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Disable all the idiot-checking in Mac OS X

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Mar 15, 20262056 views
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I am a Windows/Linux user, who is learning Mac OS X out of interest in doing dev-work for the iPad which I recently purchased. However, OS X is driving me nuts by trying to protect all it's system files, hiding all of the important OS components I want to tweak, and generally making it impossible t…

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Fix for: Disable all the idiot-checking in Mac OS X

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If you want to stick with Finder (rather than using some third-party file manager such as Path Finder), then I don't know if there's an easy way to get what you want in one click. But, to run Finder as root: In Snow Leopard this does not (always?) o…

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