I deleted wheel group in HDD “get info/permissions” wrongly thinking it was hacker. I now see that my Mac is running akwardly these days. How can I restore or recover “natural” or previous HDD user/group permissions? I can’t find anywhere the “wheel” user/group, neither can see it as an option for adding again. Please any … Read more
I wiped all info off my computer and now want to reinstall the operating system. It was on OS X El Capitan. Originally it was one of the ‘leopards’. Yes, it’s old but it works fine for kids and school work. My problem is the system tells me ‘This item is temporarily unavailable’. Try again … Read more
I have a very old (I think circa 2009) Mac Mini, which effectively just acts as a NAS for our TimeMachine backups these days. It was working fine until about 2 days ago, when all of a sudden those backups stopped working. I also couldn’t attach to it via Share Screen. When I tried ssh, … Read more
Iv’e found a thrown away imac from 2007 with mac os x-el capitan (don’t remember version number). when i turned it on i saw it has a password so i used the terminal in recovery mode to reset the password for one of the users as shown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4CJo7odtcU i wanted to erase everything on … Read more
I have a folder that contains no items, but du -hs ~/dev/random-assets says it has 3.7G. Get info says “3.96GB” for 1 item. I do have git initialized on this directory. How do I clear out the directory so it accurately reflects the files inside of it? Answer ls -al ~/dev/random-assets will probably tell you … Read more
