Here are some of the terminal commands I have collected over the years, feel free to add or correct any:
Disable Spotlight
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/volume name
substituting as appropriate for all mounted volumes. This permanently disables indexing on that volume
Disable Dashboard
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock
Enabling Dashboard- type or paste the following exactly into the Terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO
killall Dock
disabling SMS:
sudo pmset -a sms 0
turn off hibernate mode:
sudo pmset hibernatemode 0
if you want to reclaim the space the hibernate file takes up (valuable on an SSD), you use the Go to folder menu for that. The file is found in the /var/vm/ folder, and is named sleepimage. Simply delete that file, after a reboot.
disable quarantine:
Starting in Leopard (I believe) when you open a file downloaded from the web, OS X asks if you really mean it. While it is intended to stop maliciousness, it is only a source of aggravation for me. While there are some hints here on working around it, it turns out that you can disable it completely using a Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
After that, reboot, and you should be set. (If you want to disable quarantine for files already downloaded, you can run this in 10.6 : xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads. In 10.5, you need to use this instead: find ~/Downloads -type df -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {}.)
The credit for this tip should really go to Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch, who published it on his Tumblr. He, in turn, credits Ken Aspeslagh with telling him about the defaults write via Twitter.
Disable Spotlight
sudo mdutil -i off /Volumes/volume name
substituting as appropriate for all mounted volumes. This permanently disables indexing on that volume
Disable Dashboard
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock
Enabling Dashboard- type or paste the following exactly into the Terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO
killall Dock
disabling SMS:
sudo pmset -a sms 0
turn off hibernate mode:
sudo pmset hibernatemode 0
if you want to reclaim the space the hibernate file takes up (valuable on an SSD), you use the Go to folder menu for that. The file is found in the /var/vm/ folder, and is named sleepimage. Simply delete that file, after a reboot.
disable quarantine:
Starting in Leopard (I believe) when you open a file downloaded from the web, OS X asks if you really mean it. While it is intended to stop maliciousness, it is only a source of aggravation for me. While there are some hints here on working around it, it turns out that you can disable it completely using a Terminal command:
defaults write com.apple.LaunchServices LSQuarantine -bool NO
After that, reboot, and you should be set. (If you want to disable quarantine for files already downloaded, you can run this in 10.6 : xattr -d -r com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads. In 10.5, you need to use this instead: find ~/Downloads -type df -exec xattr -d com.apple.quarantine {}.)
The credit for this tip should really go to Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch, who published it on his Tumblr. He, in turn, credits Ken Aspeslagh with telling him about the defaults write via Twitter.
