Maybe you have a problem with the internal private ram used by the system so it cant’ boot up. You can try this manipulation (2 or 3 times to be sure).

If it doesn’t work, try booting your Mac without extensions (as explained here).

If it still doesn’t work maybe you can try to install macOS from the recovery partition to an external hard drive and then boot up by maintaining alt before the Apple logo. If it works maybe you have a problem with your hard drive or the partition table (GUID) and if it doesn’t work it’s most certainly a hardware problem.


Considering SSD upgrade for 13" Mid-2012 MacBook Pro

OS X 10.11, El Capitan, does not include specific code to prevent the use of a third party Solid State Disk (SSD).

I have replaced my MacBook Pro's Hard Disk Drive (HDD) with a Samsung SSD; the MacBook is running OS X 10.11.

With regard to TRIM support on non-Apple installed drives, see Should I enable TRIM with a third party (non-Apple) SSD?


Dot-files and other meta data on non-Mac network shares

Is the file you're trying to copy using a resource fork?

If you're dealing with .DS_Store file issues run the following command in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

If you're having issues with resource forks on Snow Leopard you may need to change your settings for the streams setting in smb.conf on the Linux machine or nsmb.conf on your local Mac. (._FILENAME files are the resource forks of the file). Check out Super User for more details on this.


When shaking my MacBook I hear a strange sound, like a wobble

Your Macbook Pro should not be making any noise when you shake it, but there are a few things it could be: either the screen is moving ever so slightly or the internal fan is just moving when you shake it. If it is neither of those things (which the fan thing is unlikely so you have to decipher wether or not is it the screen) I would take it into an Apple store. It is most likely a minor issue like a loose screw or the like but if it is under warranty and there is an Apple store near by there is no harm.


How does Photos.app handle multiple libraries in relation to iCloud Photo Library?

Only one library can be the "system library", which in turn is used for iCloud Photo Library (if enabled), but you can have as many other libraries as you want.


New Mac Mini (late 2014) sound input - says "No input devices found"

Try this:

Resetting the SMC and PRAM for Mac Pro, Intel-based iMac, Intel-based Mac mini, or Intel-based Xserve

• Shut down the computer.
• Unplug the computer's power cord.
• Wait fifteen seconds.
• Attach the computer's power cord.
• Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need them in next step
• Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.
• Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
• Hold the keys down until the computer restarts.
• Release the keys.

Read more: http://www.justanswer.com/mac-computers/65d0r-mac-osx-no-sound-no-input-output-devices-found.html#ixzz3XNRpChvF


Ridiculously slow MacBook Pro 15'' 2011 with low battery and El Capitan

Perform Apple Hardware Test to check for any hardware failures. To do so, power up your Mac, then immediately press and hold the D key. Keep holding the key until you see the Apple Hardware Test icon. Thereafter follow the steps as mentioned in the support article, How to use Apple Hardware Test on your Mac.
Reset SMC and NVRAM.
If the hardware test passes, try reinstalling OS X El Capitan. If the problem persists, fallback to Mac OS X Lion.


Connecting Mac Pro with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 9XX to Apple Thunderbolt Display

In short, you can't.

This is because the Thunderbolt Display is a bit of a misnomer.  It's actually a Thunderbolt Dock with a display attached to it.

The requirements for the TB Display, per Apple are as follows:

  If your Mac has Thunderbolt ports, you can use a Thunderbolt display
  in macOS or Boot Camp. System requirements to use your Thunderbolt
  display in macOS:

  A Thunderbolt-capable Mac
  The latest software and firmware updates for your Mac
  OS X v10.6.8 Snow Leopard or later

  System requirements to use your Thunderbolt display in Boot Camp:

  A Thunderbolt-capable Mac
  The latest software and firmware updates for your Mac
  OS X Lion: Boot Camp 4.0 is included with Lion OS X v10.6.8
  Snow Leopard: Boot Camp that’s updated to version 3.3

  (Emphasis mine)

If you look at the ports of the TB Display, you will notice there are
no "display" type ports (DP, mDP, DVI, HDMI, etc).  Just TB, USB,
FireWire and Network.  The Display adapter is actually "embedded" in
the display itself.

This is one of the reasons why you cannot connect an Apple Thunderbolt Display to a PC

  I figured I could simply adapt the larger format DisplayPort to the
  Mini-DisplayPort and get it to connect that way. That is assuming that
  the regular DisplayPort and Mini-DisplayPort are essentially the same
  connection/protocol with just a different interface size.

This is correct.  However, what you are missing that that the Thunderbolt Display doesn't accept DisplayPort or mini DisplayPort signaling.  Your source has to be Thunderbolt to begin with.


Swap Batteries MacBook Pro & MacBook Unibody

Will you even be able to fit the 15" MacBook Pro's battery into the 13" MacBook?
Messing with power like this only result in broken things.

I highly recommend to get a new battery from Apple if it's still available. Or perhaps from a reliable third party.


Is there an easy way to export all movies from iPhoto into iMovie

First steps, in iPhoto:

Create an Smart Album (⌥+⌘+N). Name it Movies, or whatever you like.
Under "Match the following condition:", set the first drop-down to Filename, then next to "Contains", type "mov" in the box (without the quotes). This assumes all of your movies were created with an iDevice. If you have Vine videos you'd like to move as well, you'll need to set the first drop-down to "Any Text", then next to "Contains", type "H.264" in the box (without the quotes).
Click OK. This should show you all of your movies.
The easiest thing to do from here is create a folder on your Desktop (⌘+⇧+N), name it Movies, and open it.
Then back in iPhoto, press ⌘+A to select all of your movies, and drag-and-drop them into the folder you just created on your desktop. This step may take a few minutes.

Once it's done, go into iMovie:

Go to File > Import > Movies.
Click on Desktop in the sidebar, then find the folder you created above. Double-click on it.
Press ⌘+A to select all contents.
Select "Create New Event" and enter a name. (You can sort them into separate events later.)
Click Import. This process may take some time.

Once everything is imported, go to Window > Show Event Library. All of your movies are going to be grouped into the event name you entered above. The following steps are optional, if you want to sort by events:

Go to File > New Event and create each event that you want to.
Right-click on a movie, choose "Select Entire Clip", and move your cursor to an edge until the cursor changes to the hand.
Drag-and-drop it into the event that you want. iMovie will prompt you to confirm and then move it.

At this point, you can remove them from iPhoto:

Go back to the iPhoto album you created that shows all of your movies.
Press ⌘+A to select all.
Press ⌘+⌥+delete to move them to the iPhoto trash.


Do the 'OS X Beta Seed Program' updates wipe your existing OS install?

"Upgrade in place" doesn't touch your data, in theory. However, I would always backup your data before installing, especially beta releases. It's not supposed to change your data, but that's not guaranteed, particularly in a beta release


Problem installing Mac OS X Lion on Mac Mini

If you don't have anything important on the box. I would reboot into Recovery Mode try installing Lion again.

If that fails then erase the hard-drive (back up any stuff you need to), and try to install Lion again on a clean drive. It should not hang for 3 hours plus on the install.


This is due to the nature of garbage collection technology used in Java. Freeing memory in such systems is delayed until some threshold reached, or out of memory happens, or some time passes. It is probably not using all those 700MB all the time (may as well be just 50 MB), but Activity Monitor has no way to look inside Java virtual machine and tell how much is actually used.

Normally, if there are no bugs or leaks (yes GC systems may leak too), Java should give up unused memory whenever your system runs out of it, so there is no need to worry right now. Said that, if you don't need the program, it won't hurt uninstalling whatever is starting it up.


How can I restore my iPod touch using a different computer?

To restore your device…

Put your device into Recovery mode

Turn the device off
Holding the home button, connect it to your computer.

iTunes should prompt to restore the device.
Follow the instructions.

If you have Find my iPhone enabled, you will need to log in to iCloud and remove the device from your account before you can restore it.


Photoshop CS3 won't install: Component Failed to Install

It turns out that my RAM was faulty. I replaced it and the install worked just fine.


How to prevent iOS from styling an emoji?

I think the problem is that iOS uses the Apple Color Emoji font for everything, and this font does not yet honor the mechanism for making characters text format.  The only way to get around that is to use css or similar means to force iOS to use a different font which only has text versions.


Do I need a screen protector for my new touch-screen smartphone?

No, I hate screenprotectors
Most of them really don't
There are certainly bad ones, that are hard to apply or peel off easily, I've even had one that would blur the screen
Only the ones that blur your screen ;-) They have a slightly matte finish so fingerprints won't be as obvious
Yes, yes, and yes.
I suggest you just replace them, they're not that expensive
I believe it is all stupid...

They just make you feel better. The glass on the new iPhone is incredibly difficult to scratch, and even the older ones hardly scratch at all. I suggest you stop caring so much about a little scratch, the device is supposed to be used. You'll hardly notice it if there even ARE tiny scratches.

If you want to protect it, what you really need to worry about is the thing breaking after you drop it, try a protective case instead. :-)


Just upgraded Mavericks server to 10.9.2 and my virtual hosts partially work

First, check permissions on everything.

Are the vhost directives all in one file or different files in the vhost directory?

Second, could we have a look at the virtual host directives?


Sorry to say that, you can't downgrade your iOS from 7.0.2 to previous iOS versions. Apple won't support this. Not only for iOS 7, but also from any iOS to its previous versions. As you have mentioned that you didn't have SHSH blobs and didn't jailbroken your iPhone, it's not possible to downgrade the OS of your iPhone.

But, you can make your OS faster in your iPhone. Refer this link and do the steps mentioned there to make your phone os speed.


The problem is your Dell DA300 adapter (I assume you mean this one, as the DA301 does not exist). This adapter requires DisplayPort 1.3/1.4 in order to drive 4k at 60 Hz, otherwise it drops down to 30 Hz. This is detailed in the manual for the DA300.

The MacBook Pro 13" 2018 does not have hardware support for DisplayPort 1.4, but only provided DisplayPort 1.2. Only the 15" model has hardware support for that. Similarly you monitor only supports DisplayPort 1.2.

The monitor however does have support for HDMI 2.0, which is the minimum version necessary to support 4k at 60 Hz. Sadly, HDMI 2.0 is not supported on USB-C. As this adapter is USB-C, it won't be able to input a HDMI 2.0 signal. Had it been a Thunderbolt 3 adapter, that would have been a possibility - but it is not.

You might notice that the adapter is advertised as HDMI 2.0. The way this works is that the adapter takes in the DisplayPort signal over USB-C and converts that to HDMI 2.0 itself. Obviously as we've just established that the DisplayPort signal in this case does not support 4k @ 60 Hz, then neither will it support that when converted into HDMI.

In order to achieve 4k at 60 Hz, you can just use an ordinary cable (i.e. not an adapter) from the Thunderbolt 3 port on the MacBook Pro to the DisplayPort port on the monitor.


If you are still looking for an answer I found one on Stack Overflow:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/777437/sopen-s-firmware-console-on-mac-osx-intel

It does not seem possible to do this.

The only thing you can install to get some kind of EFI boot menu options menu is rEFIt, which can be found here:

http://refit.sourceforge.net

I know it isn't the answer you were probably looking for but I hope that this answer at least helps you out.


Mail app correctly marks spam but does not move it to the junk mail folder

You need open the preferences window (command + ,)
Click on Junk Mail pane
Select: "Move it to the Junk mailbox (Automatic)"


Is there an application that executes commands on a server computer?

The only application I can think of is Mobile Mouse; its purpose is to use an iPone/iPod/iPad as mouse to control a Mac.

One of its features allows to have some icons on the iPod/iPhone that invoke some applications on the Mac; by default, the icons shown on the iPod/iPhone are the ones that appear in the Dock, but you can select a directory containing the applications or the scripts you want to execute.

The last screenshot shows the list of icons shown when I select a directory containing other directories; when you hover over an icon, the application shows the icon name, in the same way the Finder does. The icons with an indicator light are running applications.

The server application is available from the App Store, while the application for iOS is available from the iTunes App Store.


Can any iOS app remotely wake a sleeping MacBook Air when the lid is closed?

I have an Air that I leave in clamshell mode when it is at home.

I also have an AirPort router that connects it to the internet and have it set to have the Mac wake for Wi-Fi access in the Energy Saver system preference pane.

On iOS, I use the paid app Screens VNC app and configure it to use SSH.
On the Mac, I use the free Screens Connect app in conjunction with the also free Edovia remote location brokering service in case my router gets a new IP address. I don't really need that since I have a fixed IP address, but it simplifies setup and allows me to reach my Mac when it's not at home as well.

This setup works to wake my sleeping Air when I need to access my computer from any of my iOS devices through the internet.


Since the variable setting you want to achieve are both to be run
once only per session and not for every subshell, you have to place
their initialisation definition within .zprofile and not within .zshrc.

Here are the fixed version of your settings which should work:

# Anaconda3 2019.10
export PATH="/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/anaconda3/bin:${PATH}:/usr/local/bin"

Here my explanation is I bet you have 2 versions of anaconda the older one being located within /usr/local/bin.

# Setting gcc compiler
export PATH="/usr/local/gcc-9.2/bin:${PATH}"
export CC="/usr/local/gcc-9.2/bin/gcc"

Here my explanation is that the CC variable should contain not the PATH
where to find gcc but the exact pathname of the compiler.

If you want to check the correctness of your modifications, don't exit your session. Just enter in any terminal:

. ~/.zprofile


Macbook Pro - External monitors and harddrive

Yes, you can use a Thunderbolt 3 dock such as the OWC Thunderbolt 3 Dock or similar available from many different makers of docks.
That dock allows you to connect the two monitors and charge the Mac via one cable going from the Mac to the dock. The second port on the Mac is then used to power the external Thunderbolt 3 hard drive.
Alternatively you could connect one monitor and the Thunderbolt 3 hard drive to the dock, and connect those with one cable from the dock to the Mac. The second port on the Mac is then used to output a display signal to the second monitor.
Another option, if you haven't already got your monitors, is to buy Thunderbolt 3 monitors with daisy-chaining. These will allow you to connect both monitors and the external drive to a single Thunderbolt 3 chain that will use up only a single port on your Mac.
Note: Not all monitors support daisy-chaining. Also note that if you have a DisplayPort monitor that support daisy-chaining - it can be part of the chain, but it must be the last device in the chain.


Ecler NUO 2 mixer connected to MacBook Pro?

The short answer: not without additional hardware.

To control Serato Scratch Live, you have to feed your computer some specially encoded signals from some special LPs that they produce. You need to buy Scratch Live, two or more of their special LPs (one for each deck) and then a special box like the Rane SL 2 for Scratch Live that sits between your mixer's mains output and your computer. This box converts the analog signal from the mixer (which, with the special Scratch Live LPs is not something you should try to listen to -- it's not human-friendly and can damage your speakers and hearing) in to a digital signal that Scratch Live uses to match the playback of audio on the computer, to the rotation of the LPs on your decks.


How can I preserve BCC information from iOS Mail?

This also occurs with other mail clients on Gmail account.

After a bit of googling, it appears the issue has existed for years, and is likely related to Gmail behaviour with SMTP and IMAP. My guess is that Google create the “Sent Messages” entry from what the SMTP server gets in its DATA command, and discard anything a mail client may want to save through IMAP. Doesn’t seem it will be changed anytime soon.

If this is a rare occurrence, you may want to log into gmail.com when you need to send a message with BCC. If this happens more often, you may want to use the Gmail app or another Gmail specific client.


My knee-jerk thought is insufficient power to supply both monitors (hence why connecting either singularly works without issue).  I know the default for those monitors is bus-powered, do they have an option for an external power supply?  Or can you try then through a powered USB hub?


You could try doing an upgrade install of OS X from the recovery partition. It should replace preinstalled frameworks and applications with the initial versions but keep user files and settings in place. I have done it twice so far and it solved multiple issues both times, so I have started to recommend it as a troubleshooting step here, even though no-one ever does it.

Another way to restore the directories for Safari or frameworks might be to copy them from a VM.


How to know if Drive is SSD or HDD through Terminal?

A very dirty solution ;-) : Enter system_profiler | grep "Media Type: SSD" in Terminal.app.

A more detailed approach is system_profiler SPSerialATADataType and you'll get all devices attached to your SATA interfaces with - beyond other informations - the Medium Type which may be Rotational or SSD.
By adding -xml > ~/Desktop/MyReport.spx you will get a XML-file on your desktop which can be opened by System Information.app.


My iPhone 4s has gotten stuck in 'Reset and Erase All' mode for hours

If you prefer to have a flowchart to narrow down the cause of why an iOS device won't restore, try this assistant:

http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/assistant/restore/

If you prefer to have a list of steps, this article should help:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

Sadly, there are many, many reasons why restores fail, some are antivirus software being too protective, some are computer problems, some are hardware problems and others are missing drivers or just bad timing.

Once you narrow down which exact step fails in the lists above, you can ask a new question if you continue to have issues restoring your iPhone. More than 30 minutes usually means there is a problem that will prevent a good restore from finishing.


How do I save a document as .doc in Pages 5.2 not .docx?

To save Pages document as .doc (compatible with Word 1997-2004), You need to: File -> Export to -> Word..., open "Advanced options" and pick .doc.

Here's article on OSXDaily about that: http://osxdaily.com/2014/08/06/save-pages-file-as-word-format/

Image from their site:


Script to run Adobe Update Remote Manager as Launch Daemon at Boot without MDM

Since the launchd plist is in /Library/LaunchDaemons/ it's going to be run as root. Given that, you don't need to call sudo as your first program argument, nor do you need it in the shell script. Also, it's good practice to use full paths in program arguments so /bin/sh instead of sh.

That's all just housekeeping though. What I find interesting is that it works when you are logged in as a user but does not work when launchd runs it upon load during restarting. The launchd.plist man page section for RunAtLoad has this little warning:

  This key should be avoided, as speculative job launches have an adverse effect on system- boot and user-login scenarios.

For that reason I avoid using RunAtLoad true for root level launchd tasks. I suspect what you're seeing is that the system is not ready to run RemoteUpdateManager at the moment when launchd loads your plist.

RunAtLoad is awfully handy, though, so you may have to stick with it, but I'd play around other mechanisms to tell launchd when to run your script. You could try using StartInterval 60 or something to give the system 60 seconds to fully spin up after loading the plist. That assumes your maintenance window is at least 60 seconds long plus whatever time is needed by your script. An alternative could potentially be to use StartCalendarInterval but you'd want to be very sure that the maintenance window is rigidly defined in time and not cancellable by your users.

You could also keep RunAtLoad and use KeepAlive with SuccessfulExit true to make launchd keep trying to run your script until it successfully exits. It's not an elegant solution but it may work. If you're doing this make sure to set your ThrottleInterval to something reasonable or else launchd will complain mercilessly if the task is permanently failing.

The last thing to keep in mind is that your plist is going to cause your shell script to be run at EVERY restart. You should incorporate some mechanism in your shell script to detect if you're in a maintenance period and exit 0 if not.


How to add a guest public ssh key for remote access?

Have them give you their public key, e. g. id_rsa.pub.  Add that to the end of your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file (e.g. by running cat id_rsa.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys in Terminal).


How to Determine What's Using Filling GPU's Video Memory?

There is a tool available to check a lot of graphic card parameters: OpenGL Drive Monitors

You may download it at Apple developer. You need a developer account though. Search for "Graphics Tools" and then download "Graphics Tools for Xcode - Xcode 6.1". Open the .dmg and copy "OpenGL Drive Monitors" to your Application folder.

You can't track down graphic memory usage of individual apps though.

Screenshot:


Finally solved, just posting as it might help others:

The problem: my home directory was in root folder.
So it was to be moved to /Users folder or some other drive.

I moved mine to /Users folder: Just drag and drop home folder with home icon to /Users folder. After copying is complete, log out and log in to some other administrative user (create a new user if not existing one).

Then take Users & Groups, click on "Click the lock to make changes". Enter your password.

Then right click the on the user you want to change the home folder, then take Advanced options.

The click on "Choose" for the Home directory. Then select your new home folder location.

Then save it and reboot to your user. Check everything is working fine.
Then upgrade to catalina.

And one more thing i just want to notify is that my old home folder was automatically vanished after catalina upgrade without manual delete. So take care of your old data.


.plist returns: Invalid property list, plutil says ok!

Because it would be more difficult to post this in a comment I'm posting it as an answer, although it may not be the right one.

I took your command line while using Lingon X to create the .plist file, here is how it parsed the command line, which is different from yours.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>name</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>sshfs</string>
        <string>-o</string>
        <string>allow_other,defer_permissions</string>
        <string>user@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/home/user/</string>
        <string>/Users/user/Desktop/Website/</string>
        <string>-o</string>
        <string>reconnect</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

You'll note that while I used the command line you have in your question it didn't include the path to sshfs, you might have to add that back. The other thing it did different is each string in the array holds the information up to but not including the spaces between the arguments.  Maybe this makes a difference.  Can't say since I can't test your command line however it's worth a try using the format Lingon X created.


How to know where and when my iphone was bought?

I don't know of a public tool for looking this up. However, if you befriend an Apple Genius, I know that the system they use for creating tickets allows them to view the purchase date and sales channel it was purchased through. However, there is no way to tell direct location (i.e. Best Buy on Main Street in St. Paul), only the channel (i.e. Best Buy).

You can also deduce the purchase date yourself by going to Apple's Check Your Service and Support Coverage page. If you locate the expiration date for repair coverage, subtract a year from that to identify original purchase date. If AppleCare was purchased, subtract an extra year.


Understanding RAM and Disk Space when using Windows on a Mac?

If you run Parallels off a disk image, you can expand that partition to as much disk space as you have available. All it requires is shutting down the VM. As far as I know you can't shrink a disk image.

If you're running Parallels off a Boot Camp partition, it's possible in some cases to expand that partition later on, using third party tools. This depends on how the other partitions on the disk are set up (typically a partition can be expanded to fill free space after it, but you can't change the starting point on the disk).

How much RAM you allocate can be changed using Parallels. You simply shut down the VM, change the setting in Parallels and restart. This doesn't change whether you're using a disk image or a Boot Camp partition, but it's worth pointing out that if you boot from the Boot Camp partition (not in Parallels), that's running Windows directly and it will use all the RAM available to the system, like any other laptop.

The RAM allocated to your VM is only "used" when the VM is running. If you shut down Parallels, OS X can use the full amount in your system.

How you allocate disk space and RAM depends on what you're doing with your VM, and what you expect to be doing with OS X while that VM is running. Think of it as configuring a whole new computer - you need a quantity of hard drive space and RAM sufficient for the tasks at hand. The easy part is that you can (mostly) change your mind later on if you guess wrong with a VM.


Excel 2011 Opens Spreadsheet As Read-Only

Does your file name contain a /? For example, if you take thisfile.xlsx, and make it into this/file.xlsx, it will only open as read only. I verified this on my own Mac.


Easy way to toggle some settings on iPhone

Yes if you run iOS 5.0 and not upgrading to iOS 5.1.

For the majority of us, this means no since OS older than 5.0 don't have this and it was disabled at 5.1 and later. Who knows what the future may bring...

For historical purposes, here is how this worked on 5.0:

Apple apparently has silently added URL shortcuts for these sort of quick functions to iOS 5.0. Jeff Broderick (blog at http://brdrck.me/ ) has assembled a nice dashboard of these shortcuts with gorgeous icons to save the web clips to the home screen of your iOS device.

Simply browse your iOS device to http://brdrck.me/settings/ and pick from the many web clips that he has assembled. These are basically the same as taking a web site in the iPhone configuration utility and adding it to your home screen with a nice icon.

This could be something that was meant for testing or will get pulled according to some rumors about the latest 5.1 beta - but there's no way to know what will happen other than waiting until official documentation comes out or this change gets pulled / disabled.


No keyboard backlight until password entered

When FileVault is enabled it encrypts everything on the SSD and doesn't allow even the computer to have access to that data until you enter your password. Including the software that loads during startup which would normally activate the backlighting on your keyboard and the touch-bar.

After you enter your password on startup the decryption process begins and all of those necessary pieces of software start to load. Making your keyboard backlight turn on and your touch-bar activate.

Here are your 2 choices:

Accept it and remain using FileVault (my recommendation)
Turn off FileVault (which I really do not recommend)


External drive's files not showing, but I know it has been half-filled with data. It works fine on Ubuntu but not on macOS?

On extra checking macos should be able to Read ntfs but not write. But this solution should still work

If you have removed paragon then you have removed the programs that can convert binary data on the disk into something macos understands. Thus you need something like paragon for macos to read it

Now Ubuntu includes the programs to convert the binary data to something Linux can read. So gives a possible solution.

I think the solutions are

restore from a backup not under ntfs eg from you cloud backup. You should always have something like that if you use a Computer
Use paragon or something like that to read the data.
Boot into Ubuntu or Windows and copy the data to another drive formatted in a way that Linux or Windows and macos can read  I think that has to be exFat. Copy the data onto this drive. Or copy to a network file server  or cloud based server. Then reboot into macos and copy the data from the exfat partition.


How to restrict "Remote Login" (ssh) access to only certain IP ranges?

From man sshd:

/etc/hosts.allow
/etc/hosts.deny
Access controls that should be enforced by tcp-wrappers are defined here.
Further details are described in hosts_access(5).

https://debian-administration.org/article/87/Keeping_SSH_access_secure offers these examples:

# /etc/hosts.allow
sshd: 1.2.3.0/255.255.255.0
sshd: 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0

# /etc/hosts.deny
sshd: ALL

The TCP wrapper program in Mac OS X is: tcpd


Can I restore pre-Mavericks power key behavior?

Since Mac OS 10.9.2 you can go back to something close to the pre-Mavericks behavior easily.

Type in terminal:
defaults write com.apple.loginwindow PowerButtonSleepsSystem -bool no

It's not exactly the same, since you still need to press the button for 1 sec. But if you press the button accidentally, the shut down dialog is not going to appear.

Note: if you want to go back to the Mavericks behavior, juste change no to yes.


How do I uninstall a program completely on a Mac?

You can use this free app:
AppCleaner
(Synium used to offer CleanApp, but the product has been discontinued. You can still download a demo version which supports OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion up to macOS 10.14 Mojave.)


Don't show a particular user account on the login page

Both in 10.7 and 10.6 you will need their shortname then just run this command in Terminal.app

$ sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList -array-add user1 user2 user3

To remove them from the hidden user list:

$ sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow HiddenUsersList


How can I prevent Keynote from storing files in iCloud?

Go to System Preferences > iCloud > iCloud Drive and click on the Options... button.

In the Documents section, uncheck the Keynote.app (and any other app you don't want) to stop it from saving in iCloud:


Why can't I create a directory under /opt without sudo?

Only the root user can write to the root of the file system. So, it is safe to assume that the /opt directory is owned by root. The default umask would make that directory read, write, and executable to the owner;
read and executable to the group; read and executable to others/everyone.

If you use sudo mkdir /opt/bupo the directory would be owned by the root user.


Configure the OS X Server from .pkg postinstall script

The automating of server.app components is quite trivial since you can use serveradmin to do the heavy lifting.

  sudo serveradmin start web;

Asking a service to start if it's already running is harmless/idempotent.

To fork between the Apache configured by the Server.app and the "normal state" do the following:

if serverinfo -q --software; then
   cp product.conf /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/other
   serveradmin stop web
   serveradmin start web
else
   cp product.conf /etc/apache2/other
   launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
   apachectl stop #if already started
   apachectl start
fi


Is there any network monitor software with a notification area icon?


How can I listen to just part of a single song, or just skip some time?

If you have access to a Mac, you can right-click the song, then go into Get Info → Options, where you can then set both Start and Stop times.

These preferences will propagate to your iOS devices next time you synchronize them to your iTunes Music Library. If you subscribe to iTunes in the Cloud (via iTunes Match or MUSIC), that will be done over the air.

This is a persistent modification that will apply every time you listen to that song (until you reset the Start and Stop times).


Disk Is Full Error When Copying Large Folders Onto Empty HDD

I figured it out! It was a pesky icloud issue. Some files within the gigantic 160GB folder I was trying to transfer were not downloaded to my Mac's internal SSD disk, and instead were stored in icloud. When transferring the files, it appears that icloud must first download the files onto the internal SSD, and then once downloaded it will copy to the external HDD. The issue was that I barely had any space left on my Mac's internal SSD (only 52 mb!), so when I tried copying the large folder onto the external HDD, it would fail to download the files stored in icloud because my SSD only had 52mb left.
I suppose when the error message says "The operation can't be completed because the disk is full", Apple is saying that the disk is the SSD, and that icloud failed to download the files from the cloud before the transfer. Very misleading error message since I definitely thought disk was referring to the external HDD!


What could I use to read epub books on OS X?

Calibre

ePubRead Firefox Addon

Crossplatform Sony book reader

Mac OS X Port of FBReader

Adobe Digital Editions


Launch "Printer Setup Utility" from terminal

If you examine using ps the command launched by Printer Setup or when adding a printer through System Preferences, you'll note that it includes a -psn qualifier that directs the application as to the "process serial number" to use to communicate with the application. This effectively tells it how to connect and launch the windows necessary for the calling user/process and it's used for identifying various processes and instances of executables.

Unfortunately its unclear how -- or even if -- you'd actually use this to launch from the command line as its usage is normally invoked from within another calling application using system calls and it seems to imply that you need to create certain "Process Identification Constraints" as part of the call out.

Much of this seems to be marked up in Apple's online documentation as being Deprecated in OS X v10.9 so I'm not sure what to make of this or how to direct you for using it as Apple seems to be advising against the sorts of systems calls that utilize it moving forward. I'd expect to see the sort of calling mechanisms going away in future versions of OS X.

Further information is available at:

https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Process_Manager/Reference/reference.html

and

https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/documentation/Carbon/Reference/Process_Manager/Reference/reference.html#//apple_ref/doc/constant_group/Process_Identification_Constants

While I realize this doesn't resolve your issue, it does explain the behavior your observing and the reason why you're not getting the expected UI launching.


Mini-DP is not meant to go in either way up, it's strictly a one-way-up connection - like USB, not like Lighting.

If you made it fit upside down, then excessive force was used & the socket is distorted.

Ref: Wikipedia - Mini DisplayPort


You can reset your user password directly from your MacBook Air.

Resetting password from Recovery Mode

To reset your password from Recovery Mode, follow these steps:

Power off your Mac
Boot into Recovery Mode by pressing the power button while holding down CommandR
If prompted, select your language and press enter
Choose Utilities > Terminal.
Enter resetpassword (all one word, lowercase letters)
Press Return
Select the drive with your account (typically the main drive)
Choose your account using Select the User Account.
Enter a new password
Re-enter the same password
Enter a password hint
Click Save
Ignore the warning about the password changing
Click OK.
Shutdown the Mac using Apple > Shut Down
Restart the Mac normally and use the new password to log into your account

Let me know how you go or if I misunderstood your question.


As there's no answer to this, in the new El Capitan there is a slight opacity (although not to see through). However, they have now given us the ability to move spotlight which solves my original issue.

If anyone has a way to replicate this functionality (or my original functionality) in earlier version, please post; but for now, this is your only answer.


No, you can't do this without jailbreaking.

http://www.pocketables.com/2013/02/accessory-review-apple-lightning-to-usb-camera-adapter-for-ipad.html

No, you cannot transfer any arbitrary files.  you cannot transfer documents, txt, source, etc; you can only transfer images and videos.


How do I remove or disable the Photos app in El Capitan?

UPDATE: I have unselected my answer because an icon-less and half-working (see screenshot) version of Photos.app appeared on my system and opened automatically on SD-card insert.  This worked and did not cause problems for months, and now Photos is back

El Capitan has a new feature called System Integrity Protection. It does not allow the deletion of preinstalled apps.  This link gives details for disabling it.  The short of it is:

Restart and hold Command+R to go into recovery mode.  Open "Terminal", found in the "Utilities menu" and use the commands

$ csrutil disable; reboot

to disable SIP and reboot.  Now open Terminal.app normally and do

$ cd /Applications/
$ sudo rm -Rf Photos.app

and live happily ever after.

A few caveats: I don't know what SIP does specifically, but this post suggests you should at least re-enable it right away (and perhaps not disable it at all, ever).  Go ahead and do that by using the command

$ csrutil enable; reboot

in Recovery mode (see above).  I also don't know whether El Capitan has Photos.app-dependent system processes or not, so your mac may potentially not work the way you want it after this.  I have protected myself by first Archiving Photos.app and leaving Photos.app.zip in /Applications/, but again, I don't even know if this is good enough.  So proceed at your own peril!

Finally, this will work to get rid of any bundled system app (but the same or more severe warnings apply).


Is there "danger" in removing Macintosh HD from my Time Machine as a back up? I want to use Seagate Backup Plus Drive

None of the items in the "Exclude these items from backups" will be backed up. Usually only the backup volume (i.e. the Seagate Backup Plus Drive) itself is in the list.

So including Macintosh HD in the above list is counterproductive if you want to backup Macintosh HD.


Display facebook profile pictures full size on call

I am still learning iPhone development so hopefully someone more knowledgeable pitches in on this idea surrounding phone calls and pictures and makes it known to the Facebook Dev. Team that the sync is not how people expect it, I ran this experiment:

Go to a contact
Edit the contact
Edit the photo (Don't Move or Scale just tap Choose)

Now when you try, though the picture is the same, it is maximized to the edges of the screen. Though if you have huge friend lists 500+ , it could a lot of data though going through the sync (so maybe getting the high quality version may not be a good idea). Also notice the edited photo is not saved in your Photo Library. So I am thinking that where "Facebook Sync" saves the photo is different from where edited Photos are stored.

I dont know if this is a restriction/security with the OS SDK such that pictures saved from apps for contacts are stored differently than those taken via the Camera or the Photo Library.


My AirPort Extreme Base Station will not power on. No lights appear. I have tried all the recommended resets.

Yes. Unless you can test connectivity of the LAN ports to see that it's powering up, but it's not much use if it doesn't boot or let you hook up an ethernet cable and re-configure it.


How to disable "iCloud Storage is Full" Messages on OS X

As far as I'm aware, these are the only ways to turn off this message:

Turn off iCloud Backup
Free up some space in iCloud
Turn on Do Not Disturb
Pay the money to upgrade

All the Google searches and discussions on Reddit, Apple and other websites indicate that there is no other way. However I'm trying to reproduce the issue to see if it can be solved via the command line.

Until then, or until someone else comes up with a working procedure, assume the above is the only answer.


A simple reboot may purge some of this. /var is generally for variable files (caches, logs, etc). You can check to see which process is using the file before deleting, if it is indeed open. There are a number of ways to do this via the terminal.

After a little research I found this gem of an article, What is "/var/folders"?.


Is there an app that will convert a movie to an image sequence?

You can also use ffmpeg:

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -r 0.05 image_sequence%06d.png

-r 0.05 = 0.05 Hz = 3 images per minute. It sometimes includes a few extra frames from the start though. Without -r it saves every frame.


How do I turn off notifications from the home screen of my iPhone in iOS 9?

Those are not notifications, those are apps that are suggested by iOS due to location and usage, or by Handoff from your other devices.

To change the settings for those, change the toggles in General > Handoff & Suggested Apps in the Settings app. Toggle everything off if you do not use Handoff and do not want to see any suggestions.


Opinion-based this may be… however, there's a slightly new paradigm with the M1 "Hard disk" storage configuration.
It is so fast that it makes additional RAM less useful than it was in the past. This is because it is now part of the same chip, rather than having to be accessed over a bus system to another component.
Received wisdom if you have to choose between the two is to go for more "SSD" storage rather than more RAM, as paging is now almost instantaneous.
Another consideration is that once chosen, it can never be changed, so don't come up short on storage, unless you want to be carrying round an external drive for the next few years.
Having said that, no-one can choose for you, you have to finally make your own call ;)
I shall be using this same received wisdom in a week's time, when the Apple Store opens orders for me to buy a new iMac. Right now, I'm going to be going for 512GB or 1TB "SSD" & possibly only 8GB RAM, depending on pricing [which I cannot see just yet].


iOS 5.1.1 is the last version of iOS you can run on a first-generation iPad.


Stop my iPhone from receiving screen shots and other images sent via SMS?

Try disabling "MMS Messaging" in your Settings app in the Messages settings.


how to remove full my GMail "archive" for Apple Mail?

If you don't have other accounts in Mail.app, simply delete the entire contents of ~/Library/Mail/

If you do have other accounts and only want to remove your Gmail account, open the V2 folder inside the above path, and delete the folder relevant to the particular account that you want removed.


Any shortcut to go to user account window?

If you are trying to bring up the Login Window via a keyboard shortcut the answer is, there is not a default keyboard shortcut to invoke the Login Window. However one can create an Automator Service which can then have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it.

The problem with that method is finding a globally responsive keyboard shortcut that will trigger without interference and work consistently regardless of what has focus when the keyboard short is triggered. In some cases it may be advantageous to use a third-party app, e.g Karabiner, to accomplish the task.

What I'm presenting here is a command that can be executed, a number of different ways, and incorporated into an Automator Service and or an AppleScript Application, etc.

As an Automator Service, all that is required is adding a Run Shell Script Action with the command. You might also be able to use the command in conjunction with a third-party app that can be triggered by a keyboard shortcut.

Personally, whenever applicable, I like to use an AppleScript Application because I can trigger it using Spotlight or place it on the Dock, etc. It may be a few extra keystrokes however for me it just works better and I avoid what can be problematic with trying to assign an Automator Service a global keyboard shortcut.

The command that will invoke the Login Window is:

As a Terminal command and or a Run Shell Script Action in Automator:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

In AppleScript the command is:

do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend"

If you'd like to switch directly to a different user you can use the following command as an example.

As a Terminal command and or a Run Shell Script Action in Automator:

/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -switchToUserID 502

In AppleScript the command is:

do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -switchToUserID 502"

My primary login User ID ($UID) is 501 and I have a Test Account which has a $UID of 502. So the above command enables me to invoke Fast User Switching to my Test Account using Spotlight (Command-Space) and the AppleScript app named TA.app. It is the top hit in Spotlight so if I type Command-Space-T-A-Enter I get my Test Account Login Window quickly and easily.

So with the commands provided, you should be able to utilize what's appropriate to your needs/wants to code with in a much easier way then the code you've shown in your question.

Note: Make note of the double-backslash in the AppleScript do shell script command line to escape the space in the shell command line vs. the single-backslash as a normal command in Terminal.


How to run custom AppleScript in the background at all times?

In my opinion, the best way to do it is by using Apple's own task scheduler: launchd, because you don't need to install third-party software. First, the theory: to run a script from the command line, you just run:

osascript /PATH/TO/YOUR/script.scpt

Knowing this, all you have to do is create a plist file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ with this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>air-mail-beta.job</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/bin/osascript</string>
        <string>/PATH/TO/YOUR/SCRIPT</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

The name of the plist file doesn't matter, but it should be in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/. Also, make sure to change /PATH/TO/YOUR/SCRIPT accordingly.

Finally, you just need to tell launchd that you want this script to always run. To do that, you just do:

launchctl load -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/NAME-OF-YOUR-PLIST.plist

and you're done! If it looks like the script didn't start, you can do this:

 launchctl start air-mail-beta.job

where air-mail-beta.job is the property under <key>label</key> that we've set in the plist file.

Finally, should you ever need to disable the script, don't forget to unload it with:

launchctl unload -w ~/Library/LaunchAgents/NAME-OF-YOUR-PLIST.plist

I know this solution is more technical, but trust me, that's a better way to deal with your issue. If you have any question, just ask!


To get around this I have added the letters FT to a contacts last name eg "Surname FT"  then all I need to do is search for  "FT" and there I have a list in alphabetical order of all contacts I can FaceTime!

So, create a new message, add all contacts, take note of which ones are blue, and add FT to the end of their surname eg. "Surname FT".  Now when you want to FaceTime someone Type FT into the search bar and presto! You have your list. Hope this is helpful, enjoy :-)


If it is not a temporary disable ( due to incorrect passcode attempts), and is permanent, there's nothing you can do except restoring it from a backup or resetting it.

This help article clearly says that iTunes is required (either on a Mac or on a PC) to do so whether it is a friend's or apple store's.

The current data cannot be backed up but if you have a cloud backup, it can be used to restore it.


OSX VM running 10.10 on a machine running 10.12?

Yes - we do this sort of virtualization all the time at work. We use VMware Fusion, but Parallels is also quite good and some prefer it over Fusion.

Most people are licensed for non-commercial use of 2 virtual OS per copy when running on Mac hardware as part of the normal EULA:

https://www.apple.com/legal/sla/

For commercial purposes, you'll want to work with your legal and/or licensing team so they know what you've set up.


From iTunes Store on your computer…

Right click the app in 'your device' > My Apps

Right click & select 'Show in iTunes Store'

Click the right of the Downloaded button & choose your 'share' method

or
From your phone…

Go to App Store > Updates > My Purchases > All

Tap the app you want to share [not the Open or Cloud button]

Top right is the share button

No affiliation to the app used to demonstrate - I just liked the colours ;)


How can I change the Google search locale with OS X Lion Safari 5

From a few articles I found, it sounds like this isn't directly supported in Safari.

However, there is a Safari extension that will redirect google.com to google.co.uk and should take care of your problem. (This is a simple extension, using the built-in mechanism, and not a plugin.)


New mac - installed tmux but can't use mouse in for pane switching

Turned out I was using tmux with the basic mac terminal app.

It mostly worked but a few things didn't.  The mouse functionality is an example.

The answer was that I needed to download and use iterm2 as the actual terminal app to use tmux with.

Once I did this my tmux mouse settings worked fine with it.


How to change the default location of the screen shot?

You can change this with a bash command.

Open the Terminal Application and enter this:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Pictures/

And change '~/Pictures/' to your preferred Location. For example, if you have in your User folder a Folder named 'screenshots' then change the command to:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/screenshots/

Press enter to execute command
Next: Enter: killall SystemUIServerto reinitialize the 'SystemUIServer' to adopt changes

For more information check out: oxdaily


No, Launchpad is limited to 28 items in a folder. There does not appear to be an implemented method for scrolling a folder in Launchpad.

Launchpad Manager won't allow me to put more than 28 items in a folder either.


You can install Yosemite on an encrypted partition. To use encryption, you also have to use core storage. If you do not use encryption, then the use of core storage is optional. If you encrypt after installing without core storage, then a conversion to core storage will take place. Fusion drives require the use of core storage. Yosemite can only be installed on a partition that is case insensitive. Personally, I have avoided using core storage. I do not see any advantages to using it unless you have to.


Sleep after lid close and power indicator not functioning after PRAM and SMC reset

The process outlined in the article you linked to is incorrect for your MacBook Pro.

For your particular model of MacBook Pro, you really should follow this process to reset the SMC:

Shut down your Mac
Unplug the power cable from your Mac
For 10 seconds, press and hold at the same time the shiftcontroloption keys (on the left side of the built-in keyboard) and the power button
After 10 seconds let go of all keys and the power button
Plug in the power cable
Turn your Mac back on with the power button.

I would try doing this and testing to see if that resolves your issues.

[EDIT]

Since resetting the SMC didn't resolve the issue, it's also worth trying a few more troubleshooting steps.

Resetting the NVRAM

Older Macs had what's called Parameter RAM (PRAM), newer Macs use Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory (NVRAM). It may be worth you also resetting this. There's a couple of ways you can do this, but for your model I recommend the following steps:

Shut down your machine. Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out.
Press the power button and then press the commandoptionpr keys. You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work.
Hold those keys down until your Mac reboots again (i.e. a 2nd time) and you here the startup chime.
Let go of the keys and let your Mac reboot normally.

Note: When you log back in you may need to readjust some of your system preferences (e.g. speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection, time zone information, etc).

Now test the MBP for a change in its behaviour. If you're still experiencing problems, then try booting into Safe Mode.

Boot into Safe Mode

Follow these steps to boot your Mac into Safe Mode:

Fully shut down your Mac
Restart your Mac
Immediately press the Shift key and keep it down
Let go of the Shift key when you see the login window (NOTE: If you have FileVault enabled you may need to log in twice).
Take a note of what happens (i.e. is the power indicator working, does it go to sleep when closing the lid, etc)
Now exit Safe Mode by restarting your Mac as normal
Test the MBP again to see if there's any change in its behaviour.

If the problem is still persistent in Safe Mode, then we should test your hardware with Apple Hardware Test.

Run Apple Hardware Test

Your model MBP uses Apple Hardware Test. To use this, follow these steps:

Shut down your MacBook Pro
Restart your MacBook Pro
Press and hold the D key before the gray startup screen appears.
After a while, Apple Hardware Test (AHT) will start.
When prompted, select your language and click the right arrow.
When the AHT console appears, you can choose to run Basic tests by clicking the Test button. However, I suggest you select the "Perform extended testing" checkbox before you click the Test button.
Your test results will appear in the window in the bottom-right of the console.

Note 1: that the extended test will take some time. Take a note of the results and report back.

Note 2: If pressing and holding the D key at Step 3 doesn't work, start again at Step 1 and, at Step 3 press and hold both the OptionD keys instead. This will try and run diagnostics from the internet instead, so you will need to allow more time for it to complete.


Can I limit Gmail auto-retrieval on an iPhone?

If you have setup your Gmail using Google Sync (as an Exchange account) then it is doable. If you'd like to do this follow these instructions:

Set up Google Sync with your iOS device

There are other benefits to this such as Exchange-like calendar pushing and proper push support for mail.

Then, go to the Settings app and under Mail, Contacts, Calendars select the account you want to limit the retrieval of mail for.

Underneath the sliders that enable the components of the account (e.g. contacts, calendars or mail) you will have the following option

Mail Days to Sync
Mail Folders to Push

The first of these is what you want. If set to 2 weeks then only the last 2 weeks of mail is synced with your phone.

I prefer however to have No Limit with this option and choose to limit which folders get synced (with the second option). If you keep a tidy inbox and archive mail to folders then this can be a sensible way forward.


Updating to the latest version of the Logitech Control Center fixed the issue.
http://support.logitech.com/software/logitech-control-center-for-macintosh-os-x


It's still there. At the very least, you can manually connect to your Time Capsule by browsing to it in the finder. You'll then have access to all the backups, and you can manually browse your old hard drive and restore things by copying them over from your home folder.


App Store sometimes can't install, iCloud icon instead of INSTALL icon

The cloud symbol means that the app is associated with your account and has been previously installed using your Apple ID (on any of your devices). If you tap on it the app should start to download to your phone.

You may be prompted for your Apple ID password though. If so, without the password you'd be unable to install apps whether they are associated your account already or not.

If so you can go to the link below to try to recover your Apple ID password.

http://iforgot.apple.com


Why does my iPhone select a random song when I connect my headphones?

This bug was introduced in iOS 10, and the same thing happens when you ask Siri to “play music,” or even if you pull up the Control Center’s playback controls.

If you Pause, then Resume only a short while later, the app remembers where you were. But leave it be for an hour or two, and it will forget. At that point it will try to shuffle your entire library when you start music playback.

If you open the Music app, it will suddenly remember which song or playlist you were playing last, and you can Play from there.

Until Apple fixes it, I’m afraid that’s the only workaround.

Edit: I haven’t encountered this issue since iOS 10.1.1.


Can I stop predictive typing from suggesting emojis?

I've found a workaround in this apple discussions thread from 2016:

go to:

Settings > General > Keyboard > Keyboards > Edit > Delete Emoji.

this will remove emojis from your keyboard, and as somebody commented, will also change the predictions.

and a quote from another person, more recent comment from feb '17:

  I have discovered a solution however, install GBoard - Googles
  keyboard. You can turn of emoji suggestions in settings and it's
  significantly quicker. Also the glide function works well.


How to create TOC style icon files to use with Option startup screen

This is a project I looked at some time back.
I’m pretty sure you need to start with the 1024x1024 size, and the system will scale it as needed.
There are programs (apps) out there like IconEdit etc, although that one may be a bit old now, that creates the proper file type.
Edit: I’m pretty sure the images or at least their names are stored in a control file that is read to find the appropriate image.


using multiple emails in the mail app and sending texts to that app as well

No. All SMS, MMS and iMessages are all collected in Messages.app. All email is, by default, put in Mail.app. There isn't any built-in way to merge the two.

That being said, there is some flexibility to view multiple inboxes in Mail.app. While in Mail.app, go back to Mailboxes screen and select All Inboxes. You will see all the email messages from all of your accounts in a unified view.


How to force a readonly volume to remount as read-write?

I have to do the following from the command line to get a USB drive to mount read/write:

diskutil list
sudo diskutil unmount /dev/disk2s1 <- (put your volume/partition in here)
cd /Volumes
sudo mkdir <FOLDER_NAME>
sudo mount -w -t msdos /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/<FOLDER_NAME>

This is with a FAT32 formatted USB stick. Not sure why, but my Mac will only mount these read only when they automount, only started happening recently. Reformatting does not resolve it, even formatting in a macOS native filesystem gives me the same issue. This is happening on multiple USB sticks after many reformats and reboots.

The problem is that I have to do that each time I remove the drive and want to plug it back in.


No covers after copying shared iTunes songs

My experience:  there are 2 ways that itunes associates art work with songs:

one is in the "Album Artwork" folder in itunes.  this can be updated from inside itunes in the menus.  these images stay in a folder and get some soft association with the music files.
the other method is added manually with the gui, cutting and pasting.  these get added into the mp3 file.

it seems to me that i've tried to xfer the album artwork folder different ways before, but it doesn't work unless you copy the whole itunes setup.


How can I determine which App is Hijacking / Disabling my Option-Enter combo?

The problem was an extra keyboard that I had enabled: Unicode Hex Input. I had definitely forgotten about it. I would do something (not sure what, don't really care) to switch to this keyboard and when this keyboard is active the Option-Enter does not work.

I removed this keyboard from my list of Input Sources: System Preferences -> Keyboard, Input Sources Tab. Problem solved, no longer able to switch to this.

Below is a screenshot of my Keyboard Preference Pane on the Input Sources Tab.

Note: The oval is where the Unicode source was. When there are multiple sources the minus button (bottom left arrow) is active to remove the currently selected source. Also I have Show Input menu in menu bar checked - there will be no menu bar item if you have only one source.


When can we expect upgrade of 13" macbook pro?

MacRumors expects a new MacBook Pro soon (this April, probably). It will use Intel's new Sandy Bridge architectures.


My experience is to check the font in ‘font book’ one by one on preview display mode ⌘+1.
Just use up arrow and down arrow to quick check fonts.
If you find some font like the picture below ,delete it then reinstall may help.


There is no way to have a flashlight on while taking a photo unless probably jailbroken.

The easiest solution is to just turn on flash in the camera app (tap the little lightning symbol --> tap on).


iTunes won't sync music library back to iPhone 6 or 5

Many users have reported this problem with syncing music on iOS 8. The following steps can be taken to Sync the music back onto your iPhone.

• Uncheck “sync music” in iTunes

• Delete Music (General > Usage > Manage Storage)

• Re-check “sync music”

• Sync

I did this and also had to make sure, under the Summary tab in iTunes that "Sync only checked songs & videos" AND "Manually manage music & videos" were checked. ONLY then did it sync successfully.


This is kind of a wild guess / work around but its something to try. Set up VNC aka screen sharing on your mac mini. Log in from another mac /computer , while the TV is off, and set the resolution while no display is attached. If you set that resultion to one that is the same as your attached TV, then when your TV powers on there should be no screen re-size after effects. This would effectively set the default no display resolution if such a thing exists.


Without realizing the time it would take to complete, I issued the command sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb . What happens if I kill the process?

No. It just runs find command in the background to collect all file names and then it creates file name database from it. In any case you can simply rebuild the database by running
sudo rm -r /var/db/locate.database

and then
sudo /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb

in order to use locate command.


Use BibTeX with Apple Pages to generate references and a bibliography

Depending on your current Pages version, download CiteInPages from here...

http://jhh.med.virginia.edu/main/CiteInPages

I was able to get this to work in Pages 5.5 using CiteInPages5. It works with BibDesk. It takes a bit to install and configure it, but its a great little package. Apple really should change the name of the Pages app though. Its way too difficult to google any support for it.

EDIT: Hopefully you see this because I don't have the reputation to comment. But I guess I misunderstood your question. Its been a while since I've used CiteInPages, but I was able to get the formatting I wanted by creating a custom template. I was able to do this with some guidance from the BibDesk community mailing list. Here's a rudimentary template for the CSE style that I created.

<$publications>
<$pubType=article?>
<$authors><$lastName/> <$firstNames><$firstLetter/></$firstNames><?$authors>, </$authors>. <$fields.Year/>. <$fields.Title.stringByRemovingCurlyBraces.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty/><$fields.Journal.stringByRemovingTeX/>. <$fields.Volume?><$fields.Volume/><$fields.Number.parenthesizedStringIfNotEmpty/>:</$fields.Volume?><$fields.Pages.stringByConvertingDoubleHyphenToEndash/>. http://dx.doi.org/<$fields.Doi/>
</$pubType?>
<$pubType=book?>
<$authors><$lastName/> <$firstNames><$firstLetter/></$firstNames><?$authors>, </$authors>. <$fields.Year/>. <$fields.Title.stringByRemovingCurlyBraces.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty/><$fields.Edition.stringByRemovingTeX/> Edition. <$fields.Address.stringByRemovingTeX/>: <$fields.Publisher.stringByRemovingTeX/>. http://dx.doi.org/<$fields.Doi/>
</$pubType?>
<$pubType=incollection?>
<$authors><$lastName/> <$firstNames><$firstLetter/></$firstNames><?$authors>, </$authors>. <$fields.Year/>. <$fields.Title.stringByRemovingCurlyBraces.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty/>In: <$authors><$lastName/> <$firstNames><$firstLetter/></$firstNames><?$authors>, </$authors>, editors. <$fields.Booktitle.stringByRemovingCurlyBraces.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty/><$fields.Edition.stringByRemovingTeX.stringByAppendingFullStopAndSpaceIfNotEmpty/>ed. <$fields.Address.stringByRemovingTeX/>: <$fields.Publisher.stringByRemovingTeX/>. p. <$fields.Pages.stringByConvertingDoubleHyphenToEndash/>. http://dx.doi.org/<$fields.Doi/>
</$pubType?>

</$publications>


Files on desktop un-deleteable, say "No Items selected" when previewed

The same thing has happened to me with canceled download files from Safari and temporary files created by ImageMagick. The files are only shown on the window of the desktop and not when opening ~/Desktop/ in a separate window. They have always disappeared after reopening Finder or logging out and back in.

I can't reproduce it right now, but I'll check if there's anything interesting in the logs the next time that happens. tell application "Finder" to update folder of desktop might be worth a shot as well.

A related question at Super User: OS X: The item XYZ.txt~ can’t be moved to the Trash because it can’t be deleted


How to copy apps between 2 devices using the same Apple ID?

When you connect the iPod Touch, doesn't iTunes offer to copy new purchases (i.e. the app that's important to you) to your Mac?

You can also try to copy the .ipa file straight off of the iPod Touch with iFunBox; http://i-funbox.com/ifunboxmac/


hardware issues / SMC reset: keyboard, trackpad, flickering screen

You have a hardware issue - possibly two - and you should take it in (back) for service.

The two issues: flickering on the screen and trackpad/keyboard issues are most likely coincidental and have nothing to do with each other.  Given that you just had it in for service on the screen and it's showing issues, I would've taken it back already.

The SMC reset really has nothing to do with any of this.  The SMC is just Apple's name for the what the rest of the industry calls the PMU or Power Management Unit.  Resetting it just sets the sensors, counters, watchdogs etc. back to "zero."  The SMC just regulates where power goes and how fast to spin fans based on data it gets back from the rest of the system.

The fact that you have intermittent failing haptic feedback, an unresponsive cursor and a failure to connect to either the keyboard/trackpad, indicates there's a hardware issue.

If it appears  SMC reset "fixes" your problem for a little while but then it returns, there's a good chance there's a power issue like a faulty component (resistor, capacitor, etc.) but in the end, the item needs to be serviced.  Chances are, you'll need a new top case assembly.


I found out today that it does work with VMware Fusion 10.1.2 and VMware Tools 10.2.5 on Mac OS X 10.11.6 El Capitan but it doesn't work for me on macOS 10.13.4.

Probably this has something to do with User Authorized Kernel Extension Loading (UAKEL). If your Mac is managed by an MDM, kernel extensions are managed by User Approved MDM Enrollment (UAMDM) a management profile.

As far as I understand how Drag and Drop works, it used some kind of filesystem driver. Maybe this used to use a (third party?) kernel extension which is no longer trusted?

Further Readings:

UAKEL: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2459/_index.html

UAMDM: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/whitelisting-third-party-kernel-extensions-using-profiles/?_sm_byp=iVV4WQj4MknqbVsJ


I get the key symbol when running read -s in Terminal.

As this seems to work the same for read -s as for sudo, I assume this is a feature of Terminal (to display a key symbol whenever input is requested in silent/hidden mode).


re 1: hard to say - if you can spare the Money you should go for the 850 bc. of a (probably) better Garbage Collection (see #3), else go for the 840.

re 2: The best tutorial for replacing the optical drive with a harddrive (or SSD) can be found at iFixit.com, f.e. this one. You should search for the Tutorial for your model, the link i posted is probably not for your model.

re 3: There is a hot discussion going on if Trim should be enabled or not and if that is a bad thing. Fact is, Apple has Trim Support enabled only on its own OEM SSDs and disabled it for third party drive. There are Tools to enable TRIM Support, but it could be a not necessary bc. of a better Garbage Collection within the SSD Firmware (see this article and this Article). For general Infos i recommend this Article from Samsung

BTW, to create a homemade Fusion Drive you need to use the 'Core Storage Volume' Command. You can look it up with

man diskutil

look at the 'coreStorage' section. There are some tutorials for creating a homemade Fusion Drive, but it's a very painful process.


Is there a "permalink" for Sierra at the App Store?

Yes - Contrary to past OS releases, Apple has an article with links to the store and detailed requirements for getting and installing macOS Sierra (even after High Sierra is out).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202 -  How to download macOS Sierra
macOS Sierra Installer on the Mac App Store

I would use the help article HT20802 to check for an updated link if the Mac App Store one fails you, but the one above is live now on the store.


Trying to login to Pokémon Go with Google and I get a Error 403 code?

There is a Pokemon support article on this:

These error messages may indicate a temporary issue with the servers.
First, close and then reopen the Pokémon GO app:
iPhone X or later: Swipe up from the bottom of the screen and pause in the middle of the screen to view the most recently used apps. Swipe left or right to locate the Pokémon GO app, and then swipe up on the Pokémon GO app to close.
iPhone 8 or earlier: Double-tap the Home button to view the most recently used apps, swipe left or right to locate the Pokémon GO app, and then swipe up on the Pokémon GO app to close.
If that doesn’t resolve the issue, please visit the Niantic support page at https://niantic.helpshift.com/a/pokemon-go/?p=web for more information.
Note: The link takes you to a website that is not created or maintained by The Pokémon Company International.


Why and when do Mac laptops start themselves when connected to power?

A Mac laptop will boot itself when power is connected if (a) the firmware power on time has passed since the machine was last running (i.e. if the machine was set to power on at 6 AM every morning and it has been 6 AM since it was last powered on) OR if the machine was on (not shutdown properly) before power was removed.

The concept is that if power is lost, a Mac should return to the state it was in.

If you want to ensure that the machine does NOT power itself on,

In System Preferences -> Energy Saver ->Schedule..., remove any rule that states the machine should power on at a given time.
Shutdown the machine correctly by selecting "Shut down..." from the Apple menu and waiting until it is completely shut down.


What is the best way to convert MPEG-2 videos to MP4 H.264?

The solution I use for converting MPEG2 from DVD image or EyeTV recording to iPod-friendly MP4 H264 is based on HandBrakeCLI, the command line interface of HandBrake. It is also possible to use FFMpeg.

The settings are much more complex but offer much more freedom.

I spent some time figuring out what are the best options for me, then I put it in a bash script, so that I just have to give the pathname of the DVD image or the EyeTV recording as an argument to my script.


Does iOS 8.3 break audio line out over lightning cable?

The answer is no.  Turns out my lightning adapter partially broke the same day I installed iOS 8.3  I went to the apple store with the adapter and they offered a free exchange for a new one, replaced, and there was once again the sound of podcasts in my car :-)


The problem, embarrassingly enough, turned out to be an uppercase letter in the lpadmin command I was using.


The contents of the Masters folder should be the basis for the Previews folder, I'm pretty sure the differences come from what computer or OS version the previews are generated in (retina vs non-retina making the most difference).

I think it only regenerates them when they already exist if you move a library to a retina computer from a non-retina computer using migration assistant or time machine (my Library was a little larger storage usage wise and thats what I put it down to at the time), and since El Capitan my non-retina Mac (a Mini) has been making bigger previews then it used to as well.

If all you really care about if making sure you have your originals, the Masters folder is all you need to keep backed up. In MUCH earlier versions of iPhoto, the Masters folder used to be called Originals, which made a tad more sense :P

All a little Anecdotal, I'm sorry, but I mess with iPhoto and now Photos libraries quite a bit. Just get bored ^_^


Is there a keyboard shortcut to move the position of the Dock?

There's no default, but you could probably use AppleScript to accomplish this.  Hmm...

EDIT:

Make an AppleScript to run this shell script:

defaults write com.apple.Dock orientation -string left;killall Dock


MacPro 3,1 (2008) logic board SAS connector: Has anyone "replaced" the stock hard drive backplane?

For changing the back plane you might look at the Pro Cable 1 with a review here.

There is also the DX 4 if you want to really stuff you Mac Pro with drives.

I don't have direct experience with a controller but was leaning toward a MAXPower RAID mini-SAS 6G-1e1i since it has both internal & external SAS ports.  Note that this card will not boot the Mac Pro.

The real problem is that I would want both a RAID card and a Mercury Accelsior and the Mac Pro (2008) only has 1 free x16 PCI 2.0 slot and you would need 2.

There is also a rumor of a Mercury Accelsior with eSATA ports in the near future.


That would depend on whether you care about local changes to those files. Did you change them yourself, or did you run a program that changed them, or something else?

If you didn't mean to change them at all, cd /usr/local and run git reset --hard HEAD; this will reset them all to their original state. Then try updating Homebrew.


If you’re not a heavy user, 64GB is more than enough for what you need. Here is the size of videos in different resolution

1 minute 1080p at 30fps will be 60MB
1 minute 1080p at 60fps will be 90MB
1 minute 4K at 30fps will be 170MB
1 minute 4K at 60fps will be 400MB
(Approximately)
More resolution can be seen in Settings -> Camera -> Record Video

One high quality photo from my phone is a little more than 20MB.

Unless you’re filming at 4K60 all the time (for your job or something), and you don’t use big apps, 64GB is good enough for you. Otherwise go for the 256.


iOS Spotlight searches displays really old contacts as tophits

I experienced a similar glitch with iOS 10 as well.

The only way to clear the Spotlight searches without using third party apps is this:

Make sure you're running the latest iOS (Settings > General > Software Update).
Force restart your iPhone (hold the power + home button until the Apple logo appears. iPhone 7 (Plus): hold the power + volume up button).
Disable Spotlight: Go to Settings > General > Spotlight Search. Disable "Siri Suggestions", "Suggestions in Search" and "Suggestions in Look Up" as well as "Contacts", "FaceTime", "Messages" and "Phone".
Go to Settings > iCloud . Disable "Contacts".
Force restart your iPhone once again.
Connect your iPhone to your Computer using a USB cable and create an encrypted backup with iTunes.
Verify that the backup was created successfully. Look for a phrase like "Last backup: 10:23 AM").
Restore your iPhone. Select your device on the left side in iTunes and press "Restore...". You may need to remove "Find my iPhone" first to continue.
Wait for you iPhone to reappear in iTunes.
Select "Restore from backup" and choose the backup you created in step 6.
Wait for iTunes to finish restoring your backup.
Re-enable the settings you disabled in steps 3 and 4.

Please let me know if this works for you.


SMS Message doesn't state it has been sent

When the bubble is blue, the message is send as an iMessage. If it turn green, it is send as a regular SMS.

The iMessages have a build in delivery report and is will tell you tings like 'delivered' or 'read' when the message gets delivered/read.

However, a regular SMS doesn't provide these options, so you'll have to install some 3th party software to get this kind of feedback. So you have to trust your provider to make sure your message gets delivered.
If you have jailbroken your device, there is an SMS Delivery Report repository in Cydia.

If you don't like your iMessages to be sent as a regular text, you can simply turn this feature off in the Settings < Messages < Send As SMS


From the Wikipedia-page:

  Most flash devices are designed for about 100,000 - 1,000,000 write
  operations (or "write cycles").

As you can read, the typical NAND flash has 100k+ write cycles, so I won't worry about that. Besides, I'm sure Apple has figured out some kind of system to increase this number by making iOS "drive-smart", meaning they've optimized the way iOS is reading/writing data to the flash in order to extend his life-cycle.
Like XAleXOwnZX said in his comment, the NAND flash memory will survive most iPhone life spans.

And another fact, it will take you about 140 years to wear out the same flash location. Most of the time, the data stays in the cache rather then it will be written on the flash memory.

I hope this answer comforts your concerns :)

EDIT: I've found what kind of flash is used in an iPhone 4. It's Samsung K9PFG08 flash memory and this blogpost tells you more about the typical reading and writing data and kind of confirms my findings above.


How do I block OS X's auto detection of shared drives?

OS X uses Bonjour to allow you and your computer to discover services offered by compatible networked devices.

Amongst Finder's uses of Bonjour: show which other devices are able to share their volumes with you. Simply browsing the list of computers will not make any significant connection.

If you choose to access the shared data of a computer other than your own, there should be no risk to data on your own computer. If you choose to run a shared application, Finder should present an alert.

Without blocking detection, Finder preferences allow you to not view Bonjour computers in the sidebar:

Mac Help: Organize the sidebar
How to: prevent sidebar 'Shared' clutter in OS X | MacFixIt - CNET Reviews

Whatever your preference for the sidebar, the main Finder view of the network (Command-Shift-K) will remain comprehensive.


How can I insert text in middle of a document and have images move down too?

You could use inline objects that cause text to be wrapped:


Is running an app all night harmful to the iPhone?

It could possibly be harmful if the phone overheats, though I spent several months with an older iPhone between my pillow and the bed, plugged in and charging, and never had any problems.

Other than that, no.


How do I download folders through FTP in Terminal?

mget is the closest you can get with the included FTP binary. You have to mkdir and cd/lcd and then get all the files than match a pattern like *

The prompt toggle may come in handy.

FTP works within a directory, not on directories as containers of files. If you absolutely had to get the job done and ftp was the only tool you could use - you could cobble together an expect script to drive ftp for you.

Thankfully there are alternatives like scp|rsync|wget to get whole directories worth of files.


How to Erase External USB Drive Which Won't Mount & Isn't Recognized

There's still several elements you may not have checked. First, swap cables to make sure the cable is ok. If it still fails, then next, make sure your power supply really works. If possible, get a variable replacement AC/DC converter from an electronics store. Mine lets me set the voltage, amps, and ohms along with changing the connector tips. Use the settings on the original DC converter to test.

Assuming none of those items were the issue then you still have two other elements to check: the case and its controller and the drive itself.

To check the case: go to your local Best Buy or other electronics store and get a hard drive case. They're very inexpensive now. Pop open the old case, take the drive out, and put it into the new case. If it mounts, the issue was the case. If it still does not mount, it's the drive.

To really get rid of the drive, toss the drive in a fire. Nothing will be salvageable.


iPhone Search does not find historic SMS messages

Apple does not search for very old text messages as it makes the search much slower. There is no setting to modify the period of messages it should go through, but if you really need this then you can jailbreak and SSH into your iPhone. You can then edit the .plist file and make it search for messages that are even 2 years old.

Note: This will significantly make the searching slow.


No weather information in Yosemite Notification Center

I had the same problem and this fixed it:

Open Notification Center
Click the grey Edit button at the very bottom
Click the red minus icon (-) next to Today to remove it
Click the green plus icon (+) next to Today Summary to add it back

Once I added it back, the weather summary popped up.


How do you restart/force quit the notification center in mavericks

Open the Activity Monitor, kill Notification Center and it'll reload automatically !


Is there any keyboard shortcut to switch my mouse cursor from one desktop to another?

There's no shortcut to my knowledge but if you are willing to get your hands a little dirty you can easily achieve this with a combination of 3rd party software, here is how I'd go about it:

Download and install MouseTools.
Download and install Keyboard Maestro.
Add KM Macro based on keys combination (to switch from one screen to another, one Macro for each display).
Finally for each macro add the Shell action with MouseTools -x xValue -y yValue (which are the coordinate on the display where you want the mouse to land).


Right-click the file and go to Get info (shortcut: Cmd+I). There will be an option to set that file's default application. Select it and use Change All... to make the default apply to all others of the type.

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How to show serving fonts in character table

If you open the Font Variation section of Character Viewer and set Collections to "Containing selected character" it will show all of the fonts that have the character and how they'll display, as shown here:


Excluding Chrome's session storage from Time Machine

Since you're concerned about this occupying space unnecessarily, you could the exclude the folder. While you're at it, you could exclude the following folders since the rest (apart from Session Storage) are not useful to backup repeatedly/regularly either:

  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Session Storage
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Local Storage
  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Application Cache

In more recent versions of Chrome/OS X, these folders may be located in:

/Users/$USER/Library/Caches/Google/

Note that excluding Session Storage will prevent your sessions from being backed up - so you cannot restore back to older sessions from a backup.
Excluding Local Storage will prevent restoring the storage used by some/many web sites that use local storage to store information (to support offline use or for longer term identification).


How is Clash of Clans added to the bottom of recent apps?

You're experiencing iOS's proactive suggestions - iOS learns your routine over time, and eventually suggests the apps it thinks you're about to open based on factors like location and time of day.


Swap iCloud account registered to an iPhone?

Why not set up the new phone first. Once that's done and your son has verified all the games and apps and settings are correct. Erase all content and settings on the old phone (under general in the settings app - go to the bottom where it says reset).

That way, you can set up the "old" phone with only the accounts you care about.


Note: El Capitan (OS X 10.11) prevents users from selecting rEFInd and common Linux distributions from the Startup Disk pane. The new preferred method is to install rEFInd into the an EFI partition. My answer, to an unrelated question, outlines this new preferred method to start the rEFInd Boot Manager and Linux operating systems. The answer, given below, applies to Yosemite (OS X 10.10) and possibly earlier versions of OS X.

Personally, I installed rEFInd on my computer to its own partition. This prevents the problems you are encountering. Everything ./install.sh installed went to this partition. If I want to remove rEFInd, I can simply erase or remove the partition. Of course both are unnecessary, because I can turn rEFInd on and off at will. I just go to the Startup window in System Preferences select my boot partition. This computer has OS X, Windows, Fedora and rEFInd installed.

I also can select the boot partition under Windows by using BootCamp and by holding the Option key down at startup. The command diskutil list produces:

/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Marlin                  300.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data Coelacanth              98.9 GB    disk0s4
   5:                  Apple_HFS Linux HFS+ ESP          209.7 MB   disk0s5
   6: 0FC63DAF-8483-4772-8E79-3D69D8477DE4               524.3 MB   disk0s6
   7:                  Linux LVM                         98.6 GB    disk0s7
   8:                  Apple_HFS rEFInd                  939.5 MB   disk0s8

Note, the rEFInd partition is ~ 1 GB in size. In fact, it can be as small as 100 MB. When I setup this computer, I used the Disk Utility application to create the rEFInd partition. If I would have used the gpt command, I could have created a smaller partition. Neither OS X, Windows, Fedora nor rEFInd use the EFI partition to boot the computer. In fact, there is nothing useful in the EFI partition.

Answer to your questions:

How do I uninstall rEFInd 0.8-3.7 using OS X 10.10.3? Read the ./install.sh file and undo whatever it did. I should of had you run the commands bless --info and bless --info  --getBoot. These would have told where the .efi file was stored. Note: Almost everyone installs rEFInd to the OS X boot partition.

How would I go and reinstall it using different options if I cannot remove it? The author of the software never said rEFInd could not be removed. I suggested you just install it again to its own partition. This might be a good place to mention the gpt command has to be run while either booted to an external recover partition or while booted to internet recovery.

Could I simply remove the EFI partition or would that corrupt my Mac? Do not remove the EFI partition! It is not used to boot OS X, but it is used by OS X for other things.


What are some steps to troubleshoot problems sharing printers, files, and screen?

Please be more specific.  If nothing changed except for the router, though, let me ask: is the one machine plugged in directly to the network via Ethernet, and is the other accessing the network through WiFi?

If so, it may be that the router has a feature enabled called "WAP Isolation" -- basically it creates a separate network segment (or collision domain, if you like) for the wireless clients.  Try disabling wireless with the laptop and plug it in directly.  If it works, that's probably where the problem is.


Time Machine says "Waiting to Backup" after ML upgrade

It's possible. You should be able to click the Time Machine icon, then Open Time Machine Preferences... and then it will tell you a more detailed reason such as the following:


IOS : connect to router when "no internet" detected

I actually managed to connect by entering the IP and router IP manually


How can I "go to page" in preview via toolbar?

Control click on the toolbar and add the page control field.

It looks blank and has page for the help text in english.

Then you can type whatever page you wish directly into the toolbar without needing to use the Command-Option-G keyboard shortcut to go to a specific page.


Does Windows or Linux have any tools for accessing a FileVault2 encrypted drive's contents?

On Linux, the libfvde project aims to support decoding FileVault2. Yogesh Khatri wrote an overview article where he suggests starting with libfvde's wiki.

On Windows, the company Passware claim support for decrypting FileVault2 drives as part of Passware Kit Forensic 13.1. A CNet article mentions the software and highlights the feature in an included screenshot:


Turn off both displays when in clamshell mode

You are confusing sleep and clamshell mode. Clamshell mode means using a laptop with an external display while keeping the lid closed.

Anyway, clamshell mode behaved differently in 10.6 and earlier:

Closing the lid put a laptop to sleep even when the laptop was connected to an external display
To use the laptop in clamshell mode, you had to press a key or click a mouse button after that
If you then opened the lid, the internal display didn't turn back on

You can restore the old behavior by changing the boot-args firmware variable:

sudo nvram boot-args=iog=0x0

You have to restart to apply changes. To undo it, run sudo nvram -d boot-args and restart.


How to loan my iPad while preserving personal data?

Yes, when you're friend is done using it, have him sign out of iCloud and then erase the iPad again. You will be asked if you want to restore from a backup while your are setting the iPad up again after the erase.


How can I upgrade my GPU for my early 2011 17" MacBook Pro to run Mojave?

To run Mojave on this machine you might to check out macOS Mojave Patcher Tool for Unsupported Macs. A software solution that allows installation – and offers some serious limitations for an unsupported configuration. It does work, but it's probably not worth it in every case. Although you can't beat the price at 0 Dollars…

Test it out to see if you can live with the limitations inherent to this solution.

The 17 inch being a major obstacle for this plan:

In 15 inch MacBook Pros you might source a newer logic board that fits into the case. That is probably what "you heard they offer…"
But 17 inch was never made by Apple after your model. So there never will be anything that was once officially supported by Apple and or Mojave.

So your hackish options for that machine are:

making your own logic board (perhaps not overly realistic)
upgrade just the GPU on your existing logic board

The second option is doable (just one example showing the effort and equipment needed). Albeit quite complicated. But it also requires you to find an independent repair shop or other expert willing to do that, and source a replacement GPU. People willing and actually being capable of this will be rare in any case. This is absolutely forbidden by Apple to do for anyone being an Apple Authorized Service Provider. Forget about asking a genius at the bar about this.

You'd need to find a 'hacker'-type to solder that in. That will probably not be very cheap, not overly reliable, and again completely unsupported. One problem is that graphic switching gets in the way.

Only exchanging the GPU would still leave you with the Intel 3000HD integrated into the Sandy-Bridge CPU. Which is still commonly used then when graphics switching is enabled.

So upgrading from a  Terascale Radeon HD 6000 series to a Radeon GCN. For example going from a Radeon HD 6490M to a Radeon HD 7730M. Note how confusing AMD named, and re-branded their chips and cards. And compare how these 'newer' but now equally old chips compare to for example newer integrated Intel iGPUs of the type HD Graphics 620.

It also would sensibly require a CPU swap as well. Going to Ivy Bridge, generation 3. Or advanced tinkering with hackintosh configurations, boot loaders, drivers or patches.

With "support" I not only mean "never bring that again near an ASAP" but hardware and software of such a FrankMac (including EFI, smc, OS…) were never tested in this config. The electro-physical connectivity is one thing, the limited compatibility of options Apple decided to ship and support are another. Laptops are so highly integrated these days… I doubt it would be worth it, neither in terms of money, time, effort or ensuing reliability and lifetime of the machine – except for "we made it do".

The realistic run down is:

Stay below 10.14
Use the patcher
Make the machine stationary and use an eGPU (also not supported and obviously taking away mobility)
Buy a newer machine
burn some money on an adventure that may very well ruin the still functioning hardware you have for an exciting experiment with unclear outcomes


MacBook Air M1 battery drain when sleeping

Check the activity monitor under "Battery" for usage statistics.
Sort by "Energy Impact" & "12Hr Power" tabs to find the app that is using the most energy. If it's an app that you are not running on the foreground, then close those applications.
Also check if any apps are Preventing Sleep by sorting "Preventing Sleep" Tab.


Wireless keyboard pressing the command key by itself

Sounds like a hardware problem - you could try disassembling it and cleaning the contact layer.


Run git gc once a while to speed up things (if you haven't set it to be automatically on)


Major releases need to be downloaded from the App Store. Just go there, it probably is shown on the main page (otherwise search for "Big Sur").
It is recommended to make a backup of your system first before starting the upgrade. Apple has more details in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201475.


Can i apple remote desktop to a windows 10 machine?

Why would you want to? To access a Windows 10 machine remotely, download "Microsoft Remote Desktop 10" for free from the Mac App Store. I should note that not all versions of Windows can be accessed remotely using "Microsoft Remote Desktop 10". For example, the Home versions of Windows will not work with this software.

BTW, many modern PCs are "Wake on LAN" (WOL) capable. If the remote PC is capable of this feature, then you do not have to leave the remote PC on all the time. You can allow the PC to enter hybrid or regular sleep mode, then send a packet over the internet to wake the machine. A Terminal application command for doing this is called wolcmd. This command can be downloaded for free from the website: Wake On Lan for Apple Mac OS X 10.6+. I setup a service, so I can issue this command from the menu bar.


What should I do with preferences etc. after deleting an application?

Just delete the files from the old apps. Never had a problem. Note: if you reinstall the apps, they will not retain any data from the old install.


shift/click/drag from the left-hand edge, which you can see, & the entire window will resize from all sides.

You can then drag it back into view.


Does Spotlight search work with a Time Capsule?

Yes.
Per default, it will be indexed. You can opt-out any location in...

System Preferences → Spotlight → Privacy

If you add and remove a location in the privacy tab, it will be re-indexed.
Also see Apple's support document Spotlight: How to re-index folders or volumes.


How do I find the Activity App on my iPhone?

This morning, I updated to iOS 8.3 and the Activity app now appears on the last page of the home screen.

So I would try to either update to iOS 8.3 or restart the phone if you're having this problem.