System Integrity Protection

5 articles tagged System Integrity Protection.

How to recover deleted photos, music and other files on your Mac

How to recover deleted photos, music and other files on your Mac

Christopher Lee · Apr 21, 2018

Most of us have experienced the pain of losing an important file. Maybe you hit the ‘Delete’ key at the wrong moment or a file has become corrupted, or perhaps the problem is more severe, for example maybe you formatted your hard drive without realising that this deletes all your data! Regardless of whether you […]

Change your Dock’s colour, shape and the way it functions, with cDock

Change your Dock’s colour, shape and the way it functions, with cDock

Christopher Lee · Apr 16, 2018

macOS isn’t the most customisable of operating systems, but with the help of some third party tools you can completely overhaul the macOS Dock to better reflect your personal style. In this article, we’re going to look at how to change the Dock’s colour, shape, and even the way it functions, using the cDock application. […]

How to turn off System Integrity Protection on Sierra

How to turn off System Integrity Protection on Sierra

Christopher Lee · Sep 29, 2017

In El Capitan, Apple introduced System Integrity Protect (SIP, sometimes also known as rootless), a security feature that’s designed to help protect your Mac against malicious code. Prior to El Capitan, gaining access to your Mac’s most important system files simply required the admin password, which meant that anyone with access to this password could […]

Unlock the Power of Symbolic Links – with or without the Terminal

Unlock the Power of Symbolic Links – with or without the Terminal

Christopher Lee · Sep 5, 2017

Symbolic links (sometimes also called symlinks or soft links) are shortcuts that can point at any file, directory, app or utility, located anywhere on your Mac. While symbolic links share many similarities with macOS’ better known alias feature, there are several important differences that make symbolic links much more powerful. Firstly, you can use symbolic […]

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