{"id":738,"date":"2019-05-17T14:14:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.z360.com\/blog\/?p=738"},"modified":"2020-01-08T18:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T18:47:37","slug":"losing-control-of-our-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/?p=738","title":{"rendered":"Losing control of our computers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How do you delete a corrupted prefs file in Mojave?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/corrupt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-740\" alt=\"corrupt\" src=\"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/corrupt.jpg\" width=\"419\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/corrupt.jpg 419w, https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/corrupt-150x94.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">With a vast and previously unnecessary amount of difficulty.<br \/>\nThis is when security combined with nannying the user becomes abusive.<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<li>You cannot find the file using Spotlight<\/li>\n<li>You cannot rename it<\/li>\n<li>You cannot change permissions<\/li>\n<li>You cannot drag it to the Trash<\/li>\n<li>You cannot replace it<\/li>\n<li>You cannot compress it<\/li>\n<li>You cannot delete it using Secure Delete in Cocktail or Onyx<\/li>\n<li>You cannot even delete it when started up in Target Disk Mode on another computer<\/li>\n<li>You cannot delete it using Terminal in the standard manner<\/li>\n<li>It is not visible in Time Machine<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00a0What do you do? Apple say nothing on the subject.<br \/>\nFirst of all you should make the hidden Library folder visible.<br \/>\nFind the corrupt file using Find Any File, not Spotlight.<br \/>\nIt was identified in this case because of a bad creation date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Then I used the dangerous rm -f function in Terminal. When I dragged the recalcitrant file dated 1 January 1970 into the Terminal window it gave the name Library\/Preferences\/com.apple.ResourceFork, which was wrong. Naturally the reply from Terminal was No such file or directory. This was an OS error, perhaps related to APFS.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Only when I manually typed in the actual file name Library\/Preferences\/com.phaseone.mediapro.settings did Terminal finally manage to delete the file, and I got back to normal working. Many hours wasted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you delete a corrupted prefs file in Mojave? With a vast and previously unnecessary amount of difficulty. This is when security combined with nannying the user becomes abusive. You cannot find the file using Spotlight You cannot rename &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/?p=738\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,6],"tags":[60,37,30,49,48,50,36],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computer","tag-apple","tag-coding","tag-mac","tag-mojave","tag-osx","tag-security","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":741,"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/z360.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}