Software Tools
Legacy
- macOS
- OS X 10.10 Yosemite (requires 10.6 or later)
- OS X 10.11 El Capitan (requires 10.6 or later)
- macOS 10.12 Sierra (requires 10.7 or later)
- macOS 10.13 High Sierra (requires 10.8 or later)
- macOS 10.14 Mojave (requires 10.8 or later)
- macOS 10.15 Catalina (requires 10.9 or later)
- TeamViewer QuickSupport
- Malwarebytes
- Office 2011
- Microsoft Office 2011 14.1.0 Update
- Microsoft Office 2011 14.7.7 Update (requires at least 14.1.0, above)
Terminal Commands
Re-enable classic startup chime
sudo nvram StartupMute=%01
Changing it to %00 disables the chime
Rebuild Spotlight
sudo mdutil -i off /
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100
sudo rm -rf /.Spotlight-V200
sudo mdutil -i on /
sudo mdutil -E /
Force the OS to allow a drive to unmount.
sudo lsof | grep diskn
Where diskn is the number of the disk for example disk3. Then
sudo kill -9 pid
where pid is the process ID revealed with the first command. You may then attempt unmounting again.
Clean In-place macOS Install
All clean-install commands require High Sierra 10.13.4 or later to be installed already.
High Sierra
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall ‑‑eraseinstall
Mojave
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Mojave.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall ‑‑eraseinstall
Catalina
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall ‑‑eraseinstall
Watchman Monitoring Settings
More commands at https://support.watchmanmonitoring.com/hc/en-us/articles/200033678
Set Time Machine warning to 30 days
sudo defaults write /Library/MonitoringClient/PluginSupport/check_time_machine_settings Days_Until_Warning -int 30
Set Storage Usage warning to 95%
sudo defaults write /Library/MonitoringClient/PluginSupport/check_root_capacity_settings Root_Warn_Level -int 95