Running one more display when MacBook is in clamshell mode

Here is some documentation.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5219?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US#dispnum

Specifically this, noting the footnotes. I've done some editing for readability:

How many Apple Thunderbolt Displays can I use with my Mac in OS X?

The table below indicates how many Thunderbolt displays can be connected to Thunderbolt-capable Mac computers in OS X.

Computer    Maximum number of connected displays
Thunderbolt-capable Macs with only Intel HD Graphics 3000 integrated graphics can support one connected Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch):

  MacBook Air (Mid 2011),
  MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) and (13-inch, Late 2011),
  Mac mini (Mid 2011), 2.3 GHz,
  Mac mini with Lion Server (Mid 2011)

Thunderbolt-capable Macs that can support up to two connected Apple Thunderbolt Displays.

  MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012),
  MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012),
  MacBook Pro (15-inch and 17-inch, Early 2011) and later,
  MacBook Air (Mid 2012),
  iMac (Mid 2011),
  Mac mini (Mid 2011), 2.5 GHz,

Note: The F8 key does not work when using Windows with a USB keyboard connected to an Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch).

1 You can connect a second Apple Thunderbolt Display (27-inch) to a MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011) and (13-inch, Late 2011), but the built-in display on the MacBook Pro will go dark. This is expected behavior.

2 iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) with two Thunderbolt ports supports a total of two Thunderbolt displays regardless of which Thunderbolt port each display is connected to.

3 Mac mini with AMD graphics can support an HDMI compatible device on its HDMI port when using two Thunderbolt displays.

4 MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012) can support an HDMI-compatible device on its HDMI port while also using two Thunderbolt displays.

And here's an OWC article with an image showing a MacBook Pro with Retina that has three attached displays plus the built-in.

http://blog.macsales.com/14241-macbook-pro-15-with-retina-display-can-run-3-external-displays


You would have to add fonts to your iOS device which contain the characters which are missing.  This can be done with various apps from the app store, like Anyfont.

You might try the font Symbola.


Remote access of an iPad display from another iPad

The iOS security sandbox will prevent any App store app from sharing the screen of any other app on a stock iPad.  However the built-in AirPlay mirroring will allow a user to send a mirror of their iPad display to an Apple TV.


Photo sharing with offline viewing for the iPad

Dropbox would probably do this. Or at least some of this.

It is possible to set up several Dropbox accounts (i.e., one for you and one for different family members) and share folders between those accounts. This would enable you to upload photos and they would be shared immediately in the shared folder.

Dropbox provides a Photos folder which can be organised into a web album for viewing via the web page or in the iOS app. The most recent release of the iOS app has just included photo cacheing so that it doesn't need to be online to show photos.

Not entirely sure that this would be a great solution but it might solve some of the issues. Also, not entirely sure that the sharing and photo features work quite as I have described but would be worth experimenting with.

This link explains how to set it up: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/quickly-set-share-beautiful-photo-galleries-dropbox/


It appears this solution only works on 10.9 Mavericks…

Select a note, then press ⌘ cmd + F and type your search.

This will not work for 'pinned' notes that have been opened outside of the Notes app.


Is it possible to install Xcode 7 in 10.9 OS X?

If you really wish to remain on Mavericks and not upgrade to El Capitan I would suggest installing it on an external drive or partitioning your main drive just for a test. Make a new 60 gb partition(just in case you actually like El Capitan) and if you are not satisfied with its productivity, trash it. I guess you could use it just as a "developer" OS and switch to it only when you'll be using it but that in my opinion would be inconvenient. I am using El Capitan on 2008 MacBook Pro the OS itself runs perfectly. The startup is a bit slow compared to most newer computers and the CPU isn't the best(2x2.4Ghz) but it works fine for such an old machine.


How to make a Mac (Macbook Pro) not hibernate?

This behavior is documented by Apple at Mac computers: Progress bar appears after waking from sleep:

  With the release of the OS X Mountain Lion v10.8.2 supplemental update 2.0, a new feature was introduced to enter safe sleep after four hours of the computer being connected to AC power. This is an effort to comply with the European Energy Standards (ErP Lot6). This will only occur if there is no wireless or Ethernet activity and no activity from external devices such as USB storage devices.

  This is normal behavior for the following units:

  MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 and later)
  MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012 and later)
  MacBook Air (Mid 2012 and later)
  iMac (Late 2012 and later)
  Mac mini (Late 2012 and later)

To disable this, turn autopoweroff in the sleep settings by running the following command in Terminal (under /Applications/Utilities):

sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 0

The -a option disables auto poweroff for the Mac while on the charger as well as on battery. Use -c (instead of -a) to disable auto poweroff only when it's plugged in.


Pair with a Bluetooth device over Terminal

blueutil (available via HomeBrew) is the answer. I just used it following the guidelines in this blog post.

In my case, I had an iMac with macOS Catalina that had no trackpad paired. I was stuck at the "Send Apple Crash Analytics?" screen with no keyboard controls. Using SSH, I connected to the machine and used the following commands to pair and then connect the trackpad without access to the GUI. (First, I had to turn the trackpad into Discoverable mode. The default PIN for Apple pointer devices is 0000.)

% blueutil --inquiry
address: d0-a6-xx-xx-xx-xx, not connected, not favourite, not paired, name: "-", recent access date: -
% blueutil --pair d0-a6-xx-xx-xx-xx
Type pin code (up to 16 characters) for "Cheshire, Josh’s Trackpad" (d0-a6-xx-xx-xx-xx) and press Enter: 0000
% blueutil --connect d0-a6-xx-xx-xx-xx

At that point, the trackpad worked.


Is it advisable to calibrate the battery on a iPhone?

According to this Apple Support Communities user tip:

  So what are the "rules" for charging? The most basic one is charge
  whenever you want to, for a long as you want to. There's no reason to
  let the device drain completely before charging (in fact, it's a bad
  idea to do that on a regular basis), and there's no need to wait until
  it reaches 100% before removing it from the power source.  You can
  charge when it's at 40% and disconnect when it reaches 80%, or any
  other values, without hurting the phone. And you don't have to turn it
  off to charge it; in fact, you shouldn't.

There is no reason to calibrate the battery.


How do I prevent Facebook on iOS 7 from accessing my location?

Indeed @cksum appears to be correct. I just tested this on my dev device that's never had Facebook installed. The app said that it knew my location and showed the blue location icon, but didn't show in the list of apps in Location Services.

I pressed 'send' and got the 'Facebook wants to use your location' message, which I accepted and now the app is in the list and allowed me to switch it off.

In conclusion, yes it appears that Facebook doesn't request the actual location data until you press send, at which point the app is added to the list in Settings.


No. Preview does not respect the PDF Initial View metadata. Other Readers, such as Skim and PDFPen Pro, also do not. Instead, all of these apps open at page 1 and then remember the last page viewed for the next time the document is opened. Foxit Reader does respect the Initial View.

Your best solution is to provide a Table of Contents (aka Bookmarks, Outlines), so that users can easily click to the desired page.

It's worth noting that Preview's own 'Bookmarks' are not PDF-standard, and will not be displayed by any other PDF Viewer.


How can I get my 13 inch MBP (A1425) to display 4k?

Straight from the Apple Spec Sheet for that model:

  Dual display and video mirroring: Simultaneously supports full native resolution on the built-in display and up to 2560 by 1600 pixels on up to two external displays, at millions of colors

Looks like that model does not support 4K displays


Do the intel Macbooks have an option for Hibernation?

Except in the most general way it is better not to translate terms like 'hibernate' and 'shut down' from Windows to macOS. Macs does not 'hibernate' in the same way as older versions of Windows - it is better to think of macOS having stages of sleep.  The final stage can be considered as hibernation.
Shutdown, too, is different on Macs and Windows. When you shut down Windows 10, it writes its state to disk (i.e. hibernates) ready for a rapid startup. On the other hand, macOS does a full shutdown, closing all applications, stopping system processes and halting.
Having got that out of the way:
On a MacBook there are these stages of sleep:

Sleep or memory sleep: This is what happens when you close the lid or let the computer idle for some time. Power to display, disk, and other systems is turned off;
Standby or Safe Sleep: Memory state is written to disk and after a certain period memory power is turned off (standard 3 hours);
Hibernation: All power is off, all state has been written to a disk image. You know this has happened if when you open the Mac you see the Mac icon, and then see a progress bar while it is loading state from disk.

Thus the macOS 'Sleep' action includes a hibernation phase as a final step.  Mostly macOS avoids the final hibernation stage to ensure rapid start when opening the lid.
My Intel MacBook never hibernates - it probably would if I left it for many days with the lid shut (but not turned off).
Though I don't have an M1 MacBook, I suspect that allowing a hibernate state will not make a lot of difference in practice.
At this point the question is answered, but to continue a somewhat further:
The pmset command does have an option called hibernatemode which is just one parameter for controlling sleep. This can have 3 values (this is an extract from man pmset:

hibernatemode = 0 by default on desktops. The system will not back memory up to persistent storage. The system must wake from the contents of memory; the system will lose context on power loss. This is, historically, plain old sleep.

hibernatemode = 3 by default on portables. The system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and will power memory during sleep. The system will wake from memory, unless a power loss forces it to restore from hibernate image.

hibernatemode = 25 is only settable via pmset. The system will store a copy of memory to persistent storage (the disk), and will remove power to memory. The system will restore from disk image. If you want "hibernation" - slower sleeps, slower wakes, and better battery life, you should use this setting.

For MacBooks there are just the two values: 3 and 25.
My memory is that 25 was introduced about 15 years ago, but went out of favour for more recent Macs. It is strongly recommended not to use 25 as 1) it can cause issues when waking due to FileVault, and 2) makes for a slow restart.
To control the stages of sleep, it is best to leave hibernatemode as 3, and to modify other parameters of pmset. This is mostly to control the timing of sleep stages, but also whether the Mac wakes up for network activity whilst the lid is closed.
I am going to firmly consider tuning of sleep parameters as outside the scope of the question.
As a final point, you can investigate what macOS is doing while sleeping with one of these two similar commands:
pmset -g log | grep -e "Wake from" -e "DarkWake" -e "due to"
pmset -g log | egrep "\b(Sleep|Wake*|DarkWake|Start)\s{2,}"
You may be surprised at how much activity is going on whilst asleep.


How do I send a Ctrl+Alt+Delete when connected from the Screen Sharing app to a Windows computer?

After some searching, I found the answer.  On the mac keyboard, you have to press

Ctrl + Option (Alt) + Command + Delete

ctrl+option (alt)+command ⌘+delete ⌦


I fixed the problem by doing the following steps in this video. Here is the link to the video on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjxAgiNqkDM


if i have used someone elses apple id to download an app, will it erase when i update my phone on itunes?

The app will not be erased and you can use it. But as Tetsujin said, you cannot update the app to the latest version without your friend's app Apple Id.


How are iOS apps actually opened from their sleep state?

Because the action of quitting an app actually uses some battery power in the process of doing so (e.g. clearing it from RAM, etc) and then again later when the app is launched again, iOS is designed so that it’s usually best to leave apps open.

Now, even though they’re open, they’re really just sitting in a type of suspended mode that isn’t using any battery power whatsoever. So, while the app is still loaded in RAM and taking space, it’s not actually doing anything - it’s just lying there dormant.

For this reason you only need to quit apps if they're not working properly (e.g. an app has frozen, it isn't displaying properly, etc).

So, usually apps listed within the App Switcher are not necessarily running - in fact most of them are not running at all. Most apps in the App Switcher are in a suspended state - this means they're not: visible on screen, executing code, using the CPU or GPU, or using the battery. However, they are still resident in memory until they are purged (if necessary) by the system to free up memory.

Now, what happens here is that the last screen displayed by most apps is what's stored in this suspended state. So, the screenshot you're seeing is not really a screenshot per se, but the last known state displayed by the app prior to it being suspended.

See below reference for further info:

  Suspended - The app is in the background but is not executing code. The system moves apps to this state automatically and does not notify them before doing so. While suspended, an app remains in memory but does not execute any code. When a low-memory condition occurs, the system may purge suspended apps without notice to make more space for the foreground app.

Source: See Table 2-3 in Apple's App Programming Guide for iOS: Execution States for Apps.


Do what the error says, run the following command:

port -f activate libiconv


MacPorts can't recognize Xcode version properly

You need to run xcode-select --switch [path] as descriped here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9600615/xcode-stops-working-after-set-xcode-select-switch

And here is Apples documentation: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/xcode-select.1.html


How can I add new folders to the Favorites in the Finder sidebar?

Drag the folder to the desired position in the sidebar. This adds the folder to the sidebar in every current and future Finder window, as well as Finder Open/Save windows/sheets.

Removal is done by dragging the folder from the sidebar out to the side.


Disk Utility vs Carbon Copy Cloner - How to clone your drive with Apple's built-in app

DiskUtility is pretty bare-bones when it comes to duplication. You can use it to create a clone, but you have to kick it off manually, and that's about the limit of its features.

Both CCC and SuperDuper have a pretty similar feature set, which includes a lot of features required for convenient backups, like:

Scheduling
Filtering files
Support for bootable volumes
Scripting before and after the run (do something more custom)
Mount/unmount the drives so they don't normally appear on your desktop
Smart copying - only copies changes, not the whole drive. This makes it much quicker.
Block-copy of the drive - available in certain cases. Identical copy, not file based.

Under the covers both are very much like (or perhaps implement) rsync. This is a free command-line tool included with OS X which you can use to duplicate drives. But, requires you to use the command line and learn the options. Not all that obvious or intuitive, but works very well.

Anyway, to answer the question:

Be aware - this will wipe the target drive

Find the target drive you want in Disk Utility
Click onto the Restore tab
Drag the source drive over to where it says Source (drive you're backing up)
Drag the Target drive to Destination (drive you're writing the backup TO).

THIS DRIVE GETS WIPED

Click Restore

As you can see, for each back-up, you have to do it all manually. With CCC, and other tools, you can schedule it to happen when you're away, as often as you want. eg. every night at 2am. You can also have multiple backups of different data to different place. eg. Whole drive weekly, and your important docs nightly.


trying to delete an app found in 'system information' but it wont delete

I figured it out, it was part of the Steam app. You need to remove it from there. In the end it was not fully downloaded so it didn't take up 20+ GB but only a few MB. So I guess this estimation is not always entirely accurate. Stay safe everyone


Transferring all music from iPhone to iPhone

When you connect your new phone on iTunes, click on the phone in the left column and then click on the Music tab at the top of the page:

Make sure that the Entire music library radio button is selected (unlike in the screen shot) and no other option. This setting may have been inherited from your old phone.


The 2nd generation iPod touch can’t be upgraded to iOS 5.

One PDF reader that still works on pre-iOS 5 devices is GoodReader, although according to their site it requires iOS 4.3.

If you connect your iPod touch to iTunes, then there should be an option to update to iOS 4.3. The instructions in this Apple Support article explain how to update an iOS 4 device (see Update your device using iTunes).

There may be other PDF readers that can run on iOS 4 devices, but I don’t know of any by name. Pre-iOS 5 devices are now a very thin sliver of the iOS installed base, so most developers have dropped support for them.


Can iPhone 12 be used safely in pouring rain?

According to the Technical Specifications of the iPhone 12, the splash, water, and dust resistance is rated as follows:

Rated IP68 (maximum depth of 6 meters up to 30 minutes) under IEC standard 60529

(I picked the minimum ratings - iPhone 12 as a baseline)
What does this mean?
IP68 ratings means the following:

The first digit, 6:  Protection from contact with harmful dust
The second digit, 8: Protected from immersion in water with a depth of more than 1 meter (manufacturer must specify exact depth)

For dirt and debris, this means that some dust that's kicked up from a gust of wind is fine.  Going through a sand storm in the desert is not.  As for water, this means you can safely submerge your phone in water about 18 feet deep (deep end of a pool) for about 30 mins (10 mins longer than the 20 required for you to stay out after you eat).
Can you go swimming with it? Not really. These ratings are for water and it doesn't cover chemicals like chlorine or the salinity of ocean water. Can you drop it in your tankard of ale? Nope. It's not certified for booze.
Can you use it in the shower? It depends, if it's just the standard (builder) shower head that you get "with the house" you're probably fine.  If it's a fancy massaging shower head that pressurizes the water with those oh, so pleasing pulsing jets of water, then no.
As for a rain storm, if you get wet while in a light to moderate shower, you should be fine. But if you're thinking of continuing your conversation in an all day downpour or while you report on a hurricane/tropical storm making landfall, then no, it won't survive. Remember, even submerged, there's a maximum amount of time it can stay submerged.
TL;DR
It's water resistant not water proof. Apple's technical specifications tells us exactly what the resistance levels to dust and water are. If you happen to get wet (in the rain) while using your phone, you should be fine. They tell you how to dry it off and how long to do so before charging because water conducts electricity. This is to prevent short circuits when connecting up to 20V to your phone.
Besides, talking in a heavy downpour is logistically next to impossible. It's loud - the person on the other end will have difficulty hearing you as you will with your caller. As a resident of Florida, I can attest that a severe downpour while sheltered is still very difficult to hold a conversation.
If you're using the phone in the shower....that's a whole different conversation for a different Stack Exchange site.


Upgrade from iPhone 3G 4.2.1 to iPhone 5S 7.0.4

I just upgraded from 3G to 5S and at first had the same problem. What I learned in another chat was that prior to restore I had to update to IOS 6.1... Once the OS was updated, I backed up the 3G and did a restore to the 5S from the latest 3G backup. It took a long time, but was well worth it.


How to properly escape spaces in the results of mdfind to use them in a for loop

I just solved a similar problem as I was trying to iterate over mdfind's results of an image search.
counter=0
mdfind image -onlyin $1 | while read line; do
    ((counter = counter + 1))
    echo "$counter: $line"
done
exit

So adapting that to your problem, this should work:
mdfind -onlyin $MusicSamples 'kMDItemAudioBitRate >= "44000" && _kMDItemUserTags = "Sample"' | while read File
do
    ln -s $File $DrumFoldr
done


What Yammer clients available on the Mac?

There are two out there that I like, each for different reasons:

Gabble is a free application that allows for threaded conversations, private and public groups, attachments, and tags.
Scuttlebutt is an application in beta.  The major thing that it improves over Gabble is support for multiple Yammer accounts (although there is a workaround for that in Gabble: you can launch multiple Gabble instances).

Both of these software are native OS X apps and should be much faster to use than an Adobe Air client as well as have the potential to support things like spelling services, voice dictation and other nice integrations that a native app can provide more easily than using a cross-platform toolbox.


Bulk merge items sub-folders into new folder

Assuming the structure is like

main-folder
    subfolder-1
        item-1
        item-2
    subfolder-2
        item-3
        item-4

and all the items are uniquely named, you can use

cd main-folder
mkdir ../target-folder
mv */* ../target-folder/

to move everything into a target folder on the same directory level as the main folder. If you just want to move everything into the main folder, just use

cd main-folder
mv */* .


Disable two-factor when I don't have an iPhone anymore

Apple Support addresses this very scenario:

What if I don’t have access to a trusted device or didn't receive a verification code?
If you're signing in and don’t have a trusted device handy that can
display verification codes, you can have a code sent to your trusted
phone number via text message or an automated phone call instead.
Click Didn't Get a Code on the sign in screen and choose to send a
code to your trusted phone number. You can also get a code directly
from Settings on a trusted device. Learn how to get a verification
code.

If you trusted device is your iPhone and you say that it's connected to your phone number, this is a good thing.  What you will need is a (cheap) replacement phone that can receive calls/SMS (text messages).  Depending on your carrier (i.e AT&T or TMobile) you can just move your SIM card to another phone to receive the call/text message with the verification code.  If it's a carrier that doesn't use SIM cards (Verizon, Sprint), you will have to get them to activate the cheap phone for you.
Once you get the call/SMS, you can now validate your account to disable two-factor authentication.
If all else fails, you still have another option...

If you still can't sign in
If you can’t sign in, reset your password, or receive verification
codes, you can request account recovery to regain access to your
account. Account recovery might take a few days or longer, depending
on the specific account information you can provide to verify your
identity.


Format disk in mac with a lot of reading and writing

Writing multiple zeros on an SSD does nothing to improve the secure elimination of the data, and significantly reduces the life of the drive.
If you want to make sure that your files are safe: encrypt the drive.


Does the Playstation Vue Mobile iPad app support AirPlay (non-mirroring)?

No. I have the service, and when I attempt to Airplay a show to my TV, the video feed dies. Most likely due to some DRM Sony put on these shows.


FileVault is for internal startup disks; it sounds like you've just got an encrypted external disk. It's possible when you set up the encryption on the external disk, you saved the password in your Keychain, so in the future macOS reads your keychain for the password to the disk.

If you can't remember the password and don't have it elsewhere, then you cannot access the data.

Put your previous SSD back in your Mac, and either connect the external disk and decrypt it, or inspect the keychain to obtain the password for the disk.


MacBook Pro mid-2008 freezes or causes file system problem

It sounds like you might have faulty RAM. your macbook is not too old. I still use my white macbook from early 2008 with a hacked version of ML (not supported by hardware) with no issues. Try Memtest http://memtestosx.org/


Use iCloud storage space to free space from iPhone 5s

It will depend on the root cause of your storage being full, so start by checking on Settings > General > Usage, and select Manage Storage from there to have a detailed view.

In my case, pictures are using a lot of space, and podcasts are just behind.

If you click on any of the items on the lists, you get more granular options

Here I clicked Music and I'm able to see which albums are using space.

If I slide "All music" to the left I and click Delete I can remove it from my iPhone from here, and recover 1,9 GB of space; of course you have to be cautious and be sure you have that music somewhere else (on your computer, on iTunes Match, or if you purchased it from iTunes Store, you can re download it when you need it).

If it is full of pictures and videos, you can activate iCloud Photo Library and store full versions on iCloud, keeping low resolution copies on your device; that will free up some space.
If it is music, iTunes Match or another streaming service will allow you to delete music and download —or stream— on demand.

Other than that, check Whatsapp and iMessage which are huge space eaters —because of images and videos sent and received with those services; you can delete those images and videos if you have copies of what is worth saving.

iCloud will be very useful for backups and synchronized documents between your Apple devices, but your question indicates you hoped to somehow move some of your data from your device to the cloud, which is called selective syncing on other services (Google Drive, Dropbox); I couldn't find info on that —or similar— feature in iCloud, and I believe it's not possible.


Adding Ricoh C4501 printer via command line - Installable options

I know your post is old, but I was having the same issue with almost the same Ricoh Printer.

The finisher name looks like Finisher SR3020 in the OSX system preferences, but in the terminal it's a code name that you have to supply.

Type the following:

lpoptions -l

That will display all the options for your printer. One row will be titled:

Finisher/Finisher: *NotInstalled FinisherOne FinisherTwo Etc

The list of all available finishers will be displayed. My SR3020 was displayed as FinEUPHPOS. Thus I edited my script to be the following and it worked perfectly:

NAME="Printer Name"
DESCRIPTION="Printer Description"
LOCATION="Printer Location"
ADDRESS="printer.location.com"
PPD="RICOH Aficio MP 6001.gz" //printer driver file
FINISHER="FinEUPHPOS" //printer finisher name

lpadmin -p "$NAME" -D "$DESCRIPTION" -L "$LOCATION" -E -v lpd://"$ADDRESS" -P "/Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/$PPD" -o "$FINISHER"


How can I explain to my friend that running a "hackintosh" is a violation of the law?

The mere fact that Apple claims that creating a hackintosh violates the DMCA, and that their EULA is an enfoceable contract, does not make either so. There are rulings in their favor from the Psystar case, but it is not clear whether those rulings apply to end-users or only to companies like Psystar who were reselling hackintoshes.

The chance of an individual being sued is essentially zero, because Apple doesn't want the bad PR of exposing their morally repugnant, monopolistic, anti-consumer tactics to the public any more than necessary.

It is my (totally non-authoritative paralegal-school dropout) opinion that even if Apple's EULA were ruled enforceable, the clause forbidding use on non-Apple hardware is clearly a tying agreement in violation of the Clayton anti-trust act of 1914, and so would be thrown out.


How can I wipe a disk from a Mac with firmware password set?

I am not personally aware of anything, but then I haven't done any work with firmware passwords...

Just a thought though, can you take the drive out stick it in an enclosure and format it on another computer? I know it's not what you asked but it might do the trick if you have an external drive enclosure and another Mac (or even PC...)


How can I disable shift + control + scroll zoom in chrome?

If I might say so, why are you using the 3 keys to switch between the tabs.

In Chrome it is enough if you use two keys to switch tabs.

control + tab

If however you prefer to modify the the Chrome shortcuts, visit this website

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/shortcut-manager/mgjjeipcdnnjhgodgjpfkffcejoljijf


Create Automator Service With a Python Script?

This isn't too difficult to do, you just need to know the right magic. I'll walk you through it.

Open Automator, and when prompted to choose a type for your document, select Service. If you're not prompted, just hit ⌘N to make a new automator file.
At the top of the rightmost panel, make sure that Output replaces selected text is checked, and the first drop-down is set to text:

You can change the any application part to a specific application if you only want it to work in that program.

In the Actions Library in the left panel, find Run Shell Script and double click it to add it to the workflow.
Change the Shell drop down to /usr/bin/python, and make sure that Pass input is set to stdin.
Delete the existing text in the script box, and replace it with the code below.
Save it with a descriptive name. Automator will save it in the ~/Library/Services/ folder.
Optional: Go to Keyboard Preferences, and find your service in the Services section of the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. You can assign a system-wide shortcut for it there.

Script Code

import sys

for f in sys.stdin:
    print f.replace('-', ' ').replace('%', ' ').replace('&', ' and ').replace('#', ' ').title(),


Where can I get Python VTE bindings for the Mac OS X?

Macport has it. You may install MacPort and do a

sudo port install vte

NB: Installing vte trough MacPort install a new python in /opt/local/ and vte gets installed in /opt/local/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0


It turned out to be a hardware issue. One of the connectors was loose. It’s the  rossmann group details what exactly happens: briefly it’s the connector near the hinge of the laptop that causes a BSOD, by (I think) sending the LCD power rail straight to the CPU and tripping the protection features. I strongly advise anyone with this issue to promptly fix it, possibly by sending it for service (they won’t replace the LB, just the cable and that’s reasonably priced).
After fixing - no issues whatsoever.


How can I find out how much internet data each app has used?

You can do this with Activity Monitor. You can run this in the background with the window closed and it will track the data usage for the apps and services.

In Mavericks, this is a separate Network tab, but you can add the Sent/Received columns to the view in Mountain Lion too.


How do I install p4v (previously p4merge) as my git difftool on macos catalina 10.15.3

It doesn't impact the commands given.
Just brew cask install p4v and all other commands remain the same.


How can I use aliases in the Go to Folder dialog?

There's no nice way to set up an alias in the Finder like you can in the Terminal, but you can set up text-expansion abbreviations in the Keyboard System Prefs' Text tab.

I prefer Typinator myself, as it is much more flexible and full-featured than the system prefs.

You could also roll-your-own utility using a script-runner utility and Applescript.


Can you use an APFS-formatted Mac with a pre-APFS Apple Time Capsule?

Yes, you can use a normal Time Capsule that is not APFS-formatted with APFS-formatted disks.

  APFS and Time Machine

  You don't need to change any Time Machine settings to back up
  APFS-formatted disks. Any Time Machine share points must be shared
  over SMB instead of AFP.

Source: Apple.com

This applies to Apple’s TimeCapsules as well. They are just network attached hard drives with Wi-Fi routers made by Apple.


^ + A for the beginning of the line

^ + E for the end of the line.

Works with Cocoa control too.

^ = Ctrl


How to configure macOS Server 5.11 for CI with XCode?

The article you linked is out of date. Xcode Server is now integrated directly into Xcode and OS X Server (now "macOS Server") is no longer required.
Here's an up-to-date tutorial on getting started with Xcode Server:
https://www.raywenderlich.com/12258400-xcode-server-for-ios-getting-started
I don't think you want to expose your Xcode Server to the internet, so you best use a VPN.


mac os x - UNIX domain sockets in abstract namespace

The developer documentation linked is for perl, not Mac OS X. The documentation states that perl v5.11.0 is capable of supporting abstract socket namespaces.

The undocumented assumption is that the underlying operating system also provides this support.

I am not aware of any Apple documentation saying Mac OS X supports abstract namespace sockets.


Adjust delay in Watch display when turning wrist

No. The only control you have is how long the screen stays lit once you activate. If you don’t like an exaggerated (or worse, making two wrist) movement(s), you would need totap a button or screen to wake the watch more promptly.


Just in case anybody else comes across this question, the steps to solve the system time/date issue mentioned above are as follows.

Click on Utilities –> Terminal
When the terminal window opens, type date and hit enter. What you will notice is that the date listed will be wrong.  That wrong date is what is causing the reinstall error.
To correct the wrong date –>  type date followed by MMDDHHMMYYYY  (Month – Date – Hour – Minute – Year)
Exit and begin a new install, the problem should now be solved.


How hot is it normal for a 45 watt MagSafe Adapter to get during use?

Painful to the touch - especially when the device hasn't been that hot since day one - is a great time to unplug and take your rig (computer and power adapter) in to have things checked out. You might power off everything and try hooking just the shut down mac and see if drawing less current helps, but keep a very close eye on things and don't leave it plugged in just in case if you have any concerns.

I've got an 85W adapter that started buzzing faintly and now it's getting hot as well so I've stopped using it until I can have things checked out.

Also, ambient temperature is a big factor. Since things are air cooled, if you are 85 degrees F then the charger can't dissipate heat as well as if you were in a server room cooled to 62 degrees or so.


How to tell what version a Snow Leopard DVD is?

You should be able to see the OS version by going to System Preferences > Startup Disk. If it doesn't show in Startup Disk for some reason, you can run the following command in Terminal:

defaults read "/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion" ProductVersion

If your DVD is not called "Mac OS X Install DVD" then you'll need to replace that part of the command with the actual disc name.


This particular model that you're looking at is referring to the Late 2013 model of the iMac, 27" display version (model number ME089LLAUZ from the linked store page and verifiable through Apple's own KB article).

Apple sells this on their store still, and you can order a custom configuration with up to 32 GB of RAM as specified on its product page. This would probably be the better option after a glance at the numbers when you add 16 GB of RAM to the order.

However, for the model on the website you referred to, you can also purchase supported RAM yourself and install it in the two empty slots at the bottom of the machine (Apple has their own guide for that here). Note that the RAM you purchase must meet the following criteria (may seem like a lot, but compatible parts are easily found on Amazon and other suppliers):

PC3-12800
Unbuffered
Nonparity
204-pin
1600 MHz
DDR3 SDRAM


"To continue using iCloud, confirm your new Mac password" keeps crashing

Try signing out of iCloud and then signing back in again.


First make a backup using iTunes or iCloud. As Apple Support suggest their first solution would be do a Network settings reset. I think that what you said you have done already . If you have already done that, they said to reset all settings. That would probably solve your problem. If that ain't help either just do a Erase all content and settings reset. If neither of them work properly, you have to take that into Apple support center.  Before do any of these reset, I highly recommend to backup device.


Wifi Keeps Dropping Macbook Pro 13in Retina Early 2015

I was having a similiar issue with 10.10.3 which was not corrected when I updated to 10.10.4. Many, many things were tried before I got it to stay connected to WiFi reliably, however deleting the networking PLIST files seems to be what finally did it.

The Fix:

Disable WiFi
Open Finder
Press Cmd+Shft+G to go to the folder /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/
Delete (or move) the following files:

com.apple.airport.preferences.plist
NetworkInterfaces.plist
preferences.plist

Restart your computer
Re-enable WiFi

The Other Things I Tried:

Reset PRAM
Reset SMC
Used Onyx to clear caches, run update scripts, etc.
Disabled AirDrop by using Terminal to run sudo ifconfig awdl0 down
Kext Utility to reset kext permissions, followed by...
Disk Utility to verify/correct permissions.

In my case errors were found, and I had to...
Reboot in Recovery Mode (press Cmd+R as boot sound, hold until you see the Apple logo), use Disk Utility, however no errors were detected
Disabled FileVault, waited for decryption to complete
Reboot in Recovery Mode, use Disk Utility, some errors corrected then return value 8 and was told I had to backup, format, and restore to the drive.
Ran Disk Utility repair again and no errors were detected (then I ran it again for good measure)
Rebooted and Disk Utility found no errors.
Still had WiFi disconnects...

Deleted the AirPort plist files (fix above) and WiFi has been stable.


One click switch between Windows and MacOS

What you need is a KVM [keyboard, video & mouse] switch
Which type would depend on your choices of input & output on both your machines.


How to re-download Lion to create a VMWare Fusion 4 virtual machine?

What you need to do to re-download the Lion installer is to HOLD down the OPTION/ALT key whilst opening the App Store and keep holding it all the way through to the purchased tab, from here you should see the option to install. Just download that.


The command-line way:

Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities) and type

chflags hidden /path/to/folder

replacing /path/to/folder with the POSIX-style path to the folder you want to hide (for example, a folder on your desktop called test would be ~/Desktop/test).

To unhide it, type chflags nohidden /path/to/folder.

The freeware way:

I haven't used it, but I've seen the app Hide Folders, by Altomac.


In itunes (for windows) can you set podcast location on disk to a different location?

Unfortunately, not really.  While you can specify the location of the entire iTunes Library folder (in Preferences, to to Advanced, and change the iTunes Media location), you can't set a different directory for specific types of media, such as podcasts.


Does Google Chrome have a significant impact on MacBook battery life compared to other browsers?

Battery Life is different than Battery Duration. Battery life will be tied to the maintenance and usage you give to a battery. To put it simply, if your battery is designed to be charged 100 times before it dies (cycles), then using the 100 charges in one month will be the same as using them in 1 year. (or almost the same, since there will be a small loss of power when the battery is idle).

What I mean is, the battery life shouldn't be greatly affected by any application's usage pattern. But…

The truth is that battery duration is definitely affected by the power consumption. In other words: the more the power your computer uses, the less the batter will last with charge, before it requires to be recharged.

With that logic in mind, Chrome is a moderately CPU intensive application on its own (a tradeoff that is inherited by its One Process Per Tab design). It taxes your hardware a little bit more when creating new tabs and it uses slightly more RAM in order to keep things smooth. In exchange, you have a very solid -hard to crash- browser that will be able to keep working even if some of its tabs are literally dead.

Despite that, however, Chrome has Flash (as an extension you can disable). It uses the "same" Flash, but bundled internally. If chrome uses some more battery (something that I have yet to see in real life), Flash uses probably all the battery you can throw at it, but not because Flash needs battery, it's because it needs CPU power, a lot, all the time. CPU power needs electricity. Batteries have Electricity. In the absence of a power outlet, guess who's there to provide juicy power to that hungry CPU? Yes, mamma battery.

So Flash will definitely decrease your battery charge duration (and in turn, it will force you to cycle charge your battery more often, therefore decreasing its life), but this will also happen on Safari, Camino, Firefox and possibly other applications or browsers that use Flash.


How to change FAT32 file attributes under OS X?

Under OS X, the FAT/FAT32 file system Readonly attribute is set when a file is locked. When a file is viewed in the Finder application, a small lock will appear on the file icon. This Readonly attribute can be set or unset by highlighting the file and then selecting "File->Get Info" from the menu bar. The Readonly attribute can then be modified by checking or unchecking the box labeled "Locked".

This also can be done from the command line. First, to view the attributes use the command below.

ls -lO <filename>

To set the Readonly attribute use the following command.

chflags uchg <filename>

To reset the Readonly attribute use the following command.

chflags nochg <filename>

To set the Hidden attribute use the following command.

chflags hidden <filename>

To reset the Hidden attribute use the following command.

chflags nohidden <filename>

To set the Archive attribute use the following command. Note: this command is the opposite of what one would expect to enter."

sudo chflags noarch <filename>

To reset the Archive attribute use the following command. Note: this command is the opposite of what one would expect to enter."

sudo chflags arch <filename>

  Note: The System attribute does not seem to have an OS X equivalent. So even if the Windows command attib can alter the System attribute, the OS X command chflags can not.


iPhone photos are low resolution (640x480)

Have you shot any of those images with the "other" camera? The "face time" camera will only shoot a resolution of 640x480 and the "regular" camera shoots the higher resolution (5MP). Apple specs of the iPhone 4 states the face time camera shoots VGA (see http://support.apple.com/kb/sp587).

The high res camera shoots frontward. The face time camera shoots backwards (it is located near the ear speaker in the top of the phone above the screen). When using the camera app, if you press the icon that has the circular arrows, the camera changes to the one facing you (you will see yourself in the screen). That is the "face time" camera and shoots low res.


How to get Mac Mail to show different Gmail addresses in the reply to field?

I use Gmail for Work along with Mac Mail and how I got around this was by opening:

Preferences > Accounts
Then in the Email Address field I put a comma after the address that was there and then added the other address I wanted to be able to reply from. For me I added 4 different ones just by separating with a space and comma like this:

me@gmail.com, me@mtk.org, sales@mtk.org

Now, when I compose an email, there is a a drop down menu that allows me to choose which address I want to send my message from. The only caveat here, is that all of my addresses end in the same business name and it sounds like yours don't. I don't know how your boss has gmail for work set up, but this is easy to change and worth a try! If it doesn't work you can just go back to how the account was setup before, no harm, no foul.


How can I invert my selection in Microsoft Excel using AppleScript? (selection itself, not properties of selection)

I've been working on this question for a while and, hitting a brick wall, decided to try and get it to work using Visual Basic instead. My hope is that doing this will make it easier to get the code right within AppleScript, so I'm sharing the Visual Basic code in case it helps someone else to get an AppleScript version working - not that I've given up on this myself yet! :)

Sub InvertSheet()

Set s1 = Selection
Set s2 = Range("A1:Z100")
Set sinv = Nothing

For Each s In s2
If Intersect(s, s1) Is Nothing Then
If sinv Is Nothing Then
Set sinv = s
Else
Set sinv = Union(sinv, s)
End If
End If
Next

If sinv Is Nothing Then
Else
sinv.Select
End If
End Sub

NOTES:

I did come across a problem - namely that I couldn't find a way to get this to apply to the entire sheet without it causing Excel to hang for extremely long periods of time (probably because it has to check 1,048,576 rows and 16,384 columns) to do so.
To get around this problem I used Set s2 = Range("A1:Z100") to limit the area of the sheet that the code applies to to the range of A1:Z100. However, this can be changed to suit a larger area if needed.
I imagine trying to cover the whole sheet will be a problem within AppleSCript as well.


Combine sound such as MP3 to video MOV in OS X?

ffmpeg supports combining video and audio without re-encoding:

ffmpeg -i input.mov -i input.mp3 -c copy -map 0:0 -map 1:0 -shortest output.mov

-map 0:0 means input file 0, stream 0. -c copy copies video and audio codecs. -shortest makes the combined file as long as the shorter file.


How can Almost Empty Dropbox folder Take 1.3 GB Space?

In the end after taking 3 backups of the system, I deleted the Dropbox Directory because

Dropbox can backfire and delete files/directories in local system if symlinks are used to Dropbox
Dropbox messes up OS X Extended hierarchy and takes significant amount of spaces although Dropbox uninstalled; I do not understand the details here.

I noticed surprising effects although I had deleted Dropbox application. Diskutility showed me 15 GB free space before the deletion of Dropbox Directory. I restarted my system many times to see if the case is really true. After removing Dropbox directory, I got 50 GB free space as I should. Dropbox is clearly messing up the filesystem more than many know.
Replacement of Dropbox

VPN connection in router because software VPN unstable (at least NordVPN crashes all the time; TODO Tunnelblick) in OSX; software VPN in Ubuntu Linux 14.04 (not newer because systemd/upstart problem with runit) next to OSX installation
Goal to use Bittorent Sync with VPN [experimenting]. It experienced conflicts with Dropbox and my local ISP/governments because they block/obstruct torrent protocol.
... [hope more comes here] ...


Apply "Reduce Image Size" in mac mail to attachments only, not footer

Will work for pictures that you have dragged and dropped onto the mail message. Apple Mail features a selector with small, medium and large options. see selector to the upper right of the image.

Thunderbird lets you click on the image then you can resize the image, but a smaller image doesn't reduce the file size.

If you are desperate for this functionality, you may be able to write an applescript to adjust the picture size. A lot of assembly required.


When running a virtualized operating system on my Mac, is it important to have anti virus software?

If you are virtualizing a version of Windows, I would recommend you do use anti-virus software. Although Windows is running in a VM, it still is Windows and is vulnerable to viruses. A good choice of anti-virus software for Windows is Microsoft Security Essentials, which is free from Microsoft. (Note that: "Your PC must run genuine Windows to install Microsoft Security Essentials.")

If you are virtualizing a Linux distro, there is malware for Linux, so I would recommend anti-virus as well. There are several listed on the Linux malware Wikipedia page, including Avast! (Free) and AVG (Free).


Shouldn't Apple consider allowing use of Apple Pencil while it's charging?

Apparently Apple disables drawing functionality while Apple Pencil is charging for performance reasons. So, the behavior is by design.

Cannot use Apple Pencil while charging

  No, we disable the drawing functionality while it is charging (performance reasons). Although you can charge with a Lightning cable, it will charge much faster when connected directly to the iPad Pro.

In case you find a product feature concerning, you can always share feedback with Apple using the Product Feedback webpage:

Product Feedback - Apple


iPhone 4s text messages still appear in iPhone search results after being deleted

The messages are still stored in a cache database, with a field "removed yes" or "removed no", speaking in easy terms.
You can get rid of these, if you really have to by syncing your phone with iTunes.

If that doesn't fix your issue you can create a back-up and restore that backup.
Restoring should clean the cache databases and making a back-up first makes sure you get exact the same version back as you had previously.

However, I don't know if you use spotlight often -> I just disabled many results from appearing in Spotlight.

Settings -> General -> Spotlight


How can I tell what model iDevice is plugged into my USB via Terminal?

For all it's worth, I have ran the command line in Terminal with a few devices.

iPhone 4: iPhone: Version: 3.20

iPad 2: iPad: Version: 2.10

I have a 3GS somewhere but I can't find right now. I'll edit my answer if/when I find it.

My wife has a iPhone 4S and a friend has a 5, I will try to also update once I get to run it.


\u2018 includes a whitespace character under Mac OS X

As it turns out the problem was an option that I had set in iTerm2.  When you have the following option set for your iTerm2 profile, \u2018 is interpreted as an ambiguous-width char and so is considered to be double-width, but since it isn't an double-width character, such as a kanji, a space gets appended to it.

Just make sure that you have the following option unchecked:


How to automatically login to captive portals on OS X?

Just found this Disable Captive Network Support in OS X

Which mentions "To disable it, set this preference:"

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.captive.control Active -boolean false

In case, you would ever want to remove this setting, you can do:

sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.captive.control Active

Then, as @Leon mentions, use the regular web browser to login. Or if you are on a network where that somehow does not work then you can still try and open the app manually ( located at /System/Library/CoreServices/Captive Network Assistant.app )


How to disable Xserve power saving while running ESXi

This isn't an answer as such but a fudge/hack that stops the timeout issue by writing regular random data to each drive (static data doesn't appear to work).
Create a shell script as below (mine is called .bmreadloop) on VMFS attached boot storage:
#!/bin/sh

while [ 1 -lt 2 ]
do

</dev/urandom sed 's/[^[:digit:]]\+//g' | head -c10 > /vmfs/volumes/bonoboBoot/.blah

</dev/urandom sed 's/[^[:digit:]]\+//g' | head -c10 > /vmfs/volumes/bonoboTwo/.blah

</dev/urandom sed 's/[^[:digit:]]\+//g' | head -c10 > /vmfs/volumes/bonoboHDD/.blah

</dev/urandom sed 's/[^[:digit:]]\+//g' | head -c10 > /vmfs/volumes/bonoboThree/.blah

sleep 10

done

Add run it on startup in /etc/rc.local.d/local.sh:
/vmfs/volumes/bonoboBoot/.bmreadloop >> /dev/null &

It's ugly but it works!


Does iTerm (or iTerm2) on Mac allow storing host connections with user/password ( for quick access to different hosts)

Yes and no.
The usual way is to set an ssh entry as a profile in Iterm. Here is an example  for a local NAS.

The no is for the password - iTerm does not provide a way of associating the password with a login. But in practice this is not a problem as you should be using Public Key Authentication
If you are not using PKA then look at use of expect with ssh e.g. https://stackoverflow.com/a/4786000/151019
Note saying "even Putty does this" is a very high bar, Putty is has a lot of functionality.


Sync contacts between 2 Apple IDs and multiple devices

This is always a complicated question and the answer is usually a puzzle that boils down to a per/user-setup basis.

Before I can give you a proper answer, I'm going to need some clarification on your setup. I will need you to correct me and/or fill in the blanks on any assumptions I may make about your setup.

Can you please elaborate on

  so in my contacts/settings/default account some years ago, I entered his Apple ID.

Where did you enter his apple ID? In your iPhone, on your iPad, iMac, MBAir etc.?
Does that Apple ID continue to be on the device it was originally entered in?

Furthermore, (correct me if I am wrong),it seems like your setup goes as follows:

Your husband and you share a "household" ipad, macbook air, and imac. Then, each of you have your own seperate iPhones. True/false?
On each of your phones, you and your husband are both logged into icloud (Iphone>Settings>Accounts & Passwords>Accounts>icloud address) using your individual "WifeiCloudaddress@icloud.com" and "husbandiCloudaddress@icloud.com" accounts. True/False?
On each of your iPhones, under the "Iphone>Settings>Accounts & Passwords" screen, there are no other accounts that your phone is linked to, ONLY, your icloud accounts. T/F?
On each of your iPhones, under Iphone>Settings>Accounts & Passwords>iCloud>yourname, you have the "Contacts" ticker ticked to on (should be green". T/F?
On your ipad, macbook air, and iMac, under "System Preferences>iCloud" you are logged into icloud as "husbandicloudaddress@icloud.com". T/F?
On your ipad, macbook air, and iMac, under "System Preferences>Internet Accounts" you are logged in with "husbandiCloudaddress@icloud.com" as the primary icloud address, and below that "wifeiCloudaddress@icloud.com" as a secondary icloud address. T/F?
Neither of you are not syncing contacts on any of your devices through gmail,outlook, or any other cloud services are you?

There still may be more details that I need to know but they aren't coming to me right now. If you think of any other specifics (extra accounts/family sharing, gmail,outlook,etc.), please elaborate and let me know.


How can I make Growl Tunes start automatically?

Go to Preferences -> Accounts -> Select your account -> Select the "Login Items" button or tab (not sure what I would call it!) -> Then press the + sign to add a new start up item and select GrowlTunes.


com.automator.runner.xpc is not allowed to send keystrokes

I have solved this issue recently in case anyone is interested in how. It is NOT actually necessary for System Events to have direct Accessibility privileges. What you need to add are a total of 3 apps, Automator, Script Editor, and AppleScript Utility.
The Automator and Script Editor apps are found within the ~/Applications and ~/Applications/Utilities folders, respectively. What is harder to find is the AppleScript Utility app, seen below:

To add AppleScript Utility app, click the + button on Accessibility, then navigate to (a shortcut is CMD+SHIFT+G)
/System/Library/CoreServices

then open the application called AppleScript Utility.
Afterwards, run a script in automator again, which updates the privileges and things should run well after. In summary, Automator, Script Editor, and AppleScript Utility need to be added to Accessibility.


You probably should take a look at iFixit's guide. They have guides on how to teardown stuff, and that should mention things you should be aware of when you tear it down. One of that would be the screen/backlight connector.


How to control iPad with a remote control?

There are Bluetooth remotes that can control the media playback functions of an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch—if you can do what you want with the remote on Apple's headphones, these devices should be able to perform the same function. Typically the functions available are play/pause, fast-forward/rewind and volume up/down.

If you're using the built-in music player or any app that responds to the iOS media controls (an easy way to check is by double clicking the home button, swipe left-to-right on the task bar and see if the play/pause button works for your app). Because it's based on Bluetooth, the range will be limited to approximately 30 feet.

The two such devices I've found are the Satechi Bluetooth Multi-Media Remote Control and the Targus Bluetooth iPad Media Remote (which can also work with an iPhone or iPod Touch). There may be other similar products out there however.


One would say it is your Disk, it got damaged.

Surprisingly the Verbose does not work at all?

  the "s" key for single-user mode. (Command-S) the "v" key for verbose
  mode. (Command-V)

If you try the Single user, it should open the terminal.

Alternatively you can use the Internet Recovery mode that already shows as option. Read this from Apple about Internet Recovery mode

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314

If you have a bootable OS X - USB you could use it to try to fix problems as well.


Does deleting my backup on my iPhone give me more space?

If you disable/delete iCloud backups of your iOS device, it will indeed free up space in your iCloud account. This only means you will have more space available in the cloud, not on the actual device.

If you have iCloud Photo Library enabled, note that your iCloud backups will not include that media since it’s already being uploaded to the cloud.

To free up space on your actual iOS device (again, assuming iCloud Photo Library is enabled), make sure that Settings > iCloud > Photos > Optimize Storage is selected.


Is there a way to access a previous version of a Note?

Assuming you have Time Machine backups, and assuming the text you recently deleted was in an earlier version of your notes that was backed up by TM, you should be able to recover your Notes data from an earlier backup.
However, you will want to make sure you have a current backup as well - otherwise any new notes you've added may be lost.
So, the way I would approach this is:

Disconnect your Mac from the internet

Make sure you have a current backup

Restore the entire Notes folder from an appropriate earlier backup - it's located at:
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/

Access the data you need

Copy the content you accidentally deleted and paste it into another file (e.g. a TextEdit doc, etc)

Restore your notes from the backup at Step 2 above

Edit the note to include the missing data you copied at Step 5

Once you're happy with everything, reconnect your Mac to the internet

NOTE: Steps 1 is necessary to ensure that iCloud doesn't sync old data across your devices.


Can't Access Previous Purchases under Family Sharing

Finally got around this pesky problem. And actually it was pretty straightforward!

All I had to do was add that old shared account as a separate family member. Hence now everybody only uses their respective iCloud ID for their personal stuff and purchases while sharing their old/new purchases.

This might not be a solution for you since family sharing only accepts 6 family members at the most as of now although there isn't any other solution currently.


Derek. Not a lot of people realize that an iPhone is a computer and should be treated as such. Just like your computer you shut it down or at least restart it on a regular basis. People don't do this with iPhones, because well, it's a phone and they may 'miss a call' or it's just habit for most. It causes a lot of memory leaks especially if developers aren't skilled enough to know how to test within their apps for memory leaks. In other words, a soft restart (turning it off in the normal manner by holding the sleep button and sliding to power off and then turning it back on) will 99% of the time autonomously repair itself and reset the memory. The 1% chance it does not you can do a hard restart (holding the sleep and home button simultaneously for 4-5 sec) will fix your issue.


Can you use the Apple Watch with an iPod touch?

On every page about the Apple Watch, it's stated at the bottom of the page that Apple Watch :

  Requires iPhone 5 or later.

This means no iPod touch.


Conditional format cells based on match in another sheet

I'm not sure I am parsing the problem correctly, but I suspect this is the solution.

Make a new column in one of the pages that has a formula like...

=IF(thispage!D2=otherpage!D2,"*","")

This will make a column where all the duplicates have a *. Now simply make a conditional on the other column that turns the text yellow if there is a * in there.


tmutil doesn't create a real snapshot (since Catalina?)

I'll answer myself, though it's a partial answer.
When tmutils is used with partitions like /, the result isn't a true snapshot, the file system I mount this way reflects the original one in real-time (ie, any change in the original is immediately visible in the "snapshot").
In order to make it work, I have to mount partitions like this:
vol_path=/System/Volumes/Data
snap_id=$(tmutil snapshot "$vol_path" | sed s/'Created local snapshot with date: '//)
mount_apfs -o rdonly -s "com.apple.TimeMachine.${snap_id}.local" "$vol_path" snap-mnt

This works fine when you want to backup a subdirectory like /System/Volumes/Data/Users/user/.
The flip side is that directories like /etc aren't under Data/, but /etc/ is actually a link to Data/private/, so one doesn't lose much by backing up the Data/ dir only.


Where does Photo Booth store photos and videos?

The PhotoBooth Library is within the Pictures folder of your Home Folder.

Regarding automatic backup, there is no direct way to do it as Photo Booth does not have many options for that. You can try following:

Get Desktop Uploader app for Google Photos. Alternative way to get it is by opening the sidebar on Google Photos in your browser and clicking App downloads.

After installing the app and logging into your Google account, you can select which folders Google Photos will automatically back up. So try to
add this path to auto backup:

"/Users/your_username/Pictures/Photo Booth Library/Pictures"

You can right-click "Photo Booth Library", and select "Show Package Contents" to see the Pictures folder, or open directly from Terminal with: open ~/Pictures/Photo\ Booth\ Library/Pictures


How do I view mouse-over text with an iPad?

This hint at MacWorld recommends a bookmarklet that you can install that allows you to tap an image to display its alt text.

Try that - works great for me on my iPhone.


iPhone 3Gs got dropped in water. Is it pretty much done?

When this happens don't turn the device on or try to sync it right away. Instead, remove the battery (if possible) and put the device into a sealed bowl that's half full of uncooked rice, crystal cat litter (make sure it's pure crystal) or the desiccant crystals often sold in garden centers. These will all draw the moisture from the device and absorb it.

Leave the device in the sealed bowl for at least 24 hours. 48 is better, but you might want to check/change the rice after 24. No need to bury the device either--just rest it on top or suspend it on a block of wood, a couple of dowels, or whatever else you can one up with. After 48 hours inspect the device.  If you think it's dry go ahead and test it.

No guarantees, but with luck you'll be pleasantly surprised.


Function keys Magic Keyboard not bound correctly

I was able to make it work on Mavericks at least when connected over the USB-to-Lightning cable by applying this patch:

--- /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist.orig  2017-01-10 20:28:14.000000000 +0100
+++ /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleTopCaseHIDEventDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist   2017-01-10 20:31:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -38,6 +38,38 @@
    <string>5A2053</string>
    <key>IOKitPersonalities</key>
    <dict>
+       <key>Keyboard-Event - 615</key>
+       <dict>
+           <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
+           <string>com.apple.driver.AppleHIDKeyboard</string>
+           <key>CapsLockDelay</key>
+           <integer>75</integer>
+           <key>DeviceUsagePairs</key>
+           <array>
+               <dict>
+                   <key>DeviceUsage</key>
+                   <integer>6</integer>
+                   <key>DeviceUsagePage</key>
+                   <integer>1</integer>
+               </dict>
+           </array>
+           <key>FnKeyboardUsageMap</key>
+           <string>0x00070050,0x0007004a,0x00070052,0x0007004b,0x0007002a,0x0007004c,0x0007004f,0x0007004d,0x00070051,0x0007004e,0x00070028,0x00070058</string>
+           <key>FnModifierUsage</key>
+           <integer>3</integer>
+           <key>FnModifierUsagePage</key>
+           <integer>255</integer>
+           <key>IOClass</key>
+           <string>AppleHIDKeyboardEventDriverV2</string>
+           <key>IOProviderClass</key>
+           <string>IOHIDInterface</string>
+           <key>NumLockKeyboardUsageMap</key>
+           <string>0x00070029,0x00070029,0x0007002a,0x0007002a,0x0007002b,0x0007002b,0x0007003a,0x0007003a,0x0007003b,0x0007003b,0x0007003c,0x0007003c,0x0007003d,0x0007003d,0x0007003e,0x0007003e,0x0007003f,0x0007003f,0x00070040,0x00070040,0x00070041,0x00070041,0x00070042,0x00070042,0x00070043,0x00070043,0x00070044,0x00070044,0x00070045,0x00070045,0x0007004a,0x0007004a,0x0007004b,0x0007004b,0x0007004c,0x0007004c,0x0007004d,0x0007004d,0x0007004e,0x0007004e,0x0007004f,0x0007004f,0x00070050,0x00070050,0x00070051,0x00070051,0x00070052,0x00070052,0x0007000d,0x00070059,0x0007000e,0x0007005a,0x0007000f,0x0007005b,0x00070018,0x0007005c,0x0007000c,0x0007005d,0x00070012,0x0007005e,0x00070024,0x0007005f,0x00070025,0x00070060,0x00070026,0x00070061,0x00070010,0x00070062,0x00070037,0x00070063,0x00070082,0x00070082,0x000700e0,0x000700e0,0x000700e1,0x000700e1,0x000700e2,0x000700e2,0x000700e3,0x000700e3,0x000700e4,0x000700e4,0x000700e5,0x000700e5,0x000700e6,0x000700e6,0x000700e7,0x000700e7</string>
+           <key>ProductID</key>
+           <integer>615</integer>
+           <key>VendorID</key>
+           <integer>1452</integer>
+       </dict>
        <key>Keyboard-Event - 656</key>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
--- /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTopCaseDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist.orig   2017-01-10 20:27:50.000000000 +0100
+++ /System/Library/Extensions/AppleTopCase.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBTopCaseDriver.kext/Contents/Info.plist    2017-01-10 20:44:53.000000000 +0100
@@ -38,6 +38,52 @@
    <string>5A2053</string>
    <key>IOKitPersonalities</key>
    <dict>
+       <key>USBHIDDriver</key>
+       <dict>
+           <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
+           <string>com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTopCaseDriver</string>
+           <key>IOClass</key>
+           <string>AppleUSBTopCaseHIDDriver</string>
+           <key>IOProviderClass</key>
+           <string>IOUSBInterface</string>
+           <key>bConfigurationValue</key>
+           <integer>1</integer>
+           <key>bInterfaceNumber</key>
+           <string>*</string>
+           <key>ProductID</key>
+           <integer>615</integer>
+           <key>idVendor</key>
+           <integer>1452</integer>
+       </dict>
+       <key>USBHIDDriver - DM</key>
+       <dict>
+           <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>
+           <string>com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTopCaseDriver</string>
+           <key>ExtendedData</key>
+           <array>
+               <integer>50399649</integer>
+               <integer>50465185</integer>
+               <integer>50530721</integer>
+               <integer>50596257</integer>
+               <integer>61868449</integer>
+               <integer>61933985</integer>
+               <integer>61999521</integer>
+               <integer>62065057</integer>
+               <integer>62261665</integer>
+           </array>
+           <key>IOClass</key>
+           <string>AppleUSBTopCaseHIDDriver</string>
+           <key>IOProviderClass</key>
+           <string>IOUSBInterface</string>
+           <key>bConfigurationValue</key>
+           <integer>1</integer>
+           <key>bInterfaceNumber</key>
+           <string>0</string>
+           <key>ProductID</key>
+           <integer>615</integer>
+           <key>idVendor</key>
+           <integer>1452</integer>
+       </dict>
        <key>AppleTopCase</key>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleIdentifier</key>

like so (assuming you save the patch in a file named MagicKeyboard.patch):

sudo sh -c '(cd /; patch -p0) < MagicKeyboard.patch'

and rebuilding the kext cache using:

sudo kextcache -f -update-volume /

After reboot your Magic Keyboard should be fully functional when connected over the cable.


Flashlight turns itself off while a recording video on iPhone 5s

The iPhone flashlight uses the iPhone flash to illuminate your path.
  This uses an LED to provide the light, which lasts longer than a bulb
  you would place in your house or one that you would find in a cheap
  flashlight.

  According to Bulbs.com, “Many LEDs have a rated life of up to 50,000
  hours.” To put that in perspective, a typical LED can last almost six
  years of constant use. It is unlikely that you will use the iPhone
  flashlight for six year’s straight, so there is little chance of the
  iPhone flashlight burning out or damaging your iPhone camera flash.

http://www.gottabemobile.com/2015/02/16/iphone-flashlight-tips/

The best to do is to contact the application's Developers to report the issue ;)


AppleScript application as a Safari Webpage

As other users have noted, the third and fourth bullet points are probably not worth holding on to, as it makes the first two difficult to implement:

use S : application "Safari"
property PHPMyAdminURL : "http://xxxxx/ppmya"

on run
    if S is not running then return openPHPMyAdmin()

    set _T to a reference to (every tab of every window of S whose ¬
        name contains "PHPMyAdmin" and ¬
        URL contains "/ppmya")

    if (count _T) > 0 then return viewPHPMyAdmin(_T)

    openPHPMyAdmin()
end run

to openPHPMyAdmin()
    tell S
        if (count windows) = 0 then
            make new document with properties ¬
                {URL:PHPMyAdminURL}
        else
            make new tab at end of tabs of S's window 1 ¬
                with properties ¬
                {URL:PHPMyAdminURL}
            set current tab of S's window 1 to the result
        end if

        activate
    end tell
end openPHPMyAdmin

to viewPHPMyAdmin(T)
    set [T] to T
    set W to the first window of S whose tabs contains T

    set current tab of W to T
    activate S
    set the index of W to 1
end viewPHPMyAdmin

After some initial feedback from @user3439894, I removed the on quit handler as trying to use the script as a stay-open application prevents item 2 from being effectively implemented.


I don't have a complete answer, but I have seen this as well - as long as Keynote 6.x is installed, I can't set the Open with... to Keynote 5. I've been deleting Keynote 6 from Finder, but unfortunately it comes back every time a Software Update is performed, so it's only a partial solution.


Applescript: save all open tabs in Chrome to PDF

I found a work-around, using UI scripting, that does what I need:

tell application "Google Chrome"
    set myWindow to front window
    set myTabs to tabs in myWindow

    set outputFolder to "/Users/nnn/Desktop/PDF/"
    set myCount to 0

    activate

    repeat with myTab in myTabs
        set myCount to myCount + 1
        set fileName to "pdf" & myCount & ".pdf"
        set outputPath to outputFolder & fileName

        --N.B.: the following opens the system print window, not Google Chrome’s
        tell myTab to print

        tell application "System Events"
            tell process "Google Chrome"
                repeat until window "Print" exists
                    delay 0.02
                end repeat

                set printWindow to window "Print"

                tell printWindow
                    set myButton to menu button "PDF"
                    click myButton

                    repeat until exists menu 1 of myButton
                        delay 0.02
                    end repeat

                    set myMenu to menu 1 of myButton
                    set myMenuItem to menu item "Save as PDF" of myMenu
                    click myMenuItem

                    repeat until exists sheet 1
                        delay 0.02
                    end repeat

                    set saveSheet to sheet 1
                    tell saveSheet
                        set value of first text field to fileName
                        keystroke "g" using {command down, shift down}

                        repeat until exists sheet 1 of saveSheet
                            delay 0.02
                        end repeat

                        set goDialogue to sheet 1 of saveSheet

                        tell goDialogue
                            set value of first combo box to outputFolder
                            click button "Go"
                        end tell

                        click button "Save"
                    end tell
                end tell

                repeat while printWindow exists
                    delay 0.02
                end repeat
            end tell
        end tell
    end repeat
end tell


There are two places the pop up can come from.

Apple store web site
Epson software that you installed on your computer.

If it is Apple-- If you right-click on the Update button you get the option to hide the update.

If it is the Epson Connect Printer Setup Utility v1.30 on your computer find it and select NO-auto updates.


How can I get multiple computers to use my iTunes library on an external hard drive?

You're missing the "Library". The media folder contains the actual audio files, but you need a library pointing to it. The 1st approach is, move everything and make all the iTunes open the same library.

Won't work because when Machine 1 opens the Library.xml, it locks it. Bummer. But turns out that there's a way to do it, if you're willing to involve Dropbox and some patience, check the link but for reference, the idea is:

Move your entire iTunes folder to your home network drive.
Copy the iTunes library (database file, XML files) to your Dropbox folder
Create an alias of the network drive’s iTunes Music folder and place it in your Dropbox folder. Be sure to rename it to iTunes Music (remove the word “alias”). Create an alias of the Album Artwork folder, too. If you skip this step, whenever you import music to your library, it will be copied to your Dropbox folder instead of your network drive. The aliases ensure iTunes places all new library items on the network drive.
On each Mac, configure iTunes to use the library file located in the Dropbox folder. Do this by holding option on your keyboard when clicking the iTunes icon in your dock. You will be prompted to choose an existing library or create a new one. Click “Choose Library” then navigate to your iTunes database file in your Dropbox folder.

You can now access your iTunes library on each Mac without using Home Sharing. iTunes will behave identically on each Mac; you can add music, edit playlists, and sync your iDevices without Apple’s usual restrictions.

There are a couple of Caveats and Gotchas, so check the link for more information.

Or you could just do what I did… get iTunes Match and enjoy a simple easy to use environment. I am really happy the way it works, the caveat is, of course, you will be using bandwidth (or needing it) to stream/download a song. So if you have no connectivity, you can't listen (you can always have one or more machines with a copy of the songs, I have my "master" machine with the 90GBs of music locally, but the Macbook Air and iPhone 'stream' on demand).
The other caveat is that if you "save" local tracks (you can), then you're effectively duplicating your copy. But hey, you can remove/download as you please, as long as it's in the "cloud".

Finally, iTunes Match is for music, so for videos and such, you will have to use Home Sharing (with the annoyance that it's "read only" for the connecting computers), but for music, you can buy/add from any authorized device… and you need to be in a country that supports it (and willing to pay 25 dollars/year). :p


Does macOS show battery health for third-party replacement batteries?

The batteries I have used from iFixit do show the battery health and work functionally the same as the apple battery.  I have yet to be disappointed in my purchases from iFixit.


What Software was Bundled with My Old Mac?

Gosh, that's a blast from the past. I had to go digging (deep) in my office!

The Performa 5200 came with a software bundle that included:

The Daedalus Encounter
Grolier's Multimedia Encyclopedia
Myst
Mega Rock Rap 'n' Roll
Making Music

I'm not sure if there was a difference with models sold in Germany (in fact I didn't think this particular model was ever sold in Germany).

However, other models in the Performa range of that era also came with the Apple Magic Collection. This included:

A Lion King animated story book
The Aladin Activity Center
Toy Story demo CD


The built-in iOS keyboard does not support this, but you can add a shortcut from Settings > General > Keyboard. This way you only have to copy/paste once.


How to generate list of Homebrew formulas/packages sorted by "most recently updated" (by package provider)?

Open this folder in Finder:

/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps/homebrew/homebrew-core/Formula

⌘ ⇧ G in Finder will bring up a “Go To Folder…” dialog box. You can then paste the path from above into the box.

Then press ⌘ 2 to switch to list view and then click “Date Modified”.


How to switch tabs in Safari with mouse gesture?

Since you have BetterTouchTool, this is pretty easy. Simply choose whatever gestures you want to use for tab-switching and assign them the following keyboard shortcuts:

These shortcuts are CtrlTab and CtrlShiftTab respectively. The first shortcut will switch to the next tab, and the latter will switch to the previous tab.


How to get SMC version for 2018 Mac mini

On Mac's with the Apple T2 Security Chip, the System Management Controller (SMC) is part of the SoC of the T2 chip and does not report the SMC version like the Mac's without the T2 chip, which is why you do not see it under Hardware Overview.
You can select Hardware > Controller to see the firmware version of the  Apple T2 Security Chip.


How can I back up my OSX 10.6 Installation DVD and create a bootable USB drive?

Well, here are a few things:

1) That OS X installation disk (10.6), will only install Snow Leopard for your 2009 MBP

You cannot use that disk for OS X installs on other machines

2) Generally, the applications disk is nearly useless. Your milage may vary, but I've never, ever used them.

3) Obviously your external drive (USB you say?) will have to have enough space to boot the
installation process. I'd recommend 8+ GB if you will actually use this thing. However, you will only need a usb drive as large as the disk image file that we will create later on.

So, lets get started. There are probably guides out there that have more comprehensive answers than this, but I digress.

You need to use Disk Utility for the following steps. It should be in your Utilities folder. Put the OS X install disk into your Macbook, while your USB drive is also in the computer.

Wipe your USB drive, and reformat it as Mac OS Journaled
Create a disk image of the CD, saving it to your computer's hard drive.
Once you have created the disk image, it should be on the left pane of the Disk Utility window. Click on it, then select the 'Restore' tab to the right. You will want the Source to be the disk image file (the OS X install disk), and the Target to be the USB drive.

Let me know how it goes!

Charlie


Mac not going to sleep after iTunes stops playing

Check if really iTunes is causing this by opening a terminal and entering:

 pmset -g

If sleep is prevented by a process its ID is listed, like here:

 ...
 sleep      0 (imposed by 129)
 ...

Then check which process blocks going to sleep, in this example:

 ps -A | grep 129

   129 ??        37:39.06 /usr/sbin/coreaudiod

Then try killing (quitting) the process and check if you can send your computer to sleep, and if iTunes is still working. In this example it would be:

 sudo kill -3 129

Otherwise you could try re-installing iTunes, and/or repairing your file-premissions in Disk-Utility.


How can I use iCloud with 2 different apple ID's?

You can use separate apple IDs for iCloud and iTunes.
 Homesharing, iTunes Match, along with iTunes/App Stores can all be associated with a shared iTunes account Apple ID.

SETTINGS>> iTunes and App stores>>

iCloud iMessage and FaceTime can be signed into with your own unique Apple IDs. A total of 2 Apple IDs are all that are needed between you and your dad.

Settings>> iCloud>> delete account off one device and keep info when prompted to keep or delete.

If personal info such as contacts, calendars, bookmarks etc, have been merged with Info from other device it would be wise to clean up these items before signing into the different Apple ID.


I was physically robbed and now can't manage my Apple ID... how can I extract my purchases?

The way this is supposed to work is to log in to https://appleid.apple.com and have several devices for authentication.

Have you double checked that you don't have SMS as one of your options? If so, you can just get another SMS capable cell phone from the carrier using your number and be able to log in to reissue a new recovery key.

To paraphrase the KB article - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5577

  If you lose permanently access to all of your trusted devices AND your recovery key, you will not be able to use that AppleID.

Hopefully you can either recover your phone or the wallet (police report and/or reward work in different situations) after a few days and add in some more items, regenerate your recovery key or disable the two-factor security on your account.

Also, you will want to make a phone call to developer support and ask if they have any way to assist you in enrolling another trusted device so that you can continue to do business with them. The developer program has far more ability to tell you from a random impersonator due to the legal forms and verification you may have filled out to enter the program and sell an app.

Also realize that Apple intentionally set this up knowing that some people would be in your situation and make sure you acknowledge that they don't have to help you out, but if they can find a way to, you would really appreciate it. However, since you have thousands of dollars at stake, I can't imagine you wouldn't be able to call into developer support and work with them to regain access as a one-time exception to the policy. Heck, Apple might be able to assist with a letter that corroborates a police report of the theft and open up options to claim this against insurance.

Lastly, check with your insurance since the cost to re-establish your accounts and purchases might just be covered. Your sure move is to get a new AppleID move on, securing it with more layers (and spread over more than one location) of verification devices. Hopefully, you can recover one of the items that was stolen and avoid the lengthy process of convincing either Apple or an insurance agent to help you out of this understandable but painful predicament.


How can I determine what is attempting to use sendmail/postfix on ML?

Sounds like you have postfix installed and running.

You should check your postfix configuration.

There is a good description here.

Or do it your self:
If postfix is still not working, check the log file in /var/log/mail.log for the error:

  sendmail: fatal: chdir /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool: No such file
  or directory

To fix this, run the following commands in Terminal:

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Server/Mail/Data/spool
sudo /usr/sbin/postfix set-permissions
sudo /usr/sbin/postfix start

If as you say you do not want it to be on your computer then disable it.

sudo /bin/launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.postfix.master.plist

That does not answer your question who is using it, but without more info from you one can not say, it could be a script in your system.

You could try to find out who is sending by going to

Open your Console:

Scroll down to Var/Log/mail.log

  The background: Mac OSX comes with the postfix MTA, which is a fully
  featured SMTP server. Under normal circumstances, there is usually no
  need to enable or configure this software, as most email access is
  usually done via GUI clients such as the Mail.app – which uses the
  POP/IMAP and SMTP settings to connect with the email service provider.
  However, there are certain circumstances in which having a local SMTP
  server is very useful, such as: Allowing the batch logs and output
  from the cron daemon or other scripts to be sent via Internet email
  (this is otherwise delivered locally) Testing email based code; which
  requires a local sendmail like SMTP server to be present


Yosemite: prevent 'Bring All to Front' behaviour on Command-Tab

I had the need to run a terminal (to do git commits) over the top of another window (which shows diffs between files). I therefore ran in terminal...

sleep 2; open -a Terminal

Then switched to the diff window with CMD+Tab. After two seconds, Mac OS X foregrounded the single Terminal window I was typing commands in.


Considering your usage, the answer is fairly straightforward:

Xcode 9.0 to 9.2 require as a minimum macOS Sierra 10.12.6
Xcode 9.3 to 9.4.1 require macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

So you're basically limited in your options to these two versions of macOS.

You didn't specify the exact version of Xcode you have installed, but you may need to change that to go down to macOS Sierra. Also, you may need to consider your long-term usage, as Xcode 10 (still in beta) requires macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and it won't be long before a version will require macOS Mojave.

If you decide you want to keep the iMac, then your best bet would be to upgrade to an SSD (either replacing the optical drive, or the internal HD). I suppose another option would be to get an external SSD which supports a Thunderbolt 1 connection and then install macOS on that to use as your main boot disk. While a little clumsy, it's still going to result in a better experience all around.


Anything involving touchpad drag no longer works (highlight text, move files, resize windows, etc.)

Try restarting Finder service by the following commands:

launchctl stop com.apple.Finder
launchctl start com.apple.Finder

This should fix the drag issues.


What is the USB plug on the Mini-Display Port to Dual-DVI adapter used for?

The Dual Link DVI connector is an active adapter, and requires a power source (which Mini-DP cannot supply). It uses the USB as a source of power to power the adapter.


Lion Server iCal Location/Resource Calendar

In iCal create a calendar entry with your resource or location in the invitation. Select the resource and click on the disclosure (the downward pointing triangle). Choose "Copy Invitee Address", your clipboard will have the uuid (unique id) of the resource, something like:

urn:uuid:0d426b70-8294-41a7-8b34-c2ee24cde743

Now remove the urn prefix ('urn:uuid:') and plug this into your browser for more details like so:

https://server/principals/__uids__/0d426b70-8294-41a7-8b34-c2ee24cde743/

Or for a caldav url use:

http://server:8008/calendars/__uids__/0d426b70-8294-41a7-8b34-c2ee24cde743/calendar

Unfortunately, on Lion Server I wasn't able to have users subscribe to this url due to permissions. Hopefully you will have better luck than I on that part.


RSync the library from the one system to the other when you're at home. It's network efficient, only transfers updated files, and is designed with exactly this sort of thing in mind. It's also free, and installed by default on OSX. It's a command-line tool, as long as you're happy with that sort of thing. It'll keep the libraries in sync quite happily, and syncs both ways.

You'll want something like:

rsync -avh --progress --delete /path/to/source /path/to/target

Depends on whether you mount the remote drive locally, or use an rsync daemon.

Nice instructions here: Software to synchronize two directories (local/remote)


This assumes you already have the initial pack loaded & need what used to be the 3 additional "Jam Packs"…

Would you consider 5 bucks worth it, to stay on Garageband 10?

GarageBand menu > Download More Sounds
If you previously purchased this content, select Restore Purchase to install the content
[I'm not certain if 'previously purchased' includes the iLife purchase, but it would be worth testing]

Source : Apple KB - Expanding GarageBand for Mac (v10.0) content with an in-app purchase

Alternatively, if you don't already have the first Jam pack fully loaded, this might be a solution…

  Open GarageBand and either create a new project or open an existing one (don’t worry, we won’t be making any edits to the project).
  Navigate to the Loops section by clicking on the Loops button in the lower right corner of the application.
  Next, you have to find a Loop that GarageBand knows exists, but has yet to be downloaded. It appears Apple let GarageBand know that there are other Loops in existence that were not opted to be included in the base install of the application.

  The easiest way I’ve found to do this is to first Click on the “Rock/Blues” category to narrow the number of Loops displayed, and then find the “70s Ballad Drums 01”; which will appear slightly greyed out and its icon will be an empty box with a dashed border.
  Double-click on the missing Loop, and a rather large (and semi-confusing) dialogue box appears. In short, you want to select the “Download Now” option and click OK.
  Next, you need to open the App Store application and navigate to the Updates tab. Once there, you will find the ‘Update’ to GarageBand nestled under Software Updates for OS X. It is entitled “GarageBand Instruments and Apple Loops 1.0”.

  Even though the large dialogue box in GarageBand said the update would be downloaded “now”; when I went through this process it did not automatically start the download. This may be due to how I have automatic updates turned off on my machine (for development reasons); so it may have already started downloading for you at this point, but just make sure the 'Update’ is downloading and you’ll be good to go!

  One quick thing to note: you will have to quit and reopen GarageBand before you can start using the new software instruments and Loops that were downloaded.

Source : How To Update GarageBand with Nearly 1,000 Instruments and Loops for Free!


Can I lock my screen with a keyboard shortcut?

Does control+shift+eject  (    sleep displays ) solve your problem?    (if you set authentication for login)

Or you can use Option+Command+eject    Put the computer to sleep.


Volume icon in menu bar disappear randomly in Big Sur

I know why this happens.  Upon clicking the volume icon in the menu bar, if you misclick/misdrag anywhere but the allowable volume change slider it will interpret this as trying to rearrange the menu bar icon to another menu bar location.
My current "fix" is to use the open the control center menu and drag the volume back into the menu bar every time this happens.
EDIT: Seems to be fixed in MacOS 11.3


Can I Share All Photos in iCloud Photo Library to Family Members?

According to this article by Serenity Caldwell of iMore, there are three ways to share photos to all your family members.

Use the "Family" album that is automatically created if you have Family Sharing turned on.
Create a shared album.
Use the same iCloud account for all family members.

Nevertheless, there doesn't seem to be a way to automatically share all your photos to your family members. You will still need to copy photos into the share album. (Unless you are all using the same iCloud account, which I didn't want to do, since each user already have their own active iCloud accounts.)


Progress bar for transferring files to iDevice on macOS 10.15

I reported this to Apple in August 2019 during Catalina beta; the issue is still present in release and yet to be fixed. FB7102998


I've never seen one expire. You can enter it in your wallet app if you have an iPhone and the balance will come down from Apple's servers. I suppose a call to the 800-MY-APPLE sales number could confirm the balance as well.


Transferring purchases to different store

Transfers cannot be made from one Apple ID to another Apple ID. Although you can switch the store region preference for your Apple ID to select different regions and download the region specific applications. Use this guide to change the region/store.


Can macOS change the @ symbol to be located with the "Q" key?

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources and make sure this is set to "German Standard" and not "German".

If this does not do the trick, or if you do not have the choice of German Standard, then it is pretty easy to make a custom layout to put this character anywhere you like with the app Ukelele.


How do I deactivate a broken iphone 4s and switch to an old iphone 4s a friend gave me?

You can call Verizon customer support @ 1 (800) 922-0204. They should be able to deactivate your phone and activate the replacement. Even in the case of newer phones that are unlocked like the iPhone 6 - you still need a Verizon rep to activate the device after placing the SIM in it due to how their network is configured.


How to use Sublime Text with the built-in Apple spellchecker

Old post, but by now a plugin exists that interfaces with OS X's built-in spell checker.
See
https://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=11692.
Haven't tried it myself yet, but will now!


Copy Omnikey shortcuts to another computer

The Omnikey developer finally responded. Omnikey data is kept within the folder located at ~/Library/Safari/LocalStorage.


Install a new color profile on Mac OS 10.8

I finally found how to add profile: put the icm file on that directory:

Macintosh HD\Library\ColorSync\Profiles

And you'll see your profile here....

Anyway, this did not solved my issue, it looks like Apple really want us to buy their incredibly expensive screens. I surely regrets paying 30 boxes to upgrade to 10.8.


Does Battery Usage/Percentage need to be calibrated again?

Discharging the battery once in a while (every few Months) is not a must but does help calibrating, for the system to be more accurate waring you on low levels.

Over time charging and discharging creates a more inaccuracy of the actual level. For example if you plug in at 40%, unplug at 80% and so on.

The reason is that the system uses the last known battery charge to produce the %, thus assumes the battery charge level.

However if the battery was not discharged for long time, the remaining charge could be wrong (due to batter aging).

Discharging to not less than 20% once in a while helps the accuracy.

Since there is a opposite effect (to frequent full discharge) will shorten the battery life, you should only do this every few months.


How can I configure shortcuts to special symbols or emojis in El Capitan or later

You can make shortcuts via system preferences/keyboard/text/replace with

You can make a custom keyboard layout with

http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele


How to specify between identical menu command names when making custom shortcuts.

I found the answer on MacStories and SuperUser.

Colliding menubar command names can be specified via their nesting tree, using ->. Thus the shortcut name in my original question becomes Message->Archive.


Had the same experience as the OP. Tried using nrg2iso, tried renaming the file to .iso and also tried the dd command from that MacRumors thread. Nothing worked.

However, I then found nrg4iso which worked perfectly! The project has been abandoned since 2007 but it still works.


"Network accounts are unavailable" when logging into OS X Lion (Open Directory on localhost)

It's possible that the server has service ACLs enabled for the Login Window. If you can connect to the server using Server Admin (from another Mac on the LAN - as you have with WGM), you may be able examine those settings. Here's an article that details enabling that setting for Mail (applies to Login Window as well.)

Go into Server Admin -> servername.local ... Select the "Access" tab at the top of the window, and confirm that you are not managing service access for the "Login Window" section. If you are ("Allow only users and groups below"), you can potentially correct the list of users that have access in that window, or choose to "Allow all users and groups".

Also - Apple does not recommend logging into network user accounts directly on the server (at the Login Window.)