I found this blog post titled: Fix TCCD process consuming high CPU usage when run Xcode.

excerpt

  Using Xcode 8 is really a frustrating experience. When compile swift source files or write code in Sierra(the latest macOS), Xcode frequently freeze. It's nuking productivity. After a long time of searching, I found this is caused by a process named tccd which take up to 70% of CPU usage. What is tccd? It seems to be a access controller that manage the permission to user's contacts. So the solution is quite easy, go to

  System Preferences → Security & Privacy → Privacy → Contacts

  uncheck Xcode and restart it. Then, it works again.

So it would seem, simply disabling contacts will disable tccd thereby dropping the high CPU load.


How do i pair my AirPods to my iPhone 6s?

Usually you will open up your iPhone (i.e. use TouchID/FaceID/PIN-code) and bring it to the Home Screen (i.e. where you can see all the icons for you apps). Then bring the AirPods case near the iPhone and open it up.

After a short wait, a popup message will appear on your phone asking if you want to setup the new set of AirPods.

If that isn't working, check that:

The AirPods case is charged
WiFi and Bluetooth are not disabled on your phone
Your phone is updated with the latest iOS updates

If that is still not working then try opening the lid, wait 20 seconds, and then hold the setup button on the back of the case, until the status light begins to flash white. Now check with your phone - perhaps even from the Settings app to check for Bluetooth devices nearby in pairing mode.


problem with installing Network Storage drivers

I think you downloaded the firmware for the device.

Try this link to the OS X download page for the IX2.

Or this link to directly download the dmg.


Developer setup install script, with Homebrew & Dropbox?

Why not simply use git (and github or bitbucket)? I think that should work better for synchronizing/saving the dotfiles. See google and various blogposts for detailed instructions, or search github directly (1), (2).


Screen sharing with absolutely no chance of control?

There is nothing built into OS X that allows you to share your screen with multiple people at once.

One-to-One : Screen Sharing

OS X's built-in Screen Sharing is limited to a one-to-one connection. Screen Sharing is based on VNC and can be limited to observation only.

One-to-Many : Google Hangout / Skype

Consider using a Google Hangout to share your screen. While it does require third party software, the use of the Chrome browser is free. This approach also ensures no-one can control your shared screen.

Alternatively, Skype group calls allow for multiple people to observe your screen.


Alternate DNS resolution for Safari on macOS?

It sounds like you've done a pretty good job of covering all of your bases... as far as IPv4 is concerned. Maybe it's IPv6 that's causing you headaches? I believe that disabling IPv6 on the connection will fix the problem.  IIRC IPv6 can autoconfigure itself without DHCP.  If the rest of your network works with IPv6 then the queries could still be working over IPv6.


I have the same error message.

This worked for me in Terminal (thanks to Ray's Weblog):

hdiutil resize -size 1g ~/Documents/MyDiskImage.dmg


macOS Sierra doesn't appear in my Purchased list within the Mac App Store

The download of macOS Sierra is not linked to an Apple ID. In fact, users can download it without having to sign into the Mac App Store.

Another recent change made by Apple is the inclusion of an additional macOS Recovery option. Instead of two, we now have three options:

commandR to reinstall the latest macOS that was installed on your Mac, without upgrading to a later version
optioncommandR to upgrade to the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac
shiftoptioncommandR to reinstall the macOS that came with your Mac, or the version closest to it that is still available1

1 That third option is a new option only available since 27 March 2017 and requires macOS Sierra 10.12.4.

The result of these changes is that in future, if you need to install a compatible version of macOS that is earlier than the one that is still available, you will need to have a copy of the installer.

In summary, if you wish to have a version of macOS available for possible future installation, it is recommended that you download and store the relevant installer so that it is available to you. You don’t need to install it to do this, you can download it via the Mac App Store and then quit the installer when it launches. You can then make a copy of it for future use.

[Update as at 3 October 2017]

This edit provides an update on how users can access a macOS Sierra installer for Macs that already have macOS High Sierra installed.

As I previously recommended, if you wish to have a version of macOS Sierra available for possible future installation, users needed to download and store the relevant installer so that it was available to them.

After discussion with Apple today (3 October 2017), the following is how things will work if you happen to want to install macOS Sierra on a Mac that already has macOS High Sierra installed (assuming the Mac in question supports a macOS Sierra installation):

If your Mac originally shipped with macOS Sierra, then the easiest option is to use the shiftoptioncommandR recovery option to reinstall macOS Sierra
If your Mac did not originally ship with macOS Sierra, then the only official options are:

use a copy of the macOS Sierra installer that you've previously downloaded and saved (if you have one), or
take it into an Apple Store where they can install macOS Sierra for you (but how long this would be an option was questionable).

IMPORTANT - If your Mac originally shipped with El Capitan or earlier and also supports a macOS Sierra installation, you cannot use the shiftoptioncommandR recovery option to reinstall the original macOS in the hope you can then upgrade to macOS Sierra. Instead, doing this will only result in the Mac App Store offering macOS High Sierra as the next upgrade option.

In relation to option 1 above, if you can obtain a copy of the macOS Sierra installer through other means (such as from a friend), then this will also work. Obviously, downloading the macOS Sierra installer from dubious sources is not recommended and is at your own risk.

[Update as at 18 October 2017]

Please refer to bmike's answer. Apple has just published a new help article that provides a way for users to install macOS Sierra.


Go into disk utility.
Select your hard drive or SSD.
Click partition at the top.
Click the '-' button, then click apply.
You might have to restart you computer, but then it shouldn't say that it is partitioned.

Try to install bootcamp again and it should work.


What are the great iPhone apps to discover new music?

Discovr is a great app for this. You just enter the name of an artist, and then a list of related artists appear. A network graph appears with all of the artists. You can play previews, and watch videos. Pretty decent app.


Your problem is that your boot disk is not journaled. Go to Disk Utility, press on your boot disk (the parent, not the child partition), and press the information icon in the Toolbar. Look for the "Journaled" option in the list. It probably says "No". That's the problem! You need to enable journaling.


How can I change default font Notes - Sierra, High Sierra

Yes. You have to close out of the Notes application and go to the Notes app in the Applications folder. Right-click on the Notes app and select 'Show Contents" From inside the Contents folder open the Resources folder and inside this folder is a folder named en.lproj. This is for the English language. Other similar folders exist for other languages. Inside this folder is a file named DefaultFonts.plist. Edit this file. The file is locked so editing it can be tricky.This link has a full description of how to do it all.  The link will fill in missing details.


Something which might help (but it doesn't go all the way) is to enable the 'Reduce motion' option in the System Preferences section Accessibility:


Text Message Forwarding - Option missing from iPhone

Turn off iMessage on your Mac by going to Messages → Preferences → Accounts → Enable this account and turn it on again.

Now restart your iPhone and the option will show up.


Restore from Backup: Apps in iTunes library were not installed on iPhone because Unknown Error occurred 0xE800002D

Try installing those bugged apps direct from the App Store, as opposed to relying on the backup package.

Use the backup to get your own content (photos, messages, etc), and ignore the apps. Download them fresh from the app store.


I noticed an Issue in our Company on some of the 2011 27-Inch iMacs were sometimes the Ethernet-Adapter failed.

If your Ethernet Adapter is not connected to the Internet, your Mac won't share the connection via Wireless, because there is no ethernet/internet to share.

You may try it : Plug in the ethernet cable, share the ethernet via wireless.
If it starts to share ( like in the first picture ), plug off the cable and watch what happens. I can't reproduce it here, but it will probably change to the grayed icon as seen in picture 2.

Other reason could be a failure of the Router were the internet is coming from.
The Sharin panel is simply sharing "Internet Access" so if you are connected to your Intranet ( Home Network ) but not to the Internet (www), then it will also not work like you expect it. The Icon will stay gray, until you are sure you have access to the Internet.

And If you really have Internet Access via the Ethernet Adapter, then there is something wrong with the Mac.
You could Try :
- Reset PRAM (at start sound press CMD + ALT + P + R)
- Reset SMC (press power button for a couple of seconds when the cable is unplugged and the mac is turned of)
- Restart the Ethernet Adapter -> go to the system preference pane for the network, click on the ethernet adapter -> go down to the little gear and click on deactivate service, wait a minute, then click on activate service and the ethernet should start properly.

This could happen if the Ethernet Drivers are not working properly and in some cases it can happen, that those crash. I had that Issue on a older Mac Pro that always refused to connect, when I restarted the router and the mac got a new IP.

So there are as always many reasons, that could cause the problem.
just comment if you are getting any closer to the problem.
Then we are able to help in a more specific way.


Cannot draw in iPad Notes app using a finger

Found the solution!!! It’s in the settings.  Toggle off “only draw with Apple Pencil” ... simple yet hidden solution. Hope this helps everyone :-)


Does OSX suffer from bad performance over multiple OS upgrading processes?

As a rule, the OS takes care of itself. An upgrade both ensures the core OS is intact, but also disables code that is too old to run.

If you would have done a clean install anyhow - lots of slowness, crashiness, etc. Then that's the reason to do a clean install. In the past (10.4 and earlier) the install process was different than the migration assistant but as the migration assistant has matured, it now runs anytime you upgrade so unless you hand migrate files and preferences, there is no difference between a clean install and an upgrade in place (assuming you select apps and settings in the assistant).

I personally love a clean install and using all the defaults for a week. Consciously installing just what I need feels "right" for me and if I end up missing everything, I can always wipe and migrate the entire setup a week I to using the new OS.

In summary, for most users, the changes in the OS have disabled the worst offenders in terms of performance, and gatekeeper keeps most old apps from running until you explicitly allow them to run. If you have performance issues, you can always flip that switch and reboot to isolate the cause of slowness.


It just means that Firefox does not recognize the app through standard Apple procedures for checking downloaded applications. It may mean that Foxit Software does not sign their apps with an Apple-recognized certificate, or that the cert expired.

However if you are sure you downloaded the installer from a reputable download host (EG the manufacturers website and not something pretending to be that site...) then the download is likely safe.


on run
    set cat to value of variable "cat" of front workflow (*I have already defined the variable elsewhere in the workflow*)
    set num to {}
    set myString to ""
    tell application "Contacts"
        repeat with i in cat
            set inGroup to group i
            set phoneProps to value of phones of inGroup's people
            repeat with i in phoneProps
                try
                    set myString to myString & "\n" & first item of i (*gets first number only*)
                on error
                    set myString to myString & "\n" & "blank field" (*covers for empty phone number, otherwise would halt on error*)
                end try
            end repeat
        end repeat
        return myString
    end tell
end run


Triple boot macOS High Sierra, Linux Mint, and Windows with rEFInd

I will formalize @luctp's answer seeing as the user is gone and I have (sort of) confirmed that the instructions work:

So here's how the error looks like, when trying to boot Windows from rEFInd:

The steps below will make the error 0xc00000bb effectively disappear and, for @luctp, seemed to be enough to fix the triple boot. However, in my case, more work had to be done as I explain at the end of the answer.

To get rid of the 0xc00000bb:

Download and install gdisk.
Disable SIP, otherwise you get error the following error when running gdisk: Problem opening /dev/disk0 for reading! Error is 1.
Create a new Protective MBR for your disk using gdisk, start by running on the terminal: sudo gdisk /dev/disk0
(Optional) Choose "p" to have a look at your current GPT partitions, and potentially create a backup of them. Also look here for better ways of backing up the partition table.
Choose option "x", then option "n" to request the creation of a fresh Protective MBR, then option "w" to write the requested changes to the disk, confirm with Y and exit the tool with "q".

After the steps above, Windows 10 should indeed start booting (whereas before it would simply get stuck in rEFInd).

In my case, however, the Windows 10 EFI boot splash would show on the screen for a few seconds and then suddenly reboot.

What ended up being the solution for having a working triple-boot in my Mac was following David's Alternative Second Answer, specifically the "The First Way". Now, I can boot to any of the three OSs. Not only that, but I can boot them from either rEFInd directly or through GRUB (for Ubuntu/Windows) after rEFInd or after pressing the Option key on boot.


How to mask images in Keynote into circles?

Yes.

This works for any shape. Here's how:

Draw a shape.
Resize it to the desired size.
Position the shape over the image.
Select both by shift-clicking them.
Choose Format → Image → Mask with Shape from the menu (these menu items are from Keynote 6.5.2, might be different for your version)
Mask the image as you'd usually do (by dragging, resizing).
Click Done.


Pass keyboard input to cli after exiting vim

git config --global /usr/bin/ex

should configure git to use the non visual version of vi: ex which has
a much shorter time to switch from line to curses interface and back.


What to do with single-picture events in iPhoto?

Photos need to be part of events; deleting a photo from an event deletes the photo from your Photo Library (unlike albums where deleting the photo just removes it from the album). If I was you I'd create a 'One-Off' or 'Photos I like' event.

You could create a big event for everything you don't want to be in its own event folder. This should let the Events feature be used for what it's designed for - organising your photos by significant dates. If Events seems like too much hassle then you can just ignore them all together, make your own albums and organise them manually.

Personally I just use events to find photos from 'the picnic' or 'that time we went to the airport', I don't bother organising or sorting my events.


I think what you are asking is how to turn off the Shuffle.

Navigate to the “Now Playing card. You can access the “Now Playing” card from anywhere by swiping up from the bottom of the screen to bring up the Control Center, then swiping left.
Select the name of the song (Audio Book)
select the crossed arrows to toggle the Shuffle setting. The arrows will show with a darker box when enabled.

  To the right of the Shuffle icon is the repeat icon. Tap it to repeat
  the current playlist. Tap it again and a number 1 will appear next to
  it and the device will repeat the current song. You can also drag the
  ball on the song timeline to skip forward or backward on the current
  track. This feature comes in handy if you’re listening to an audio
  book or a long compilation.

Source:

I little trick I use is to add a number (1, 2, 3...) in front of the chapter (file name) so to keep them in order.


Is using Time Capsule better than using an external hard drive because it won't stress the hard drives? (for using Time Machine)

That last paragraph is very difficult to understand, but if I follow, creating a RAM disk is not going to help...primarily because there's no problem to fix in the first place; Your concerns are unwarranted.

Time Capsule hard drives in particular are very low failure rate, and above that, Time Machine does not tax your system indefinitely. When the timer starts a new backup, the hard drive will spin up. On completion, it will spin down as necessary. These drives, like most of decent quality today have a high MTBF & MTTF, so relax.


In iOS 12.0.1 on iPhone, what is the point of the block list? It doesn't block calls

If a contact has more than one phone number, you have to block each number separately. Have you blocked every individual phone number that’s assigned to your “Do not contact” contact?


Apps that have just gone free or are going to?

There are a lot of Apps which provide a daily list of free Apps. These kind of companies base their business in agreements with the developers, who pay for their Apps to be featured on these App-of-the-Day lists.

So, the Company makes it's business, the Developer's App get notoriety and publicity, which means that on the long shot more people will download the App once it's paid again and the user gets to get free Apps daily. It's a win-win-win.

The best and easies way of knowing of paid Apps going free for limited time is using some of these Apps.


From the man pages of spctl:
To allow Frobozz.app to run on the local system:
       spctl --add --label "My Stuff" /Applications/Frobozz.app

Labels are optional as well, it seems strange even after a master-disable that you were still unable to run the plug in.


Someone made a FaceTime call with my number

First double check with your hubby if the call came from your FaceTime.

If it was, and you have no records, then do reset your account (new strong password would be good).


Create Service to search websites (with query)?

Set the service to receive selected text, then add a Run Shell Script action with the following content, setting the shell to /bin/bash and passing the input as arguments.

for query in "$@"
do
    open "https://www.google.com/?q=$query"
done

Replace the URL with your desired URL, where $query is where you would like the selected text to be inserted in the string.

Also, that's all you need for a Google search — don't bother with the additional session parameters.


How to go from tvOS beta to public build?

Turn off beta software updates in the updates menu in settings. Then wait for the next public release and you'll be updated to that.

This is the only way to do it without attaching the AppleTV via USB to a iTunes for a complete restore.


Changed Lion Server's host name and now unable to browse to that site

I was able to fix this by removing this from /etc/named.conf

I'm now able to navigate to example.com.

zone "example.com" IN {
    type master;
    file "db.example.com";
    allow-transfer {
        none;
    };
    allow-update {
        none;
    };
};


How to tell if an iPhone is third party unlocked?

For a 3GS, you need to avoid the 06.15.00 iPad baseband, which is easy to check.  As far as I know, all other unlock-related baseband hacks consist of preserving old versions of the baseband - which is easily remedied by updating to (or re-installing) the latest firmware.

You can also match the latest iOS version and baseband for that device, as listed here.

iPhones might also be unlocked with a Gevey sim card interposer, which replaces the SIM tray, and so is easy to check for.


Show preview when switching windows with ⌘+Tab

Solved by rebooting. The preview appears correctly now.


Correct an Apple ID Child account birthday to a teen account?

After much time, I now understand more about the changing of a birthdate on a child Apple ID account.
In my region (US and UK) there are bands which define child, teen, and adult. They are....

1-12 Child
13-17 Teen
18+ Adult

Basically, you can't change a birthday from one band to another. Once a child, always a child, until the system thinks the birthday rolls into the next band.
So, once a child account is associated with a birthday under 13, it can not be changed outside the band of 0-12. But can be changed to 12 years, 364 days backwards from today.
So here is the fix: Change the birthday to today - 13 years + 1 day.
Example
Today is August 10th, 2019, so you would use August 11, 2006. Then, the next day the account will "naturally" roll over to 13, and at that point you can change the birthday to anything in the teen band of 13-18.
I did have to also use the parental approval to approve the birthday change. So my steps were ...

log into child account, change birthday.
Log out of https://appleid.apple.com
The change sends an email w/confirmation link to parent(me)
click email link to confirm birthday change
log into parent account and confirm change.

Mission Accomplished


Why does Spotlight think "CHROM" matches Chrome, but "CHROME" matches Calendar?

It is possible the Spotlight index has gone wonky and needs a rebuild. You should follow these instructions, extracted verbatim from this Apple Support document, and reindex the Macintosh HD volume:

Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab.
Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the Add (+) button and select the folder or disk to add.
To add an item to the Privacy tab, you must have ownership permissions for that item. To learn about permissions, choose Help from the Finder menu bar, then search for “permissions.”
From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Then click the Remove (–) button to remove it from the list.
Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk.


How to give access to guest network to machines on the main LAN with an Airport Extreme?

According to this article, it is not possible. All devices on the guest network can only see the Internet and nothing else. Two devices on the guest network cannot even see each other.


How to watch air broadcasted TV with VLC Player on a Mac

Do you have any particular reason for needing to use VLC?
If you don't you could try EyeTV as it supports a good range of tuners (mine is a miglia) and has a streaming app for the iPhone / iPad

http://www.miglia.com/
http://www.elgato.com/

Elgato also do network aware tuners


You need to convert it to an ISO.
Apple's official guide


Remove _specific_ items from Finder Open With menu

You can for example open /Applications/calibre.app/Contents/Info.plist and remove entries from the CFBundleDocumentTypes array. To apply the changes, run sudo touch /Applications/calibre.app/ or /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -f /Applications/calibre.app/ and relaunch Finder.

If the application is signed, it invalidates the code signature. And since 10.8 some applications like TextEdit and Chess have crashed on launch if the Info.plist has been modified.


USB device accidentally ejects with the slightest disturbance

You either have a bad USB cable or a bad USB jack (either on external devices or Mac). I would start by replacing the USB cable on the external hard drive. If that does not work then your USB jack will most likely need to be looked at by an Apple repair center.


iPhone Backup Restore Ate 30 GB of HD Space - How to Clean

The first thing to try is to delete any extra backups that might have been made in iTunes. Open the Devices tab in iTunes Preferences, see if there are any extra backups (it should list the device name and date it was backed up. Any backup that has a timestamp in the Name (i.e. "Device Name - 2012-07-03 3:12PM") was created during a device restore.

Select the backups you want to delete, click Delete Backup…, then confirm, then click OK in the Devices Preferences window. If you don't click the OK button, the files don't actually get trashed from the Finder.

If after that, you still haven't recovered all your space, check the ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup folder (~/ means /Users/your_user_name/) folder. That's where the iTunes backups are stored. They're named using hashes, so you have to guess based on the dates which is which, but if you see more folders than there are entries in the Devices Preferences in iTunes, they didn't get deleted properly. You can delete them directly from the Finder, but make sure you know what's what before removing it.

Finally, if you're still low on space, try a tool like GrandPerspective, which will scan whatever folders you specify (I suggest starting with your user folder), and give you a graphical representation of the sizes of all the subfolders and files within. Pretty easy to find big files or folders taking up space. A likely culprit after a restore is .ipsw files laying around that didn't get cleaned up - that's the system image for iOS devices.

It's also worth checking to see if during the restore, your iPhone sync settings changed - it may have synced apps or media that wasn't previously synced to your computer.


From http://www.modmic.com/pages/faq:

  For Macs you'll need a power source like an iMic to use the line-in, or an adapter like this to use the headset jack, or and adapter like this to use a USB port.

Unfortunately, I do not have the reputation to link what was referenced in the FAQ, you'll have to visit the FAQ yourself.


Hold Power button and Home button down, then once you see the Apple logo keep hold of Volume Up until it boots. You can then uninstall your last tweak and restart.


iPhone 7, iOS 10.1.1: Missing new wallpapers

These wallpapers are included with iOS 10.3, which is yet to be released publicly. Once this version of iOS is released to the public, you will be able to download it on your iPhone and select the wallpapers from the list in Settings.


Should I jailbreak my phone or unlock it?

I'd do neither, personally. I don't trust or like any unlocking service or jailbreaking, so I would try to check if it's carrier unlocked by this (optionally not contacting T-Mobile to ask them yet to unlock).

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201328

If it's locked, I would take the phone to a T-Mobile shop and tell them truthfully  the essential facts you know:

An acquaintance said they couldn't afford this phone and I'd like to see if I could establish service with it. Can you help me shop for a mobile plan?

You don't have to tell them who / relationship and certainly don't speculate. If they are probing to see what else you know about the phone, don't get nervous and do be polite and deliberate. Just repeat what you told them in pretty much the exact same words and then ask if they can help you. Just keep in your mind - you're notthe previous owner and you're the owner of the device now and this is a chance for them to earn your business.

It's not their "business" if you paid for it or not and they shouldn't tell you anything about the previous owner. It is their business to help you pick out a plan and understand if it has a contract or not and propose another plan if you don't like the one they suggested initially. From some very astute comments, you should probably protect yourself with a written bill of sale if you intend to say you "own" the device. Paying a dollar and writing up a transfer keeps you from lying if you go to the store. If it doesn't work out, you can always sell it back later to the previous owner.

If you can get service in your name and avoid a contract, I'd do it. Then you can look at getting it unlocked after a month or two if you're not happy with your service in getting the phone working and with the service as a user of T-Mobile. At that point, they'll have a much harder time saying you're to be penalized as a paid up customer asking for an unlock.

Make sure that whomever signs into this iPhone doesn't keep "Find My iPhone" turned on. If the device ever gets locked and the user doesn't know the password or can't get the verification code to the account. You will be stuck with an expensive coaster that Apple won't be able to help you with. They will need the proof of purchase and that doesn't exist since only T-Mobile has that and will not give that up until the balance is due.


Given its IP, how can I find out the name of a Windows PC on my network?

If you're using Lion, you can use smbutil:

usage: smbutil [-hv] subcommand [args]
where subcommands are:
 help       display help on specified subcommand
 lookup     resolve NetBIOS name to IP address
 status     resolve IP address or DNS name to NetBIOS names
 view       list resources on specified host
 dfs        list DFS referrals
 identity   identity of the user as known by the specified host

For example (assuming 192.168.1.9 is a valid IP on your network):

smbutil status 192.168.1.9
smbutil lookup bill-pc

If you're using Snow Leopard, you should be able to use nmblookup:

nmblookup -A 192.168.1.9
nmblookup bill-pc


Disable chat room notifications for OSX Messages?

With the chatroom thread selected, uncheck Use Alerts in this Conversation from the View menu.

The is the best solution I've found (only disables notifications on a per thread basis).  I haven't found a global setting that disables notifications for all chatrooms.

I found the solution from this answer on "How do I temporarily disable or mute Messages (iMessage) on OS X?"


Routing traffic internally from Ethernet-Thunderbolt adapter to Ethernet

There is no need to route anything. Just let the python-server also listen to incoming UDP packets at eth2 (192.168.20.1) assuming eth2 is the TB-Ethernet interface.


Browsers won't load pages other than Google and Gmail

Well, you can start the process of elimination. If you are wifi can you switch to ethernet or vice versa? Are the other computers on the same local network able to connect?

Based on my experience, I can guess that hardware is beginning to fail somewhere. A switch, router or your network adapter. Have you rebooted all of those?


EFI Boot doesn't work when trying to boot windows from my Mac

I found a way to do it.

Boot a Windows 7/8/8.1/10 installation media (generated with another functioning windows)

On the first screen, press SHIFT+F10 to bring up the command prompt.

With the command prompt, use diskpark to erase the Broken EFI partition (you may need to force it with delete partition override)

Use diskpart to create a new EFI partition create partition efi size=100

Then, exit diskpart and execute bcdboot X:\windows /s S: /f ALL
Note: Replace "X" with the volume letter of the Windows OS partition and S with the new EFI partition
In fact, I had to adjust it to my case but I got some help from here:
https://www.tenforums.com/installation-upgrade/52837-moving-recreating-efi-partition.html


Did the shell ( terminal ) change in Catalina?

Your shell has been changed to Zsh, which is the default for new users on Catalina (10.15) and later. To go back to the old shell (BASH), run chsh -s /bin/bash (chsh is a "Change Shell command, the -s flag is "set", and /bin/bash is the location of the BASH shell). Then close and re-open terminal, or log out and log back in, and your shell will be bash again.

Alternatively, if you want to use the GUI, open System Preferences, Users and Groups, unlock the padlock at the bottom left, and control-click or right click on your user. Then, select "Advanced Options." There should be an entry called "Login Shell", which you can set back to /bin/bash.

Source: How to set shell in OS X - Super User


Can I turn off my Guest account and still use Find My Mac?

Yes, it will still function without the guest account.  However, in order for Find my Mac to locate your Mac, the Mac needs to be connected to the internet.  If your account is secure and your Mac is stolen, presumably the thief would not know your password, and so wouldn't be able to login and join a WiFi network.

Leaving guest access enabled allows them to login without a password, in the hopes that they then join a WiFi network and your Mac is located (and immediately locked/wiped/etc).


Set iOS Appstore notification default style

No. Anything within Settings.app in iOS devices is in the explicit control of the user of the device. Third party apps are not given access to change system settings and cannot set them to specific values (either while submitting an app to the App Store or during first run or at any other point in time).


In which .plist is the underscan setting stored?

I found the settings file by using the terminal command opensnoop to monitor all files accessed by any programm and found that the file that stores the underscan setting is here:

/var/db/.com.apple.iokit.graphics


Is there an easy way to remove a URL from Safari's address bar history?

click on show all bookmark (open book) on top-left of your safari. then search the site you want to remove (e.g: http://bl) after that delete it from history when you delete the singe site you never find http://bl when press bl in address bar.

search here:


Someone suggested I use Workflow to address another question I had.
And it occurred to me that I could use it here as well (you'll need to be at least on iOS 11.x - Workflow is much, much, less powerful on 10.x.
You need to create an Action Extension workflow, set it up to only accept URLs and then choose Open in Safari as an action.
You may also need to enable Workflow in sharing.
configuration screenshots
Here's a rough series of screenshots, from when you've launched Workflow.  Sorry, it's a little bit complicated and fully detailing each step in the series would take a lot of little dialog screenshots, but hopefully you'll get the idea.
Also, keep in mind iOS 12 is apparently replacing Workflow with Shortcuts so there might be another way to do this later.
Final result:
The upshot is that I can pick Workflow in Sharing, then my Workflow, which I've saved to Safari.

Update:
confusingly it seems as if Shortcuts is only a rebranding of Workflow, so my instructions apply to it as well.
Last, you Firefox Focus has an open in Safari option.


Which iPhone app is connecting to e.crashlytics.com?

Crashlytics is a service to collect crash data. It is part of googles firebase service. Depending on ones views on privacy this is or is not necessarily a bad thing. It is used by lots and lots of apps. You can try to enable developer mode for the iPhone and access the logs on the device. "Guestimating" right now I would say, that a good two digit percent amount of your apps will use firebase and crashlytics, so it is hard to give an answer without a network dump or logs.


There might be an issue with your phone's battery. Check out Apple's iPhone Battery and Performance page and scroll down to the "Preventing unexpected shutdowns" section. They have a very detailed explanation of various factors that contribute to unexpected shutdowns.
If your phone is unexpectedly turning off even whilst connected to an AC power supply, then there might be an issue with your phone's hardware and you should contact some technical support for further help and inquiries.
If there's absolutely nothing wrong with your phone's battery or other hardware, then it might be some app or other piece of software that's causing the issue, and you should most probably do a complete factory reset of your phone. It's definitely not an iOS software bug, that much I can tell you.


Can't import automator workflow "document can't be opened"

Those files are not Automator workflows, they are just raw text AppleScripts.
You'll need to create your own Automator workflow, and paste those scripts into the Run AppleScript action.
The last edit, 3 year ago, was to rename the scripts as .workflow, which is an error.


Time Machine to Sparsebundle image on Windows 2012 server

It turns out that when you create a sparse bundle disk image that resides on an APFS volume that it is ALWAYS formatted as APFS even if you specify the the format as HFS+ like this:

I created a few of these (just to be sure) and each one failed as a Time machine Destination.

As @user128998 pointed out in his comment Time Machine relies on a feature of HFS+ to do it's job and will not work on one formatted as APFS.

I had assumed that disk utility was creating an HFS+ formatted sparsebundle because I had selected that option when creating the image, as shown in the screencap above.

In frustration I did a Get Info on the mounted sparseimage bundle and it showed as an APFS volume. Grr... So I deleted it and created another one and was very careful to NOT select APFS.

When I mounted that sparseimage it too showed as an APFS volume.

Opening Disk Utility I selected the mounted sparseimage volume and reformatted it as HFS+. The operation took longer than I expected (3 - 4 minutes) but it was successful. And this time when I ran the command

  sudo tmutil setdestination /Volumes/MBAir

It worked!

So maybe I found a bug in Mojave (14.2) with disk images and/or sparsebundles. Or maybe it is expected behavior and I didn't know it, either way this can be marked as solved.


Process owned by a user remains active after the user logs out

macOS is technically a multi-user system, there is nothing „wrong“ with having processes running which are owned by users not currently logged in. The processes you list seem to be usual things, don‘t see anything malicious.
PS: Of course sometimes things just get stuck due to bugs :-)


This is likely too localized, but I had the following in my .bash_login (at the very end):

stty werase undef
bind '"\C-w": backward-kill-word'
bind '"\C-j": unix-word-rubout'

Commenting out the last line solved the problem, although of course I am missing this functionality now.


Can I use a non-Apple keyboard with OS X?

Macs work just fine with non-Apple keyboards. Alt becomes option, and the Windows key becomes the command key. And if you want to rearrange them, you can easily do so in the System Preferences:

However, I prefer to use Apple keyboards with my Mac as they have buttons on the top to control expose, volume, and pause/rewind/fastforward of media playback. Apple keyboards also have the command key better positioned for keyboard shortcuts than the Windows key is on regular keyboards.


Which USB floppy drives can read HFS-formatted 400K & 800K floppies?

It looks like you are going to need to use an older Mac to read the disks, due to the complexities involved with the variable speed drives used to format those disk, unless you want to re-program your floppy drive. I am not sure if you can do it with the Iomega drive especially since its USB, you would probably have to take it apart to do the next option.

According to this forum there is a way to control a floppy drive to get it to read those 400/800K disks. So it looks like you need a internal floppy drive and KryoFlux a USB-based floppy controller. Note This is going to require some hacking fun to accomplish...

If that is not your thing, then you should find an old Mac with a floppy drive to read the files and move them to more modern media via networking / apple-share etc. I am not sure what model of macs with floppy drives could read and write 400K and 800K disks, so there is another question to ask, and here is the answer Floppy Drive Observations: A Compleat Guide to Mac Floppy Drives and Disk Formats. So it looks like any Mac with a SuperDrive 1.44 MB type floppy drive will work at reading those older 400K and 800K diskettes.

FYI, a really good source on this information relating to the Mac 400/800K drives. Working with Macintosh Floppy Disks in the New Millennium


I would recommend plugging into your computer and deleting your apps, much faster there


reducing dimension of an icon with Preview

There are multiple algorithm to optimize the size of PNG files.
Preview is known to not be not optimal on that point.

If you want to optimize the size of your PNG, there are multiple tools available on the web.

Just by randomly searching on google :

https://pngquant.org/
https://imageoptim.com/
http://www.gingerbeardman.com/pngenie/


The fact that the newer iPad is still prompting about an old account indicates it was likely never reset after the transfer of ownership.  Even when giving a device to a trusted family member, wiping is always a good idea; the new owner likely doesn't need or want any of the older owner's data.  Wiping it will also likely resolve the issues you're experiencing--and even if it doesn't, it will dramatically narrow down the cause.
The caveat is that by wiping it, you will be removing all of your data from the device.  You should back up anything important first.  If your daughter has already been using the device, it may be difficult to guess what needs to be backed up.  Some data, such as game saves, may not be reasonable to back up and restore after wiping.
If you decide to go through with wiping it, follow Apple's latest instructions; they tend to change across iOS versions.  As of writing, the process looks roughly like this:

Make sure your device is up-to-date.
Make sure you've backed up anything you want to save and have a plan for restoring it to the device--I recommend using both a cloud backup and an offline backup via your computer.  If the iCloud account on the device is the previous owner's, then keep in mind that you will lose access to any iCloud backups when you wipe the device.
"Go to Settings > [your name] > Find My, tap Find My iPhone, then turn it off."  This is important.  Note that [your name] may actually be the previous owner's name.  As of writing, this option is usually at the very top of the Settings page.  It's possible that the device isn't connected to anyone's iCloud account, in which case you'll likely see a prompt to log into iCloud in its place.
"Tap Settings > General > Reset", then tap "Erase All Content and Settings"


How can I update the firmware in my router via tftp?

192.168.1.15/24 is a so-called slash notation, which specifies both the IP address and the network mask at the same time. It's an alternative but shorter notation, which says: your Mac's IP address should be set to 192.168.1.15 and the network mask to 255.255.255.0.

In addition to that, you will need to enable the tftp server on your Mac. To do that, look for /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist file. If you find it, you need to edit it, to enable launching the tftp server. Edit the file with your favourite editor (sudo vi or sudo nano should do - this is all best done in the Terminal.app). Inside the file, you'll find the following lines:

<dict>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <true/>

change these to be:

<dict>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <false/>

After you make that change, you'll need to run the following command in Terminal.app, to start the tftp service:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/tftp.plist

You will then need to put your firmware file into /private/tftpboot, make sure it's world readable (in Terminal.app run chmod 644 /private/tftpboot/filename where filename is the name of the file containing your firmware) and finally point your router to the location of the file, according to your router's instructions.


Understanding 'sort by name' behavior in Finder

Apple OS X uses "natural" sort order in which a string of digits is considered as a unit.

The Apple documentation is in the Finder section of this page.

An old article on Finder sorting that may still be useful is here.

I think Terminal may sort the way you want.  There are also several 3rd party alternatives to the Finder which may offer that kind of sorting.


Can I disable Google Software Update for a selected user account?

[repeating my comment as an answer to close the question]

When you update a setting using defaults, it generally only affects the current user." http://commandlinemac.blogspot.com/2008/12/defaults-setting-preferences-from.html

So I can just run

defaults write com.google.Keystone.Agent checkInterval 0

on each of the non-admin accounts where the pop-up is bothersome.


How to copy many emails to a specific folder rather than copy/paste the contents of each message?

If the photos and measurements are attachments you could use Automator to download the selected messages to a folder.

Edit: I wrote this AppleScript that will download the message and the attachments for all the selected emails in Mail. Make a new folder in your home directory called Emails and run the following code in AppleScript Editor.

NOTE: Make sure the Emails folder is empty. There may be problems if there are items in it already.

tell application "Mail"
    set the_messages to selection
    repeat with this_message in the_messages
        set message_subject to subject of this_message
        set message_body to content of this_message
        set download_path to "~/Emails/\"" & message_subject & "\""
        set save_path to (POSIX path of ("/Users/" & (short user name of (system info)) & "/Emails/" & message_subject & "/"))

        (* create a directory for the message and attachements *)
        do shell script "mkdir -p " & download_path

        (* save message body into a file *)
        do shell script "echo \"" & message_body & "\" > " & download_path & "/message.txt"

        (* save the attachments *)
        repeat with the_attachment in this_message's mail attachments
            save the_attachment in save_path & ":" & (name of the_attachment)
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell


Restore previous apps after upgrade to 4.2?

There's no way to download previous versions of apps from the App Store. The only way to install previous versions of apps is by having the IPA file. Syncing with iTunes would have backed up the IPA file. It looks like you're out of luck.


Outlook 2011 - how to disable auto correction?

Changing settings within Outlook didn't help. It appears that Apple has an overriding spell check, and when it's on, Outlook still automatically corrects words not in its dictionary, making them into embarassing spelling mistakes.

In my version of the Mac OS (10.9.4), the master switch is in:
   - system preferences
     - keyboard
       -text

Other versions of the Mac OS (Lion?) apparently have it in:
   - system preferences
      - Language & text
        - text

Thanks to answers.microsoft.com for pointing me in the right direction.


Better Way To Show Running Applications in OS X Lion

The easiest way to do this (in my mind) is to not have any applications permanently stored in your Dock.  In other words, the only applications down there are running ones. (This is what I do, and it works great; I can at-a-glance see what's running without having to use cmd-tab).

That being said, OS X is moving in the direction of "you shouldn't have to care".  Things like Sudden Termination and User Interface preservation are aiming to make it so that a process can disappear silently in the background, but quickly come back when you need it.


Reset Password app in recovery mode not showing and disks

After disabling FileVault under System Settings > Security & Privacy, it's working fine again.


What are the disadvantages of jailbreaking iPhone 4 even if it's legal?

Disadvantages:

Potential reduced stability of the iDevice

More-than-usual application crashes
Unusual application behavior
Buggy connections (like WiFi), especially on beta releases of jailbreaks. (In other words: wait until the people who write the jailbreak say it is ready for regular use. Otherwise, expect occasional pain.)

Potential failure of application features

Most notably of late was the issue that iBooks would lock users out of DRM'd material if they were jailbroken. It could determine this by attempting to run unsigned code, which if it ran, would let iBooks know the device was jailbroken. A hack was released later to resolve the issue, but there is always the chance another application will also implement such features.

Inability to receive Apple support

Apple doesn't want to support any jailbroken device (nor should they be required to do so). If you run into something critical, restore/upgrade to an unjailbroken state first, at which point Apple should be able to help. (Although chances are very good the particular problem will also have gone away.)

Increased Memory Load

On the iPhone 4 it isn't as obvious, but it is (IMO) very obvious on the iPad 1 -- when you add services that must always be running (e.g., SBSettings, etc.) you increase the memory load on the device. Apps that were previously very close to running out of memory may do so when they least expect it, leading to unexpected crashes. This isn't particularly the fault of the jailbreak itself -- but typically one doesn't jailbreak and then not install other jailbreak-specific apps.

Increased Likelihood of Strange Behaviour after iOS upgrades

Example: I had a 5-row keyboard installed on my iPhone 4. After I upgraded to 4.3.2, I ran into an immediate problem: whenever I needed my keyboard, most of it didn't appear, and most of it didn't work. Apparently parts of the 5-row keyboard configuration had stayed around after the upgrade, and the only fix was to go into General -> Keyboards and switch to the English keyboard. (At the time there was no untethered jailbreak for 4.3.2, or I would have continued the jailbreak, which likely would also have restored keyboard functionality.)

Increased Security Concerns

Jailbreaking can oft mean adding software that hasn't been through Apple's vetting process, which may make it easier to get malware or other software that does "bad things".
If you add SSH functionality, be sure to change the root and mobile passwords; otherwise you'll get hacked in no time flat.
On the other hand, you can also sometimes get increased security. IIRC, there was a Cydia app that was used to add security to the device (essentially something Apple should have done, but hadn't to that point).

Personally, the pros of jailbreaking far outweigh the possible cons. I've had far more strange behavior than typical for an iDevice, yes, but I also expect it and know how to deal with it. Some features are such that I really expect that Apple should have implemented them to begin with, and sometimes Apple does occasionally remove one or two particular jailbreaking reasons. But until they satisfy my (very) long list of jailbreaking features, I'll keep on doing it.


How to create the "show in mail" link in Apple Calendar?

You can

Drag & drop a mail into the Calendar window to create a new entry with a link to the mail
Open an existing event in Calendar and drag&drop a mail into the "Notes, URL or attachments" field


I haven't tried it yet, but the folks behind CyberDuck have released Mountain Duck, it allows you to view remote resources as volumes on the desktop (i.e. integrates Azure, SFTP, S3, etc. with the Finder).

https://mountainduck.io/


In the end, the problem was with the cell service provider to which my phone was connecting by default. It seems it was not respecting roaming agreement with my provider. Switching to another provider manually solved the issue.


I wrote a command line tool called displayplacer that will help with this. You can specify the resolution and positioning of your various monitor setups. Setting a screen with origin:(0,0) will make it the main display with the white bar in the settings.

Execute displayplacer list to get your screen ids.

Example profile 1 with MacBook screen
displayplacer "id:<4kScreen1> res:3840x2160 scaling:off origin:(0,0) degree:0" "id:<4kScreen2> res:3840x2160 scaling:off origin:(-3840,0) degree:0" "id:<MacBook> res:1440x900 scaling:on origin:(3840,0) degree:0"

Example profile 2 without MacBook Screen
displayplacer "id:<4kScreen1> res:3840x2160 scaling:off origin:(0,0) degree:0" "id:<4kScreen2> res:3840x2160 scaling:off origin:(-3840,0) degree:0"

Also available via Homebrew brew tap jakehilborn/jakehilborn && brew install displayplacer


Dragging a drive into the trash just means "eject", not "delete contents". Since USB can't be physically ejected, it just unmounts it. Emptying the trash has no effect in this case.

Unplug it, wait a few seconds, plug it back in, and it should show up.

If you don't want to unlpug and plug it back in, see hdiutil attach for CLI solutions, or /Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app for GUI.


Recover corrupted Mac HFS+ drive (image) under Linux

In the end DiskWarrior worked... it took several iterations of repair, but it managed to restore the node list enough for me to mount it and transfer off as much as was salvageable (which wasn't everything). Then I reinstalled through the usual OSX reinstallation. Thanks for the tips.


A cheaper alternative to using cables and adapters is OneCast which allows you to stream your Xbox to your Mac(costs $20).


How to import photos from PC to iPhone without iTunes, iDrive, iCloud?

I tried to simply copy over the pictures, but the gallery application won't recognize them and I did not find a way to rescan the DCIM folder.

Check the question on “Adding a photo directly to iPhone disk”, and its answer which suggests that Photos can be forced to rebuild its library by deleting the following files from /User/Media/PhotoData/: com.apple.photos.caches_metadata.plist, Photos.sqlite and PhotosAux.sqlite. The files that you added also need to be named according to the “IMG_1234.jpg” pattern. I haven’t tested this myself, and the question is a few years old, so this might no longer work on recent iOS versions though.

  What other options are available to import photos from PC to iPhone without iTunes, iDrive, iCloud? […] Unfortunately installing apps is impossible due to the restrictions imposed by my employer.

If it's just a few pictures, one option could be to email them to yourself, the Mail app allows saving all pictures in an e-mail (tap and hold one of them, then choose “Save [number] Images”; WikiHow offers a more detailed explanation). Another option could be to use an SD card or camera as an intermediary, though you'd have to get the “Lightning to SD Card Camera Reader” or one of the “Lightning to USB Camera Adapters”.


Please try by providing /full_path/appname on the Terminal, Where full_path is the path which the particular appname is located.


Safari for one user can't connect to local server via https due to new cert

Seems I finally found the solution (after trying so messing so many things up due to other solutions):
Using "Internet Accounts" to add a CalDAV account for the server.

As soon as I tried to add a new CalDAV account for "https://old.mynas.local" I got a "untrusted certificate - what should I do"-dialog and could successfully trust the new certificate. Then all problems in Safari vanished as well.
It seems OSX internet accounts uses its very own certificate system and this trusted one of the old certificates due to a CalDAV account previously configured and thus forbid access to the https server now serving the "wrong" certificate. The creepy thing: the dialog popping up was in English although my OS language is not English.

This solution might even work if one doesn't use CalDAV, because the certificate dialog should pop up as soon as the https connection is established, even before trying to check for DAV functionality.


How can I avoid re-encoding of video in iMovie and use it for cutting only?

Indeed, you should use QuickTime rather than iMovie: iMovie will import (and therefore usually encode) the movie, but will also force you to export, as you have noted.

The main interest of using QuickTime is to use its editing features.

Assuming you're using QuickTime X (Snow Leopard / Lion), open your movie file, and hit ⌘T (or Edit > Trim). The timeline will morph into a yellow double-ended scrollbar so that you can trim the sequence.

Adjust it to fit the sequence  you want, and validate the trimming with a click on the Trim yellow button. You can then simply save the file (⌘S), without the need for an export that will necessarily reduce quality.

Update seeing that you need to remove parts of the video.

You'll need the more advanced editing features of QuickTime 7. To install it on Snow Leopard or Lion, refer to Installing QuickTime Player 7 on Mac OS X v10.6 or Later on Apple's KB.

You'll then be able to open your video with QT7, select parts of your video with I (set input point) and O (set output point), and delete the part with a stroke of ⌫. Then, simply save the file, as said earlier.

You might need a license key for QT7, though (I don't remember if the latest versions of the OS need them or activate the Pro features for free).


One of two things has happened to make Mail non-responsive during the normal quit process.

The entire program has hung (and you will see it as non-responsive in Activity Monitor or the Force Quit dialog window).
Mail's background threads for interacting with mail servers have hung and not timed out (and you can open the Activity Window from Mail's Window Menu) to see what specific account and perhaps even what it's trying to do (such as delete messages, send mail, update or synchronize a folder, etc…)

Once the quit menu is dim - you can either force quit the app, wait for it ti finish quitting or log out of that user (perhaps by rebooting) but you can be sure the Mail program is trying to quit at this point so you can continue to use it or decide to help it down as you see fit.


How can I enable the "back" button of a Razer mouse?

I made an open-source macOS utility called SensibleSideButtons that turns the side buttons on any generic mouse into universal navigation buttons. The application runs in your menu bar so you don't have to install any extra drivers. My approach is to bind the buttons to virtual left and right three-finger swipe gestures, which offers several benefits over the usual approach of binding the buttons to ⌘ + [ and ⌘ + ]: almost universal adoption across the OS (including Xcode), avoidance of destructive behavior, no menu bar blink or annoying noises, and commands only sent to the specific window under your cursor. The only requirement is that your side buttons emit standard M4 and M5 events, which most mice do.


The Air is little slower than the retina,
I suggest you to have a look here http://browser.primatelabs.com/mac-benchmarks


Using 45W Power Adapter with MacBook Pro Retina 15

It will charge. However, it will do so very slowly.


Mail.App, Rules, Regular Expression or content search, Base64

Mail and spotlight use the same process to construct and search the same metadata database. If you can’t search in spotlight, mail can’t search as well.

To enhance the function of both, add a custom spotlight indexer to add that pattern to the indexing.

The default spotlight won’t find that content in spotlight in general or mail in specific.

If you’re of a mind to program your own extension here are two developer links to get started:

overview - https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/system-capabilities/search-and-spotlight/
details on the importer - https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/SpotlightCoreData/Articles/recordLevel.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40008065-CH101-SW1


MacBook Air does not respond to cursor clicks

First I would look if any of the running apps is doing that.

Press 3 keys together

alt + cmd + esc

In the new pop up window use the up or down arrow on your keybaord and when selected hit Enter key.

You can Force quit  anything showing in there.

If that did not help to restore normal function use again the keyboard to Restart.

To reboot your Mac instantly, hit Control-Command-Power/Eject.

Alternatively if you hold the power button for 2 seconds a screen should show up asking you what you want to do next.


How to change layout in OS X like shift=English, ctrl=Russian?

If you want to change the keyboard layout easily first of all go to

System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input Sources

and select the layouts you want to use.

Then, at the bottom of the window, you must check the option "Show input menu in menu bar". Now a little flag with the layout-country will appear in the menu bar and you can easily switch layout from that.

See screenshots attached

As instead, if you're more comfortable with keyboard switch, select the layouts as I suggested before in Keyboard Preferences and then do cmd+space: a little transparent window will appear at the center of the screen and by pressing (again) space you can move all the way up & down, selecting the layout you prefer.


Modifying behaviour of "Stationery Pad" function in Finder

If, instead of marking the file as a stationary pad, you just lock it, most software will open it read-only, and you can just do a save-as, accomplishing exactly what you want (An open file that is a duplicate of the locked file and hasn't yet been saved.) The file will be write-protected.

Unfortunately, the stationary pad feature is designed the way it is and (as far as I know) there isn't a workaround to change that. Most word processing and other software already has a built-in template feature, so that's worth looking into, as well.


iPad battery level doesn't increase when in use while charging

This could be normal if you have a lot of power being used (stuck process, bad iOS load, games or many background apps). If you put the iPad in airplane mode and power it off. Connect to power and then be sure to only do things that use little power like play a song or two or read iBooks. You’ll know which apps you run (games are notorious for taking more power than the charger can supply) and then know if even the lightest load is enough to prevent meaningful charge.

If you in fact have a device that under low load can’t charge, that’s not normal. This can be a symptom of three things:

The iPad battery is failing - when they age this will happen to 100% of all batteries (eventually). Some batteries will fail like this before their useful life is up, too. Ask apple to run battery diagnostics and you will get a reading on the health as well as the cost to have it serviced if you ask. This service is free for iPads 5 years old or less.
The charger or cable just isn’t sending enough current to fill up the gas tank while the car is being driven. Get or borrow a new cable and a new charger to test this.
The iPad charger and pins are failing - when you rule out the other items, this remains. Hardware service will fix this.


Recover mac mini broken BIOS (mac mini displays nothing)

If you are entirely sure that the computer is starting up with a connection to a monitor, then this is a problem with the disk format more than likely. This will make it so that the Mac will not be able to boot into recovery either. You'll need to go to an Apple retailer to ask them to reformat the disk for you, or perhaps it's possible on your own. I know that apple likes to ensure no third-party computers register with Mac OS X so they format the disks in dumb way.


I'm not sure how fully this will answer your question, but in the absence of something official from Apple it's probably the best guess there is.

Essentially, when one subscribes to Apple Music and also activates the iCloud Music Library, iTunes effectively syncs what's in your library with what's on Apple's servers. Music you have which is not available on iTunes is actually uploaded so that the servers have a way of sharing that music across your devices.

Typically users can share their playlists with other users and, assuming they're both subscribed to Apple Music, there is no issue with this as both subscriptions have access to the music already available on Apple's servers.

Now, what's happened in your case according to your question is that even songs that I know aren't available on iTunes (so only available on my Mac) were accessible by your friend who was able to listen to them all. This isn't surprising if the songs in question are already available on Apple's servers separately, but you're implying that they're not usually available, and that's where things get a little murky.

I have personally manually imported music into my iTunes library (on my Mac) which as far as I could tell were not available on Apple's servers. However, some of them do get synced and are then available on all my devices, while others never become available to any of my devices (outside my Mac). What I can't account for is what differentiates these songs?

For example, I may search for ten songs on Apple's servers which do not come up on any search results. I then manually add them to my iTunes library and the whole syncing process (by virtue of the iCloud Music Library) takes place. Why it is some of them become available to my other devices, and some are not, I cannot say. However, the ones which are not available are still listed in the playlists on all my devices, even though they cannot be played (outside of my Mac). Trying to play them on other devices results in a "Item Not Available: This item can't be played" message.

If I check on iTunes (on my Mac) these songs have the symbol that represents either Waiting or Not Uploaded (they have the same icon - see here). So while they can be played on my Mac, they're not available on my other devices because they weren't able to be matched or uploaded (and therefore they cannot be shared with others as well). Sometimes these resolve over time, sometimes they just seem to stay that way.

While it would be easy to assume this is some sort of bug, I think it's more likely that if a song which is not usually available on Apple's servers is nevertheless matched, the servers are then able to discern if the track can be played or not (because of some other licensing agreements, etc). However, if the song cannot be matched (which could just mean they weren't uploaded), then they can't be shared.

In a nutshell, the very act of having Apple Music and also iCloud Music Library activated means that all your songs, even the ones not normally available on Apple's servers, are synced to iCloud (even if it means having to actually upload them). This then makes them available (rightly or not) to other subscribers with whom you may share your playlists.


Are OS X shutdown cause and sleep cause numbers listed/explained anywhere?

The precise meaning of the codes is not publicly documented, although according to @grgarside's website for Shutdown Causes, the causes for the ones listed in the question are:

5

  Correct Shut Down. Shutdown was initiated, from the OS X Shut Down menu or other shutdown command. This normally does not indicate an issue with your system.

3

  Hard shutdown. Check power button.

0

  Power disconnected. Check power supply/battery.

-2

  vTypErr = -2, /*invalid queue element*/

Most likely it's a hardware issue such as faulty logic board, a video card or RAM.

Related:

Previous Shutdown Cause: -2
macOs Sierra "previous shutdown cause: -2"?

For a full up-to-date list, see Shutdown Causes.

See also: List Of Mac OS X Error Codes.

Here on Ask Different, there have been a number of questions about shutdown causes:

-60: What is shutdown cause -60?

  Bad master directory block (badMDBErr).

-62: Kernel: "Previous shutdown cause: -62"

  Watchdog timer detected unresponsive application, restarting the system.

-64: Random Kernel Panics with Shutdown Cause: -64
-104: Shutdown cause: -104

  Possibly linked to battery issue.

-108: What is Shutdown Cause -108?

  Likely memory issue.

-112: Shutdown cause -112

  Restart cause logged when it freezes in a hard manner.

-128:

Tracking down hard shutdown cause—software? hardware? overheat?
Shutdown Cause -128

In general, -128 is unknown hardware problem, but commonly it can be related either to memory issue or to the battery time span (at the end of its useful life).

If you've got negative numbers very often, Apple is more keen to get your Mac to the repair, as it usually indicates problem with your hardware.

General suggestions in case of further problems:

Reset the SMC and Reset NVRAM (which you did).
Run an Apple Hardware Test.
Log a kernel panic.
Install EtreCheck app to find serious problems on your Mac.


MySQL Preference Pane control for MySQL installed via Homebrew

See my answer to your question at superuser.com.


You need to reinstall root from macports and tell it what variants (i.e. additions it needs)

port info root lists the variants e.g.

  avahi, clang31, clang32, clang33, cocoa, debug, fftw3, fitsio, gcc43, gcc44, gcc45, gcc46, gcc47, [+]gcc48,
                        gcc49, [+]graphviz, [+]gsl, ldap, mariadb, [+]minuit2, mysql, mysql51, mysql55, odbc, [+]opengl, percona,
                        postgresql90, postgresql92, pythia, python26, python27, python31, python32, python33, python34, qt_mac,
                        [+]roofit, ruby, [+]soversion, sqlite3, [+]ssl, [+]tmva, [+]xml, xrootd

The ones with [+] are installed by default.

So in your case choose the python version you want (e.g. python 3.3 as latest released one), also anything else you need as they are done all at the same time, so I might add qt_mac and sqlite3 as well

sudo port install root +python33 +sqlite3 +qt_mac

Note that python executable will be /opt/local/bin/python3.3 but you can use the select port to make it the one that /opt/local/bin/python uses


Why won't my USB drive power down on eject?

Use this Terminal command  sudo lsof | grep DODO

to find out who is using the USB.

Wait for it to respond, it might take 10 seconds.

If no one is using it, it is safe to eject the disk (pull out).

I did not answer your question "Why it does not Power Down" ? I do not know, probably missing the handshake saying I am done.


There is a blue dot to the left on my screen when im on safari on my Ipad?

I have heard of such a mysterious blue dot before. In those cases it disappeared after a reboot of the iPad - so you might want to try that!


OCSP (and its performing daemon ocspd) as well as CRL are two different but similar methods to check the revocation status of public certificates and are part of the PKI (public key infrastructure).

The revocation status (beyond other statuses) determines the validity of a certificate.

The revocation status of a certificate may be good, unknown or revoked. The status will be changed from good to revoked if the publishing CA (certificate authority) or the certificate itself was compromised (e.g. the CA was hacked or the private key of a certificate was stolen or was published by accident).

Using a revoked certificate (without knowing that it was invalidated) on the client side may compromise its security.

You are strongly advised to enable OCSP and CRL and prioritize OCSP.

Addendum:

I supervised the needed bandwidth of ocspd with Little Snitch.

By searching for ocspd in the network monitor, marking the process and hitting the info button (highlighted in red) I get the total traffic.

After an uptime of ~5 hours I get 3.97 kB outgoing and 23 kB incoming traffic.

You may download and install Little Snitch and hunt down the culprit yourself. Besides the whole traffic of the process you can get the traffic to and from a single host also by choosing one them. Little Snitch runs in demo mode for three hours, and it can be restarted as often as you like. The Network Monitor expires after 30 days.


How Do I Target an Airport Extreme Shared Disk for Time Machine?

Try using the following Terminal command then restarting System Preferences (if it's open):

defaults write com.apple.systempreferences TMShowUnsupportedNetworkVolumes 1


Personally, I would feel odd buying a laptop from a third-party that is still in the (purportedly) original shrink-wrap. I would take the MBP out of the box, power it up and see that it's fully functional, and then advertise it as "barely used" and "like new." And yes, you need to provide the serial number.


How do I install Linux on a 2007 iMac that has its operating system uninstalled?

I haven't used this process to install Linux Mint, but I have used it to install other operating systems on earlier iMacs and MacBook Pros. So I offer this answer in the hope it works for you, but if not, it may help others.

I see two ways to install an OS from a bootable USB on earlier Macs that didn't support booting from USB:

Start the destination Mac in Target Disk Mode
Remove the HD from the destination Mac and insert it into another Mac or external case

Obviously the above options aren't for everyone. Both options requires access to another Mac that will boot from USB and the second one requires the user being comfortable with the process (in some cases the process would be a nightmare, in others fairly straightforward).

Target Disk Mode

The following is a general guide on what's involved:

Start the 2007 iMac in Target Disk Mode by holding down the T key during startup. You'll know when it's finished by seeing an icon floating around the screen.
Use an appropriate FireWire cable to connect the iMac to another Mac capable of booting from USB. (Note: You may need to use an adaptor if the other Mac does not have native FireWire support - e.g. Thunderbolt > FireWire adapter).
Insert the bootable USB (e.g. for Linux Mint) into the second Mac (i.e. the one capable of booting from the USB).
Start the second Mac and immediately hold down the Option key until you see the startup disk manager.
Select the bootable USB from the list and press Enter.
Follow the steps to install the OS (e.g. Linux Mint) onto the hard drive of the first Mac in Target Disk Mode (e.g. the 2007 iMac).
When complete, shutdown both computers and disconnect the FireWire cable between the two Macs.
Start the first Mac normally (hopefully to see it boot from the OS you just installed).

Remove the HD

This involves removing the hard drive from the first Mac and inserting it into another Mac or an external case. However, choosing this option may depend on the model of your first Mac (e.g. removing a hard drive from a Mac Pro is a lot easier than removing it from an iMac) and may also depend on the model of your other Mac (e.g. a HD from an iMac will not fit into a MacBook).

So, this option will be easier if you use an appropriate external case, and if the original Mac is not hard to work with. If you use an external case, then the process is similar to using Target Disk Mode, because a Mac started in Target Disk Mode is effectively an external hard drive.

Obviously I can't cover all possible scenarios here, but this option is not so easy for an iMac (not even the 2007 model used by the OP). But for users comfortable with doing this, the process is broadly as follows:

Remove the HD from the first Mac
Insert the HD into an appropriate external case
Connect the external case to the Mac capable of booting from USB
Insert the bootable USB (e.g. for Linux Mint) into the second Mac (i.e. the one capable of booting from USB)
Start the second Mac and immediately hold down the Option key until you see the startup disk manager.
Select the bootable USB from the list and press Enter.
Follow the steps to install the OS (e.g. Linux Mint) onto the correct hard drive (i.e. the one from the other Mac)
When complete, shutdown your Mac
Disconnect the external case
Remove the HD from it and insert it back into the first Mac
Start the first Mac normally (hopefully to see it boot from the OS you just installed).

Note: If you're in a situation where you can install the hard drive into another Mac, then at Step 2 you would install it into the Mac instead of the external case and you'd also skip Steps 3 and 9.


It seems that the "equivalent" functionality is based on the starting characters and lots of typing as explained in Navigating to options in context menus's answers - in that question you can see that some menu items would be diabolically hard to select, involving typing whole words to disambiguate 2 items.

It seems that the application can specify priority, since the item selected isn't necessarily the first one that starts with what is being typed.


Does iMessage work internationally with only a number?

Yes, you can still use iMessage in this case.

The phone number used in country A is registered with Apple's servers, so when you use iMessage to message that number, they'll send the message to the devices logged in to iCloud with the account that has that phone number registered for iMessage.

Your friend can register multiple such numbers, and from the Settings => Messages on his iOS device choose which numbers to actually use for sending and receiving.

If your friend does not want this to be possible, he needs to deregister his phone number from iMessage. He can do that by following this guide from Apple.


How can I have Calendar use an audible alarm for alerts?

If you go to Settings -> Notifications, then under In Notification Center, select Calendar and scroll down to Calendar Alerts and choose it.

This will give you the screen to select an alert tone for your calendar alerts. You could select a ringtone for it even. To my knowledge there is no option to select a different tone for specific calendar items.


PDF reader for Mac that handles bookmarks well

PDFpen allows editing bookmarks.

PDFpenPro allows editing and creating bookmarks, organising bookmarks, and so on.

They are actually marketed as PDF editors, not just readers.

Both allow embedding all annotations into the document itself.


How can I know the end of production date for my MacBook Pro?

From the Apple Support article, Vintage and obsolete products:

  Vintage and obsolete products

  Owners of iPhone, iPad, iPod, or Mac products may obtain service and parts from Apple or Apple service providers for 5 years after the product is no longer manufactured—or longer where required by law. Apple has discontinued support for certain technologically obsolete products.

From the English Wikipedia article on MacBook Pro, the 13" Early 2015 MacBook Pro were succeeded by newer models in Late 2016 (released on October 27, 2016 to be precise). So, you could be potentially looking for a similar timeline (5 years past the date) to receive support from Apple.

The popular Apple product database app MacTracker states that the said model of MacBook Pro were discontinued in June 2017 (exact date not mentioned). So you could be looking for June 2022 timeline for product support.


What does the lock icon on the 'Get Info' screen do?

Clicking the lock icon will prompt you for an admin password.  After you provide it, the system will allow you to change the permissions for that file or folder in that "Sharing & Permissions" pane you see at the bottom of the Get Info window.  This is a feature of the underlying Unix operating system that allows different privileges for a user, group, and others.

Note that you are always allowed to change permissions (whether the icon is locked or unlocked) when you (your user) is the owner of the file -- e.g. most of the files in your own user folder such as your Desktop and Documents folders.  But when you are not the owner, you'll have to unlock this option to change the permissions.

There's a reason this feature is "locked" against casual access.  It's not really something you want to touch if you're not very sure what you're doing.  Messing with permissions can cause access problems, security problems, or both.

For more details, check out this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_permissions#Traditional_Unix_permissions


Inbox of iOS Gmail App Not Syncing on iPad

The preferred method for syncing your GMail account with an iOS device is by using Exchange with Google Sync. I could detail the directions here, but Google has a great writeup that is far more robust.

If you have multiple calendars you'll want to follow this guide to configure your device to access them as well.


What was the first MacBook that people were able to install Windows on?

Apple introduced Bootcamp in 2006 as a beta for OSX Tiger. (source)

So it's since 2006 that the Macbooks are able to install Windows. However a support note specify that the oldest Macbooks aren't compatible with Windows 7.

NB: Notice that laptops powered by PPC processors were called iBooks & PowerBooks. Macbooks (Pro) are only powered by Intel processors.


Had two silica beads stuck in my iPad earphone jack at the same time. What a pain! Took a paperclip end and scraped the beads up and down, taking care not to touch the earphone contacts. The sides turned to powder within 2-3 minutes allowing for each one to fall out. Wrapped the paperclip with paper towel and wiped the inside.


Possible to use iTunes, Airport Express, and Apple Remote together?

Yes, everything you have described is possible. If you have an Airport Express or other airplay destination on your network, the remote app will allow you to select and control the output location.
As seen on http://www.apple.com/apps/remote/

Enjoy!


Cannot use existng Time Machine Backup on OS X Server after changing password

For me, I had to delete the old password from the login / system key chain before it would let me connect again to my server.

Also, Time Machine won't show you the old backups until after it makes the first new backup, so you might need to clear the old password and then set up the destination again and then wait for the backup to finish.

At that point, the interface should show the old range. If it doesn't inherit the old backups, you have options, but there are some steps needed to get there first possibly.


Removing Messages from iCloud (but not locally)

First I would turn off Messages in iCloud.

You can turn off Messages in iCloud just for this Mac or for all devices where you use it.

Choose Messages > Preferences, click Accounts, then select iMessage in the Accounts list.

Deselect “Enable Messages in iCloud.”

Choose one of the following:

Disable All: Turns off Messages in iCloud for all your devices. Messages will no longer be stored in iCloud and will instead be stored on each device.

Disable This Device: Turns off Messages in iCloud for your Mac only.

Once that is done you can delete the messages in iCloud.


"Unknown Error = -2,147,414,007" on creating certificate with Certificate Assistant

Was able to get this to work. The purpose for creating a certificate was to codesign gdb on Mac. Here are the steps for the same:-

Create a certificate with all the parameters mentioned above.
Instead of saving the Keychain under location System, save it under
Login.
Then, unlock the System Keychain by clicking on the lock icon
on the top left corner and drag the certificate from Login to System.
Right Click the Certificate, click on Get Info and and under Trust, set to Always Trust.
Restart taskgated in terminal: killall taskgated
Enable root account:
Open System Preferences.
Go to User & Groups > Unlock.
Login Options > "Join" (next to Network Account Server).
Click "Open Directory Utility".
Go up to Edit > Enable Root User.
Run codesign -fs gdbc /usr/local/bin/gdb in the terminal.
Disable Root Account again and you should be good to go.

Credits:

Keychain Access error when creating new system certificate
https://gist.github.com/hlissner/898b7dfc0a3b63824a70e15cd0180154


To block this type of call:

Create a new contact called something like Non-Caller, No-Caller or Bit.ly
Enter 000-000-0000 for the phone number.
Scroll down and select Block this Caller

This should stop calls from calls that come from "zero" numbers.

I just remembered this tips to block No Caller calls -> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6040239?tstart=0


iPhone Upgrade Program without adding line or upgrading?

No, it's not possible.  You're required to either upgrade an existing line or add a new line through the IUP.

You don't have to use your existing cellular carrier.  If you have, for example, AT&T and want to use T-Mobile for a specific iPhone purchase, you can do that.  However, you need to select a carrier for the iPhone (even though they're sold unlocked).


Latest Model 13" MacBook Pro i7 - Disk slow beyond belief

Have you tried booting from the install disc and running the disk utility?
Once you get booted from the disc you can go to the menu and start the disc utility.

You can run verify disk to make sure it isn't a problem with the drive.

You can also check the permission's on the disk to see if that is the issue.


If you have a slow download speed then that might be the problem.

This is what you should do.

Go to the settings and choose "airplane mode" then activate the Wi-fi to force the phone to only use it.
Now you need to reboot the device by holding the "home" and "sleep/wake" at the same time for about 10 seconds. This resets the ram and gives you the best chances.

Your IPhone 4 has 512 mb ram which is plenty. and you are running 4.2.1 which is ok. (4.3 has a faster JavaScript motor but may give you worse battery life.)
Now choose a video clip and play it either from the youtube player or from Safari (it might be faster).

Goodluck!


How to change bluetooth frequency for magic mouse 2

The short answer is no.

The 2.4 GHz frequency is what bluetooth uses so you would need to move to a place with less interference, turn off the conflicting devices to keep using Bluetooth reliably.

There are other frequencies mice, but Apple doesn’t make them. Look at Microsoft or Logitech if you don’t know where to start with mice that have a USB receiver and use other radio frequencies.

  Bluetooth devices intended for use in short-range personal area networks operate from 2.4 to 2.4835 GHz. To reduce interference with other protocols that use the 2.45 GHz band, the Bluetooth protocol divides the band into 80 channels (numbered from 0 to 79, each 1 MHz wide) and changes channels up to 1600 times per second

So, if you have interference bad enough that BlueTooth can’t accomodate or negotiate a channel, something is really wrong. I would focus on software updates, resetting devices, turning off WiFi for 30 minutes to be sure you really have an interference problem


How should I migrate my iTunes library to a larger external disk while preserving metadata?

So I successfully migrated the library without losing the metadata by:

1) Changing the default library under iTunes > Preferences > Advanced > to /Volumes/MEDIA_4TB first

2) Selecting all the contents of the library within iTunes.

3) Going to File > Library > Consolidate Files

After many hours of copying, I confirmed it worked by right clicking on a movie > Movie Info > File Tab > Location: /Volumes/MEDIA_4TB/Movies/[Name of Movie]. I can now safely delete the contents of the old 2TB drive and reformat it.


Open the Terminal and enter your proxy configuration using "networksetup".
For example

networksetup -setautoproxyurl Ethernet http://your.proxy.url/proxy.pac

"Ethernet" is the name of the network service, use

networksetup -listallnetworkservices

to see which name to use. If you don't use automatic proxy configuration, see "man networksetup" to see how to set up a manual configuration.

Then quit the Terminal and start the installation.


If your device is jailbroken, you can install iTouchSecure which lets you use the Touch ID feature for any password entry area in any app, including iCloud password dialogs.


Smart Folder: how to create listing of all files in a folder?

By default, the Spotlight GUI in the Finder will not let you use wildcards or other advanced syntax. However, by using the Raw Query search criterion, you can use all the syntax available to the command-line mdfind utility:

Navigate to your ~/Music folder
Hit ⌘ F
Double-check the Scope Bar of the search to make sure Spotlight is just searching your Music folder
Hit the "+" button to add a search criterion
From the criteria drop-down menu, check if the Raw Query criterion is visible (it isn't by default). If not, click Other... and a criteria list will appear. Search for the Raw Query criterion, check the box to include it in the menu, and click "OK".
Select the newly-visible Raw Query criterion and enter the following:

(kMDItemFSName == '*.mp3') || (kMDItemFSName == '*.ogg') || (kMDItemFSName == '*.flac')

The above query will search for files that have .mp3, .ogg, or .flac in their filename (as opposed to the contents of the file). This Macworld article helped me construct this particular query, but this Apple Developer page has a more comprehensive listing of the types of metadata available for raw queries.

Alternatively, you can construct the desired query visually:

Navigate to your ~/Music folder
Hit ⌘ F
Double-check the Scope Bar of the search to make sure Spotlight is just searching your Music folder
Hit the "+" button to add a search criterion
Choose the Kind criterion and set it to Any
Hold down the Option/Alt key to create a conditional (thanks to Adam Franco for pointing this out) and set it to Any
From the criteria drop-down menu, check if the File extension criterion is visible. If not, click Other... and a criteria list will appear. Search for the File extension criterion, check the box to include it in the menu, and click "OK".
Add as many File extension criteria as you wish.

If you want the search to display all files below a given folder (regardless of file type), you can use the File visibility criterion:

Navigate to your ~/Music folder
Hit ⌘ F
Double-check the Scope Bar of the search to make sure Spotlight is just searching your Music folder
Hit the "+" button to add a search criterion
From the criteria drop-down menu, check if the File visibility criterion is visible (it isn't by default). If not, click Other... and a criteria list will appear. Search for the File invisible criterion, check the box to include it in the menu, and click "OK".
The File visibility option should now be in the search criterion drop-down menu. So long as this criterion is set to "Visible or Invisible", all files below the present folder will be shown (you can optionally change this to "Visible Items" you don't want dot-files in the results)


Which graphics cards or integrated GPUs support metal?

In the WWDC 2015 video "What's new in Metal, Part 1", Rav Dhiraj from the GPU software division states at 8'40"

Metal is supported by all Macs introduced since 2012. (Nvidia, AMD and Intel)

This means :

Intel HD Graphics 4000, Iris 5000 & 6000 family,
nVidia GT 600M, 700M family,
AMD R9 M family,


Need help creating Global Daemon for EyeFi Server

Don't point launchd to the init.d script but to the program the script executes. It is important that the program does not 'daemonize' (makes itself a background process) itself. This is launchd's job.

Put this in your ProgramArguments key and you should be fine:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>/Users/Shared/eyefi/eyefiserver/bin/eyefiserver.py</string>
    <string>/Users/Shared/eyefi/eyefiserver/etc/eyefiserver.conf</string>
    <string>/Users/Shared/eyefi/eyefiserver/var/eyefiserver.log</string>
</array>


iMac Late 2009 Target Display Mode to GTX 1080

Target Disk mode is booting with a T and the OS not running. You will see a FireWire / USB / Thunderbolt icon in this target mode on supported iMac.

Target Display mode has no icons and needs the Mac OS to be running and is entered with either Command - F2 or Command - Fn - F2 keys.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592

The link above has all the steps to qualify / check your connections and requirements.


Cannot extend partition after failed bootcamp install

Apple's Bootcamp is intended to be the beginning and end for where you handle partitioning. You can try opening Bootcamp Assistant and see if they will let you recover your space from here. I know I have done this before.

I've also run into the same problem with Disk Utility when it comes to Bootcamp partitions.


Applescript to compare two lists of domains and eliminate duplicates

It would be easier to use shell scripting:

grep -vxf master.txt today.txt > today2.txt; cat master.txt today2.txt > master2.txt


Can I connect an Apple Watch to my iPhone without syncing activity data? Or is there another way to roll back Activity data?

So - as a direct answer to your question - no, unfortunately it doesn't appear possible to do what you're asking.
Now for a longer, more descriptive answer. After carrying out some research and performing some of my own tests, it unfortunatley doesn't appear that it's possible to simply remove a single exercise whilst also deleting the corresponding award earned from it; removing the exercise from within the Health app leaves the award which can, as you mentioned, still be found within the Activity app. The following threads posted to the Apple Discussions forum were posted by users who also had a similar problem - confirming the above:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/8257414
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250261634
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250009083
In addition to this, it also doesn't appear possible to use the backup of an Apple Watch to simply replace the Activity data/rewards on the Watch's paired iPhone; that said, I'm not 100% sure whether the Watch backup itself actually includes any Activity data itself, or whether this is only retained on your iPhone. It appears that the only way to resolve this is to reset your Health data - which is far from ideal, but appears to be the only resolution at this time.


I would be willing to bet that Safari 11 can't read the Safari 12 preferences file(s). No doubt part of the upgrade process is to make changes to these files to reflect the differences between the two versions.

Of course Apple is not going to tell you about this because going back to an earlier version who would do that? (GASP!)

You are probably have to play the preferences dance, eg start removing preferences files associated with Safari until it starts working again on your Mac.

Open a Finder window, hold down Option and go to the "Go" Menu and select Library. In that folder find Preferences and then look for things that start with "Com.Apple.Safari" on my Mac it looks like this.

It could be a little different on your Mac any one (or all) of these files could be unreadable by your version of Safari. So quit the app, move one of these to the desktop and relaunch Safari, until it works.

More bad news: there is also a "Safari" folder in Library, any one or more of these files could also be a problem. SO you may have to repeat that routine again with the files in there.


Create backup iPhone with forgotten encryption password

The short answer is no. The phone thinks you are a thief trying to steal the data and won't cooperate with attempts to initiate a second backup. Your best bet is if you have a computer that was syncing / backing up the device and follow the steps listed for a disabled device with a passcode:

iOS: Device disabled after entering wrong passcode

Once your iOS device is locked with a passcode, the data at rest is scrambled and the decryption key is only stored inside the iOS keychain or inside a backup of the device in iCloud or on a computer.

Even if you connected the device to a computer and got past the hardware telling the USB storage to not present itself - you would need to perform a decryption of whatever forensic image you retrieved.

Without knowing your situation (exact device, iOS version, whether it's an older device that doesn't have Data Protection, where else you may have backed up the device so that you could try restoring a backup onto an unlocked device (where you could then choose a different passcode) it's hard to guess what your best move is next.

You could:

edit more details into the question
ask a follow on question once you've explored your options
Contact Apple to do some troubleshooting / learn more options


What determines when my Apple Watch uses a haptic tap for a notification?

From this Apple Discussion:

There are variations. The 3rd party app developers have some control over what you get, but they won't have been able to check it before launch - they'll have been using a simulator.

This can currently not be changed by the user.
To turn haptic feedback of:

Open the Settings app.

Scroll down and tap Sounds & Haptics.

Turn Haptic Alerts on or off.


What are the pros and cons of IMAP/CalDAV vs. Exchange for GMail and Google Calendar for iOS 4?

Exchange (Google Sync) for GMail lacks some features that you are probably used to--search and cloud drafts. The "known limitations" are listed here: http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=139635.

My experience with CalDAV in iCal are that multiple calendars on a single account are a bit squirrely to work with—you won't be able to get each calendar listed by itself under the primary google account heading. The calendars end up in a set of subfolders, depending on how you end up configuring it. That said, I don't know how the same thing would look on the iPhone.

What I do and recommend would be to continue using IMAP for GMail access--there's nothing wrong with it and you don't gain anything by moving to exchange. I do use Google Sync for contacts and calendars since it's the closest I can get to the functionality of MobileMe for free, and I'm very happy with it. For desktop access (aside from the webapp) I like BusyMac (post hyperlink limit reached; Google it) Software's products: one is an iCal superset clone and another is a sync utility that makes your Google Calendars show up in iCal just like MobileMe would.


Can I use a Thunderbolt display for a macbook pro with a mini display port?

Unfortunately, no. Thunderbolt displays will only work with a Thunderbolt port on your machine - not with a Mini Display Port...