Automatically empty Trash in Mac OS
Since Mac OS Sierra Apple added a useful option to automatically remove files from the Trash folder that are older than 30 days. This mostly removes the need to manually empty Trash or use third party tools and scripts.
Make Mac OS X TextEdit open blank document by default
Issue
Opening TextEdit opens a Finder File Picker dialog instead of a blank text document.
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Export Office 365 Online Archive to Apple Mbox format
I used below procedure to export emails from Office 365 Exchange Online Archive and import them into Mac OS X Apple Mail while doing PST to MBOX format conversion.
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Find what's preventing Mac from sleeping
If Mac is failing to go to sleep or is waking up unexpectedly, you can run pmset -g log | egrep '\b(Sleep|Wake|Start)\s{2,}' in terminal to inspect last sleep/wake events
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