Q: I deleted the application, will that do anything? In the meantime, you may find comfort in curling up in a ball under your desk and rocking back and forth for a while. The timer will run out and the internet will come back again.
Q: How do I disable SelfControl once it has started? Since the vendor has little help, do you have a backup of your Mac or can you make a backup so that if you need to erase and reinstall the OS, at least you have that option? This is covered pretty clearly in the FAQ. Wharton School absolutely recommends having nothing to do with it in the first place, and gives 5 very good reasons why. )įrom there you can decide whether to delete SC altogether and be done with it.
c.o.m sites: I got SC specifically for stopping n.c.h apps from phoning home.) I couldn't wait 24 hours, Skype and a browser are an essential for me. ( I wound up with Safari, Chrome, Skype blocked which I had nothing to do with, and were never in the blocklist (I checked the plist manually there was nothing but n.c.h. In fact I recommend you delete everything there, because selfcontrol can really crap your system, especially when you have other blocking elements (system security blocking, lulu, etc.) competing. Now you can go into your blocklist and delete everything there, start it up again for 15 minutes and run it out. You can set it for the minimum-15 minutes-and let it run out again, to get a more graceful time-out. Now you'll get the standard timer selection. You'll get timer at all zero's (SC thinks it's tomorrow ) and likely a message 'stuck?' or something like that. SC's timer goes strictly by the system clock. Advance the date one day, and relock everything.
Selfcontrol mac app password#
Go into System Preferences, date and time, and sign in your password to unlock. # 127.0.0.1 localhost you're impatient about letting the clock run out, check your calendar and alerts for the next 24 hrs and jot down anything important during that time. # Host Database # localhost is used to configure the loopback interface # when the system is booting. Note that your hosts file should always include the following at the top: Press Ctrl-O, then Enter to overwrite the file. The blocked sites will start after the line with If that doesn't work, you can also try to manually edit the hosts file and remove all blocked sites: This should restore the backup that SelfControl created for you. Sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.fail sudo cp /etc/hosts.bak /etc/hosts If that's the case, open up a Terminal, enter:
Selfcontrol mac app code#
Judging from the code itself it seems that it's just the /etc/hosts file that is being edited to block sites from being accessed. I noodled around in the terminal for the first time, but I wan't able to make anything meaningful happen.
Selfcontrol mac app how to#
If found this "solution" on google, but either it doesn't work or I don't know how to use the terminal. In my case, the timer ran out, gave me access to the web again, but I can't get the app to work anymore. Supposedly you can even delete the app and it still works until the timer runs out. The idea behind SelfControl is that it's hard to crack so you don't have easy access to the web.