{"id":3395,"date":"2017-10-07T17:41:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=3395"},"modified":"2017-10-07T17:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T09:41:17","slug":"updating-the-locate-database-on-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/10\/07\/updating-the-locate-database-on-macos","title":{"rendered":"Updating the locate database on macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I uninstalled CrashPlan on my macOS laptop since on August 22 2017 they announced they were <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bytebot\/status\/900015741805527041\">exiting the home user market<\/a>. I think the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2017\/08\/05\/tab-sweep-5-august-2017\">party is close to being over<\/a> as even Amazon CloudDrive is now limited to 1TB of storage.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted to ensure I removed any traces of CrashPlan. I use the <code>locate<\/code> command a lot. Ever wondered how to run the equivalent of <code>updatedb<\/code> on macOS? Its <code>locate.updatedb<\/code> (comes with a <code>man<\/code> page too). Run <code>sudo \/usr\/libexec\/locate.updatedb<\/code> and that updates the <code>locate<\/code> database.<\/p>\n<p>Pleased to say CrashPlan went away quite cleanly. <\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Updating%20the%20locate%20database%20on%20macOS&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2017%2F10%2F07%2Fupdating-the-locate-database-on-macos&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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