OnyX
3.7.4
Overview
OnyX is a multifunction utility that you can use to verify the startup disk and the structure of its system files, to run miscellaneous maintenance and cleaning tasks, to configure parameters in the Finder, Dock, Safari, and some of Apple's applications, to delete caches, to remove certain problematic folders and files, to rebuild various databases and indexes, and more.
What's new in OnyX
Version 3.7.4:
- New option: Change the background image in the login window
- Deleting the logs improved
- Deleting the system archived logs improved
- Emptying the Trash improved
- Deleting the Junk items improved
- Issue corrected that occurred when deleting the files and folders
- Issue corrected that occurred when displaying the maintenance scripts logs
- Issue corrected that occurred when turning off the startup sound with some configurations
- Uninstalling optimized
- Help updated and improved
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This terminal command also works in any macOS from Lion 10.7 and up.
chflags nohidden ${HOME}/Library
depending on your permissions, you may have to preface the command with 'sudo'
Trying to google this problem, it appears it is recommended to open Disk Utility and do a review and repair of permissions.
BUT: I have OSX El Capitan (10.11.6), and apparently the permission repair has been removed. SO: then some are recommending to download OnyX and repair permissions with Onyx.
AND: when I right-click on a file that I cannot open and select Get Info, at the bottom it appears to indicate that I should already have Read & Write permission.
Can you help resolve my confusion and my current inability to open various files?
1) Repair permissions is still there in El Cap, it runs in the background, just not visible thru Disk Utility. That repair permissions function mainly repairs SYSTEM permissions, operating system files, who can execute, etc. The repair permissions step in Onyx invokes the same macOS repair permissions, it is identical, Onyx makes it easier to execute explicitly. From your description I think you are trying access files in Finder, I have to guess these are not system files, but just user type data files.
2) it sounds like you have an issue with USER permissions, i.e. files that aren't currently owned by the user account that you are logged in as. Are the files you want to open from another Mac that are from a different user log in, or the same Mac, but under a different account? If so, then you either you have to log in as the original user who created/owns the files, or change permissions to allow you, a different user, to access them, so go to #3
3) Are you logged in as a user with Administrator rights? You need to have Administrator rights to give yourself permissions to user files that aren't created by your account originally. See System Prefs/Users and Groups, see if your account is Administrator or Standard. If you are an Admin go to next step.
4) Do a Get Info on the files/file/folders you want access to. scroll to the bottom, Click the padlock at the bottom to unlock. You will be asked to enter an Administrator login and password. If you aren't, or don't know an Administrator login or password on this machine, stop, you can't go further. Once unlocked, select the user/group and change the privilege to whatever you want.
5) if it says you already have Read/Write, try creating a new user on that Mac with Admin rights, log in as current user that's giving you problems, give that new user read/write access to the file, then log in as the new user and see if you can access. If so, the solution may be to just transfer all your data to a new account and give that new user access.
Last resort, take it to the Apple Store or Geek Squad or Mac expert in your local area. Good luck
You seem to be the only one who's reported problems other than OS version incompatibility.
I'm very surprised you would also recommend CMM. I tried it and it wanted to delete a whole lot of essential files. I'd suspect that of causing your troubles, not Onyx.
What ruined your computer is "clean my Mac" and/or some other unreliable applications you used. Trust nobody BUT Onyx and other Titanium Software tools.
OnyX is the main application. The Maintenance and Deeper applications are parts of OnyX.
Then if you use OnyX, the Maintenance and the Deeper applications are redundant!
"Wacky" might be fun with some Partners but with Computers it's definitely NOT a good thing.
To answer your question, I simply downloaded the MacUpdate link, expecting to get version 3.5.4 (which the MacUpdate description said was OK for my High Sierra), and found that your download link gave me version 3.4.9. I then went to the developer's site and found that version 3.5.4 was for Mojave, and version 3.4.9 was for High Sierra. I also checked my version 3.4.9 for updates, and it told me that I had the current version (i.e., 3.4.9).
Most annoying, is that they are now non-deletable.
Use with caution.
Corrected in the last version 3.5.3. ;-)
Please, to improve the application, report me the bugs by email!
The old version 3.1.2 doesn't work on Mojave and the build 23696 doesn't exist!
Thank you for pointing us out!
All done)
If ever in doubt go to the developers page here and it clearly states what the latest version of Onyx is that is compatible with each version of macOS/OS X going all the way back to OS X 10.2 (Jaguar)
https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html
In fact, IMO, I would go to the developers site always to download Onyx,....MacUpdate very often gets version numbers and compatibility mixed up, or is very late on notifying when an update is available.
Perhaps are you not enough patient. It's normal (see the text at the top of the panel and in the OnyX Help).
During the verification, you may see the wait cursor (which looks like a colored pinwheel), and your computer may seem to be unresponsive. Some operations take a long time to complete. Wait for any selected tasks to finish.
It can have problems with the APFS encrypted disk: https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/issues.html
https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/how-to-turn-off-multitouch-trackpad-look-up-in-os-x/
I have a 'lazy' ring finger which often drops down and touches the track pad even when I don't mean it too, which registers a three finger tap versus one or two; what you described would happen to me until I turned it off.
Go to you LIbrary/LaunchAgents, trash mdworker and restart.
I recently upgraded my Mac OS to High Sierra and it won't install the new version. I can't open the dmg file.
So is Apple trying to block this app!?
However I found a Terminal command to re-instate that 3rd option in System preferences: sudo spctl --master-disable
So I've since been able to install Onyx.
... And sorry nikabuz, I cannot send email to you... You use a Spam Blocker Service and I don't want give my email.
See: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macos-high-sierra-10-13-unsupported-macs-thread.2048478/page-89
Onyx has ruined many Mac's of mine.
I adopt High Sierra and for me is much better than sierra, the only app that not work on High sierra in my case is Timbuktu Pro
Yes, allow OnyX to control your Mac is not the same thing.
The OnyX application is signed and the disk-image is also signed!
did you download directly from https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html
That is the only site I would trust. There are fake programs on the web, calling themselves 'Onyx', that are really malware.
• Bug corrected that occurred when checking an APFS volume
• Summary Service added in the Appplications tab of Utilities pane.
Intel, 64-bit processor
macOS 10.12.x
The High Sierra version is in progress...
WARNING:
There is a specific version of OnyX for each major version of the operating system.
Use the specific version, and don't try to use a non-compatible version.
1) Read here: https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/issues.html
2) Yes, it's OK
sorry but i can't find the answer in the link proposed by Dev. How can I repair permission using with the version 3,2,7?
https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/release_onyx.html
The developer, Joel is a really cool guy. If you have any problems, he will get back to you quickly. I once asked him why OnyX is free, and this was his reply.
"I have always said that OnyX is and will stay free!!
I refused to sell the code several times because I don’t want that it to become a shareware or commercial software.
Everyone should be able to use OnyX. ;-)"
Now every time OnyX gets me out of a hole, I donate on his website.
Q: Si j'ai bien compris, vous faite OnyX tout seul, et sur votre temps libre ?
R: Tout-à-fait et ce depuis bientôt 14 ans ! ;-)
You ARE aware that http://www.onyxmac.com is NOT the official website for Onyx, right? Do you have any evidence that the actual developer has any relationship with the people who own http://www.onyxmac.com site? Any evidence that the developer warrants any statements made on http://www.onyxmac.com?
On the site http://www.onyxmac.com, whoever owns or runs it, says at the very bottom "The information contained on this site is for informational purposes only. The owners of this site are compensated by relationships with the recommended software."
In simpler English people, these guys put up a site, get people to visit based on search engine hits, leveraging the fact that Onyx is so popular, then get money for the page hits, money from the software vendors they 'advertise' and recommend. The site wants the user to think that the developer of Onyx condones this site; but there is no statement to that effect.
What are some of those advertisers/supporters that pay the owners of this site, our readers might ask?
Just clicking through some of the pages on http://www.onyxmac.com, there are DOWNLOAD LINKS provided to such apps as MacKeeper, CleanMyMac, MacFreeScan, as well as RECOMMENDATIONS AND REVIEWS advocating the use of these apps. http://www.onyxmac.com/6-quick-and-easy-tips-and-tricks-for-fixing-a-slow-mac-yourself.html
These apps are almost universally acknowledged by Mac users in the know to be of dubious value at best, and at worst, downright harmful and malicious.
The legit Onyx site, owned and maintained by the ACTUAL developer, is http://www.titanium.free.fr. Nowhere on the REAL Onyx site does the developer make any reference to http://www.onyxmac.com, let alone condone it, or state any relationship with the owners of it. The developer may not even know it exists, or if he does, is likely furious that someone is using the good name and reputation he has worked so hard to gain, for their own profit.
@ososX keeps saying in his earlier posts back and forth with WetNet, go look at the "Onyx" site, and so on, and then even quotes text from the "Onyx" site, "The first scans that OnyX will make...." yada yada.
BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM, the site @ososX is telling us to go look at, http://www.onyxmac.com/ is NOT the Onyx site; it is a scam site owned by people with no evidence that they have the developers permission to talk about Onyx, no evidence the owners have any affiliation with the developer. The owners of http://www.onyxmac.com/ admit they get paid by the vendors of apps they 'recommend' which include apps with some of the WORST reputations in the Mac community. Add to that the obvious poor quality of the writing, the poor grammar, and outright INCORRECT information on many of the pages, and it should be clear to any reasonable person that this site is a SHAM. Here's one example of outright WRONG info. it suggests using iDefrag to REMOVE files, quote "If you want to remove files that are necessary, you might want to consider defragging.....",. As we all know, defragging doesn't delete files, it relocates them. I don't make this up people, here it is http://www.onyxmac.com/explore-your-options-with-our-pick-of-the-best-mac-cleaning-software.html
Not to mention the obvious grammatical error when it is supposed to say "unnecessary", not "necessary". Yes, I quoted it exactly.
I encourage anyone reading this whole thread, go visit http://www.onyxmac.com/ , then come back here and post whether this site is credible and if anything said on this site is credible. So far as I know, the ONLY place where it is written that Onyx works on hard drives other than the startup, is on this http://www.onyxmac.com/ site. And this site is the 'evidence' put forth by @ososX to support his position, and to date, the ONLY reference provided.
I've used it for years with no issues.....