Chapter 1. Files

Section 1.1.  Hacks #1-12

Hack 1.  Understanding and Hacking Your User Account

Hack 2.  Taking the Bite Out of Backup

Hack 3.  Backing Up on the Go

Hack 4.  Dealing with Archives of Many Colors: .img, .sit, .tar, .gz

Hack 5.  A Line Break Is a Line Break

Hack 6.  Fiddling with Type/Creator Codes and File Extensions

Hack 7.  Locking and Unlocking Files

Hack 8.  Stubborn Trash, Stuck Images, and Jammed CDs

Hack 9.  Aliases, Symlinks, and Hard Links

Hack 10.  Recent Filenames

Hack 11.  Inspecting the Contents of an .app Package

Hack 12.  Opening Microsoft Word Documents Without Microsoft Word