# There is a way to get sounds to play on the Zone on your Mac

Category: Geeks r Us

## Post 1 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 0:19:10

Ok I'm going to tell you two ways to do this.
The easy way first, because I was too stupid and playing around in Terminal
using sudo -- don't if you don't know how, or don't understand linux systems.
Use the Finder the way my daughter does and laughs at me for using Terminal
windows when I can't find things.
So go to your desktop window then open your Macintosh HD and then open the
folder
Internet Plug-ins
Then open Disabled Plug-ins
Now this part I don't know how to do on the Finder use your copy commands
with Sudo from Terminal or just do this two-step process
Copy the Quicktime Plug-in.plug-in file from the Disabled Plug-ins folder up to
the Internet Plug-ins folder. Then delete it from within the Disabled Plug-ins
folder. You'll need to enter your root (administrative) password to do each step
because you're acting outside your user store when you do this.
Where to go if you know how using Terminal:
cd //Volumes/Macintosh HD/Internet Plug-ins/Disabled Plug-ins
and work from there. Otherwise if you don't know how to move / copy files
around or read the manual pages just use Finder in the way I said above.
Hopefully someone will come along and say how to in a easier way instead of
you having to first copy the Quicktime*.* files from in the Disabled Plug-ins
folder up to the Internet Plug-ins parent directory or however you would say
parent directory in Mac finder speak. If you haven't used Terminal this task isn't
the place to learn, you're outside the user sandbox and once you tell it to use
root privileges it won't be nice and ask you stuff like Finder does.
But anyway for the Linux-initiated you don't go //dev/hda0 you use
//volumes//&LT;driveName> which is new to me but hell it works.
I don't know how to make it cut files in Finder I tried the command + X and also
you have to be careful in that list once you open the folder you have to arrow
back to its name to then use the left arrow button to close it. But it's not a tree
view like Windows.
Or I have set something weird, hopefully you Mac users who are better with
Finder stuff will know how to make this easy for people.
anyhow sounds now work again. Found this hack online and it works.

## Post 2 by zackmack2000 ( extreme killer of the keys) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 1:05:31

I tried this using the finder way of doing this, but no good. the damn thing is
still ignored. went back and checked to see if it somehow got put back in that
disabled plug-ins folder, which it didn't, even restarted the system, still no go

## Post 3 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 1:09:47

I forgot to say Empty Trash.
Terminal commands don't trash files but Finder does.
Is there a better way to set up the folders in Finder so you always know which
one you're in?

## Post 4 by zackmack2000 ( extreme killer of the keys) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 1:14:39

did that too, and still no go. the only thing I can tell ya to do as far as setting
up folder is to press cmd pluss 2, that should put everything in list

## Post 5 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 2:01:06

Try to go to it directly in Finder then.
From the desktop push comind shift g, I just found this.
Then type:
/library/Internet Plug-Ins/
Then find the Disabled Plug-ins folder and open that, make sure there's no
QuickTime in there.
Other than that I don't know what to tell you, I've updated my Mac Mini to the
latest.
Oh, except one thing, I don't know if this helps. Go back in Safari, Menu then
Safari Preferences then Advanced and make sure the plugins are not set to save
power. It's a setting to reduce power use when on the web. I changed that as
I'm on a Mac Mini.

## Post 6 by zackmack2000 ( extreme killer of the keys) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 2:25:56

figured it out. thank goodness I remembered I did a clean install of 10.11 on
my old mini a long time ago, checked to see if it would work on that, and it did.
when you do this, be sure that these plug-ins are the ones that is in there by
default, not an older version of them that you may have from a time machine
backup drive or other hd that you may have used to clone your original hd from
in years past, like, the versions that came with Yosemite because those wont
work. and I did the same thing you did, told it not to stop them to save power

## Post 7 by DevilishAnthony (Just go on and agree with me. You know you want to.) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 5:21:11

Now if we could just figure out a way to make them work on iOS.

## Post 8 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 9:09:47

Thank you so much. finally got the sounds to play after following the directions here.

## Post 9 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 14:01:14

Glad it worked.
So if you used the Finder, how do you make it so you know what folder you're
in? I mean, is there a way to make the folders open in new windows? The
problem is that you open a folder and then you see that folder plus its parent
folder all in the same list. And you don't know what files belong to what folder,
not unless you are careful and count up / down and use the left arrow to close
and compare what was there.
Windows Explorer has a tree view where you can see levels like an outline.
I just figure there's some method to see folders and relationships on the mac.
Without that I end up getting frustrated with the Finder and go to the Terminal.
Was I the only dork who used Terminal for all this? Lol lol 'splain me how you
used the Finder, and if you can move files rather than just copy and then delete
from original location.

## Post 10 by zackmack2000 ( extreme killer of the keys) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 15:01:02

you can move files, but you can't cut and paste them like you can on windows.
you hit cmd pluss c as usualy to coppy the file to clip, then if you wanna move it
to another place you hit cmd pluss option and v. that will do it.

## Post 11 by Reyami (I've broken five thousand! any more awards going?) on Thursday, 31-Dec-2015 16:27:08

get to spotlight from finder by hitting ... I think the key combo is command space. Once there, type the name of the folder you want. VO right over to search results, interact and the folder you need should be there. Hit command o to open.

## Post 12 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Friday, 01-Jan-2016 4:02:26

Thanks guys. Really helps. I didn't know if I could have several Finders open at
once or not. So thank you and yes, I appreciate knowing how to move things
also.

## Post 13 by silly_singer (The girl who's always lost in a melody) on Saturday, 02-Jan-2016 3:34:38

OOOO!
Thanks so much for pointing this out Lio.
It is working like a charm here! :)