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  • 00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 750 for Monday, February 25, 2019
  • 00:02:44 Ben-749-Trigger Safari Download Directly with Option+Return
  • 00:03:53 Paul-QT-Print Multiple Documents at Once
  • 00:07:23 Stephen-Create a backup-only user to utilize iCloud Storage
  • 00:11:26 DoitForMeSolutions-Clone the MAC Address for College Dorm Rooms
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  • 00:16:19 Ken-CSF-Grammarian PRO2 X & KeyStrokes
  • 00:17:33 Joe-748-CSF-ThunderMag
  • 00:20:42 CSF-Anker Soundcore Liberty Air
  • 00:23:17 In-ear Headphones
  • 00:27:26 What are AirPods
  • 00:29:07 Mark-CSF-Ethernet for iPhone
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  • 00:33:53 Dave-Uninstallers and Multiple Users
  • 00:36:43 Steve-Setting Default Save Location on macOS
  • 00:39:24 David in Texas-SyncServer Chews My Battery
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  • 00:52:36 Debookee Version 7 sees HTTPS Traffic
  • 00:53:47 David-Deleting Folder Contents But Not the Folder Structure
    • find <directory> -type f -exec rm -f {} ; or…
    • Listener Bob also suggests: find <directory> ! -type d -print 0 | xargs -0 rm
      • “! -type d” says everything EXCEPT directories (aka Folders), so symbolic links, FIFO files, etc… would be included.
      • -print0 says that ‘find’ should nul terminate each file name it sends to stdout (xargs will take advantage of this)
      • xargs -0 will treat each nul terminate string as a file name and not get upset at seeing spaces, special characters, or other things that might be confused as not part of the file name.
      • xargs will append as many file names to the end of the ‘rm’ command as it can reasonably fit on a command line.  This means the rm command will be invoked once to delete multiple files, instead of being invoked to delete just 1 file.  Fewer subprocesses created so if there are a lot of files, it should take less time.
  • 01:00:40 Jeremy-Sending Bulk SMS
  • 01:08:01 Jeff Lambert-Not Authorized to Send Apple Events to Finder
  • 01:14:18 Dick-Mojave Upgrade Won’t Take
  • 01:20:22 Brian-Secure-Erasing a NAS Drive
  • 01:30:26 MGG 750 Outtro
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Dave Hamilton

Dave Hamilton is a podcaster, a publisher, and a nerd who has spent the past three decades of his career educating thousands of computer users. In addition to Mac Geek Gab podcast (now in its 19th year!), Dave is co-host of Business Brain and Gig Gab, two other shows to check out! Dave is also the co-founder and CEO of BackBeat Media, a boutique network of podcasts and websites that represents fiercely-independent publishers, of which Dave considers himself one. He has been involved in online publishing since 1998, when he co-founded The Mac Observer, a popular Apple news site which was acquired in 2021. Technology isn't the only thing Dave's a nerd about: he's also a drummer, playing in Bitter Pill, Fling, and various other projects in and around the New Hampshire seacoast where he and his wife, Lisa, live and raised their two children. Dave's reachable for a limited amount of paid consulting at DaveTheNerd.com and you can find to him on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, too!

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