What is SIMBL Agent and why is it running on my machine?

SIMBL is not a part of Apple's Mac OS X package, but is an extension that can be used by other developers in their own work to extend applications where they may not have the original source code (like Safari). SIMBL-related files can be found either in /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins or ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins.


Do Apple AirPods have international warranty?

There have been historical exceptions in the past such as with iPhone, where USA devices on CDMA networks were not serviceable outside the USA because they didn't work outside the USA and so the parts were not held by Apple in non US stores.

Typically however all Apple products have an international warranty in countries where Apple sells products, i.e. during the Iranian embargo any product brought into the country would not be serviceable because Apple doesn't service them.

However Apple does service products in India by the looks of it, so this shouldn't be an issue, you can call Apple Support to save a trip to an Apple Store.

You can also check warranty status online: https://checkcoverage.apple.com/


Pages - how to hide header but not footer on first page of section?

Welcome to Ask Different!

Sorry that I don't know the proper solution to your problem through Pages or any other word processor. If you can not find such a solution and still want to do this, you would maybe like to consider doing something similar through a text box in Pages as follows:

Hide the Headers & Footers on the first page again,
Place a text box via Insert > Text Box menu option and write 1 in it. You can resize the text box by click-and-holding and then dragging one of the selection handles in its edges with a mouse,
Place the text box at the same location where the page number would reside in the first page,
Format the text box by selecting the None option in the Arrange > Stay on Page > Text Wrap dropbox menu on the sidebar after clicking on the Format button in the Pages toolbar at the top right. This will make sure the text box remains in the first page and at the same location in the first page even if you add more content to your document,
You can fine-tune the box's location by selecting it and then changing the numbers in  the Position X-Y options in the Format > Arrange tab on the sidebar again.

Hope this helps.


How do I disable the Apple ID sign in when logging into my Mac?

You could try this to disassociate your Apple ID password from login:

To Stop Using an iCloud Password to Login to a Mac:

Go to the  Menu and choose System Preferences (alternatively use LaunchPad or Spotlight to search for System Preferences
Choose Users & Groups and select the primary Mac login that you want to disassociate the iCloud password and for which you wish to use a unique separate password
Click the Change Password... button next to the user name
At the prompt "Do you want to change your iCloud password, or stop using your iCloud password to unlock this Mac and create a separate password?" – choose "Use Separate Password…"
Set and confirm the new password and close out of System Preferences when finished

Now when the user is logging into macOS, a separate account password will be used rather than the iCloud and Apple ID account password. This setting is specific to individual user accounts.
Source and further reading: OSX Daily


Why does speech recognition take up 1 GB or RAM suddenly? And Gmail in Safari 738 MB?

You can kill this process (in terminal or activity monitor), and it seems as long as the Dictation & Speech pref pane (Yosemite) has dictation and enhanced dictation off and the pref pane is not open, it won't re-spawn.

See for ref:

http://www.mcelhearn.com/os-x-10-9-mavericks-enhanced-dictation-is-a-memory-hog-and-doesnt-work-very-well/

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5824504


How do i disable launchpad animation on mac?

Disable Launchpad Open Animation

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-show-duration -float 0

Disable Launchpad Close Animation

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-hide-duration -float 0

Disable Launchpad Scrolling Animation

defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-page-duration -float 0


How do you install and use a Linux partition on Mavericks?

This is getting increasingly harder over time.  Instead of creating a bootable Linux partition, I find it much easier to simply install virtualBox and create a Linux virtual machine instead.


How will the cellular feature of the Apple Watch Series 3 work?

The Apple Watch Series 3 GPS + Cellular has LTE built-in. Here are the bands supported by the USA version:

  LTE
  2 (1900 MHz)
  4 (AWS)
  5 (850 MHz)
  12 (700 MHz)
  13 (700c MHz)
  17 (700b MHz)
  18 (800 MHz)
  19 (800 MHz)
  25 (1900 MHz)
  26 (800 MHz)
  41 (TD 2500)

  UMTS
  800 MHz
  850 MHz
  1700 MHz
  1900 MHz

SOURCE

That same page also lists the bands for other countries.


You could try to access your files using SSH (we call it SFTP).

To enable this feature on your server, navigate to System Preferences -> Remote Login and check it. You can also select which account has access to your server.

To access your file using SSH, you can either use command line (ssh) or GUI, for example Transmit (paid), CyberDuck (free)


Apps downloaded from app store not working on MacBook - damaged and cannot be opened

Last year a lot of users had the same problem. It was caused by an expired security certificate, there system did not receive a new one yet.

I know you already tried a lot. But the right order is important:

Delete the apps from your Mac.
Log out of the Mac App Store (from the menu bar, choose Store > Sign Out).
Reboot your Mac.
Log back in to the App Store (Store > Sign In).
Download apps again

If this doesn’t help, I have also heard reports that this issue can be solved by temporarily creating a new administrator user account on your Mac.


I use iSSH: http://www.zinger-soft.com/iSSH_features.html
It's available on the app store, but if you're jailbroken you can ssh to 127.0.0.1 and it works just fine.  Costs $10 though.


How do I prevent FaceTime call notifications from exiting fullscreen apps on OS X?

Unfortunately there is no way to prevent an incoming Facetime call from interrupting your workflow.

Apple has a document that outlines what can be configured for Facetime on a Mac.

https://support.apple.com/guide/facetime/change-preferences-fctm35545/mac


How do I recover OneNote for Mac folders from a Time Machine backup?

You could try to recover your data using Time Machine Backup. Chose the backup that is closest in time to when you lost it. Enter Time Machine and select the backup that's closest to the time you lost the data. In that backup select the folder you want to restore and click on the restore button.

If you still can't find this folder or the files you can use a data recovery app to recover deleted files. There are several apps available for this purpose but none are cheap. I successfully used Stellar Date Recovery to recover some files I accidentally deleted. This application has a free trial period which you can use for this. There are others as well. I'm not associated in any way with Stellar Recovery software. It's just the one I tried and it worked.


Safe to charge macbook with USB Type A to USB Type C cable?

Yes, and it is safe. I did charge my 15" MBP from various sources - power banks and adapters (USB Port of a Tesla Model S was my favorite), and it can take around 13W. Just make sure that your adapter supports 10-15W, 5W is quite slow. Unfortunately the port does not support Quick Charge.

When idling, the system consumes around 6W, charging will be impossible while using with something more cpu/gpu intensive.

And if you decide to cheat and try to connect a second charger, it will not combine the power, but instead choose the one with higher power rating.

TL;DR: It's possible. It's safe (It'll cause 100% use on your adapter, might heat it up). Perfect for emergency use or when weight is important. Not useful if you plan to do extensive work.


'ls' command not working on mac OS Catalina

If you do not want to change your shell from bash to zsh, then add this to your .bashrc file:

export BASH_SILENCE_DEPRECATION_WARNING=1

To edit this you can use this command:

nano ~/.bashrc

While you are editing your .bashrc file, look for aliases or functions which redefined ls use Ghostscript.

Try which -a ls in Terminal.app to show you what ls is currently defined as, and what other ls commands are available.


Sign into different third party app accounts

The problem is the SDK that app developers are including from Dropbox. You will have to contact the app developer for an alternative or for a modification of this behavior.


How do I get rid of Genieo from my MacBook Pro?

Is there any way to get rid of Genieo manually?

The only way is to do so manually. Carefully follow Thomas Reed's Genieo Removal Guide to completely rid your machine of the offending adware. Here is an abbreviated version of Thomas Reed's guide:

Quit Genio. Remove /private/etc/launchd.conf.
If it's not present, move on. If it is, trash it and restart the machine (See the warning in the full guide about overlooking this step).
Remove the following files, if present:

/Applications/Genieo
/Applications/Uninstall Genieo
/Applications/Uninstall IM Completer.app
~/Library/Application Support/com.genieoinnovation.Installer/
~/Library/Application Support/Genieo/
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieo.completer.download.plist
~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieo.completer.update.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.client.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieo.engine.plist
/Library/LaunchAgents/com.genieo.completer.update.plist
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.client.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.genieoinnovation.macextension.client
/usr/lib/libgenkit.dylib
/usr/lib/libgenkitsa.dylib
/usr/lib/libimckit.dylib
/usr/lib/libimckitsa.dylib
Restart the machine again.
Remove /Library/Frameworks/GenieoExtra.framework and empty the trash.
Remove the Omnibar Extension from your browser. See full guide if you are unsure how to do so.
Reset the Home Page, and possibly default search engine for your browser.


Can Apple Diagnostics be wrong about memory issue?

According to this Apple KB you have to contact them.
They should be willing to help because you have Apple Care the first 90 days for free and they state it on the site theirselves:


No, but you can install an older version of OS X in a virtual machine to use Safari there.


Is there any USB Network Adapter available for Mac that works with Big Sur?

TPLink has many to choose from, eg.

Archer T3U Plus

The downside, is they don’t even sign their drivers or installer and force you to relax security on Catalina, but they seem to have the newest drivers even though they haven’t said explicitly they support Big Sur. Be sure you can return them until they support Big Sur officially if you are on a tight budget or can’t pre-test them.


OS X unable to update outdated app icon in Launchpad

I recently come up with the same question.

unlink Library/Application\ Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db
touch /Applications/YourAppName.app
killall Dock

the touch(1) command is very important. things would not work without it.
I think maybe the Dock does not update its db unless the app was updated.


Why do some calendar events shift in time when daylight saving time goes into effect?

You may be able to fix it by doing the following:

Open the Settings on your iPhone
Select "Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
Scroll down to the Calendars section
Select "Time Zone Support"
Turn on Time Zone support

Or maybe you want to turn time zone support off? It's a little confusing. Here's what Apple says:

  When Time Zone Support is on, Calendar displays event dates and times in the time zone set for your calendars. When Time Zone Support is off, Calendar displays events in the time zone of your current location.


Installing Lion on another MacBook Pro through a bootable DVD but won't show up

Same as you : my brand new MBP cannot read a DVD (it says it is blank), but that same DVD can be read OK from older Macs. I went to an Apple store with that DVD, and they found the same problem, i.e. the DVD can be read OK on some machines, but not OK on others. I left them the DVD, they are going to enquire about it and about why some of their own machines can read and some others cannot.

So maybe your problem is just about that : a DVD which unluckily cannot be read on your machine.

Hope this helps !


Is there a way to create APFS snapshots on external drives?

I would like to figure out how to do this as well, but have yet to figure out how to do it either. I'm sure it has to be possible somehow because Carbon Copy Cloner can manage snapshots on external drives that you use as backup targets. If CCC can do it, then there must be a way. Until we figure out how to do it manually though, I let CCC do it.

You can't tell it to make a snapshot directly, you have to set up a backup task and let it run, but you should be able to get it to work for you. I got it to create snapshots for me by setting up a backup task with an empty folder as the source and by setting it to leave the existing contents of the target drive alone. That way it does nothing to the drive but still makes the snapshot (it makes one on the target drive before and after each backup).

Once you have a backup scheme that works for you, you can schedule tasks to run on a schedule, after certain events, or manually. You can even chain tasks together so one runs right after the last, so you don't have to guess how long one will take before the next should start (say one is set to 12:00 and the next at 1:00 - either the one will run long and two will be going at once, or it will run short and you'll have unnecessary down time). I love it.

If you haven't already, I would definitely suggest you try it out. I've been using CCC to keep backups up my computer for years now. It is an amazing backup program and they keep adding great new features and tweaking old ones to make them better. Very worth the $40 (I think $30 for students and teachers) and they have a 30-day, full feature trial. You could try it out to see it can do what you are looking for.

Bonus. Here is an article about using snapshots with CCC, and here is another about APFS and CCC.


Is there a way to merge windows of the same application without a "Merge All Windows" menu item?

It's up to the developer to support this functionality. Many apps (document based etc. written using native Cocoa classes) support this by default.
There's not much you can do to enable this in apps which do not implement it.


How to calibrate external monitor with MacBook Pro?

It doesn't matter at all what profile you already have loaded or installed.
The current profile is unloaded at the start of calibration… otherwise there would be no good start point.
Mac colour calibration is simply miles ahead of what you can achieve on Windows.


How can I make Instagram photos shared to Facebook visible to my friends by default?

As Andrew Ferrier stated in the comments to the question, this is indeed a part of Facebook's privacy settings. Here is how you set it to share to "Friends" by default:

Go to your Facebook.com.
Find the page to edit your Instagram settings.

this should be on YourLinkToTimelinePage/app_instapp
or you should be able to find it at https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=applications
or in the timeline menu under your profile picture, find it in More

Change your App visibility and post audience setting to Friends

This setting controls who on Facebook can see that you use this app. It also allows you to choose the audience for posts the app makes on your behalf.

Hope this helps you.


How do I find out the system temporary directory?

env

Just type this command into Terminal.  With zero arguments it'll print the names and values of variables in the environment.

Alternative with a bit more typing:

echo $TMPDIR


You can create a LauchDaemon. LaunchDaemons are processes managed by the launchd service in macOS that are loaded when the system boots. LaunchDaemons can be used to run a program one-time, contiuously or periodically after boot.

Create a file called org.my.ifconfig.plist in /Library/LaunchDaemons/
with the following content and you should be good to go.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>org.my.ifconfig</string>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Nice</key>
    <integer>10</integer>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
      <string>/sbin/ifconfig</string>
      <string>lo0</string>
      <string>alias</string>
      <string>someIp</string>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Make sure the file is owned by root and in the group wheel, and has the permissions 644: Owner – read/write, group – read, everyone – read

More information can be found at developer.apple.com at Creating Launch Daemons and Agents.


How to switch input languages with different key combination?

I already use PuntoSwitcher which does the trick but it has some annoying bugs and it's  only useful for russian-speaking users because UI is only in russian. That's why I want to find an alternative.

The main purpose of PuntoSwitcher is to fixe words typed with wrong keyboard layout. For example:

руддщ → hello
ghbdtn → привет

So it may be useful for somebody who uses russian a lot (outsourcing managers, people who learn russian, etc).


Try:

tell application "Terminal"
    if not (exists window 1) then reopen
    activate
    do script "echo hi" in window 1
end tell


What causes incorrect PDFkit or blurry PDF display in macOS Sierra and how to fix or remedy that situation?

The answer to this question involves a bunch of things.

Preview/PDFKit in Sierra is just buggy (10.12.5 +.6 Preview Version 9.0 (909.18)). It is less robust in this regard as Preview in either Yosemite or High Sierra. And coupled with apparent auto-termination this is the only 'background process' that really matters in this regard.
Once the bug gets triggered (enough) it is much earlier in Sierra Preview compared to other versions and propagates through the application: that vanishes from the Dock  or from the Cmd+Tab  application switcher but remains active in the background as Activity Monitor will show.
That tempted to reach the conclusion that almost all PDFs were affected at first. But once a killall Preview cleared that process up for good, only bug-triggering PDFs (that might justifiably called substandard) really triggered that behaviour.
But one such concrete bug trigger I could positively identify is related to Multiple PDFs with page group included in a single page warning.
It is somehow dependent on the number of these incorrect inclusion attributes but I couldn't determine the exact amount.
Since many of my own PDFs, files I downloaded and had to work with and also the given example in the Question above demonstrate: this is a widespread weakness leading to very unwanted behaviour on Sierra, not only but (for me) mostly from LaTeX generated content or many includes for an assembled PDF.

Unless this bug in Preview is fixed, or the PDFs are reflown there is no solution but to avoid Preview on Sierra for these kind of files.

A workaround is to use other applications like Acrobat Reader from the start for all PDFs to display if they contain text.

Once this bug is triggered with Preview, it is necessary to kill all PDFkit related processes since quitting the application Preview via cmd+q or the equivalent menu item is not enough sufficient.


Restoring WhatsApp backup from iCloud Drive

I'm was in the same boat as you Viktor.
You're only missing some steps to be able to get your actual backup files. The *.icloud files are all 2kb in size and don't contain any data but are rather links to the actual files.
On your macOS go into Settings > Apple ID and make sure to disable the Optimise Mac Storage option as that would give you access to the real files.
After that wait a bit as your computer would need to apply the changes and updates, restart if possible, then when you access the ~/Library/Mobile Documents directory you can see that the files are now mostly *.tar extensions which can be copied now.
Hopefully that sorts you out!


How to check the integrity of a downloaded MacOS X installer?

From Apple KB: Mac OS X: How to verify a SHA-1 digest
[emphasis mine]

  Learn how to verify a SHA-1 digest (also known as a checksum).

  Important: Verifying the SHA-1 of a software update is optional; it is
  provided on Apple software updates for those individuals who want to
  verify the authenticity of an update.

  Note: For updates delivered by Automatic Software Update, SHA-1 digest verification is performed automatically for you.

  To verify a manually-downloaded software update from Apple Downloads,
  which contains a SHA-1 digest, perform the following steps:

  Open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities).
  Type the following at the Terminal prompt:   openssl sha1 [full path to file]

Which would appear to conclude that Apple doesn't maintain a public list of checksums for App Store versions.
However, there is an independent list maintained at https://github.com/drduh/macOS-Security-and-Privacy-Guide/blob/master/InstallESD_Hashes.csv for just the InstallESD components themselves.


Is there a way to get the OSX battery icon to display both percentage and time?

iStat Menu

offers to display both percentage and Time. http://bjango.com/mac/istatmenus/

When running SL, you could get the old free version. However, it does not contain the battery menulet: http://mac.brothersoft.com/istat-menus-2.0.html


I managed to solve the problem by installing python 3.7.7 from python.org. The path is now the same as on my MacBook Air.

The program is working very well now. I think the python3 command launches a system version of python and not the version installed by homebrew.


Prevent admin/Jamf Pro from accessing/deleting 2nd partition

Having 2 different "OSes" on 2 partitions should allow you to encrypt them indivually.

If you create a new partition, install mac there, and enable Filevault there, it should not be readible from the other boot partition.

I don't think you can stop it from being deleted though. If the software has admin access it can do what it wants with the disk.


SSH with ipv6 working only if I pass %en0 with my ipv6 address

When you want to connect to an unroutable address like link-local you need to specify the interface. This is because for unroutable addresses your system can't determine the outgoing interface by looking at the routing table.

Unroutable destinations include link-local addresses (fe80::) and link-local multicast (ff02::) and more.


Skip an OSX version with App Store upgrades?

You can upgrade to Mountain Lion from both Lion and Snow Leopard (SL). With SL you will need to be running the latest version 10.6.8 and then you can just buy it through the app store.

check this link for more details:
Apple OSX Upgrade

You just need to make sure your machine can handle Mountain Lion which you can see with this app from the app store Mac Tracker - its a free app.

OS' are like normal apps - they can be installed on up to 5 machines.

Good Luck on the upgrade:-)


The time Capsule would need to be jailbroken and modified to get RAID drivers into that software stack. It would probably be easier to physically remove the drives and build a new enclosure that can support RAID with the drives and then either connect that to the network or somehow connect the controller to the hopefully still functioning Time Capsule via USB.

Basically, including time capsule in a raid is a "no" answer, you can't reasonably do RAID 1 mirroring or any standard RAID level.


Something new on NFC capability on iOS12?

Basically two new NFC features were released - however they are only available on select newer phones, so there's not really any change if you have an older phone.

The new features are available on iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR.

Feature 1: Express Card

This makes it possible for the phone to work as a NFC card for stuff like student cards, entry cards, transportation tickets - when the battery is dead! The idea is that even when the phone is shut down due to lack of battery, the phone can still be used as a valid NFC card for approx. 5 hours.

The feature is only available for (few) select cards that are stored in the Wallet.

Feature 2: Background Tag Reading

The phone is now always "listening" for NFC tags. You can read a tag without unlocking your phone, and it will show a small notification that you can activate to go into the app that is registered to handle that type of NFC tag.

Previously you had to open the app first, and then read the tag.


60Gb missing after deleting Bootcamp partition

Apparently, you are using Big Sur. If so, then partition with the identifier disk0s3 is not needed. To remove this partition and recover the free space, enter the commands given below.
diskutil erasevolume free none disk0s3
diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk0s2 0


If you want it in a UI use Accessibility Inspector. It's in Xcode > Open Developer Tool > Accessibility Inspector (It requires to install Xcode).


In general, OS X applications can run from anywhere. Depending on which R distribution you install it might run just fine from an Application bundle or you will just have to adjust your $PATH variable to place the executable files where they can be found.

You probably have a more specific install error that's causing your issues. Perhaps listing the exact version of R and where you got it / what steps you are following would allow us to help you better. (Ideally you would list the OS on Mac and the exact error message or what you are seeing that makes you think the installation failed.)


Edit: Only just saw this comment by the OP. I will leave this answer up in case anyone finds it useful.

Try HazeOver. It does what Isolator did: Puts a dimmable layer over the screen except for the current window (or all windows of the current app).

It is a paid app, available on the Mac App Store. It has been updated for El Capitan and works for me without issues. The developer is responsive and has implemented a feature I personally requested.

You can activate HazeOver via the menu bar, a keyboard shortcut or AppleScript. I personally use a simple Alfred workflow to set the dim intensity.

Here is what it looks like (bottom left is HazeOver's preference window):


How can I free disk space on the device to get it back into communication?

You should delete the Applications that you purchased from the AppStore.  You can download them again for free. Also, delete the  Applications you don't need.  If you go to Settings/General there is an option that reads iPhone Storage. Open that and give it time to completely load. At the bottom, it will give you a listing of all your applications and the size of them. Check and see if you can delete any of the large ones.


Multiple Apple devices/One Bluetooth speaker

Press the bluetooth button for a while on the Bose speaker to let it become available for pairing, then it will appear in the bluetooth folder of your Mac.


Overriding the default resolution on external monitor

It turns out this is one of the many things that SwitchResX can do.


Identify macOS Menu bar app - forking arrows icon

The icon is question is from a paid 3rd party macOS app called Divvy - Window Manager.

This app lets you easily and quickly resize app windows into exact portions. The app lets you use keyboard shortcut to present a configurable panel, which can be used to precisely resize window for the frontmost app.

Use keyboard shortcut or click on the app icon in the Menu bar.

Divvy present the resize panel.

Click and drag on the boxes to select and resize the app window.

Divvy is available for download on the Mac App Store:

Divvy - Window Manager

Note: No affiliation whatsoever with the developer. Have used the app satisfactorily starting with OS X Yosemite. Using with macOS Mojave as of this writing.


The shortcuts are defined as the first few bookmarks in your Bookmarks Bar. You can see which bookmarks are defined by going to Bookmarks → Favorites Bar. Since they are menu items, you can disable them by remapping them to something else.

Open System Preferences → Keyboard → App Shortcuts.
Click the + to add a new shortcut.
Set the Application to Safari, the Menu Title to the exact name of one of your bookmarks, and the Keyboard Shortcut to something other than ⌘#.

Repeat the process for the other bookmarks.


Disconnecting charger while Macbook Pro Retina is still turned on

Absolutely it is safe.

It has been designed for that, it does not have a locked in plug, but a magnetically coupled plug for that reason.

I have done that on purpose or by accident (tripping over the cable) many times without problems.


Manually Add Twitter Account in Contacts.app in Mountain Lion

What you're looking at in your first screenshot are the Instant Message fields. The second screenshot shows the so called Profile field. The Profile field seems to be the same as the Twitter field. So, if you want to add a Twitter handle to any contact go to Card > Add Field > Twitter (or Profile). This works even if there's no Twitter match for that contact.

Alternatively, you can display the Twitter field by default by editing the card Template.


Word cannot save this document due to a naming or permissions error on the destination volume

This problem appears to be tied to how Word creates temp files when saving changes. The fix appears to be creating a .TemporaryItems directory with global read/write access at the root of the network share.

Creating a .TemporaryItems directory with global read/write access at the root of the network share should fix it. If a directory with that name already exists, check the permissions on the directory and set it to be globally read/write if needed.

Links with more information:

http://prowiki.isc-csg.upenn.edu/wiki/MS_Office_and_Network_Volumes
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20051122213207398


What happens when 2 clients modify the same iCloud synced Note?

An iCloud-synced document is implemented with the NSDocument class. The full guide to this class including details on conflict resolution is the Document-Based App Programming Guide for Mac. Briefly, conflict resolution is attempted automatically. If the most recent document is not clear (the most recent, based on modification date is favoured) then the Versions user interface is involved and the user must select the correct document to resolve the conflict.


In 10.8.3 and lower, the program Wi-Fi Diagnostics is the tool to measure RSSI, signal to noise ratio and to scan for hot spots (a.k.a. war driving). That app is gone on 10.8.4 and is replaced by Wireless Diagnostics that has many but not all the same functions. Bonjour scan is out for instance, but the scanning and measuring tools are far better in the new tool.

The new application Wireless Diagnostics.app works mostly as the referenced article notes as well

  it is now more conveniently available by holding the Option key, clicking the Wi-Fi menu, and selecting Open Wi-Fi Diagnostics.

PS: As a side mark, you can't execute Cocoa applications from bash the way you tried. Use /System/Library/CoreServices/Wireless\ Diagnostics.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireless\ Diagnostics or open -a "Wireless Diagnostics instead.


On an iPhone, how can I tell when an accurate GPS position has been acquired?

Launch the Maps app and wait for the blue orb to pulse which indicates a full GPS lock. No other way to do this from within the Camera app.


MacBook Pro 16" runs about 10 degrees hotter when plugged in on idle, is this normal?

The new Macbook Pro 16" has problems with external displays connected to it, sometimes even just external hdd's or other thunderbolt devices.

Do you have external displays connected?

Basically the GPU will get pinned at 18watt+ and produce max heat on the right side of the laptop where it is located.
This will cause the laptop to go at 60 degrees C at idle and 3k~ rpm fans, and spike to 100+ degrees under CPU load.

Apple has not responded officially to this, even though I am in multiple forums that have people mentioning they contact Apple support that have them go trough random tests that does nothing.
Please call Apple and report this issue so we get as many people reporting it as possible.
I have scheduled calls with them, that they keep postponing.

If you want to see for yourself istat menus can show you the information, it should have a trial so you can see it.

Short video of me having laptop unplugged and plugged with istat menus open:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3vV1-CWMQg

I have installed Turbo Boost Switcher, and turned off Turbo Boost for the time being or my Macbook will go into thermal shutdown on intense cpu tasks.
Yay for getting an i9 cpu locked to 2.4Ghz the performance is terrible.
Hoping Apple will eventually let me return it for money back, I'm over my no questions asked return days.


Does the iPhone 5's bundled Lighting connector / power adapter charge the phone faster?

The charger supplies the power that is demanded from it (up to it's rated output), not the other way around.  So it's entirely possible that the same unit will charge different devices at different speeds.  It's entirely possible that a newer battery will charge faster than an identical but older battery, and also possible that the new phone is allowed to pull more charge because it runs a little cooler (charging generates heat, and one of the metrics for deciding how fast to charge is the heat generated as well as the batteries capacity to drink it up).

Basically, it's really hard to measure, without you do a from flat to full charge with the same unit to different devices with batteries of the same age and condition.  Even then, be aware that the phone doesn't stop charing when it says 100%, that's an artificial figure and your phone will continue to charge a little (the equivalent of a little over 5% more logically speaking), then run from battery a little, then charge a little, then run from battery etc - this is to keep your battery in good condition (the same is true for 0%, it will go lower in order to perform a clean shutdown - the battery figures are only an indication, not an accurate gauge) - the actual methods for each device may also vary as to how they handle this.


OS X is supposed to be pronounced "Oh Ess Ten" though no-one outside Apple ever seems to, common parlance would be "oss ex".

Though OS XI would, I guess, be OS eleven, how many people are going to end up calling it "oss exie" or "oss ex eye"?

The actual answer to the question "Why?" is presumably because Steve Jobs decided it would be; & that would brook no argument.


How to get Apple Mail badge (n. of unread messages) from script?

osascript -l JavaScript -e 'Application("Mail").inbox.unreadCount()'

This uses Mail's unified inbox to display the number of unread messages, thus, it's equal to the number on Mail's red icon badge.


Open terminal and type which make to see that you have minimal compiler tools installed.

If not, download Xcode from the App store and have it install the command line tools.


defaults write com.apple.Safari NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool YES will enable it just for Safari.

Note that you can also temporarily toggle the behavior by holding ⌥ and choosing Safari → Quit And Keep Windows (or ⌘-⌥-Q).


Using iMac 2012 as a monitor for MacBook Pro 2012

The answer you are looking for is Target Display mode.

And yes it is compatible with this setup (If they are 2012 machines with Thunderbolt). They must have thunderbolt ports (also work on 27" iMac with Mini Display Port)


Reinstall OS X due to compromised OS X partition whilst keeping Boot Camp

You can reinstall your Mac OS. It will not loss your data which stored in your partition until you not format your drive. For reinstalling your Mac Os no need to format drive, just install new Mac Os into same partition and it will overwrite it. For that i am sure.

But regarding Boot Camp - window OS, i am not sure as i have not used boot camp for dual boot. I am aware of it. I think it will work. But make sure before go with it.


grep in macOS does not support lookahead. For more information about the regex syntax supported in the default macOS binaries, see re_format(7).

If you need to use such a regex, you can install GNU grep with Homebrew (brew install grep) and use the -P option to enable Perl regex syntax which does support your regex.


Can I upgrade to Lion straight from 10.5.8?

At the moment it is not possible to upgrade to Lion without first installing the App Store, and Apple hasn't announced any plan to make that available on versions older than Snow Leopard.

From Apple's press release announcing Lion's availability:

  Users who do not have broadband access at home, work or school can download Lion at Apple retail stores and later this August, Lion will be made available on a USB thumb drive through the Apple Store® (www.apple.com) for $69 (US).

They haven't confirmed that this will work for upgrading for older versions, but given the price many people are assuming that this is the case.


Possible to use local and icloud notes in OSX Mavericks Notes.app?

From the Menubar select Notes > Preferences ⌘,

Enable Enable the On My Mac account and close.

You may need to View > Show Folders

You can now drag notes between the local and iCloud folders


I upgraded my 5GB iCloud storage to 50GB storage and its not showing

The easy way to make sure Apple has provisioned your storage is to sign in to iCloud on a computer with a somewhat modern browser:

https://www.icloud.com/#settings

If the cloud doesn't see your storage, you have a billing and/or support question.

https://support.apple.com/itunes

If the cloud does show your storage, you can get free support using the paid storage as an exception from AppleCare at:

https://support.apple.com/ - choose your device that's not able to get the paid storage.


Is it possible to submit not sandboxed app to the Mac App Store

According to this it is possible but with caveat.

App Sandbox Temporary Exception Entitlements

  Note: This chapter describes property list keys specific to the OS X
  implementation of App Sandbox. They are not available in iOS.

  A temporary exception entitlement permits your OS X app to perform
  certain operations otherwise disallowed by App Sandbox.

  If you need to request a temporary exception entitlement, use Apple’s
  bug reporting system to let Apple know what’s not working for you.
  Apple considers feature requests as it develops the OS X platform.

  Note: If you request a temporary-exception entitlement, be sure to
  follow the guidance regarding entitlements provided on the iTunes
  Connect website. In particular, use the Review Notes field in iTunes
  Connect to explain why your app needs the exception, and include the
  bug number.

  To request a temporary exception entitlement for a target in an OS X
  Xcode project, add it to the target’s .entitlements property list file
  using the Xcode property list editor.


What is this brown sticky residue in my MacBook Pro charge port?

The battery is no where near that part - it's in the hand rest portion of the computer. Also, lithium polymer batteries don't really ooze liquids that would travel that far inside the computer, so it's probably the result of a spill near that area or just corrosion (rust) of the contact once the plastic covering has worn away.

However, any liquid or corrosion by the charging port should get checked out with someone moderately familiar with how electronics work - especially if you leave it plugged in and not on a fireproof table if you could be risking a fire in a house where people sleep or someone might not be aware enough to leave if trouble starts.

The time it would take for a technician to give your Mac the "all clear" would be 5 minutes and the screwdriver needed to pop the top. This is the equivalent of opening the hood and measuring the oil level in a car or truck.

I would clean off the area with a cotton swab and watch. If any more coloration or liquid arrives, take it in for service. Also, if the liquid were inside, you will see some coming out of the thunderbolt port as well. If a bright light and light magnification (or iPhone picture with flash) doesn't show any additional moisture, you might be safe with just some surface rust / a one time wet magsafe connector.


How is it possible for Maps in iOS 13 to have location permissions set to "Whilst Using" but provide navigation instructions in the background?

Taken from this Apple Developer article:
"In general, iOS apps are considered in use when they're in the foreground or running in the background with the background location usage indicator enabled."

Since the navigation is still in progress, the App is running in the background and therefore considered as "in use".


How can I set up a UK-based iPad with simple ongoing internet access for my grandmother?

I have two ideas for you:

There's a UK mobile network called Ovivo, basically, you order a sim with £10 on it once, and you'll have 500MB of mobile broadband for your grandma's iPad forever.

She'll also be able to use the £10 for additional broadband if she runs out (either by pre-purchasing some — and maybe you could do that online for her), or it'll automatically take from it as credit.

I think you can top up online with your card and manage everything for her. She'd just have to pop in the sim card.

Ovivo runs on the Vodafone network as a MVNO — so has good signal.
Alternatively, try GiffGaff (runs on O2 network), where you pay £5/month (no contract; you can stop anytime) for £500MB — Ovivo turns out cheaper; or £7.50 for 1GB.

I think you can set up the actual account online from where you are; she'd just have to pop in the sim card.

Both are good value for money without any contracts, etc. You can stop/cancel at any time.


Can I use SSD Samsung 850 EVo , 250gb in Macbook Mid-2010 (Macbook 7.1) without mounting screws?

You can run your Mac with the SSD unmounted, but it is HIGHLY DISCOURAGED. This is because:

The connection can come lose, which will cause kernel panics and data loss
Could also harm the SSD if it bounces around in the case
Movement could cause damage to internal components, such as connections.

The best thing to do is to mount the drive. Post a picture of the mounting screws, and someone here will point you to the right screwdriver. They're almost always cheap, and it's worth the money.


Time Machine backup permissions set to 711 after a restore

I manually changed the permissions and now all is well. I can once again see the old backup and restore. Used the following commands.

cd /Volumes/TM/backups.backupdb
chmod -N hd
chown root:wheel hd
chown +a 'group:everyone deny add_file,delete,add_subdirectory,delete_child,writeattr,writeextattr,chown' hd

tmutil associatedisk -a /Volumes/TM /Volumes/TM/Backups.backupdb/hd/2012-11-08-145609


Specification of mid-2010 15" MacBook Pro LCD panel?

Using information from the iFixit Team, I managed to get the part number of the display.

Apple Part #:      661-5483
Product code:      IF161-053-1 glossy, standard resolution
                   IF161-053-3 glossy, high resolution
                   IF161-053-5 anti-glare, high resolution

You can use this information for further research. I was not able get more than this:

Size:           15.4"
Resolution:     1440 x 900 WXGA+
Backlight:      LED
Surface:        Glossy
Aspect Ratio:   16:10 wide
Screen Type:    Thin-film transistor (TFT), Active-matrix Liquid Crystal Display (LCD)

[source 1,2]


Make an iPhone appear as different model?

Palm did this with the Pre: the device, like all devices, told iTunes it was an iPod and allowed only the syncing of non-DRM content over the USB connection. As to how the iPhone sorts out what it is to tell iTunes could either be hard-coded or come from a plist file somewhere in the OS.

Either way, this forum is really not the place the find the answer to that question(nor do I think SO is either). You probably should head over to one of the myriad iPhone jailbreak forum. Searching "iPhone jailbreak forum" in Google brings up a whole host of them.


Touch on "select" button

Select the book and touch on "trash" button

Or you have a similar question to completely delete an iBook :

Is it possible to COMPLETELY delete a Book from my purchased books?


How to restore the computer's username in Terminal?

Simply enter

nano ~/.bash_profile

then go to the line

export PS1='$ '

and delete that line. Then save the file and exit nano. After then execute

. ~/.bash_profile

That will be load the settings from this file.


Occasionally getting additional spaces inserted when typing

Just found out that this was due to a bad switch, at least on the second keyboard. Both keyboards I was having issues with are mechanical, but it seemed pretty unlikely that they'd both have an issue for the exact same key. I swapped the switch used for the spacebar with another and it's working much better now :)


Adobe Shockwave Player PKG installed but I can't find the application

In the Installer.app you can view the list of files that are going to be installed by navigating to File -> Show files, of pressing ⌘ cmd+i.


Which popular apps prevent sleep on Mac OS X?

Known to cause sleep issues:

Better Touch Tool: Even when it is disabled, as long as it's running, sleep mode won't work.
Stack Exchange Notifier: more info here.
Symantec Encryption Desktop: more info here, Symantec's Official Reason here.
NoSleep: App that does what it says.  Although this is the main purpose of the app, for troubleshooting purposes it's good to check whether it's installed and accidentally on ;-)

Could potentially cause issues:

Dropbox caused problems in Snow Leopard.
Spotlight can prevent sleep, especially if you just installed Mac OS X.

Apps that have never caused sleep issues:


CDMA users can't use iPhone before iPhone4? is that correct?

Yes, it is correct.

Before iPhone 4 the only supported network was GSM, iPhone 4 model A1349 is the first iPhone to support CDMA network.


Safari doesn't show titles for click throughs on google search results…

You can use the Detox extension for Safari and Chrome, which fixes this on Google and Twitter.

This happens because Google switched to a client-side redirect for their tracking links (in JavaScript, I think) so the browser thinks the tracking page is the page you wanted. I'm not sure why. Twitter does the same thing, but it's so that they can grab the referer when you click on a t.co link from a client or another website.


Can I access iCloud/device data of the hacker who logged into my account?

The answer is no in the sense that you cannot get access to data only stored on their device, or data stored in their iCloud account.

Any data they choose to store in your own iCloud account, you can ofcourse see. I.e. if they for example add a photo to your photo library, it will show up in your Photos app.

I would advise immediately changing the password and security questions on the account, and then enable 2-factor authentication using the following guide:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204915


Remove the profile from the client system preference pane.


ENDS UP - the answer is to change the name of the HDMI input through the display's menu (the samsung menu from the external) to PC or DVI PC.

Answer from here: https://superuser.com/questions/146841/why-does-text-look-so-horrible-on-my-hd-monitor. Apparently I was searching on the wrong stackexchange.


Have find my iphone istalled in ipad and it's working, can't log into icloud

Maybe someone steal your iPhone and disable wifi and gps, and also cancel your Apple ID(you know this days hacking iPhone password is very easy. Are you sure you set up "find my iPhone" on your device but not "find my friends"?


Why is Xcode starting on macOS Sierra start up?

One possibility is that either the MainMenu.strings file (or Xcode itself) is listed as a Login Item.

Check this in System Preferences - Users & Groups, Login Items tab and remove the file.


I can confirm 100% that you CAN in fact get 3840x2160 @30Hz 4K from a Late 2012 mini running 10.10.5 using only one MDP to DP cable. I'm writing this using a 2012 Mac mini (Intel HD4000 internal graphics card + 8G ram) with Dell P2815Q 4K monitor. How I achieved this: 1) Used Mini Displayport to Displayport cable that came with the monitor - MDP/thunderbolt from Mac Mini to DP on display. 2) Ran the Mac Pixel Clock Patch for Yosemite: https://code.google.com/p/mac-pixel-clock-patch/source/clones  3) Downloaded and configured SwitchResX, set the resolution, saved and rebooted. Hope the info helps. Enjoy!


Stop app from showing multiple icons in Dock

Apps with support for opening documents minimize into Dock in their own separate icon. To disable that behaviour, check Minimise windows into application icon under System Preferences → Dock.

macOS Mojave has a configuration to show recently used app's icon in the Dock (just like in iOS 11 and later). To disable it, uncheck Show recent applications in Dock under System Preferences → Dock.


Applescript dialog - return/enter special keys (such as page down)?

As promised:

display dialog "Enter your ASCII keycode" default answer ""
set a to the text returned of the result
tell application "System Events" to keystroke (ASCII character a)

Heres a list of all the possible key codes.

Common ones:

  You can use any ASCII code, for the arrow keys this will be:

  tell application "System Events" to keystroke (ASCII character 31)
  --down arrow

  tell application "System Events" to keystroke (ASCII character 30)
  --up arrow

  tell application "System Events" to keystroke (ASCII character 29)
  --right arrow

  tell application "System Events" to keystroke (ASCII character 28)
  --left arrow


Which version of Windows runs best on an early 2011 MacBook Pro (and how do I obtain it)?

Looking at the Bootcamp 5 FAQ - you want a 64 bit version of Windows 7 or 8.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5639

Furthermore, you'll want to get your specific model of MacBook Pro and check this table for the exact version you want before shopping:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634

As for major version, I know many businesses that stuck with Windows 7 so unless you need Windows 8 - I'd vote with my wallet on the cheapest non-XP version you can get. From your question, the home version is perfect for gaming and you won't really need advanced pro/premium features based on the requirements (actually lack thereof) that you listed. A benefit of going to Windows 8 now is that presumably you'll have longer to run with it before needing to upgrade to a future OS. Mark also makes a good point that Windows 8 is marketed primarily to consumers as an upgrade version, so be sure you understand your return options when buying and check into a Windows 8 system builder / OEM version if you decide to go with 8.


The Split Tunneling Set is done by the Server (VPN Concentrator) in your Company. This is the common setup. Most of the Cases you want to surf the web and this works over the vpn tunnel if you are connected. In my Company we have to use the proxy of the intranet during the vpn connection. Anyway it is not possible from the client side automatically. But if you use a proxy in the intranet, you can configure this in the properties of the vpn tunnel.


why do iPhoto, Word, and Finder open when I restart Lion?

Back up your system before trying this, in case it messes anything up, but I'd recommend this procedure:

In the Finder, press ⌘ShiftG for "Go to the folder:" then type ~/Library/Saved Application State/. Delete all the folders in Saved Application State, then press Command-I to Get File Info. In the Get File Info window, check the "locked" box. This should keep applications from restoring their state.


Start by reading this document from Apple, which explains the recovery partition in Lion. From the article:

  OS X Lion includes a new feature called Lion Recovery that includes
  all of the tools you need to reinstall Lion, repair your disk, and
  even restore from a Time Machine backup without the need for optical
  discs.

In short, if you remove this partition you'll need a Lion USB drive, or physical media to perform the actions described by Apple above.

To reclaim the space of the recovery partition follow the steps below:

Open Terminal.app
Run the commands below (omit the # and everything after)

$ diskutil list                                   # list disk partitions
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Nymeria                 499.2 GB   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3 <---
$ diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ Blank /dev/disk0s3    # Erase Recovery HD
$ diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ "Nymeria" disk0s2 disk0s3  # Merge partitions / reclaim space

One thing to note here, you can only merge consecutive partitions. If you have disk0s2 and disk0s4 running diskutil mergePartitions HFS+ "Nymeria" disk0s2 disk0s4 will merge partitions disk02s2, disk02s3, disk02s4. Also, only the data on the first partition will be preserved when merging. As an example, if your Recovery HD is disk0s3 and your OS partition is disk0s4, merging using diskutil is not possible. Use extreme caution modifying your partition table, and I'd highly recommend taking a full backup before hand.


You can do it from a previous backup saved in your computer (where is located iTunes) or from an iCloud backup.
Both the procedures can be done if and only if you previously completed a backup.

Restore from an iCloud backup

On your iOS device, go to Settings > General > Software Update. If a newer version of iOS is available, follow the onscreen instructions to download and install it.
Make sure you have a recent backup to restore from.
On your device: Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage, then tap a device listed under Backups to see the date and size of its latest backup.
In the Setup Assistant, proceed to “Set up your device,” tap Restore from a Backup, then sign in to iCloud.
Proceed to “Choose backup,” then choose from a list of available backups in iCloud.


MacOS High Sierra Messages app unread icon reappearing, causing system to hang

I think the solution can be found in DeerSteak's answer from: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/332311/100302

Quit Messages.app
Open a Terminal and:

cd ~/Library/Messages/Archive

Search for the stuck message (compare timestamp) e.g.

find . -iname 'annoying person*.ichat'

Once you've located the offender, delete it
Restart the Dock

killall Dock


Focus most recent window of pid without requiring accessibility approval

This fixes the first quirk but not the second one:

tell application "System Events"
    bundle identifier of process 1 whose id is 1234
end tell
tell application id result
    reopen
    activate
end tell

The same applies to open:

open -a "$(ps -p 1234 -o comm=)"

If there are no open windows, reopen opens a new default window, and if all windows are minimized, reopen unminimizes one window. activate makes the application frontmost.

activate and setting frontmost to true raise all windows but open -a only raises one window.

I thought

lsappinfo launch ASN="$(lsappinfo find pid=1234)"

might also work, but I'm getting a segfault when trying to launch an already running application.


How to download past purchases from old Apple ID without waiting 90 days to switch back to new Apple ID?

There is no way to lift the 90 day hold without contacting Apple support. You might not get much traction there, but it's worth a try.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204074

Turning on iTunes Match, Family Sharing, or Automatic Downloads, or when you download past purchases on your computer, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, that device becomes associated with your Apple ID.

You can avoid most of this by having a backup (eliminating the need to download past purchases) and the other items are easy to not inadvertantly turn on.


Removing the font toolbar in a new message

First go to View > Show Toolbar. Then, click this button:

That's all there is to it!


If I download OSX Lion from the app-store, is that version linked to my account?

I don't believe that your Apple ID is embedded in the installer, it may be but if it is, it doesn't matter. I downloaded Lion onto my iMac and installed it, and copied the installer to my Mac Mini (offline only computer) and installed it as well no problem. This was right when Lion came out too, and I has worked perfectly on both computers since.


I think I found the answer. Although Find iPhone app doesn't give any clue, this feature on www.icloud.com does explain it: "The location of this Mac won't be updated because it has been erased.". Looks like the behaviour is part of the product design, rationale behind the design is unclear though.


How do I change the path that is being searched for launching an application?

To answer your question, your PATH has to be modified to:

PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin:/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.4/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin

so that your shell will find
    /usr/bin/dmd
before any other one called from within one of the 2 Python library directories.

Please note: it is a dangerous practice to let any software not distributed by Apple to install anything within /usr/bin (or /bin, /sbin or /usr/sbin). This is a technic used by crapware to hide themself.


My MacBook is slow recently. How do I fix this?

It looks like you have sufficient Disk space and RAM.

If your battery is EOL (died) or not holding charge...

Mac will cut the CPU clock speed to 1/2 of maximum that will impact all and any operations.

Install Intel Power gadget to verify your CPU, this is an example of normal speed CPU.

Use the Activity Monitor to see who is responsible. Here are my examples.

Notice the Disk activity as Data/Sec

Finally about the battery (check this on your computer)


Deleting an app’s data from the iOS Keychain, or resetting the Keychain entirely

Have you tried this link? I'm pretty sure this is the answer you're looking for, this link tells you to;

  1) Open the Mac Keychain. Click Finder > Go > Utilities > Keychain
  Access.

  2) In Keychain Access, select the Passwords category on the left to
  review the list of sites and services for which you've saved a
  password.

  3) Right-click the service you want to edit/remove, then left-click
  Delete.

https://answers.uillinois.edu/68546

If you're looking to get rid of sandbox,

  1) Quit sandbox as well as its related process(es) if they are still
  running.

  2) Launch Finder on your Mac, and click Applications in the Finder
  sidebar.

  3) Search for sandbox in the /Applications folder, then drag its icon
  to the Trash icon located at the end of the Dock, and drop it there.
  Also, you can right-click/control click sandbox icon and then choose
  to Move to Trash option from the sub-menu.

  4) If prompted, enter the administrator password and hit OK to allow
  the change.

  5) Choose Finder > Empty Trash from the Menu bar. Or choose
  right-click Trash icon, choose Empty Trash, and Empty Trash again in
  the pop-up dialogue.

https://macuninstallguides.com/remove-sandbox-on-mac.html

  (Note, you don't have to install any apps to remove it)

If you want to reset the entire keychain, I recommend that you take a look at the answer on this page.

How do I delete or fix my Keychain after changing my password?


How to select part of the text of a link in Safari 14.0 on macOS 10.15.7

Not the most eloquent way of doing it but still delivers results without any extension.
Hover over link, open contextual menu (two finger press), select 'Inspect Element' (this will open split window and land you on selected element),

double click on text between span tags (to make text field 'active'), copy needed part of text, close split window.


I dismissed "For You" in iTunes 12.2 for Mac, How do I get it back?

OP Here. I found two ways to reinstate the For You tab.

There is also a setting for this in the iTunes Preferences Window after all:

Preferences > General > Show Apple Music

Alternatively, in the main menu, click Account > Apple Music…. This will make the For You tab and another New tab return. Although the content under the For You tab is now gone, and in its place there's just a button for trying Apple Music and another for Go to my Music.


Websites with heavy use of websockets skyrocket CPU usage in Safari

As troubleshooting steps, I'd try the following:

Test with another browser to see what happens. If the problem isn't repeated then you're starting to isolate the issue, although I would then try a 3rd browser for good measure to see how it also behaves.
Boot into Safe Mode (see below) and test again with Safari

Boot into Safe Mode

Follow these steps to boot your MBP into Safe Mode:

Fully shut down your Mac
Restart your Mac
Immediately press the Shift key and keep it down
Let go of the Shift key when you see the login window (NOTE: If you have FileVault enabled you may need to log in twice).
Take a note of what happens (i.e. visit the sites again with Safari and try to replicate the problem)
Exit Safe Mode by restarting your Mac as normal
Test again when booted normally

Let me know how these steps went and we'll go from there.


What's the difference between the 3 "Apple Keynotes" podcasts?

In order of increasing quality & size: Regular, HD, 1080p.

iMore forums:

  Normally when a video is referred to as HD. They are talking about
  720p. Which is a slightly lower quality compared to 1080p and if they
  say FHD (Full HD) they are talking about 1080p. I cant give you the
  exact space you need to store the videos since they can vary in
  length. But it could be over 1GB depending on the length.


Is mp3 transfer for Windows iTunes / iPhone 4s slow?

Speed is not an issue between iTunes and an iPhone. You can copy gigabytes of data (music, film,...) within minutes, just like with a standard USB-to-desktop connection on Windows or Mac.

Major advantage: the synchronisation makes it even faster if you only change a part of your music: it only copies the ones that you added for the first time: no more duplicates!


Create a file which when opens and writes a line in Terminal

What you are trying to do is write a "shell script" (in case you need to google it later on).

The first line of a shell script needs to specify what interpreter to use. In your case, use sh for the regular Bourne shell. You write this with what's called a 'shebang' like so:

#!/bin/sh

after this write whatever commands you want to run, in your case, say hello world. The shell interpreter will read this the same as if you had typed it in terminal.

In your case, your final file should be:

#!/bin/sh
say hello world

If you write this in TextEdit.app make sure you are saving in plain text mode (which is toggled through Cmd + Shift + T). You can choose to save with either the extension .command or .sh.

If you want to run it by double clicking I recommend the .command extension.

And that's it!

Possible error: if when running it you receive an error saying:

  The file “[filename]” could not be executed because you do not have
  appropriate access privileges.

you need to give yourself execute permission. To do this run:

chmod u+x path/to/my/file

If you don't know what the file-path is just type:

chmod u+x

type a space, and drag the file into the window.

If you're curious, u+x means give user (owner) execution rights.


Macbook Pro two external display, one keeps blinking/turn-black


Boot on USB from a previous version of OSX

You can't boot a version of OS X older than the version of OS X that shipped with the machine. This is because older versions of OS X do not contain the drivers required to support the newer hardware that it had no knowledge of at the time of development. The boot sequence will freeze on the Apple logo or blue screen and you will not be able to boot.


How do I hide rulers on startup for Pages?

Get a document set up exactly the way you like it, with whatever showing or not-showing that you want. Save it as a template (File: Save as Template).

If you have the template picker load on startup, then just pick that template.

If you don't, then go into Preferences, and choose that template as the template to load by default (For new documents: Use template…).

These templates can also include custom styles, canned text, etc.


How do I dual boot Windows 7 and OS X Mountain Lion on two separate drives?

Windows on internal, OS X on external

Use Internet Recovery (boot with ⌘⌥R) to obtain an install media, then select your external disk as the install destination.

You can do a normal ⌥-boot and select your external disk as the boot drive, which will boot into OS X.

OS X on internal, Windows on external

You can't use Boot Camp with an external disk, per the official user guide:

  Your Mac’s disk must be an internal disk. You cannot use Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows on an external disk.

Source: http://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1583/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.7.pdf

However, you might succeed by creating a Boot Camp partition on the internal disk, then cloning the partition to an external drive. Once the clone is done, you can delete the Boot Camp partition from the internal disk and extend your OS X partition.


How can I automatically download multiple sites through Coda?

You could easily use wget for this and script it any which way you like. Here's a quick example of how you could use it to download and overwrite one of your sites in one line:

wget ~/Sites/domain/ ftp://[username]:[password]@ftp.example.com/www/

So to do multiple websites you would use:

wget -P ~/Sites/ -i sites.txt

And your text file might look something like this:

ftp://username:password@ftp.site1.com/www/
ftp://username:password@ftp.site2.com/www/
ftp://username:password@ftp.site3.com/www/

From the wget man page:

Recursive download:
  -r,  --recursive          specify recursive download.
  -l,  --level=NUMBER       maximum recursion depth (inf or 0 for infinite).
       --delete-after       delete files locally after downloading them.
  -k,  --convert-links      make links in downloaded HTML or CSS point to
                            local files.
  -K,  --backup-converted   before converting file X, back up as X.orig.
  -m,  --mirror             shortcut for -N -r -l inf --no-remove-listing.
  -p,  --page-requisites    get all images, etc. needed to display HTML page.
       --strict-comments    turn on strict (SGML) handling of HTML comments.

Recursive accept/reject:
  -A,  --accept=LIST               comma-separated list of accepted extensions.
  -R,  --reject=LIST               comma-separated list of rejected extensions.
  -D,  --domains=LIST              comma-separated list of accepted domains.
       --exclude-domains=LIST      comma-separated list of rejected domains.
       --follow-ftp                follow FTP links from HTML documents.
       --follow-tags=LIST          comma-separated list of followed HTML tags.
       --ignore-tags=LIST          comma-separated list of ignored HTML tags.
  -H,  --span-hosts                go to foreign hosts when recursive.
  -L,  --relative                  follow relative links only.
  -I,  --include-directories=LIST  list of allowed directories.
  --trust-server-names             use the name specified by the redirection
                                   url last component.
  -X,  --exclude-directories=LIST  list of excluded directories.
  -np, --no-parent                 don't ascend to the parent directory.


13" MacBook Pro 2017 randomly shutting down

Reset the SMC

I would start by resetting the SMC on your MBP. Follow these steps:

Shut down your MBP
Press and hold the power button for at least 10 seconds
Let go of the power button and wait 5 seconds
Power up your MBP again

Once you've reset the SMC use your MBP as usual. If you still feel it's shutting down too soon or perhaps not charging as it normally would, then reset the SMC again but with the following steps instead:

Shut down your MBP
Press and hold the right shift key and the left option and control keys for 7 seconds before then also pressing and holding the power button down for another 7 seconds (i.e. the keys will end up being held down for 14 seconds, the power button for 7 seconds)
Let go of all three keys and the power button
Wait 5 seconds
Power up your MBP again

Also, macOS provides a great deal of information about your power usage. Read on to see how to access this.

Checking your charging status within macOS

Follow these steps:

Go to Apple > About This Mac
Click on the System Report... button
In the left pane under the Hardware heading, select Power (it's about 2/3 of the way down)
On the right-hand side, scroll down to view the AC Charger Information
This will show you whether it's connected to a charger, the amount of wattage it's receiving, and if it's currently charging or not


Is there a cable for MacBook Pro that functions like a docking station over USB-C connector?

I think the word you are looking for is docking station.

Otherwise, if you have a spare laptop and the meetings are within the same building or VPN-enabled (i.e. on the same network as your MBP), you could just use the native OS X VNC server/client by enabling remote administration (or whatnot) in System Preferences.  Then just leave your MBP hooked up, and on the remote machine, open a Finder window, hit Cmd+k, and type vnc://ip.or.hostname.of.your.mbp, and hit enter.

Alternately, if your company doesn't frown on it, you could use TeamViewer for remote access over the Internet.  It has built-in proxy support if you require that, as well.

If your spare is a Windows laptop, you can install xRDP for OS X, and use Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol to remote into your MBP.  I prefer RDP over VNC any day and use it almost exclusively on all of my *NIX machines.


How to change turn-by-turn navigation voice language in Google Maps for iPhone?

Unfortunately, Google Maps doesn't have Language controls built into the app. It cues off of the settings in Settings.app > General > International.

The only way to have Google Maps speak a different language is to change the actual settings in Settings.app > General > International > Language.

Of course, this doesn't take long to change, and it may be desirable to change it before using turn-by-turn for perhaps a long trip.

It would be a good idea to request that feature from Google by opening the Google Maps app and tapping the person icon in the upper right corner. Then tap "Send Feedback" and compose a request to Google.

Minor Update

You can now set voice search language in the app. There is a mic icon on the right in the search box that you can tap to basically dictate the location. While that doesn't apply to your question, perhaps that would be a first, mildly helpful step.


Is it possible to send/receive faxes directly on the iPhone?

Looks like you're looking for the iFax app (Unfortunatlly I don't have a link here at work, but if you search for it in the store it should pop up), however I've got the next best thing!

http://www.macnn.com/articles/09/07/20/ifax.iphone.app.released/


"Running Applications Only" Dock mode Stuck!

Thanks to Thecafremo who just answered my question!
(Unfortunately, I cannot mark a comment as an answer.

  Have you tried deleting that exact file? Preferences' System File are restored automatically (with default values) if not found. - Thecafremo


Activate PressAndHold for LibreOffice or OpenOffice

This feature is not supported by LibreOffice 5.3 according to this page.  It's the same for 5.4 according to my tests.  I did not try the dev version 6.0.

  EricP 2017-06-01 01:56:19 UTC Comment 8

  A few years later now... Press And Hold still does not work in
  LibreOffice, even though LibreOffice is now built against an SDK
  requiring MacOS 10.8 or higher (see comment 3).  As indicated in
  bug 42437, comment 7, just an SDK update is not enough; adding this
  feature will require some developer time.

  It is, apparently, possible to "add" Press and Hold support to some
  applications simply by typing a Terminal command similar to this:

  defaults write org.libreoffice ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

  but this does NOT enable Press and Hold in LibreOffice 5.3.


Is switching 3G/4G off to save power a cheap trick?

If you still want to be downloading stuff, then probably yes, switching off 3G probably won't save you much power / battery life. However, when my battery is running low, switching off 3G can make the difference between the battery making it until I get to a charger or not. Obviously in those conditions I stop surfing or doing anything data-related as well, but even just for being in standby and receiving or making calls, 3G uses a lot more power than GPRS / EDGE / UMTS.


Is there a better way to search the menus?

You can do this with Alfred Powerpack and Key Clue workflow. This way you can search the command in the Spotlight like behavior (while providing you with all the visible shortcuts). In fact, you can use Command+<Number Key> to quickly choose the command from search result.

I’ve actually written the similar post before, but using another workflow called Menu Bar Search, these days I use Key Clue as my primary workflow to search menu bar items.

P.S. Alfred has a built-in feature to search Safari bookmarks, but you can also develop the Key Clue workflow further to include Safari browsing history/bookmarks.


OSX ssh-agent: no password pasting, and problem with PKCS#8?

The dialog for ssh-agent can be circumvented by adding the key in the console/terminal: ssh-add ~/.ssh/id_rsa. You can then paste the password into the terminal. Also, adding the -K option to ssh-add will save it to the keychain as per Oliver Lacans comment.
As mattmcmanus said, id_rsa encryption using PKCS seems to be broken on OSX Mavericks ssh-agent. The fast workaround is to decrypt the keyfile, and encrypt it again with the standard ssh procedure (Key-derivation method: MD5...):

mv id_rsa id_rsa.pkcs
openssl rsa -in id_rsa.pkcs -out id_rsa
# enter passphrase to decrypt
chmod 0600 id_rsa
ssh-keygen -f id_rsa -p
# enter passphrase to encrypt again


Will I still receive push notifications if I remove an app?

That is correct—the device won't be delivered notifications if you remove the app.


The Apple Magic Keyboard does not have key illumination like the MacBook [Pro] and iPad Magic Keyboard do.


IPhone App or OS function to stop all apps

Since you mentioned GPS apps specifically, you can turn off Core Location ("Location Services") in the settings app.

Each app runs in it's own sandbox and is totally oblivious to other apps. There's no way with public APIs to know of other apps, so a "task killer" such as you might have on Android isn't possible on iOS.

Generally, a well-written app will not use excessive background resources. If you can find out which app is sucking resources, I'd recommend sending a support ticket into the developer and let them know what's going on. From my own personal experience as a developer, I'd love to know what I'm doing that makes my users upset, so this is win for both you and h(im|er).

The bottom line, though, is that you're stuck manually killing them. :(


How (or where) I can set keyboard shortcut to "add new desktop place"

You could use this script then make a shortcut to it in Automator.

In Mavericks, Applescript to create a new Space in Mission Control

delay 0.5 -- time to release command if the script is run with command-R
tell application "System Events"
    key code 126 using control down -- control-up
    delay 1
    do shell script "MouseTools -x 1900 -y 60;sleep 1;MouseTools -leftClickNoRelease;MouseTools -releaseMouse"
    key code 53 -- escape
end tell

source https://stackoverflow.com/a/22873544

Get the MouseTools


Is it possible to automatically configure multiple iPads with the same settings?

iPhone Configuration Utility

You can use Apple's free iPhone Configuration Utility on Mac or Windows to create custom .XML configuration profiles for the iPad and install them to iPads over USB. I do not know which specific parameters you will have access to configure.

There is also a third-party MDM (Mobile Device Manager) server platform for rolling out custom apps and the like. That would probably be way overkill for your needs.

Apple white paper, "Deploying iPhone and iPad in Business" . (PDF)

Update

March 7, 2012--Apple has released a new program called Configurator for mass deployment of iPads and iPhones in school, businesses, and institutions. It is free in the Mac App Store.


iCloud Calendar sync error 400 on OS X 10.10.2

Lets try this to Reset your iCal operations.

Back up calendars and Disable calendars in iCloud Preferences  :

Go to:

~/Library/Calendars
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.CalendarAgent
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iCal.plist

Move all to the desktop.

Restart.


macOS Sierra 10.12.6 not saving Screenshots

I figured it out. I have the latest mac, that comes with the Touch Bar. So I noticed that when a press command+shift+4 (without the control, so it should save directly to the desktop) my Touch Bar shows this:

So, as you can see, it was saving to the Clipboard, instead of the Desktop (I probably did this by touching the Touch Bar unintentionally). Then, if you did everything that I wrote at my question and nothing happened, probably this is your problem too.

How to solve this:

Press command+shift+4, so your Touch Bar will look like the image above.
So, all you got to do is change the option that is selected at the Save to: section to Desktop.

Doing this, both command+shift+3 and command+shift+4 will now save your Screen Shots to the Desktop.


how to restore Desktop files from iCloud

System Preferences... -> iCloud -> Options -> iCloud Drive -> Select the checkbox for Desktop & Document Folders.


Is there a limit to how long Xcode will run an app on a device, before "Finishing"?

I would submit the app to TestFlight so you aren’t running in a constrained fashion. I know no way to circumvent this timeout but hopefully someone else will edit this post or answer if there is a better way (by hook or by crook if necessary).


sudo port deactivate py-* and active should do what you want. Note that py-* packages in MacPorts are usually just placeholders for the versioned ports, e.g. py27-*, so you might want to deactivate those, too.


How do you delete a page in Notability for iPhone?

UPDATE:

I asked Ginger labs and they said:

  Yes, you are correct. You can only delete pages on iPad and Mac. We see how adding this to iPhone would be helpful. We'll add this to the list of possibilities for the future. Thanks for your feedback!

On the iPad, if you click on the top right icon (the one that looks like pages, not the paintbrush one), you'll see a bunch of thumbnails. (My screenshot is from the Mac app, but the layout is similar.) This is the "page navigator icon".

Now you should see red "x" circles on different pages. Tap those and you can delete a particular page.

Ginger Labs Support: Can I Insert, Delete, or Clear a Page?


iTerm2 doesn't read com.googlecode.iterm2.plist

Preferences are cached in 10.9. See http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20130908042828630. If you edit a plist file directly or replace the plist of an application, the application will keep using the cached version even after you quit and reopen the application.

You can run defaults read com.googlecode.iterm2 or killall cfprefsd to apply the changes:

Quit iTerm
Edit the plist
Run defaults read com.googlecode.iterm2 or killall cfprefsd
Open iTerm

Changes made with defaults are applied after you just quit and reopen an application like in earlier versions of OS X.


Stuck in recovery mode and unable to install OS X El Capitan

Everything you said tells me "hard drive failure." It is not uncommon for a system to have boot issues when the hard drive is failing. The fact that you can't see the other partition and "this item is temporarily unavailable makes it sound like that's the issue.

Often when you try to reinstall the OS with a failing hard drive, you will get errors. This is primarily due to the hard drive having to write a file (the new OS) to the entire hard drive, whereas if you're using it, you're only accessing specific parts of the hard drive. You may have been avoiding that one "failing" spot, but when reinstalling the OS, it hit it.

I'd highly recommend taking it to an Apple Store or AASP (Apple Authorized Service Provider) and have them run a diagnostics check on it to verify. Or if you have an external bootable usb drive, attempt to boot into that.


The environment a cron job runs in is quite a bit different from an interactive shell; it's likely that the script is running, but not successfully. One of the biggest differences are that for cron jobs, the default PATH is just "/usr/bin:/bin", so if you use any commands that aren't in /usr/bin or /bin, they won't be found unless your script either sets its own PATH, or supplies explicit paths to commands. The other big difference is simply that it's not connected to an interactive session, so if it tries to do anything interactive (read from the terminal, etc) that'll fail. Try changing the cron entry to:

*/2 * * * * /Users/[my user]/Dropbox/htdocs/auto-update.sh >>/tmp/auto-update.log 2>&1

...and see if anything informative shows up in the log.


Apple's Profile Manager (MDM) and Guided Access

This is actually a bug in iOS 8 (and 8.1). If you have guided access enabled when updating from iOS 7 it stops working. The fix is to turn it off, reboot the device, then turn it back on again.


The TC router really isn't as great as it could be, I would go back to using the belkin as your wireless network and have the TC running from it.

I have a 500gb TC used on a SKY router, I have used it as a router, but also found it was slow.


Calling AppleScript routine using osascript

Found a workaround. Not clean, but it works. In my case with Python:
import subprocess

with open("script.scpt") as applescript:
    subprocess.run(["/usr/bin/osascript", "-e", f"{applescript.read()}\nmyHandler()"])````


Finally, I found a solution by using PF.

(1) edit PF configuration

sudo vim /etc/pf.conf

Append the following line to the file:

block drop from any to <IP Address>

For example: block drop from any to 8.8.8.8

(2) Load the config by running

sudo pfctl -f /etc/pf.conf

(3) Enable PF by running:

sudo pfctl -e

(*) If you want to disable PF, run:

sudo pfctl -d


iCloud for Windows 10: Unable to change location of Shared Photos folder

After digging through the registry, I found the key that sets this location in Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Apple Inc.\Internet Services\iCloud Photos\Settings. The way to fix this is to change the value of SharingPath to the desired location.


Something keeps waking up my Mac, how do I find out what it is?

You can see a log of power events with pmset -g log or or syslog.

$ pmset -g log | grep ' Wake  ' | tail -n5
10/29/12 10:31:20 PM GMT Wake      Wake due to EHC2/HID Activity: Using BATT (Charge:99%)
10/30/12 12:51:56 AM GMT Wake      Wake due to EC.LidOpen/Lid Open: Using BATT (Charge:68%)
10/30/12 8:50:33 AM GMT+ Wake      Wake due to EC.LidOpen/Lid Open: Using AC (Charge:100%)
10/30/12 5:12:32 PM GMT+ Wake      Wake due to EC.LidOpen/Lid Open: Using AC (Charge:99%)
10/31/12 12:58:01 PM GMT Wake      DarkWake to FullWake due to HID Activity: Using AC (Charge:44%)
$ syslog | grep 'Wake reason' | tail -n5
Oct 30 03:14:26 MacBook-Air kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)
Oct 30 17:12:05 MacBook-Air kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ?
Oct 30 17:12:31 MacBook-Air kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.LidOpen (User)
Oct 30 23:08:18 MacBook-Air kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: EC.ACAttach EHC2 (Maintenance)
Oct 31 12:57:52 MacBook-Air kernel[0] <Debug>: Wake reason: ?

The post at OS X Daily has descriptions of the abbreviations.

  OHC: stands for Open Host Controller, is usually USB or Firewire. If you see OHC1 or OHC2 it is almost certainly an external USB keyboard or mouse that has woken up the machine.
  EHC: standing for Enhanced Host Controller, is another USB interface, but can also be wireless devices and bluetooth since they are also on the USB bus of a Mac.
  USB: a USB device woke the machine up
  LID0: this is literally the lid of your MacBook or MacBook Pro, when you open the lid the machine wakes up from sleep.
  PWRB: PWRB stands for Power Button, which is the physical power button on your Mac
  RTC: Real Time Clock Alarm, is generally from wake-on-demand services like when you schedule sleep and wake on a Mac via the Energy Saver control panel. It can also be from launchd setting, user applications, backups, and other scheduled events.


Backup Mac OS partition to NTFS: are there any drawbacks?

If connected directly to your Mac, you may need to install something like MacFuse and NTFS-3G or Tuxera NTFS to be able to write to NTFS partitions. Per Apple Support:

  Mac OS X can read and write FAT volumes, but can only read NTFS volumes.

If the drive is connected over the network, then your main issues will probably be network speed/latency, authentication, and the size of the backup data compared to the size of the drive.


Is there a simple way to have separate dock icons for different Chrome Profiles?

For having two Chrome running at the same time you need to create a second runnable Google Chrome App.

You can create that second application by running the following script. It comes from this site, I copy and paste for readers' convenience:

#!/bin/bash

PROFILE_NAME=$1
mkdir -p "/Applications/Google Chrome $1.app/Contents/MacOS"

F="/Applications/Google Chrome $1.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome $1"
cat > "$F" <<\EOF
#!/bin/bash

#
# Google Chrome for Mac with additional profile.
#

# Name your profile:
EOF

echo "PROFILE_NAME='$PROFILE_NAME'\n" >> "$F"

cat >> "$F" <<\EOF
# Store the profile here:
PROFILE_DIR="/Users/$USER/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/${PROFILE_NAME}"

# Find the Google Chrome binary:
CHROME_APP=$(mdfind 'kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == "com.google.Chrome"' | head -1)
CHROME_BIN="$CHROME_APP/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome"
if [[ ! -e "$CHROME_BIN" ]]; then
  echo "ERROR: Can not find Google Chrome.  Exiting."
  exit -1
fi

# Start me up!
exec "$CHROME_BIN" --enable-udd-profiles --user-data-dir="$PROFILE_DIR"
EOF

sudo chmod +x "$F"

Save it in a file (let's say create_second_chrome.sh in the Desktop folder), open the shell and execute it by passing as parameter the profile folder you want to associate to the second Chrome App. It will be called Google Chrome profile_folder_name. Let's suppose Google Chrome Development:

$ cd ~/Desktop
$ . create_second_chrome.sh Development

Now you can launch the new version of Chrome (Google Chrome Development) from the ~/Applications directory. You can set a different icon by right-clicking on the app and selecting 'Get Info'. You will see that this new version has its own icon on the dock and can be docked there if needed.


You can create such a virtual camera device by using the Webcamoid software:

https://webcamoid.github.io/

It supports the virtual camera feature in version 8.5.0 and later.


Can I still use a damaged Magsafe power cable?

With the looming possibility that any advice you get from here could cause damage to your machine, I'll prefix my answer with a disclaimer that you should probably confirm with an official source or advice from Apple directly.

So long as the visible damage is limited to the insulation, you should be fine with electrical tape (as opposed to duct tape). The silver wire you see (likely braided) is used to prevent interference and is used as a ground.


Safari 12 Mac: does IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1 still work?

Applications (including Terminal) do not get "full disk access" (e.g. your user files) any more in Mojave.

Try to grant Terminal access in...
System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Full Disk Access

Unlock the system preference panel, by clicking the lock at the bottom left and filling in your password. Then either drag and drop Terminal.app onto the window, or navigate to it by clicking the plus sign (+).

Then launch Terminal and try your command again.


iTunes Connect - Release time if app is set to specific launch date?

You can set only the date because it's impossible to release an app in a minute. From the pression of release button to effective global availability takes a few hour: there's the "preparation for the store" state which takes some minutes then your app start appearing in some stores all around the world but, if you try to get, you can get some errors then, in more or less 2-3 hours, it's stably on sale all around the world.

Same thing from prices change.

That's the history of an update of my app:

  Feb. 24, 2015 13:33      Me....      Waiting for review

  Mar. 03, 2015 08:35      Apple   In review

  Mar. 03, 2015 09:40      Apple   Preparing for App Store

  Mar. 03, 2015 09:45      Apple   Ready for Sale

But it took a few hours more to be effective available...


Settings for iPhone 5S Text Message comes over as email

Messages are always received in grey, regardless of if they are iMessages (from a phone number or email address) or text messages.

But to get the messages sending from your number, not your email:

Go to Settings
Scroll down and tap "Messages"
Scroll down and tap "Send & Receive"
Make sure only your phone number is checked off in the "Start New Conversations From" section.
(It may also be worth unchecking your email address(es) from the "You Can Be Reached By iMessage At" section as well... though I don't think this should be required).


You can enable "Develop" menu in Preferences > Advanced.

Then you can select choose the User Agent to be iPhone or whatever.

And then resize the window appropriately:

Edit: This doesn't get around the minimum width for the window. Here is a workaround. Go to View > Show Sidebar. This pulls out the sidebar, which can be resized making the viewport smaller.


Google Calendar failing to sync on a specific account

I actually fixed my problem by deleting and re-creating my user account. I chose to keep the home folder in place and used it as an existing folder when I created the replacement account.

While I was troubleshooting everything I was monitoring the logs and saw no error specific error messages. The only thing that looked suspicious was a message about CalendarAgent returning status 4. I wasn't able to find a reference for that status message.

If I understand it correctly, the problem would had to have been in the /var/db/ directory in order to get fixed by an account deletion.


Deleted hidden files and now Mac won't boot, how do I fix this?

They're hidden for a reason, & that reason is because you shouldn't go anywhere near them if you don't know what you're doing.

To repair the installation…
At Boot, hold  Cmd ⌘    R  & go to Recovery, or Internet Recovery if that doesn't work.

See About OS X Recovery
Extract:
OS X Recovery includes a built in set of utilities as part of the Recovery System.
You can use OS X Recovery to do the following:

Restore your Mac from a Time Machine backup.
Verify and repair connected drives using Disk Utility.
Check your Internet connection or get help online using Safari.
Install or reinstall OS X.

I would suggest you should attempt in that order, probably ignoring 'verify & repair' as you know exactly why the files are no longer there.

To recover invisible files from Time Machine, you would first need to set the Finder to 'show invisibles' which can be done from Terminal or by Applescript - though I'm not certain how you would do that from the recovery startup.

Failing that, the only option would be to reinstall OS X, either from the Recovery partition or via Internet Recovery - this will replace only the System files, your data will not be affected.


Erase certain messages in Messages on OS X

Deleting messages on an iOS device doesn't delete them from any other device.

You can remove message threads by clicking the × on the right of the contact.

You can remove individual messages by right-clicking the message and selecting Delete.


Removing data without formatting the iPhone

Assuming you're not talking about a very old iPhone (i.e. iPhone 5 or older), then every file created by any app is actually encrypted on disk. The plain text content is not stored on disk at any time.

In addition, every file is encrypted with a unique key - i.e. there's a seperate key for each file. The key for the file is stored alongside the encrypted file contents, but encrypted with a so called "class key" (depending on the settings in the app). This is the foundation of the key hierarchy in Apple's "Data Protection" scheme.

When you delete an app manually, all the files stored locally by that app are deleted. This deletion of each individual file is actually done by simply deleting the per-file key. This makes it possible to delete even very large files quickly and securely at the same time.


Is there an app that creates a system-wide audio equalizer?

I didn't want to pay to have an equalizer so I developed my own one and giving it away for free! Click  here to download eqMac!
The app is signed by Apple and works for OSX 10.9 and higher!


How do you replace commands in the terminal?

You should be able to do the same as your were doing in Linux in macOS.
As an example, if using bash, adding
alias vscode="open -a 'Visual Studio Code'"

to your .bash_profile file will let you just type vscode in Terminal  to open Visual Studio Code.

Note: If you are running macOS Catalina, or later, and have not installed a more recent version of bash and are using the default zsh shell, then put aliases in your ~/.zprofile, or the appropriate file for the shell you are running.
Also, you might want to read Visual Studio Code on macOS to add the code executable to your PATH or path, depending on your shell.


Prevent Safari from transforming downloaded CSV files to Numbers files

Safari does not post process files or transform them. It saves them exactly as the web server sends them or it throws an error code.

The worst thing Safari could do is decide the file is “Safe” and open it in the default application. You should disable opens safe files on Safari and then re-download the files in question.

Finder controls which apps open which file, so if you decide to re-enable “open safe files” be sure to chose TextEdit or another file to open .csv files or delete Numbers so that there’s no default Application for these files.

In more detail on the Finder opening - macOS keeps track of which apps open specific file types. When Numbers is installed, Apple matches all .CSV files to Numbers. To change this, Get Info (⌘-I) on a .CSV file in the Finder and perform the following:

under Open With dropdown, select a different app to open this type of file (TextEdit, BBEdit, SublimeText, Atom, etc.)
click on Change All... button
click on Continue


This problem borns during importation, importing lot of songs (as an entire album) with just one drag on iTunes will brings iTunes to "overwork" and it will import tracks "cutted". The only solution I've found is to delete this songs from iTunes and reimport them in iTunes one to one and now they play correctly!


Unable to boot Mac OS and disk utility unable to repair disk after bootcamp delete win10

You were close. The correct commands are given below.
gpt remove -i 2 disk0
gpt -f add -i 2 -b 76806 -s 122061322 -t apfs disk0

The question you gave as a link had a drive with a 512 byte sector size. Your drive has a 4096 byte sector size. The means your APFS container partition starts at sector 76806 instead of the value you choose of 409640. You can see this in the image you posted in step 8. Here you posted the output from the command gpt -v -r show /dev/disk0. In a typical macOS installation, there would be no free space between the two partitions.
Generally, running any application or command from a older version of macOS to repair a drive containing a newer version of macOS is not a good idea. On my 2018 Mac mini, I have Mojave and Big Sur installed in the same APFS container. When I run diskutil verifyVolume disk0s2 using Mojave and again using Big Sur, I get different results. Mojave incorrectly finds errors and Big Sur does not.  Using Mojave to try repairing an APFS container with Big Sur installed could more damage than good. In your case, I do not know if any of your attempts at repair damaged the contents of the drive.


Yes, headphones are headphones and the audio jack is standardized (see this Wikipedia article for more details).


Help mac share files with XP machine on different subnets

There is USBG-MAC-PC cable which does exactly what you want. It doesn't require installation of any drivers or any intervention of your company admins.

Here some guy shows how it works: http://www.usbgear.com/link/index.html .
Note, that he shows different cable model, the one that you need is on the bottom of the page.


Restoring a new iPhone via iCloud post-setup?

Since this appears to be a defect in Apple's software with no non-hacky solution, I thought I would share how I worked around this issue to achieve semi-restoration:

Photos: I first imported my photos from my iCloud photostream to iPhoto using this tutorial. Then I went to iTunes --> iPhone --> Photos and checked "Sync Photos from iPhoto." Further, oddly enough, after linking iCloud to my iPhone again post-setup, a photo stream was synced with my phone, albeit missing a lot of photos. But iPhoto was able to load them all, so it didn't really matter.
Contacts: Luckily I had my contacts already synced with my Mac Contacts app. So to add my existing contacts all I had to do was go to iTunes --> iPhone --> Info and check "Sync Contacts."
Calendar: I use Google calendar, so this was as simple as setting up my email again. However, even if you relied on your iPhone calendar, I believe this issue can be resolved by going to iTunes --> iPhone --> Info and selecting "Sync Calendar."
Notes: Once I linked my iCloud to my phone post-setup, these notes automatically synced from the Notes Mac app.

What I was unable to sync:

Messages. Unfortunate but not really that important.
Applications. But these can easily be re-downloaded.