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MacTucTac User Guide

For version 1.7.0 · How to use all 10 tools, plus FAQ

🚀Getting Started

Installation

  1. Double-click the downloaded MacTucTac-1.7.0.dmg.
  2. Drag the MacTucTac icon into the Applications folder.
  3. Close the window and eject (⏏) the 'MacTucTac' disk from your desktop.

The Layout

The app opens on Home — File Fixer: just drop files and it finds and fixes problems in one go. For a specific task, pick a tool from the left sidebar, then drag files or folders onto the right side. Most tools scan dropped folders recursively, subfolders included.

MacTucTac layout

The hammer icon in the menu bar (top-right of your screen) stays even when the window is closed — use it to toggle Keep Awake or reopen the app.

Sending Files Straight from Finder

You don't have to open the app first — right-click any file or folder in Finder and send it over. There are two ways.

Either way MacTucTac comes to the front and Home — File Fixer checks that file straight away. It also works when the app is closed or only waiting in the menu bar — a window opens on its own.

💡 The menu item reads MacTucTac because macOS owns this menu and cannot translate it per language. Everything inside the app still follows the language you picked.

Changing the Language

MacTucTac follows your system language by default. To override it, open MacTucTac → Settings… (⌘,) and pick any of 19 languages (takes effect after a restart): 한국어 · English · 简体中文 · 日本語 · Français · Deutsch · Español · Português · Русский · العربية · हिन्दी · বাংলা · मराठी · తెలుగు · Tiếng Việt · Bahasa Indonesia · Türkçe · اردو · Hausa

Working in Tabs

Press ⌘T for a new tab and keep several tools open in one window. Switch tabs with ⇧⌘← / ⇧⌘→, close one with ⌘W.

Each tab works on its own. While one tab compresses or shares the files it just cleaned up, another can examine a completely different set — the two never mix.

Launch at Login

MacTucTac can wait quietly in the menu bar whenever your Mac starts. Toggle "Launch at Login" in MacTucTac → Settings….

💡 Safety principle: MacTucTac never permanently deletes files. Anything removed goes to the Trash, so you can always undo.

🏠Home — File Fixer

➕ When a job is already in progress: if files are still listed and you send more, MacTucTac asks whether to Add to This Tab or Start in New Tab. Even after a fix is done you may still want to compress or share, so the app never clears the list on its own.

The first screen you see. No need to know which tool to use — just drop files or folders and MacTucTac looks for problems and tells you how to fix them.

  1. Drop files or folders — dropping onto the MacTucTac Dock icon works too. Four checks run at once: decomposed Korean names · Mac junk files · names Windows can't save · HEIC photos.
  2. Each finding appears as a card with a count and the reasoning behind it. Uncheck anything you don't want.
  3. Click "Fix N Selected in One Go". Done.
  4. From the completion screen, continue straight to "Pack into ZIP" (an archive that won't break on Windows) or Share.
↩︎ Undo: changed your mind? One click on "Undo Last Fix" puts names back, restores trashed files to their places, and moves created JPG copies to the Trash.

🔤Korean File Name Fixer

Files created on a Mac can show up on Windows with scattered Korean letters like ㅎㅏㄴㄱㅡㄹ (the NFD problem). This tool fixes that.

🌏 It is not only a Korean problem. The same cause makes Japanese dakuten break away as か゛っこう, splits Vietnamese tone marks, and misplaces French, German and Russian accents — so café is stored as cafe ́ and search stops finding it. This tool repairs all of them.
  1. Drop files or folders.
  2. Only files that need fixing are listed, with an "On Windows right now" preview of the broken name.
  3. Click "Convert N" to switch them to composed form (NFC).

✨.DS_Store Cleaner

Finds the hidden files the Mac leaves behind (.DS_Store, ._*, __MACOSX) and moves them to the Trash.

  1. Drop a folder to clean (a USB drive, for example).
  2. Check what was found, then click "Trash N Items".
💡 To stop them from being created at all, turn on "Don't create .DS_Store on USB & external drives" in Mac Settings Switches.

🗜️Archive Tool

Extracting

  1. Drop an archive (ZIP · 7z · RAR · tar.gz and more).
  2. If the ZIP came from Windows, you'll see "CP949 encoding detected" and Korean file names are restored automatically.
  3. For protected archives a password field appears. Enter it and click "Extract".

Creating

  1. Drop regular files or folders.
  2. Choose a format at the bottom. For Windows recipients, stick with the default ZIP.
  3. Optionally set a password — for ZIP choose compatibility-first (opens right in Windows Explorer) or security-first (AES-256); for 7z, turning on "Hide file list too" means nobody can even see what's inside without the password.
  4. Click "Compress" — the archive appears next to the originals.

✅File Name Checker

Finds names Windows refuses to save — forbidden characters (* ? " < > | and friends), trailing dots or spaces, and reserved names like CON or PRN — and fixes them safely.

  1. Drop files or folders; only problem names are listed as current → fixed.
  2. Click "Rename N".

📷HEIC Photo Converter

Converts iPhone/Mac HEIC photos to JPG that opens anywhere, including Windows.

  1. Drop photos or a folder of photos.
  2. Click "Convert N to JPG" — originals stay put, JPGs are created alongside them.

Capture info (date, location) and orientation are preserved.

🎬iPhone Video Converter

iPhone videos (HEVC codec, MOV container) often show no picture — or won't play at all — on Windows. This converts them to MP4 (H.264) that plays anywhere.

  1. Drop videos — each one's codec is analyzed, and already-compatible files are labeled so.
  2. Click "Convert N to MP4". Long videos take a while.

📝Text Encoding Converter

Text, subtitles (smi, srt) and CSVs from Windows can look garbled on the Mac (CP949 encoding), while Mac-made text collapses into one line in Windows Notepad (line endings). Fix both here.

  1. Drop text files — encoding is auto-detected with a first-line preview.
  2. Pick the target encoding (UTF-8 recommended) and line endings (LF for Mac / CRLF for Windows) in the toolbar.
  3. Click "Convert N" — originals are kept in the Trash.

☕️Keep Awake

Stops your Mac from falling asleep during big downloads, presentations, or movies.

Pick a duration first (forever · 30 min · 1 h · 2 h), then choose what to hold off. All five are on by default, and you can change them while it is running — the change applies at once.

The menu bar hammer icon flips it too, with no window. It releases itself when the time is up or when you quit the app, so your battery is safe.

⚙️Mac Settings Switches

Hidden macOS settings, normally Terminal-only, as simple checkboxes:

Changing a Finder setting briefly restarts Finder (open windows reopen). Turn any switch off to go back to the default.

❓FAQ

I changed or deleted something by mistake. Can I undo it?

Right after a batch fix on Home, one click on "Undo Last Fix" restores everything. Beyond that, everything removed or replaced is in the Trash — just put it back. Name conversions never touch file contents, and can be reversed from the tool itself.

How do updates work?

The app checks once a day and notifies you when a new version is out. Click "Install Update" and it downloads and installs itself.

How safe is it?

MacTucTac is notarized by Apple, has no ads or tracking, and only touches the network to check the latest version number.

Where do I get help?

Email xsapiens75@gmail.com, or use "Request a New Tool" at the bottom of the sidebar to send ideas.