Utilities for macOS
This article is a collection of utilities for macOS that may solve some tricky problems.
Restart the Touch Bar
You can enter and execute the following command to restart the touch bar, which will resolve a blank touch bar or other tricky issues with the touch bar.
sudo pkill TouchBarServer
Remove Dot-Underscore Files
The following command will recursively delete all dot-underscore files (with names like ._*
) in the current working directory. This is useful when accessing removable drives, as macOS automatically creates some annoying and useless dot-underscore files.
dot_clean .
Remove .DS_Store files
Similar to "Remove Dot-Underscore Files" above, this will delete the .DS_Store
files.
sudo find . -name ".DS_Store" -depth -exec rm -f {} \;