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Find disk usage for top level directories

pineapplemeat — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 17:43:55 +0000

For current directory

du -h -d1

For specific directory

du -h -d1 DIR_PATH

Enable Apple Remote Desktop from commandline

pineapplemeat — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 20:22:23 +0000

Enable for all users

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -off -restart -agent -privs -all -allowAccessFor -allUsers

Disable for all users

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -deactivate -configure -access -off

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201710

Disable creation of .DS_Store files

pineapplemeat — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 16:52:26 +0000

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool TRUE

Read:

defaults read com.apple.desktopservices

Remove setting:

defaults delete com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores

Start new docker container to run duplicacy to back up specific directory

pineapplemeat — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 01:07:55 +0000

CONTAINER_NAME="duplicacy-somefolder"
PATH_TO_SOURCE_DATA="/path/to/data/to/backup"
SNAPSHOT_ID=10001
PATH_TO_BACKUP_STORAGE="/path/to/duplicacy/repository"
DUPLICACY_PASSWORD="password-to-encrypt-backup"

docker run \
  -d \
  --name $CONTAINER_NAME \
  -v $PATH_TO_SOURCE_DATA:/data:ro \
  -v $PATH_TO_BACKUP_STORAGE:/backup-target \
  -e BACKUP_CRON="0 0 * * 0" \
  -e SNAPSHOT_ID=$SNAPSHOT_ID \
  -e STORAGE_URL=/backup-target \
  -e FILTER_PATTERNS=$FILTER_PATTERNS \
  -e DUPLICACY_PASSWORD=$DUPLICACY_PASSWORD \
  azinchen/duplicacy:latest

Emacs Regex replace list of file paths with just filename

pineapplemeat — Sat, 22 May 2021 23:41:55 +0000

Paths with leading .

%s/\.\/.+\/\(.+\)$/\1/g

Paths without leading .

%s/\/.+\/\(.+\)$/\1/g

Fix Microsoft Office 0xD000FFFE activation error on Mac

pineapplemeat — Wed, 19 May 2021 19:47:17 +0000

Close all Microsoft Office apps
Run following:


# Stop Office 365 Service
killall Office365ServiceV2

cd ~/Library/Group\ Containers/UBF8T346G9.Office

# remove all files that start with 'c' or 'e'
ls -a | perl -n -e 'print if m/^[e|c]\w/' | xargs rm

From https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/error-code-0xd000fffe/3e8625a2-28ca-4356-b0dc-f57b7a2a58b9

Change mac screenshots location

pineapplemeat — Wed, 19 May 2021 16:46:20 +0000

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /path/to/folder

Connect to SMB share on Mac with specific username (with or without password)

pineapplemeat — Mon, 17 May 2021 18:28:09 +0000

Specify username and password

smb://user:password@server_host

Specify username and be prompted for password

smb://user:*@server_host

Further Reading

Resource identifiers for SMB scheme

(last updated 2012-09-23)

Resource Identifier (RI) Scheme name: smb 
Status: provisional

Scheme syntax:
   smb://[<user>@]<host>[:<port>][/[<path>]][?<param1>=<value1>[;<param2>=<value2>]] or 
   smb://[<user>@]<workgroup>[:<port>][/] or s
   mb://[[<domain>;]<username>[:<password>]@]<server>[:<port>][/[<share>[/[<path>]]][?[<param>=<value>[<param2>=<value2>[...]]]]]     
   example: smb://workgroup;user:password@server/share/folder/file.txt

Scheme semantics:
   Accessing SMB/CIFS shares

Encoding considerations:
   Unknown, use with care.

Applications/protocols that use this scheme name:

Interoperability considerations:
   Unknown, use with care.
   May be unsuitable for open use on the public internet.
Security considerations:
   Unknown, use with care.
Contact:
   Registering party: Dave Thaler <dthaler&microsoft.com>
   Scheme creator: IETF Draft
Author/Change controller:
   Either the registering party or someone who is verified to represent
   the scheme creator.  See previous answer.
References:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Message_Block, http://www.jarvana.com/jarvana/view/org/samba/jcifs/jcifs/1.2.19/jcifs-1.2.19-javadoc.jar!/jcifs/smb/SmbFile.html, http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crhertel-smb-url  


(file created 2012-09-23)

Export photos from Apple Photos app via commandline organized by date

pineapplemeat — Fri, 14 May 2021 19:07:38 +0000

Use tool https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos

> osxphotos \
--db /path/to/PhotoLibrary.photoslibrary \
export /path/to/export/destination \
--directory "{created.year}/{created.month}" \
--verbose \
--report /path/to/exported_files_report.csv

Export CSV of GPS Positions using exiftool

pineapplemeat — Tue, 11 May 2021 16:40:40 +0000

exiftool -r folder_with_images -GPSPosition -n -csv

Add camera model, create date, Date / Time Original

exiftool -r folder_with_images -GPSPosition -createdate -datetimeoriginal -n -csv

Remap caps lock as ctrl in Lubuntu

pineapplemeat — Mon, 10 May 2021 20:59:54 +0000

Do this for current session:

setxkbmap -layout us -option ctrl:nocaps

Make it permanent:

$ sudo vi /etc/default/keyboard

Change XKBOPTIONS to

XKBOPTIONS="ctrl:nocaps"

http://www.noah.org/wiki/CapsLock_Remap_Howto