Thursday, July 14, 2022

Take Still Frame from Quicktime Window

  1. Pause on the frame you want
  2. Press Command + Shift + 4, then spacebar.
  3. Cursor will change to a camera. Click on Quicktime window.
  4. File will be saved to desktop.

Tuesday, July 5, 2022

Ripping Blu-Ray to Audio-Only Files

  1. Open Makemkv. Convert Blu-Ray to MKV.
  2. Open Handbrake.

a.     Set type to MKV

b.     Set audio to FLAC

c.     Rip each chapter separately (will require a new filename per track

3.     Open Audacity

a.     Export audio for each file

Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Save a Text List of File Names from Finde

  • Open the folder you want to get a content listing of and hit Command+A (Select All) followed by Command+C (Copy)
  • Now launch TextEdit and pull down the “Edit” menu and select “Paste and Match Style”, or hit Command+Option+Shift+V

Wednesday, May 31, 2017

Recovering Files After Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac Autosave Failure

I have Microsoft Word 2016 for Mac's autosave feature set to 1 minute. Word saves autorecovery files in an impossibly obscure location, so I in preferences I set the AutoRecovery files location to a sensible location.

Still, I had a crash and there were no Autorecovery files saved. Yet, I was able to eventually recover most of the work. I found these instructions after a lot of Google searching:

Mac OS creates temporary files located in your computer’s Temporary or TMP folder. The lost file may be located in this folder. To find this folder;
  1. Launch Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
  2. Paste this command and press enter: open $TMPDIR
  3. This will open tmp folder.
  4. Open the folder named: “Temporaryitems”. Look for the Word folder and look for files with the approximate time of an Autosave prior to the crash.



Saturday, April 8, 2017

Remove SXUPTP.kext from Mac

This file is not compatible with modern MacOS but it is hard to find it to remove. Here is the location

/Macintosh HD/System/Library/Extensions/SXUPTP.kext

Friday, September 30, 2016

Remove Font Caches in One Terminal Command

sudo atsutil databases -remove

See http://osxdaily.com/2015/01/08/clear-font-caches-databases-mac-os-x/

Thursday, October 22, 2015

Fix Handbrake to work with OS X 10.11 El Capitan and 10.12 Sierra


  • Make a new Finder window
  • Use cmd-shift-G to go to /Library/SystemMigration/History/ (<--you and="" can="" copy="" from="" here="" inside="" li="" manually="" migration-some-gibberish="" on="" path="" proceed="" the="" uarantineroot="" usr="">
  • Copy the libdvdcss.2.dylib file (Cmd-C)
  • Use cmd-shift-G to /usr/local/lib (but don't copy this path or you'll lose your file!)
  • Use cmd-opt-V to move it (instead of copy) it to this location
  • It will ask for your password and should then move it


From https://www.reddit.com/r/osx/comments/3n6gz4/el_capitan_apparently_broke_handbrake_ripping/