Descriptions for TinkerTool System 5.90

Name: TinkerTool System
Version: 5.9 Build 180123
Released: Jan 25th, 2018
Developer: Marcel Bresink
Mac Platform: Intel
OS Version: macOS 10.12 or later

Includes: Pre-K’ed (The Shark)

Web Site: http://www.bresink.de/

Overview

System utilities toolkit for effortlessly performing advanced administration tasks in order to keep an Apple Macintosh computer in tip-top shape

Most macOS versions come with a collection of features that cannot be managed via the system graphical user interface, mac-torrents.net but can be easily enabled or disabled by using Terminal commands.

TinkerTool System is a very easy to use Mac app that offers you the possibility to access these functionalities through an user friendly graphical interface.

Quick to install system maintenance solution for your Mac computer

To make sure the TinkerTool System capabilities are used in a responsible manner, when you first launch the application, you must provide the system administrator passkey: this way, the app ensures that the current user is qualified to make changes that can seriously affect the computer’s performance.

The application’s user interface resembles the System Preferences window, so finding your way around is quite easy: mac-torrents.net select the type of tools you want to access and the app will open a new panel organizing all the available tools into several tabs.

Perform system maintenance tasks, manage files, and adjust system or user settings

You can employ the TinkerTool System app to trigger periodic system maintenance tasks, to repair file permissions, to optimize your system, to clean up your disk by removing hidden files, log archives, orphaned files, and so on.

On top of the features that come integrated with the macOS, TinkerTool System also includes a collection of powerful tools designed to resolve, fix, troubleshoot, or repair system “bugs”, damaged accounts, and so on.

User friendly software solution that provides access to hidden macOS functionalities and to other maintenance tools
In a nutshell, TinkerTool System is great to have around if you want to access certain macOS functionalities without having to use the command line: the app allows you to launch maintenance tasks via an intuitive user interface (most tools have self explanatory names).

Furthermore, TinkerTool System also includes emergency and diagnostics capabilities that can handle troubleshooting and repair operations in the same manner.

What’s new in TinkerTool System 5.9

January 25th, 2018

• Added new feature to check whether the nesting of folders with long names may cause technical issues in some applications, when the maximum number of bytes in absolute file paths that is guaranteed to be supported by the operating system is exceeded.
• The application now makes the user aware if an old license with manual registration entry has been activated with the option to become valid for a non-administrative user account only. This configuration no longer makes sense, so the registration should be re-entered with the option to become either valid for an administrator or for all user accounts.
• The application no longer offers evaluation mode without license to non-administrative users because such accounts would not be capable to test all features.
• The application now makes clear that the diagnostic feature to test fans cannot be used with the iMac Pro at this time.
• The option not to wake mobile computers when the display lid is opened had to be removed. Although this setting is still offered and documented by Apple, it no longer has an effect on portable Macs.
• Fixed a problem where the toolbar button in the control window to navigate to the pane overview could not be pressed in certain situations.

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Descriptions for TinkerTool System 4.81

Name: TinkerTool System for Mac
Version: 4.81
Release Date: 02 Sep 2016
Mac Platform: Intel
OS version:OS X 10.10 or later
Processor type(s) & speed: 64-bit

Web Site: http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerToolSys4.html

Overview

TinkerTool System 4 is a collection of system utility features helping you in performing advanced administration tasks on Apple Macintosh computers. The application makes use of a self-adapting user interface which automatically adjusts to the computer model and to the version of OS X you are running. All options available in the current situation are accessible via “panes”, very similar to the techniques you already know from the System Preferences application. The features are controlled via a single window which allows you to use the application as a general toolbox and First Aid assistant.

This includes

• builtin maintenance features of OS X, usually not visible on the graphical user interface;
• extended file operations, not available in the OS X Finder;
• the possibility to access advanced system settings which are not visible in System Preferences;
• genuine and unique features of TinkerTool System, designed to resolve typical realworld problems of administrators and to fix the effects of certain defects (“bugs”) in the operating system;
• an emergency tool to troubleshoot and repair OS X in cases where the graphical user interface is no longer starting correctly or the user account of the system administrator has been damaged;
• features to protect your privacy, e.g., by reviewing and editing the list of Internet cookies stored for your user account;
• functions to collect advanced information about the hardware, operating system, and applications.

What’s New TinkerTool System 4.81

• Added new feature for OS X 10.11 El Capitan to change the computer setting for optimizing system performance for server operations with OS X Server.
• Analyzing log files is now automatically decoupled from application startup if a high number of logs is detected. Excessive log files on a computer no longer slow down the launch of the program.
• The use of different workarounds for bugs in OS X 10.10 Yosemite and OS X 10.11 El Capitan could create subtle compatibility problems with version 4.8 if operating system, main application, privileged auxiliary program, and the Standalone Utility have been updated in a specific order. Launching version 4.81 analyzes this situation and replaces the helper programs if necessary to resolve such problems.
• Added support for upcoming versions of Safari.
• Added additional features and documentation to detect cases where System Integrity Protection is causing internal failures of OS X 10.11 El Capitan.
• Updated all quarantine features to ensure full compatibility with the latest versions of OS X.
• Resolved minor issues with the compatibility of Safari 9.1.1 and later.
• Better user interface presentation when displaying permission settings of file system objects which lost their owners.
• Enhanced reliability when the tool is used under bad conditions, in particular when the operating system is exceeding the maximum number of open communication file handles.
• The application now shows concrete instructions how to resolve specific technical problems when defects of OS X cause the privileged component not to launch correctly.
• Resolved a user interface issue where the topmost entry of the popmenu to control IPv6 support was not refreshed correctly directly after program launch.
• The option to control ACL support for the SMB server had to be removed, because it is no longer working as expected with the latest versions of OS X.

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