How do i open finder on mac
So before starting all this, type the command below into Terminal. if you're wanting to browse as root, you probably also want to see hidden files. In the same non-Sudo tab of Terminal, just type "open.You should now be able to double click on the overlayed HardDrive desktop icon, or.Then open a new tab in Terminal (so the sudo tab is still running) and kill the standard Finder (without using Sudo) "killall Finder".but it is probably not clickable (hence the error message) You will notice the hard drive icon overlayed on your desktop for root.Run the command above (sudo Finder) in terminal.If so, then use the options in the custom menu for these add-ons to restart Finder. I suspect he/she may have also been using something like TotalFinder or XtraFinder Sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder but in a limited scenario it is very useful. I fully accept the warnings other people have given here regarding running finder as root. Apparently, btw, the cp command in OSX is kinda restricted (regarding to its available options and functionality) wrt its Linux counterpart and, to add the insult to the injury, its options don't work the same (see -R, for instance). Trying to do the job from the terminal issuing a cp command didn't get my any closer to achieve it. I've tried any number of searches to no avail.
The device syncs automatically whenever its plugged in to power. When the computer and the device are on the same Wi-Fi network, the device appears in the Finder.
Select Show this device when on Wi-Fi.' Click Apply. I suspect that it has something to do with permissions, so I thought that doing the copying as root might help. Connect your device to your computer with a USB cable, then open a Finder window and select your device. I can mount the disk and navigate it on the finder or on a terminal but, when it comes to actually copying files (either on a terminal or on the finder), I get an error such as "Cannot read the file" or even "File does not exist". I downloaded a library (FUSE for OSX), which is able to read that file system and a complementary app (ext4fuse), which works as a client interface to FUSE. I've got a brand new iMac running Yosemite and I do need to access an external HD formatted on (Gnu/Linux) ext4 (a journaling file system). I'm back some twenty years after my last Mac.