Apple OSX

The goal of this page is to give information on OSX and related issues.

Apple/Unicode Characters

How to get the correct Apple tokens/sign/characters for typical computer operations.
For more tokens and their character representation look at HarmFrielink Unicode characters.
There are also links to more sites with characters and their representation.

Token Description Code  Apple  ⎋ Escape ⎋ ⇤ Tab left/backward &#x21e4 ⇥ Tab right/forward ⇥ ⇪ Caps lock ⇪ ⇧ Shift ⇧ ⌃ Control (ctrl) ⌃ ⌥ Option (alt) ⌥ ⌘ Command ⌘ ␣ Space ␣ ⏎ Return ⏎

Token Description Code ↩ Enter ↩ ⌫ Backspace ⌫ ⌦ Delete ⌦ ? Help ⌦ ⃝ Help ⃝ ⇱ Home &x21f1; ↖ Home &x2196; ↸ Home &x21b8; ⇲ End &x21f2; ↘ End &x2198; ⇞ Page Up &x21de;

Token Description Code ⇟ Page Up &x21df; ⇡ Arrow Up &x21e1; ↓ Arrow Down &x2193; ← Arrow Left &x2190; ⇠ Arrow Left &x21e0; → Arrow Right &x2190; ⇢ Arrow Right &x21e2; ⌧ Clear &x2327; ⇭ Num Lock &x21ed; ⏏ Eject &x23cf; ⌽ Power &x233d;

Disk Access

Apple OSX can read form a lot of disk-formats, but can not write to them. First problem, windows NTFS.

Tuxera

Mac OS X does not support writing to Microsoft Windows formatted NTFS volumes out-of-the box. The solution is here. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is our commercial read/write NTFS software for Mac users. Tuxera NTFS for Mac delivers the fastest NTFS data transfer speeds you can have on Mac while protecting your data with its new, smart caching layer.

The software fully supports all versions of Mac OS X from 10.4 (Tiger) onwards, including of course Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) with its 64-bit kernel, and comes with advanced features only available from Tuxera such as support for NTFS extended attributes. Tuxera NTFS for Mac is compatible with popular virtualization and encryption solutions including Parallels Desktop®, VMware Fusion® and TrueCrypt.

Email

If you have more than 1 email address (who hasn't), you probably have the problem that when sending an email the wrong email account is selected in Apple mail. On the internet there are some suggestions how to change this in older version of OSX, but the following method will work for OSX Lion 10.8.2. Start mail In this example the HF One needs to be the first mailbox. Click the command key (⌘) and click and hold the Left-Mouse on the HF One icon or HF One-text and drag it above the iCloud Release mouse and command key when the correct position is reached. This should endup with HF One above iCloud. That's it.

Apple Mailbox

Finder

Zichtbaar maken van UNIX systeem mappen. OS X is gebaseerd op UNIX, waardoor het mogelijk is om UNIX programma’s te draaien.

Omdat UNIX het belangrijkste deel van de systeemlaag is zijn er enkele systeembestanden in de Finder onzichtbaar gemaakt om fouten of beschadiging aan het systeem te vermijden.

Maar heb je deze bestanden en mappen een keer nodig dan kan je deze simpelweg activeren doormiddel van een command in de terminal uit te voeren.

Nota Bene: Het zichtbaar maken van deze bestanden zijn geheel op eigen risico bij fouten kan het systeem compleet niet meer werken!

  defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

Om de wijzigingen door te voeren dien je de Finder te herstarten, doormiddel van het Apple menu via Forceer Stop of een terminal command:

  killall Finder

Hierdoor is het nu mogelik belangrijke systeemmappen zichtbaar te maken en te gebruiken.
Wijzigingen zijn terug te draaien door het omgekeerde TRUE naar FALSE te wijzigingen in de terminal.

  defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles FALSE

Na de wijziging dien je de Finder te herstarten.

  killall Finder

Nu zijn alle instellingen weer naar behoren en zal je geen belangrijke systeem mappen meer zien

Search Email Rules

Solution for Apple OSX 10.8.1 (Lion).
The location of the mailbox rules: ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData/MessageRules.plist
Open the file with your favourite editor and search for the item your looking for.

The name of the rules is defined in the XML-tags:

     <key>RuleName</key>
     <string>Name-of-the-Rule</string>

Be careful not to make changes in this file directly, cause this may damage your rules!!