macOS

macOS (previously Mac OS X and later OS X) is a proprietary graphical operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001.

FileVault

Validate key

sudo fdesetup validaterecovery

iCloud Drive

Create iCloud Drive symbolic link to Home

ln -s "/Users/$USER/Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs" iCloud

Security & Privacy

System Integrity Protection Temporarily

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/disabling_and_enabling_system_integrity_protection

Disable System Integrity Protection Temporarily

To disable SIP, do the following:

1. Restart your computer in Recovery mode.
2. Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu.
3. Run the command csrutil disable.
4. Restart your computer.

Enable System Integrity Protection

To reenable SIP, do the following:

1. Restart your computer in Recovery mode.
2. Launch Terminal from the Utilities menu.
3. Run the command csrutil enable.
4. Restart your computer.

Reset and Remove Applications in Location Services

1. Start terminal and then sudo to a root shell

   sudo -s
   

2. Go to /var/db/locationd

   cd /var/db/locationd
   

3. Convert clients.plist to xml (editable format)

   plutil -convert xml1 clients.plist
   

4. Edit the clients.plist file and remove the application. Convert the clients.plist file back to binary

   plutil -convert binary1 clients.plist
   

5. Restart locationd

   killall locationd
   

Time Machine

Delete Time Machine local snapshots

for snapshot in $(tmutil listlocalsnapshotdates | grep -v :); do sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots $snapshot; done