Mac OS X

Make Mac OS X TextEdit open blank document by default

Issue

Opening TextEdit opens a Finder File Picker dialog instead of a blank text document.

Mac OS - TextEdit File Picker

Export Office 365 Online Archive to Apple Mbox format

I used below procedure to export emails from Office 365 Exchange Online Archive and import them into Mac OS X Apple Mail while doing PST to MBOX format conversion.

Find what's preventing Mac from sleeping

If Mac is failing to go to sleep or is waking up unexpectedly, you can run pmset -g log | egrep '\b(Sleep|Wake|Start)\s{2,}' in terminal to inspect last sleep/wake events

$pmset -g log | egrep '\b(Sleep|Wake|Start)\s{2,}'$

Installing Mac OS - An error occurred while preparing the installation...

Issue

Installing Mac OS X on iMac's blank formatted hard drive. Installation runs for 5-10 minutes and then fails with following error:

An error occurred while preparing the installation. Try running this application again.

Tried installing OS X El Capitan (10.11) and OS X Sierra (10.12) - the same error occurs in both cases.

Make Mac OS X TextEdit open blank document by default

Issue

Export Office 365 Online Archive to Apple Mbox format

Find what's preventing Mac from sleeping

Installing Mac OS - An error occurred while preparing the installation...

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