It sounds like there is some problem with the connecting wires for the display. If you're okay how things are, then you can just leave things be. A repair would probably cost several hundred dollars.

I have the same model Mac and also have display issues. When it was almost one year old, I noticed that the display would often go wonky (not turn off but look all weird like a light show), often if I were to open it all the way, if I recall. (So some problem with the internal wiring, probably different wires than yours though.) This was mainly a problem when I took it to class and was more prone to open the display all the way. So I quickly bought an extended warranty as someone from Apple predicted that my display issue would get worse and require a repair. But the issue never got worse, and I was always fine the way it was. I've been using this laptop for almost five years (still snappy!), and only very rarely do I experience this problem again, and the problem goes away by closing the lid and opening it more normally.


Apple Watch connects to Wi-Fi networks it has connected whilst being linked via Bluetooth with your iPhone. See: About Bluetooth and Wi-Fi on Apple Watch

So, let's say you forget your phone at home but you're wearing your watch at work. Your watch will recognize the wifi network and still give you your notifications over Wi-Fi.

You might also need to mirror notifications. See: About notifications on your Apple Watch


How do I adjust the tap-to-click sensitivity on the Magic Trackpad or the built-in MacBook trackpad?

Unfortunately the sensitivity of the tap-to-click feature on the trackpad may not be adjusted through the default system software at present. It may only be turned off altogether.

However if you download BetterTouchTool it will allow you to adjust tap sensitivity, among other things.


How to mirror MacBook Pro screen to Apple TV?

If your MBP is early 2011 or newer and there's an Apple TV on the same wifi network as you, you should see an icon that looks like a TV in the menu bar. Click it and you'll get a dropdown menu listing all the available Apple TVs (in case there's more than one). Click yours and you should be good to go!

If your MBP is older than early 2011, you'll need a third-party utility of some sort. If you're willing to shell out $15, I've heard great things about AirParrot.


Settings --> WiFi --> select the network --> select Static and set the necessary values


Magic Window causes GfxCardStatus to switch to Discrete mode

Yes, I'm afraid it will have an impact, but not necessarily a big one. I'm in a similar situation, a seemingly-benign app (Postbox, a mail client of all things) forces my discrete graphics on too (same model, MBP Retina).

The authors are fully aware of it but say there's nothing they can do - ultimately the choice about whether to enable discrete graphics is up to Apple, it gets turned on automatically if OSX detects that heavy graphics processing is taking place.

Apparently in the case of Postbox it's due to font rendering or something. I've just learnt to live with it - if I was really desperate I can force it back to onboard graphics using the very tool you mention anyway.

How big the effect is really depends on what the application is doing, and only you can determine it, by trying it with graphics first on discrete and observing estimated battery remaining, then again on integrated graphics. This should be a reasonable clue.


There is no easy way to disable / delete the Apple ID from Apple's servers, but you can delete all the personal data (contacts, calendars, mail) and then change the contact information and security questions / password to ones that you will no longer use or ever enter into a device. I would write them down and file it in a safe just in case you change your mind down the road. If you want to re-use that email with Apple in the future, you may want to change the Apple ID to a disposable email and clear all other emails from that account if you ever want to use those "real" email addresses with your actual AppleID.

How do I remove or delete an @me.com email?
Remove an email address from apple-ID
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5622

In short - you can and should delete the obsolete ID from all your devices. In the past, there's not been a way to delete an account without Apple support speaking with a service engineer to delete an account on the server side.


How do I get the full path for a file in finder?

You can also enter the following in Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
then
killall Finder

This will display the full path in the titlebar.

to turn it back off change the -bool YES to NO

Or if you want to copy the text of the path you can drag the file into Terminal.


If I pause an App Store update, and shut off my Mac, will it resume upon startup?

So I got the message "An error occurred" when it was nearly done. I gave up, shut my Mac down later that day, started it back up, tried the download again and it resumed from where it failed


You have to change the Terminal’s behavior to the alt key acts as a meta key (like in X11 Terms). After you check that, everytime you press alt + ., you’ll get the last argument from the previous command. (You can repeat that command n times)


node wants to use the "Local Items" keychain

I got this too, and I ran "ps aux | grep node" from the terminal. I've seen a couple of different programs show up. One was Videostream. Another was actually Adobe Creative Cloud:

kenlu              693   0.0  0.2  5996836  27612   ??  S    11Dec18  23:09.26 /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud Experience/CCXProcess/CCXProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/../libs/node /Applications/Utilities/Adobe Creative Cloud Experience/CCXProcess/CCXProcess.app/Contents/MacOS/../js/main.js

So it looks like this is just part of Adobe Creative Cloud, which is probably fine.


You may have subscribed to Apple Music, and are getting a charge for the monthly fee.
To cancel your subscription, follow the advice from this Apple Support article:

On the Home screen, tap Settings.
Tap iTunes & App Store.
Tap your Apple ID at the top of the screen.
Tap View Apple ID. You might need to sign in.

Under Subscriptions, tap Manage.
If you don't see a subscription in iTunes and are still being charged, make sure that you're signed in with the correct Apple ID. If so, you might have subscribed directly with the provider and not through iTunes. In this case, contact the content publisher or app developer directly to cancel your subscription.

Tap the subscription that you want to manage.
Use the options to manage your subscription. You can choose a different subscription period, or turn off Automatic Renewal.
Turn off Automatic Renewal to cancel a subscription. Your subscription will stop at the end of the current billing cycle.


What angle do I insert iPad SIM eject tool into new iPad to get the tray out?

PUSH!

The old way was to insert the tool at an angle and kind of push sideways and pull out at the same time, using leverage, and the tray would hang onto and come out with the tool, but with the new iPad (2012), simply insert the SIM eject tool straight into the tiny hole (straight being the way it enters with the least resistance, i.e. perpendicular to the case where the hole is), and then push.  The tray will eject.

I'd have posted a link to authoritative information, but I just had this exact problem myself (UPS guy arrived an hour ago!) and so I'm speaking from first-hand experience :-)

I tried what I thought was obvious once I realized the hole was no longer part of the SIM card tray assembly (see photos below), so angling and pulling would do nothing like it did on the 2010 model's tray (i.e. when the hole was part of the tray).

SIM card tray outer view from my original iPad (2010):

Notice the hole was part of the tray.
SIM card tray outer view from my new iPad (2012):

Notice the hole is separate from the tray.  Insert SIM tool, and push.

I'm adding a comment.
Once you notice the Sim Tray lifting just a fraction you are half way there - now push harder and it pops right out. Good luck.


Are there any issues with having six disk drives in a Mac Pro?

Purely anecdotally - I've been running 4 HDs in Mac Pros since 2008 with no issues - but never tried 5.

Currently I've a 4,1 with 4 HDs & a boot SSD in the optical bay. I still have the optical in the other bay.

I find that normally the CPU fans run a little fast at stock settings, so I use iStat Menus to lift the Intake fan speed from its nominal 600 to 1000 rpm & that settles everything down.

Pure speculation, but that's because I'm running 2x3.46Ghz Westmere Xeons instead of the original Nehalems, so ymmv.

The only thing I'd beware of would be to give it enough room to breathe, plenty of exhaust space. I find my older 3,1 whilst perfectly capable of keeping its own temperatures down, really throws a lot of heat into the room, so I wouldn't ever put it in an enclosed space.

Potentially, with an HD in the optical bay, you might want to lift the Power Supply fan speed, as the HD will be pushing more heat than the opticals ever would & I'm not sure the system would automatically compensate for that.


With multiple monitors, can I pick which one an application will load on?

Not with the default Apple Spaces.

There is an alternative, though. CocoaBots makes a small app called Hyperspaces which builds upon the default Spaces and adds a bunch of cool features. Multi-monitor support is coming to their next release.

http://thecocoabots.com/blog/post/148/hyperspaces-104-and-the-road-to-11/


Printing current date and time on each page

I finally found a usable solution using convert from ImageMagick, the PDF services mentioned by nathang and Automator.

Start Automator, create a new "Print Plugin"
Drag the "run shell script" action to the right and enter the following script:

export PATH=/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/bin:$PATH
convert -size 400x50 xc:white -font Arial -pointsize 24 -gravity center -draw "fill grey50 text 0,0 '`/bin/date`'" /tmp/stamp.png
cat

Add the "Watermark PDF Documents" action and add the file "/tmp/stamp.png" using the 'add...' button. (You probably have to create this file first, e.g. using touch /tmp/stamp.png in a Terminal). Then adjust the offset, scale and opacity as you like. I'm using x=480 y=820 scale=0.25 opacity=0.7.
Add the "Open Images in Preview" action.
Save the Automator script.

Now you should find a new action in the "PDF" drop-down menu of your printing dialog, which stamps the current date and time on each page and shows the result in Preview, from where you can print the document.


What does mkdir -p do? specifically the "-p" part?

Have you tried running the man mkdir command in Terminal? Doing so results in the following explanation for the -p option:

  Create intermediate directories as required.  If this option is
               not specified, the full path prefix of each operand must already
               exist.  On the other hand, with this option specified, no error
               will be reported if a directory given as an operand already
               exists.  Intermediate directories are created with permission
               bits of rwxrwxrwx (0777) as modified by the current umask, plus
               write and search permission for the owner.

So basically

mkdir foo/bar/baz/quizz

will fail unless the directories foo, foo/bar and foo/bar/baz already exist.

mkdir -p  foo/bar/baz/quizz

will create any missing directories in the path (as long as you have write permissions in the parent directory) and ensure that the permissions allow you to access them.


Three things come to mind one have you tried resetting doing a hard reset by holding home button and the power off button till the apple logo comes up and says to connect to iTunes then connect to iTunes and restore another couple of lil tricks are hold the power button till it brings up slide to power of instead of powering off ur phone hold down the home button this will wipe all back loading apps another thing is go to App Store and after the App Store loads up hit the explor button 10 times if none of this works got me but my mothers phone did the same thing and by doing these things a few times it is now working not sure tho


How to run an AppleScript when Safari starts up?

Safari won't automatically run the script on launch. The easiest way to run the script is to place the script in ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.Safari, then you can run the script from the Script menu when Safari is running.

You can enable the Script menu if you haven't used it before from Script Editor, then the menu appears and shows all appropriate scripts. Enable the Application Scripts menu in Script Editor → Preferences → General under ‘Show Script menu in menu bar’.

I've updated the instructions on the linked blog post: Bypass ‘Safari no longer supports the unsafe extension’ in macOS Mojave: Next steps


Trackpad stopped working on mac book pro 2019

Removing a preference list is not so good on macOS. First step is to let the database that tracks preferences to clear those entries.
defaults delete -/Library/Preferences/whatever

Since the system may not read those settings, shut down after the above. Good news is you know the hardware and OS are fine. Worst case no one can help figure out how your account is corrupt and you back up your files and restore them to the new account with the working settings.


Unable to update to Xcode6 from AppStore

I've had this happen with other apps in the past and what works for me is to:

kick off a Time Machine backup (or equivalent)
delete the app using Launchpad (or deleting from from /Applications)
restart

The restart is probably not needed in the vast majority of cases, but it ensures that no files from the app are still open from any process still running.

At that point, the app store should have a good shot to install the app (Xcode in your case).


Bless EFI/GPT Windows installation on separate HDD to boot on startup

Boot to the Startup Manager and hold down the control key before selecting Windows. For a better answer, I will need more information.

Added the output from diskutil list to your question.
What is the model year or identifier of your MacPro?
Do you still have the media (DVD, iso or flash drive) you used to install Windows?

I suppose it would be possible to have the boot files on the EFI partition of the first disk and the Windows partition on the second disk. If so, this might confuse System Preferences. If this is the problem, then you could either bless the Windows partition from a Terminal application window or add a script to the menu bar that would accomplish the same operation.


You can monitoring your energy consumption with :

iStat Menus :

http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

You also have some free alternative on the web

The Activity Monitor

http://www.tekrevue.com/tip/use-activity-monitor-energy-tab-os-x-mavericks/

And if you want to know the kW energy consumption, ArchonOSX is right.


Why does my MacBook Air (almost) always lock when I shut the lid?

If you close your laptop then immediately reopen it does it lock itself? also in the settings it specifies that it will not lock after "sleep or screen saver begins." Which means what may be happening is that your MacBook is passed a sleep state and has entered standby mode and locked itself.

Side Note: Why would you want your mac not to lock itself. Closing the lid does not protect against potential attackers if you have this setting disabled. It also makes it harder to lock you computer when you want to.


RSS reader for iPhone with text-to-speech support?

For RSS, I use Reeder 3, but you can probably use your favourite app, because…

iOS has built-in text-to-speech support system-wide for selectable or unselectable text.

Method 1: Select text and speak it

Open Settings → General → Accessibility → Speech and enable Speak Selection.

  A Speak button will appear when you select text.

In an app like Reeder, hold down on the text, make a selection or choose Select All, then tap Speak.

Method 2: Speak all text

Open Settings → General → Accessibility → Speech and enable Speak Screen.

  Swipe down with two fingers form the top of the screen to hear the content of the screen.

A HUD appears for controlling speech, which hide automatically or with the left arrow and unhidden with the right arrow.


pam_tid.so asks for password instead of requesting for fingerprint when docked

Answer received from DisplayLink Support:

Unfortunately we are aware of this problem but this is one of our driver limitations. At the moment we are unable to change it as it happens due to the way MacOS is treating our application/driver.
In order to change that we would need Apple to change some options in their OS. I believe that in the future we will be able to resolve such issues but for now there is nothing that I can propose.


Q: Mid-2009 15" MBP Line-out / Headphone-out jack not working properly - how to resume behaviour without replacing Logic Bus?

You will be amazed what can collect in the headset socket over the years, hindering its proper functioning. Giving them an occasional good cleaning will keep them running.

First, use a tooth pick and try to remove anything that could be stuck in there.

Next use a q-tip soaked with alcohol and swipe in there to clean the contacts.


Fix Safari 6 Address Bar Selection Behavior

This is built-in to Safari 6. To the best of my knowledge, there is (currently) no flag to control this with.


Change the background effect in Launchpad on Yosemite

Previous versions of OS X had ways to disable this, but starting in OS X 10.10, you can't. The launcher, login screen, and mission control all have blurry backgrounds, it looks hideous, and you are stuck with it.


I'm guessing this might be closed as "opinion-based" but IMO, it's not really worth it.

New SSD, max out the RAM at 6GB, last supported OS El Capitan… it would still be OK for email & a bit  of light word processing, but not so much out in the interwebz, because it has no security updates any more.


How can I stitch a set of images together?

You can do it with Imagemagick from a terminal. If you have Homebrew, installing it is as easy as:

brew install imagemagick

Once you have it, open the terminal and go to the folder where you have the pictures, then do:

convert foo* +append result.jpg

And there you have it, your 100 pictures in a row. You can also make a column with them, instead of +append use -append.


How to turn off connections when MacBook lid is closed

You could install blueutil and SleepWatcher via homebrew and set a .sleep code to call blueutil in order to disable bluetooth and call "networksetup -setairportpower en0 off" to disable wifi when going to sleep mode or closing the lid.

Blueutil comands are "/usr/local/bin/blueutil -p 0" to disable bluetooth and blueutil -p 1 to enable it.

To use SleepWatcher, make a shell script in your home directory named .sleep and give it permission with the chmod command.

You also can do a .wake code to enable back connections when waking up the mac.

You can find out how to use sleepwatcher here


I was able to build Wine 64 bit from source on macOS Catalina and successfully run Notepad++ 64 bit on it.
My steps were more or less something like that:

Download Wine 4.20 from https://dl.winehq.org/wine/source/4.x/wine-4.20.tar.xz
Extract it
In terminal go to extracted directory
Run: ./configure --enable-win64
It showed that it couldn't find bison, so I installed it with macports (sudo port install bison).
After I was able to run ./configure --enable-win64 successfully without errors in terminal run: make
It compiled after more than 30 minutes.
I run it with: ./wine start
It opened windows console and here I was able to cd to Notepad++ 64 bit directory (downloaded from https://notepad-plus-plus.org/repository/7.x/7.0/npp.7.bin.x64.zip note that newest version did not work and threw some errors about some dll's)
I typed notepad++ to run exe file
It showed some errors about freetype fonts so I installed them with macports and I had to copy them from /opt/X11/lib to /usr/local/lib before wine detected them
After fixing freetype fonts problem I was able to run notepad++
Also, you might want to run: sudo spctl --master-disable to disable gatekeeper if you will see some system alerts about loading app from an unknown developer.
Also, note that instead of ./wine start you can run ./wine explorer for graphical file manager instead of console

Those steps might not be exactly precise, as I'm not sure if I did not miss something but hope it will help someone.
Also, note that obviously wine on macOS Catalina will be able to run only some 64-bit windows apps and all 32-bit windows app will not work. I also tested it with IrfanView 64 bit (https://www.fosshub.com/IrfanView.html?dwl=iview453_x64_setup.exe) and it also works fine.
In case you wanted to get wine working for purpose of running 32-bit games then unfortunately it will not work with wine but you can try with VirtualBox. You can check https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AO8dF0vviQ for some performance improvement tips (in brief: using VM with retina disabled, VboxVGA setup, disabled mouse integration, limiting FPS with RivaTuner).
You can also try commercial CrossOver software by CodeWeavers which provides wine that supports 32 bit apps on Catalina. You can download the trial version for free and test it for free for 14 days. Also probably 32 bit apps will be supported by a normal free version of wine at some point.
EDIT:
Since July 2020 PlayOnMac (https://www.playonmac.com/en/) works again on macOS Catalina so you can download it and run windows apps with it which I think is much simpler. Good news is that it also supports running 32bit windows apps on macOS Catalina. Installing apps with it is a little more complicated than with commercial CrossOver but it is free and worked with 2 apps which I tested. I checked it with Notepad++ 32bit and with 32bit game Tomb Raider Anniversary Demo and I was able to get both apps working on macOS Catalina. Also I was able to install RivaTuner 7.2.3 app (with dotnet35 winetrick and manual installation of Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable package) to limit FPS in game which I recommend if someone wants to limit cpu and cpu fan usage.


How do I move an application from Launchpad into Applications folder?

You could do this:

Activate Launchpad
Launch the application
Click and hold the application's dock icon
In the Options menu, choose "Show in Finder"
Move the application to the desired destination


Yes - handsfree bluetooth accessories will work to extend the range a good 25 or more feet in many cases. You could also rig a wire and have much, much longer extension, but I can't imagine wanting to be wired to the phone and using a handsfree in that manner.

There are many, many mobile base stations that work with all manner of cellular towers and technologies, so those would be my next choice if you can't get the phone close enough to reception for bluetooth to extend the range to your body.


Does the new photos app still try to recognise faces?

Yes, there is a Faces album which will show all recognised faces in your images.


Cannot delete dataless localsnapshot in high sierra

After encryption has been finished, I can successfully delete the dataless local snapshot. I think local snapshots can't be modified while encryption is in progress.


After restore, Photos is uploading items

I am having the same issue because I restored from an iTunes backup which had all my pictures inside (I bought the 256GB to have all my photos on the device).
Doing so first created a 40GB extra iCloud backup for my iPhone from nowhere then added about 15GB of data to my iCloud Drive folder. No idea what is in there.
Have been in touch with two Apple advisors in these days:

the first told me that this is normal
the second one made me perform a turn off / on of the iCloud Photo library (which didn't help), then a log out/in of the iCloud account (which didn't help).

They said to wait 72hrs! I wonder how this is considered acceptable!
I hope those two steps they made me do can help you.


backslash key was permanently pressed. Nothing related to yosemite. Used Karabiner to disable that key.


How to customize open with menu in Yosemite?

You need to reset LaunchServices for changes to take effect:

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain user;killall Finder


This works for iOS 11 and earlier (Restrictions were changed in iOS 12):

The easiest way to get Siri back (without doing a Soft Reset or Reset All Settings), do this:

Go to Settings→General→Restrictions
Enable Restrictions; give it a password.
Disallow Siri & Dictation.
Return back to General settings.
Go back to Restrictions, putting in the password.
Allow Siri & Dictation.  Go back to Settings and Siri & Search should now be available.
Disable Restrictions.

This worked on an iPhone 6s Plus on iOS 11.2.5.


Mac Pro gets stuck in "safe mode" after Lion upgrade

Boot to single user mode (Command-S) and see what fsck shows.

/sbin/fsck -fy
repeat the prior up to three times if needed

Assuming it boots, you can halt and then boot in verbose mode (Command-V) to restore all the console glory.

You can also peek at /private/var/log/system.log while on single user mode to see what was happening when the clock was passing faster than the gray progress bar.


How do I move a deleted App to my old iPhone?

Did it stop working on the new iPhone because of the iOS update? Then restoring the app from the backup is not a solution, as it might upgrade iOS as well (do you know for sure what OS it was when you backed up?).

If you are using the same Apple ID on your iPhone 5, you still can download and install the old app. Not really good idea sticking to the discontinued app, but still...  iMazing to my knowledge is the only software that can do it (disclaimer: I work for iMazing). Legit App Store downloads, and this functionality is 100% free at the moment. It should work if it was removed from sale by the developer. If it was Apple who removed it, most probably we won’t be able to help.

Anyway, it’s quite straightforward, but I’ll post the steps just in case:

Install iMazing & connect your iPhone with the needed app,
Select your device on the menu, and click Manage apps,
Locate the app in the apps list & click the Download button
Sign in to your Apple ID to finish the download
Once the download is finished, exit the wizard, connect your old phone, select it in the sidebar and click Manage Apps again.
Select the app in question, and click Install - that’s it.


Is it possible to use an iPad as an additional computer monitor?

Recently Air Display announced a beta of the Windows client so now there are two choices but it also works only over Wifi so I would imagine they would both have lag issues.


accessing Keychain Access from terminal - OSX

You can deactivate the message by adding security to the list of applications allowed to access the entry inside Keychain Access.app:

You can also add an allowed application to an already existing item using the CLI (you will get a GUI box asking for confirmation though):

security add-generic-password -a ${USER} -s playground -T /usr/bin/security -U

-T is the path of the application you want to authorize and -U is to update entry if it already exists (what's called an "upsert" in some databases). (and playground is the name of my test entry).

See man security (or the online version) for further reference.


How to use iPhone to send Bluetooth to a speaker playing the music from my PC HDD?

You can't use your iPhone as a receiver of music (either from wifi or cable) from your PC in the manner you appear to indicate.

However, if you have iTunes installed on the PC, you can use iTunes to access your music first.  Then, use the iPhone to access the music through iTunes.  Once you've got the music playing, you can output it to your BT speaker.  It's actually much simpler than it looks in print!

You would need to setup your devices to use Home Sharing.  Start by following the guide in this Apple Support page on Home Sharing.  All devices must be on the same network for this to work.

Here's another walk-through on how to set this up and it might be a little easier to follow.

The benefit of this setup is when you add more devices, like Apple TV or an iPad, they can also access this same music using Home Sharing.


Microsoft released support article that states that Office 2008 is compatible with some known issues.

If you lost your autosaved files try to look in in Trash for Recovered files (after Restart) and check if the Autosave directory is set right (and has the right permissions) in Word Preferences.


Is there a last.fm app for iOS to submit the music I'm listening to ?

iScrob seems to do what you want on the iPhone. I found after a very brief search, used it for an hour or so after answering this question and found it to be pretty neat.

With iOS 5 I can see the track I'm playing in the lock screen and control iScrob as I would Music.

It also displays album artwork on the lock screen:

The only disadvantage is that I can't create Genius playlists.


I assume that the account you are using doesn't need a password right now (otherwise how would you log in). Passwords can be changed in System Preferences -> Users and Groups

If you are an admin user, your sudo password is the same as your login password.


How to always allow "[program] wants to make changes. Type your password to allow this."

This is too large a trust you want to give to osascript.

Do you want this command to run without asking you for a real confirmation:

sudo osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to quit'

?


Where is the config (application properties) file for TimeMachine settings and the path excludes?

ok, found it:

/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

They ARE saved in the Systems-Library Preferences. All user settings are entitled in this file ;/

see http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=2010051917410348 => http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20071207104354466

P.S: According to @M-K's answer the default exclusion list is found under

/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist


Using the application Mail click on your mail. Then click in the bottom bar the 4th icon that is an arrow. Press Forward. If it asks if you want to include attachments from original message, press Include. Then just fill the information depending on who do you want to send it to.


Change width of a column in a table in Notes.app on a Mac

The rows and columns of Apple Notes's tables should automatically adjust to fit content. There is no control to explicitly set a width or height, apart from adding whitespace to increase text length (not recommended).


If you kept the firmware on your Mac up-to-date, you can use Internet MacOS Recovery. The mid 2010 iMac didn’t ship with that capability, but it was added in a later EFI update. If so, then just make sure it has a decent Internet connection and hold down Option-Command-R at startup.


Changes to SD card do not persist after unmounting

This crops up a lot.
Super User has a boiler-plate QA on it - What can I do if my USB flash drive is write-protected or read-only? - but you are likely seeing the result of the firmware going into write-protect mode.

The added confusion that it appears to accept data is a known side-effect. As they're readable, first get all your data off, then test with the Fight Flash Fraud app F3X & also check formatting in another computer; but be prepared to have to trash them.

If the firmware lock has triggered, they're done for.


In Mac, how to do `tail -f --pid` to terminate after process exit like Linux?

There are perhaps several possible ways you can accomplish that.
First solution (easiest): How to replace Mac OS X utilities with GNU core utilities?
Follow the above and install gnu tail. You can then possibly have a function or alias of tail to gtail. like
alias tail=gtail
or even a Bash function:
tail(){
  command gtail "$@"
}

or just simply call gtail altogether instead of BSD tail
Second solution: The second way of doing that would be to make your own function, which you can add in your bash_profile or make a script, whatever suits you. In this script, all that we are doing is just to check if the PID exists or not. If it exists then we tail otherwise we exit with return code 1.
_tail(){
  # usage _tail -f <file> <pid>
  function _tail::trap() {
    trap - SIGTERM && kill -- -$$
  }
  local FILE="$1"
  local PID="$2"
  if ps -p "$PID" > /dev/null; then
    trap _tail::trap SIGINT
    command tail -f "${FILE}" &
    local pid=$!
    disown # Optional: if you want to supress the kill SIGINT message
    local run=true
    while ${run}; do
      if ! $(ps -p ${PID} > /dev/null); then
        kill -9 ${pid} > /dev/null 2>&1
        run=false
      fi
    done
  else
    return 1
  fi
}

Now, you can call this function like _tail <file-to-tail> <pid>, which will do exactly same thing as gtail -f <file-to-tail> --pid=<pid>
However, if you want, you can extend it further and make it same syntaxt as gnu tail by adding another function called tail and sourcing it in .bash_profile or in your path as executable.
tail(){
  # usage: tail -f <file> --pid=<pid>
  local fFlag="$1"
  local FILE="$2"
  local PIDARGS="$3"
  local PIDARG="$(echo ${PIDARGS} | cut -d '=' -f1)"
  local PID="$(echo ${PIDARGS} | cut -d '=' -f2)"
  if [[ "$fFlag" == "-f" ]] && [[ -f "${FILE}" ]] && \
    [[ "${PIDARG}" == "--pid" ]] && [[ $(ps -p "${PID}") ]]; then
    _tail "${FILE}" "${PID}"
  else
    command tail "$@"
  fi
}

[[ "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" == "$0" ]] && tail "$@"


Install Mavericks on Unsupported MacBook 4,1

@Thinkling You were so close...I'm currently running Mavericks 10.9.5 on my Blackbook 4,1 Early 2008. Here's how:

Make a plain USB installer by using DiskMaker X, but after its complete, navigate on your new thumbdrive to: /System/Library/CoreServices/PlatformSupport.plist and completely delete that file.

Boot holding option key, select your thumbdrive, and install away.

Worth Noting:
I had to install the kext file for my graphics (Intel GMA X3100 144 MB) to work properly, and I'm still fighting a no sound issue, as well as machine not sleeping with lid closed. Other than that, I've got Messages working, and haven't had any other issues in the month i've had it installed....


The other devices list on Chrome uses the name of the Mac given to it, or the DCHP if that fails. To change the name of the Mac, go to System Preferences → Sharing and enter your desired name in the box at the top. You may need to log out and back in for Chrome on OS X to update the name.


How do I remove a ColorSync profile from a JPEG image from Terminal in El Capitan?

Use sips (scriptable image processing system) to remove an ICC color profile from an image file in El Capitan. sips does a ton of other stuff as well.

To remove the ColorSync ICC profile from an image:

sips -d profile --deleteColorManagementProperties <imagefile>

Example:

MyFILE="${HOME}/Pictures/RemoveMyColorSyncProfile.jpg";
sips -d profile --deleteColorManagementProperties "${MyFILE}";

It appears to support the following image types, but I'm basing this on the format image property key (see Options in the man page):

jpeg
tiff
png
gif
jp2
pict
bmp
qtif
psd
sgi
tga

See the man page for more info, or use sips -h for help to stdout.


How can I browse photos on iPhone in Mac OSX?

The Image Capture app allows you to browse the iPhone's photos, albeit not at full size or resolution, without first downloading the image files to your computer. Image Capture also gives you the tools to download all or selected subranges of the photos on your iPhone, as well as deletion.


Cannot Share Screen with MBA which is behind Airport Extreme

I am missing one critical detail in your description: How are you connecting?

VPN
iCloud / Back-to-my-Mac
LAN

Meanwhile - assuming it's either 1. or 2 - these are the quick check's I would perform initially and one-at-a-time.

Check if it works the other way around: MBA -> iMac
If you connect via VPN, try Back-to-my-Mac instead
Make sure all routers run with current firmware
Both routers should have UPnP (non-Apple) and NAT-PMP (Apple) enabled.
Some 3rd party routers allow more fine-tuning with UPnP. While this basically opens up your network (and makes it more insecure), I would go and open up for now, just to see if this solves the problem.
(temporarily) disable your firewall on both Macs. If you are running any 3rd party firewall app (such as LittleSnitch), switch if off for now.

Glad to hear if any of this opened your door again.


Is it possible to remove all installed terminal applications and extensions back to native without doing a clean OSX install?

Firstly, you should be sure why you would like to do this and what a fresh environment would provide. This is going to be a bit tedious to do since you have multiple sources for the installs.

For homebrew, follow the steps in this answer to uninstall homebrew.
For MacPorts, follow the steps from the uninstall MacPorts page page.
For PHP and Apache, it may not be simple to revert them to what the OS came with if you installed these outside of solutions like homebrew, MacPorts, MAMP or XAMPP.

The non-tedious way, which may take longer to complete, is to

Clone your drive (using a tool like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper! or Clonezilla).
Reinstall the OS afresh.
Then use Migration Assistant to bring everything over from the clone. You would have to uncheck the "Other files and folders on ..." option in Migration Assistant to prevent it from bringing back the locations that homebrew, MacPorts, etc., use. This method would also skip many files (like in /Users/Shared) that you would have to copy over manually from the backup.


What alternatives for reporting OSX Server Web Stats do the same job as AWStats?

Sawmill -- http://www.sawmill.net
Advanced Web Stats -- http://www.advancedwebstats.com/

These are the only ones that I could find and recommend, since Urchin and Summary were discontinued.
Links/Resources

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?250463-Best-Mac-Server-Web-Stats-Software
http://sixrevisions.com/usabilityaccessibility/10-promising-free-web-analytics-tools/

This link details 10 great Web Stats Tools (For instance, Snoop is a Mac OS Desktop Application).


zsh -x (or maybe zsh -x -l if the code comes from a rc file read only during a login session) enables tracing; this verbose output can then be used to find where exactly the message comes from.

% zsh -x 2>searchthroughthis.txt
% exit
% less -p advent searchthroughthis.txt
...


How do I remove the left column in finders column view?

Just drag your folder to the "Favorites" panel and it will be the root folder for that window. You can see the full path at the bottom, my folder (Mateus) is deep in the HD but the parent columns are not showing.


Just to reconfirm that I understand it correct, the issue is:

On trying to move full-screen apps between two spaces by going into spaces (press F3 button or 3-finger swipe above), it (full-screen app) just slips to one the desktops and doesn't get accommodated like desktops (space is created automatically by the GUI for insertion and you can drop the desktop there).

Have found the following:

Generally restarting the Mac solves this issue for some time (few days) but then it returns again.
Once the full screen app drops into one of the desktops, pick it and insert it where you want in the top spaces panel.

This is not exactly a solution but a workaround or change of habit if you don't want to restart your mac for something so trivial.

Hope this helps in reducing the inconvenience.


CPU cores have a temperature near 80 °C and then the fan starts to work. Can it be dangerous? (not for Core)

Intel CPU is designed to work up to 125 C
Your Mac will auto-shut down at 105 C
So the 85 C is almost normal temperature.
Download an install Intel Power gadget made by Intel  to see most acuate information about your CPU
Opinion:
In my opinion the Macs Fan Control is for people who like to play around, your Mac is perfectly capable taking care of it self.


It's very likely a software issue – since iOS 9.3.5 is a relatively recent update, it is bound to have some bugs. If that's the case, you'll need to wait it out until the next update, which will probably be iOS 10 in September.


How can I use family sharing but still buy/download apps without permission?

Ask to Buy funnels all requests for app or media content purchases to the Family Organizer, and anyone else they have designated as a Parent/Guardian, to approve the purchase. For a paid app or media content, once approved it is bought with the credit card designed by the Family Organizer.

When setting up Family Sharing, all Apple IDs which have an age of 13 or less automatically have Ask to Buy enabled for them. When inviting those aged 13 to 17, iOS prompts you to enable Ask to Buy.

Once enabled, the Family Organizer can later disable it for each individual. If their account reflects that they are over 18 when it is disabled, it cannot be reenabled for that account. Similarly, Ask to Buy is not even an option for users who are invited after they turn 18.

In your case, your ID is set up for Ask to Buy. You can give your Family Organizer a link to the Ask to Buy Apple Support page for details on how to disable it. It has to be done from their device.

Free apps are included in Ask to Buy for two reasons:

Ask to Buy is not just about the cost of the purchase, it is also about parental review of the content of the app/media content
Free apps can (and often do) still have in-app purchases, though an Ask to Buy user attempting to do this will still have to get permission to complete the in-app purchase


How to use a USB-C adapter on an older mac with USB A

https://www.amazon.com/Satechi-Type-Type-C-Adapter-Converter/dp/B07KCL8WZK

The adapter in the link violates the USB specifications and is a fire hazard.  You should bust it to pieces with a hammer and throw the crushed bits away.  Seriously.  This adapter runs the risk of short circuiting some very valuable computer equipment.  It's a $7 mistake waiting to become a $700 mistake.

I recently purchased a Satechi USB-C to Gigabit Ethernet adapter for the USB-C Macbook and would like to use that also for the older macbook.

You can do that with the right adapter but it would be cheaper to just buy the correct style Ethernet adapter for the older MacBook.

I purchased a USB-C to USB-A converter and tried to connect the USB-C adapter, but it does not work.

That's probably because the adapter was made broken.  This adapter violates the USB specifications, it should not exist because the specifications specifically say this adapter should not exist.  Throw it away before you plug in the wrong cable to it and damage something valuable.
Here's a Thunderbolt to gigabit Ethernet adapter to consider.
https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD463LL/A/thunderbolt-to-gigabit-ethernet-adapter
Connecting USB-C devices to a computer without a USB-C port is not trivial, it cannot be done with a $7 adapter.  It would take a PCIe breakout box and USB-C adapter card, which would easily cost more than just buying the right gigabit Ethernet adapter for your older Macbook.
Rereading my post I can see that I might come off as being mean.  I'm not trying to be mean, I'm trying to be stern and straightforward.  This is a stern warning that the USB-C to USB-A adapter you bought can do expensive damage to your computer, it needs to go away before that damage is done.


My iPhone is protected by password, is it possible for the thief to restore factory setting?

To restore a device using iTunes, iTunes itself requires an internet connection. Furthermore, the status of Find My iPhone is obtained from the device as well as Apple's servers—iTunes knows if the device you're attempting to restore has Find My iPhone enabled and will prevent the device from being restored. The only way to restore a device with Find My iPhone is to put it in Recovery/DFU mode, but then when the device is finished restoring, Activation Lock will be enabled when the device connects to Apple's servers which is required when setting up the phone.


To add external audio sources, you need to make sure the correct input is assigned before you start the recording

To record "in-computer" sound, you need software that can re-route audio within the Mac itself - to make it think an output is actually an input.

This has been traditionally done using a freeware app called Soundflower - originally by Cycling 74, taken over by Rogue Amoeba but not developed or supported further. Rogue Amoeba have always had their own system for intercepting Mac audio & routing it to chosen destinations, but their app, Audio Hijack, is not free ($50)
It is extremely good, but comes at a price.

Quick tutorial on Soundflower in Quicktime from CNet

  When a situation arises where you want to record the audio along with your screen recoding on your Mac, you could try raising the volume on your speakers and hope that a built-in microphone captures that audio, but that's far from elegant.

  Instead, you can use Soundflower. It is a free piece of software for Mac OS X by Cycling74 that will let you route system audio within your Mac. Download and install the utility; Soundflower requires you reboot your system after installation for it to work.

  After your machine reboots, open QuickTime Player and start a new screen recording. In the QuickTime Player window, click the down arrow to the right of the record button and select "Soundflower (2ch)" as your input. Then launch System Preferences and go to the Sound settings. Go to the Output tab and select the same "Soundflower (2ch)" option as you did in QuickTime Player.

  What this does is route all of your system audio out to Soundflower as if the utility were speakers or headphones. That means any sound made by your Mac (including Facebook notifications or similar) will be recorded by QuickTime Player.

  Now you can hit record in QuickTime Player and you'll capture both the video and audio in one recording. While this is going on, you won't be able to hear the audio to monitor what's being recorded. When you're done, change your output audio back to your original settings in System Preferences.


Use Airplay Mirroring and Airplay Speakers at the same time on iPhone

For iTunes content you may use Apple's Remote app to send signal to multiple sources at once.

For local content for Apple TV 2nd and 3rd generation on latest firmware you might try sending AirPlay stream to AppleTV and then choose your Airplay enabled speaker for sound output in AirPlay Preferences on AppleTV itself. It will only work for 2.0 (Stereo) sound.


You could use a function like this:

fmake() {
  cd "$(osascript -e 'tell application "Finder"
      POSIX path of (target of Finder window 1 as alias)
  end tell' 2> /dev/null)"
  make && make install
}

Or save a function just for the cd command and use history-search-backward to run something like cdf && make && make install.

Or open Automator, choose the Service template, set the input type to no input, and add a Run AppleScript action like this:

try
    tell application "Finder"
        POSIX path of (target of Finder window 1 as alias)
    end tell
    tell application "Terminal"
        do script "cd " & quoted form of result & " && make && make install"
        activate
    end tell
end

Without the try block Automator would show an error dialog if the script exits with an error.


Macbook Pro Crashing and Startup Failure

Apple has an extended guarantee program for that:
https://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro-videoissues/


1920 x 1200 resolution monitor with VGA not detected by Mac OS X 10.7.2

You are unlikely to be able use the VGA input to go above 1080p

But just to make sure follow this answer how to view more Resolutions to try with.

MacBook Pro with Retina display (Late 2012) not outputting anything above 1080p

Select the monitor in System Preferences:

System Preferences -> Displays -> Monitor(not Built-in Display) -> Display Tab -> Resolution

Change from 'Best for Display' to 'Scaled' whilst holding the 'alt' key, more resolutions will be listed for you to select,

As noted in the comments, you have to start in the default mode 'Best for Display', and move into 'Scaled' whilst holding the alt/option ⎇ key, not the other way round


Do any iOS Email Clients allow the folders to expand/collapse like Outlook?

The best folder management app for email I have used is eMailGanizer Pro.

  Folders
  Expand/Collapse style folder navigation
  Find folders by searching
  Add, move, rename, & delete folders
  Off-line operation for later synchronization
  Universal Inbox, Unread, & other 'Smart' folders
  Show all folders/labels for email


Here's the relevant answer from Apple on the entitlements needed to attach the llvm debugger to a process:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/132797

The entitlement needed on macOS is com.apple.security.get-task-allow and I know how to add that in Xcode, but not yet from the command line compiler. You can verify the same on your Mac using console app to show the logs and then reproduce the error. Then search for debugserver in console and you will see the debugger starting and then failing to attach.
Here's a different error if you try to start Calculator.app in the debugger - it's hardened and doesn't have the entitlement so that fails just like your app - it's not about notarization or code signing, but about the debugging entitlement on the binary.
default 19:30:23.088087-0600    debugserver debugserver will use os_log for internal logging.
default 19:30:23.088429-0600    debugserver debugserver-@(#)PROGRAM:LLDB  PROJECT:lldb-1200.0.44
 for arm64.
default 19:30:23.088489-0600    debugserver Got a connection, waiting for process information for launching or attaching.
error   19:30:23.090348-0600    debugserver error: MachTask::TaskPortForProcessID task_for_pid failed: ::task_for_pid ( target_tport = 0x0103, pid = 17889, &task ) => err = 0x00000005 ((os/kern) failure)
default 19:30:23.090378-0600    debugserver 1 +0.000000 sec [45e2/0303]: error: ::task_for_pid ( target_tport = 0x0103, pid = 17889, &task ) => err = 0x00000005 ((os/kern) failure) err = ::task_for_pid ( target_tport = 0x0103, pid = 17889, &task ) => err = 0x00000005 ((os/kern) failure) (0x00000005
default 19:30:23.090329-0600    kernel  macOSTaskPolicy: (com.apple.debugserver) may not get the taskport of (Calculator) (pid: 17889): (Calculator) is hardened, (Calculator) doesn't have get-task-allow, (com.apple.debugserver) is a declared debugger


How can I wipe my stolen iPhone with no sim

The only way to wipe it is to use "Find my iPhone" (assuming it's registered there) and issue the "Wipe" command from there. As the iPhone doesn't have a SIM you'll have to wait until it gets online via WiFi.


I manage a Squid proxy for my organisation and when I try to use Siri in Sierra, the following log entries are recorded:

1474540244.610      0 macos-sierra-host.local TAG_NONE/400 4410 NONE error:invalid-request - HIER_NONE/- text/html

Not entirely sure what it is requesting, so time to break out the tcpdump-hammer I guess. I'll report back if I have any more insights.

EDIT 1 - 22-Sep-2016 10:58 UTC

Looks like Siri isn't using a valid URL when requesting via a proxy. Here's the HTTP headers from Squid after a Siri connection is attempted:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: squid/3.5.20
Mime-Version: 1.0
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:42:01 GMT
Content-Type: text/html;charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 4064
X-Squid-Error: ERR_INVALID_REQ 0
Vary: Accept-Language
Content-Language: en
X-Cache: MISS from proxy.local
Via: 1.1 proxy.local (squid/3.5.20)
Connection: close

The details in the error message (sent from Squid but never seen by the user) are:

  Invalid Request error was encountered while trying to process the
  request:

  &# 22;&#  3;&#  1;

  Some possible problems are:

  Missing or unknown request method.
  Missing HTTP Identifier (HTTP/1.0).
  Request is too large.
  Content-Length missing for POST or PUT requests.
  Illegal character in hostname; underscores are not allowed.
  HTTP/1.1 Expect: feature is being asked from an HTTP/1.0 software.

So - looks like some more tcpdump-hammer in my future as I try to find what this original requst looks like (where it's going etc). Stay tuned.

EDIT 2 - 22-Sep-2016 11:16 UTC

The problem is Siri is using TCP/443 but not using HTTPS. Consequently, a HTTP proxy like Squid will choke on these connections. The good news is I've identified the outbound connections from Siri are resolving an A record for origin.guzzoni-apple.com.akadns.net and then connecting to it on port 443. At this point it initiates a TLS handshake and the rest is encrypted. So, thanks Apple for encrypting it, but FU for using a reserved port for non-HTTPS traffic. Seriously - WTF?!

Here's a solution

I've poked around many (many) DNS queries and it seems they all resolve origin.guzzoni-apple.com.akadns.net in the 17.252.0.0/16 address range - this is a slice of Apple's broader 17.0.0.0/8 range. This should allow you to send anything destined for 17.252.0.0 direct (either via proxy config or PAC/WPAD). Unfortunately, this may also gobble up other traffic that you don't want bypassing your proxy too :-/

Until Apple decide to use a real HTTPS protocol for Siri on Sierra or, use a different port (unlike the current hijacking of TCP/443!!!), we're pretty much screwed.


How to update App Store application from command line?

Apple doesn't supply a command line helper or any scriptable cocoa classes you can latch on to for automation. Unlike the overall software update, which allows updates and installs out of the box, you can script the process of clicking buttons with a mouse using Automator.

However, the app store has been reverse engineered and released open source as well as a binary form:

https://github.com/argon/mas

The install is quick and it appears to be quite reliable on the current version of OS X 10.11:

brew install argon/mas/mas

With the source released, I would expect some other implementations of this tool to pop up, perhaps even one scripted with python.

If someone is logged into the mac (windowmanager is running), you can use Automator and the "watch me do" function to automate updates and storing your store password in the script fairly insecurely.

Here are two tutorials to get you started if this meets your needs.

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/01/19/mac-automation-creating-watch-me-do-workflows/

http://automator.us/leopard/features/virtual-user.html

Once you have a working script, you can use the command line open command to kick it off.

If the App Store app ever exposes that function to scripting you will have more options from the command line. It would be easy to use sdef, sdp and gen_bridge_metadata to dump the entire scriptable dictionary and script things using ruby from the command line, but at present the best option would be to use the mas command line tool.


I was under the impression that .bundle files are actually folders - in your terminal application, try typing the following:
cd archive_name.bundle
ls

For example, on my end:
cd IMDB.bundle/
ls
$Contents   README.md


Activate unsubsidized iPhone 5 - can I later switch carriers?

An authorized unlocked iPhone does not need a SIM card to activate the OS after a restore and it will work once you run through Apple's software setup screens when it asks things like if you want to set up iCloud or location services... Activation is just the process of checking whether the device should be carrier locked by querying a server of Apple's choice over WiFi and then updating the appropriate carrier settings if the ones loaded from the factory are out of date for a particular SIM or region.

Even in the US - iPhone 5 that are sold "under contract" to Verizon are not actually SIM locked and you can use them with any compatible nano SIM that supports at least one frequency and protocol that the phone model supports. It also is a A1429 model.

You can remove any SIM and power it on if you are worried about some carrier settings being locked.


Restore gmail messages to mail.app after TimeMachine restore

For the mailbox in question, in the Mail.app, go to Mailbox (top menu), and then select Rebuild. You may need to relaunch the app for the older messages to be downloaded.


Severe Wifi dropping on Macbook Pro - Have to restart to turn back on

I would strongly agree that in most cases, when WiFi signal starts strong after a reboot (when the hardware is up to normal operating temperatures) and then degrades over minutes, it is most likely a symptom that the amplifier is failing and the WiFi card (or router) needs to be replaced.

You can hold the option key down when selecting WiFi in the menu bar and watch the Transmit Rate and RSSI change over time. A repeatable, measurable drop in transmit rate would back up the hardware fault as a cause for this.


To start, let's talk about the music on it. The music is sort of tied to the Apple ID (not iPod itself). By "sort of", I mean you need that Apple ID to download it, but signing out of the Apple ID and into a new one won't delete it. For example, if you were to purchase music under one Apple ID and then signed out of it and into another, the music would remain on iPod, but if the music was then deleted (like when iPod is reset), you would be unable to re-download it, since it's not tied to iPod itself.

What you need to do is use iTunes to sync iPod to the iTunes Library on your computer. Once you're sure the songs (and anything else you want to keep) are all there, you can go ahead and reset it.

If it's running iOS 6.1.6 or earlier (to check, go to Settings > General > About, then look under Version), then yes, you can reset it and assign a new Apple ID to it without any problems. If it's running iOS 7.0 or later, however, it depends on whether or not Find My iPod is enabled (to check, Settings > iCloud, and look for Find My iPod at the bottom). If so, resetting it will trigger the device's Activation Lock and you won't be able to set it up. In that case, you will need the Apple ID password of whomever gave your child this iPod to disable Find My iPod, but once it's off, you can go ahead and reset it.

Once it's reset, use iTunes to transfer whatever content you want back to it.

If you have any questions about any of this, just comment them below my answer.


What is a good way to archive iTunes movies?

I know you have said you would rather not use an external hard drive, but my technique for storing films for iTunes is to store them on the external hard drive and link them to iTunes by dragging them whilst holding Ctrl and Shift (on a Windows machine) which rather than copying into the iTunes folder just short cuts to it effectively.


iPhone could not be restored - error number -1

If it auto shutdown too often and require restore everytime like that then you should consider the phone is too old. Hardware especially its memory start malfunctioning. As end user, there is nothing you can do, sorry :(

But repair services does, hehe :D


Does Cinema Display daisy chain work in Windows via Bootcamp?

Assuming that you intend to use two Apple Thunderbolt Displays daisy-chained to a Thunderbolt-equipped computer (whether Mac or not) while the computer is booted into Windows, yes, it should work, assuming whatever drivers are needed are installed and the graphics card has enough power to push two displays' worth of pixels.

tl;dr: If one Thunderbolt monitor works, two identical monitors should work just fine, assuming your graphics card can handle both of them at once.


If I buy an app in the App Store, will it work on future major releases or will I need to repurchase it?

Yes it is definitively possible. As of now, Apple does not enable the developers to publish paid updates for their software. Due to that, developers sometimes release different versions to buy from the App Store.

E.g. have a look at http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/photoforge/id314173066 and http://itunes.apple.com/de/app/photoforge2/id435789422


Can't open example files in LyX (greyed out)

If LyX utilizes the Open File dialog appropriately, you should be able to visit any path directly via the Finder shortcut ⇧⌘G.  Tab completion works in the resulting path dialog.

If LyX does not allow browsing via path, I would just copy the files to a temporary directory to bypass the difficulty.

Sidebar
Mac OS is full of very handy keyboard shortcuts that work fairly consistently.  See this link for a fairly comprehensive list. Since you're familiar with UNIX, it may help to note basic Emacs navigation also works in most text editing contexts--C-b, C-f,C-a,C-e, C-k, C-y.


How can I tell iTunes that a .M4V (movie) is an HD movie?

There is an HD flag you can set in the file's header. You can't set this flag from iTunes.

The best solution on mac is subler.

It was updated to support the 1080p value, so you can set the flag to 1 (720p) and 2 (1080p), the only values recognized by iTunes.

You will find the flag in the other settings tab:


Can I display top charts in my app using album artwork from iTunes?

It seems to me that what Apple's email says is going to be the most important thing here.

For example are they asking you to remove the artwork? Or are they just trying to inform you that they're getting complaints?

My thinking would be that since you're publishing an app on Apple's App Store that you'd have to take their email as a strong indicator of what you can do (or need to do).

As a registered Developer, you can also call Apple Developer Program Support in your country for clarification/guidance.

Finally, if Apple wants you to stop showing the artwork, it may be worth mentioning the other apps to them. However, it is entirely possible that Apple has also written to their developers too asking them to take the same action.


Partition external SSD (Win10 already installed) for Mac

The safest was is to do this from within Windows.  You want to shrink your Windows partition until it is 200-250GB and the rest is free space.

The easiest way to do this is to go to Disk Management in Windows, right click on the Windows partition and select "Shrink Volume".

If this doesn't allow you to shrink sufficiently (sometimes there are unmovable files) you can install the free utility Minitool Partition Wizard (again in Windows) which will move these files for you during reboot.

There is a full tutorial of both methods taken from Partition Wizard website here : Two Easy and Effective Ways to Free Shrink Windows Partition

macOS will not let you partition a drive if the EFI partition is less than 200MB (while Windows will by default create a 100MiB EFI partition) which would explain your previous problem.

As you say the EFI partition is now 200MB you can create your 2 new partitions in the newly reclaimed free space either in Windows or macOS Disk Utility as you prefer.  If you make a exFAT partition this can be formatted from either OS but the Time Machine partition must be formatted (erased) as HFS from within macOS.


Export - import iPhone keyboard shortcuts as text file?

From dastrobu:

There is an unofficial command line tool, which does exactly what you want, its called shortcuts. You can install it via homebrew

brew install rodionovd/taps/shortcuts

You can list your current replacements via

shortcuts read

You can import new ones via:

shortcuts import <input.plist>

There are also these commands:

shortcuts create <shortcut> <new phrase>
shortcuts update <shortcut> <phrase>
shortcuts delete <shortcut>

Source: How to export Text replacements from the Keyboard System Preference from shell?


How do I install Windows 10 on a Mac Mini that is booted from an external SSD?

The primary reason you can not resize the Windows partition is because the Boot Camp Assistant installs Windows at the end of the drive. If you do not use the Boot Camp Assistant, then you could place the Windows installation files in a ExFAT formatted partition at the end of the drive. Once Windows is installed, you can delete this partition and expand the main Windows partition to reclaim the space. Or, avoid the problem entirely and install Windows to the internal drive by booting the Windows installer from a flash drive.

Below are the steps for creating a flash drive installer.

Erase the flash drive. Use a ExFAT format with a MBR partitioning scheme.
Mount the Windows ISO and copy the files to the flash drive.
Use the Boot Camp Assistant to download the Windows Support Software.
Copy the Windows Support Software to the flash drive.

You will have to configure you Mac to allow booting from a flash drive. Once booted from the flash drive, I am not sure how far you can get using the GUI. You may need to use the CLI to complete the installation. I do know the driver used access the internal drive is not loaded until you reach the window asking for the product key.


Is there a way to configure Finder to move files to external drives by default, rather than copying them?

No, there is no way to change the default option from “copy” to “move”.

Even the option to “move” with a keyboard shortcut is a fairly new feature.


Sorting out compile errors when using multiple different versions of Xcode

You are on to the best way to manage things.

Have your build script call xcode-select to choose the compiler and headers you prefer each project to compile against. I've not had any issues having three versions of Xcode running thusly. (6, 7 and 7.1)


Why do our iPhones keep asking for passwords of other users?

Is this an enterprise setup? How are the phones being managed? MaaS360, OS X Server, ect?

It sounds like the users are connected to the same App Store ID and all have different iCloud accounts they are logged into (or vice versa).


iOS 9 upgrade frozen at "Slide to upgrade"

Apparently this is a known problem when updating from iOS 7 devices straight to iOS 9.

Apple has posted a workaround, which should help you out:

If the Slide to Upgrade screen won't go away after you update to iOS 9.

I'm not posting the text verbatim, in case Apple improves their answer.

Note that you will need a computer to connect the device to, to make a local backup.

Edit 2015-09-23

Apple have released iOS 9.0.1 which according to this report

  address issues users have experienced with the Setup Assistant app getting stuck on “Slide to Upgrade.”

I am guessing it will still be necessary to connect to a computer any iOS devices that are stuck at "Slide to upgrade".


Choosing OS X version for a mid 2011 Macbook Air 4GB

I have a 2010 iMac and I'm running High Sierra. It has been running smoothly but my machine gets very sluggish sometimes when running Xcode. I can't compare it to El Capitan because it has been too long to recall. It has been as stable as Sierra though. I think the only issues you'd have would be due to having 4 GB of RAM. The size of the system would be very important, I'd think, for a 4 GB machine. I don't know the relative size of your system but there are many apps that will tell you the amount of free RAM you have. iStats, Monity, and SystemPal from the app store are 3 such apps that will display how much RAM you are using and how much is free.


How to switch input language with good old Cmd + Space in Sierra?

⌘+␣ and ⌘+⌥+␣ are now used to "Show Spotlight Search" and "Show Finder search window" respectively.  You will have to change those shortcuts before you can change these.  Click on spotlight in the left pane, double click on the shortcut and key in your new combination to change it.

Here's proof that it can be done.

For the basic Apple instructions, see this help article.


Stop MacBook from installing applications for multiple user accounts

Applications should be installed in the root /Applications folder by default.  This would not cause the "executable" to become corrupt when used by mutliple users, .  However if you want to install an application so that only one user can use it, said application should be installed under /Users/myuser/Applications

Sometimes during install you can chose where an application will be installed, other times installers will default to the /Applications

Note that there will be some applications that require that they be installed in /Applications and will not function properly if they are moved into other folders or sub folders.

Apple mandates that ~/Applications and /Applications be equivalent for the function of apps, but not all of them obey the rules or potentially are aware of them. Same with user folders being stored on another volume than the OS - that's supposed to be fully supported, but sometimes it isn't.


Are apps permitted to give monetary prizes?

Apple publishes general app review guidelines at https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

Since payouts is money, then you have gambling issues to contend with and legal requirements to be sure each region is OK and you are licensed. Also, what sort of contest is being run. Poetry submissions or drawing - it really depends on what a payout and a contest is in practice. Then you are contracting and not just gambling.

Assuming contests are basically a lottery or game of chance, you would likely run afoul of a couple sections based on how you implemented the app:

1.3 Kids category, you cannot collect information from children, so no way to give "payouts" to them without violating the terms and/or COPPA / GDPR.
3.1.2(a) Permissible uses - You get what you pay for. Make sure your app is valuable to all /equitable to all whether they win or not. (this ties closely with 4.2)
4.2 Minimum Functionality

  Your app should include features, content, and UI that elevate it beyond a repackaged website.

This ties closely with 3.1.2(a)
5.3 Gaming, Gambling, and Lotteries

  Gambling, gaming, and lotteries can be tricky to manage and tend to be one of the most regulated offerings on the App Store.

You won't know until you submit the app for first review to test flight or app review unless you engage with developer support at a WWDC or support incident before you submit code. Also, consider those interactions will usually be - submit what you have and then we'll talk. Especially for section 5 Legal - you have to make sure you're OK before you hit up Apple for review.


Is it safe to set the permissions of /etc/hosts to 664, where the owner and group has read and write access and everyone else can read?

It depends on how well you maintain the system. Basically it shouldn't be a problem, especially as you are free to change the file group-membership to a single-user-group for your account only (if there were processes reading the file using default 4 permission for group, they would access now using the same permission for others).
Nevertheless, if you use Vagrant Hostmanager plugin, there are clear instructions how to remove the necessity to provide password at run-time, by adding some configuration to sudoers file:

Add the following snippet to the sudoers file (e.g. /etc/sudoers.d/vagrant_hostmanager):
Cmnd_Alias VAGRANT_HOSTMANAGER_UPDATE = /bin/cp <home-directory>/.vagrant.d/tmp/hosts.local /etc/hosts
%<admin-group> ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: VAGRANT_HOSTMANAGER_UPDATE

Replace <home-directory> with your actual home directory (e.g. /home/joe) and <admin-group> with the group that is used by the system for sudo access (usually sudo on Debian/Ubuntu systems and wheel on Fedora/Red Hat systems).
If necessary, add yourself to the <admin-group>:
usermod -aG <admin-group> <user-name>

Replace <admin-group> with the group that is used by the system for sudo access (see above) and <user-name> with you user name.


Terminal becomes unresponsive when a “sudo” password prompt is displayed

The terminal doesn't show the characters being entered when typing in a password field such as a sudo password field. The characters are still being entered—just type your password as normal and press Enter to continue.

$ sudo echo hi
Password: type here, then enter
hi

You can show asterisks when entering your password for sudo by editing the sudoers file.

Open /etc/sudoers with visudo:

EDITOR=nano sudo visudo

I've used nano here, but feel free to use your preferred editor.
visudo will check your file for errors before saving, otherwise you may not be able to sudo.
You can backup the file with cp /etc/sudoers ~/Desktop.
Add "pwfeedback" to the Defaults, replacing the first line with the second:

Defaults env_reset

Defaults env_reset,pwfeedback

$ sudo echo hi
Password: ************
hi


Downgrade macOS 10.14 to 10.13 using Migration Assistant

Theoretical answer

This operation will fail.

Migration assistant is a huge procedure made to make all the conversions necessary to go from an older version of MacOS X to
the running one.

For example, the Mojave (10.14) version of Migration Assistant is configured to correctly convert the Users and System files from a High Sierra (10.13) set to a Mojave running environment.

The High Sierra (10.13) version of Migration assistant doesn't know the specific changes of Mojave (10.14) because they weren't known at its date of conception. Then this version cannot do a migration from Mojave to High Sierra.

On the other hand, the Mojave version of Migration Assistant does know the specific changes from High Sierra to Mojave but some of them might be not reversible, and this is usually not documented by Apple (this is bad: Apple is convinced none of its users is interested in this information).

Practical answer

Your proposed migrition might succeed (my raw estimate: 25%).

If you didn't made system modification or specific development on Mojave,

and if Apple didn't put in place a basic verification of the origin version of MacOS X, (is the origin version older than the target one?),

then you could try to run Migration Assistant from High Sierra to migrate only Users files from your Mojave backup to your running High Sierra environment.

Experience return

Please add your personnal success or failure as an answer, since this might help many other Mac users.


Can I distribute Xcode at my company internally through configuration management scripts?

Everywhere I have ever worked in 30 years of IT work it is perfectly fine to place an installer on a local/network drive for in-house installation as long as there are no licensing issues.
And since XCode is free to use for anyone with a compatible Mac, I would think yes, this is fine.
Also macOS Server has (I seem to recall) a caching option which stores software updates on your internal network for the very same thing.


What are the differences between LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons?

Yes, LaunchAgents are only invoked when the user logs into a graphical session.

LaunchDaemons are typically launched when the system boots and are run outside of a specific user session.

The launchd manual page lists these folders with short descriptions:

  Files

  ~/Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the user.
  /Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by the administrator.
  /Library/LaunchDaemons System-wide daemons provided by the administrator.
  /System/Library/LaunchAgents Per-user agents provided by Mac OS X.
  /System/Library/LaunchDaemons System-wide daemons provided by Mac OS X.


I would install a clean copy of OS X on to an external drive and test to see if your current OS is corrupt. If the hardware doesn't let you turn it on or off with a clean install, you have saved yourself having to back up and erase the internal drive and know to take it in for repair.

If you find it's corruption, you could then run Migration Assistant to take the data from the internal drive to the new clean OS and re-test before doing the erase and copy of a working OS with your personal data and settings.


Can I use a Mac Pro for my office and run Parallels for my Windows-based ERP software?

Both Parallels or VMware Fusion will work for you.

My personal preference is for VMware.


In general, not at all. The boards are matched to the sensors and heat sinks and the G5 line had many many revisions as the engineers presumably adjusted to the increasing thermal loads the G5 CPU would generate.

Also, are you prepared to run the thermal calibration routines to get the repaired
Mac properly controlling the fans?

Personally, I wouldn't do any work at the MLB level of a G5 unless I was bored and cost was no concern. The tight space means high risk of physically bending those boards and their high sensitivity to static damage means you need to be very conscious of continuous grounding.


iPhoto treats two identical video cameras in totally different ways

Mystery solved!  Behold the following two screenshots.  The first is from Camera 1:

and the second from Camera 2:

See the difference?  One of the cameras had a DCIM folder as a top-level directory (created, I can only assume, when I used that camera once to take a still photo) and the other did not.  Apparently the presence of that folder is what caused the OS to recognize it as a "device".
I just used Camera 2 to take a single photo, then connected it to my Mac.  It now has a DCIM folder, and iPhoto launched immediately.  That appears to have been it.


iPhoto11 Pictures disappear after importing

Have you tried the various utilities built in to iPhoto? I'm sure your photos are there, the library needs help to find them again.

Here is Apple's advice: How to Repair and Rebuild the iPhoto Library


I am of the opinion that you should keep your O/S up to date unless you have a SPECIFIC reason to stay at an earlier version. E.G. incompatible software that you MUST run or a noted incompatibility with a service that you can't do without (EG some people are still having issues with MS Exchange compatibility in mail.app on Mavericks).

So, your computer has enough RAM (more RAM if possible) and a nice fast SSD so I would go with the Mavericks install... IMHO


If the applications are in different windows, I think you can simply activate them. Save this as a stay open application:

property counter : 0

on idle
    set counter to counter + 1
    if counter mod 2 = 0 then
        activate application "Twitter"
    else
        activate application "Firefox"
    end if

    return 3 -- in seconds
end idle


iTunes library export when the media is on an external HDD

Restore he ~/Music/iTunes directory or just the files in that directory - it contains all the metadata.

Then change the iTunes Media Location and all should be OK.

Note for others - when starting with a new machine it is easier to use Migration Assistant to copy from the old machine connected as a firewire target disk then all preferences etc are copied over.


Can a book stored in Kindle be saved as a file on my iMac. Would like to open in Calibre

In a word yes.

you can connect your Kindle to your Mac and browse through the filesystem and find the books folder and copy the files out.

I have found, however, that the files stored on the Kindle itself are kind of similar to a macOS package format. EG a folder full of files. Rather than deal with that I just logged onto my Amazon account, went to my Kindle purchases and selected a book I want to download. Books being rather small things as downloads go they come across quickly.

And then you have an ".azw" file which is got Amazon's DRM on it. Which means you can only read it on a Kindle signed in to your Amazon account or a Kindle app on another device that is signed in to your Amazon Account.

That can be bypassed, but is beyond the scope of what we can do on AskDifferent. But if you want a hint, google for something like remove DRM from azw files with Calibre. It's not simple but once set up you don't even have to think about it.


It may be time to get a new Mac Pro. The processing units in these machines often don't last forever.

Otherwise, I would suggest backing up as many of your valuable files as you can, clearing your machine and reloading your OS from scratch (i.e. Install DVD).


Why is the Mountain Lion Installer unable to complete due to recovery partition problems?

From what I've been able to gather, this issue occurred because of the existence of partition 4. A default install of OS X, as of Lion, involves three partitions: EFI, your OS X boot volume, and the recover partition.

Features such as Recovery Mode and FileVault require original partitioning schemes in many cases - especially when FileVault is already in use on a partition, as it the partition scheme has been converted to a CoreStorage group. This makes things much messier to try installing without an original layout.

This seems to be the most likely cause of your error. Since I have no logs, dumps, or other material to go by, I can only speculate and apply my knowledge and experience to the matter. However, seeing as OS X installed just fine to the 4th partition, which was blank, it seems to me that the partition scheme itself was to blame, as I stated above. Sorry about the inconvenience.

Good luck and happy upgrading!


Faster than cmd+Tab way for app switching?

This is a really old question but just thought I would add to it anyway!

I use apptivate.

Really simple toolbar app that can open/switch to almost anything with custom keyboard shortcuts.


iCloud storage is full, how to find each folder size?

Well, you could go to System Preferences > iCloud > Manage, and see which files take the most space.


Mission Control stopped working then Dock won't restart

This was happening to me for a long time and I did some research and found out how to fix it. Go into terminal and run the following commands.

defaults write com.apple.dock mcx-expose-disabled -bool FALSE
killall Dock

This should fix all of your problems.


I was able to fix this by killing Notification Center with the following command:

killall NotificationCenter

You could also force-quit it from Activity Monitor.

Source.


Apache is not the only service whose configuration files get overwritten with every update. My annoyance is the SNMP daemon.
For Apache, I suggest that you stop using the Apple distributed Apache. Replace it with the Homebrew version.
The Homebrew version uses /usr/local/etc/httpd/ for configuration, /usr/local/var/www for document root and is completely independent of Apple's version and so will not get modified by macOS updates.
Just in case you are not familiar with Homebrew.  You will find numerous web postings about how to install and configure Apache under Homebrew - an example. And you are already aware that there have been other Apache questions in Ask Different.


Is the power button on my iPhone being turned off programmatically?

The likely cause is hardware failure, and not software.


This might still work?  If you log in with SSH.
FSCK the drive for a sanity check.
/sbin/fsck -fy

Mount the drive so it is writeable.
/sbin/mount -uw /

Deleting this placeholder file that tells macOS that a user has already been setup.
rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone

reboot. Make a new user, reset the password of the old account.  Also, reset the login keychain in the old account.


If the iphone gets stolen, if i wipe all the information from the iphone from my icloud account it can be usable?

If your iPhone is stolen and has FindMyiPhone turned on the thief would need your iCloud password in order to disable it. The thief could wipe the phone by putting it into DFU mode, but upon trying to access the phone they would run into the problem of still having to input the iCloud password into the phone so that they are able to access it as it is still registered in Apple's data base as being connected to your account.

So yes the phone can be made to go back to its original state by recovery, but no it will not be able to be activated as long as they do not have your iCloud password.


How can I hide a local disk in Finder at root level?

Here you go

/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

You will need to get the command line tools installed from Xcode if your system lacks the setfile program.


BootChamp equivalent to go from Windows to Mac

BootChamp only sets the next boot, so to get from Windows to OS X just reboot normally!
It will boot into OS X by itself, since the default boot disk is still OS X.


Add songs to Library when adding to playlist - greyed out

The reason your Add songs to Library when adding to playlists checkbox is greyed out is because you haven't enabled the iCloud Music Library (see the checkbox above the one that is greyed out).

If you enable iCloud Music Library, then you can store your Apple Music songs and playlists in iCloud and access them across all your devices.

In summary, by ticking the iCloud Music Library checkbox, the Add songs to Library when adding to playlists checkbox will no longer be greyed out. Then you can enable/disable it as you wish.


What are the requirements around account de-registration?

I don't believe so. In my app Free Bitcoin I don't provide a delete option (one can contact me through the app and I will manually remove their account), and log out is performed by removing and reinstalling the app. The app was approved by Apple without any trouble.


I'm a n00b so can't reply to your comment, but can hopefully give some more details in this answer.

Yes, the battery on the 4th gen touch (assuming that's the correct model) is soldered to the board. It would be interesting to know what Target did, as Apple don't do actual repairs on iPods - it would have been replaced like-for-like under their warranty. The fact that you're having the same issue persisting after the battery was replaced, and you've ruled out software by restoring would obviously suggest something else as you mentioned. There's not much in the way of diagnosis avaliable for these but I'd guess that it's likely to be an issue with the power management IC on the board.

If you're experienced with BGA work, this could probably be replaced, but it would be easier to replace the board if you can get hold of one, or to be honest just replacing the iPod in this case I think. Depending on the storage size, an out of warranty swap from Apple is maybe around $100 if you're in the US (90 day warranty), or they should give you around 15% off a new one in-store if you give it to them for recycling and buy a new one. Lastly, you could of course punt it on eBay or the like and get a new one.

Hope that's of some help.


Plug it into the PC, make sure it mounts and you can read and write to the drive, make a note of the drive letter.

Open a command prompt as administrator and issue this command

chkdsk x: /F /X

the "x:" is the drive letter of your drive. /F tells it to fix any problems and /X tells it to dismount the disk so it can work on the drive.

When that is done try it on the Mac. If it still fails to mount, plug it back into the PC, copy all of the files off of it and delete the old partition and add a new one and format it as desired.

Copy the backed up files back to the drive and plug it into the Mac. If it still fails to mount, return the drive for another.


Several postings on the Chromium issue tracker, such as this one and this one, suggest that this is because some plugins (such as Flash) are consuming the keystrokes whilst running. Does this happen whilst Flash is running, or can you pinpoint an occasion when it always happens if a certain plugin is loaded?


iPhone back to OS3: What happens with application data?

Restoring firmware and restoring settings are two different things. You can restore to a stock version of the 3.1.3 firmware then when iTunes asks you to set up your device, you can select which settings image you want to back up from.

Or select the iPhone under "Devices" in iTunes >> right [or CTRL] click it >> Restore from Backup. Should work.


Got a iPhone/ a pc without iTunes/WiFi - Needs to transfer files from iPhone to pc. How?

Here is how to transfer your photos to the pc. The charging cable serves both as a charging cable and a data transfer cable.  Disconnect the cable from the power adapter.  Plug the usb end into your computer.  Plug the other end into your phone. You should see the phone as a new device. It will appear as a photo card. You need to drill down until you see your photos.

Security restrictions have gotten tighter on the iPhone over time.  You can try
https://macroplant.com/iexplorer for the other file types.


Unintentional nested list of POSIX paths in Applescript

Try:

set sourceFolderPath to POSIX path of (choose folder with prompt "Please select directory.")
if sourceFolderPath ends with "/" then set sourceFolderPath to text 1 thru -2 of sourceFolderPath
set findResultsList to paragraphs of (do shell script "find " & quoted form of sourceFolderPath & " -type f -flags nohidden -iname '*.VOB';")
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"|"}
set findResultsText to findResultsList as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {""}
return findResultsText


How to perform the Lookup Multi-Touch gesture using Magic Mouse?

You need to use a third party utility such as MagicPrefs or BetterTouchTool. I've mainly used the former as I've always felt it a bit more straight-forward when you just want to set up some minor extra functionality, but it hasn't been updated in a very long time and it feels like it gets buggier and buggier with each new OS X release.

BTT is definitely the way to go at this point, it has seen continued development and is really user friendly these days, and it's just incredibly powerful, once you've fiddled with it a bit and started to build up muscle memory you can get the Magic Mouse to do everything the trackpad does and much more.

In BetterTouchTool, select your mouse, and in the dropdown for predefined actions, choose "Lookup Word Under Cursor".


How do I observe and control a macOS update using `softwareupdate`?

Out of frustration I simply tried
softwareupdate --install --all

in a new Terminal window, which unstuck the instance of softwareupdate running on the other original window. This seems to have resolved the issue completely.


some songs removed from my iTunes libary not always automatically removing from iPhone when using Match

i just erased all data on my iPhone and restored it through iCloud. The songs that had been removed long ago finally left my phone. I suppose this is a solution but i really hope i wont have to do this too often.


Recording screen and user inputs (gestures) on iPad

You can program your app so that it shows the gestures on screen - then it would appear in the recorded video as well. You would then have a simple switch in your program's source code so that you can enable this feature only for demonstration videos and not in the actual released app.

Many modules exist for doing this easily - for example:

Swift: TouchVisualizer
Obj-C + Swift: COSTouchVisualizer
Obj-C + Swift: Touchpose
Obj-C + Swift: Fingertips

A less sophisticated solution is to use the built-in accessibility features of iOS. You can read a guide on doing that here.


Message notification does not work in iPhone 4S

The source of my problem was Cydia app "Do Not Disturb".


I found the solution. You have to remove all the photos from the album you want to delete.


Finder shows sizes greyed out and folders empty

As best as I can tell, the file sizes are greyed out while Finder works to calculate the current size of the folder.  If you wait a moment and let Finder works its magic, you'll see the file sizes appear in the usual black font.


I phone 4 start up not loading (previously jailbroken)

You won't have bricked the phone. At most, the software will be corrupt. You'll be able to fix this. Do the following:

Leave the phone to charge overnight, to try and get off the low battery symbol. Try to use a wall adapter rather than the USB port on your computer, as the wall will provide more power.
Connect the phone to your computer.
Enter DFU mode: Hold the power button for three seconds. Then, hold the home and power buttons for ten seconds. Then, release the power button and keep holding the home button until the device appears in iTunes. In DFU mode, the screen will be completely black.
Restore the iPhone as usual.


Can you use the Nintendo Switch Pro Controller with an Apple TV?

After reading the article you linked to on AppleInsider, I noticed that it says that

  They will not work with iOS games, nor tvOS.

Since these controllers are not "Made for tvOS/iOS" certified, they will be unable to be used with your Apple TV. You will instead need to use a controller that is certified, like the Horipad Ultimate that is sold on the Apple Store.

You can find more compatible controllers that are sold on the Apple Store here


Apple Airport - Access DHCP from ethernet connection?

The DHCP works fine for the airport.

If you use ethernet and a static IP address, then you'll have to choose an IP address outside of the DHCP lease range otherwise you can get IP address conflicts.

For example, if your DHCP range is set to 192.168.0.10 through 192.168.0.20 then you can use the IP address ranges 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.9 and 192.168.0.21 - 192.168.0.253 for statically assigned IP address.

Hope this helps


That is normal and documented by Apple. (yes it is a known bug, but you didn't lost anything. They were all moved to your iCloud under Documents and/or Desktop folders.

You have to download them from iCloud again

If you want to change settings:

Change this setting under System Preferences -> iCloud (save "Documents and Desktop" on iCloud.

but this "problem" of missing just happens on Upgrade. If you like you can continuing syncing Documents and Desktop to iCloud. It is just that you will have to download them at least once, now.


timemachine doesn't start or send errors

Time machine doesn’t want to back up part of one disk to another disk, but your screen shot seems to show that. To be sure, I would confirm you are not just splitting up one drive and have two devices to set this up.

It might be possible to convince Time Machine from the command line to backup, so if you’re up for that, here are the two commands I would use to get you started:

diskutil list

And then

tmutil destinationinfo

Based on your specific naming, you might be able to add your drive - being careful with characters like ( and ) - I would probably make your backup volume just “backup” without any punctuation like the smart quotes to the left

tmutil setdestination /volumes/backupdrivename

this will tell you where the error exists and try to search for it.
maybe a permission error. remember you maybe have to try the same command with 'sudo'

if the config is done but it won't start try to start the backup from command also

tmutil startbackup && tmutil status

you will notice that backup started at timemachine app


How to remove apps that are remembered by App Store?

This will not be possible. You will see an cloud icon when you previously "purchased" an app. This will notify you that you could download the app without any costs.

It is not possible to delete those apps from your Apple ID.

If you don't want to see the cloud icon, you could sign out from the appstore via settings > iTunes & App Store > sign out. This will hide the cloud icon but you have to log in each time you want to download an app.


How to run .vtt and .srt files with videos using QuickTime Player

Not that I know of.
In case you're unfamiliar, VLC is a free alternative that has excellent support for subtitles, etc.


USB Drive Not Showing Up in Disk Utility

If you have the ability to burn an .iso and boot a livecd, Gparted should be able to format the USB drive.
Gparted


Is it possible to put ios 10 on an ipod touch 4?

Unfortunately, no.

You can look on Wikipedia and see the oldest generation iPod that goes past iOS 9 is the 6th generation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Touch_(6th_generation)

See if your web browser can stream podcasts while you decide what to do. Apple support pages are a good resource as well for what hardware supports which iOS.


Why are some iTunes Store songs marked as CLEAN when no EXPLICIT version exists?

I just had a look at differently tagged files.

The responsible ID3-tag is rtng (short for rating). If set to 1 the song will be marked as EXPLICIT, while 2 shows up as CLEAN. Every other value leads to no label.

I recommend Kid3 as a tag editor.

EDIT:
According to this and this, the values should be 2 (CLEAN) and 4 (EXPLICIT). I can't reproduce those, maybe someone copied it wrong...


If you installed loops - you'll have to clean them out: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201503

If you made projects, they could be stored anywhere on the disk - probably in a /Users folder.


Many things can cause a boot-looping device.

Try these things (if you haven't already) to see if anything helps:

Try a hard reset (Home & Power button for 10 secs)
Use a genuine Apple Lightning connector
Use a genuine Apple charging brick and let it charge overnight
Try to connect it to different computers (mac/pc if possible) with an updated iTunes
Put the phone in recovery mode (search DFU Mode). Careful, this can reset your data
Use 3uTools for putting it in and out of Recovery Mode
Use 3uTools to flash the firmware (you can't downgrade)

If you are comfortable opening your device (now that it's out of warranty) then consider the following:

Disconnect the Front Camera Ribbon from the logic board and reboot
your phone
Disconnect the screen assembly completely and see if iTunes will recognize the phone.

Otherwise, you may have a logic board issue. If you are uncomfortable doing these steps, consider either doing an OOW replacement at Apple or finding a reputable, independent repair shop to do the troubleshooting. A shop that also does micro-soldering can go deeper if the problem is not modular in nature.


Files in /usr are protected by SIP, see What is the "rootless" feature in El Capitan, really? for details. vim should be able to read config files from user-writable directories as well, man vim has the details.