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Teaser image showing a macOS blocked eject disk warning dialog

Ejecting disk in macOS blocked by «one or more apps using it»? Find that App!

Using the macOS Terminal to list all apps / processes accessing files on a specific volume.

Oliver 14. January 2025
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Download your Steam Windows Game files on Mac

Legal way to overcome Steam’s Platform detection and «Invalid Platform» errors.

Oliver 20. October 2024
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Article teaser demonstrating combining multiple ZIP files into one on macOS

Combine multiple ZIP files on Mac

A quick way to merge 2 or more ZIP files into one, using the macOS Terminal.

Oliver 5. July 2023
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List all non UTF-8 encoded files in a directory

A shell command that recursively lists all files within a directory, which are not encoded as UTF-8.

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Oliver 22. June 2023
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Docker on Mac: how to automatically resolve another service’s IP and add it to the .ENV

With two simple commands in docker compose

Oliver 29. December 2022
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macOS Disk Utility create Hybrid ISO Image for Windows - Blog post teaser

Make a Windows compatible ISO disk image with macOS

An easy to use solution with the Apple Disk Utility app & a little trick on Windows.

Oliver 27. October 2021
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Unzip Split ZIP File Archive in macOS

Unzip splitted ZIP archive files zip.001, zip.002,… with macOS

Two ways how to unzip splitted ZIP files: using an app for that, or do-it-yourself via Terminal.

Oliver 5. April 2021
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Continuous download of remote files with «rsync» from the macOS Terminal

A better alternative to «scp» when transferring multiple large files – which continues where it stopped in case of interrupted connectivity.

Oliver 7. March 2021
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Make an ISO disk image in macOS Catalina

Using the Terminal in macOS Catalina to quickly create an ISO disk image of a CD/DVD or any folder from Finder.

Oliver 28. February 2020
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$ brew doctor «A newer Command Line Tools release is available» but Software Update cannot find it

What to do when Homebrew says «A newer Command Line Tools release is available» – but macOS Catalina doesn’t confirm that?

Oliver 6. February 2020
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