Tag: Mac OS X

1. (Download, install and) run the TinkerTool
2. Select the Finder panel
3. Among the Finder options, tick Show hidden and system files
4. At the bottom right, click on Relaunch Finder

In a Mac, anything downloaded from the Internet, gets tagged with a security flag, the com.apple.quarantine flag. This is really useful because it later allows the user to authorize a program to run, and avoid unwanted possibly dangerous actions to be performed.

The flag is also applied to the contents of downloaded files, so when I downloaded the WordPress installation ZIP file, and extracted it to my htdocs folder, each and every WordPress file got flagged. Really no big problem, up to when I tried to edit files from within the WordPress admin panel. Not possible…

To get rid of the quarantine flag on all WordPress files at once I used these commands:

cd wordpress
xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ./*

1. Start SequelPro
2. Select the Socket tab
3. Fill everything as shown (the Socket field must read /usr/local/zend/mysql/tmp/mysql.sock)
4. Add to Favorites
5. Connect