Mounting hfs volume under MacOS Catalina

I’m running MacOS X Catalina. To be able to connect to an HFS volume created by QEMU I tried sudo mount -t hfs qemuhdd.raw /tmp/os9vm I got the following error: GetMasterBlock: Error 25 getting block size GetMasterBlock: Error 25 getting block size mount_hfs: error on mount(): error = -1. mount_hfs: Block device required mount: /private/tmp/os9vm … Read more

Is there a way to check the difference (what did change) between two MacOS (Catalina) TimeMachine snapshots?

As per subject, suppose I have two consecutive TimeMachine local snapshots on my Mac: is there a way to e.g. mount both them and compare ? I.e. to know what files have been changed from the between the former and the latter snapshot ? Answer The tmutil command-line tool has a compare option that does … Read more

Catalina 10.15 removing Spotlight icon from menu bar went wrong

I’ve done csrutil disable and went into Terminal and put cd /System/Library/CoreServices sudo mv Search.bundle/ Search2.bundle/ I rebooted and it removed the Spotlight icon from the menu bar but I could no longer use command-R to open Spotlight. I tried undoing via sudo mv Search2.bundle/ Search.bundle/ but it returns mv: rename Search2.bundle/ to Search.bundle/: Read-only … Read more

MacOS Catalina Finder sidebar is hidden in restored tabs on system restart

When the Finder is restored with multiple tabs open – say after a system restart with reopen windows option, the sidebar is hidden. With ⌥⌘S or View > Show Sidebar, only the first tab shows the sidebar. On all the other restored tabs, it is hidden. The option to Show Sidebar is disabled on the … Read more

Issue with xQuartz on macOS Catalina 10.15.7

I’m getting following error when try to open application ‘gmsh’ remotely through SSH terminal. How can i fix it ? libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast XRequest.149: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) 0x0 XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0x0 XRequest.149: GLXBadContext 0x0 XRequest.149: BadMatch (invalid parameter … Read more

Eclipse 2019-06 IDE not running code in macOS Catalina 10.15 beta

So, I am currently learning Java and I use Eclipse as my IDE. Since upgrading to macOS Catalina 10.15, I’m unable to run any of my code. It simply shows this error in the console. 2019-07-20 11:33:49.298 java[2843:200186] NSSoftLinking – The function ‘SLSIsSuppressedByScreenTime’ can’t be found in the (null) framework. When I installed Catalina my … Read more

macOS Catalina Beta 10.15 – Relocated Items after Update

I just updated my MacBook Pro with the new macOS Catalina Beta 10.15. Everything works fine but now I have a ‘Relocated Items’ dir on my Desktop. I run a tree command and this is the content of the dir: https://pastebin.com/APa9acV8 Can somebody tell me what to do with these? Answer The first one’s a … Read more

Symlink to Volume

On macOS Catalina, I would like to create a symbolic link to my data partition using: sudo ln -s /Volumes/data /data However, I get the following error: ln: /data: Read-only file system (Whereas /Volumes/data is not read-only, and I can use it without any problems.) Answer AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : Tom de … Read more