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Digging Up Extra System Preferences
Upon opening our System Preferences, straight away we know that there are some basic customizations can be performed to our Mac. But of course, this is the very general knowledge that even Tom and Dick know about it.
However, there are still some Preferences Panes created by developers yet buried down somewhere, probably they're not as popular as Secrets introduced by developer of Quicksilver but worth mentioned.
Archives Preferences Pane
In either compressing or decompressing files, by default we have no other choices but to make new expanded/archived file in the same directory. Even worse, we can't straight away delete the original file(s).
Using Archives Preferences Pane, that allows us to customize our archiving process, will save us from all of those troubles.
Shown Above. Archives Preferences Pane
- Open Finder
- Go to Macintosh HD → System → Library → CoreServices
- Control-click on Archive Utility and choose Show Package Contents
- Dig inside Contents → Resources
- Open Archive.prefPane and confirm installation
Disk Images Preferences Pane
Same as other preferences pane, with this extra Disk Images Preferences Pane you can have extended customization for handling Disk Images.
Shown Above. Disk Images Preferences Pane
- Open Finder
- Go inside Macintosh HD → System → Library → Private Frameworks → DiskImages.framework → Versions → A → Resources
- Find DiskImages.prefPane, open and confirm installation
Now you've got several extra preferences panes. Cheers!
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21 Comments
NaVi
I once used secrets, but my computer went all funny (slow...), so I just removed it. :P Oh and I found the Archives prefpane long time ago while I was digging in the system folders thinking it was my Home folder =) But it was very usefull at that time. Now I use stuffit, so yeah..
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Thanks - I don't use it much but the Archive panel is welcome.
Daniel
Man, this tip is great! Managing to let diskimages NOT use keychain is what i was looking for since a year or so! thanks! also: a find / -name '*.prefPane' in terminal helped me find other panes. "processor"....hmm. gonna find out what it is, will i ^^
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Nice hack!
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The Archives is great! Especially the first option, it's really useful when downloading zipped stuff. Oh Wendy you could do a post about 3rd-party System Preference Panes, such as Perian, Grabup, Growl, Smart Scroll, etc =D
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I’ve recently had a problem with some of my apps. I tried to transfer my apps and system preferences into a different file and accidentally dropped them all onto my desktop. Because of some crappy wifi I had at the time, the system preferences app or file did not completely load back. So now the file is corrupt or something, and I don’t know how to reinstall it. I know this is a vital app for my whole Macbook. Does anyone know what I have to do to fix the system preferences?
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