How to get the old-style alert message box back in MacOS

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Newer MacOSs introduced a new alert style message box that pops up when an error occurs.  If you want to return to the old style, do the below:

1. Go to Finder > Utilities > Terminal.
2. At the prompt, type: defaults write -g NSAlertMetricsGatheringEnabled -bool false
3. Exit Terminal.
4. Reboot your Mac for the changes to take effect.
5. That’s it.

To return them to the original, change the false to true.

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