transfering music from ipod to itunes on OS X

So you have your music on you iPod and now you want to transfer it to another iTunes library for free?

Solution:

1. Download iExplorer
2. Load it up and right click and "mount" iPod
3. load up terminal and type:
1. defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles YES
4. go to the apple at top left > Force Quit ...
5. Click on finder and "Relaunch"
6. Load up a new Finder window, go to the iPod > iPod_Control > Music
7. Copy the Music Folder to your desktop
8. load up "Terminal" again and type:
1. chflag nohidden ~/Desktop/Music
2. chflag nohidden ~/Desktop/Music/*
9. Now you can load up iTunes and copy the music folder onto it
10.  Sorted!
11. Oh, you probably want to not show hidden files anymore so type:
1.  defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles NO

Cheers

Google Chrome downloads are invisible to Finder on OS X

For some reason whenever I download a file using Google Chrome on OS X I cannot see the file in the downloads folder. The only thing I've done is changed the default download folder to another location. I have noticed that the file is actually there using the 'ls' in terminal. Also, I can open the file from within Google Chrome.

Very odd, but I've had a look into it and found the hidden chflag which hides files from the finder. It's used so that people don't see and interfere with files they're not ment to.

A quick fix (but which I don't like) is to make all hidden files viewable from Finder. To do this open terminal and type:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE

It's very ugly because all I want to do is see the downloads which are hidden, not every file. They're made invisible for a reason.

Looking more into it, it turns out that files can be flagged up as 'hidden'. This makes them invisible. So to make files hidden or not hidden in terminal you type:

chflags nohidden afilethatishiddenforexample.txt

or to make it hidden again:

chflags nohidden afilethatisnothiddenforexample.txt

Think I'll just have to log out and back in again to fix Google Chrome properly.