat picture.jpg hidden.rtf.zip > picture2.jpg
results in a picture (picture2.jpg) that is the size of the sum of picture.jpg and hidden.rtf.zip. I presume this means that I am successfully putting hidden into the picture.I can open picture2.jpg, but I can't figure out a way to access the hidden zip.
