Your Mac logs just about everything you download. If you’ve lost a file, or you just want to see how much you’ve downloaded, iDownloadBlog shares a simple Terminal command that reveals everything you’ve put into your Downloads folder.
All it takes is a Terminal (Applications > Utilities) command:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'select LSQuarantineDataURLString from LSQuarantineEvent'
Once you load that up, Terminal should give you a (potentially very large) list of everything you’ve downloaded. If that makes you a little uncomfortable, you can easily delete everything in the database as well by typing this into Terminal:
sqlite3 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.QuarantineEventsV* 'delete from LSQuarantineEvent'
Once that command is run, your download history should disappear forever.
How to extract OS X download history via Terminal [iDownloadBlog]
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