How do I get out of a boot loop with an iPhone with a broken power button?

ok, now i have this same problem but have found a solution that is not for the people who are shallow to technology...

Step 1: Connect your iPhone 30-Pin cable to your computer. (lightning adapter for iPhone 5 and up)

Step 2: Wait for the device to begin another loop.

Step 3: When another loop begins, hold the home button, volume up button, and plug the charger in.

Step 4: Fix whatever is making the device loop.


Apple's DNS resolution expects a tiered solution, so you will want to simply point the router and clients to the internal DNS.

That DNS will answer all queries for it's internal responses and refer/forward requests outside it's authority to the outside DNS of your choosing.

In short, you will either need to change your internal DNS or set up a third DNS to know what requests to handle internally and which externally as the AirPort wasn't designed to do that choosing for you.

Here's how you would set up OS X server DNS to do forwarding - it's a simple pane where you place the external addresses.


Can .html files sent as attachments be opened and run on iPhone5 (OS9.2)

Unfortunately, iOS devices do not support offline website or HTML viewing.

As an alternative, you could get your relative to purchase GoodReader from the App Store and have him open the file in that app, or use an FTP website-hosting service such as 000webhost.


Is it possible to take a video screenshot (screenshow?) of what's occurring on a Macbook Pro's screen?

You can use QuickTime Player.app for this. Open it and in File menu there's New Screen Recording or press ⌃+⌘+N.


I have a two mouses: one for each hand. How can I set the primary mouse button separately for each mouse?

Use ControllerMate

You can reprogram virtually any button (keyboard, MIDI key, mouse key, etc.) to carry out any number of pre-defined actions.

  Reconfigure drivers

  Driver configurations can be used to change the default behavior of a
  keyboard or mouse that uses ControllerMate's driver.

  All buttons on a keyboard have some default function or another. Most
  are useful, some are not. A driver configuration allows one button on
  a keyboard act like another, or can turn a button off completely.
  Buttons that have been turned off can still be used to trigger
  building blocks.

  A driver configuration for a mouse can include a custom acceleration
  curve. This curve can be one of the standard curves, a standard curve
  with an adjusted speed or sensitivity, or an entirely custom curve
  created point by point.

  Multiple configurations can be created for the same keyboard or mouse
  — use building blocks to control when a configuration is active.


From my own testing, it seems to depend on how you delete the note...

If you delete the note on iCloud.com:

You can easily recover the note by going to the Trash folder.

If you delete the note on an iOS device:

You can recover the note by restoring the device (if it's been backed up).
You can recover the note from a device that hasn't recieved the latest sync changes.


Does iTunes 10.5.0.142 not support the original iPhone?

iTunes does support the original iPhone, there is no where it is written in the requirements of iTunes 10.5 that says that iTunes requires this version of iOS or this particular iPhone or even iPod in order to sync with it. All Apple music devices should be supported unless other wise noted.

The only point where it may matter is if you have updated to the latest version of iOS from a newer version of iTunes (e.g. greater than 10.5.0.142) and then are attempting to use that updated iOS on an older version of iTunes 10.5.0.142 in this case.

In that situation there may be issues communicating between the two due to apple changing protocols or who knows what else between versions of iTunes and iOS. I suggesting updating to the latest version of iTunes, and then contact Apple or their discussion forms if the problem persists.


Try adding the following line to your /etc/hosts file:

10.0.0.1     alias.local


How can I install both Snow Leopard and Lion on the same machine?

Yes, it is possible. You need to create a new partition and install the other OS on it. Here's a detailed tutorial. The basic steps are:

Create a new partition using Disk Utility.
Install the new OS on the new partition.
Set default boot partition using Startup Disks.
Manually select boot partition at startup holding down the ⌥ key.


How to kill stuck Screen sharing authentication dialogue?

Yes, it's called NetAuthAgent.

You can tell I've had this problem before! :(


How Can I access Mac OS X Base System on Boot Screen?

If you mean the Recovery HD, then it means that you don't have a Recovery HD that's able to be booted into.

Try booting with ⌘R. If that fails, use ⌘⌥R for Internet Recovery.


Keep note sheet as black text on white background while Notes.app is in dark mode

Yes, user preference

Yes, indeed, you can display your note sheets in Notes as black-ink-on-white.

Go to Preferences dialog box. While I did not notice it immediately, you can find a checkbox under the text-size slider. That checkbox is titled Use dark backgrounds for note content. Uncheck that box.


Are Macs vulnerable to the recent SSD encryption vulnerability?

This does not affect Mac because Apple doesn't use the SSD's built in hardware encryption algorithm. Apple's FileVault uses  an XTS-AES 128 cipher that's  "tied" to a password and protects the boot partition of your drive (the EFI is not).

The SSDs mentioned in the article can have the master password "reset" by simply writing a single bit to the SSD's firmware.

Operating Systems like macOS and FreeBSD boot an un-encrypted partition first, then it boots the encrypted one based on a password/phrase/credential supplied by the user.

  Does MacOS trust the hardware encryption of the SSD drives, or does it always use software encryption?

It doesn't trust it nor distrust it.  It uses it's own encryption rather than what's included with the drive.

  Is there a way to check whether SSD-based or software encryption is being used?

For macOS through Sierra (10.12.x):

diskutil info diskX | grep -i encrypted

For macOS High Sierra and (10.13.x):

diskutil apfs list | grep -B6 FileVault


How to set up Safari to always show status bar

I think I found a command-line solution, opening up the Terminal and typing in the following:

$ defaults write com.apple.Safari ShowStatusBar -boolean true


iOS 14: call controls not displayed in lock screen

I found perfectly working WORKAROUND:
During Microsoft Teams meeting, just go to home screen, start dialing any number via built-in Phone app and stop even after 1 second. Your Teams meeting won't dissconnect, it will just pause. After that, when You go back to Teams and lock the screen, call controls will appear every time! Simple as that!!!
Of course You have to repeat those steps on every new Teams meeting.
I hope you find this guide useful.


Yosemite /etc/resolver/env.domain.com not working

You could see here why nslookup does not work.

To check your configuration, try instead:

dns-sd -G v4 mongo-arb.stage.domain.com


Rsync with Linux server: special character problem

I finally figured out that apart from updating rsync, I also had to switch the order in which I specified the character sets: I thought you were supposed to specify the character set in the order of transformation; but it seems as that is not the correct syntax. Rather, one should always use --iconv=utf-8-mac,utf-8 when initialising the rsync from the mac, and always use --iconv=utf-8,utf-8-mac when initialising the rsync from the linux machine, no matter if I want to sync files from the mac or linux machine.

Then @Mark's solution works like magic!


Must there be notification alerts for anything to appear on lock screen?

How did you disable the notification alerts?

You should have three different settings in the notification settings:

Alert Style: if you set this to none, you will not see any banners or alerts when you have your phone unlocked.
Show in Notification Center: you should keep this on
Show on Lock Screen: and this one on

Those settings should be independent to each other I believe.


How to open older .imovieproject files (folders) in iMovie '09

You can't, actually. iMovie '08 and subsequent versions are a completely different program from iMovie HD 6 and previous versions.

However, the last released version of iMovie HD does still run on modern Macs. It used to be a free download for users of iLife '08, but Apple has since removed it (IMHO, to "encourage" power users to upgrade to Final Cut Express, since iMovie '08 was utterly useless if you happened to have been one of the few who knew what they were doing).

It is still possible to download and install iMovie HD through some avenues of questionable legality.


"Hold down power button until it turns off" - diagnose kernel panic?

If your Mac Kernel Panics every time you reboot, well that is a problem. Can you boot into safe mode?

Hold the shift key while booting and release when you see the Apple logo on screen. The boot process may take longer than it usually does. Could be a LOT longer. If that works then there is something you installed that runs at startup that is causing the kernel panic.

If that does not work boot into Recovery Mode (Command-R at boot) and reinstall the OS right over top of what you have now. With luck that will fix it. Be careful not to reformat the drive as that will wipe out everything. An OS reinstall should only give you a fresh copy of the operating system and leave your user files alone.


I am missing the option to see the remaining battery life as time in the menubar?

According to the following blog entry Apple removed the option deliberately and it won't come back:

http://www.macpoint.be/mountain-lion-is-coming/

I also missed the option, so I wrote an App. It's in beta now:

http://batterytimeapp.com/


Why is the Force Touch "taptic" TrackPad not clicking/selecting on 2015 MacBook Pro?

My trackpad (MBP Early 2015) was working, but there was no haptic feedback, or any indication that force touch was working. Other functions (trackpad, single tap, scrolling, etc.) were working. Here's what my settings looked like:

For me, it was fixed somehow by an SMC reset with the charger disconnected, while powered on. Basically, I pressed Control + Shift + Option + Power button. The system instantly shut down without warning. Force touch and haptic feedback were back when the system turned on.

Do I recommend this? No. It's an unclean shutdown. Did it work? Yes it did.


Delete broken unrecognised external partition

I know this sounds insultingly simple, but have you completely unplugged and powered down the external drive and plugged it back in?

At the office, TM would periodically decide that the time machine disk was damaged and could not be written to. Restarting didn't fix it, even though it was mountable. Removing power to the device and plugging it back in fixed it and allowed it to be written to again. In both of the cases, they were LaCie drives. Give it time after plugging in, it could be doing a disk repair in the background before it shows on the desktop (can be verified by looking in activity monitor.)


Can log into iCloud on icloud.com but not on my mac book pro

Fixed by:

Signing out (tried to login again but nothing)
Reboot from terminal with -l:

sudo -i

reboot -l

Signing in again.

and it worked for me.


Blur all images in Safari, unless clicked

The following approach comes pretty close, but it does not (nor can it) cover images that are set as background. It might also slow down page loading a bit.

The goal is to inject custom CSS into the page. I'll use the add-on Stylish for that (theoretically you could do it without any external add-ons, but you need a free Safari developer ID to do so - see here - I was wrong, see @markhunte's answer). After installing Stylish, you will see a great 'S' button next to the URL field. Click it and select 'manage'. In the new tab, select 'Edit' to create a new style. Give it a title (perhaps 'Blurred images'), and paste the following CSS into the 'CSS' field:

img {
  -webkit-filter: blur(10px);
}
img:active {
  -webkit-filter: blur(0px);
}

Under 'Applies to:' select 'global (if you want, you could narrow it down to specific URLs, URL prefixes, domains etc.), then save the style to enable it.

If you load a webpage, all images (except for background images) will be blurred. If you click an image it will be un-blurred as long as you hold your mouse-button down. You can customize the degree of blur by editing the pixel value in the first selector as the second selector un-blurs the image.

This is all you can do in plain CSS. If you want a selective whitelist that persists across sessions, you definitely need to write your own extensions. This still comes down to applying the CSS posted above, but the whitelist and the 'click-to-add' part may be a bit more complicated and I do not have enough experience to give you a helpful answer in that case.


IPhone iPod app: how do you get out of the iTunes store?

What you refer to as "iTunes mode" is actually a separate application called iTunes. The only way to get back is to relaunch the iPod app. If you have a multitasking-capable device, you can double tap on the home button and the iPod app will be there as it was the most recently used app.


Is it possible to set a keyboard layout per app?

I've found a better way of dealing with things than setting a keyboard layout per app, and this is with the excellent Karabiner keyboard customiser.

Simply set the system keyboard to QWERTY, and enable the Karabiner option 'QWERTY to Dvorak'. The only caveat is you have to remember to log in with QWERTY as Karabiner can only start once you have logged in.


Temporarily disable Notification Center in Mountain Lion from command line?

To disable Notification Center from the command line, write a KeepAlive key that is false into the /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist like so:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui KeepAlive -bool false

If you want to re-enable Notification Center, you’d just run the same with a true:

sudo defaults write /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui KeepAlive -bool true

Method to DISABLE without sudo:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist
killall NotificationCenter

Method to ENABLE without sudo:

launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.notificationcenterui.plist

Then just hit Command+Shift+G and go to /System/Library/CoreServices/ then find “Notification Center” and double-click it to launch it again

Tutorial with useful info here and here


The Mac won't let me import photos from my iphone

On your iphone, go to Settings > General > Reset > Reset Location & Privacy.

Plug in your iPhone via the USB to your mac.

On your iPhone when prompted press "Trust".

You should now be able to import.


I ran into this problem myself when I switched to iOS 13.3 on an iPhone Max Pro. Try this: In "Settings," tap on your name and photo at the top of the page (the one that says "Apple ID, Cloud, iTunes and App Store"). Tap on "iCloud." Under "Apps Using iCloud," activate "Calendars." When you go back to the Calendar app, "Default Calendar" should now be an option. Good luck!


Are Lightning headphones only working with iPhone 7 or also with older devices?

According to the Apple product page, any device with a Lightning port and iOS 10 is compatible.


You can find in Phone App. Goto "Recent" tab, tap the "i"(information) icon, you can see more detail of this contact, please note the telephone number marked as blue, this is the DN called you.


Delete Bootcamp Partition and recover Disk Full Space

The linked method to create a fake Boot Camp partition doesn't work because the former partition is no empty space but an HFS volume (disk0s4). The gpt command won't add partitions in allocated disk space.

To resize your main partition (disk0s2) to the full ~120 GB, boot to your main macOS volume, delete the second HFS+ volume and expand your main partition:

diskutil eraseVolume Free Space disk0s4

Try to expand the main volume:

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 R

If the R size option fails try to use a real size like 120g or the percentage 100% (on some external disks this may fail because of some 2 TiB limit).

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 120473m

or more exactly:

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 120473067520b

or

diskutil resizeVolume disk0s2 100%


Default contact group for new contacts in iOS 10

Hey you can do this in settings, then contacts, then default account - change it to whatever account you want!


Can I use GPS and GLONASS on an iPhone 6S without a wireless network?

You would be able to do this - in as much as the co-ordinates can be fixed from the satellite.   You need to be aware that it will take a long time to get the fix if there is no reference point to help it (eg known WIFI or cell towers), as it needs to download the almanac from the satellites.

You also need to know that you won't be able to get maps or anything, and mapping may or may not work depending on your application.

Lastly, be aware that, historically at least, phones and similar devices have not had the sensitivity of dedicated devices, so they may not work as reliably.


macOS could not be installed on your computer

I have managed to find a solution!

The USB key that I used was crashing during the installation. Therefore, I went with Internet Recovery mode, and it is successfully installed.


Apple has always these kind of bugs with their wireless (or even wired) platforms. You just need to force it to connect.

So you can go to sound settings of system preferences and force connect there.

or if you already have the indicator in the status bar , you can option+click on that and force connect from there.

Note that it could either fail because it may be in-use or disconnect from the other source that already connected and using it (Randomly but second option most of the times depends on what device requested new connection and what device is using it right now).

It always helps me and hope it helps you as well.


There appear to be many variations on this question, that I have found.

However the problem addressed in this question is the one that I was experiencing.

So I'd like to try to post here a comprehensive answer that addresses the best possible solutions that have come up so far, starting with all the most common, simplest and least likely to work suggestions up to the ones that seem to address this problem specifically.

Note: If you've done your research, you'll note already an enormous amount of overlap with multiple pages linking back and forth to one another, in regards to this issue. My attempt here is simply to aggregate as many of the key factors involved into one place.

Background

So for a long time now, MacBook users have reported a 'double typing' issue, most especially with the most recent MacBook Pro's to hit the market. There have been many reports of this problem occurring on 2015, up to 2019 edition MacBook Pros, from the 13' to the 15' Touch Bar, and every thing in-between.

There appear to be multiple similar problems, that may or may not have more than one possible solution. The most common reported issues I have seen are:

single keys such as b or n being pressed and outputting doubles like bb or nn in their place. Space bar is also commonly reported to be double typing.
some people may also be irked by the default setting of a double space autocorrecting to a period ..
instances of multiple repeated strings or sequences of keystrokes, at seemingly random intervals, for example whole words, or even multiple words appearing twice, and also modifier commands such as: ⌘+w or ctrl+tab.

In my case the problem was the latter. I'm sure other variations of this problem exist, these are the ones I've encountered most frequently in my search for a solution.

Possible Solutions

This is a summary of most of the answers that I have come across so far, hopefully one of them will work for anyone who is experiencing this problem.

System preferences -> keyboard = Slide the bar left to turn 'key repeat' to off. This is one of the most common solutions as it is by far the simplest and quickest to try. It's also the least likely, from what I've gathered.
cleaning your keyboard, as per these instructions there's even an app to help you do this
turning off the period autocorrect option = System preferences -> Keyboard -> Text: Uncheck "Add period with double space"

This problem has become so substantial that Apple has released an extended service specifically for this problem, whereby they are replacing keyboards free of charge for anyone who's device falls within their approved list, which as of Jan 2020 includes all Mac products using the butterfly keyboard.

Like many others however, it seems to be increasingly clear that for most people (though not all) this is not a hardware issue. Many users, including myself, have testified that this occurs not just on the Mac keyboard, but external keyboards also, wired, wireless and bluetooth alike.

Most significantly this problem appears to have started for many, only after installing Catalina.

Users have reported that the problem disappears when:

Running their Mac in 'safe mode'
In other user accounts on their machine (this is true in my case)

So a number of other suggestions have also popped up. For those who believe that their problem is software related, the following solutions may work for you.

Install an app called Unshaky
Reset your NVRAM as per a comment from this other question

option+⌘+P+R

Update to the latest version of macOS Catalina (version 10.15.3 as of the time of writing) -- System Preferences -> Update Software
Create a new user account
Re-Install MacOS in the Background
Roll back to the previous MacOS, Mojave
And the worst case scenario - A full wipe of your system and re-install a fresh version of your MacOS

For anyone who has Wacom tablet software installed

this Reddit post appears to have isolated a fairly specific problem, but it appears to have fixed the problem for a lot of people, and makes intuitive sense to me, for anyone who has Wacom Driver software in their system.

Install the most recent Catalina compatible Wacom software from their website --(This is what solved the problem for me)
Uninstall any Wacom drivers you may have installed on your system. Official instructions can be found here

disconnect tablet from USB
Navigate to: Finder -> Applications -> Wacom table -> Wacom Tablet Utility
Click the 'Uninstall' button
Restart your machine
Find and delete all related folders as per the linked instructions

Acknowledgements

Finally, I'd like to acknowledge the multiple posts and pages that I have drawn on to find this solution. I can't take credit for any of the solutions posted here, I found them all in my efforts to fix my own frustrating problem. I hope that anyone experiencing this problem finds a solution in this answer.


How to always insert single and double quotes?

The problem lies in your keyboard layout which uses 'dead keys', probably your keyboard layout is US International.

Go to System Preferences -> Language and Text -> Input Sources and choose another layout, such as US Extended.


Unfortunately, it seems that a problem has developed with the LTE Modem portion of your iPhone (orange box).  It's a hardware issue.

You'll want to do a factory reset to see if it fixes it.  However, in my experience with symptoms like this, the only thing you can possibly do is take it in for service to a facility that specializes in this type of repair.


How exactly does the new Mountain Lion filesystem work?

Don't worry, the filesystem is really the same as in Lion. What you may have misunderstood is how the new iCloud integration works. Every app that supports it (it may even be built-in if you use the system-standard open/save components, I'm unsure) will display an iCloud tab in the Open/Save dialogs, but this is in addition to the standard Finder hierarchy that's been around forever.

This new iCloud storage doesn't allow nested folders, so you only get one level of hierarchy. The idea is to keep things simple à la iOS (it looks like and is conceptually the same as organizing apps on iOS).

For more detail and description, check out the iCloud and You section of John Siracusa's Mountain Lion review at Ars Technica.


To apply the rules to existing messages, just select the mailbox and use "Apply Rules" from the "Message" menu. Or use the shortcut ⌥+⌘+L


MacBook Air charger doesn't light up but is charging

It sounds like you have an issue with your SMC. Don't worry, it should be easy to fix, here is Apple's support document on it. SMC Reset

Since you have an Air, you will want to follow these steps.

  Shut down the Mac.
  Plug in the MagSafe or USB-C power adapter to a power source and to your Mac.
  Using the built-in keyboard, press Shift-Control-Option on the left side of the keyboard, then press the power button at the same time.
  Release all keys, then press the power button again to turn on your Mac

This can be a bit tricky to do, but try to follow the steps exactly as outlined

Good luck!


If this is the first sync, it has to transcode everything, which naturally takes a long time. If you check your Activity Monitor you'll probably see all cores at 100%. You could buy a computer with a faster CPU... or just be patient.

The first sync used to take about a day for me with 5000 songs on an old Core 2 Duo MacBook. At least you can stop the sync and it'll resume where it left off when you get back.


Getting error code -128 on a late-2015 iMac

The precise meaning of the shutdown cause codes is not publicly documented, so linked error about userCanceledErr isn't correct, as these are different list of codes.

The shutdown cause -128 in general is related to the unknown hardware issue (e.g. RAM). If it happens repeatedly, you should take it to the repair.

See also:

Shutdown Cause -128
Are OS X shutdown cause and sleep cause numbers listed/explained anywhere?


Connecting Macbook Air to Sony HDTV via HDMI

The Macbook Air (2015) edition has a thunderbolt output. You'll need a adapter from Thunderbolt to HDMI to get this working.

Also:

did you checked the HDMI cable if this one is working
Is the channel set properly on your Sony TV?


Show ringtones and books in iTunes library

Ringtones are called Tones in my version of iTunes (12.3.2.35), and are already shown on the top left of your screen capture.

If not, you can click the ··· menu and edit it to make them always visible.

Purchased books and audiobooks are shown on the iBooks app on OS X and iOS.


You can check out the directions on iFixit here.
There are a lot of steps, but none of it is really rocket science. They explain it in detail.

My bigger question would be whether the two boards are compatible.
Based on the specs for each one (2,1 / 3,1), the main differences are (respectively):

Processor: TS7400 / TS7500
Video Card (integrated): Intel GMA 950 / IntelGMA X3100
VRAM: 64MB / 144MB

I'm not sure how these effect logic board compatibility, but I'd be careful.

Also worth noting that the white 3,1 actually supports 6GB of memory (unofficially). Get it here.

Hope this helps.


Tried trashing user pref com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist, that did no good. Finally used a scattergun approach which lost all the shortcuts in my Dock, but that's no big deal, it's easily repopulated. Here are the ~Library/Preferences that I trashed:
com.apple.dashboard.plist
com.apple.dashboard.plist.lockfile
com.apple.desktop.plist
com.apple.desktop.plist.lockfile
com.apple.dock.plist
com.apple.dock.plist.lockfile

Replacing the com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist may or may not be necessary as well. Then reboot, or log out and back in. Voila- everything reset to defaults, and it works for the first time in months.


Can I configure the auto duplex feature of my Canon Pixma printer on Mac OS X?

Go into the system preferences, Print & Scan, click on the printer, and click "Options & Supplies...".  Under the "Driver" tab, check and see if there's some sort of option to turn a duplexer on & off.


How many displays can I plug into MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports)

You can plug in a maximum of two monitors

The technical specifications gives you detailed info about what your specific model’s capabilities are.  In this case, your model MacBook - 2017 13 inch MacBook Pro - has enough bandwidth to support two monitors at 4K or less or just one monitor at 5K.

The Thunderbolt information page gives you a generalized perspective of Thunderbolt’s capabilities.


How to distinguish between multiple AirDrop connections?

I'm currently experiencing this issue has well.

I will test using sudo scutil to rename computers via bash but still, AirDrop on OS X Mac relies on broadcasting the computers name instead of the iCloud name if multiple users are on the same computer which is not a good idea for a corporate environment.


What are the under documented differences between iPhone 6s and iPhone 7?

iPhone 7:

3GB of RAM (Plus only)
2nd generation Taptic Engine

iPhone 6s:

2GB of RAM
1st generation Taptic Engine


How to delete Bingo Bash data game from iPad

Apple doesn't implement a user method to delete data stored in iCloud or Game Center.

You need to ask the developer to make that code in the app itself. I'm fairly certain a program that can write data can also clear it - but it's really up to them to implement that call to Apple's API in GameKit and CloudKit respectively.

See:

How do I delete data for one game in the iPad Game Center?


Why hasn’t the size of my “Mail” folder reduced after upgrading to macOS High Sierra?

To not leave my own question unanswered: I haven't been able to find much information on this, so far I can only assume Mail's reduced storage space is one of the features that was announced but didn't make it into the final release of macOS High Sierra, or at least not in the initial 10.13.(0) version.


iTunes Match Songs Don't Appear on iPhone

Just to make sure you have all the necessary settings turned on, make sure you have:

The latest version of iOS
Navigate to Settings > Music > iCloud Music Library and turn it on;

Also, make sure you are connected to a WiFi network (the default behaviour of Music app is to only allow music downloads through WiFi). If you don't have a WiFI connection, enable Data Downloads navigating to Settings > Music > Use Mobile Data and turn it on.


It's still there!
Between the podcast artwork and the progress bar, tap the 1x icon to change the speed. On iPhone 4S and below, tap on the artwork to bring it up.


Its hard for me to test, but I believe if you set the alert type to banners, and then un-tick the show in notification center then it shouldn't show the count.

Open System Preferences > Notifications
Select the desired app from the list
Select 'Banners' as the alert style
Un-tick the option Show in Notificaion Center: X Recent Items


I would suggest you, that you delete all the fingers that you have been scanned in for touch ID, because you may have registered some fingers several times.
Then scan in all the fingers that you want to use for touch ID and label them all by their names (left thumb, right middle finger...). Look here as example:

So you will have it under control which finger you have already registered and which not yet in order to avoid double registration!


Flickering horizontal line when I click on Reading List link

It's more of an annoyance (bug) in Safari than an actual problem because it doesn't cause anything to fail.  It's also definitely not something that can be fixed by resetting NVRAM, the SMC or performing First Aid on your disk(s).

What you are seeing is a dialog box that pops up; usually when you are hovering over a link.  I extracted the frame from your YouTube video clip to see what was being shown and it appears to be the link below the one you have selected.

As you have already said, the problem only manifests in Safari.  Your best course of action would be to provide feedback to Apple so that they can address the issue/bug.  Provide them with a link to this question/answer so they get the full picture (no pun intended).

Bottom line:  It's nothing more than a box with a document title/link in it and it only appears for less than a split second.  Annoying?  Perhaps.  Problematic?  Not so much.


smb server not showing in the Finder sidebar under Locations

My best guess is that this is the result of something in your network configuration: e.g. DNS, or maybe DHCP. I'll assume you've not "tweaked" your macos network configuration.

When I've had issues similar to yours, I've been able to clear it up by installing avahi on the reluctant Linux host.  If your Linux host’s name is “jethro”, it will become jethro.local under the "zero configuration networking" scheme used by avahi and Apple's Bonjour.

You can easily check to see if avahi is installed on your Linux host; one way is type man avahi at the command line. If the man page is there, then avahi is almost certainly installed. If it's installed, you can check to be sure it's running:

$ ps -ax | grep avahi
... You should see something like this as the output:
  346 ?        Ss     0:20 avahi-daemon: running [raspberrypi3b.local]
  383 ?        S      0:00 avahi-daemon: chroot helper

Where raspberrypi3b.local is the Linux host from which I ran this command.

If it's not installed, there's almost certainly an avahi package for your distro. Install it, and let us know if that resolves your issue.

If avahi is installed & running, and you see a similar output to mine, then my guess/answer probably won't help you. You may want to try one of the other SE sites to get help troubleshooting.

Also, there's a good overview of zero config networking, and Bonjour in particular, in this Server Fault SE Q&A


Why might Finder appear broken with question marks in the toolbar?

Those seem to be missing apps.

You can "fix" it by removing them:

Press the command key and click the item, move it out of the toolbar until it vanishes.

If you need to find out what those items may be, take a look at the system log:

open /Applications/Utilities/Console.app

Check the System Messages (all) and try to click one of those question marks, because you have a hang, the system will log it.


I have an iMac 27 Late 2012 and I upgraded my SSD.

The fusion drive is a misnomer - it's actually two drives.  There is an PCIe SSD, probably about 128GB that attached to the logic board, then there's a 3.5" 1TB HDD.  Technically, you could upgrade the PCIe blade SSD drive, but after some research, I found it wasn't really economical.

All you need is a standard SSD to replace that HDD. You then create a fusion drive using CoreStorage and you will end up with an SSD with 1.13 TB of total storage.

As per Everymac.com....

The basic steps for this upgrade are:

Back up data
Remove the screen
Replace the SSD (you will need a 3.5" to 2.5" HDD adapter
Replace the screen
Reinstall / Restore from Backup.

I've actually answered this question on another thread:  27 imac Late 2012 HDD Failure

While you are doing all these upgrades, I would upgrade the memory as well.  I used Crucial Memory and your iMac can get up to 32GB of RAM


How to disable Clamshell mode in Yosemite?

Unplug or detach the power adapter before you close the lid. "Closed clamshell mode" requires the MacBook to be plugged into an outlet to activate.

I actually discovered this through trial and error but here's proof! :)

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201834


Enabling Time Machine for a USB HDD with NTFS

You can't backup to an NTFS formatted disk as stated below:

  Note: Every available disk that can be used to store backups is listed. If you’ve partitioned a disk, the available partitions are listed. Time Machine can’t back up to an external disk that's connected to an AirPort Extreme, or to an iPod, iDisk, or a disk formatted for Microsoft Windows (NTFS or FAT format).  If you select an NTFS or FAT-formatted disk, Time Machine prompts you to reformat the disk. Choose a different disk or reformat the disk in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Because reformatting erases any files on the disk, only do this if you no longer need the files or if you have copies of them on a different disk.

This quote is from the apple support page for Time Machine

You could always reformat the disk in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format which would allow you to use it.


My iMac Doesn't boot it. Hangs with spinner and verbose mode can't boot

Sounds like your installation is messed up.

Are you able to boot in Recovery Mode?

Hold both the Command and R keys on the keyboard until you hear the chime noise.


In order to mount an NFS share as a client, you need essentially two things:

The name or IP address of the server, referred to as DNSName
The share path

How do you find this stuff out?

This assumes you don't know what the share paths are.  If you already know, skip down to "Connecting"

Using my own personal Synology Diskstation as an example, I have shared two directories via NFS.  It's DNS name is diskstation.home.  Its IP address is 192.168.1.50 (not really, but it is for the sake of this example)

Launch the Terminal App.

At the prompt, type the following command:

showmount -e diskstation.home
(replace diskstation.home with your DNSname or IP Address)

In my example, the following is displayed:

$ showmount -e diskstation.home
Exports list on diskstation.home:
/volume1/netbackup                  *
/volume1/Network Share              *

Ok...so now I know what the two "share paths" are.  It's time to connect.

Connecting

Let's use finder:

Press CommandK to bring up the "Connect to Server" Dialog Box.
In the "Server Address" box, type enter the values in the format:

nfs://DNSName/path
or
nfs://IP/path

So, going back to my example, I would type:

nfs://diskstation.home/volume1/netbackup
or
nfs://192.168.1.50/volume1/netbackup

You should now be able to browse your network share.


Can't enable password protection in Notes app

On one of my updates I didn't switched to the new Notes system, where you can draw and so on (because of incompatibilities). Now I want to switch:

Open Notes app.
Go back to folder
Tap the update button (on the top left, same height as iCloud)
Tap on update now
It takes some time and you see the number of notes he "converted"
Styling is differently. Now you can set your password.

Be careful when updating because there are some incompatibilities (MacBook must have OS X El Capitan, problems with multiple iCloud accounts on the same phone, ...). Don't know why Apple didn't make it work with both versions.


App can not be opened because it is from an unidentified developer

Broadly speaking, when distributing apps outside the Mac App Store you need to:

Set the signing identity to Developer ID
Create your Developer ID certificates
Create your app Archive
Validate your app
Export a Developer ID signed app
Sign the installer package (not applicable in your case)
Test the app's behaviour with Gatekeeper enabled and again with Gatekeeper disabled

Troubleshooting issues such as this can be tricky because it's easy to make assumptions about how much the OP (in this case you) knows, etc. From reading your question I'm going to assume the first three steps are taken care of.

So, let's start by double-checking how you're validating your app.

Validate your app

To validate a Developer ID-signed app, follow these steps:

In Xcode go to Product > Archive
The Archives organizer window will appear
Select the archive for the app in question
Click on the Validate button
A dialogue box appears asking you to select a method for validation
Select the Validate a Developer ID-signed Application option
Click on Next
In the next window select a team from the pop-up menu
Click on Choose
Click the Validate button

This will identify any validation issues. If any are found, this will be your problem (or at least part of it), so you will need to resolve this.

If no issues are found, then proceed below.

Export a Developer ID-signed app

Still within the Archives organizer window, select the archive for the app in question
Click on the Export button
A dialogue box appears asking you to select a method for export
Select the Export a Developer ID-signed Application option
Click on Next
In the next window select a team from the pop-up menu
Click on Choose
Click the Export button

Once your app is exported you should test with Gatekeeper enabled and again with Gatekeeper disabled.


Create an Automator Service using the setting in the image below.

Then assign it a keyboard shortcut in: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services

I assigned it: optioncommandK

Code for Run Shell Script:

for f in "$@"
do
    fn="$(basename "$f")"
    ext="${fn##*.}"
    if [[ $ext == kext ]]; then
        open "$f/Contents"
    fi
done


How to unstyle incorrect (bold and italic) font display in Safari and Firefox?

When I view this page in Firefox (12.5 beta) I am seeing this text as you probably intended it - no bold and/or italic. Since you reported that the problem is occurring in both Safari and Firefox, it likely is not user preferences in both browsers, which can be set to use user-defined fonts instead of those dictated by CSS or HTML instructions. Nevertheless, I'd check each browser's display preferences first to see if this isn't the case.

Otherwise, this may be a problem with your fonts cache, so clearing it may solve your problem. You can easily do this by opening up Terminal.app and entering the following command (this clears the font cache for the current user account; if you have other accounts, they won't be affected):

atsutil databases -removeUser


To to disable a service form OS X by using recovery console?

Try doing a Safe Boot by holding down the shift key on boot. This will boot, but disable all login items/services. From there, you should be able to disable the problem and boot normally.

More about a Safe Boot
How to perform a Safe Boot


How does Apple's Podcasts app's Auto-Download of podcasts work?

I'm not sure about your first question. I suspect that Keep Most Recent refers to the most recent in the feed, but I don't know for sure.

As for the second question, the Podcasts app adheres to Apple's rules about background/scheduled downloading. That is to say, it only checks for new episodes when the app is open. This is a power and performance optimization decision, and for better or worse, no third party apps are allowed to schedule background checks either (although in theory they could on a jailbroken device, but I don't know if there are any apps that do this). Apps can trigger background downloads using geofencing however (the same way Reminders can trigger an alert when you leave your office).

There are several other podcast apps on the App Store, which have finer grained controls for subscriptions, and so forth. Downcast and Instacast are likely the two most popular ones.


I don't think so. Why do you need to awake your MacBook while the lid is closed? And why do you need to close the lid at all if you aren't transporting it anywhere outside your room? Leave the lid open if you aren't in moving. And your problem is solved.

You will get more from this link: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2208013?tstart=0

Hope this helps ☺


Moving large system directories to another drive and using symlink?

I would recommend using mountpoints instead of symbolic links, but symbolic links will work.

For example, I have a small SSD as a boot drive and a PCIe SSD for my /Users partition on my Mac Pro.

I copied over the data and added the following to my /etc/fstab file.

LABEL=Users /Users  hfs rw,auto

"Users" is the name of the partition known to Disk Utility and "/Users" is the mount point.

This is a lot cleaner than symbolic links, as many tools will not follow symbolic links without being told explicitly to do so, to avoid cyclic links.

In your case, you might want to create a separate partition for ~/Library and move everything over.  You may also want to create separate partitions for Mail and for MobileSync.

All of that said, symlinks will very likely work in these two cases.  However, keep in mind that you're moving directories that have both a high rate of change and a lot of data, which is the worst case for a spindle.  Expect iOS backups to be slower and for Mail operations such as "search" and opening attachments to take a little longer.


What doesn't get cloned to new hard drive in Super Duper?

When you select the SuperDuper script / copy mode, you can change the scripts, that SuperDuper will run during the copy process.

As you can see, a couple of files are omitted:

So the temporary and cache files, etc. may have taken quite some space on your old disk. Some other possible reasons could be:

SuperDuper omits OSX swap files (/private/var/vm), which can become quite large
The spotlight index is rebuilt after cloning a drive. Depending on your system, the spotlight index may become quite large as well over time.
SuperDuper does a permission repair before cloning. Maybe some space was liberated on your old drive during that process.
As Richard suggested, SuperDuper does not clone the hidden rescue partition. But this should not be more than ca. 1GB


Can I increase the default font size for the Notes in Mountain Lion?

You can go in "Terminal.app" and write (if your system is in english):

nano /Applications/Notes.app/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/DefaultFonts.plist

You will see a long file, but it's easy to understand it's content. You just need to change the ?? value, it is the default font size for each font.

When you are done, just control+O to save then control+X to close.

Restart Notes, select your default font and your font should follow the new default


Do Shared Albums take up storage space on iPhone 8/iOS 12?

For sure enabling shared albums takes up local space on both macOS and iOS.

Apple does save space and download lower resolution / lower fidelity thumb nails, and the quality is generally quite good so not everyone notices that you are saving space when you allow iOS to download and save space from iCloud pictures.

You wouldn't be able to know if you have phantom photos unless you remove the iCloud from your settings - that will sync up any data and then remove all local copies - leaving all your iCloud photos intact.

Then you can re-measure and/or restore the entire OS on the iPhone and be sure it's super clean. I've not seen the system report photos when they aren't visible in the app, but it could happen. I have seen "free space" get low when some data goes "missing" and a restore has always cleaned that up for me - as has erase all content and settings on iOS.


Why is Spotlight trying to index my iPod?

According to Apple in Mountain Lion You can disable it in privacy settings.
This same setting is visible in Mavericks, so you should be able to remove your iPod being indexed this way.

As to test this setting for you, I've added a 2 partitioned USB HDD on my MBP, and removed the index. It stopped to index immediately.


Office '08 Can't Read Chinese Characters in Windows-Created Docs?

He needs to make sure that he has the correct fonts installed—Office is trying to display the document, but couldn't find the necessary characters.

It's possible that the previous owner of the MBP deleted fonts he didn't use, or that those particular documents used a font that didn't come with the OS.


iPad LTE edition and SIM from smartphone

Yes, this should work fine. I don't know if I have to answer any longer, but you have to check whether your device has a simlock by a provider. Else you should be free to do this.

You could also use personal hotspot.


How to fix very slow server performance on OS X Lion?

If it is not responding to pings (meaning ping is returning "Request timeout"), then the problem is definitely not DNS or anything at the application level.  I see two possibilities:

Hardware failure: either a switch or network interface is failing.  Since you have another machine working (presumably) on the same switch, perhaps your ethernet port or ethernet cable have problems.  Try a different cable.  Try setting up another interface (perhaps via WiFi, or better yet via USB ethernet dongle) just so you can ping it and see if it ever goes down.
Configuration jitter: something may be causing your network settings to change unexpectedly, similar to if you changed the Network Location.  Check your system.log and console.log.  See what is happening around the times of these outages.

I have not seen OS X suddenly change its network configuration since 10.5 Server, so hardware failure seems more likely.  But definitely look in your system.log and console.log.


Lag on 4k external monitor and MacBook Pro (early 2016, internal graphics) running in retina mode: can bad cable be a reason or just not enough power?

So, if I read your question, and understood it correctly, you are using a USB-C cable to connect your screen to your machine?
The thing is that a USB-C type cable is not the other!
There are a lot of differences in USB-C cables so you have to be sure that your cable supports what you want it to do.
If the cable's bandwidth is not sufficient for supporting 4K it can result in lags as you explain.


Code viewer with color syntax integrated to the finder preview panel

After installing QLColorCode you just have to hit the spacebar to get a similar experience.

To cycle through your files in list view use the up- or down-arrow. To open a chosen folder hit the right-arrow and continue cycling through your code files. To close a folder hit the left-arrow. The other view options work similar (e.g to open a folder in icon view you have to hit cmd + right-arrow).

Hit the spacebar once more to close the preview window.

For some source code files you might have to disable the Xcode QuickView plugin.
Check the readme file of QLColorCode to modify the theme and other aspects of syntax highlighting.


Difference between autopoweroff and standby in pmset

I tried to summarize all the settings in a picture.
For OS X 10.9 (it would be a little different with newer OS)
source
I would say there are just two "modes": Sleep and Hibernation

Sleep: data will be kept in memory.
Hibernation: (or Standby? SafeSleep? DeepSleep?) data will kept in hard disk and requires significantly less power consumption.

Here are summaries of my understanding..

if [sleep == 0], the computer will not sleep or hibernate any more.

For notebooks, the effective setting automatically changes whenever the charger is plugged in

Normally, sleep minutes are simply equal to displaysleep minutes, which you can set in System Preferences > Energy Saver
But under the Power Adapter tab, checking "Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off" will override sleep minutes to 0

if [standby == 1] and [hibernatemode == 3], the computer will wait another [standbydelay] seconds before really entering hibernation.
[autopoweroff] is just an extra implementation to fulfill regulatory requirement and has the same impact equivalent to 2)
either 2) or 3) takes effect if one of them is reached at first.
if [standby == 1] and [hibernatemode == 25], the computer will enter hibernation immediately after [sleep] minutes.

Note:  in MacOS 10.13 autopoweroffdelay specifies the delay, in seconds, before entering autopoweroff mode.
Can someone review and confirm the interpretation?? thanks


Adding application to "Open With" context menu - QNapi problem

I got QNapi to show up in the open with menu by changing

<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>None</string>

to

<key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
<string>Viewer</string>

and then running /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -f /Applications/QNapi.app and quitting and reopening Finder.

(lsregister -f forces a file to be registered even if its modification date has not changed.)


8GB model iPhone 4S is only showing 5.4GB capacity (4.2GB available)

The operating system (OS: iOS 8.x) is using up space as well and you're not able to use this space. The phone comes with 8GB, yes, but minus the space used for the OS. I think Apple got into problems when they advertised with 8GB/16GB etc. while people could only effectively use that space MINUS the space used by the OS.


How do I boot my MacBook Air running Lion in safe mode?

In my 2011 MacBook Air running Lion, when I select Restart... from the  menu, if I then hold the shift key through the restart process, the boot process is distinctly different than a normal reboot. There is a progress bar across the bottom of the screen, and then I am deposited at the login window, despite normally automatically logging in. I suspect that a Safe Boot has indeed been performed. The difference between this an Safe Boot in previous versions is that no "Safe Mode" text appears on the login screen for me.


Go to Preview > Preferences > Images and select Size on screen equals size on printout.

Found this information at this link @ the Apple Discussions site. It seems to have helped other users with the same problem. I've never experienced it myself. Now I know what to do if it does happen!


What happens at the user/OS level when an SSD finally wears out?

"Does it just get slower and slower
  running garbage collection more and
  more often trying to find a place to
  store data as the flash storage system
  degrades?"

^^ This is what I've seen on two occasions (Aftermarkets tho, possibly the same in Apple drives).

They didn't entirely stop working because I eventually replaced them, since things become like a Windows XP after three years of use and no maintenance.

Another SSD I remember failing did it probably from day three, when it failed to mount on a few occasions. Then it failed to mount again later the same day until it eventually never mounted again. It was under warranty and I replaced it.

The SSDs I still have (non Apple) don't show signs of shrink, probably because the space you lose is not a lot compared to the size of the drive. I'm guessing that would be the case.

Although drives tend to live 2-3 years (SSDs), I'd say be prepared for a -possible- change after 1 year.


How do I remove the .local domain from sent mail?

The solution is to edit the main.cf file in /etc/postfix, and change the myhostname = xxx-com.local line to myhostname = xxx.com. OS X Server appears to honor this change, and not attempt to change it back. However, in my opinion, OS X Server should not have chosen such an absurd default value.


Auto complete on iMac- edit list of replacements

You can add a shortcut that replaces a misspelling, so when you type your email address it will autocorrect to the same address (if that makes sense).

Click System Preferences > Keyboard > Text, and click the (+) button to add a new shortcut. Type your email address in the "replace" column and the same email address in the "with" column.

This will ensure you type your correct email address but then it will stay, and not autocorrect.


AppleScript set focus on terminal window

activate application "Terminal"
tell application "Terminal"
   set position of front window to {1, 1}
   set size of front window to {1, 1}
end tell
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "your message here\rexit\r"

Additionally you can get help from
AppleScript get active Application

to put focus back on original application


how to use fingerprint id to sign in to apple ID

I would suggest you reset the Touch ID completely and add it back again. It can help you to fix the issue.

Restart your Mac and hold down Command+R while it's rebooting to enter Recovery Mode
Launch Terminal.
Enter the following:

xartutil --erase-all

Press Return.
Type Yes when prompted to confirm.
Press Enter.
Quit Terminal.
Restart your Mac in normal mode.
Setup your Touch ID again and it should work.


Stop macOS VNC server from rendering remote mouse pointer

It depends on where you take the screenshot.
Even with Apple Remote Desktop if you invoke the screenshot on the local Mac it will include the cursor on the remote instance - which has no clue a screenshot is being taken.
If you invoke it on the remote instance the cursor will hide.
If the key commands are the same for both local & remote, then the local instance will launch in preference to the remote.


How to use zsh and bash on iTerm2 at the same time?

If by “all the configurations for bash didn’t work” you mean that customizations made in ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.profile or ~/.login) aren’t taking effect, that’s because bash is being invoked as a non-login shell (it runs ~/.bashrc instead).

To make it a login shell, the simplest solution is to add the -l option:

bash -l

Alternatively, if you want to actually create a login session you can invoke it via the login command. This creates a new login session (as displayed by the who command) and it invokes bash with the name -bash (as displayed by ps) to indicate it’s a login shell (same effect as the -l option):

login -f username bash


Does Apple Pay offer consumer privacy advantages over traditional payment on the web?

Apple Support Document, Apple Pay security and privacy overview, throws some light on the security and privacy offerings when using Apple Pay on Web.

Relevant quote from the article:

  When you use Apple Pay within apps or on the web

  ...

  To securely transmit your payment information when you pay in apps or on the web, Apple Pay receives your encrypted transaction and re-encrypts it with a developer-specific key before the transaction information is sent to the developer or payment processor. This key helps ensure that only the app or the website that you’re purchasing from can access your encrypted payment information. Websites must verify their domain every time they offer Apple Pay as a payment option. Like with in-store payments, Apple sends your Device Account Number to the app or website along with the transaction-specific dynamic security code. Neither Apple nor your device sends your actual payment card number to the app.

  ...

  When you use Apple Pay on your iPhone or Apple Watch to confirm a purchase from your Mac in Safari, your Mac and the authorizing device communicate over an encrypted channel via Apple servers. Apple doesn’t retain any of this information in a form that personally identifies you. You can disable the ability to use Apple Pay on your Mac in Settings on your iPhone. Go to Wallet & Apple Pay and turn off Allow Payments On Mac.


Yosemite migration assistant locks on start, no way to boot anything else

I used Disk Utility from recovery to clone the boot drive as an emergency backup since I no longer had a working time machine backup. When it finished it rebooted half way, glitched the screen and then went back to a normal boot up and I could access the machine as usual. All ok so far.

I suspect that it had something to do with connecting an Ethernet cable to a Yosemite machine while trying to do a migration. I'll not do that again.


Does the Lion App Store have a debug menu?

The debug menu is available in the Lion app store, with the same command as you posted.

I don't see any other hidden prefs of interest:

NSWindow Frame Preferences" = "-1 53 1289 1005 0 0 1920 1058 ";
ShowDebugMenu = 1;
WebKitUserStyleSheetEnabledPreferenceKey = 1;
availableUpdates =     (
    );


Why can't I see thumbnails in the finder?

This just happened to me and it was fixed by relaunching Finder:

Alt + Right Click Finder in the Dock > Relaunch
Cmd+Alt+Esc > select Finder > Relaunch


When I'm in the entire Calendar year and I tap on a date it doesn't open

When you're in year view, tapping a date never brings you into that day. The way it works is, in year view, tapping on a date blows up the month you selected, and from month view you can tap on a date to see the day.


OSX 10.7 File Sharing does not respect Group: Everyone "No Access". Share publicly displays

Any folder added to your shared folder list is broadcast publicly. If you don't want it to be visible to guest users, remove it from your shared folder list. You will still be able to access it by logging in as a registered user, using your user name and password. If you log in as a registered user, you will be able to see all your files, but a guest can only see files in the shared folder list.


Airport express with double NAT is super slow

I've had better luck with configuring AAEs when using the older airport utility 5.6 via Macbook - if you're using the iPad to manage setup, it's likely that you're on a newer version of AirPort Utility.   The newer versions are simplified and probably best for the most.  However, it's actually more difficult when stepping outside the  default config settings.

tl;dr if there's anyway you can manage your AAE via Macbook, then try installing a previous version of the aiport setup utility  & things will make more sense.  (I know this sounds vague, but it's worked for me - more than once!)  [http://support.apple.com/downloads/DL1536/en_US/AirPortUtility5.6.1.dmg


Is it possible to convert a MacBook Pro from the glossy to the matte option?

Unfortunately, it is completely different type of display. The antiglare is a higher resolution and has different bezel, so it's not possible to upgrade an existing display, short of using a screen film with it.

You would have to get this done through either an Apple Authorized Service Provider (AASP) or an Apple Store. The Apple Store almost definitely will not put something on the MacBook Pro that it didn't come with, but an AASP might. The only way to find out is to ask!


-bash: Applications/mvim: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted

Hmm, so it seems OS X thought it was a good idea to quarantine my script, for some reason, and not tell me about it.

jan@MacBook-Pro ~ $ xattr -d com.apple.quarantine Applications/mvim

fixes the issue.


I can't remember my iTunes password and the email it's tied to is no longer active

You can contact Apple via Apple Support. Select "More Products and Services" followed by "Apple ID". On the following page you asked to choose a topic, select "Other Apple ID Topics" followed by "Lost or Forgotten Apple ID Password". You will then be asked if you would like an Apple support specialist to contact you, or if you would like to schedule a call at a later date.

I suspect they are going to ask you a series of billing related questions to verify your identity. If they are able to verify your identity, you should be able to provide them an alternate email for the password reset link.

Good Luck :)


How to find the URLs accessed by iOS Apps?

You could use the Adblock app which is cheaper than Charles Proxy($2 vs $9) and is really easy to setup.

It has a local DNS proxy which can log all domains your device is connecting to and can also block domains or route them to different ones.


missing /usr/bin/gnutar on Mavericks (MacPorts)

The problem is that your version of MacPorts was not built on Mavericks and assumes the tools that were there when it was installed are still available. Since this is no longer the case, you should re-install MacPorts, which will automatically fix this issue.

Since there is no binary installer for Mavericks at the moment, you will have to build from source instead. Make sure you have installed the Command Line Tools using xcode-select --install before you attempt to run ./configure in the MacPorts source tree. See http://guide.macports.org/#installing.macports.subversion for a how-to.

If you don't want to build a development version from source, a binary installer will be made available in the next few days.

Edit: A binary installer for Mavericks (for the 2.2.1 bugfix release) is now available: https://distfiles.macports.org/MacPorts/MacPorts-2.2.1-10.9-Mavericks.pkg.

Note that you should still run xcode-select --install in any case, even if you do have Xcode installed and use the binary installer.

Since this keeps getting referenced: If you just updated to Mavericks you should also follow https://trac.macports.org/wiki/Migration.


How can I colorize Finder icons in Mavericks?

If you mean to change the actual icon that represents the folders (i.e. double-click on it to open the folder), then there's a good, short article at http://www.visualpharm.com/articles/change_mac_icons.html that explains how to do this if you have icons you would already like to use.

In a nutshell, you right-click (control-click) on the Documents folder and choose "Get Info" from the menu that pops up. Then, choose an icon you'd like to replace it with.* Double-click it to open it in Preview, select all by pressing command-a, and then copy it by pressing command-c. Click on the icon of the Documents folder at the top of the Info window and paste the copied icon into its place using command-v. To remove the custom icon, select the icon you pasted in the Info window and press the delete key to restore it to its original icon.

As for colorizing icons, there are numerous applications that allow you to edit images. Pixelmator is a good one, relatively inexpensive as far as image editors go, and has a colorize option, as well as Adobe's Photoshop. There are also free alternatives that can be found with a bit of web searching.

*You can create the icon from the one already there by selecting it in the Info window, pressing command-c to copy it, and opening up a blank document in your favorite image editor and pasting it into it. From there, you can edit it any way you like, then save it as a .png to use it as an icon.

If you mean the color-coded bars that would highlight the text, called labels, those have unfortunately been retired in Mavericks in replace of tags. Hope this helps solve your problem.


The (background and foreground) color of the folder Qt in your ls output is determined by the last two pairs in your ls color scheme: ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad because it's world writable.

drwxrwxrwx  16 hungig  staff   544B Mar  6 12:28 Qt/
        ↑↑
        |but no sticky bit (a sticky bit would be indicated by a "t")
        world writeable

The last (=11th) pair colorizes directories writable to others but without sticky bit. The color scheme as indicated by your LSCOLORS env variable is a=black foreground and d=brown background. To set it to your default directory color simply change it to ...Ex.

Applying the posted color scheme (PS1 & LSCOLORS and assuming user Davos Doe = user Hung Hoang, who posted the scheme as well as the ls output in an answer, which got deleted and is visible to users with a reputation of ≥ 10,000 only) in a default Terminal shell I get almost completely different color effects though.


How to format a cell with data YYYYMMDD in Numbers to be a date type?

You can assign you custom format to an empty cell. If you then enter a value that contains a hyphen (-) or a slash (/), such as "1/21/2019", Numbers assumes it’s a date and assigns it your custom date and time format automatically. And keeps it.

Otherwise, if you already have a number in a cell or enter value that is a number, such as "20171214", Numbers cannot recognize it as a date and assign it your custom date format.

Hope, this little video may help to understand as well: https://youtu.be/fUwRHtRLaec


If my phone is lost and locked, how will someone know how to contact me?

While the phone is locked with a passcode, the only way someone could find the device's identity is to use a paperclip to remove the SIM tray. There the serial number and IMEI are printed on the tray. Also the ICCID (your SIM number) may be visible as well.

At that point, the finder could potentially reach out to Apple and/or your carrier that both presumably have some form of contact information to reach you - but your best bet is to send a message to the device with your contact information.

Unless you want to call your phone and hope someone answers. That also could place some contact information on the lock screen depending on your settings.


Method #1, inspection of files

Depending on how the software installed it likely would've one or more of these files:

/etc/profile
/etc/bashrc
~/.bash_profile

Given it's a Linux scripted installer running on macOS it will likely have created some additional files which are typically not present on macOS but can augment the behavior of Bash when they're encountered.

~/.bashrc
/etc/profile.d/*

I'd take care to go through all these locations' files and inspect them for any residual cruft from the Linux installer.

Method #2, searching

Since you have some hints from that $PATH output you could search for files that contain bits from that string. For example:

$ grep -r '/Applications/Xamarin Workbooks.app' /etc ~

And then make note of any files that are returned. These would be the files that require repair.


How can you do compound boolean statements in AppleScript?

The following should handle the test:

set Variable1 to "5"

if (Variable1 is not "5") and (Variable1 is not "6") then
    display dialog "Variable1 is not 5 or 6"
else
    display dialog "Variable1 is " & Variable1
end if


I think that's the CPU throttling, not temp - see here: -
What does machdep.xcpm.cpu_thermal_level mean?
This shows your temps:-
sudo powermetrics --samplers smc


How to search for emails sent by a specific person in iOS Mail

Unfortunately Apple has removed this in iOS7.
Please also check out this thread about the issue you described.

If you really need this function right away you have to check for 3rd party apps.

Edit:Some people claim typing; from:  will result in the search you like, but it does not work for me.


Since it is not clear what is not working I recommend following steps:

Trash that Dock Icon, then go to Finder applications and start it from there.

Or use iTunes to access it.

Once running right click and keep in Dock.

Possibly just use Disk Utility and restore/Repair preferences settings.

If it still not working, try with new preferences files.

Find them in  ~/Library/Preferences/

com.apple.storeagent.plist
com.apple.appstore.plist

Quit all applications on your Mac, delete the two files above, and reboot your Mac.

If still not working use cmd+r to restore your OS installation..


I don't know all of Text-To-Speech programs out there, but I think the current state of this technology is still a little behind.

Only the "standard" sentences, i.e. the most common ones, will be spoken with a good intonation. But in general, more or less, programs will behave like robots when pronouncing words.

Regarding the features you asked, anyway, GhostReader does the job and is actually fairly good at pronouncing. Although I'm not sure about the last thing you asked. The program is commercial but has a trial period. You can download single language packages from the site and load them from the program itself.

I was going to suggest Toau as well, but it doesn't have those features you ask, it's pretty basic. The advantages of this app is that it's free, and the interface is simple. The disadvantage is that it uses the Mac OS X library for language packages. When you want to change a language, it will take you to System Preferences, and you'll choose the language there. This is why it's not my first suggestion, while on the other program, you downloaded specific packages.


You can check the app store in the purchased section to see if the apps are there, normally if you're using a brand new mac you should be able to find them there. If you bought a second hand mac I don't think you'll be able to get them for free (legally).

There is something i tried a long time ago i'm not sure it's still working, you need to download the iWork ’09 trial Install it, open all of the apps (pages,numbers and keynote), quit the apps, launch the appstore and then update them.

I have no idea how to get iMovies for free.


Not right now, but the feature is coming back in a future release within the next six months. Apple has documented the missing features in iWork '13 in a new KB titled About the new iWork for Mac: Features and compatibility, where auto-complete for Numbers is listed as one of the features that will be re-introduced.

The new iWork applications—Pages, Numbers, and Keynote—were released for Mac on October 22nd. These applications were rewritten from the ground up to be fully 64-bit and to support a unified file format between OS X and iOS 7 versions, as well as iWork for iCloud beta.
These apps feature an all-new design with an intelligent format panel and many new features such as easy ways to share documents, Apple-designed styles for objects, interactive charts, new templates, and new animations in Keynote.
In rewriting these applications, some features from iWork ’09 were not available for the initial release. We plan to reintroduce some of these features in the next few releases and will continue to add brand new features on an ongoing basis.
Some features in upcoming releases in the next 6 months
Numbers

Customize toolbar
Improvements to zoom and window placement
Multi-column and range sort
Auto-complete text in cells
Page headers and footers
Improvements to AppleScript support

Last Modified: Nov 6, 2013


When enabling Water Lock on the Apple Watch, do the hardware buttons also stop responding to input?

Hardware inputs still work. During waterlock, you'll need to turn the Digital Crown in order to expel the water from the watch and disable waterlock.


Use Gmail as a POP client to your mail server, and use Gmail App.

Gmail spam filter is awesome. I see less than 10 spam emails a year...


How do I delete purgeable space detected by Disk Utility?

See Traderhut Games' answer from this answer:

In Terminal, run

df -h /

Filesystem      Size   Used  Avail Capacity iused       ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/disk1s1   466Gi  370Gi   64Gi    86%    xxxxx   xxxxxxxxx    0%        /

then, for the disk you wish to use, run:

diskutil secureErase freespace 0 /dev/disk1s1


Copying applications from applications folder to external and reinstalling osx

Sure. That's definitely possible. I would recommend you use Time Machine to create a backup of your computer, that way you wouldn't lose any data. Also, because you're using 'Apple's way', its guaranteed to work better

Backing it up: Time Machine
Time Machine, by default, will backup your entire computer. However, you can choose to exclude certain folders from the backup:

In Time Machine preferences you can click the Options button to adjust settings. A sheet similar to this appears when you click Options:

This sheet allows you to exclude files, folders, or entire volumes from being backed up. You might want to do this to avoid filling up your backup drive.

Restoring it: Migration Assistant
Then, using OS X Recovery, you can do an Erase and Install. Once that is complete, you can use Migration Assistant to bring across certain information, like just your Apps, or perhaps your user information as well.

This would be the preferred way as it ensures just in case, you wont lose anything you explicitly want to and Apple system applications are reinstalled correctly.

Resources:

HT1427 Mac Basics: Time Machine
HT4718 OS X: About OS X Recovery
PH11273 OS X Mountain Lion: Erase and reinstall OS X
HT4889 How to use Migration Assistant to transfer files from another Mac


Yes, you can do what you want with Vox Music Player and maybe also Jack OS X.

In terms of which option you'd be better using, it really gets down to what you want to do? If you just want to be able to play music, Vox Music Player is the easier option (it's confirmed as macOS Sierra compatible).

However, if you want to use all your speakers for other uses and/or want the ability to control which applications do and don't use your speakers, then Jack OS X provides more flexibility in that regard (however I have not used it with macOS Sierra - it does, however, do what you want on earlier systems).

Unless something has changed, both options are free to download.

If you do want to try using the Jack OS X option, use the instructions below.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR JACK OS X

I have not tested these steps in macOS Sierra, so please be sure to report back with how you go as it may help others.

Download Jack OS X (be sure to download the appropriate version)
Install Jack (Note: To be able to actually install the software, you may need to manually go to the download and press the Control key while clicking on the app icon and then choose Open from the shortcut menu. Then, when the message appears, click on Open.)
After installation, reboot your Mac
Open JackPilot from within the Jack folder (This should be located in your Applications folder)
In Preferences set the Interface to match how it is your speakers are connected (e.g. USB sound card)
Ensure that both the virtual inputs and outputs match the Interface you selected at Step 4
Now go back to Finder and launch the Audio MIDI Setup app (This should be located in your Applications/Utilities folder)
Select the properties for JackRouter (Note: If you don’t see JackRouter, make sure you have Started it in Jack)
Click on Configure Speakers…
Set your speaker outputs by using the drop-downs to set the output for each speaker. (Note: You can click the speaker name to do a sound test for that speaker).
Click on Done
Open iTunes and play some music
Go to JackPilot and click on Start
Click on Routing (may take a little while to appear)
Choose iTunes by pressing the drop-down arrow
You should see some outputs labelled as out1, out2 etc. Choose out1.
In the second column, use the drop-down arrow for System and double-click on the option that applies to you (e.g. double-click on playback_2,3,6 (where 2 and 6 represent side speakers, 3 represents a subwoofer)
For out2 choose the remaining playbacks. (Note: Do not choose any you didn’t select in Audio Midi Setup earlier at step 6 - 10.

NOTE: Where I refer to iTunes at steps 12 and 15, you can select other apps instead (including games etc).


Mac wakes on scheduled power event that recreates itself every day

Run syslog |grep -i "Wake reason" from the terminal.

Reference this article: http://osxdaily.com/2010/07/17/why-mac-wakes-from-sleep/


invisible rectangles blocking upper left of screen

In case people miss it in the comments under the question, here's a link to the resolution that someone noted on a different post for the same issue:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/405842/45269


How to improve old, slow iMac -- new SSD? Or more RAM?

According to your comment, it looks as if you could do better with more RAM. If it was just launching slowly, then I would say the SSD, but since its switching apps also, I think more RAM would be nice. Unless your iMac ran a lot better under Mountain Lion or below, I really wouldn't downgrade.

BTW: Don't disable the user accounts. Just log off when you are not using that user account.

Since you have a spare SSD, you could also just connect it externally using an inexpensive USB to SATA adapter and install new OS on it and run some A/B tests. You won't see the full speed of an internal placement - especially if you use USB 2.0, but it's often enough to know rule out RAM or OS as a cause of slowness.


An app or script to watch folder and display new images in full screen?

The other simpler alternative is to accept that you are already in fullscreen quicklook mode, and use the following Applescript in the above Automator action to simply select the newest file.

tell application "Finder"
    set the_folder to container of (item 1 of input) as alias

    if window 1 exists then
        set the target of window 1 to the_folder
    else
        reveal the_folder
    end if

    select input as alias
    activate
    activate window 1
end tell

If you are already within a fullscreen quicklook, then effectively you are showing the newest file screen. It is akin to pressing "up" or "down" while in fullscreen quicklook on an already populated directory.

Take your first picture, enter fullscreen quicklook mode, take successive pictures.


Moving notes and lists (in reminders) from iphone 7 to iphone 12

The easy way to sync data like this is via iCloud (or another web service of your choice).
The Apple methods to move data don’t merge backups, it’s all or nothing so since you already have data on the new phone, you want to sync and not migrate.

https://support.apple.com/guide/icloud/set-up-icloud-mail-on-your-devices-mmdd8d1d47/icloud

You can turn on each category you want to sync. I recommend starting with the old device first, then the new second.


Make iPhone apps think no external monitor connected

It Works!

I installed Flex per @AndrewLarsson and entered the name of the app that was detecting the external display.

I then went under UIKit, then searched UIScreen and returned pass-through on displayOut_actualScreens.

When I tested it with my AV adapter, the app did not know that there was an external display connected!

Many thanks to @AndrewLarsson for his help! Without it, I couldn't have figured it out.

UPDATE: False alarm. It wasn't working. I had gotten overly excited and missed the fact that IT DIDN'T WORK!!! I'm really sorry about that...


I have the Seagate in my 2010 15" MBP and I have had 0 problems with it.  It's dead silent and there is no vibration.  My battery life stayed pretty much the same after the upgrade, but since you are looking at dual hard drives (I'm assuming you removed your optical drive) I would expect to see a slight drop in your battery life.

I would stick with the 7200rpm drives over the 5400rpm myself.


Where do I learn to manage a Mac OS Server network?

Ifskills has a great tutorial of Mac OS X Server. I'm still going through it myself. It is massively helpful.


Size of /Users folder is way too low, where is my data?

Finder is probably just counting the /Users/Shared folder or other public folders. You probably don't have permission to the folders containing data for the user, so even though the data is there, Finder can't enumerate it to calculate the size. All you need to do is navigate within the Users folder and give yourself permission to the inaccessible folders (e.g. Documents) with Get Info.


Maintaining Aspect Ratio while Image Cropping using Preview

In Photo (not iPhoto) click Edit

then Crop

then Aspect, and finally Original

.

As of this writing (August 2016), there is no way to do this using Preview or any other stock program in El Capitan. Photo is nearly stock though, and it's easy enough using Photo.


Accidentally deleted files using GNU find -delete - how to recover?

OS X maintains deleted files in the local time machine storage area if you have enabled (or the system has enabled) a local store.

tmutil snapshot

If you can make a snapshot, you can enter Time Machine and recover these files. If you get an error like **Local snapshots are not enabled.
** then you don't have the ability to recover the files from the OS level. Since there is no other undelete mechanism in the filesystem, you have a good survey of recovery tools (I use Data Rescue pretty much exclusively) and your only third option would be to locate a viable backup of the system or the files in question.

I make a habit of enabling the local store and forcing a snapshot before doing anything as root or anything I might regret from the terminal. Having made mistakes like this over the years, I've learned to have that "premonition" to check backup and double check the syntax. In general, I try to make a list of files to delete and save it to a file so I have a pause and a second script that does the removal rather than piping them together. It's not going to help, but it's my experience and way to mitigate when I can't ensure a good backup.

sudo tmutil enablelocal
sleep 8 && tmutil snapshot


To be clearer - if you actually open all the relevant images in the Preview app, the slideshow option inside the Preview app will work.

If instead you highlight the files in Mac OS Finder, and then click Option+Spacebar, you will Quick Look these inside Finder, which will include a slideshow option as well - this is the far faster approach in most cases.

Here are two screengrabs of the Quick Look function in Finder: one showing per-image-view, the other a grid view.

Notice that in both cases I have all the files highlighted in Mac OS Finder, and then click the Quick View keyboard shortcut:

As you can see in the screengrab, if I want to, I then have the option to open any one of these images in the Preview app, should I want to adjust colour curves, print, annotate or other such tasks.


How can I quickly open a text file from the iPhone's home screen?

If you jailbreak, you can install file:// in MobileSafari from Cydia. this would allow you to place text files somewhere in your filesystem (using iFile, also available from cydia) and access them from MobileSafari. for example, a file called text.txt in the root / directory would be file:///text.txt.

You can just open these files in MobileSafari and then add them to your home screen.


DAM or Document Mgt SW for Mac's in a Adobe CC workflow

I work every day on InDesign CS5 & CS6 documents in real time, stored on GoogleDrive and DropBox to an iMac, Mac Mini and MBAir, all SSD-equipped. My Drive account is provided through my employer, while DropBox is my own personal account.

With a fast internet connection, the syncing is invisible. Granted, files are copied locally, but you can define the location of the Drive and DropBox folders to be on external local drives instead of the internal drives if you wish. Both Drive and DropBox allow for selective folder syncing as well, so users can set their machines to sync only what they need to work on.

For external disks, I would recommend USB3 & 7200RPM HDDs at a bare minimum, with Thunderbolt and SSDs at the fast end.

Alternatively, if the task computers can be upgraded with large internal SSDs, that may solve your problem.


Can I use iPad 1 or iPad 2 accessories (such as cases / covers) on the new iPad (3)?

It depends. The iPad (3rd Generation) is slightly thicker than the iPad 2, but there are reports that many cases designed for the 2 will work on the new model. Both of these iPads can use the smart cover technology too. Check with the case manufacturer or online forums to be check the compatibility of specific models.

Update: It seems not all Apple Smart Covers are created equal. Early smart covers may not work with iPad (3gen) because Apple changed the polarity of the sleep sensor magnets at some point during the production run.

The original iPad was the thickest of the lot and had no smart cover capability. Most cases (if not all) were not interchangeable between the newer models.

Accessories should work unless they're truly dimension critical or require a technology not present in a previous model.

My inCase Origami case and the Apple Bluetooth Keyboard it protects continues to work with all iPad models, as do my car chargers, video adaptors and the Apple Camera Connection Kit. The OtterBox Defender case on my original iPad won't doesn't work on newer models.


I don't like pressing hard to drag, I use the 3-finger-drag gesture. With this it is easy to right-drag, just hold ctrl on the keyboard and drag with three fingers on the Trackpad.


Cannot connect to Apple file servers after upgrading to 10.8

It seems that obsolete iDisk settings in OSX 10.8 may prevent you to connect to a file server.

You need to run those commands in Terminal

defaults delete -g iToolsMember
defaults delete -g iToolsMemberDomain

to get rid of those settings.

Source: http://derflounder.wordpress.com/2012/08/03/odd-afp-and-smb-connection-problem-caused-by-idisk-going-away/


Macbook pro 15" keyboard freezes only function keys work

Finally got it. I was pressing option keys lot of times and pressing it 5 times enables mouse keys (which disables keyboard keys).

To reverse, go to "Settings -> Accessibility -> Mouse and Trackpad" and uncheck "Press the option key five times to turn Mouse keys on of off" or simply uncheck "Enable Mouse Keys."


iCloud Keychain refuses to setup on Catalina

If you see an error like this and cannot continue, one easy fix is to sign out of iCloud and then sign back in.

I'm still perplexed and not sure what ithe dialog wants to Upgrade since my password contains all the correct characters and I already have had two-factor auth on my account since it came out. :D

Also, if the date / time is off, you might check that if you get iCloud errors or can't sign back in once you sign out.


How do I partition my computer for Boot Camp?

Yep, that's kinda odd.  Might be because it needs to partition a contiguous chunk, for efficiency reasons, for Windows.  If that's the case, and it's got some immoveable files within that contiguous chunk, I could see it having issues.

I wonder if it would be possible to run boot camp assistant from the OS X disk instead.  If you can, those files could probably be shifted as you wouldn't be booted from the 1st partition anymore.

Alternately you could create a bootable partition on an external hard-drive and do the same from a fully functioning OS X installation.  Finally, the last resort would be to use a 3rd party utility to add that NTFS Bootcamp partition.  I don't recommend that route.


Is there a way to download the iphoto 9.6 update/installer for an offline upgrade?

You can put the new iPhoto itself on a USB drive, and just replace the file in Applications (after taking the necessary backup precautions, of course). It should work fine.

Source: My own experience, having upgraded a computer to Yosemite with the sole available wifi network having a finite amount of data.


Keynote: How to skip "open presentation" window?

This is determined by the ‘NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile’ key. Setting this preference to false will show the new document view by default.

defaults write com.apple.iWork.Keynote NSShowAppCentricOpenPanelInsteadOfUntitledFile -bool false

If you would like a new document to open with a set theme instead of with the theme chooser, go to Keynote Preferences and set For New Documents: Use theme.


How To Stop Sticky Notes From Flickering?

Open the Keyboard in your sys pref.

The click on the Input sources Tab.

Uncheck the "Automatically switch to Document Input source".

If above did not work try following.

Go to /Users/borderline/Library/Preferences

find the com.apple.Stickies.plist

Delete it and restart.


How to resolve the 100% disk usage on my iMac 27" (late 2013) when in Bootcamp bootup

The solution to my particular problem is to be found here which suggests excluding the process MsMpEng.exe from the windows defender service. I'm running windows 8.1 so this done by searching for Windows Defender in your programs, clicking on the settings tab (far right) and then browsing to 'C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MsMpEng.exe' and adding it to the excluded files and locations. Disk usage reduces drammatically!


Only certain theaters are capable of mobile ticketing. In the Fandango app when viewing theaters which can accept mobile tickets you will see a notification which says "Mobile ticket available." If you do not see this indicator a mobile device cannot be used as a ticket at this theater and therefore tickets will not show up in Passbook. That said, you can still purchase tickets for the theater and use a confirmation code at the box office.


Every window opened generates a "The function ‘CGContextErase’ is obsolete" message in console

I found the culprit. It was the outdated Tablet Driver from Wacom. After I uninstalled and upgraded it, there is no more such messages in console.


How can I disable the dictionary for Google Chrome?

The "Look up" functionality has coverage across the entire operating system, not exclusive to Google Chrome


Swipe to Archive instead of Delete in Mail.app on El Capitan

Open Mail > Preferences > Viewing and change "Swipe Left To" from Trash to Archive (5th line down).

For macOS Sierra, its a little different.


Magic trackpad starts pairing but does not complete succesfully with one Macbook

Just found a related question and answer: apparently the trackpad can only be paired with one mac at a time - even if the other one were powered off (as is the case here)

How can I pair my Magic Trackpad with multiple Macs?


It looks like an issue with your default iPhone calendar account. How many calendars do you have on your iPhone? I'd suggest that you go to Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and under the "Calendars" section, see what calendar account exactly is set as Default.

The account set as default will be the place where all newly-created events will be saved to.


iMac Pro microphone doesn't work and camera is not detected

The T2 chip is involved in running the camera and microphone to a major extent such that the old way to troubleshoot this need an update.

First, consider powering everything off and then disconnecting from power for 15 to 30 seconds to let the SMC and T2 do a complete cold boot. Portables  have a more involved SMC reset but Mac Pro and iMac Pro are easy to reset.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201295

Next, consider getting diagnostic run from Apple if you have that option and if not consider connecting to the internet and running a reinstall of macOS to give everything a chance to update. Reinstalling the OS online and not from a saved installer or offline image ensures you have a chance to get caught up on EFI and firmware and bridgeOS updates.

In addition to the os, the T2 and the EFI Get updates only when you install the OS. This won’t intentionally erase anything, but I like to back anything important up just in case.

Lastly, take it in for a physical repair.


Mac Mini (late 2012) No boot, heavy fans after upgrade

Were you ASD safe? If not there is a good possibility you had some static discharge that shorted the board or the memory.

Actions to take:
Does it let you reset PRAM?
Try unplugging the Mac mini and holding the power button down for 10 sec. Apple and others may say you do not need to hold the power button down but I have found with some models or issues it help.

Check to see if HDD sensor is shorted/damaged.
If none of this works the you will need to start part isolation or bring it to someone who can.
i.e.
Take out the RAM and see if you get an error beep.

Good luck.


trying to figure out how to use App Switcher on Lion

Use the Mouse System Preference. There is a setting for each button on the mouse - including the nipple like one on the top. On my iMac I have this set to Off, but there is an option for Application Switcher, which if you chose that it would allow you to switch application by clicking the nipple button. I just tried this and it works, though I might not leave things set this way. If you don't like the idea of a nipple button, it's also called a mini mouse button. Oh, I'm using Mountain Lion too


How do I change the region on an Airport Express?

You need to do a firmware reset (factory default) – see http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3728

Beforehand, ensure:

the mac through which you will be setting up the Airport Express (ie by use of Airport Utility) is set to Australia in its preferences (e.g. on MacOS these are System Preferences/International/Format and System Preferences/Date & Time/Time Zone).
the Airport Express can connect to the internet within Australia, at the time of first set up after resetting the firmware back to factory defaults.

I believe the firmware attempts to determine its location on first setup (either via the IP address it sees on initial connection, or off the computer), which it then writes into its firmware.


How do I print in grayscale on Canon Pixma MP280?

To set Grayscale printing, click   Layout, then Quality & Media.  Not the most obvious choices in an OS famed for UX!


iCal allows 25,000 events on iCloud. How do I get more?

Why not take the last 9 years of calendar entries, export them as an iCal Archive, then create a new calendar, import those entries, but do not sync to iCal. You can then delete those entries from your daily calendar, while maintaining history in your archive calendar. You can sync this archive calendar to your iPhone via iTunes, rather than iCloud. Of course, you can do this with your 10 years of entries as well, but you will not get the nice benefits from iCloud on your daily calendar.


Yes, if you have a more recent backup you can always restore that later.


Rsyncd: unable to bind any inbound sockets on port 873

You'd see that error if you don't have privileges or a process is already bound to port 873.
Anyway I just wrote a small 'one button' GUI app which starts the rsync daemon for you:
http://bonhardcomputing.com/rsync-server/
It also has the most modern version of rsync built into it...


MBP retina + Dell u3011 via HDMI: intermittent screen message about audio

Verified that this device http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=8119&seq=1&format=2 fixes the problem EDIT: using displayPort between the adapter and the screen)!


Install macOS High Sierra using Terminal

You can run:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/startosinstall –applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app

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How to make CarPlay and Google maps coexist peacefully

This is likely an issue with your Starlink media center. Try looking through the settings on it for an autoplay on connect or something similar. In my car's media station, a bluetooth connection will pause and auto-play when using Google Maps, but does not always perform the same when using the USB connection.


You can do one of two things:

(a) Configure macOS's native packet filter, PF, to forward packets to a "divert socket" (akin to a Unix socket on Linux; see divert(4)). An application running in userspace can then listen on this divert socket and inspect packets, followed by dropping them or handing them back to the kernel (with or without modification) for sendoff. See this blog post for an example config, and pfctl(8), pf.conf(5), and the PF User's Guide for comprehensive info on PF's capabilities and how to configure it.

(b) Deploy a kernel extension which uses the native IP filter interface, IPF (akin to Linux's Netfilter), to inspect, modify, and drop packets. See Jonathan Levin's Mac OS X and iOS Internals for details; the 1st edition describes this interface in §17.7.4 IP Filters (page 698).

I don't know of any general-purpose daemons that work on principle (a) or kexts that use principle (b) that allow you to write config files that specify rules for modifying and dropping packets in transit, so it seems like you'd need to write your own daemon or kext for your specific use case.


iMessage on Mac not working when using VPN

Make sure TCP port 5223 is open through the VPN—this port is required by iMessage.