Tips and Tricks for macOS

Desktop and App Management Activate Spotlight for Searching  - To bring up a handy search interface that will let you find files on your Mac, just use Command + Space. Spotlight can do all kinds of things, from locating files to answering basic questions to solving math problems. Swap Between Apps  - To switch between your open applications, press Command + Tab. Keep holding down the Command key and then press Tab to cycle through the open apps. Let go when the app you want is highlighted. Close Apps From App Switcher  - When you're in the Command + Tab view, press the Q key with command held down to close an open app. Hot Corners  - If you don't already use Hot Corners, they're worth checking out. You can set tasks that will happen when your mouse hovers in a specific corner, like launching Mission Control, showing the desktop, and more. Set them up in System Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Corners. Advanced Hot Corners  - If you want to use Hot C

Large amounts of hidden disk space (when its size hits 100GB and more) or  whenever you deleted data but your disk is almost full may also indicate errors in the file system (serious problem with Hidden Space eating up my hard drive) You can use the DaisyDisk to check. ( Download here ) You may need to boot your Mac in Recovery mode and run the Disk Utility to fix that Step 1:  Back up your Mac with Time Machine  When you connect an external drive directly to your Mac, you might be asked if you want to use the drive to back up with Time Machine.Click Use as Backup Disk. If Time Machine doesn't ask to use your drive, follow these steps to add it manually:  System Preferences > click Time Machine.  Click Select Backup Disk (or Select Disk, or Add or Remove Backup Disk) Step 2:  APFS format and encrypts the volume with Disk Utility - Reboot the Mac and hold down Command+R to boot into Recovery - At the MacOs Utilities screen, select “Disk Utility” I

Did you recently update your macOS Catalina to version 10.15.2? If you did, then you probably in the same boat too. What I immediately noticed from my terminal is this new shiny error about gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected any time I ran either yarn install or npm install gyp: No Xcode or CLT version detected! gyp ERR! configure error Well if you are wondering if that was my entire error? It is not even close. The line goes on and on. The funny thing is I am so sure I have  command line tools  installed. The result of  xcode-select --install  should start the reinstallation process but if you get the result in the image below then you already have command line tools installed Solution Reinstall  command-line tools  by removing the previously installed version Step 1 First, get the location of the installed command-line tools by running the command below: xcode-select --print-path the result of the above command  /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools Step 2 Kno