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There’s a screen to show which of your SSD are using trim. Advanced control over Spotlight is a care feature. Control over cache can be very important to repair system performance. TinkerTool System allows an advanced user some control over colour schemes as well as the ability to flush persistent caches. Thank you Marcel Bresink for making computing on Apple better! Tinker Tool System

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In case you’re ever not happy with your customisation, there’s even a full reset button which will set all these preferences back to OS X defaults. As Apple continues to lower the bar for the average expected IQ of its users, being able to make the OS behave in an intelligent way with fewer silly animations and more advanced functionality is important.

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If there’s even one thing on the list above you’d like to be able to customise (and I’ve only listed about a quarter of the features), TinkerTool makes it free and easy to have OS X behave the way you want your OS to behave, not Tim Cook. TinkerTool is free so there’s no downside here. For example one could use Dark Mode but exempt the Finder and System Preferences.Ĭontrol save dialogues, screenshots and animations Control TimeMachine dialogues and whether to save docs on iCloud Exempt some system apps from Dark Mode

control font smoothing (important for non-Retina screens).

customise fonts for applications and font sizes for the system.

not prefer iCloud for saving documents (yes really it’s a default, I don’t use iCloud so I don’t run into this).

stop TimeMachine for asking to create backups on every drive you insert.

deactivate Dashboard (if it’s always popping up and getting in your way).

set Help window free to not sit on top in the foreground.

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Personally I find the small open/save dialogues almost useless so I’m happy to have a way to get the normal full size open/save dialogue by default.

set OS X to offer expanded open/save dialogues by default.

It’s less of an issue now on the current powerful graphic cards and processors but OS level animations used to steal a lot of GPU memory for no purpose and slow down basic operations.

disable animations in the Dock and Finder.

TinkerTool provides a consistent place to toggle What’s new to me is that in open and save dialogues one can see hidden files with Command-Shift. It’s also possible to write an automator script and make a contextual menu item to toggle hidden files.

show and hide hidden files (there’s lots of utilities to do this and the command line works nicely as well: defaults write AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES but also requires manually restarting finder.

What are the kind of things one can do with TinkerTool?

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For Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, use TinkerTool 4.For OS X 10.9 Mavericks, OS X 10.10 Yosemite, and OS X 10.11 El Capitan, use TinkerTool 5.For macOS 10.12 Sierra and macOS 10.13 High Sierra, use TinkerTool 6.For macOS 10.14 Mojave and macOS 10.15 Catalina, use TinkerTool 7.The program with the standard name TinkerTool is always designed to be compatible with the latest official version of Apple’s operating systems.

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You must download the version which matches your OS: TinkerTool as it directly works with system preferences is OS specific. Many of the comments at MacUpdate suggest that TinkerTool is not compatible with their OS. I’ve used TinkerTool and TinkerTool System without adverse incident for over ten years.

The other customisation utilities are mostly fly-by-night or built by marketers not engineers. In TinkerTool System it’s easier to break the OS but you’ll be warned several times before you do so.

I recommend Bresink’s utilities over anything else as Bresink is dedicated just to these system level tweaking and is very careful to make sure the customisations he includes won’t break your OS. It’s companion TinkerTool System allows a user to easily perform advanced maintenance and is always an inexpensive purchase between €5 and €9. You can count on Marcel Bresink and his team to find and safely share ways to tweak and customize OS X. TinkerTool offers a consistent interface to tweak OS X hidden preferences for over a decade now across a dozen OS X versions. Almost all of them are rendered redundant by Marcel Bresink’s functionalist TinkerTool and TinkerTool System. There’s a proliferation of Mac OS X system and maintenance customisation utilities. People are obsessed with the latest and greatest and design tricks these days.