[Completed] Towel Root and Mac - XDA Assist

Hi guys,
I am trying to root my Sony Z1C (D5503) and I have read about the new towel root method. There is a topic on towel root and Xperia phones including Z1C (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2784900&page=7) but there is nothing about using this method with a Mac and I can't figure out how to do that.
There is a way to put the adb drivers on mac (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237 although I was not able to reset the path, not sure why) but that's as far as I went.
I cannot post on the development section for now but I thought that maybe some other users stumbled across a similar Mac/ Towel root issue as this new method works with a lot of phones.
Or to put it simply, if not with towel root is there a way to root relatively easily a Z1C on mac ?
Thanks

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Will do it right away thanks !
Yeah, I didn't find anything useful to say but didn't want to spam to get to 10 posts ^^ ! Oh well, it will go up soon enough

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