Hidden Finder Commands...

martinatkinson

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Check out this article: http://www.stepwise.com/Articles/Editorial/2002-04-01.01.html

Could someone explain what these commands do:

defaults write com.apple.Preferences ExposeHiddenPreferences Yes
defaults write com.apple.installer TrashSymbolicLinks No
defaults write com.apple.finder UseCocoaFinder Yes
defaults write com.apple.finder RunSlowly No
defaults write com.apple.finder LoadedFolders Springy
defaults write com.apple.EOModeler CrashRandomly No
defaults write com.microsoft.Office SendPersonalInformationToMotherShip No

I tried the first and third one in OS X 10.1.3 and saw nothing different happen. Are these even real commands?

Thanks!

Albert
 
Hello!

That makes more sense. I looked in the plist file for the Finder and could not find a preference for UseCocoaFinder however when I ran the command on the terminal it added a string (shouldn't it be a boolean?) so I was a little skeptical.

Thanks for clearing it up for me :)

Have a great day!

Albert
 
Originally posted by martinatkinson
defaults write com.apple.finder RunSlowly No
defaults write com.apple.finder LoadedFolders Springy
defaults write com.apple.EOModeler CrashRandomly No
defaults write com.microsoft.Office SendPersonalInformationToMotherShip No
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Just wondering, but why did you think these were real? The above four commands, in my opinion, totally give away that they are fake. I mean, Apple isn't Microsoft.
 
Hello!

Why do you say those commands give it away? Maybe I am just still too new to OS X but I do not understand what you mean by that is says that Apple is MS in those commands...

Have a great day!

Albert

P.S. At the time of this posting you have 1,500 postings. Congratulations :)
 
What I meant was, why in the world would Apple put a "RunSlowly" preference in the Finder? Or why would there be a "LoadedFolders Springy" option, when there's no way to activate it via the GUI (and users are getting antsy for this feature)?

I certainly don't think Apple would deliberately put an option to crash randomly, or to turn on sending information to the "mother ship". What I meant by "Apple isn't Microsoft" is that I wouldn't be surprised if MICROSOFT did these things, but I don't think Apple would.

I mean it just seems to me that these options are kind of outrageous and funny and that you wouldn't mistake them for being real commands.

I'm not making fun, but I'm just wondering why you thought they were real.
 
Hello!

Originally posted by simX
What I meant was, why in the world would Apple put a "RunSlowly" preference in the Finder? Or why would there be a "LoadedFolders Springy" option, when there's no way to activate it via the GUI (and users are getting antsy for this feature)?
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Yes, I do see that there would be no reason for a RunSlowly preference but I thought that maybe the springed folders was a hidden feature because it was not yet complete. I thought maybe Apple had included this feature but not enabled it because all the bugs were not worked out to their satisfaction.

Originally posted by simX
I certainly don't think Apple would deliberately put an option to crash randomly, or to turn on sending information to the "mother ship". What I meant by "Apple isn't Microsoft" is that I wouldn't be surprised if MICROSOFT did these things, but I don't think Apple would.
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Yes, I do find it strange the crash randomly but thought it was maybe a feature for developers. If apps crashed randomly they could make sure theirs was stable and did not crash on every error. However, the mother ship option was listed as com.microsoft.Office not com.apple.finder so I thought this disabled the sending of personal info to MS.

Originally posted by simX
I mean it just seems to me that these options are kind of outrageous and funny and that you wouldn't mistake them for being real commands.

I'm not making fun, but I'm just wondering why you thought they were real.
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Yeah, like I said I am pretty new to the OS X technology and while I have some things down solid, some things (like the Terminal and UNIX and Apache) are still a little new to me.

Have a great day!

Albert
 
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