![]() ![]() 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.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? 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. ![]()
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