Random file appeared on my mac desktop then disappeared instantly.

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  • fswatch

    A cross-platform file change monitor with multiple backends: Apple OS X File System Events, *BSD kqueue, Solaris/Illumos File Events Notification, Linux inotify, Microsoft Windows and a stat()-based backend.

  • Theoretically, you could use something like fswatch and make a simple one-liner like fswatch ~/Desktop | xargs -I{} cp {} ~/caught-files

  • HomeBrew

    🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

  • You can install Homebrew, and then do brew install fswatch This also gives you access to their package repository should you ever need it in the future (plenty of "enthusiast" stuff resides here, so maybe!)

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