Kernel panic on every attempt to access Recovery Mode

After I forgot this issue for a while I stumbled upon a very useful tool made by Chris Silvertooth. The latest version of his Recovery Partition Creator can be found on his download page.

Using the application is very simple, I have successfully recreated my recovery partition on El Capitan (OS X 10.11.6):

(Optional but recommended) Create a full backup of your system
Download the most recent Recovery Partition Creator
Download the relevant OS X installation files from the App Store

Open the App Store
Open the Purchased tab
Find the installation file of the OS you're trying to add a recovery partition to and download it

Start the Recovery Partition Creator and follow the steps described in the dialogs. At some point you will need to point it to the installation files downloaded in the previous step.


Long term effect on Mac computer of installing Windows/Running a Windows VM

There will be zero issues running Windows on a Mac.  A Mac is basically an Intel based PC.

If you are using a VM, regardless of the platform (VMware, VirtualBox, etc) once you delete the virtual machine, it's gone.  Unless you share folders between the VM and the host, there is nothing that goes outside the VM container.

If you are using BootCamp, once you delete the BC partition, Windows will be gone.


Can I delete unnecessary device simulators of Xcode?

Yes, you can delete any simulator that you don't use.  I do this routinely when I stop supporting older iOS versions.
If you delete them and then you find that you need them at some point in the future, you can redownload them from Apple's developer site.
The best way to delete them is in Xcode.  Go to Window -> Devices and Simulators.  This will open a new window with all the devices you use in Xcode.
At the top, tap on Simulators and you'll see a list on the left-side.
From there, find the simulator you want to delete and Cntl - click (or right-click) and select Delete.
I do this with each simulator that runs in each iOS version that I no longer support.
Update July 2020: There's a free utility in the Mac App Store named DevCleaner for Xcode.  This application can display and delete simulators and various caches.  I've found it be a very quick and easy way to regain space.  I'm not the developer or associated with this application in any way.


Mounting and unmounting a USB disk should be logged in the log files. You can use the Console app to search through the logs.

Also, teach yourself to always lock your screen with a password when leaving the keyboard.


Write cron script to open and exit application

As an example, the following commands can be used in a shell script to accomplish what you've expressed.
/usr/bin/open -na "/Applications/Safari.app" "https://www.google.com/"
pid=$(/usr/bin/pgrep -xn "Safari")
/bin/sleep 600
/bin/kill $pid

Notes:
Obviously you'd change the value of the URL in the open command.

open -na - Assuming another instance of the target app is running, opens a new instance of the target app, and if not, just opens the target app.
pgrep -xn - Gets the pid of the newest instance of the target app, so you know which instance to terminate.

pid=$(...) - Command Substitution, $(command), allows the output of a command to replace the command name. In this case, assigns the pid of the target app to the variable pid for use as $pid with the kill command.

sleep 600 - Sleeps for 10 minutes.
kill $pid - Terminate the process by its pid.

 I recommend you read the manual pages for open, pgrep, sleep and kill. You can read the manual page for command in Terminal by typing command and then right-click on it and select: Open man Page

cron example:

From the manual page for crontab:

(Darwin note: Although cron(8) and crontab(5) are officially supported under Darwin, their functionality has been absorbed into launchd(8), which provides a more flexible way of automatically executing commands. See launchctl(1) for more information.)

I'm mentioning this because I personally prefer to use launchd over cron as it's the preferred method that Apple endorses.
If you want to use cron, have a look at Scheduling Jobs With Crontab on macOS and crontab guru.
I tested a shell script with the above commands and triggered it both as a cronjob and as a launch agent under macOS Catalina, and it worked for me as coded.
To create the crontab, I did the following in Terminal:
EDITOR=nano crontab -e

I use that instead of just crontab -e because I prefer nano over the default vim.

In nano I added the following:
30 18 * * * /usr/local/bin/codetest

Then pressed ^O to save and ^X to close nano.
As set, cron ran the job at 6:30 PM executing the /usr/local/bin/codetest and codetest had a #!/bin/zsh shebang and the commands above, at the start of this answer, in it.
Notes:
I recommend you read the manual pages for cron and crontab. You can read the manual page for command in Terminal by typing command and then right-click on it and select: Open man Page

From Scheduling Jobs With Crontab on macOS:
Setting cron jobs requires a specific format.
* * * * * command
* - minute (0-59)
* - hour (0-23)
* - day of the month (1-31)
* - month (1-12)
* - day of the week (0-6, 0 is Sunday)
command - command to execute

(from left-to-right)

You can also use sites like Crontab.guru to generate cron expressions.

launchd example:

For launchd, have a look at: Creating Launch Daemons and Agents
As a launch agent, in Terminal:
cd "$HOME/Library/LaunchAgents/"
touch com.me.new.instance.safari.plist
open -e com.me.new.instance.safari.plist

I then added the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.me.new.instance.safari</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/local/bin/codetest</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <false/>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>18</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>45</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Saved the document and then back in Terminal:
launchctl load com.me.new.instance.safari

Then at 6:45 PM launchd executed the /usr/local/bin/codetest shell script.

Notes:
I recommend you read the manual pages for launchctl, launchd.plist and launchd. You can read the manual page for command in Terminal by typing command and then right-click on it and select: Open man Page
Once loaded, it will automatically load when you login to your account, so you shouldn't need to do it manually again under normal circumstances. To unload it, use the unload subcommand with the launchctl command.
After unloading it, you can delete the .plist file, if/when you want to undo changes you've made to your system.


Mac blogging client similar to Windows Live Writer

I haven't had any exposure to live writer, but maybe you might want to give MarsEdit a try. It can interface with many different blogging systems.


iTunes won’t do this itself, but I found this tool very helpful http://www.beatunes.com/itunes-automatic-bpm-detection.html


How to get full path of MP4 file used by portal in Safari?

Open the web inspector and look in the resource list for the active network connection (indicated by the spinning pinwheel next to the resource) as this is usually the stream file.

Clicking the resource will show the Full URL under the Location section of the resource inspector.

Note that some URLs won't be able to be played directly due to licensing restrictions.


Can Spotify be paused when a Skype call is made, similar to how iTunes does it?

There are multiple ways of achieving this. Here are two possible solutions:

Python. This has been answered on this Stack Overflow question already.
Simplify. One of Simplify's features is auto-pausing on Skype calls:


MBA (2013-15?) wont boot from macOS boot stick

Start the Mac in Internet Recovery mode instead by holding down Alt-Cmd-R during Boot. This will allow you to format the drive and reinstall macOS and the Recovery partition.


Trying to connect Pegasus Raid 4TB to MacBook Pro

You are attempting the impossible. You can't connect two Macs to the same Thunderbolt chain. The two Thunderbolt ports on the Pegasus are so that you can daisychain devices, not Macs.

Second, the Pegasus you have doesn't talk Ethernet.

You could use the second port to attach a display or another disk device but not a Mac.

Since your MacBook Pro doesn't have a Thunderbolt port you can't connect it to the Pegasus directly. You could use a Thunderbolt to FireWire cable, but even then not at the same time as it was connected to the iMac.


How do I get to medications in Health.app?

You cannot track medications in the Health app in the way you're describing. HealthKit does not have any medication data types. It's possible those screenshots were from an early/preview version of the Health app, but that feature definitely didn't make it into any shipping versions of Health.


Assigning shortcuts to particular keyboard layouts

There is a solution that has been vetted on 10.5 through 10.7 and has both a source code example as well as a link to a direct download of a program to do this sort of switching.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4032238

You'll need Xcode or to use the compiled program to test if this works for you. And always, use caution when downloading software from the internet. Most people are nice and good, but sometimes it's hard to know what you're running.


Installing drivers before installing Mac app - rejected by apple review team

Without recoding the app the meet Apple's guidelines, you will have to rely on selling your software outside the MAS. Plain and simple I'm afraid.

There is no way around Apple's guidelines. They are written for a reason; to protect users from having apps install malicious components or components that may damage their systems, to promoting an exceptional users experience. Having your app pull down drivers is not an ideal solution and I would not install such an app. Either make do with the existing driver set, or find a workaround that won't break your program.

You are the developer. You know the codebase and the requirements as an Mac Developer. There is no loophole. Either you are asking us to provide you with a way to circumvent Apple policy or tell you how to code your app. In both cases, it falls outside the scope of what we do around here.


Would a 2.6 Ghz CPU drain a laptop's battery faster than a 2.3 Ghz CPU?

If everything else was equal (CPU architecture, generation, manufacturing process, OS, power management strategy, software running etc.) the answer is maybe. Modern CPUs like the i3/i5/i7 series downclock themselves when idle so it depends what you're doing and what the actual CPUs are. If everything is as equal as you can make it and you compare CPUs of identical generation, one with maximum clock speed higher than the other and you are using the CPUs to their maximum capacity - then the more powerful CPU does drain the battery faster - but it gets more work done in the same time too, and might get back to the idle state faster.

You can only really answer this question if you test your exact scenario.


Possible to disable internal SSD on Macbook Air?

The SSD is not soldered to the motherboard, it just has a new, unique connector. You can get in there and detach it. Check iFixit for instructions, and beware that such may void your warranty.

And if the Pro is recent enough, it may indeed work to install on there and transfer to the Air.


What do double quotes mean around a domain in `defaults`?

Defaults outputs old-style property lists. - is not a valid key character, so this would be an invalid plist without the quotes. With quotes, the parser understands that the entire string including the hyphen is the key. Defaults adds quotes where otherwise invalid plist keys would be output.


Two Time Capsules with same disk name - Time Machine settings "mix up" targets?

A1: I do believe TM uses UUIDs to identify backup servers. There shouldn't be any issues with duplicate names.

A2: Renaming the disks would probably help you identify it, but it is unlikely that it would solve this problem. As mentioned in A1, TM uses UUIDs to identify disks.

A3: I would try removing the disk through the "Select Disk" button below the disk list (this does not delete your existing backups) and reselecting it.

I would believe that this was likely caused by a graphical glitch.

Good luck.


Is it possible to actually update bash to version 4.0 in OSX Yosemite? Yes.

Download / Install homebrew http://brew.sh/
by running this command in terminal.

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Quit and reopen your terminal. then type

brew install bash

Change the default shell via the terminal gui with the literal path of your new bash (EDIT: I have yet to find a CLI way that works )

Is it possible to actually update bash to Apple’s provided bash version 4.0 in OSX Yosemite?

EDIT: No. Not in the way the op is asking. E.g upgrade the current install by way of replacing itself.  It has been noted in other answers that Apple has not updated bash due to licensing issues. However downloading an updated and separate version of bash and using it as your default shell is the canonical solution, for most interpreters. Take python for example. You do not upgrade 2.7 to 3.5 you download a separate version and change your default.


Do MacBook devices have something [firmware] similar?

Yes.  It's call the EFI or Extensible Firmware Interface

  Is it possible to reinstall MacBook firmware?

Yes.  See this post:  Where is the EFI stored on the macbook and is it possible to restore a previous EFI firmware version?

  Is the firmware automatically reinstalled upon an OS reinstallation?

Not necessarily.  The EFI is upgraded only if it needs to be upgraded.  This can happen as part of a normal update process or it can happen as part of a macOS installation.

From Apple Support:

  Most firmware updates are automatically installed when you update or
  upgrade OS X. Some firmware updates are also available as downloads
  you can install manually. If your Mac needs a firmware update and it
  isn't installed automatically, check to see if a manual updater is
  listed below.

For the record - upgrade is defined as going from one version of macOS/OS X to the next one up.

It also goes on to state (which they highlight) the following:

  If you don't see a firmware version listed in this article, it means
  that either a firmware update is only available as an automatic
  update, or no firmware update is needed.


Screen Sharing over internet on OS X Lion - cannot control remote machine

Most likely you have Observe Mode enabled on your end. In Screen Sharing.app, go to the View menu. You should see an entry for "Switch to Control Mode".


Some more info would be helpful here. What app are you using on your iOS devices and Mac to connect to your Mini? What happens when you try to connect—do any errors appear, or does nothing appear to happen?

First off, make sure Screen Sharing is enabled in Sharing Preferences (Remote Management is only for using Apple Remote Desktop, so don't bother with that unless you're actually using that program). Double-check that Allow access is set to either "All Users", or "Only these users" with your user name included in the box.

Now try connecting from another Mac, using the Finder's Connect to Server dialog (under the Go menu, or ⌘K). Under Server Address, type in vnc://IP_OF_YOUR_MINI then hit connect. If you can connect that way, but not using the Finder's Shared panel, then the problem is likely in the Bonjour service that advertises the screen sharing option.

Another thing to check is what version of Apple Remote Desktop Client you have installed. If you have 3.6, there's a bug that can cause timeouts for Screen Sharing/VNC clients. The temporary fix is removing /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement and re-installing 3.5.3. This worked for me on Lion, I don't know if it will work on Mountain Lion. Make sure to keep a backup copy of the files you delete, in case the install doesn't work.


How do I remove duplicate "Open With" context menu items in Finder.app?

Since this problem happens at System Level, I'm not sure if these steps will do any difference.

I assume that, like you've said, you've rebuilt your LaunchDatabase. Just in case:

You can try the Command Line version of the above (In a terminal):

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

Additionally, Default Apps is a nice and free System Preference pane to control default apps (based upon extension, type, etc.) You can pretty much see and associate everything from there. It should at least give you a hint whether the problem is in the association or the finder is doing something funky.

When did this start happening? Did you install something? I see you have Xcode 4, did you get it from the App Store or you have a Developer Profile and got it via direct download? Was this happening before? Does this happen with every type of file or only some specific ones?


Newly-created contacts in Outlook don't sync to iPhone

In the case where you don't have a specific failure message or error, it's often best to isolate where the problem lies.

If you were using iCloud, I would recommend you add a contact from your computer then log into the web interface of iCloud to see that the change propagates to the cloud.

If it does, then you will know to focus on the cloud to iPhone part of the sync. If it does not, you can know that Outlook (or the PC end of things is failing.)

You can try these two things:

Set up syncing again on the guess that iOS isn't set up properly
Get access to the servers that are syncing the information and dig into the troubleshooting or logs that are available there to determine where the break down is happening.


Are there any Hardware RAID Cards with Batteries that will work in a Mac Pro 3,1?

As the 3,1 is essentially an unsupported machine [sadly] I'd go for a second-hand Apple card from eBay etc, to save any possible compatibility issues with a 3rd party new card that may never have been designed with the 08 Mac Pro in mind.

The official Mac Pro RAID cards themselves come in 2 flavours, pre & post 2009

Unless it's a refurb, I would also change the battery, new ones are still available.

UK prices, old RAID card for an Early 2008, approx £200, new battery £50

See Mac Pro (Mid 2012 and earlier): Frequently Asked Questions about the Mac Pro RAID Card and Xserve RAID Card


Musical typing stops working - Logic Pro X

same issue - Logic Pro 10.3.1 on Mac OS 10.12.5

musical typing keyboard works as expected, and then becomes unresponsive after some period of time

restarting fixes the glitch and we would need to report this bug to Apple and/or update Logic to hope it gets fixed as a bug.


Do all Safari 5 Extensions work on windows / mac?

Yes, all Safari extensions run equally on Windows and Mac OS, so you do not need to look for platform-specific versions. All Safari extensions (that use the official extension API) are required to be written in pure Javascript, so they will work on all platforms.


There is no special button for the Name Manager in any version of Excel for Mac. However, you can call it by pressing ⌘ + fn + F3.

The dialog window will appear, where you can enter name for a data range and a range of cells:

Another way is to click Insert>Name>Define and modify,add,or delete data ranges names.


Remove Mac App Store notification badge from the Dock

Just a Workaround (tested with 10.11.3):

Open ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist with en Plist-Editor of choice (e.g. Xcode).
Open the property(array) with name "persistent-apps".
In this array is an item for each persistent application(the ones that stay if you close the app) in your Dock. The Finder in first position of Dock is NOT in this list! The first application after the Finder is in "Item 0", the second in "Item 1" and so forth. Find the item number in the array where you have the App Store and open the item to see the sub properties.
Open property "tile-data" as well. Now you should see a sub property "dock-extra" of type BOOLEAN.
In the property "file-data/_CFURLString" or the property "bundle-identifier" you can check if you really found the correct item number for the App Store.
Change the value of from "dock-extra" from YES to NO and than save and close the plist.
Restart your Dock at a terminal with command "killall Dock" or reboot your system.

I create a small shell script that does the same job. It uses the terminal tool "PlistBuddy" that comes together with Xcode.

#!/bin/bash
/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "set persistent-apps:7:tile-data:dock-extra false" ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dock.plist
sync
killall Dock

The "7" in the script stands for the array position of the app store in the dock as explained in step 3 above (and needs to be adjusted to your configuration).

This method has still problems:

The red notification badge of App Store is only gone as long as the App Store is closed. As long as you open the App Store you see the red notification badge anyway.
When you move the position of App Store in your Dock (maybe because you add a new application to it) the "dock-extra" value is automatically reset to "YES" and you will see the red notification badge again. Than you need to repeat the process for the new Item position of the App Store in your Dock.


Will there be consequences or issues if I install XQuartz?

It's absolutely fine, it's essentially a standalone application that you can uninstall again anytime. Except when you're running Inkscape, you'll never know it's there.

In fact, XQuartz used to come on the OS X install DVD (though it wasn't installed by default), but like Java and Flash, Apple just prefer not to package and ship those things with the OS any more, and require you to install it separately direct from the developer.

If you're still not sure, there is a native port of Inkscape in progress that doesn't require XQuartz, but it was a little buggy last time I tried.


Greyed out/inaccessible files on File Sharing server on Mac OS

Everyone, which is about 20 users all with iMac or Mac pros, connects
  to the file sharing Mac Pro using the same registered username and
  password...All the permissions are set to write and read for
  everyone.

Emphasis Mine

This one paragraph sums up the issue you are having; you do not have this setup correctly at all.  What this sounds like is that even though everyone has read/right priviliges, the file gets locked so that only one SMB client can access it at a time.  When two clients access it - even with the same credentials, which client has the correct changes?  SMB solves this for you - the one that got there first.

What you should have is a unique user account for each person that needs to access the file share/server.  If you want to maintain a single login for your users across all servers, look at implementing a directory server of some sort.  I prefer Active Directory as I work in mixed environments; second in line is LDAP.


Tracks that should be played as an ordered group

This is what the “Grouping” field is for. For all tracks in a group, enter the same text in the “Grouping” field. Then choose Controls → Shuffle → By Groupings — note that this setting is only in the menu bar, not in the Preferences!

With that setting, any track whose Grouping field is not empty will be played together with other tracks with the same Grouping, presumably in track number order.


How do I mount a sparsebundle disk image that was created on another machine attached to the network?

I think the DMG probably needs to be served by an OS X AFP service that can do conflict management for when multiple computers try to change the filesystem at the same time.

Since you indicated in the comments that each of the computers can mount the DMG individually, but not simultaneously, I bet that your NAS is detecting that the DMG file has been opened for writing by computer1 and is locking it from open+write by other computers until the first is done (unmounts it).

Ooooh, according to this Q/A, you can convert a DMG to read-only; then use a shadow file to keep track of changes.  Just make sure to have a separate shadow file per computer and you should be set!

Please test this out with a sample DMG before converting your 12 TB DMG.  Steps:

Create a trivial Read-Only DMG with a few files.
copy it to your NAS
In a terminal window hdiutil attach on /Volumes/NAS/path/to/your.dmg -shadow comp1.shadow
head over to another computer
run hdiutil attach on /Volumes/NAS/path/to/your.dmg -shadow comp2.shadow NOTE the different filename after -shadow, making sure that they don't both use the same shadow file.
see if it mounted


Is Siri able to recognise a contact nickname and action on it?

In the Contacts app, edit your girlfriend's card to give her a Relationship of girlfriend. This will solve your problem in the most official of ways.

See more detail here.


Keyboard shortcut to open Terminal at the current folder location in Finder

In System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services under Files and Folders there is a New Terminal at Folder shortcut which you can assign a keyboard shortcut to; however, it only appears on the Finder > Services menu, or the right-click context menu, when a Folder is selected. So if you have a Finder window open but no additional folder selected, it is not available. This may be fine for one's particular usage, but if not, then here is an alternative.

For example, say you have a Finder window open to your Downloads folder, which is selected in the Sidebar, and you want to open a Terminal window there. Well the built in service isn't available because an individual Folder isn't selected and what's selected in the Sidebar doesn't count...

One way to open a Terminal window at the location of the current Finder window, using a keyboard shortcut, is to use AppleScript in an Automator Service (Quick Action in macOS Mojave), then assign it a keyboard shortcut in: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > ...

Create an Automator Service adding a Run AppleScript action, then replace the default code with the example AppleScript code shown below.
Save the service as e.g. Open Terminal Here with the settings as shown in the image below. Then assign it a keyboard shortcut. It should show under the General section of the aforementioned path.

Note: After assigning it a keyboard shortcut, you may have to trigger the new service one time with the mouse from the Finder > Services menu for it to work subsequently using the assigned keyboard shortcut.
Additionally, the assigned keyboard shortcut cannot be one that is already in use by Finder. I wanted to use ^⌘T but it would not work, so I settled for: ^⌘\
Accessibility privileges for Automator may need to be granted for this service to work properly.

Example AppleScript code:

tell application "Finder"
    if exists Finder window 1 then
        set currentFolder to target of Finder window 1 as alias
    else
        return
    end if
end tell
tell application "Terminal"
    do script "cd " & quoted form of POSIX path of currentFolder & "; clear"
    activate
end tell

As an added bonus, you can also use the example AppleScript code saved as an AppleScript application in Script Editor and place it in the Toolbar of Finder, thus allowing one to click the icon to open a Terminal window at the current location when one wants versus using the keyboard short assigned to the Automator service. No third-party app required!

In Script Editor, save the example AppleScript code as an AppleScript application, as e.g.: Open Terminal Here
In Finder, give it the same icon as Terminal.

From Finder, open the Get Info sheet for both the e.g.: Open Terminal Here app and Terminal, by selecting each and pressing: ⌘I
With both Get Info sheets showing, select the icon in the upper left corner of the one for Terminal and press: ⌘C
Now select the icon in the upper left corner of the one for e.g.: Open Terminal Here and press: ⌘V
Close the Get Info sheets.
Drag an drop, while holding the ⌘ key1, the app bundle for the e.g.: Open Terminal Here app onto the Toolbar in Finder.
        1 Required in later versions of OS X/macOS.

Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and does not contain any error handling as may be appropriate. The onus is upon the user to add any error handling as may be appropriate, needed or wanted. Have a look at the try statement and error statement in the AppleScript Language Guide. See also, Working with Errors.


As far as I can see, you have two options.

Mouse Keys

When using Mouse Keys, you can use the keyboard to move the cursor. If you have a numerical keypad, the numbers around 5 are used to move it and 5 is used to click. Without a keypad, it's mapped to the nine keys surrounding I (789/UIO/JKL).

Just like with a mouse or trackpad, you can hold ⌃ control while pressing 5 or I to bring up the context menu.

You can turn on Mouse Keys in System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad, or enable the press-shift-five-times toggle shortcut, or press ⌥+⌘+F5 to bring up a window of Accessibility toggles, including Mouse Keys. This is important to know, as Mouse Keys makes typing impossible, at least without a number pad.

Third party utility

There are many applications that let you customize keyboard shortcuts, etc. There's BetterTouchTool (free), or Keyboard Maestro ($36), or several others. Any of these should let you create a shortcut to “right-click”.


Using Apple Developer as proof of sales between two companies

The app developing company will publish on the App Store under an App Developer license from Apple. You can ask them to create an iTunes Connect account for your company under Sales role. Using it you get access to Sales, Trends and App Analytics.

For further details you can refer to the Apple Developer support documents, iTunes Connect Resources and Help and User Roles - iTunes Connect.


What is the model number for product MP2F2LL/A

iPad (5th generation)

Year: 2017
Capacity: 32, 128 GB

Model number (on the back cover):
A1822 on the iPad (5th generation) Wi-Fi

A1823 on the iPad (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular


File not found: file is in ~/Library but not on 'This Mac'

Spotlight is intended to let users find their own files; since the Library folder normally contains files the user doesn't need to (and indeed shouldn't) access manually, it's left out of the search results (along with other "system files"). You can find files in it by either searching it explicitly (as you mention), or by telling spotlight to include system files in its results (see Apple's KB article #HT4355 -- note that it only mentions OS X 10.6, but the same procedure works in 10.7 and 10.8 as well).


You can choose to save it as "ibook" first. And then email your PDFs in iBooks. Last, you can sign in to the email on your computer and download the PDFs.


How can I force command-line arguments to a program shortcut in the dock?

One way to do this is with AppleScript.

Open AppleScript Editor (/Applications/Utilities) and type this in:

do shell script "open '/Applications/Google Chrome.app'  --args --explicitly-allowed-ports=6666"

Save it as an Application, and add that application to the Dock.
Click on the app's icon and you Chrome will open with your custom parameters.

This way works, but it isn't exactly ideal for a couple reasons:

Running the AppleScript will take a little longer than just opening the app
You'll have two icons in your dock (the script and Chrome)

This will work, but I'm interested to see if someone comes up with a better answer.


Macbook pro boots to a black screen after a few seconds of use

The video is not very clear to understanding the issue. It seemed like you clicked on the “Ansel Admin” username and it blanked out. Then you clicked the power button and it came back to login screen. Also, it will help if you describe what you are doing and the problem (in the video as a voiceover :).

Here’s what you can try.

If you have a monitor available, check if you can see the display after logging in.

There are two ways I found to increase screen brightness (as you mentioned that it was not fully blacked out). (Links to original articles below).

Method 1: Using osascript, key code 144 (brighter), 145 (dimmer)

$ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'key code 144' -e ' end tell'

$ osascript -e 'tell application "System Events"' -e 'key code 145' -e ' end tell'

Method 2: Using Homebrew - https://brew.sh

If you have homebrew installed, you can install brightness to control.

$ brew install brightness

$ brightness 1

$ brightness 0.5

I have tested the osascript commands on Catalina 10.15.4. You will need to give the terminal accessibility permissions.

If these don’t work, try booting in Safe Mode.
If it resolves the issue, it may be some startup item that could be causing this.
Hold down the Shift key when powering up and you hear the startup chime to enter Safe Mode.

Links:

How can I dim the screen from Terminal?

How to Adjust Screen Brightness from Terminal in macOS
https://www.maketecheasier.com/adjust-screen-brightness-from-terminal-macos/


macOS Mail: How to remove background color of a message in message list?

I know a year old, but for others:

Open a new email.
Paste a screenshot into the new email.
Select markup in the top right of the screenshot image.
Select a color in the markup tool and open the colours dialogue.
Choose any color, but reduce the opaque to 0%
Drag this 0% opaque color (transparent) to the preset slots on the right of the color dialogue.
Close the dialogue and the discard the email.
Make a rule in Mail that is trigged for all emails.
Set the background color in that rule and select the preset with the transparent colour.
Select all your emails, right click and let rules run for these emails.

Have fun.


Where did the Trash icon go on iPhone 4 Mail?

It sounds like you might have the Archive button switched on. The latest update assumes you would prefer to archive than to trash.

If this is the case, Go to Settings > Mail, Calendar, etc.. > Gmail Mail Account > deactivate Archive button.


How to block and unblock https access on OS X 10.9

It is not an answer in regards of the commands you have but a quick solution/workaround might be Little Snitch which doesn't force you to learn the terminal commands - but does need a little work to learn how to engage it selectively.

It's a graphical tool which makes some people much more comfortable when configuring an application firewall. It also comes with great support and several nice guides for getting started.


Verbose Boot after crashed program on Macbook Pro

This is a known issue with Snow Leopard and Google Drive. I've seen this many times before and deleting Google Drive completely from the Macbook usually fixes it without issue. When you reinstalled Snow Leopard did you do a clean install or was it truly just a reinstall. If you really got rid of Google Drive and it's not booting sounds like something may have happened to the hard drive. I would try a clean restore of Snow Leopard before taking any hardware action. :)


Extended an encrypted partition, why the disk space is unused?

Immediately (no reboot!) backup your main volume with Time Machine to an external volume.

Boot to Internet Recovery Mode, erase your disk and restore the backup.

Your Recovery Partition (size: 41509000 blocks/21.25 GB, index 3) seems to be hosed but holds some invisible intermediate encryption/decryption keys for your encrypted  main volume. Usually this partition is much smaller (size: 1269536 blocks/650 MB) and has a different ending block. So the boundaries of the Recovery Partition may have been moved without moving the content of it. Consequently it's saver to backup and restore!

Unless you don't reboot this is no problem.


How do I decode the contents of Apple System Logs in /var/log/DiagnosticMessages (using the command line)

Reading from a GUI

For anything that's system related you can typically use the Console application to view their contents. Here I've launched the application and navigated to the /var/log/DiagnosticMessages directory and then selected one of the ASL files, 2019.03.11.asl:

If you're in a terminal you can launch Console directly like so:

$ open -a console

Reading files from the CLI

If you'd rather read these files from the terminal, you can use either the Python library, asl and write your application to process them or you can use the syslog CLI tool to read them.

For example:

$ syslog -f /var/log/DiagnosticMessages/2019.03.11.asl | head -20
NOTE:  Most system logs have moved to a new logging system.  See log(1) for more information.
Mar 11 00:01:10 unagi Finder[564] <Notice>:
Mar 11 00:01:40 unagi Google Chrome[7050] <Debug>:
--- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 11 00:06:42 unagi corebrightnessd[109] <Notice>:
--- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 11 00:06:45 unagi ControlStrip[506] <Notice>:
--- last message repeated 4 times ---
Mar 11 00:16:14 unagi Google Chrome[7050] <Debug>:
Mar 11 00:16:18 unagi ControlStrip[506] <Notice>:
--- last message repeated 2 times ---
Mar 11 00:17:27 unagi corebrightnessd[109] <Notice>:
--- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 11 00:17:34 unagi ControlStrip[506] <Notice>:
--- last message repeated 5 times ---
Mar 11 00:24:06 unagi esets_daemon[280] <Notice>:
--- last message repeated 6 times ---
Mar 11 00:24:18 unagi ControlStrip[506] <Notice>:
--- last message repeated 1 time ---
Mar 11 00:26:35 unagi corebrightnessd[109] <Notice>:
--- last message repeated 2 times ---

References

How to View the System Log on a Mac

Retrieving Console logs on Mac
Reading ASL log file - Python


Create apple script which auto names files with info from clipboard when a key combination is pressed

This is a problem of two halves.  The second half is easy:

    tell application "Finder" to get the selection as alias list

    tell result
        if (count it) is not 1 then return
        set TheFile to its first item
    end tell

    tell application "Finder" to set the name of TheFile to ¬
        [the clipboard, "_left", ".jpg"] as text

The core line of code you want here is the penultimate line set name of TheFile to..., where TheFile is a variable that points to the currently selected item in Finder, and you simply need to change the appending text item as you see fit.  The first few lines simply deal with getting the selection from Finder and making sure only one file is selected.

The first half of your problem is solvable but at varying degrees of investment versus reliability.

Do you use any automation software, such as Alfred, Better Touch Tool, Keyboard Maestro or FastScripts ?  All of these let you create hotkeys that trigger a macro to do whatever you want (in this case, run the script above).  This would be my recommended method of doing things, but they are all paid-for applications.

The other way is to create a service in MacOS (using Automator).  Once you’ve done that, you can go into System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services, find it in the list, check the box, and assign a shortcut to it like the ones you mentioned.

From then on, whenever you press those shortcuts, the service runs and executes your AppleScript.

Hope this helps.  If you require clarification, leave a comment and I’ll get back to you.


Prevent App Store from putting apps on the Dock in Snow Leopard

The app is added to the dock by manipulation of the Dock's preference file, then restarting the Dock, thereby bypassing the contents-immutable lock. To counter this, you can lock the Dock's preference file:

chflags uchg ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist

Note: I don't have Snow Leopard to test this on, so keep backups, etc.

Undo with:

chflags nouchg ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Dock.plist


How to get Apples Human Interface Guidelines as pdf (latest version 2015)?

iBooks has changed the download location to the "Desktop" for I don't know which reason. I found the iOS Human interface.epub file and loaded it with the iBooks Author app.

There I went "File" - "New from ePub file..." . After the app loaded the file I went for "File" and "Export" and finally as PDF.

I also tried downloading the .epub file onto iBooks on my iPad. There is no export option available and the mailing open only mails the link from the iTunes store and NOT the .epub file itself. Hopefully this helps someone...

Found the solution by accident , since I didn't expect the .epub file to be on my desktop...


Using an Italian Windows keyboard in remote management of iMac

It was not a problem concerning TeamViewer, nor the preferences/settings of the Mac. Evidently I accidentally pressed Alt-Shift, thus changing the keyboard input method in Windows from Ita to Eng. I realized this by simply visualizing the keyboard on screen and watching it change depending on which window was active.


How can I buy something in German if I live in the U.S.?

I live in the Netherlands and I am well able to buy from the German Store. My (original) iTunes Account is German, so there is no issue when I am in the German Store and logged in with the German Account.

It also works the other way around. Sometimes I want to buy things from the dutch Store. I have a second Account for this. When I switch the store, I also logout and login with the NL Account again.

The only catch: You need a valid payment method for each country. Otherwise I experienced no problem having a second account, nor location-based restrictions.

(Disclaimer: I only tested this with Apps, which were not available in all regions.)


How to enable AirPrint on iPod Touch after iOS 4.2 Upgrade?

My iPod touch is an 3. generation 8GB model (Model MC086FD).  As I found, Multitasking is needed to use AirPrint! But multitasking is not available for this model - even iOS 4.2 installed!


How can I make an automator service always show up?

In Automator at the very top of your workflow, there is a dropdown box for which the prompt reads Service receives selected. If you are getting the results you report, the word text likely appears in the dropdown box. Change it to no input and save the service.


Utility to save current selection or clipboard to a file

Open Automator and create a service "text2file" with the following steps:

After saving the service, you may choose any text (you don't have to copy it!) and in the context menu -> Services choose "text2file" to save the content to clip.txt on your desktop.

After saving the file you can add a shortcut for "text2file" in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Services -> Text -> text2file

The screenshot above is taken in Automator 2.2.4/10.7 (Lion). If another system is used the steps might be slightly different.


The symptoms you describe are indicative of a disk drive corruption.  It could be  physical (hardware) or just a file system corruption.

Recovery will require booting from a different drive so you can copy files over.  You can boot from an external USB that has a clean install of OS X (El Capitan would be the latest as your system is not capable of running Sierra) or replace the internal drive with an SSD and attempt recovery via USB.

Personally, I prefer the latter.

The full repair guide is available on ifixit.com, but here are the basic steps you need to go through

You will need the following:

New SSD Drive.  I recommend the Samsung EVO series
USB to 3.5" SATA adapter.  This is so you can access the drive for recovery
El Captian Installation Media. Note that this vintage iMac (2009 through Late 2011) will support up to High Sierra - 10.13.x
Suction Cups (for glass removal)
Torx T10 screwdriver
plastic spudger for connector removal
2.5" to 3.5" kit so the new drive will fit
External HDD for Time Machine (Optional, but highly, highly recommended)

Remove the glass.  The good news is that the glass panel is held in with magnets which you can remove with suction cups and the LCD itself is held in with 10 Torx screws.

Replace the drive. Once you have the panel removed, you will get access to the 3.5" Hard Drive (see pic below)

When you replace the drive, ensure that you replace the temperature sensor, otherwise you will end up with a fan that spins uncontrollably, and erroneous temperature readings.

Just reverse the steps to re-assemble your iMac.

Clean Install OS X. Using the boot media, do a clean installation of OS X.  Then reinstall your apps.

Begin recovery.  Using the USB to SATA adapter, hook up your old hard drive to your iMac via USB.  You should be able to mount it and cp (copy) your data off.  Once done, you can discard your drive (it's quite old and I wouldn't trust it for data storage anymore).  Take it to your local electronics recycler or sell it "as is, for parts only" on eBay; many recovery shops will take it for the PCB or server motors.  You won't get much, but it keeps it out of a landfill.

Set up Time Machine.  I can't stress this enough... having a backup besides (or in addition to) iCloud is extremely important.  Right now, you are finding out first hand how valuable a Time Machine backup can be.


Copy the first n files from one directory to another

You need the -J option with xargs.

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | head -n5 | xargs -J X cp X /target/directory

The J option places all the filenames into the placeholder X, which can be any character(s) and cp accepts multiple files to a target directory. It can be visualized as-

cp file1 file2 file3 file4 file5 DESTINATION

EDIT:

To handle filenames with spaces, we have tr translate the newline character to the null character after each filename and then have xargs handle the null bit as a separator for the filenames.

 find . -maxdepth 1 -type f | head -n5 | tr '\n' '\0' | xargs -0 -J X cp -- X /target/directory


apple mail 4.5 max. mbox export size limited to approx. 4.7GB

I'll assume your mac is running on HFS Plus - the default file system - and in that case, the limitation is clearly the Mail application and not a file size limitation. Mbox files are just text files, so there's not much going on in them. You'll need to follow your alternative and back them up from finder or consider moving them to a Lion mac to see if this issue is corrected there.

According to the Mac OS Extended format (HFS Plus) volume and file limits  KBase article, a 2 GB file and volume limit existed from OS 10.0 to 10.1.5 and was raised to 8 GB from 10.2 to 10.2.8.

In your case on Snow Leopard (and any OS 10.4 or newer) - the file size limit is 8 exabytes.

Stop here unless you want all sorts of silly storage calculations that don't really apply since you'd need 2.6 million 3 TB drives to make this amount of real space.

8 EB is eight million terabytes. This insane amount of storage would list price cost $480 million for the hardware alone if you ran BackBlaze storage units.


This looks like a "Flash SMS" or "class 0 message", supposedly only available to be sent by your carrier, but available to others via Apps (Apple App Store, Google Play Store) and in some carriers, by prefixing your message with *go.

There are more technical details on this answer at Stack Overflow, specially in this linked article:

  As per the SMS specification, after pressing “Dismiss”, the overlay and message disappear and the message is immediately discarded, leaving no trace of its delivery on the phone

I wouldn't worry much, but be sure to check your bills as it may be a sneaky way to forcing you into those pesky SMS subscription schemes, as referenced by this answer here on Ask Different.


Tab key not working properly in dialogue boxes in macOS

Hitting Return will activate the default command (the blue button). Pressing the space bar will activate the selected command (blue ring around it).


Monitor that I can control its brightness from keyboards/OS settings section

Check if your external monitor supports DDC/CI. If so, you can use this app to adjust the brightness using your keyboard.


How to re-download a corrupted music track from iTunes store

For me the same track results in pure silence.

Please contact Apple's iTunes team regarding this issue (iTunes > Store > View my Account > purchases > 'Report a problem'). This is nothing you can solve on your own. Apple has to fix the issue with the track in order for you to download the correct song.


How can I play music while chatting in Google Hangouts?

What you need is an audio loopback.  Basically, what it does is it takes the output from one device and "loops it back" to the input of another device.

You're in luck.  There's an App that does that and coincidentally, it's called "Loopback."

Macworld has a good article on it and apparently, it's rated quite high.


This is a well known bug in LaunchServices.

You need to rebuild the database using this command:

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain user;killall Finder;echo "Open With has been rebuilt, Finder will relaunch"

then

killall Finder

Once you have done that you will only have one entry for each application.

Here is the command split onto multiple lines

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

(Notice the \ characters that allow a command to stretch across physical lines in bash.)


Battery is not charging despite SMC reset

Problem Solved
The battery was fine and the problem was with the charger. It seems that the charger couldnt transmit enough power to charge the computer while it was in use.
I opened the casing of the charger and observed that 2 capacitors were swelled. I changed them with new ones (I found them in a video receiver).
Now its working like the first day I got it.


Okay, after dealing with this for quite some time, I finally found a solution that worked for me.   I figured I'd come and share for others as well.

In order to resolve the choppy playback, I ultimately went in to Settings -> General -> Reset -> Reset All Settings.  After resetting, the device downloaded the very latest OS for the Apple TV, and after everything was done, the Airplay quality between the MacBook and AppleTV is actually pretty decent.

In testing, I was able to mirror my display without any noticeable choppiness.   I was also able to extend my desktop on to the TV, and this worked surprisingly well.   Even playing YouTube videos was of decent quality, with almost zero choppiness during playback.

What I have not tried yet...  and will update this answer later on, is reconnecting my photo streams.   As it's common to have 1000+ photos in my shared streams, I'm concerned that this may have slowed the device down (just a guess, honestly).   I'll do some more testing today, mirroring as is, then adding the photo streams and comparing, to see if that causes any issue.   If it does, I can always reset again.


YouTube videos don't work despite installing Flash Player

You need to remove Youtube's HTML5 trial in order for the flash player to work and remember your preferences.

First join the trial, and then leave it. Leaving the trial is the only way to force YouTube to remember you want the videos played in Flash, but of course to do that you have to join the trial first. It fixed the issue for me.

Here's the link:

  http://www.youtube.com/html5

If all else fails, try using other browsers (Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox etc.)


How to prevent open tracking in Gmail app on iOS

As of Sep 3, 2019, version: 6.0.190811, you can Choose to be asked before external images are displayed automatically.

  To enable this for new incoming messages, go to Settings > specific account > Images and select Ask before displaying external images.

Gmail App - Account Settings - General


iTerm2 Supply PWD to coprocess in capture output trigger

Confirm - I guess that's a bug in iTerm2.
IMHO, the sub-shell in which your command is executed should point to the same working directory as your main shell (at that point). It doesn't, and it actually happens to be / - which is bad, and prevents your script/any editor from finding the file.
Just as a side note in case someone is using "capture output" in combination with clang or clang++: there is an ugly workaround... one can force the compiler to print absolute paths only, even if the inputs were given as relative paths:
`-fdiagnostics-absolute-paths`


Yeah, iforgot.apple.com. It's also available in your language. As this probably leaves you with nothing seeing as you forgot both email and security questions, your second best shot is Apple Support, which is also available for your country. Try to get on the phone with one of their advisors.


Error restoring encrypted disk using Disk Utility

The outcome you're seeing is probably a (security) feature, not a bug. I would think that Disk Utility would prompt for a password to enable access to the encrypted drive before allowing it to be read in order to perform the restore. Before attempting the restore use the Terminal command string "diskutil corestorage unlockVolume UUID -stdinpassphrase" followed by the password to unlock the drive then see if your restore runs to completion.


2012 Macbook Pro Boots With Startup Sound, But Has Black Screen

Ok, I would like someone to close this topic, because our problem is fixed. My dad took it to the Genius Bar at our Local Apple store, and they found out it was a problem with the power supply. (Not sure how that happened, especially considering the symptoms the Mac had) But anyway, thank you for all of your help.


Minimum volume size to enable versioning

For others looking for an answer, it's 600 MB or larger (599 fails, 600 succeeds). Using a sparse disk helps save space from using a "too large" volume, FWIW.


Update:

One option is add your private SSH key to macOS Keychain, then use TouchID for Keychain authentication. You will want to use ssh-add -K ~/.ssh/[your-private-key] -- however on macOS 10.12 Sierra the feature needs to be enabled by editing editing ~/.ssh/config and adding:

Host * (asterisk for all hosts or add specific host)
   AddKeysToAgent yes
   UseKeychain yes
   IdentityFile <key> (e.g. ~/.ssh/userKey)

For details, read:

Permanently add your private key to Keychain so it is automatically available to SSH
Saving SSH keys in macOS Sierra keychain

Original:

At present TouchID unlocking of an SSH key is not available for macOS.

The sudo-touchid Xcode project demonstrates how to build a command line application that is TouchID enabled and fails over to a passcode dialog. It runs on the 2016 MacBook Pro with Touch Bar. However, it is for sudo, not ssh. This indicates that the idea is technically feasible.
The Prompt 2 SSH client has TouchID support -- for iOS, not macOS. This indicates that comparable applications might become available from commercial developers.
One developer online started an ssh touchid wrapper project a few months ago -- although it is an empty project stub. This indicates that others may be asking a similar question to yours.


What environment variables are set in .profile for OS X?

In your terminal that still has the variables write printenv > with_profile.txt. This will dump all available variables into with_profile.txt. Open a new terminal window and write printenv > without_profile.txt.

Start python and write:

with open("with_profile.txt") as w_profile, open("without_profile.txt") as wo_profile:
    w_profile_vars = {line.strip() for line in w_profile}
    wo_profile_vars = {line.strip() for line in wo_profile}
    for var in w_profile_vars - wo_profile_vars:
        print var

That should print the set of missing variables one by one.

P.S.

~/.profile is not there by default (not on Mavericks, Yosemite and El Capitan for sure). Hence it's possible that you overwrote nothing, unless you had created the file yourself a long ago.


Changing keyboard symbols used throughout macOS?

The said symbols are deeply integrated into the Operating System. Some of them like  ⌘  (Command) and  ⌥  (Option) are exclusive to the Apple platform.

It is in no way possible neither is it recommended to replace them in a system wide manner.

What is recommend to a Mac newbie, is to print a keyboard shortcuts cheat-sheet and pin it close to the desk. A few days in, and it will become second nature. A good one can be downloaded here courtesy of MacMost.

You can print a large version of just the symbol guide and pin it until it is memorized.

Update: I got inclined to update this answer after reading Krystian's nicely written comment on the question. Quoting it below:

  Some people (like myself) have switched to mac after far longer than a decade of using Windows. Better yet, a lot of us didn't switch completely and use both of the systems. Get used to it and soon enough you will be ok. You will visit sites (like SO) which will use the macos specific symbols and nobody will translate them for you. Other, non-system apps, will use those symbols and will ignore your system changes. You will save yourself a lot of time, grief and confusion by learning those.


External drive format to be writeable on both Mac and Windows

According to this answer, you can use exFAT if your version of Mac OS X and Windows are new enough. That would be at least Mac OS X 10.6.5 and Windows Vista SP1.


iTunes match will not upload any unmatched songs

After a back and forth between apple suport it turns out the tracks I had been trying to upload didn't have enough information. Once I added as much track info as possible to each track they eventually uploaded. Hope this helps someone else.


Showing "Return Completed" as status but didn't receive refund yet

It can take 5-7 days once the goods arrive back at the warehouse.

From the refund page:

  Once your goods are back at Apple’s warehouse, your refund will be processed. Please allow 5-7 days for the refund to reach your account. For cash payments such as cheque and wire transfer, we will require your bank details, including IBAN/SWIFT, to proceed with the refund to your account.

If you haven't received your refund contact Apple Support. I would give it  a bit of time since it is holiday time.


Choose where to save Catalina screenshot individually

Yes - after invoking commandshift5, you will see the small dialog with choices for "entire screen", "window", etc, you will also see a choice for "Options". Click that to get a pop-up selection item - that's where you'll find your individual choices for file location.


cc1plus: no such file or directory (gcc)

Something is going to be messed up, but with the details given I don't even know where to guess what you have wrong. Instead. let's go the other way and try something super minimal that should show your failure immediately.

Here's a simple end to end test of gcc that ships from Apple should work. I'm using the version that ships with Mojave (ProductVersion:   10.14.3 BuildVersion:   18D109) according to the sw_vers command on macOS.

cat > /tmp/foo.c << EOFeof
#include<stdio.h>

int main(void) {
    printf("Hello World\n");
    return 0;
}
EOFeof

gcc /tmp/foo.c -o /tmp/foo
/tmp/foo

Where I'd start is which actual GCC and version you're running:

Mac:~ me$ file /tmp/foo
/tmp/foo: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
Mac:~ me$ file $(which gcc)
/usr/bin/gcc: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
Mac:~ me$ which gcc
/usr/bin/gcc
Mac:~ me$ gcc --version
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000.11.45.5)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin18.2.0
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin

Then you can repeat the test in your flavor of gcc to suss out the differences or if you even need the bcc that’s not the clang implementation of a gcc like compiler.

What specific error or what specific differences do you have? Feel free to start a new thread or edit / refine your question and then @ me in the comments.


You should run an app like DaisyDisk and see if you can locate where the files in "other" are located. Then you can delete them directly.
Or if you can find where it's stored you can have Time Machine exclude it from the backup.


Submitting to the appstore: Once an app is reviewed by Apple, does it automatically go live on the app store?

It's actually good you're not a developer since the inner workings of the review queue are generally cloaked under an NDA. Once you join, Apple has a dedicated site for you to ask questions like this and learn how the approval and sale process works. I believe it's common knowledge that you can list an "on sale" date when you submit an app for review and then change it later to move it earlier once it's approved, but I wouldn't want to be held to the details of how it works today.


iCloud says "Password is wrong", but I think it's correct

Head over to https://iforgot.apple.com/ and follow the procedure there, including contacting Apple Support if everything else fails.

When an account gets locked - even the correct password won’t work so talking to someone that can help you in a locked account situation is the best strategy since they will also be sure you’ve used the correct troubleshooting steps like checking system date, restarting the device, trying another network based on what their dashboard shows for your account.


Contacts missing when trying to send iMessage

Also would help to know if this specific device is the same one that's been in use for "years", and whether you've been icloud synching your contacts or not.

I think there’s a simple solution - create an actual Contact for them.


Trackpad2 clicking feedback stops after 30 seconds from initial use of the day

This is a physical issue and not a software one meaning you’ll have to get it replaced.
The haptic feedback is basically created by a small electromagnet that creates a vibration. There’s really no “mechanical” device.  However, these components can fail from time to time.
The symptom that it works fine for a little while then quits after a few moments points to a bad connection somewhere (like a  dry solder joint) that when things “warm up,” it fails.
The fact that the trackpad on your MBP works fine pretty much guarantees it’s not a software issue. Unfortunately that means you’ve got to replace it, but I’ve got clients who simply ignored it and continued to use it without the haptic feedback. For them, it was the track pad built in to the MBP and they preferred to wait until something more “major” needed service like the keyboard or battery to replace it.


Retina display resolution and 1080p videos

This was probably done so that videos, especially those that are lower resolution than 1080p, don't look absurdly small. If you want to play your video at the native resolution on your screen, (and you've selected "best for retina" as your display resolution), you could always tell VLC to play it back at half the size.


What is this dollar sign ($) icon in my Menu Bar?

This is because you are using an expired trial version of iStat Menu Status. The app will display a dollar sign icon instead of the system stats icon.


My old MBPs motherboard has a faulty HDD connector, are there any other places on the motherboard I could connect storage to?

No - the HDD interface is SATA/AHCI and not USB. I suppose if you were really skilled, you could somehow solder on to the USB inside or re-route one of the connectors / ports.

Have you looked at the extremely tiny USB sticks that barely take much space outside the connector?

Something like SanDisk Cruzer Fit or similar low profile model: https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Low-Profile-Drive-SDCZ33-016G-B35/dp/B005FYNSZA


How to format a USB drive and increase its available size?

If you can you might trying erasing the disk and then reformat it. You will, of course, lose everything written to disk. If you want to keep what's on the disk you could copy it you main drive. Disk utility allows you to erase the disk and then reformat it.
After opening Disk Utility go to the Edit menu and at the top of the panal you'll see option to erase, partition, and other commands.


Have you tried to execute shutdown from Terminal:
sudo shutdown -h 2011032000 "Shutting down at 8:00pm tonight"

You can specify the precise time, using the yymmddhhmm format, and using a 24-hour clock for the time.
At least it doesn't ask me to quit or save any running program. It will simply quit anything running in.
You can make automator script to execute too if this helps for your requirement.


A "no-erase ipsw" is used when you want to go from a jailbroken device to iOS without losing data. In your case, you are already on iOS and seeing as how you have eliminated all of the potential software fixes, you most likely have a hardware issue.

Depending on the problem, the data may be recoverable but it would have to be looked at by a repair shop that specializes in iPhone data recovery.


I believe it is dependant on the Apple ID that you log in with.  The location of this is what decides which store to serve up.  If you log in with an Australian or Polish Apple ID, then you should get the relevant associated stores.

To aid in this, don't do any setup that you have to subsequently alter later down the line, so don't install apps on your own ID, then send it over - updates to those Apps will fail unless the same ID is used.

You should be able to set it up as an Indian one from the start, even though you are in the US, if you already have the correct ID set up. Furthermore, Apple now allows you to change your country or region from within iTunes on a computer. It may work for some, but do some research to read if this is a rare event or something you can toggle back and forth at will.


Macbook 15 Retina Bootcamp Windows 7 64bit

Lots of potential gotchas are mentioned here:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3259726?start=0&tstart=0

Including the type of stick (USB 2.0 vs. USB 3.0), the port its plugged into, etc.


The two services are not designed to easily merge with one another. There are numerous syncing tools available, but when you have multiple sync services interacting with each other (in this case: iCloud, middle man service & Exchange are each their own sync service) you dramatically increase the chance of serious sync corruptions.

As your goal is to see all of your calendars everywhere, I recommend setting up both services on all of your devices. You will want to use the following apps, depending on platform, for an ideal experience and visibility to both calendars:

Mac: use Apple Calendar (formerly, iCal). See this guide for setting up both account types.
PC: use Outlook. See this guide for setting up iCloud in Outlook. See this guide for setting up Exchange accounts in Outlook.
iOS: See this guide for setting up iCloud. See this guide for setting up Exchange.


How to set up HP P3005x printer for double-sided printing OS X 10.9?

Does the printer, as you've configured it in Mavericks, show "duplex printing" as a feature?


Issues with screen not coming on when Mac is running

Assuming your cables are good and connected firmly, I would try resetting the NVRAM and SMC (in that order).

Resetting NVRAM

Your Mac use Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory (NVRAM) to store a whole range of settings. Here’s how to reset this:

Fully shut down your Mac mini
Press the power button and then press the commandoptionPR keys. You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work.
Hold those keys down until your Mac reboots again and you here the startup chime for the second time
Let go of the keys and let your Mac mini reboot normally

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

Resetting SMC on a Mac mini

Follow these steps for resetting the SMC on your Mac Pro:

Fully Shut Down your Mac min
Unplug the AC power cord
Wait at least 15 seconds
Plug the AC power cord back in
Wait at least 5 seconds
Switch on your Mac mini

Now use your Mac mini as usual to determine if the problem still occurs.


CalendarAgent wants to connect to wunderground

Weather Underground is the provider for Apple's weather data in OS X/macOS (and iOS). Calendar.app downloads weather information for calendar events with a set location.
As soon as you add a location to a calendar event Calendar.app will try to fetch the weather conditions if it's only a few days in the future.

Location services (System Preferences > Security > Privacy) does not effect the download of weather information.


Using select.kqueue() to tell when file is modified in python?

Found this: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog that seems to be working like a charm!


Are my two early 2015 Mac Air's different from each other?

They are the same.  The marketing name of the Intel CPU is something they put in "manually;" it's not queried from the CPU directly.
I wrote a post a while back on getting the CPU architecture where I make note of this:
How do I identify which CPU a MacBook uses?
You can get the "marketing brand string" but then you'll have to go look up that information from Intel's website.  If you use the command:
sysctl -n machdep.cpu.brand_string

You should get a string back that contains:  i5-5250U (I don't have a 2015 MacBook Air to run it on for the exact string).  That CPU was used on the Early 2015 MacBook Air on both the 11" and 13" models.
As for Hyper threading, it is fully supported on the i5-5250U CPU and see How do I enable Intel Virtualization in a MacBook Pro? for additional details on how to check for Virtualization support.


You may have purchased a stolen iPad.  eBay has policies regarding the purchase of stolen goods and what you can do to report it to the authorities.  You may also be able to get you money back, but that is beyond the scope of Ask Different answers.


Finally I got MBP upgraded to catalina! This is how I succeed upgrade my MBP after many times redownload and reinstall failure:

Open System Preferences
Choose Sharing
Check on 'Content Caching'
In preference Cache, choose 'All Content'
First trial it gives me same error ("macOS Catalina" could not be verified).
Second Trial, because the failed download file 'cached' it took me about 10-15 seconds to redownload (get from the cache)
It's successfully verified and macOS Catalina installing!

Maybe it's only happen to my device (MPB 2018 with touchbar), but give it a shot!


magic mouse doesn't scroll when I move my finger up and down or side to side

I fixed it by simply switching the mouse off and on again.


Display hidden files hot key on Mavericks gone?

The key bindings doesn't work in Column view mode on Maverick, but it works in e.g. List view mode. Switching back to Column view mode after doing the toggle in List view mode then shows the hidden files.


iPhone has photos/videos which I didn’t take, has it been hacked?

The camera can be used from the lock screen without unlocking the device. Access to existing photos is unavailable without unlocking, but new photos and videos can be taken without unlocking the iPhone. Your device has almost certainly not been ‘hacked’.

From the lock screen, swipe from right to left to access the camera. Photos taken here are added to your camera roll as if you’d taken them unlocked.


Copy the old Preview and rename it (for example Preview_old), so you have two Previews in the Application folder. If the Preview_old gives the same failure and does not run, do the change as dante12 posted.
You have to change the GetInfo "open with" field to Preview_old for the relevant files.


You can sign up to google voice and sync with google voice and them go on desk top link onto your gv account and press get rid of duplicates


xterm commands (ls, cd, ...) unable to access Desktop, Documents after updating to Catalina

The solution (at least for me) was to add the binary xquartz to the list of app with "Full Disk Access" (in the "Privacy" tab of the "Security and Privacy" setting of the "System Preferences"). The path to the binary is:

/opt/X11/bin/Xquartz

I also added

/opt/X11/bin/xinit

since it's a running process, although I don't think it is needed...

However, I am still having problems accessing iClouds folders (Document, Desktop, etc.)


Apple Javascript (Script Editor) Documentation

Apple has not updated their scripting documentation for JavaScript. The most recent documentation appears in the OS X 10.11 Release Notes - JavaScript for Automation.

There is extensive documentation for AppleScript in the AppleScript Language Guide.

MacStories has published a tutorial Getting Started with JavaScript for Automation on Yosemite.

Both this tutorial and Ash Ryan's Script Editor on Mac now lets you use JavaScript for automation mention a WWDC 2014: “JavaScript for Automation” which is probably the best place to learn more.


icon for iTunes 10.7/music missing from System Preferences in Snow Leopard

By reinstalling iTunes, did you completely trash the application and then copy it anew?  Sometimes simply overwriting the existing installation doesn't do the trick.


How do I navigate around text fields on the iPad?

Touch and hold your finger over the word in the spot after you want to delete.  A magnifying glass will show you the exact position of the cursor.  Once you have the cursor in the right place you can then backspace over the text you want to delete.


I'm assuming a "G-Drive" is an external (USB or Firewire) hard disk, right? If it's some online solution (Google etc.) you'll probably need to copy the files to your local disk first (e.g. to your desktop). Downloading speed would never match your DVD burner speed anyway.

The normal procedure of burning files to CD or DVD is extremely simple. You create a "burn folder" much like you create a "project" in Windows burning software, only the paradigm is far simpler, you do not need to learn (or buy) another application just to burn files to disk, everything is in Finder. Burn folders are just normal folder except for that they

only contain aliases (links) to the files that are to be burnt (just like your "burn project" in Windows)
contain some extra attributes for the disk like burn speed, volume label and so on
are treated specially by OS X when it detects a burnable disk is inserted
automatically calculate the space required and warn if the files don't fit

Try not to think so much, it helps losing all the complicated workarounds you were used to in Windows ... :-)

Do this:

Open Finder, in its menu select File > New burn folder
Drag all items to be burned into this folder. Finder will create aliases, not copies. If you only have one folder to burn, drag its contents into the burn folder. Rename the burn folder how you want your disk to be named.
In Finder, open the burn folder. You'll see a button at the top labeled "Burn". Click.
Insert DVD, follow instructions.

Alternatively, you can also just insert the DVD and OS X will ask what to do with the empty disk: if you select "Open in Finder", it will automatically create a burn folder for you and show it in the sidebar. Drag items into it, select "burn" like above and follow instructions.

Here's a tutorial with screenshots (showing outdated OS X versions, but visually, not much changed since then): http://www.macforbeginners.com/page.php?id=187

If this procedure doesn't work as expected, maybe you can share some screenshots showing what exactly went wrong.


Why doesn't Karabiner map F2 from the touch bar?

Maybe it's your setting problem.
https://github.com/pqrs-org/Karabiner-Elements/issues/1700


iMac display -- can't change screen brightness on bootcamp with Windows 7

I solved my problem, but I don't actually know what solved it:

I rebooted manualy without any third-party software like BootChamp.
I was pressing Alt (option) key when booted.


You can use AppleScript to play Music via iTunes.

osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to play playlist "My Favorites"'


How can I obfuscate a small section of a image on macOS?

Preview, built into macOS, has a few tools for doing this. First, open the image in Preview (the default app for images), then choose the Annotate button on the toolbar.

Options for obfuscating:

Use a selection tool to make a selection on the image, then press Backspace to delete that area. For filetypes which support transparency, the area will be removed, otherwise it will be saved as white.

Use a rectangle or other shape and set a fill colour.


iPhone 4s not activating fully with AT&T sim

What you describe is consistent with an iPhone that is still locked to AT&T as the sole carrier. You can go to the AT&T websites and fill out a form to see if the phone could be unlocked. If you can't get AT&T to unlock the phone, then you could take that up with the seller of the phone or perhaps see about jailbreaking the device and unlocking it by force as opposed to by social convention.


Anything running it should be within this scope.

dec_dlm - DEC DLMIANA - ipcserver
Mac OS X RPC-based services. Used by NetInfo, for example.
Appledec_dlm - Directory Service Proxy (DSProxy) (Unregistered Use). DirectoryService, Open Directory Assistant, Workgroup Manager. Note: This port is registered to DEC DLM.
Source: http://www.adminsub.net/tcp-udp-port-finder/625

If it is not one of the following, try reading into the launchd docs that some really nice person made. To see all launchd events, open terminal, and paste this launchctl list if that doesn't help, type sudo launchctl list to see what the root user is launching.


Why won't Siri recognise my home address?

OK I've found out the answer myself.

It turns out that although the Maps app can geocode (find the location of) my address, Siri can't. It must be using a different geocoder to the Apple Maps app.

After much faffing, I found the easiest way to fix this is to drop a marker on my house using the Apple Maps app and then add this to my own contact record as "home". This fixes the problem and allows Siri to know where home is. However it then means my address is incomplete if I use it for other purposes or in other apps). The only way round this seems to be add it back and tag it as "address" (NOT "home") as a second copy of the same address. Really messy.

Clearly this is a bug in Siri which will hopefully be fixed one day (I won't hold my breath). I don't recall having this problem in iOS 5, so I think this was introduced in iOS 6.


High fan speed and CPU temp with low CPU usage?

Try resetting the SMC as noted in the question for your MacBook Air and see if the problem persists.

If the problem does persist it may be a failing temperature sensor, resulting in the fans running faster than normal to worst case fail-safe full-speed state, your only option at that point would be to take it to Apple Support for repair / replacement.


To sync accounts between devices and workstations, you should investigate iCloud Keychain Sync. In addition to syncing keychains (as expected) it will also sync any "Internet Accounts" across devices bound to the same iCloud account. This includes (in my case) two Macs, one Hac, an iPhone 5 and iPad 3rd Generation (WiFi).

The command to "Synchronize all accounts" actually is performing an IMAP folder sync operation across all active accounts, not synchronizing account settings.

Additionally, if you use MFA (multi-factor authentication) via an "application password" generated by your service provider, iCloud Keychain Sync will sync the same password credential between your devices. May be best to revoke them all and issue a new one, or pick one from the device you are starting with, and revoke the rest upon completion.

  Sidebar: I recommend doing this one device at a time because you may end up with duplicate accounts on some devices while it propagates. You cannot selectively sync account information to only some devices without also losing Keychain Sync, but you can enable/disable "Internet Accounts" selectively on a device after it arrives there.
  Bonus -- if you use MFA, you can use invalid passwords to help you identify which accounts are new and which accounts are old. e.g. once you expire test@test.com/iPad for your "Test.com IMAP" account, if you have two "Test.com IMAP" accounts, the one that isn't disabled from a failed login is the one that iCloud Keychain sync gave you.


Seil and Karibiner also work for this use case:

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/seil.html.en
https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/


Do not download third-party apps from untrusted sources.

In System Preferences, Set:

Security & Privacy --> General --> Allow apps downloaded from: to either

Mac App Store or Mac App Store and identified developers

So far it seems this is only transferable from a computer to device over a usb to iTunes connection, which means the computer must be infected with one of these third party apps.  Also seems pretty limited to China and its third party app store for now.

Digital Trends Article.

PaloAlto Networks Article


Reminders are added in the Reminders app, not the Calendar app. Use the Reminders app to create reminders.


Besides ServersMan, any apps that can turn iPhone into an web/app server?

ServersMan is not a web server It's a pseudo server. It merely lets you access files in its Local Storage over a WiFi network. If you want a full-fledged web server running on your iPhone, you're going to have to install Apache, and you'll most definitely have to be JailBroken. It's not as simple as you'd hope.


Apple EarPods buzzing except when I'm touching the area around the MacBook Trackpad

It's likely that your MacBook isn't properly grounded. This probably explains the buzzing sound that you are hearing.

When you are touching the aluminium surface of your MacBook, you are technically creating a way for the charge to move, technically providing the grounding, which explains why the buzzing stops.

It is recommended to use the adapter with a three pin extension cord. When using it, your MacBook gets grounded, preventing any change from staying and generating the buzzing sound.


Stop Apple Notes from cutting off handwritten text

If you have a Mac and an iPhone on same network the Notes on one device shows up on other.  So your notes should show up on your Mac and handwritten notes will appear as well. There is an option in Notes on a Mac to export selected note as a PDF.  When I tried this the Note apeared on 2 pages in the PDF and all the info was there.


How to move the /Users to an encrypted ZFS drive?

With reference to the linked question (the comment there from the opening poster here) …

In brief:

Unlocking the Core Storage LV, importing the ZFS pool and mounting the ZFS file system

I know of no way to force Mountain Lion to use the Core Storage volume encryption key (VEK) in a way that will allow the ZFS pool and file system (based on the Core Storage logical volume (LV)) to import and mount – automatically – in a way that is comparable to the FileVault 2 experience.

In other words:

the current operating system seems to require manual intervention by a different user whose home does not use the combination of Core Storage and ZFS

… part of that bullet point might provoke, from someone else, a more thoughtful approach to intervention; a better answer to part of the question!

ZFS for /Users

With or without encryption:

if you plan to use ZFS for /Users you should first have an administrative user whose home is not in that area.

Consider at least:

safe boot of the operating system, which might be required when least expected/desired; and the related limitations of current implementations of ZFS for OS X (example: safe boot and ZEVO Community Edition 1.1.1).

ZFS for home directories with Mountain Lion, or words to that effect, could be a good separate question.


How to get the amount of 'Compressed Memory', per process (from Terminal)?

There's nothing magic about compressed memory. It's something that was added to 10.9 as one last step before the system swaps RAM out to storage. According to John Siracusa, this serves three major functions:

  Memory compression is a triple play for Mavericks. It’s a performance win; compressing and decompressing data in RAM is much faster than reading from and writing to disk, even an SSD. It’s an energy win; the less time spent moving data between RAM and disk, the more time the system can spend in its idle state. And finally, it’s a capability win; Mavericks can handle much more demanding workloads than previous versions of OS X before crying uncle.

As to getting at the details from the command line - that may be elusive. The overall compression numbers are easy with a pair of tools:

memory_pressure
vm_stat

I don't think any invocation of ps will do the trick, but maybe someone can correct that. You can see the implementation details on this thread: vm_compressor_mode (vm.compressor_mode) values for enabled compressed memory in OS X

The best I can get you is to look at all "swapped and/or compressed" memory using the vmmap command. Basically, before swapping, the memory regions marked for swapping are compressed. If that saves enough space to alleviate the swap algorithm, no swap happens. If not, the compressed regions are swapped to storage.

vmmap -swapped [PID]

You'd have to handle the addition of the regions and I'm not sure if the activity monitor reports all swapped and compressed in the column you mentioned but that's something you might be able to figure out by inspection and/or using Instruments from Xcode to correlate what you see from the command line with activity monitor for some processes.


Signal Problems between 2015 Macbook Pro and Dell 4K P2415Q Monitor

After changing nothing, the monitor has been working fine for over a week now. All I can think of is maybe the computer was rebooted and that somehow solved the signal issues. I don't think any updates were installed and I'm still using the same DP cable. Resolution is still 3840x2160 at 60hz.


How to remove Windows partitions on external HDD?

The key to do this is to click on the view icon and select show all devices.
Right now you can only see volumes. When you enable show all devices you will see the actual physical drive. Select it and erase the drive.


Is there an app for Mac to check app network activity?

I would recommend using an app called Wireshark to monitor internet traffic. It by default shows all network traffic but you can narrow it to your system only using a filter.


How can I easily run multiple sites with PHP, Apache and mySQL for free on mac?

All of these options have a GUI which is helpful.  You could install Apache/MySQL/PHP with Homebrew or MacPorts, but you would be managing all of the settings manually. While this is the best way to get all of the options for free, this increases the difficulty curve.
As another option, I have Abyss Web Server running on my machine to act as a local dev server.  The free version allows for 1 site though, there are more features with the paid version.
As with any of these options, you will have to pay for the extra features when using a GUI.
I looked into this years ago when Apple Server abandoned web services. I hope you find something that will work for you.


Sips not working with pict, qtif and sgi files

Not the definitive answer but be careful with sips. It seems to me sips itself has been updated but the man page remained the same. On my Mac PICT creates no output at all and PSD creates a file that is totally garbled when viewed in Photoshop. It seems you can also export to PDF, and the result opens just fine in Adobe Acrobat, but when opened in Photoshop or Illustrator what you see is very, very different of what should be there ...


I added my username to /etc/sudoers but using sudo still asks for password

Please realize that disabling the password prompt for sudo is a huge security concern.

However, it is possible. Instead of what you already have, add this to your /etc/sudoers file:

petruza ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Here is some more reading on this topic.


Indexing NAS with "mdutil -i on" with Sierra not working anymore

According to this support page by Qumulo, there is a fix, which basically consists of the following:

  To fix this issue, create the following directory as root:

  sudo mkdir -p /private/var/db/Spotlight-V100/Volumes/

  And then re-enable Spotlight indexing of that Volume:

  sudo mdutil -i on /Volumes/name_of_your_volume

I haven't tried it myself, but I thought it's worthwile to mention it here.


Unstable Wi-Fi connection on MacBook Air (Early 2015)

It is most likely your battery pushing on other components in the computer. This can loosen connections or cause the wifi transceiver to be partially blocked or even bent. The first step you should take is getting the battery replaced (because swollen batteries can be unstable sometimes anyways) and see if that fixes the problem. If it doesn't there may be permeant hardware damage.


How to choose a application without using the mouse in Lion Mission Control?

No.  I haven't found any, but that's not surprising.  Mission Control was provided for mouse / touch interaction.  Have you tried using Command ⌘+Tab for app switching and Command ⌘+`for window switching?

They are much more efficient if you're interested in keeping your hands on the keys.


Applescript - Contacts: Why can I get addresses and emails from a contact but not phones

This should work for you...

tell application "Contacts"
    launch
    delay 1
    tell its person 301
        try
            set thePhoneNumber to value of phones
        end try
    end tell
end tell

This also works for me...

tell application "Contacts"
    set thePhoneNumber to value of phones of its person 301
end tell

You can also try running this following code

tell application "Contacts"
    set thePhoneNumber to value of phones of people
end tell

Then you will go to item 301 of that result and if there is no phone number... That may be why you are getting the error.


How can I cast a video file that has been downloaded onto an iPad to a chromecast

She can use the Files app on the iPad to copy the files into Photos (what you call the camera roll). Simply open Files, navigate to the "my files" directory, tap on the video and press the Share icon (square with arrow pointing upwards). In the Share sheet she should select "Save video". This stores a copy of the video in Photos.
A different approach is to install a video player app such as "VLC" from the App Store. Now in the Files app, open the share sheet for the video and select to share it to VLC. Now it will play in VLC and you can tap the Chromecast icon to get it on the TV.


Yosemite upgrade process stuck for hours - Cmd-L not working

Alright so I waited it out only to come back this morning to see that it was still stuck. I've waited several more hours until 10 am this morning which comes down to a total wait of 18 hours. I went ahead and manually rebooted and it looks like the upgrade was completed successfully after all.

Please note that this is not me suggesting you should reboot if the installation seems stuck. In general you should just be patient and wait. In the first phase of the installation press Command-L to show the installation log and you can verify it's actually doing something. Note that it can take a while for the installation log to show up after pressing Command-L.
In the second phase if it gets stuck you can't view what it's doing so it's pretty much a gamble if you decide to reboot it when it seems to be stuck.

I rebooted with my external backup hard drive disconnected to make sure my backup stays intact when things turn sour after all.

I verfied the disk and the permissions with Disk Utility and some permissions were off so I've repaired those. I'm now in the process of fixing Apache, but I'm guessing that's because of the differences between Apache 2.2 and 2.4.


I was showing the application was blocked in Security and Privacy section. After allowing it, I could use tethering with my Andriod device.
However I do not see the kext file in Extensions, which seems strange.


MacBook Pro WiFi keeps shutting down for no apparent reason

I've had the exact same problem before with my Mid-2010 MacBook Pro. I took it into the Apple support people on campus and, after running quite a few tests, they found out that the cable connecting the AirPort card to the motherboard had gone bad. It sounds like this is the same thing that you're experiencing, so your best bet is to see about getting that cable replaced.


How to pair Bluetooth mouse with Apple Watch?

watchOS wasn't designed to be used with a mouse. As such, it does not include mouse drivers or a mouse cursor, and therefore will not pair with a Bluetooth mouse.


using mac book pro (mid 2010) as monitor for a DVR

You'd just be better off buying another monitor, as that is Mini-DVI out not in. I'm sure that there are ways around this, but buying a separate monitor would be way easier.


i want to stop iMessages from being deleted

There is no way to disable that function.
But you always can get another Apple device, such as mac or any of iOS family and login with her apple ID in iMessage section of settings.
Once you'll made it that will allow you get the copy of all the iMessage conversations.
Despite the reason of your idea, I just want mark it as not so fair activity. Check twice if you will be charged for that by the law of your country.


How to open my external hard drive on MacOS?

There are many reasons why a volume won’t mount: How does Mac OS X decide which volumes to mount? One of my disks doesn't mount at boot

Since yours shows in disk utility, I would either run a verify or repair operation based on if the data is backed up elsewhere. This could be the first sign the filesystem or hardware are failing and when you “repair” a filesystem, sometimes that deletes bad files or causes other data loss.

It could also be that the filesystem check is taking hours and that given enough time, it will mount again rapidly once a full check is done. You can see those check details in the disk utility or possibly in /private/var/log while the checks run.


List all purgeable files in macOS Sierra

Two utilities that show and optimise purgable space are DaisyDisk and CleanMyMac X.  My experience is that these utilities will clear 20-30% of the space that it reports as purgable.


It sounds like one of the two mics on your iPhone 4 has failed.  One is used for phone calls and the other is used to pick up ambient noise for noise cancellation and is also used during speakerphone calls and video recording.

If you replace the Dock Connector, that'll get you a new ambient mic.


Your MacBook Air (13" I presume) does not use a standard SSD drive in the 2.5" form factor that many others do. Instead it uses an SSD with a bare SATA connector on the end. It looks a bit like a standard memory DIMM.

I generally buy upgrade parts for my Macs via Other World Computing. there are others that are just as good, if you prefer, but this SSD upgrade would work for your system.

I would review the installation instructions to make sure it is something you feel comfortable doing.


You could get it into restore mode by holding the home button while it boots. So turn it off if you can, or wait for it to turn off. Then while plugging it in, press and hold the home button.


You have to install macOS first in order to run Bootcamp to install Windows.

Refer to this support document on how to boot into recovery mode and install macOS on your fresh drive.
In your case use CMD+ALT+R while booting to start the internet recovery.

Then you can follow this document on how to install Windows.


Cellular (SIM card) stopped working on iPhone 5s

Reset your Network Settings. Tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings. This also resets Wi-Fi networks and passwords, cellular settings, and VPN and APN settings that you've used before.


In the iOS 8.4 Music app how do I only show downloaded music?

The easiest way I've found to do this is in the iPhone iTunes app click on the "my music" button, then it will say Artist in red and there's a red down pointing arrow next to it. If you click that, there is a drop down to turn on " Only Downloaded Music". Turn that button to green and the music that isn't downloaded will disappear. Hope this helps.


Make meta + arrows count underscore as words?

Try modifying nxhtml-mode-hook.

(add-hook 'nxhtml-mode-hook
          (lambda () (modify-syntax-entry ?_ "w")))


How does iOS 5 decide what mailbox to watch for new mail?

I don't know that this is defined anywhere, but it has been my observation that you will be notified about new mail in the folder you are browsing in the mail client and in the inbox but no other folders.  So if you're reading messages in folder B and then put the phone sleep or switch to another app, you will be notified about new messages in the inbox and new messages in folder B but not new messages in folder A.  If you are reading messages in the inbox, then you won't be notified about messages in any other folder.


Smart Folder containing AACs that aren't Apple Lossless

When you create your Smart Folder, Set Kind to Music » All

Then, add an additional field. When prompted for what you are searching for in the first column, select "Other" then pick "Codecs" from the drop-down list:

The resulting Smart Folder should include AAC files but not Apple Lossless ones.


I messed up my /.bash_profile and Bash will not recognize most commands

Open TextWrangler. Press the command key and o key. A dialog box will open.
Press the shift key, the command key and the period key and your dot files will be visible in the dialog box.


My Macbook's headphone jack stopped working, how do I fix it?

(posted as an answer so you can accept it and mark this issue resolved)

Have you checked the Sound pref pane in System Preferences? There's a tab labeled "Output" where (I'd expect, as I don't have a portable in front of me just now) you can switch output between built-in speakers and the headphone jack. If the first toggle doesn't work, toggle it again.


Restore MacBook AIr (mid 2011) partitions

Hold down Command+R while booting it, and it should run Lion Recovery, either from your recovery partition if it still exists or directly over the Internet. See here for details.