Google Photos lets you store unlimited photos in high quality on their servers, just by downloading the Google Photos app. The app works great, and I've found it to be reliable. It gets 5 stars in the iOS App Store (which is really quite an achievement) and has nice extra features in the Assistant section, like auto-making videos from your photos/videos. Once your photos and videos are backed up to Google Photos, you can view them on phones, tablets, and computers, just by signing in to your account.

You can also spend $1 a month to purchase 50 gigabytes of iCloud storage, and turning on iCloud Photo Library lets you back up all of your photos similarly (though I've found this to be slightly less reliable than Google's solution).

Read more about backing up your photos with this New York Times article.


What apps allow me to draw on an iPad and sync it with a Mac?

In the iPad User Guide, see the section titled “Use iPad as a second display for your Mac”

Excerpt From
iPad User Guide
Apple Inc.
https://books.apple.com/us/book/ipad-user-guide/id1464778568
This material may be protected by copyright.


Will ethernet work off of Thunderbolt/mDisplayPort/Ethernet adapter?

You seem to have your terminology mixed up, which makes it difficult to answer your question.

Mini-DisplayPort is a standard for transferring display signals only. There exists no such thing as a Mini-DisplayPort to Ethernet adapter. In fact what you have is probably a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter. Thunderbolt uses the same physical plug as Mini-DisplayPort, but it is completely different thing.

When you say your laptop requires Thunderbolt, I think you're mistaken again. The picture you have included shows what appears to be a Thunderbolt 3 plug. Therefore I think your laptop really has Thunderbolt 3 ports, and not just Thunderbolt.

Again when looking at the photo, it seems to me that you are mistaken in saying that you have a "Mini-DisplayPort to Ethernet" adapter at all - i.e. it's not even Thunderbolt. The way you have taken the picture makes it impossible for us to see which plug goes with which adapter unfortunately. I do think I recognize the product as being a USB-C to Mini-DisplayPort adapter. If that is the case, you cannot use this adapter at all for this purpose.

You can buy a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter for connecting the ethernet adapter to your laptop:

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMEL2AM/A/thunderbolt-3-usb-c-to-thunderbolt-2-adapter

However it's probably cheaper to just buy a USB-C to Ethernet adapter in the first place. It could be something like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Ethernet-Thunderbolt-Gigabit-Network-Compatible/dp/B07XTGKP5M/


It's an issue with OS X & Exchange sync. As a workaround, you can use the OWA app by Microsoft to sync your contacts to iCloud:

On iOS there's an app called OWA. Within the app there's a setting within the People section for sync'ing your contacts. Basically it creates a new group in your iCloud called OWA that is a carbon copy of your contacts.

Once I turned this on and saw it sync with my laptop, I got my names resolved and showing in iMessage again!

I have documented a more complete explanation and resolution in Resolving Contacts Sync on OS X - Error SOAPWebServicesErrorDomain.


If you didn’t give the app location permission then the app cannot access your location. If you gave it permission then theoretically yes, it could track you.

From this:

How to turn Location Services on or off for specific apps

  Go to Settings > Privacy > Location Services.
  Make sure that Location Services is on.
  Scroll down to find the app.
  Tap the app and select an option:

  Never: Prevents access to Location Services information.
  While Using the App: Allows access to Location Services only when the app or one of its features is visible on screen. If an app is set
  to While Using the App, you might see your status bar turn blue with a
  message that an app is actively using your location.
  Always: Allows access to your location even when the app is in the background.


How do I use my GPG agent for SSH everywhere?

So, I managed to find a hacky solution that achieves the same goal. It appears (???) impossible to overwrite SSH_AUTH_SOCK, and I can't disable the builtin agent because I want to preserve SIP.

However, I can abuse symlinking to get my agent working reliably. Thanks to a nice article explaining how to leverage the YubiKey on a Mac (similar to my goal), I managed to create a LaunchAgent to symlink my agent to wherever SSH_AUTH_SOCK is pointing. So far I have yet to perform heavy testing with this, but it seems to be working okay.

Just in case the source link goes down, I created a file at ~/Library/LaunchAgents/link-ssh-auth-sock.plist with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs>
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
  <key>Label</key>
  <string>link-ssh-auth-sock</string>
  <key>ProgramArguments</key>
  <array>
    <string>/bin/sh</string>
    <string>-c</string>
    <string>/bin/ln -sf $HOME/.gnupg/S.gpg-agent.ssh $SSH_AUTH_SOCK</string>
  </array>
  <key>RunAtLoad</key>
  <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

This LaunchAgent replaces the Apple-generated socket (located in /private/tmp/...) with my own, but preserves Apple's environment variable. The symlink works, and is picked up in any application that supports using native SSH (in my case, PyCharm).

It's not a true solution to the issue (the socket is being symlinked, who knows what issues this could cause), but it at least works for the time being.

I'll keep trying to find a true solution to this problem, but in the meantime I'll share this answer just for any other curious souls with the same issue.


Difficulty setting the 'Open with app' to an alias

Not the cleanest solution, but pressing / while in the Open With dialog allowed me to get to /usr/local.  Found the solution here


Apache "Client denied by server configuration"

access to the directory on the hard disk was denied by an Apache... that can be an explicit deny directive, or if the dir is outside of document root.

I suspect you don't have (and don't want!) /usr as part of your documentroot.


Finder window does not remember size. Yosemite

Do a backup in case you mess up. (For experienced users who understand what the next steps do, this can be skipped.)
Open the Finder
Press SHIFT+CMD+G and enter ~/Library/Preferences/. This will open the Preferences folder inside your personal library.
Find the file com.apple.finder.plist and move (drag) it to your desktop.
Re-launch the Finder: Click the Apple icon in the top left corner, select  Force Quit, select Finder and kill it. You can restart, but this is quicker.
If it works okay, delete the plist from the desktop. If not, return the .plist to where you got it from, overwriting the newer one.

This worked for me.

Credits


Airdrop seems to be missing on my Macbook Pro

Is there any personal information in the contents of the app AirDrop? I did some digging in the package contents but couldn't find any. If it has no personal information, I can upload and attach the airdrop app, and you can save a backup of the corrupt app and paste my app in.


Changing the behavior of the red number on the Dock

Mail does not allow customisation of the app's badge in this way. You can provide feedback to Apple regarding this here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html


Can I connect a microphone to a retina 5k iMac?

It should be possible to add a microphone, you just need the correct adapter. See this answer I posted to a similar question - I believe the same will apply in this case.


Why would a new MacBook Pro charger fail in one month?

What might be happening?

You have a defective charger.  It's not unheard of and if you are a manufacturer of products, it's quite common.  With every single product that is made around the world, there is a percentage that fail.  This is called a defect percentage or rate.

  The total number of defects counted on the population in question
  divided by the total population count.

At one point, Apple was expecting a 10% defect rate on iPhones made by Foxconn.1

Does this mean that they are just going to let defects go?  Of course not, but being that these are complex products dependent on the manufacturing processes of other vendors, defects are bound to show up.  Even with the best QA processes in place, it's not perfect.

You received a charger that failed.  This is why they offer you a warranty.

As for the electric feeling, this also is a common occurrence and has been discussed on this site:

How can I avoid my MacBook Pro giving me minor shocks?
Is it bad that my MacBook Air is passing me electricity?
Avoiding electrical shocks/statics

Basically, it boils down to the adapter not being grounded/earthed and using a 3 prong plug (applicable to your country) solves the problem.

1 Apple Expected 10% Bad iPhones from Foxconn?  Mark Graban's Lean Blog, May 6, 2013.


Fusion Drive constantly spinning up and down

There are 2 ways to look what is it doing in sleep.

One is open the Console in utility, then look at the sleep hours log messages.

If you need help with that publish a copy of that segment here in your question.

The second way is using the Terminal in the utility.

In Terminal window type pmset -g

That will show you a list of sleep mode settings and who is preventing the sleep.


Unfortunately the link you supplied is location-specific, so I can't see the actual iTunes URL it's redirecting to

... however ...

You should try using itms:// or itms-apps:// in lieu of http(s):// when linking to an app in the app store. The iPhone treats those slightly differently and this may resolve your issue.


I can only find one other manufacturer, but I guess that's sufficient to say Apple are not the only company to make a dock with audio out from the Lightning port.

Henge Docks Gravitas can do this.

It's not completely clear from the web page that there is no separate audio plug going into the phone, but the user guide is clearer.
This structure enables you to have the phone connected to both computer/charger & external speakers, simultaneously.


Why does my Terminal command line screw up like this? (bash's fault?)

It's most likely an issue with what you've set your PS1 to in your .bashrc or .bash_profile.  Specifically, I'd expect it's related to incorrect escape sequences.

Here is a link with more information.  It's hard to tell exactly without seeing what your PS1 is set to.


Complicated iOS upgrade - no wifi, no computer

You can use any computer that has iTunes installed on it. All you need to do is back it up to that computer first. You don't have to sync it with the computer.

Once the iPhone is backed up, you can download and install the update knowing you have a backup of it on the computer.

Once the iOS update is complete, you can go into Preferences -> Devices and then select the backup and delete it from your computer if you don't want it on your computer.


It is actually 4px on non-retina displays.

I have tried using gdb and strings to find preference keys for removing the gap, but I haven't found anything. Most windows can't be resized so that they cover it with AppleScript either.

The only way I know to remove it is to disable Dock completely with for example launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Dock.plist. But it also disables Mission Control, Launchpad, full screen windows, and the application switcher, and it makes desktop backgrounds gray.

A more practical workaround might be to make the desktop background (or parts of it on the side the Dock is on) solid black.


Can I tell if a device has an active Activation Lock before inserting a SIM card?

If you are referring to "Find my iPhone" with "if it's icloud locked":

No, "Find my iPhone" must be turned off on your new iPhone. iTunes doesn't let you restore an iDevice with turned on "Find my iPhone" (on iOS 7 and greater)


An exhaustive list of all graphics cards by all vendors ever put on mac?

Mactracker.app

Has a list going back all the way to the beginning.


Have you been backing up your iPhone?  If so, you can do the following to restore the backups:

Go to Settings -> General -> Reset -> "Erase All Content and Settings"
It will ask if your sure, you are.
When the phone resets, it will ask if you would like to set this up as a new phone or restore from backup... tell it you want to restore.
it will ask if it's an iCloud or iTunes based backup, give the correct answer.
Wait until the restore is complete.

Note that if you're doing this from iCloud, you'll need to be WiFi connected for quite some time for the restore to complete.

If you have NOT been syncing/backing up your iPhone, you may be out of luck :-(

Alternatively, if this is really a question about how to recover your AppleID & Password, you'll need to follow these steps on Apple's website.


Can you set custom ringtones for contact groups?

It is unfortunately not (yet or ever?) officially supported as a feature of iOS.


Prevent iTerm2 from opening new terminal from dock

I found it! I'm using Iterm 3 and found the following setting under "Advanced":


How to get early feedback prior to the official submission to Apple

Yes, submitting your app via TestFlight for public beta testing serves that purpose. The app will undergo a review, albeit a smaller review than the ordinary App Store review. You do not need to actually release your app for beta testing to any third party (except Apple) - you can choose to get it approved and then do nothing.

Similarly you can submit your app for the App Store to get the full review done. There's no need for you to actually make the app public on the App Store right away - you can keep it out of the App Store for as long as you like - and publish only when you're ready. It is also possible to update the app before publishing - although the update will then have to undergo review as well.

You do not have to worry about your official submission being "tarnished". If Apple rejects the app, you have plenty of options for changing the app and resubmitting for a new review.

In the interest of saving time, it is however a good idea to make sure that the app follows the new guidelines before submitting them it to review.


Mavericks downgrade to Mountain Lion - alert cannot be installed on this computer

Verify that your iMac can run the older version of Mac OS X. You can see what versions can be run by searching for your specific model of iMac at EveryMac

Sometimes I have seen that even if a Mac was shipped with an older version of Mac OS it is difficult to downgrade due to firmware upgrades that make the system incompatible with older releases. I haven't personally experienced this sort of issue in maybe 10 years.


Tons of mail windows opened because of no preferred outgoing server

Trying to send you emails because, email is one of the options for Reminders in Calendar.

To get rid of this for existing events, simplest is just to manually one-by-one change the reminder setting. Alternative would be (1) export the calendar to a file, (2) Make a backup copy for when you mess up step 3 and regret it bitterly at step 4, (3) edit the file to search and replace reminders (4) delete your calendar (5) import the edited events.
To get rid of this for future events, I think you just have to change the reminder setting once; on your one next new event. Then it will remember.

Force-quit with  ⌥⌘esc. If that really really doesn't work, logout.
Worst case, avoid the future annoyance either by telling the Mail app your email details; or open Mail app -> Preferences to tell it what program you actually do use for email.


For C/++ you only need the compiler (clang)/toolchain, which can be installed via commandline:
xcode-select --install


Xserve display problems during installation

The solution to this problem required reinstalling the operating system. It worked seamlessly the second time around.


The song you bought from iTunes Store is not yet downloaded into your iPhone, but will be streamed from iTunes while playing.

There is no option to cancel the purchase and remove the song - from your iPhone. But you can do that from iTunes, from your PC or Mac. Please refer to this to find more about how this request can be made.

Launch iTunes on your PC or Mac.
Click on your name at the top and select Account Info.
Enter password when prompted.
Click on See All under Purchase History.
Click on the arrow next to the group that contains the
purchase you'd like a refund for.
Click on Report a Problem next to the single purchase you'd like a
refund for, unless there is only one, then you may use the large
Report a Problem button.
You will be routed to Apple's website.
Follow the steps after signing in and request the Refund option and
explain why.


How can I make preferences boxes open in correct display with SecondBar?

I'm not familiar with how SecondBar works, but it looks like it's just a hack that duplicates the menubar on an external monitor. There's no operating system support for a second menubar so no support for determining which menubar was clicked and which monitor to open the dialog in.

Perhaps the developer of SecondBar could somehow intercept the command and redirect the dialog, but I really doubt this low-level jiggery-pokery is possible.


How do websites offer a factory unlocking service

They pay someone that works for a carrier to enter that information into the carrier database or they have hacked access to that database.

As long as iTunes gets the device ID as one to be unlocked when it restores the device, it gets unlocked. Otherwise it gets locked to the carrier under which it was sold.


Where did the digital color meter go in Yosemite?

You can find it under Applications/Utilities.

From there, you can drag it to your Dock to create an alias.  See Mac Basics: The Dock for additional info on making the most of the Dock.

To remove the Question Mark, drag it off the Dock until you see "Remove" then release.


Photo Booth freezes for >30s whenever I open it

Do you have Dropbox? I found that if I quit the Dropbox app, most of these 'hangs' go away. Starting Chrome and Safari, Launching Mail.app all improved when I quit Dropbox. I still have Dropbox, and I restart it to get it to sync every so often, but I leave it off.

I have seen others with similar experience, but I don't use photobooth, so can not tell you if Dropbox is the cause.

Also, I found a noticeable improvement across the board from starting with a clean install of Yosemite. My 13" 2011 MacBook Pro was nearly unusable following an upgrade to Yosemite.


iOS diagnostics test gives you new problems?

Have you tried restarting the device? This will wipe the cache, and perhaps solve your problem.


Can't launch application as root: secinitd > registration request failed

Found a solution myself:

sudo /bin/launchctl asuser 0 /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator

Console:

26/08/16 15:12:25,946 sudo[34364]:    USER : TTY=ttys000 ; PWD=/Users/USER ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/bin/launchctl asuser 0 /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator

26/08/16 15:12:27,891 secinitd[34367]: UID[0]: cache loaded: /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.app-sandbox-cache.plist

This will ensure that the request actually comes from 0, not from 501. It might not be the only possible solution, but it worked here. If you know any alternate methods, let us know. Thank you.


How do I watch a live stream on my iPad?

Puffin Web Browser is not always great for button-like functions within flash content. However, for most flash videos Puffin Web Browser has a "Theater" mode. So in Puffin Web Browser go to the live stream that you would like to view, and wait for it to begin to play. Now, instead of attempting to click the full screen toggle within the player that is showing you the live stream, swipe from the right edge of your screen to bring up the sidebar, and press the "Theater" button. Your video should now be playing in full screen, or as close to full screen as it is going to get. If you really prefer not using Puffin Web Browser, the only version of VLC that fully supports P2P video is the version available on Cydia. If you like stable devices, that is not recommended.


Set off alarm when receiving text from a certain number?

Kinda. If you go to your sound settings and change the default text tone to "none" and then go to your contacts and change the text tone for whichever contact you want a notification from to something that DOES have sound, you will only get audible text alerts from that specific contact.

However this will not work if the phone is muted, or if Do-Not-Disturb is enabled.

I just tested this theory and it works.  Hope that helps!  ;-)


How to disable auto load of applications on restart/turn on over OS X Catalina?

I know this isn't a permanent solution, but from what you are describing it only happens when you recently close an app and then restart your computer. Here is a screenshot from a support article on the Apple Support website  Along with this solution instead of closing the application, make sure that it is totally closed (the little white dot below the application is gone).

For example:
Application still open:
Application totally closed:

Let me know if any of this helps!


Make a bootable Ubuntu flash drive
Insert it in your computer
Hold Option key while booting
Select USB for boot
Install Ubuntu


How do you set the TCP congestion control algorithm on OS X?

According to http://www.macgeekery.com/gspot/2006-03/mac_os_x_network_tuning_guide you can actually modify the algorthims used by Mac OS X by using  the sysctl command, but you cannot use anything but the New Reno algorithm:

  net.inet.tcp.newreno implements the New Reno modification to the TCP Fast Recovery Protocol (RFC 2582). New Reno is the name given to an enhancement to TCP partial acknowledgments that is used in the absence of a stack that supports SACKs. Keep in mind that while this shouldn’t cause problems in the normal case, it’s only really useful over a congested link like, say, checking mail while streaming NPR or similar. Even then, it’s not a magic bullet. No harm in turning it on, but understand what it is and isn’t, first. It’s off by default.

The command is
sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.newreno=1
which you could reverse with sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.newreno=0 if you had issues with it.


iMac can not see wifi home connection but it finds others

After several trials, I "somehow" managed to fix the problem.

The important thing, I guess, is that you need to reboot the iMac.
What I know for sure that I have changed is:

Add a new position;
Link a new connection to the new position;
Add an additional DNS address to the list: 8.8.8.8

The source I was following is this website with troubleshooting solutions. Hope this is useful for future reference.


What are the electrical requirements for magsafe charging?

Is it safe (1) to omit the initial high impedance 6 V or 3 V and
  simply apply "14,5V to 18,5V on Magsafe 1 and up to 20V on Magsafe 2"?
  Do I have to match the voltage of the power supply reported by the
  cable connector (16.5 V)?

The "initial high impedance 6V or 3V" is handled by the power supply that sends the 3/6V until it detects a "power line low" condition (the MagSafe is connected) at which point it sends the full 16-20V DC

Do you need this initial 3/6V?  No.  What you need to do is supply clean, stable 16-20V DC to the MagSafe cable (shielding to negative, white inner to positive) because that's what's required to power your Mac.

  This risk seems to be why the PS only turns on full power after it senses 40 kOhm across the power pins for 1 s.  Is there a risk of shorting the pins when the plug is not properly seated? In that case I'd apply power after nicely seating the plug.

Yes, there's a risk - a low one.  It's extremely difficult to short the pins on a MagSafe connector.  I'm not saying it's impossible, but the design makes it so it's extremely difficult to do so.  However, if you do short the points, the damage will most likely be minimal (you'll blow the MagSafe DC-In board and not the whole logic board), but in my experience, it's not worth it.

What I have done is connect a MagSafe to a switched AC adapter "wall wart" that supplied 18V at 3A to my MagSafe and powered my "benchtop" MagSafe diagnostic power supply.  I did it this way so I could insert a multi meter in line so I could measure amperage draw.  I've never shorted pins and this worked great.

Standard disclaimer:  Don't try this at home.  I only play a professional on TV.


Invalid Canadian Postal Codes when ordering print products

NOTE: iPhoto can no longer submit orders for print products. The solution below only works with the Mac OS X/macOS app Photos.

As posted in these threads, there seems to be an occasional issue with address validation that fails when the letter O follows the letter P (regardless of whether there are other characters between them).

For instance, the address

  123 Park Avenue, Montreal, QC, W9W 9W9

would be ok, but

  123 Parkour Avenue, Montreal, QC, W9W 9W9

would fail.

In my case, since both the city and province contained the letter O, I removed the letter O from the street address, I removed the whole city name and replaced it with a single letter, and then changed the province to one without the letter O. My address went from something like this

  123 Parkour Avenue, Waterloo, ON, W9W 9W9

to

  123 Parkur Avenue, W, BC, W9W 9W9

That let the process continue and (after pressing Ignore on the suggested address dialog), I was taken to the final Place Order dialog.* On the phone with Apple, they also mentioned the possibility of changing the address even at that final step with the down arrow indicated in the image:

Photos froze sometimes, especially at the suggested address dialog (the one where you press Ignore), so this may take a couple of tries.

*There's a chance that you might be able to successfully place the order here, avoiding the final address change. Your postal code, combined with the (hopefully similar-enough-to-the-real-one) street address should be enough for the postal service to figure out the phony city and province. However, since print products aren't cheap, you may not want to take that risk.


Signing onto Shoprite Wifi causes Google to lock my account

I have had similar issues with Google. I connect to Google services in the background from what Google sees as a "new location". So, when I sign in from what it deems as an unusual location, I see these entries in my Recent Activity :

When I verify that it was me "by clicking the "Yes, that was me!" button, the next time I connect, I no longer get the security notifications. This seems to remediate the issue, but it doesn't explain to me why I'm getting the notifications in the first place. (I haven't been able to track down an explanation, only a way to get rid of the notifications.)


Message, Phone apps started showing only phone numbers, not names

I figured this out.  Note that this fix works for an iPhone 5s running iOS 12, with contacts synced to Google/Gmail.  Your mileage may vary.

The problem seems to be that the phone numbers in the contacts app have lost the proper format. They should be in the form (123) 456-7890 and they have become formatted as 1234567890. It seems that iOS does a really literal comparison and it can't resolve this difference. I tested this theory by editing a contact to put a "+1" international code in front of the number. That forced the number into the correct format and the phone app and messages then displayed that person's name.

The challenge was how to do this without editing every phone number.

I fixed this by changing my region from the US to Canada. That evidently forces a re-formatting of the erroneous numbers. Then I changed it back to the US.

Go to Settings, General, Language&Region, Region, select "Canada", then press "Done" (I bet selecting any region would work). The change takes a bit of time. When it is complete, look at your recent calls, voicemails and messages--they should be displaying names. Look at your contacts--phone numbers should be correctly formatted. If so, the problem should be fixed. In any case, change the region back to "United States."

Good luck, I hope this works for you.


How do I programmatically change the "Hide extension" setting for a list of files?

Hmmm, that sounds really odd. I just ran your sample code on some test files and it didn't alter the Hide extension flag at all. Are you sure the files didn't already have that option checked before you ran your command? Have you tried creating a few fresh files, verifying manually that none have that option selected, and then running your command on them?

I can't help in terms of the "how to avoid this" part of your question, as I can't manage to recreate your problem on my end. But you can disable that setting programmatically. If you have Xcode installed, you can do the following:

# Disables "Hide extension" for all visible files in current directory
for file in *; do
    SetFile -a e "$file"
done

Note that if you ever want to reverse the process (i.e. turn on the setting), you can do so by changing the lowercase e to an uppercase E.

# Enables "Hide extension" for all visible files in current directory
for file in *; do
    SetFile -a E "$file"
done

If you don't have Xcode installed, see this answer on superuser for instructions on how to do the same thing using AppleScript.

By the way, you should try to avoid parsing the output of ls like you have done in your example. It can cause problems if any of the files you are processing contain a newline character in their filename. This is particularly important if you ever write a script that will be processing files which you have not created yourself (as you won't know how they are named). See Why you shouldn't parse the output of ls(1) for details.


Where does Command-Shift-3 or Command-Shift-4 (for taking screen captures) originate from?

What’s an FKEY?
FKEY’s (Function Keys) are resources containing executable code that are called upon by hitting the keys Command-Shift-# (any number 0-9) at the same time. In the standard System file there are two FKEY’s; with an ID#3 and #4 that are used to dump the current screen or window onto disk or printer.1

So far as I can remember/find, screenshot commands were first added to the OS itself in System 6.2

1 Text and image from FKEY that runs other FKEYs!   by John Holder (MacTech magazine, 1988)
2 Further reading/references: Mel's Macintosh Universe: Macintosh Plus and a forum posting from 2003, How do I take a screen shot (the latter of which features some guy named Chealion).


Which processes / services need to be running to perform a local sync with an iPod Touch iOS5 with Windows 7?

Okay so here are the prerequisites for making this work over wifi:
Prerequisites:
Programs Running:

iTunes

Services Running:
(Located in Start->Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Services)

Bonjour Service
Apple Mobile Device Service

wifi:

iPod connected to wifi and so is your computer

iTunes Issues:
If you have all of the prerequisites above set, and on your iPod you enter (Setting->General->iTunes Wi-Fi Sync) and you find the Sync Now button is still disabled do the following:

In iTunes click edit->preferences
Click the Devices tab.
Click the Reset History button.

Now if you look at your iPod Touch again the Sync Now button should now be enabled.
(found in the apple documentation)


You could try to restart your Dock by opening Terminal app in your Utilites folder and running the following command:

killall Dock


Where to find the keychain stored by KeychainSwift

There's no user interface for this part of the keychain what what is included in the app (or apps) created by that specific developer.

The keychain area that is accessed by the iOS app is specific to that app (or group of apps by the same developer, if specified). It cannot be accessed by other apps, so no App Store app will allow you to show the contents of the keychains of other apps. Nor are the app specific keychains areas viewable through the Settings app or any other first party app.

As a developer, you can add such user interface to your own app - or for debugging purposes simply use the Xcode debugger or add prints to the console with information from the keychain.

The Keychain can in general be synchronized over iCloud with other devices - including macOS devices. This does however not happen automatically for third party apps. The app would need to explicitly asks for iCloud syncing using the kSecAttrSynchronizable attribute.

Even then, the macOS Keychain Access app does not allow you to view all the data stored in the keychain by a third party iOS app.


Getting photos from MobileSync data created by iTunes

In the MobileSync folder, go into the Backup folder which will probably just contain a pile of folders and files.

Open these files in some type of Media Player (Quicktime is probably the best option).

There may be of items once you open them, but if you sort by size you should get video, audio, and photos to float to the top.


Time Machine is doing very large backups

Time Machine is using differential backups. That means your first backup is a complete backup which is same size with your drive. Starting from the second one backup will include changed files since last backup.

These Backups are accessible by finder. So you can easily find out which folders causes these big backups. After you find the folders you can manually exclude these folders from Time Machine Backup Options.

Some softwares may cause huge backups if they changes files last updated status like Dropbox Agent or similar. You may consider exclude folders of these softwares because they are already copied to the cloud.


MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010) Does not Enter Recovery Mode

Why don't you try bootable disk drive utility method;
Here is how this process works. First, it's necessary for you to prepare a USB flash drive. With that you can create and install a bootable OS X installer drive and then to fix Mac not working in recovery mode issue.
For that;
1.Reboot Mac and keep taping “Option” until you hear the sound.
2.Attach your bootable installer drive to Mac and choose it from the pop up list.
3.Then your Mac will restart and you are able to fix Mac.


How can I regain an admin account on my iMac?

I was able to do this in Recovery mode, not single-user. In Recovery mode, you are not started up from your normal system volume, so files are not at their usual paths.

I had to go into terminal and type

rm /Volumes/"Macintosh HD"/var/db/.AppleSetupDone

Note: that if your main volume is named something other than "Macintosh HD", you need to substitute that at the appropriate place; also, there must be a space after "rm" and cannot be one before ".AppleSetupDone".

Also, standard dscl commands will not work as expected in Recovery mode. Once done exit terminal and restart. Upon restart I was able to select a new user with admin privilege.

What a beating !!


How can I completely disable desktop background change?

One possible solution would be to set the permissions on ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.desktop.plist to be read-only for the user.


Troubleshoot launchd/launchctl issue where application won't load

Got it solved. Will leave this question here…in case someone else has similar issue…and in hopes that someone can offer some good ideas for troubleshooting launchd/launchctl in the future.

My problem was I didn't have my mongod.conf file in the right place. As per plist directive launchctl (or is it launchd?) was looking for /usr/local/etc/mongod.conf but couldn't find it, so, it "loaded" mongod but the app never actually started...and there were no errors to that effect…that I could find.


Embedding AppleScript inside a Bash -- getting Error

change

osascript <<EOF

to

osascript <<-EOF

The - lets you indent the terminating EOF.


I think the app called Little Snitch is right for the job.

In it you can set up who has access to Internet resources, including all not so obvious background "blood suckers", like the one checking for software updates and so on.


Is it possible to turn off the iPhone Calendar invitations badge/list?

Actually, this functionality has been moved into the Notification settings for Calendar items (Settings > Notifications > Calendar).

In that view you'll have the option to change notifications for: Upcoming Events; Invitations; Invitee Responses; and Shared Calendar Changes. Each one give the ability to select: whether its shown in notification center; notification sound; badge app icon; show on lock screen; and the alert style!


How to change "Automatically reduce brightness before the display goes to sleep" in Yosemite?

That preference slider seems to be missing in Energy Saver for some Mac portables, and newer Mac portables seem to combine both settings if "Power Nap" is enabled:

http://www.extensions.in.th/amitiae/2014/prefs/energy.html

http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/no-computer-sleep-setting-in-energy-saver-for-nmp.1692340/


I do not see a way to do that.

Aside of software/firmware from Apple, there is the hardware issue as well.


You can enable "Tap-To-Click" in the System Preferences.

Go to System Preferences from the  menu, and click on Trackpad. (near the middle of the screen)

There should be a screen that looks like this:


Mavericks 10.9.1 - Copies fail *after* the data has been actually moved

Mavericks uses SMB2 as default, which still is a little bit buggy and might be causing this problem. You can force Mavericks to use SMB again by entering this in Terminal:

echo "[default]" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf; echo "smb_neg=smb1_only" >> ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf

and restore SMB2 default by:

rm ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf

Source: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20131122083837447


Make sure your battery is charged.

(If the phone is already powered on, hold in the home and power button until it shuts off, then do the following)

If/when it's charged and powered off, hold in the round home button, and the power button on your iPhone.

Once it turns on and you see the Apple logo on the screen, let go of the power button, but continue holding the home button.  Keep holding the home button until you see the iTunes logo on a black screen indicating for you to plug your phone into iTunes (This is recovery mode). (You may have to try this a few times until you get it to boot into recovery mode)

Once it's in recovery mode, plug your phone into your computer with iTunes installed on it, using the data cable. Then, restore your phone using iTunes.

Hope this helps :)  If you need anything else/have any issues/questions/etc, feel free to let me know, and I will do my best to help you get this sorted out ;)

James


Synchronise/Merge MP3 collections without duplication or huge copies

Sounds like you need a merge/sync solution.  I personally often use arRsync - but there are lots.  Find one that allows you to prioritize one folder over the other when a match is found.  You may need to tag and apply album art to both copies, before they will be recognized as the same, though.


How can I use a custom .klc Microsoft keyboard configuration file on macOS?

I have never heard of any way to convert windows layouts like this to OS X. You probably have to create it from scratch or just modify an existing Arabic layout.  If you could find one already made for Hausa Ajami, it might be similar.

You could also ask on the Ukelele list:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ukelele-users

Converters do exist to go the other way, from .keylayout to .klc

One (perhaps tedious) possibility would be to edit/redo the list contained in the .klc and try to use it in KeyLayoutMaker.  But I suspect drag/drop from Character Viewer into Ukelele's graphic interface, using Apple's Arabic Qwerty layout as a basis,  would be easier.

If you do create such a keyboard, I would be grateful for a copy.


After info.plist setting LSUIElement 1, how do I quit the application

I was able to quit the VirtualBox console and leave the virtual box vms open by using the activity monitor, finding the virtualbox process and then choosing quit.  Relaunching the virtualbox console, launches it in non-maximized mode.


How to determine which process or application is using excessive data

You can monitor the traffic with numerous applications and tools. One that is already installed is

/usr/bin/nettop

To block this unwanted traffic the easiest you also have numerous options:

– block the destinations via /etc/hosts

– block the ports used by those unruly programs using your builtin pf firewall

– use one of the application level firewalls like
–– RadioSilence
–– LittleSnitch
–– HandsOff
–– Vallum
–– TripMode

Most important and practical is of course to just uninstall the offenders if posssible.


iTunes 11 doesn't remember to show cloud purchases

I had this exact problem so I telephoned Apple support and the first thing they told me to do was to check the same setting on my other devices. I discovered that my iMac had the option in preferences un-checked and it seems that this was over-riding the option on my MacBook Air.

This has worked for me, so I suggest that you check the preferences on any other devices you have and make them all the same. This is probably a bug that Apple need to sort out because if you want the option on one device but not the other then you will cause the conflict.


"usb device was drawing too much power" error message

If you plug your iPhone with your keyboard the total power requested by you keyboard (i.e. iphone + keyboard) is too high for the usb to handle. I suggest you plug your iphone directly to your iMac.


Turn off login notification email for Facebook chat on a Mac

Go to your Facebook

Settings-Security and disable the notifications there


How do I create a read-only access for wiki server?

it's way simpler that it seemed in the docs.
You just login as an admin account.
Click on the gear icon on the top right
then permissions.
add the user that you would like to set as read only
then from the dropbox on the right select the permission for that user.


Youre probably looking for the free Afloat application. It is really very cool. ;)


Why is Adobe Lightroom 6 incompatible with the upcoming macOS 10.15 (Catalina)?

Catalina drops support for more than just 32bit apps. Kernel Extensions are no longer supported for example. If Lightroom uses a kext, this will not work. Catalina also runs the system from a read only volume. If Lightroom requires modifying any of these folders, then you're out of luck.

However, I don't believe the above is the cause. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Lightroom 6 (what you're using) is Lightroom CC (2015) or earlier right? If that's the case, the last time I used Lightroom CC (2015) the main app is 64bit but parts of the app are 32bit. A quick search online suggests that the parts in LR that are 32bit include Adobe QT32 Server and dynamiclinkmanager.

I've not tested it, but I suppose there is a small chance that the app could run without these 32bit components. Maybe I should stop speculating.


Hiding specific window (Enhanced Command+H)

This may not be exactly what you are looking for but it is a start.

If you want to hide your current front most (active) window simply pressing ⌘ Command M will do that.

That is the keyboard equivalent of clicking the yellow "Minimize" window button.

If you then need to "un-minimize" a window that you recently minimized that will require a trip to the mouse and the right size of the dock...


Lock Screen Recording In Privacy (System Preferences)

Some settings in System Preferences are shared among all users (same for everyone), and some only affect the currently logged in user (each user can customize). The Screen Recording panel only affects the currently logged in user, so the standard account isn't affecting settings for anyone else.

To really restrict a user from Screen Recording, you can do this:

Open System Preferences...
Screen Time
Content & Privacy
Apps
Disable Screen Recording

Or just set an App Limit for System Preferences so that it can't be used at all.


iOS 7 screen is still shaking after reboot

I had it very bad since the upgrade - 24/7 - I changed my settings (General > Accessibility > Invert Colours) to invert the colours and it worked.  It's a bandaide but at least I can read my messages and mail.  My pictures however look like negatives..


Prevent a specific app from accessing the Internet

What you're looking for is called an application firewall. One free/open source program that does this job is called LuLu --  https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html -- with code on github here.


IMovie06' Not working anymore because of Yosemite

You will have to upgrade your iMovie version through the App Store to the version supported by 10.10


Play feedback when volume is changed via touch bar

Start by going to System Preferences > Sound > Sound Effects.

Under the list of sound effects you should see two checkboxes, one labelled Play feedback when volume is changed. Check that box, and you should hear a feedback sound as the volume is changed.

Any time you touch the volume up/down button or release on the slider you will hear the feedback sound.

This sound will be different from the one in System Preferences, sounding more like a 'tick'


skill -KILL -u $user Command on Max OS X?

From the man page of skill

  These tools are obsolete and unportable.  The command syntax is poorly defined. Consider using the killall, pkill, and pgrep commands instead.

so you could use pkill -KILL -u uid.

But why kill every process with the KILL signal? You can just call exit after your script:

script.sh ; exit


What you are seeing is the "current draw" for charging the battery.  This will fluctuate and is perfectly normal.

You will see this fluctuate more so when the battery is full or nearly fully charged when it doesn't need much current to bring it back up to 100%.  When it reaches full charge, there's no need for full current draw.

The 2015 rMBP has either a 60W or 85W power adapter (13" or 15" respectively).  54W draw is well within the limit of either adapter which means (to use a Star Trek: TNG phrase) it's operating within normal parameters.  The 54W is just the draw at this particular time; charging the battery and powering the MBP.  Crank up some processes (like video editing) and your draw will go up.  Turn it off/put to sleep and ~100% of the power will go to charging the battery until it's full.

There's nothing to change nor is anything here harmful to your battery.


accepting Xcode license without having whole Xcode

Running xcodebuild requires you to have the whole Xcode (GUI) package installed.

Instead run this command:

 sudo xcrun cc

It will allow you to accept the license from the CLI.


How to get Mavericks 10.9.1 to remember external keyboard modifier keys

It sounds like the settings aren't getting saved properly. Try running Disk Utility and Fix Permissions on your startup volume. I usually run this a couple of times and reboot when I'm done when I start having problems like this.

If that fails check the system logs in Console.app while making these changes to see if  System Preferences.app is writing any error messages when changing this setting or quitting.

I remap the caps lock key to control and I've never had this problem when switching keyboards, which is something I do every day.

Good Luck.


How to check status of Wi-Fi adapter through command line?

You can use the ifconfig command, e.g.:

$ ifconfig en0
en0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,SMART,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
    ether # Removed for Security.
    inet6 fe80::c44:6ce5:5d57:5b93%en0 prefixlen 64 secured scopeid 0x9
    inet 192.168.2.101 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
    nd6 options=201<PERFORMNUD,DAD>
    media: autoselect
    status: active
$

You can also filter the output, e.g.:

$ ifconfig en0 | awk '/status:/{print $2}'
active
$

When not active the output is, e.g:

$ ifconfig en0 | awk '/status:/{print $2}'
inactive
$

If you do not know the device name for the Wi-Fi network adapter, you can use the following examples:

$ networksetup -getairportpower $(system_profiler SPAirPortDataType | awk -F: '/Interfaces:/{getline; print $1;}')
Wi-Fi Power (en0): On
$

Or:

$ ifconfig $(system_profiler SPAirPortDataType | awk -F: '/Interfaces:/{getline; print $1;}') | awk '/status:/{print $2}'
active
$


Do I need a step down transformer to charge my Iphone 4 in the UK? What wattage transformer is safe?

The UK iPhone charger give 5V DC at 1A (so thats 5W) on an input of 100-240V 50/60Hz with a draw of 0.25A

If you have the older two part chargers for iPod or iPhone 1st Gen, then they are fully 100-240V for all world supplies, all you need is the right connector (figure 8) to provide the AC to the charger.

If however you have the newer chargers that shipped with the 3G/3GS onwards, even though they are also 100-240V universal chargers, the pins are moulded into the chargers and you will need a plug converter.

So no you don't need a step down transformer, but you will need to provide a pin convertor.


is there a way to set the settings on an external webcam?

Without - no, not unless your cam manufacturer makes something Mac-specific [but then again, that wouldn't truly be without, just free].

With - I'd recommend Webcam Settings 8 bucks from the App Store.
It's what turned my Logitech from a barely functional lump balanced on my monitor into something actually useful.


How to set an application to be open in max window size?

As Preview (and or macOS) does not have a preference setting that always opens windows of an application in full desktop (not to be confused with full screen), here is an alternate answer that provides for a keyboard shortcut in Preview to resize the frontmost window in Preview.
This uses no third-party anything and can be done using macOS default applications and some AppleScript code without having to mess with System Integrity Protection.
Create an Automator Service/Quick Action with settings as shown in the image further below.
Add a Run AppleScript action replacing the default code with the following example AppleScript code:
tell application "Finder" to ¬
    set {missing value, missing value, ¬
        desktopWidth, desktopHeight} to ¬
        the bounds of window of desktop

tell application "System Events" to ¬
    tell application process "Finder" to ¬
        set {missing value, menubarHeight} to ¬
            the size of menu bar 1

tell application "System Events" to ¬
    tell application process "Dock" to ¬
        set {missing value, dockHeight} to ¬
            the size of list 1

tell application "Preview" to ¬
    if (exists front window) then ¬
        set bounds of front window to ¬
            {0, menubarHeight + 1, desktopWidth, ¬
                desktopHeight - dockHeight}

Assign it a keyboard shortcut in: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services
I used ⌥⌘F as it is not currently assigned in Preview.

Testing in macOS Catalina, the first time I used it I had to click the OK button on the message box shown below.

Notes:
The example AppleScript code shown above assumes the Dock is always visible and additional coding is required if the Dock is hidden.
If you are one that likes to have the Dock hidden, then use the following example AppleScript code instead of the previous example AppleScript code:
tell application "Finder" to ¬
    set {missing value, missing value, ¬
        desktopWidth, desktopHeight} to ¬
        the bounds of window of desktop

tell application "System Events" to ¬
    tell application process "Finder" to ¬
        set {missing value, menubarHeight} to ¬
            the size of menu bar 1

tell application "System Events" to ¬
    tell application process "Dock" to ¬
        set {missing value, dockHeight} to ¬
            the size of list 1

tell application "System Events" to ¬
    set dockIsHidden to ¬
        autohide of dock preferences

if dockIsHidden then
    set windowHeigth to desktopHeight
else
    set windowHeigth to desktopHeight - dockHeight
end if

tell application "Preview" to ¬
    if (exists front window) then ¬
        set bounds of front window to ¬
            {0, menubarHeight + 1, ¬
                desktopWidth, windowHeigth}

If by chance you want this to act on all windows in Preview then change the tell application "Preview" command as the last command in the code to the following example AppleScript code:
tell application "Preview" to ¬
    if (exists windows) then ¬
        set bounds of windows to ¬
            {0, menubarHeight + 1, ¬
                desktopWidth, windowHeigth}


Go to Setings > General > Restrictions and enable it.

Do nothing and re-enable it, the app should be back. On iOS 10 and later, you might also need to go to the App Store and reinstall system apps so be sure to try that as well.

Last - look for any profiles in settings in case someone managing your device has prevented use of that app systematically. You can generally remove the profile or ask them to reassign your device if you should have access to the health app and store health data on your device.


How to fix a MacBook Pro display that turns off?

This is a pretty vague question, but try some of these things:

Does the monitor work properly on other computers? (Probably you should check this first.)
You don't say if the external monitor is an Apple monitor or not, but are there drivers for the external monitor? If so, are they current?
Did you change anything in your system prior to the external screens breaking?
What happens prior to the external monitor turning off? Are you getting an error message? How long does the external screen work before it turns off? Is it an LCD or an older CRT monitor?
I was thinking this could be an issue with the monitor overheating and switching off, but it's currently not the summer where you are. Does the monitor have a fan that stopped working?
Does this happen when you boot into another user? What about if you boot onto another volume?


Is there a way to use different network connections for different apps

I've asked the same question a long time ago on superuser.com

https://superuser.com/questions/181882/force-an-application-to-use-a-specific-network-interface


Colors are different when SSHing onto a Linux machine from iTerm2. How can I standardize them?

The VIM part of this question was answered here.

Turns out my local session had background set to dark in VIM, and my remote session had background set to light. I just added the line set background=dark in my .vimrc and the colors now look identical.


"Time Machine must erase your existing backup history and start a new backup to correct this." Why is that?

“Has anyone seen this problem before?”
I have, and from what I have heard from reading forums over the years, it sounds like a very common problem with Time Machine: every once in awhile, it says “I need to delete your backup and start over.”
Or it says “I can’t backup because your backup device is full” (even though Time Machine is supposed to prune itself as needed).
Or something else comes up that causes Time Machine to choke.¹
Howard Oakley has cataloged a long list of issues with Time Machine, and even has some free apps to help work with Time Machine archives (unfortunately, nothing that can “repair” a “damaged” Time Machine backup, as far as I know).
In response to this I have developed the following attitude towards Time Machine:

Never rely on Time Machine as your only backup.

Use Time Machine to multiple locations (e.g. a Time Capsule or other remote Mac plus a local Mac) with the expectation that if one gets corrupted, you will still have the other one. Note that Point #1 still stands, even with Point #2

In addition to Time Machine, also use at least one (preferably two) of:

Backblaze
Carbon Copy Cloner
SuperDuper
Arq

¹ This is usually where someone will chime in and state that they have used Time Machine since it was first released and never had a problem with it. I do not doubt that there are some people who have had that experience, but I tend to consider them sort of like people who win the lottery: I am happy for them, but I would never expect to be one of them, and have decided to assume I never will be. YMMV.


How to restore a 10.1 backup to an iPhone with 10.0.2 without updating to the newest iOS available on itunes (currently 10.2)?

Backup and restore doesn't change firmware, only user data. That is how iTunes is designed.

Same with the regression, backups do not go backwards. Only forwards. You can restore a backup from an older version to a newer version of iOS.

Best case, you export the data to a computer or online service and find a way to jailbreak or buy a device with the older OS. Then you could import the data as opposed to the backup.

Also see:

Can I install any iOS version I wish by picking and choosing which firmware to restore?


Installing Windows without superdrive or USB

Try using WinToFlash in creating your bootable USB.

I also ran into problems when creating a Bootcamp partition. I also don't have access to a SuperDrive when I created a Windows partition.

First, use WinToFlash on your Windows 7 iso. Please use at least a 4GB USB drive and make sure that you don't have any important files in that drive as WinToFlash will delete all files when creating the bootable USB. After creating the bootable USB, go ahead and create a Bootcamp partition in your Mac drive using this tutorial. Hope this helps.


There is a way to unlock an iPhone running iOS 10 that has a broken home button and no access to Assistive Touch. Try the following:

On your Lock Screen, swipe right.
You should see the Search field at the top.
Type Settings in the Search field.
Your 'top hit' should be the Settings app. Tap on this.
You should now get the Touch ID or Enter Passcode screen.
Enter your passcode.
You should now see your settings.
Go to General -> Accessibility -> Assistive Touch and turn it on.
Also, while your still in the Accessibility settings, scroll to and tap the Home Button setting
Change the Click Speed and/or Rest Finger to Open settings to see if that also helps.

Good luck!


Mac software that automatically switches between applications every several seconds or so?

You could create an AppleScript using the AppleScript Editor in /Applications/Utilites. The syntax is quite easy to follow, and I'd base it on something like this:

repeat
  tell application "Safari" to activate
  delay 10
  tell application "Finder" to activate
  delay 10
end repeat

This will repeatedly have Safari and Finder get focus while waiting 10s in between. Having 10 seconds as an delay should give you enough time to re-open the editor and click on "stop". Another option would be to use repeat while instead and to create a stop criterium, like if exists "/path/to/makeitstop" as POSIX file which would make it stop after a file makeitstop is created.


How to type backslash and pipe? (Czech layout, USB keyboard)

I just bought a Genius keyboard in the Czech Republic and have the same problem, however I've found the following works for me:

Right alt + \
Shift + Right alt + |


Map app for iPad that works while you're not connected to WiFi or 3G?

These apps might be of interest:

Galileo Offline Maps
OffMaps 2
Comparison of iOS Map apps

According to OffMaps2 library search, maps of New York, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and parts of Canada are available.

Hope that helps, and enjoy your trip!


Cannot purchase from Mac App Store ("Connection failure" msg)

Try this: log out of your iTunes account (within the App Store choose Store > Sign Out), restart your Mac and then try to purchase/download something.


URLs getting truncated in QuarkXpress running on macOS Mojave

Until recently this was actually a known problem in QuarkXPress (and I may add still is for a lot of other software that deals with URLs). Basically, the issue is that the maximum character length of the URL field in the New/Edit
Hyperlink box is 250 characters and, as a result, longer links were truncated. This issue is unrelated to macOS.

However, this issue was resolved when QuarkXpress 2018 was released in May 2018. I believe the issue still exists in QXP 2017 and earlier and, if so, you’d have to upgrade to QXP 2018.

If in fact you’re using QXP 2018, your best bet would be to check for any updates (you can do this via the Quark Update preference pane in Apple > System Preferences). If you’re using QuarkXpress 2018 Pro (the version sold on the Mac App Store), then you’ll need to check via the App Store for any updates.

However, my understanding is that this issue was resolved with release 14.0 (which was the first public release of QXP 2018 in May). See QuarkXPress 2018 Known and Resolved Issues.

If the issue still persists you’d be best to contact Quark Technical Support and/or visit their online forums.


It's likely a pressure mark where the panel has been hit by something


2016 Macbook Pro 15" In Flight Power Solutions?

All of Apple's USB C chargers will charge your 15 inch MacBook Pro. To avoid the 75 watt limitation, grab one of the 61 watt chargers.

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MNF72LL/A/61w-usb-c-power-adapter

I use the MacBook charger (29 watt - same as iPad Pro charger) for most trips due to smaller size. I run software that drains the battery in 12 hours so I don't need the faster charging rates the 61 or 87 watt adapters provide.


How can I get Apple Watch style Activity reminders on iPhone / iPad

For now I think you'll have to get an Apple watch or look into 3rd party apps.


How can I list only interface name and assigned IP with ifconfig in terminal

You could run ifconfig -l to get a list of interfaces, then iterate through them.

(bash)

for i in `ifconfig -l `; do echo $i; ifconfig $i | grep "inet " ; done

This will print the interface on one line, and the "inet " info on the next line.  Note that if you only search for "inet", the "inet6" line will also show up.


Shared library between Macbook Air, iMac, Airport Time Capsule

Although you have stated that you want the best read/write speeds, you should consider other factors as well.

1. Redundancy (-Time Capsule; +iMac)

With the libraries on Time Capsule, where would the backups of the libraries be? If you have not thought of that, then you must consider it. Having the libraries as well as their backups sitting on a single device, the Time Capsule, is not a good idea (even if feasible).
With the libraries on the iMac, you could dedicate the Time Capsule exclusively for backups and have better redundancy.

2. Availability (+Time Capsule; -iMac)

With the libraries on the Time Capsule, you would have them available anytime since the Time Capsule would be on all the time.
With the libraries on the iMac, wake on network access, which is sometimes not reliable and breaks (and sometimes requires a patch from Apple) would force you to use other methods to wake the iMac manually (search through the Apple Support Community forums for wake on LAN or wake on network issues that have happened even recently).

3. Speed (=Time Capsule; =iMac)

I do not have any practical numbers, and do not understand why the Time Capsule shows up so slow over Gigabit ethernet on the thread you pointed, but it may be a matter of time and a firmware update from Apple to resolve it.
Although the native speed over SATA looks nice when the libraries are on the iMac, do you really need such speeds for music, photos and videos? I think not, even if you're planning for a future when 8K UHD videos become common (with Apple supporting it) and you plan to have large video files. Even 4K UHD (and the currently common Full HD 1080p) can be easily streamed at the lower end of the speeds you have noted.

4. Cost

You would have to work this out yourself and see what you can afford and what makes sense.

Winner, in my opinion: Libraries on the Time Capsule with SSD for the iMac, plus another 2TB external drive connected for backups of the libraries on the Time Capsule. Back up the Time Capsule (entirely or just the libraries) from the iMac using a tool like Carbon Copy Cloner, SuperDuper! or Chronosync or using the Archive function from Airport Utility and an Automator script to make it periodic.


I do not know if you read my answer to the question you refer to? The command diskutil apfs createcontainer disk0 should have failed. You are suppose to create the container inside a partition (or two partitions where each partition is on a different drive). You specified disk0 which usually is the primary internal drive on a Mac. Maybe you were able to create the container, but being unable to create a volume would not be an unexpected result.

Below are the commands from my other answer.

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ dummy GPT disk0
diskutil apfs createContainer disk0s2
Container=$(diskutil info disk0s2 | grep Container)
diskutil apfs addVolume "${Container##* }" APFS myVolume

The first command creates the partitions. The second command create a APFS container in the second partition. The third and fourth commands creates an APFS volume in the APFS container.


Whatever happens, don't worry, because

You only lose what you haven't backed up™

So, if you don't have a backup of your system, make sure you create one:

Download and install "CloneZilla", a FOSS disk cloning utility, on a USB drive, in UEFI mode. Google is your friend, but this is a guide for you
Now attach a blank HDD the size of your hard drive and reboot your Mac in Clonezilla
Clone your internal hard drive over to the backup disk (make sure you don't do the other way around). The interface is pretty intuitive, but the procedure could take a while, regardless of how much data you have on your disk.

Now, make an ExFat partition on your disk using Disk Utility, launch the Windows installer, format it and install Windows.

Apparently in your case this seems not to be working and - in EFI mode - Windows messes up your EFI system.

I have a couple of suggestions.

The first: install Windows on a secondary HDD. This makes everything much easier, and you don't have to deal with countless other issues such as messed up partition tables and wrongly erased volumes. IIRC a secondary Hard drive can be installed in your system and - considering how cheap they are - it's really worth it.

The second, and most complicated (and maybe dangerous) is to run an Ubuntu (or any other distro) live session, open GParted, unmark your EFI partition as such (making it not appear as an ESP, but rather as a generic partition) and create two ExFat partitions. The first of them has to be very tiny (~200 MiB) marked as ESP, the other one - instead - should be as big as you want your Windows C: to be. After this is done, install Windows in EFI mode to the big ExFat partition (after having formatted it), then re-run GParted and re-mark the original ESP as such again. Now you can install rEFInd from macOS and boot your system in Windows by selecting the secondary ESP you created upon boot. If so you want, you can tweak rEFInd to boot an OS automatically by default, have a custom theme and do many other fancy things.

If you have no idea on how to do all of this, I'd recommend against doing it. Also remember that it's old hardware we are dealing with, so compatibility might not be the best, if existent at all.


This is normal.
(It cannot be changed)
The standard tab size for an 80 column page (typewriter or console) is 8 spaces.
You also must remember, that email is for sending correspondence (letters)  and indentation here is "old fashioned."  In other words, you shouldn't be indenting in your letter writing.

What Is an Indented Letter Style?
How to Write a Letter

In the second link, you do indent, it should be 1" and that is approximately 8 characters.


That is on the high site with 1400.

My MBA-13 consumes 1100 without TextEdit and 1200 with.

I do have Chrome and Friefox ect. running.

You might have some background stuff running, so check your Activity monitor and see who is using CPU.

Disable your network or wifi.


Why does my phone say my photos are like 9Gb out of my phone yet I've deleted thousands of it and I still have no memory left?

You've got some different questions here. The iCloud app isn't meant to show your photos; that's what the Photos app is for. When you delete photos, it doesn't actually delete them; it puts them in a folder called "Recently Deleted" where they are retained for 30 days before actually being deleted. You have to delete them again from that folder if you want to delete them before the 30 days are up.

To see what's using space on your phone, go into Settings / General / Storage & iCloud Usage / Manage Storage (the first one, under "STORAGE" not under "ICLOUD").


Why is my MacBook Pro (late 2013, Retina) crashing?

Started as a comment, but got too long. You are asking two questions. The "spinning beach ball of death" and the crashing MailServiceAgent are most likely unrelated.

To clarify. The "spinning beach ball of death" doesn't actually indicate that anything is crashing. It indicates that an application (most of the time, temporarily) is not responding to messages from the operating system.

From Apple's Human Interface Guidelines:

  The spinning wait cursor is also standard, but it is displayed
  automatically by the window server when an app can't handle all of the
  events it receives. In general, if an app doesn’t respond for a few
  moments, the spinning wait cursor appears. If the app continues to be
  unresponsive, users often react by force-quitting it.

If you move the cursor around, does the wait cursor still appear if it is over another application or over your desktop? If you ALT+TAB to bring another application to the foreground do you still get the wait cursor? If it only appears over one application then that application alone is having an issue. If it appears over all applications or if you find you are unable to move the cursor or to ALT+TAB to another application then you have a wider system problem rather than a problem with one specific application.


BetterTouchTool is a freeware application mainly for defining custom gestures of trackpads and Magic Mice, but it also has the ability to tile windows.


Why does iPad show a weird effect on some PDF images?

Though I can't say for certain without examining the actual PDF (or at least that page), I suspect the apparent artifacts -- the lines -- are the result of the image containing an imperfect grid of pixels, probably due to a slight resizing.

I created an example to demonstrate the idea. It doesn't reproduce exactly what you're seeing on the iPad, but the concept is the same.

Here are two grids of black and white pixels, one perfect and one imperfect. Zoomed at 600% you can clearly see the difference between them:

Perfect Pixel Grid (600% Zoom)

Imperfect Pixel Grid (600% Zoom)

If you look at those same images at their original size they look about the same:

Perfect Pixel Grid (100% Zoom)

Imperfect Pixel Grid (100% Zoom)

However, if you resize them the way the iPad does, effectively putting the pixels at the nearest spot it can find after you change the size, you can see the difference easily -- basically the math doesn't work out perfectly because you can perform zooming of any percentage with the gesture. The effect is called aliasing:

Perfect Pixel Grid with Aliased Zoom

Imperfect Pixel Grid with Aliased Zoom


Forcing macOS Sierra L2TP client to use specific interface

Having two default gateways in macOS will result in: the gateway of the interface with the higher priority will be the default one and the other one is disregarded.

To get the order enter in Terminal: networksetup -listnetworkserviceorder.

So remove the default gateway of interface en8 and either add a custom route to the VPN server:

sudo route add -host <VPN-server-ip-address> -interface en8

or

sudo route add -host <VPN-server-ip-address> -link <MAC-of-en8>

or to the network (here the example network: 10.0.0.0/16)

sudo route -n add -net 10.0.0.0/16  172.20.10.1

Depending on the network environment of the VPN-server a second inverted route pointing to your local 172.20.10.0/28 network has to be added there.


sysctl setting net.inet.tcp.keepidle removed in 10.15. Is there a replacement setting?

We just encountered the same issue. For now, I'm recommending that users that haven't upgraded to Catalina to not do so since there’s no documented workaround or solution for this.


How to open TIFF file created in 2001 on Mac

Most likely, the files are compressed by DiskDоubler or its equivalent.
You can decompress it on MacOSX with The Unarchiver,
on Windows,Linux and Mac you can use unar command line utility.
You can found DiskDoubler, for example, here
I restored the 1996 year archive from Pinnacle Micro 1.3 GB Magneto Optical Disks, but could not open some files. Inside these files I found EPSF8BIM, EPSFART5, TIFF8BIM, XDOCXPR3, WXDOCXPR3 at the beginning and end, and random mess between them. I installed DiskDoubler on an old G4 MacOS 9 computer and unpacked the files, after which the files began to open without problems on Mac, Linux and Windows.
In those glorious days, disk space was worth a lot of money and people tried to solve this problem by compressing files on the fly.


Unable to carry out Software Update on OS X 10.5.8

Mac App Store requires OS X version 10.6.8 or higher to install. You can try updating via USB (paid upgrade) if you have an Intel x86 based processor.


Remove Search.strtpoint.com Search Engine

I think I have solved my problem.

I got an exception from Safari which suggested "External Modification Warnings: Thread creation by external task."

I found many references on the web (most for Windows) and some suggesting going to Safari\Preferences\Extensions and turning off. I wasn't even going to try those which suggested I install yet another app from the web.

Seeing as I could not even start Safari the above was not useful. I could start Safari in Safe mode, but there was nothing there - possibly because when it originally wanted access to all my private data I refused.

Activity Monitor showed an Installer and this had ~/Library/Application Support/com.genieoinnovation.Installer/Completer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer open.
I deleted this directory. Unfortunately this did not fix the problem.

I tried @Buscar웃 suggestion, but this only found references to old preferences in Firefox and Chrome, which I had already fixed.

I then tried sudo mdfind com.genieoinnovation and found the following.

/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.client.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.client
/Library/Frameworks/GenieoExtra.framework/Contents/Library/LaunchServices/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.client
/Library/Frameworks/GenieoExtra.framework/Contents/Resources/en.lproj/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.plist

/Users/ian/Library/Application Support/com.genieoinnovation.Installer/Completer.app/Contents/MacOS/Installer

Deleting all these seems to have resolved the issue.


Does Touch Bar Predictive Text Work for Languages Other Than English?

Yes, predictive text displayed on the Touch Bar does indeed work for other languages other than English, although it won't work for all languages.

In theory the language used by predictive text is a function of the preferred (i.e. primary) language set in the Language & Region preference pane. While this defaults to a language based on the selected region, you can change it to another language manually (e.g. you live in the US but mainly work in French, so you still have the US set as your region but French set as your primary language). Note that by primary language I mean the one you have placed at the top of the Preferred languages list.

However, in practice (based on about 25 mins of testing using the Italian language), I had the following results:

YES, predictive text works with: system language, spellcheck and keyboard all set to Italian
YES, predictive text works with: spellcheck and keyboard set to Italian, while the system language is set to English
NO, predictive text does not work with: keyboard set to Italian, while both system language is set to English and spellcheck is set to Automatic.

NOTES:

1 Testing was conducted on 24 October 2017 using TextEdit on a 15" 2017 MBP with Touch Bar running macOS High Sierra 10.13 (Build 17A405).

2 By system language I mean the primary language set in the Preferred Languages list located at Apple > System Preferences > Language & Region. If you have more than one language listed, then the primary language is the one listed at top.

3 By spellcheck I mean the 'Spelling' language set in Apple > System Preferences > Keyboard > Text.

4 By keyboard I mean the 'input source' set in Apple > System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources. Note that you can have multiple keyboards added here and it does not matter in what order they appear (i.e. I had Italian listed below English).


OS X productivity application to block access to different websites?

I use Antisocial for this:

  Anti-Social is a productivity application for Macs that turns off the social parts of the internet. When Anti-Social is running, you’re locked away from distracting social media sites, including Facebook, Twitter and other sites you specify. With Anti-Social, you’ll be amazed how much you get done when you turn off your friends.

But of course this works only for web sites, not for local applications.


VLC player does not remember last played position

The current, stable releases of VLC don't offer this. However, you can go to the VLC nightly build site to download the latest version of VLC 3, with an updated Yosemite interface and H.265 support. Most importantly for you, though, they have added resume support.

From http://nightlies.videolan.org, you just have to click on Mac OS X Intel, and then click on "last" in the list.

VLC nightlies have no support from the VideoLAN team, so you have to be careful. However, in my experience, VLC 3.0 has been pretty stable.


Can I withhold number with an iPhone 5s?

Look for Settings → Phone → Show My Called ID. Depending on your carrier this may or may not be available.

If it's not available there might be another way to hide your caller ID by pre-pending a prefix to the number you dial. For example in the UK you can add 141 to the start to hide your called ID.


trying to run Apache James (email server) on Mac -- getting "Permission denied" error -- help?

You have to set chmod 755 for all the *.sh files in this directory. For that you could run

find ./james-2.3.2 -type f -name '*\.sh' -exec chmod +x {} \;

This command will look for files which end with .sh and sets the executable bit (okey, there are only two, the run.sh and phoenix.sh)

But you still have to set JAVA_HOME otherwise james will complain. And you have to run it as 'root' user since it the application will listen to a port < 1024. For me the following let me run james:

sudo JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home ./james-2.3.2/bin/run.sh


Set Default NFS v4 when connecting from Mac OS X Lion

Hmmm, seems we need to have this question re-answered every major release of OS X.

So I can only say this works on 10.10.x :)

From OS X's man page for mount_nfs

"nfs.conf(5) can be used to configure some NFS client options. In particular, nfs.client.mount.options can be used to specify default mount options"

To get the Finder to default to using NFS v4 add the following to /etc/nfs.conf using the terminal command "sudo vi /etc/nfs.conf"

 nfs.client.mount.options = vers=4

Again, to check after mounting use "nfsstat -m" and check the "NFS parameters".


How to properly use scaling on an external display (from MacBook Pro 2016)?

You need to set it to 1080p in order to get the scaling. A bit counter-intuitive this actually means that the display is using the full 4k resolution, but font sizes, window decorations, etc. is scaled to have the same size as with a 1080p display. This is what Apple calls "Retina Mode": Video, photos, etc. will display in their full resolution.

So try setting it to 1080p and then check on your monitor's on screen display that the incoming signal is actually 4k!

Note that the list of resolution in System Preferences > Display will also contain resolutions such as "1920 x 1080 (low resolution)". The added "(low resolution)" means that these are actual 1920x1080 resolutions, and not scaled like in Retina Mode.

If you do not see the list of resolutions, then hold down the Option-key and click the "Scaled" radio-button besides "Resolution:".


This is indeed an unintuitive situation. To delete the note:

Right-click the note. This can be done with the mouse or by tapping with two fingers on a trackpad.
The note will highlight and a menu will show up. Click anywhere outside the menu to get rid of the menu. Now the note has a gray outline.
Click Edit > Delete at the menu bar.

Here is a GIF of the process. Note the first click is a right-click.


It turns out the issue is with the fact that I moved my dropbox folder to an external drive. In that case, OSX creates a bunch of files named ._filename, which dropbox cannot sync. To clean these files, someone wrote this small script that works in the background. I installed and ran it, and my problems were solved.


Can I use a 2016 MacBook pro charger on a 2019 MacBook Pro

The wattage requirement of the 2019 MacBook Pro (96W) is greater than the capability of the 2016 charger (87W), so it will either charge slowly, hold its charge level, or continue to lose charge slowly, depending on usage.

Analogy time: imagine a bath half full of water (the battery). The plug is removed, and water leaves the bath (energy used by the laptop). You add water by turning on the tap (Recharging).

If the tap can't supply water fast enough to match the water going out, then the bath level (battery) will continue to fall, but at a slower rate than no water going in at all.

If the tap can supply only a little bit more than the water going out, then the level will rise, but slowly.

With the laptop shut, it should still gain charge, but a bit slower than usual.


Possible to find iPhone encrypted backup password in Keychain files?

When you encrypt iPhone backup on Mac, a password entry dialog will pop up to ask you to enter your password and display a "Remember this password in my Keychain" check box. If you checked the checkbox, your iPhone encrypted backup password was saved in your Keychain files. So you can open the Keychain to show the encryption password once you forget it.

If you did not check that "Remember this password in my Keychain" option, your iPhone backup password would not be saved in your Keychain. So it is impossible to find the encryption password in the Keychain or anywhere on your Mac. In this case, you have to use a third-party application to recover iPhone encrypted backup password on your MacBook.

This post would be helpful: http://www.isumsoft.com/it/find-iphone-encrypted-backup-password-in-keychain-on-macbook/


It's not possible unless the previous owner removes the device from their icloud account.


Word 2011 creates a 66 MB PDF from a 1 MB Word file

Courtesy of the ever-useful Dr. Drang, you can try using a Quartz Filter to downsample the images to reduce the file size, often without any apparent reduction in quality.

Open ColorSync Utility and click on the Filters tab.
Add a new filter, give it a name you like.
Click on the grey arrow, select Color Image Sampling under Add Image Effects Component.
Enter 150 in the resolution box.

Now we need to create an Automator service to apply the filter to the PDF file.

Open Automator and make a new Service.
Change the top drop-down to PDF Files.
Add the Apply Quartz Filter to PDF Documents action, and select the filter you just created in the drop-down.
Save it with a name of your choice.

Now you should be able to right click on a PDF file, and you should see the service you created near the bottom of the menu. Click it, and a few seconds later you should have a smaller PDF.


In my iPad settings there is an app called null what is it?

It's not obvious where this app came from. According to the answer to this question, it probably is an app that was incompletely synced with iTunes.

There's nothing to worry about, and you don't need to do anything about it.


How do I diagnose my Python program being killed due to an out-of-memory error?

Here are some ways to check for issues but I fear they may not be a complete or even the correct solution without more peeking or poking:

In another shell after you start your python process (or if you screen / tmux it):

df /
top -l 1 -S | head -12
vm_stat and vm_stat 600
sudo du -sm /var/vm/*

Once you have a good baseline, you can watch things over time to see how the neural net is behaving each hour for a while. If you think things are about stop, you can run sysdiagnose python (or use the process # if you have more than one python process running). Also, if you don't want to wait the day for things to bulk up, you can inflict memory_pressure on the system before or after starting the neural net in python. See this answer for how to monitor the Activity Monitor when you run this process:

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/107181/5472


How do I move GarageBand's Lessons and other libraries to another drive?

Quit GarageBand
Move /Library/Application\ Support/GarageBand/Learn\ to\ Play/ to another drive
Open Terminal
Type ln -s followed by a space
Drag the folder created in the second step into the Terminal window to insert the path
add /Library/Application\ Support/GarageBand/Learn\ to\ Play and press Enter

Test it both the external drive connected and disconnected to be sure GarageBand doesn't have a problem with the LearnToPlay content not being available.


I can't write to a file that I own on /Users/shared

A "Locked" file is a different situation than file permissions and who owns it and can write to it. It's actually locked for everyone including the owner.

This will require admin privileges

Go to finder
locate the file.
select it and right click then choose "get info" or cmd+i (with it selected)
Uncheck the "locked" option.

If this isn't the actual issue then permissions are wrong and need changed.

EDIT: Apologies for the delay in editing! Been rather busy!

tldr; Perhaps you are not a member of the group associate with the file.

I tested this with a file myself. I navigated into /Users/Shared (Capital S for shared, this is wrong in your question heading, just to ensure correct directory), and then made a file with:

touch test-file-permissions

This created a file named test-file-permissions with group assess of wheel, and administrator group. This was the outcome:

-rw-r--r--  1 MyCurrentUserName wheel  0 Nov  3 19:00 test-permissions

From here I was able to both use Nano, a terminal editor to edit the file and sublime text without sudo(GUI and terminal editors can make a difference for example: when editing the /etc/sudoers file it must be done by a terminal editor and command visudo).

I then changed the file permissions for group ownership and permissions with editing writes still in my abilities and no problems.

Note: We have two commands here. chmod and chown.

chown -- change file owner and group

AND

chmod -- change file modes or Access Control Lists

Using chmod I tested personal rights to the file without group permissions, and then even changed which groups had ownership with no problems with requiring sudo to change the file. I didn't need it, simply put.

Note: TheGroupNameIChangedTo is a group on my machine. I, the user account, must be a member of this group, in which case I am.

Don't know your groups? Run command: groups

Moving on..

chown MyUserName:TheGroupNameIChangedTo test-permissions
chmod -v 0660 test-permissions

Outcome:

-rw-rw---- 1 MyUserName TheGroupNameIChangedTo  27 Nov  3 19:11 test-permissions

Therefore I believe your group may not be correct on the file. Your two user accounts, Admin and Standard must be a member of the same group. A solution would be to create one named whatever you like that doesn't conflict with existing, and add both users to it DO NOT ADD STANDARD USER TO WHEEL GROUP FOR SECURITY PURPOSES, ALTHOUGH THIS WILL SOLVE IT IN A WAY, IT POSSES A RISK .. I emphasize this because I understand and actually applaud with your two account system here separating Admin and Standard users. This is very smart!

Update me if this is what you want/needed, I'll keep peeking in on the question. My answer may be a bit out of the way, but I wanted to cover everything for you and others viewing the question. I'm open to edits from viewers. All else aside, it'll still get edited later for clarity.


Time Machine progress from the command line

While the backup is running, detailed information gan be gained by

tmutil status

which should return something like this:

Backup session status:
{
    BackupPhase = Copying;
    ClientID = "com.apple.backupd";
    DateOfStateChange = "2014-12-18 14:14:21 +0000";
    DestinationID = "B4AF88-5AD5-49BE-B254-650B44E20499";
    DestinationMountPoint = "/Volumes/TimeMachine";
    Percent = "0.852581430477103";
    Progress =     {
        TimeRemaining = 0;
        "_raw_totalBytes" = 38596759;
        bytes = 36563200;
        files = 480;
        totalBytes = 42456434;
        totalFiles = 480;
    };
    Running = 1;
    Stopping = 0;
    "_raw_Percent" = "0.9473127005301144";
}

If you only care for the percentage, try the following (looks ugly, works only if there is a percentage to display):

tmutil status | awk '/_raw_Percent/ {print $3}' | grep -o '[0-9].[0-9]\+\(e-[0-9]\+\)\?' | awk '{print $1*100}'


Where does Synergy store the crypto setting? I want to turn it off

I had the same problem, as I expected it to be part of the server configuration.

You can change it by going to MenuBar -> Synergy -> Preferences -> Encryption.


How can I keep my home address private when sharing my vCard?

Working Solution :

Enable Private Card as you discussed in the Contacts Preferences. Then go to your card. (you can find your private card the one with the head silhouette). Then click on edit, and a bunch of share options will populate to the right of all the fields. Select the ones you wish to share and that will be the only information that is sent when you share you card.


Windows 10 Boot Camp USB boots but throws 0xc0000225 before being able to install anything

Turns out the (new) USB stick was broken from the start. Bought one at a more trustworthy store and it worked out of te box.


The AppleScript command I think you're looking for is:

(path to Desktop Folder) as text

or

(path to Desktop Folder)

But that would return an HFS path and the code you posted is a POSIX Path so you could change it to:

set homePath to POSIX path of (path to Desktop Folder) as text

As stated in the comment there is $USER for the terminal and per memory you can still call it in AppleScript with something like:

do shell script "$USER"

If path to desktop folder doesn't work you can try just path to desktop.

Edit

Addressing the comment. I was taught HFS path and alias path were the same, will make it another question for clarity.

Building the path as text is a habit when concat strings or if I was going to take the path and call it later in a do shell. For example:

(path to desktop folder)

in Script Debugger returns an HFS path. When you combine a directory as it was shown in the OP's question a compiling error occurs with:

(path to desktop folder & "foobar:")

and a

(path to desktop folder) & "foobar:"

when I've called paths using path to I've had to write them as:

(path to desktop folder as text) & "foobar:"

I was unfamiliar to short user name of (system info) and path to home folder but that's good to know. One issue with the question is the OP marks it with terminal and AppleScript so the solution is somewhat complicated.


Try this alternative approach in Automator. Be sure to back up any PDFs before applying this workflow – the originals will be overwritten.

In Automator.app, create a new workflow and add the following actions:

Ask for Finder Items, with Allow Multiple Selection
Apply Quartz Filter to PDF Documents, selecting the Reduce File Size option

When run this workflow will let you select multiple PDFs and then overwrite those files with reduced file size versions. It performs the equivalent steps as the original workflow, but is faster than scripting Preview.app.


What is the best way to modify Apple keyboards for alternate layouts?

If you have a keyboard similar to the one described here, it sounds like you can just pop the keys off and push them back down in the new position.


Accidently formated my external 1TB hard drive!

There are only 2 options at this point, #1 is to try a data recovery program and #2 is to have your hard drive sent in to a professional data recovery lab where they actually physically recover the data from the drive, but this can cost $1,000s. I have lost many many hard drives do to corruption and accidentally erasing and the best option for me has been to use Data Rescue. I actually just got done recovering over a TB worth of photos and videos from one of my hard drives and data rescue works wonderfully. I have tried many other data recovery applications and none of them work as well as this one. I hope this helps.


Is it possible to purchase music on an iPhone without iTunes?

I haven't tried the service, it seems that Rhapsody does more or less what you are asking for -- a music store on the iPhone that is separate from iTunes.


It's probably the lion image. try a different image. Try to google : "index of" Install OS X Lion

then click on some of the links and once the dmg download is complete get the installesd.dmg from the image and burn it using disk utility


The easiest and most pain free way is to use homebrew

https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew

Once you follow the instructions to install homebrew on this page (which include installing Xcode), you can then simply type

brew install wine

And this will download and compile wine and all its dependendencies.


Is that possible to let terminal update autocomplete for new executable files in path automatically?

The issue is that the new command is not been entered into the hash table that zsh that maps commands to the full name.
The command hash table is built when you first attempt a command in a new shell as you have shown.
To make the command get added to the table without startinga new shell run the command rehash


Just to say what was the issue.

Logic board was dead and needed to be replaced. (hopefully I had 10 days of warranty left hehe)


Maybe your keyboard does not match the settings in your System Preferences. It would be good to include the layout of your keyboard i.e. English UK, English US, or maybe another language's default.

To check your System Preferences setup go: System Preferences --> Keyboard --> Input Sources. There you will find which button layout is set.

By matching that to your actual keyboard layout you may be successful resolving your issue.


Is the MacPort version of XQuartz severly outdated or what?

XQuartz is itself dated but is the latest version and works well on High Sierra. The latest version is 2.7.11 dated several years ago. The XQuartz homepage is here. It can be loaded from the link. This latest? version should do what you want.


You don't need your Macbook for recording:

Make sure you have iOS 11 installed on your phone.
Go to settings, control panel, manage control panel, and then add screen recording to the control panel.
Open Mobile Legends, swipe up to invoke control center, click on the screen recording button, wait 3 seconds, and now you're recording.
When you want to stop recording, invoke control center again and disable the screen recording.

The recording is now available in your photo library.


How to run a one-liner shell command using launchd?

You want to include this check for network state:

<dict>
  <key>NetworkState</key>
  <true/>
</dict>

Also - you probably want to pass in your program args correctly:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>/usr/local/bin/binaryname</string>
    <string>arg1</string>
    <string>arg2</string>
</array>


Shortcut key to send new Messages.app text

I use a Quicksilver Trigger to open Messages, and since I always have the main Messages window open I just use ⌘N to create a new message. Not a one stop solution, but I use it constantly at work.


Diagnosing macos locking up when external displayport monitor connected

The dock has two DisplayPort ports, which are not present in the USB-C cable, so the hub must have some extra hardware providing this.

This may require drivers.  I have a Thinkpad USB-C dock home from work these days (corona) which require a DisplayLink driver installed on my Mac to provide video output from the dock.  It might be something similar here.

I would suggest reconsidering your Hub choice.  A simple solution may be the USB-C Digital AV Multiport-adapter (https://www.apple.com/dk/shop/product/MUF82ZM).


iMessage coming up as new thread in text instead of continuation

Please, check if that new phone number is in your address book. I found that having all iMessage numbers and emails in the same contact card solves this issue.


Replacing Retina Display with non-Retina Display?

No, you cannot unfortunately do that. The rest of the graphics hardware inside the MacBook Pro (up to and including the cables) are meant for that Retina display. You cannot just replace it with a non-Retina display (unless you connect it via the external ports with for example HDMI).


Sierra won't connect to more than one SMB server simultaneously

This may be a reverse lookup - an attempt to resolve host name by IP. Please check the opcode... Mac may need this to display host name rather than its IP. Not sure about Sierra, but Win clients, as well as some other clients (like NQ, for example) do this. If server does not answer Mac may postpone or even fail the connect.


Most reliable way to mirror large number/size files/folders between drives & computers

rsync has proven to be very stable and effective throughout its years of Unix service. It’s included in any OS X since Tiger and it’s relatively easy to use.

If you want the bonus of a GUI, you can use Arrsync, a free utility better described as:

  A Mac OS X graphical front end for the utility rsync.

If, on the other hand you want something more “easy to use” I can recommend you take a look at the two winners:

SuperDuper! ($)

Carbon Copy Cloner (Free, Donationware).

Either will allow you to clone entire drives or folders or anything you can imagine.

Their reliability to copy permissions, ACLs, and that stuff has been proven throughout the years.