Aug 22

Running Finder as root on OSX – to solve app install issues

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open terminal
sudo sh
killall Finder
/System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app/Contents/MacOS/Finder

Why? I’ve found sometimes certain applications require root to run/install. Office 2004 and an HP Officejet software are two examples.

UPDATE: Realize this may bork your login/session after this and you are likely going to want to reboot.

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