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@scottopell
scottopell / fix_exfat_drive.md
Last active May 17, 2024 16:32
Fix corrupted exFAT disk macOS/OSX

exFAT support on macOS seems to have some bugs because my external drives with exFAT formatting will randomly get corrupted.

Disk Utility is unable to repair this at first, but the fix is this:

  1. Use diskutil list to find the right drive id.
  2. You want the id under the IDENTIFIER column, it should look like disk1s1
  3. Run sudo fsck_exfat -d <id from above>. eg sudo fsck_exfat -d disk1s3
  4. -d is debug so you'll see all your files output as they're processed.
  5. Answer YES if it gives you the prompt Main boot region needs to be updated. Yes/No?
@casallas
casallas / pub-bib.md
Last active September 6, 2021 20:47
Publishing clean bibtex files

These tricks require BibTool, which can be installed using homebrew.

To extract only the used fields call bibtool -x on a .aux file, e.g.

bibtool -x doc.aux -o output.bib

To delete fields that you don't want to share, e.g. notes and file locations,

bibtool -- "delete.field {annote}" -i input.bib -o output.bib
@JamesChevalier
JamesChevalier / mac_utf8_insanity.md
Last active May 2, 2024 23:38
Unicode on Mac is insane. Mac OS X uses NFD while everything else uses NFC. This fixes that.

convmv manpage

Install convmv if you don't have it

sudo apt-get install convmv

Convert all files in a directory from NFD to NFC:

convmv -r -f utf8 -t utf8 --nfc --notest .