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I made some changes to my .profile which corrupted the Terminal app. I can launch terminal but I no longer get a prompt. I can't show hidden files in order to delete the .profile or .bashrc files.
How do I go about showing hidden files without using the terminal?
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Is it possible to create Firefox profiles via the command line? I need to programatically launch Firefox with different proxy settings. From my understanding, I can do this via creating a profile. However, I don't want to create these profiles manually.
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What steps should be taken to clean a pc when moving to a new job? I don't want to leave behind any personal information on my work computer.
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I'm setting up a new Linux machine I got from our IT dept, and noticed .profile is not loaded when I start a new terminal session. The current shell is Bash, though I changed it from the default sh it came with. How do I make it load .profile on startup?
I access the shell via SSH: ssh myusername@remotemachine. I have administrator privileges on it.
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I have two Microsoft Outlook 2010 profiles. I want my primary profile to be loaded by default, no questions asked, when I start Outlook. I have set this up correctly in Control Panel, Mail.
However, when I want to access my secondary profile, I assumed I would have been able to hold Shift when starting Outlook to see the Choose Profile dialog. But this doesn't seem to be the case.
Is there a way to choose another profile when "Always use this profile" is enabled?
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I have different Firefox profiles for each version I have installed on my system and I know I can specify the profile name I want to use like this:
/Applications/Minefield.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -P minefield
Is it possible to create a dock icon or alias with additional parameters (just like in this article with shortcuts on windows)? That way I could have as many profiles as I want and wouldn't see the profile manager everytime I start the browser.
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I created a new profile on firefox for testing reasons. I notice no addons except Skype is on it.
How do i set up addons to work across profiles?
I have about 10 and I'd rather not download them again for every profile.
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I'm new to Mac. I would like to rename the computer name/root title that shows up when I open the terminal. Usually it's like computername:~ xxx$
Any and all help is appreciated!
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Where are the user profile directories of Google Chrome located in?
It may seem like a very simple question, but I couldn't find it.
I checked inside %APPDATA%, but there were noting relevant there.
My OS is Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1.
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I am following the instructions on this site for Grails installation, but am not able to write to /etc/profile like it instructs.
sudo echo ‘JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun’ >> /etc/profile
Instead, I get this error:
bash: /etc/profile: Permission denied
Why am I not able to write to the file even using sudo?
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I just created a new Thunderbird profile. Unfortunately Thunderbird only downloads recent messages. I need to get all my messages and subfolders. Any idea?
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I have got a laptop which is configured to have the user profile in a network drive. This is causing me a lot of headaches since the connectivity to my company is very slow. I want to relocate the profile of my user into a local directory. How do I do that?
Those are the settings at the moment:
C:\>set HOME
HOMEDRIVE=P:
HOMEPATH=\
HOMESHARE=\\SOMESERVER\_myuser$
The drive P is a network drive mapped to HOMESHARE.
I can't find where windows is setting those environment variables, not even in the registry.
The laptop is running Windows XP.
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I have a workstation running Win2008 that's logged in an AD domain and I have a dual boot with Ubuntu Linux. When running Linux, I'd like to be able to use the same Thunderbird profile I use under Windows, so I pointed Thunderbird to use a profile I found under:
\Users\(myname)\AppData\Local\Thunderbird\Profiles
Turns out it was not the correct profile -- it had the right configuration, but the Inbox was an old version. I eventually found out the correct path was:
\Users\(myname)\AppData\Roaming\Thunderbird\Profiles
What's the rationale behind those different places to store application data?
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Is there a way to have different taskbar icons for two different Firefox profiles? I have two shortcuts which point to bat scripts which launch Firefox profiles in following manner:
start "" "D:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox\Firefox.exe" -no-remote -P "default"
It's easy to change icons for shortcuts which sit on desktop, but when I launch Firefox instances they both have the same standard icon.
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related problems:
It seems there's no good, consistently working solution at this moment (2011-08-20).
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I have a movie (m4v/h.264/AAC) which plays fine on my Mac but I recently discovered that it wont play on my Apple TV3. After looking at the properties of this movie file I see that it has a profile High@4.1 but Apple TV3's only suport up to High@4.0. I think the only property that is making this video incompatible is the max video bit rate, all of the other properties look like they are supported in High@4.0.
How can I use ffmpeg to downgrade this video to High@4.0?
Or do I have to instead change the actual property (max bit rate) that makes this video 4.1 instead of 4.0? I am worried that if I just change the bit rate, although the file would then be compatible with High@4.0 it would still be 'tagged' as High@4.1 and therefore still wouldn't play on my Apple TV3.
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