Sunday, 8 September 2019

macos - View Filesystem Access in Real Time on Mac OS X


Had a sysinternals tool (filemon) for that, but now I can find something similar for the mac.


I'm a developer and I basically want to debug "file not found" or "wrong permissions" errors.



Answer



You can use lsof or fs_usage in Terminal. lsof can be quite powerful. If it's about a specific process, you can try sampling it in Activity Monitor.


For a GUI tool, my recommendation is fseventer:


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More GUI-oriented utilities, which I haven't used:


FileMon


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FS Spy


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