Mavericks – The Mac Admin

The Mac Admin reader David noted that the preference file and key referenced in Setting A Default Paper Size no longer manages the default paper size setting in OS X v10.9 Mavericks.

The new file is
~/Library/Preferences/org.cups.PrintingPrefs.plist

This makes the new preference domain: org.cups.PrintingPrefs

The Key that governs the preference remains the same: DefaultPaperID

The values remain the same, repeated below for your convenience.

Paper Size	String
US Legal	na-legal
US Letter	na-letter
A4	iso-a4
A5	iso-a5
JIS B5	jis-b5
B5	iso-b5
Envelope #10	na-number-10-envelope
Envelope DL	iso-designated-long-envelope
Tabloid	tabloid
A3	iso-a3
Tabloid Oversize	arch-b
ROC 16K	roc16k
Envelope Choukei 3	cho-3-envelope
Super B/A3	arch-b-extra

IT staff, and even consumers often want to have a physical bootable install disk for OS X. In OS X Mavericks, Apple have provided a relatively simple command line tool for creating bootable install media.

To create the install media, mount a volume that you would like to use as an install disk. This volume needs to be able to hold at least 5.36 GB of data to house the install media. Note that this volume will be erased and reconfigured as an OS X installer. With the desired volume mounted, open the Terminal application and execute the following command:

sudo /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/TargetVolumeName --applicationpath /Applications/Install OS X Mavericks.app --nointeraction

Replace “TargetVolumeName” with the name of the volume you want to turn into a bootable OS X Mavericks installation disk.

See the screenshot below for the Terminal output from the command above.

Category: Mavericks

Mavericks Update:Setting A Default Paper Size

Creating OS X Mavericks Install Media