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| Video: Enable Text Selection Within Quicklook Posted: 17 Jul 2013 12:23 PM PDT Hey, The MacTricksAndTip Channel has published a new video. Today’s video is on enabling text selection within Quicklook. This goes back to a list of tips I published a while ago on Finder Hacks and Tips. It allows you to use Quick Look to quickly open a file and select text, this means you don’t have to open the file within the text editor. Its a great way of speeding up your work flow, since you don’t have to open the file. You can subscribe to the youtube channel for the latest videos. Alternatively you can get the latest videos on Facebook or Twitter. Enabling Text Selection Within QuicklookTo enable text selection, you open terminal write a command and restart Finder. The video is 3 minutes long, although it really won’t take that long to implement the trick. Want to catch up on the latest Tweets about this site, follow me on Twitter. You can like this site on Facebook. |
| Helpful Terminal Commands For Working With Time Machine Posted: 17 Jul 2013 11:50 AM PDT Hey, There are a variety of commands within Terminal to access Time Machine. These Terminal commands are useful in starting and stopping time machine backups, and seeing when the latest backups occurred. They are a great way of accessing basic information from Time Machine, or executing a time machine backup. Last week I talked about starting and stopping local snap shots of Time Machine, this post is an extension of those previous commands. If you don’t have Time Machine setup, I recommend you buy an external hard disk or a Time Capsule and get it up and running. It is the best way to backup your Mac’s data. Terminal Commands For Time MachineThere are a variety of different terminal commands. The basic way to start and stop is with the following. Start and Stop Time Machine To start a Time Machine backup enter:
This will start a backup once you hit enter. If you want to stop a backup currently in progress you type:
Enable and Disable Time Machine If you want to enable or disable Time Machine from Terminal you type the following, this will enable Time Machine on your Mac. Note that you need to enter you admin password for this to work.
If you wish to disable Time Machine from Terminal you enter the following:
You can determine when the latest backup occurred. This will give the file path of the last full backup. If you have more than one backup disk, it will give the hard drive where the files are stored. To find this date enter:
It will give an output similar to the following:
Where the date is in the format year, month, day, hour, minute and second. Note that this is only the correct wayto format dates. List Backup DatesThe final command is used to list the previous backups. this gives and output very similar to the previous command, however it will list every backup. If you use more than one disk to backup to it will give the hard drive names.
ConclusionThere are a variety of other commands which you use within Terminal to access Time Machine files, however it is simpler to use the Time Machine app for this. For more information you can use the help file which is accessed through Want to catch up on the latest Tweets about this site, follow me on Twitter. You can like this site on Facebook. |
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