Neighbor's Airplay device is sometimes visible in Airplay menu

Airplay devices can be discovered in two ways:
The most obvious is using Bonjour on the local network, you're connected to. It is basically a kind of broadcast DNS lookup that allows devices on the same local network to find each other.
The not-so-obvious method, which is what you're experiencing, is through peer-to-peer Airplay. This works by devices discovery through low-energy Bluetooth. If you choose to connect to such a device, the devices communicate through Bluetooth to setup a direct device-to-device WiFi connection. This type of connection does not use your local access point / router or your internet connection - it is direct communication between the two units.
It is fully possible that the signal conditions are so that you can discover the device through Bluetooth, but it is not possible to get a good enough signal to establish the device-to-device WiFi link.


I would Recommend installing windows 10 only and getting rid of the mac partition completely. There are tons of online tutorials on how to do it. BUT if you want to use the partition and have that be the default when you hit the option key to choose your startup disk, HOLD CONTROL before you select it that you’ll notice that upward-pointing arrow—the one that points to the selected disk—will change into a circular arrow instead, indicating that the chosen disk will not only be used to start your Mac this time, but that it will also become the default boot disk.


According to the benchmark comparison tool here, the HD 4000 has between 2x and 6x the benchmark scores of the 9400M. (How relevant the scores are to your gaming experience is yet to be seen. Some of these are synthetic benchmarks, so they may not be wholly relevant.) The list is ranked with faster cards first, and the HD 4000 is #181, while the two 9400Ms are at #302 and #310.

tl;dr: It seems that the Intel HD 4000 should be better than the Nvidia GeForce 9400M.

Note: to be able to select the 9400M in the list, you need to deselect the "Still available (not archived)" box to show old cards.


LaunchAgents runs Python script in version 2

As mentioned in the comments, you can use full paths in the XML, e.g.:
<string>/usr/local/bin/python</string>

launchd isn't aware of environmental variables, like $PATH, unless explicitly set in the XML, so python would default to /usr/bin/python.
https://serverfault.com/questions/111391/use-an-environment-variable-in-a-launchd-script


Why don't appointment times show on my iCloud Calendar

It sounds like you may not have your views set to see the items, or that you have the view in MONTH, and the screen is just too small to show them as a 'boxed' houly appointment.
Try enabling all the calendars, or at least the calendar you use, and then check the list or Day view, and see if they show up.

If this is the wrong Idea, can you submit a screen shot of what you see?


BOOTCAMP no longer listed as Device in Finder, but can boot into it on startup

Solved - the answer is that Windows was in a hibernate state. I was able to take Windows out of this state and now BOOTCAMP appears. I will accept my own answer when I am allowed to. More details of solution below.

I downloaded a trial of Paragon Disk Manager which showed the BOOTCAMP partition and provided an option to mount it. On attempting to mount, a dialogue popped up saying that the Windows operating system was in hibernate state and that it could not be mounted by accessing the partition by read-only operations; some write options would be required. I think an option was provided to proceed, but instead I decided to boot into Windows from start up as usual and attempt to fully and properly shut it down (as this is the least risky approach; better to get Windows to sort itself out regarding fully shut down and out of hibernate mode rather than from externally (i.e via an app in MacOS). There were some routine Windows updates ran but I don't think this is relevant. So after having shut Windows down. I started up into MacOS and can now see BOOTCAMP in finder. I don't work for Paragon or have any financial or otherwise interest in them, but the tool served a good purpose in that I could attempt to mount the partition which lead me to the solution.

I've seen something like this with dual-boot Windows / Ubuntu (Linux) systems whereby Ubuntu warns of same message about Windows being in a hibernate state when attempting to mount the Windows partition. So from that I conclude that the issue is not rare (and fortunately remediable). Ubuntu warns that attempting to mount is risky as it means it would have to modify the partition in order to mount it. Again it's therefore better to boot into Windows and fully shut it down. Not really sure why Windows would ever be hibernate mode when shut down though, but a "power cycle" seemed to get it out of this mode and into a fully shut down state.

So that's solved. However as a separate perhaps unrelated point I am concerned about the gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0 message seen when running sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0 as stated above. Any tips would be welcome, but my machine functions perfectly fine so this does not appear to affect it but I'd like to resolve this message anyway - research so far doesn't give a definitive answer it seems, I may write another question.


How can I avoid different windows of the same app get folded in at the dock?

The dock does not shows the windows but the applications.

But once you choose an application you can switch among windows with command+`

To see all the open windows you can use exposé: press F10 to show all the windows of the current application or F9 for all the windows. You can also configure a gesture in the system preferences.


I purchased another iPhone 4S, removed the logic board and replaced it with the one from my damaged phone. The damaged phone was 32gb and the replacement model was only 16gb. I figured this wouldn't matter as the memory is attached to the logic board itself so as this was being removed I bought the cheapest replacement available. The repair is fairly straight forward and is much easier than replacing the glass screen which I've had to do on a number of occasions for friends. There are many links on YouTube which are perfect to follow. I have subsequently purchased iCloud data to avoid the worry of something like this happening again. I think I was fortunate to have not damaged the logic board otherwise this repair/replacement wouldn't have been possible.


NFS server support in OS X 10.15.x Catalina?

Do you have the NFS client utilities installed on the Linux system? The error message from your Linux system states that /sbin/mount.nfs isn't present, which suggests that the NFS client utilities are missing. On Debian/Ubuntu systems they're in package nfs-common - install that package and see if the mount then succeeds.

If you're all you're interested in is sharing a directory between your VirtualBox VM and the host there's no need to use NFS. If you install the VirtualBox guest additions you can share directories quite easily between host and guest.


iCloud: Photo is locked due to account maintenance

There's nothing wrong in uploading a large number of photos to your iCloud storage. You are only limited by the available storage space and not the count of photos that you upload in iCloud.

The error message appears due to some temporary issues in the iCloud backend, network connectivity issues or some minor system/maintenance issue.

When it happens, check the iCloud System status here:

https://www.apple.com/ca/support/systemstatus/

To resolve the issue, retry after some time. If you are using a Web browser, try refreshing and reattempt upload.


How can I remove the Parallels icons from Launchpad in Lion?

The original LaunchPad Cleaner would clean up the icons, but running parallels would undo the cleaning. The updated LaunchPad Cleaner V2 corrects that reversion and works to more permanently clean these parallels icons from the LaunchPad view.

Two other workarounds options are also available:

upgrade to the build that supports Lion, as suggested by patrix (free for v6 users);
disable Windows application integration by right-clicking Parallels icon in Dock, selecting Configure... for the running machine and unchecking Share Windows applications with Mac in Applications section:

Of course this will also make these shortcuts unavailable on Mac.


Updating SSL root certs on old Mac (running Lion)

Yes, if the certificate is being accepted by other, newer machines, the issue it does seem likely that your father's machine isn't receiving updates to its root certificate trust store.  I wasn't able to  verify that Lion isn't receiving those but I think it's a fair guess.
Well, that's a harder question to answer.  If you look here and here, it does seem like it's possible to do, but you'd need to find the keychain files from a newer OS and pull them into Lion.  It's really just a guess as to whether the steps in that answer would work for you since it's 10.8.  I actually would advise figuring out which certificate shows up as expired on your machine (or which root certificate is missing/untrusted), and downloading that specific certificate and appropriately trusting it, first.  But if you want to, you could also backup your system and give that second answer a shot.  Hopefully you have access to a more recent macOS installer you can extract files from.


How can I move files by using the keyboard only?

Have a look at Move files using just keyboard in Mac Finder? for a discussion of the same topic, listing a lot of options.

Assuming you are running Lion you can move files by using Cmd-C to pick them up and Cmd-Opt-V to move them to the target location.


How do I do control-shift-eject on a MacBook Air?

Control + Shift + F12

see also: Is there a similarly fast alternative to Crtl + Shift + Eject for new Macbook that lack eject keys?


How to set up encrypted Time Machine backups to a remote drive?

I don't think that you can do quite what you are proposing (have the external drive connected to the server and only accessible to your local machine. That said, Time Machine at least used to be able to create a new encrypted disk image on network shares and back up to that. (In fact, under Leopard this was the only way to create an encrypted backup volume for use on a local drive.)

Unfortunately, I don't know whether the Time Machine service on your Mac Server will store your backup in a per-machine encrypted disk image like Time Machine on Leopard would. Maybe someone else can answer that piece.


macOS Sierra, kernel_task running taking more than 400% of CPU

Took apart the case and cleaning out the fans totally solved this for me. There was a lot of lint build-up in both of them so they were not cooling the system adequately.

The reason it causes high CPU load is that Mac creates fake CPU load to slow down the computer as a last-ditch effort to control temperature.


In version 5.2 of Apple's Pages app for OS X (Mavericks), how do I change the page layout?

Note the 'DOCUMENT' icon at the far right of the very top of the document. Click on the Document Icon ... You will see a formatting screen similar to the 'older' inspector. The margin details are below "Document Body"

You need to select text in the body and then change the Document left margin from 2.69 inches to 1 inch.

Also, you might need to remove the left items. Depending on how thorough you want to be, update the body style to match the new definition, but at that point once the left margin is something more sane like 1" - you can fix your indents if desired by dragging the tab stops in the ruler.


Why does OS X use virtual memory when I still have free RAM?

You seem to misunderstand virtual memory. Virtual memory is simply a mechanism that the OS uses to make it look like each program has its own, extremely large (4GB on 32-bit, 16 EB on 64-bit) address space. It also provides a way for the OS to use paging, all while making it look like (to applications) only real RAM is being used. In short, it's only an abstraction, and the "Virtual Memory" stats in Activity Monitor are meaningless (for 99% of use cases). You should not be worried at all about whatever number appears there, because it has nothing to do with whether "real" RAM is being used or not.

About your paging stats : you gave no details on how you use your system, so it's hard to know whether something's wrong or not, but I wouldn't be alarmed by a value of 7 GB. Also note that the reported values are Page ins/outs since boot, so if you keep your laptop on all the time like me, it's no wonder that the number accumulates after a while.


I have an iMac 11,2 and successfully installed the Mojave Patch

Boot the system in internet recovery mode to enable SIP. You can do that by holding down Option-Command-R while powering on the iMac. After booting, follow instructions similar to ordinary recovery mode to enable SIP. I.e. open a Terminal and execute:

csrutil enable

If you haven't got internet recovery on the iMac, you will need to install the updated firmware software that is available for your model first.


The problem is likely to be that Yahoo Mail runs on POP3 normally as opposed to IMAP. Without going through all the technical details all you really need to know is that POP is all about the Server talking to you in one direction, your mail client isn't talking back, whereas IMAP is a two way street - as in, when you delete something in your mail client, it gets deleted on the server.

SO, what has likely happened is you were running a mail client on your PC (like outlook probably), and when you delete mail that you've red or sent etc. or clear out any of your folders, it only deletes the mail on your PC, not on the server, and all your old messages are still there. What this means is a significant anti-clutter session may be necessary on your end of things.

To solve the problem for future, there is a way to setup IMAP mail transfer with Yahoo Mail, but rather than ramble on here I'm just gonna give you a link to this youtube video which will show you how to set it up.

Hope this helps.


What is "Television" in System Information report for an external monitor (that is not actually a TV)?

1.What does Television:Yes mean?
It means your macbook is sending the color to your display not in RGB but in YCbCr space instead of RGB,which could lead to poor picture quality.

2.Solution:
Override an EDID (Extended_Display_Identification_Data) setting to force the RGB colour space

Threads  about forcing RGB mode instead of YCbCr

You can force RGB mode by following Turtorial on how to force RGB mode

This is long standing bug that Apple refuses to fix and that is not simple to work around.


Macpro 5,1 mid 2010 cannot boot to Mojave from Mountain Lion?

One possible explanation is that Mojave is on an APFS volume, which Mountain Lion doesn't know about. It's possible that your Mac's firmware also needs updating if the APFS volume is not being shown in the Boot Manager thing (Option at Start).
Seemingly, you have managed to get Mojave booted somehow, so it's not an incompatibility/lack of support for your hardware.
I currently run Mountain Lion in a Parallels VM, on my Mac running Mojave. You might want to consider that, as an alternative to boot-switching.


How can I tell what version of Recovery HD OS is running while I'm booted to the recovery software?

The easiest command is to use Terminal - it's under the Utilities menu - and type the sw_vers command:

sw_vers

The output will be the version and build that runs when you boot to Recovery which can be different than the version installed on your main bootable OS X partition.


How to search files from command line under OS X?

You could use mdfind, which uses the Spotlight database. More information on this man page.


I would say start in recovery-mode (hold cmd + R on booting). My english is not the best but I'll try to explain:

You need a internet-connection and a (Time-Machine-)Backup of your whole data.

In the recovery-mode you have different utilities. You need the "Disk Utility". From there you delete your whole data.

Then you install from another utility (don't know the name) a new copy of the actual Mac OS X. Just migrate it with your backup and here you go.

The procedure with Windows you have to do again via Bootcamp, I don't know what you did this time and why it stucks.


Change guest account photo in Mavericks?

The image is located at the following location. Change it and reboot.

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/LoginUIKit.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LoginUICore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/GuestUser.png

GuestUser@2x.png is the image used for Retina displays


What does "DOE compliant" mean in Disk Utility?

DOE is a method to wipe disks, developed by Department of Energy as part in their manual to ensure the confidentiality of Department of Energy information.

From macs.about.com :

  When Disk Utility uses the DOE-compliant 3-pass secure erase, it will write two passes of random data and then a single pass of a known data pattern. This will take anywhere from a day to a week or more, depending on the size of the drive. You can run this stress test in the background while you use your Mac for other activities.


Do keyboard docks specified for the iPad2 work with the iPad?

If it says it is compatible with iPad, it is compatible with the iPad 1, iPad 2, theoretically the iPhone 4/S. I have it.


This won't work for a signed app, but here's how I was able to get this to work:

Create a copy of the app you're trying to modify in case something goes wrong. (⌘D in Finder) For my example here, I modified the non-app store version of  VectorDesigner
In Terminal, cd /Applications/VectorDesigner.app/Contents/MacOS
mv VectorDesigner VectorDesigner\ copy (substitute the name of your app here
pico VectorDesigner (or your editor of choice) and add the contents of your script.

I used this script

 #!/bin/sh
 osascript -e "tell Application \"Finder\" to display alert \"Hello World\""
 /Applications/VectorDesigner.app/Contents/MacOS/VectorDesigner\ copy

The important thing is for the last line to call the renamed executable.
chmod a+x VectorDesigner

Now, when I double-click the VectorDesigner icon, I get the "Hello World" window, then it launches the original program.


For more recent versions of Photos.app (Version 2.0 that came with macOS 10.12 Sierra at least), there is a "Places" item avaialble under "Albums" in the sidebar (use "View" -> "Show Sidebar" if it is not visible). This gives a map view similar to that available in iPhoto.app.

For older versions of Photos.app, it does not appear that there is a way to see ALL photo locations on a map at one time, aside from a small Info window. Here's what you need to do:

For the small info window that shows all locations:
 1. Go to the Albums tab in Photos
 2. Right-click on "All Photos" -> Get info
 3. Note the small window has a map included which you can zoom in/out of

For maps that vary by date:

Go to View menu -> Metadata -> Location
Go to the Photos tab and zoom all the way out to Years
Note that there are locations next to the year. Click on the location name


Software/utility to completely erase cookies/cache

The easiest way is to use a free (or paid) utility to do it for you.

Onyx is a free one that does the job, you have an option to clear your browser's different values:

Cocktail is a paid ($14.95) nice utility too, that does what Onyx does and the UI is a little bit more elegant and give you some more flexibility:

Of course, you will have to make sure that you securely empty your thrash if you really want to make sure nobody has access to deleted stuff.

Cocktail has a nice option that may interest you in this regard:

…which should cover your secure concerns :)

(if OnyX has a secure delete, I couldn't find it in the preferences).


Keyboard shortcut for switching windows not working in Yosemite

It seems not to work in full screen mode of apps. Switching to normal mode everything works fine.


The person that registers is the owner. They can of-course enter a contract to give you control of their goods or form a corporation. You'd need to consult a lawyer if you want help forming a corporation and they'd need to know Brazil law as well as US law.

I wouldn't let any of this hinder you. You'll do the work, you'll start with as much responsibility as your father allows and when you're 18 you can transfer the account to your Apple ID or keep using the one you share. You can transfer accounts today - so unless that changes between now and when you're 18 that should be a non-issue.

Most developers that have commercially viable apps are a team, so if you can start with that - no worries. I believe you can even associate any Apple ID with the developer program once Apple is convinced that the primary legal account can accept the terms and conditions under a legally binding framework. Basically US law and presumably Brazilian law prohibit minors from entering into many binding agreements.

So, your father's Apple ID would accept the legal responsibility to be bound by the terms and then allow your account as little or as much authority as the iTunes connect allows (quite a good deal of freedom can be delegated thusly).


Make launchd jobs depend on other launchd jobs

launchd doesn't manage job dependencies, you need to manage this in your own code, either be checking whether the functionality provided by the first job is actually available or by creating signal files or other markers.


How to enable / disable accounts for Filevault2 pre-boot authentication?

I just remembered that there is a command line tool (fdesetup) to manage Filevault. Strange, Apple removed the option in System Preferences.

To remove the user "username":

sudo fdesetup remove -user username

To add the user "username":

sudo fdesetup add -usertoadd username

For more details:

man fdesetup


You can go to Settings > General > Keyboards > Add New Keyboard ... and select "Emoji" from the list. Then, in order to access the emojis on your keyboard, tab this "globe" icon:


Any reason not to run my Macbook Pro upside-down in clamshell mode?

You can place the Mac in whatever orientation you like during clamshell mode as long as it's supported and protected from falls.

I really like the Book Arc stand so that the trackpad area is by the table and all the warmer section near the hinge is up and exposed on all sides to airflow. If you really need maximum cooling, try the SVALT D cooling stand.

Your proposed mechanism should be measurably cooler when you have the CPU generating maximum heat and for some reason the airflow / ambient temperature wasn't cooling things as much as you had hoped. The air trapped in the LCD panel can have a fairly good insulation value and if the surface is soft, airflow under the feet is diminished.

The Apple fans are high quality and likely magnetically suspended or have so little play it's not a concern unless you have shocks or other accelerations.


Thunderbolt 2 can not be used to charge your MacBook.
Unfortunately, the only way to charge the model you have is MagSafe – you have to replace the charging board if you want to keep using it.


The simplest way might be to open your web browser on the iPad and open a link to a book.

That will take you to the store if you need the app and take you to the app if you just lost where the icon is installed.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/apple-watch-user-guide/id985786488

If that doesn't work, your iOS is a bit messed up and backing up your data and restoring the device would be the next step. More info at https://help.apple.com/ipad/11/


How to stop my iPhone from merging contacts?

It appears to be a feature of Office 365. Similar contacts get ‘linked’ automatically. Unlinking is possible, although, when I attempted it myself, one of the linked contacts was lost completely. There is no way of disabling the ‘feature’ at the moment.

Unlinking contacts may be achieved as follows:

Open Outlook 2013 or newer and switch to People;
Ensure that your Current View is set to People;
Choose any of the contacts that you believe to be linked;
Press ‘Link Contacts…’ under View Source at the right;
Press × for each contact listed as they will reappear in your list of contacts.


How can I change the OS X Lion Glossy Dock Notifications/Badges?

I'm not sure if I understand the problem without seeing a screenshot, but you can change the dock appearance to use the classic flat Dock style instead of the 3D glass style.

Paste this into a Terminal window and press return:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean true && killall Dock

I much prefer the flat look myself. The glass shelf is so tacky.


What is the definition of "recently added" in my iTunes playlists?

The "Recently Added" playlist is a smart playlist that is automatically generated based on the rules that define it. I have removed it from my machine, but if you right click it and select Edit Smart Playlist, you can see its rules. The playlist contains songs you've added yourself "recently" (you'll have to check yourself to see what "recently" means)


The gdate binary from coreutils should be the gnu date program:

$ gdate --version
date (GNU coreutils) 8.25
Copyright (C) 2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by David MacKenzie.

If you don't have that in the path, perhaps brew rm coreutils && brew install coreutils would be a place to start as well as inspecting your $PATH


First, make sure any volume controls in the app you’re using aren’t turned all the way down. Also, try playing a different audio file, CD, or DVD, or try playing the file or disc on another computer or media player to isolate the problem. Check this thread https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/if-you-cant-hear-sound-from-your-speakers-mchlp1439/mac


How do I use a Wacom Intuos 3 with OS X Mojave (10.14.5)?

The Accessibility options seem to be key, initially. From Wacom Intuos 3 Tablet Issues with Mojave OS. Does the CTL4100 work?

  Go to System Preferences / Security and Privacy / Privacy Tab / Accessibility / click the lock in the bottom left corner of your window to unlock (you'll need your password), then you can select the Wacom tablet in there. I just had the same problem and this worked great for me. Hope it works for you!

In addition, there seem to be some additional steps requried to obtain full functionality. This thread on Reddit, Solution for Intuos 3 PTZ-630 in macOS 10.14 Mojave, seems to have a fuller solution:

  Need to make sure you go to

  System Preferences >> Security and Privacy >> Privacy >> Accessibility

  and make sure that Photoshop and WacomTabletSpringboard are both added
  AND checked on the right panel.

  ...

  My process (for what it's worth).

  already had driver 6.3.15-3. Clicks not registered. Tablet    diagnostics say everything is good.
  uninstalled driver redownloaded 6.3.15-3 and reinstalled.
  didn't work. Uninstalled 6.3.15-3
  reinstalled older 6.3.14-2. Didn't work. Uninstalled.
  installed latest driver, 6.3.31-4 (definitely NOT for Intuos 3).    Didn't work. Uninstalled.
  reinstalled 6.3.15-3. Didn't work.
  found out about having to enable apps (WacomTabletSpringboard and    Photoshop) in the accessibility options. EUREKA! clicks now
  registering, but Photoshop still with no pressure.
  checked other graphic apps. Pressure recognised. Hmmmm.
  leave Photoshop pretty much alone for a day, pressure now working.

also, in the same thread:

  After several fresh installs and restarts, i realized that there was a
  new button towards the bottom right in Security & Privacy > General

  it was saying something along the lines of some stuff did not load on
  restart. Button was labelled Allow

  I tapped on it and a dialog box that had two items in itpopped up, one
  wacom and another one that was probably wacom related, i hit allow and
  my pen's tap to click started functioning again. Cheers.


Typing in 2 different applications at the same time

As far as I know no, mostly due to the way the OS X window manager is setup you need to have the text area to have focus to receive key input (but not all key events).

However, this is not to say it's not possible, but I can't think of a way to do it 'live', as in sending the text char by char. If I was looking at doing it basically what I'd be trying to to basically keylog myself (list of keyloggers), and hack a script to switch to Chrome, dump the text and switch back to Xcode, but that's about as gracefully as I can think of and even that's a pretty ugly way to do it.

There's probably a nicer way to do it, but I'd start with the keylogger and build from there.


Optimizing system for installed software

During the "optimizing" stage, the system is "prebinding" executables. As per Wikipedia:

Prebinding is a method for reducing the time it takes to launch executables in the Mach-O file format.
Prebinding looks up memory addresses of symbols in libraries that the program is using before the program is launched, and stores this information ahead-of-time, so that the computer need not look up (bind) addresses on each launch.


It is server overload. Either keep trying or wait till the traffic dies down a little.

You can read more about it in this post.


Reset wallpaper of 2nd monitor without having connection to 2nd monitor?

You can reset them all by deleting this file

~/Library/Application Support/Dock/desktoppicture.db

Alternatively, you could try opening it in something like SQLite Free - but I'm not sure what the consequences of deleting a single line from the list of wallpapers would be.


Make all occurrences of string superscript

If I were you, i will search for online superscript converter to convert that word 1 to ¹ such as https://lingojam.com/SuperscriptGenerator
Then i will copy converted text
> pages
> find "[1]"
> change "Find" to "Find & replace"
> paste the copied text in the replace field "[¹]"
> click on "Replace all"


Which OS is faster for my iMac Early 2009?

I'm was sorely rempted to -1 your question and then comment, but the comment grew long. You're just trying to make the most of what you have and asking for advice so that's a +1 now.

Unless you define what "fast" is - it's hard for this not to be entirely speculative. Worse, when you define fast - then you make it very narrow and less useful.

The OS doesn't really change your CPU and your memory speeds. It doesn't change your filesystem and since you can't run High Sierra and APFS - you're stuck on HFS+ for that Mac.

About the best thing that can come of this "let's get an answer on which is faster - 10.11 or 10.12 or 10.10" is the suggestion to partition your drive and test each OS to your needs and then make your call.

The downside is you'll likely lose so much more time doing the measuring than just installing the latest OS that runs and then look to optimize what your bottleneck is when you reach them. Another downside would be if someone saw "10.12 is slow" and it discourage them from upgrading when for them it would be faster and/or more secure and no more slow.

I'd say - make a good backup, and then upgrade to the latest OS you can. Old software and not keeping your drive clean from needless files is likely to be far slower than whatever marginal difference you could ever measure on OS versions.

The upside of this is you'll have learned some skills on measuring performance and thinking about the end goal "swift and Xcode" and then can make decisions like - should I spend $$ on RAM and SSD or find a used Mac with those that is more economical than upgrading a core2 duo machine.


After the OS X Mavericks v10.9.4 Update, window corners have returned to their previous glory. Update notes don't mention any issue of this kind, so I guess it might have been fixed as a side effect of running the system updater.

EDIT: Aaand the corners are ugly again. It's really weird.


Macbook crashed now iMessage not working correctly

Log out.
Log in.
Check for each existing conversation that the small tab at the top of the main window is not red. If it is, click it & re select their correct number/address.


my iphone5 is shutting down and has no power to turn on what do i do?

first thing I would do is restore it back to factory one more time.  If that doesn't work, call apple and tell them, they may give you a credit, and lastly try to trade it in and get the iPhone 6 when it comes out, or if you can't wait till then, try to trade it in now.  As far as fixing the issue,it sounds like you may just have a lemon. You could tell them at an Apple store that they said this would fix it, and it isn't working, they should have given you a new phone instead of trying to replace the battery.  But next time you get a phone that's a dud, or any electronic, request a replacement, say its no good.


Looks like the g++ part is not built by default. Build it with brew install gcc45 --enable-cxx and g++-4.5 will appear. See brew info gcc45 for details on the build options.

[@ in /usr/local/bin on ⇄ master]
$ brew install gcc45 --enable-cxx
==> Downloading http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-4.5.4/gcc-4.5.4.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: /Library/Caches/Homebrew/gcc45-4.5.4.tar.bz2
==> ../configure --build=x86_64-apple-darwin12.3.0 --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/gcc45/4.5.4/gcc --datarootdi
==> make bootstrap
==> make install
  /usr/local/Cellar/gcc45/4.5.4: 909 files, 53M, built in 18.5 minutes
[@ in /usr/local/bin on ⇄ master]
$ ls -l /usr/local/bin/g++-4.5
lrwxr-xr-x  1 janke  admin  33 Apr 25 11:27 /usr/local/bin/g++-4.5 -> ../Cellar/gcc45/4.5.4/bin/g++-4.5


Where exactly is QuickTime Player on OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion?

QuickTime Player should be located directly in /Applications/, that's its default location. QuickTime Player X is part of the OS installation, and Apple provides no separate downloads of the app.

Reinstalling the OS is of course a huge step just to get QuickTime back. If you have access to the Mountain Lion installer, you can use an app like Pacifist to extract QuickTime Player from it.

Mountain Lion, as it was a paid upgrade, also cannot simply be downloaded. You may have a copy of the installer on an usb drive or a dvd-r. Originally it was an App Store download, and when bought an app file called "Install OS X Mountain Lion" was placed in /Applications/. After the installation this file, which was more than 4 GB in size, was deleted. You can get it back from the Purchases tab in the App Store to re-download the file. If it shows as "Installed," you should try holding down the option key while clicking on the Purchases tab. You might also be able to locate the installer on a Time Machine backup in the /Applications/ folder.


From the images at iFixit.com, you can see that the RAM, soldered directly onto the MBA logic board (4GB of RAM in orange outline,) is not soldered onto a RAM carrier as you would find in a computer with removable RAM. I have no absolute proof, without diving into arcane documentation, but I'm sure Apple has designed the RAM to be interleaved if that is the technology they are using.


How to lock screen of host machine with TDM on Sierra

This should not happen at all if your iMac locks itself after a period of time without TDM.
To lock your iMac's account after a period of time, follow these steps:

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Security & Privacy, then click General.

Click the lock icon  to unlock it, then enter an administrator name and password.

Click Advanced.

Select “Log out after... minutes of inactivity.”

Set the amount of time before the user is automatically logged out.

(quoted from https://support.apple.com/kb/PH18670?locale=en_US)
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It definitively is supported to log out a user while using Target Display Mode (TDM):

Any apps that are open on your iMac remain open and active while your iMac is in Target Display Mode. (...)
If you've set your iMac to automatically log out, apps are paused or closed when this happens but your iMac remains in Target Display Mode.

From: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204592#options
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Also check these options in System Preferences:

Energy Saver > Wake for network access (uncheck)
Security & Privacy > General > Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins (check)
Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver > Start after: 1 Minute

Please let me know if this solves the issue.


Apple provides no easy transfer mechanism for embedded alarm tones from iPad to another device. The things you are expected to transfer are exposed for syncing via iTunes. The audio files are proprietary and are not user accessible or even licensed for this.


Cannot connect to SAMBA shares drive after update to Catalina

Turn off packet signing for SMB 2 and SMB 3 connections as described in
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205926:

Edit /etc/nsmb.conf (create it if necessary)
Add

[default]
signing_required=no

Save file
Reconnect SMB shares (or reboot your Mac)


How can I adjust the size of the OSXRESERVED partition that Boot Camp Assistant uses?

Apple provides instructions for installing Windows 10. See Install Windows on your Mac with Boot Camp These instructions provide a link to the Microsoft Windows 10 download site.

The October 2018 ISO (1809) has one file that exceeds the maximum file size for a FAT32 formatted partition. This can cause problems when the Boot Camp Assistant instructs a user to insert a USB flash drive which is FAT32 formatted.

Your Mac model is newer so you should not have this problem, since the OSXRESERVED partition is formatted ExFAT. For other users with old Macs, one possible solution, if problems occur, would be to use the April 2018 ISO (1803).

Is it possible to either:

A) resize the OSXRESERVED partition (taking some space from either the BOOTCAMP partition or the APFS container partition?)

It has been awhile since I ran the Boot Camp Assistant on a newer Mac. From what I remember, there was no way to stop the installation and customize the partitioning. You may be able customize by not using the Boot Camp Assistant. For the older Macs, the steps for installing were outlined in the question How to install Windows 10 into a 2013 iMac without using the Boot Camp Assistant, USB flash drive or third party tools? The answer is a bit outdated. I could update the answer if you post the output from diskutil list. I will admit that I am not sure if you would be better using the unattended install or not. In other words, I am not sure how exactly the OSXRESERVED partition is removed.
or B) tweak a 'OSXRESERVED partition size' setting in macOS that is used by Boot Camp Assistant and run it again?

There is nothing the the Boot Camp instructions for changing this partition size. The command defaults read com.apple.bootcampassistant does not show any useful defaults that could be changed.

Another problem to look out for is the use of the Windows Recovery Environment partition. In some cases, the partition is not allocated enough space. This can result in an empty partition. The files that would have ended up in this partition are being placed in the Windows partition.

After Windows is installed, you can verify the location of the Windows RE files by entering the command given below in an Administrator Command Prompt window.

reagents /info


Is it possible for a mobile phone manufacturer (other than apple) to make their phone sync with iTunes and iCal?

Remember the Motorola ROKR? Apple did license the technology at that point in time to build an iTunes compatible phone with Motorola, before the iPhone era. The Motorola SLVR L7 was one of the other few non-Apple devices compatible with iTunes.

There was also the case of the Palm Pre which supported iTunes syncing (unlicensed), but Apple kept breaking the syncing (purposedly?) with new iTunes versions, forcing users of Palm Pre's to search for hacks to get it working again.

I think this shows that it is technically possible (even through reverse engineering), but Apple is not going to sit by and allow it. This probably is even more true nowadays, as they are fiercely protecting the iTunes/iOS eco-system.

You could also use iSync to sync contacts and calendars with many different phone models, but it has gone missing since Mac OS X Lion. Here's a hint to install it again though.

EDIT:

Found a quote from Apple regarding "non-supported" devices, which illustrates their stance:

  Apple is aware that some third-parties claim that their digital media
  players are able to sync with Apple software. However, Apple does not
  provide support for, or test for compatibility with, non-Apple digital
  media players and, because software changes over time, newer versions
  of Apple’s iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality
  with non-Apple digital media players.

And here's a reaction from Apple to Business Week regarding the Palm Pre:

  iTunes 8.2.1 is a free software update that provides a number of
  important bug fixes. It also disables devices falsely pretending to be
  iPods, including the Palm Pre. As we've said before, newer versions of
  Apple's iTunes software may no longer provide syncing functionality
  with unsupported digital media players.


Screen brightness on Macbook Air June 2012 running Windows 7 Pro x64

The 64x support is terrible for this macbook air. If anyone else runs into this issue be ready to either struggle with power and display issues daily or just go to windows 7 x86. I dealt with the problems for about a month before switching, I'm much happier now.


Can't install Homebrew on macOS Mojave; installer doesn't recognize Command Line Tools

Xcode command line tools is a separate package for Xcode

Download Command Line Tools for Xcode from developer.apple.com/download/more and install it again.

source: Installing Xcode Command Line Tools

Useful for troubleshooting

xcode-select -p


How to change the home screen wallpaper randomly

As of iOS 13.1.2 there is no default way of doing this. However, a Photos & Video action called Set wallpaper to will be available in future for use with the Shortcuts app.

This action will allow users to set the Wallpaper for either their Lock Screen or Home Screen from a Photos album (which is what you're looking for) or from an online source.

I will update this answer once that action is available for the Shortcuts app.

In the meantime there are a number of apps available on the App Store that promise to change your Wallpaper. Some examples follow:

Shuffle Wallpapers
Vellum Wallpapers
Wallpapers & Backgrounds: HD
Wallpapers & Background Themes
Live Wallpapers Now

However, my understanding is that most apps use an online resource (a library of wallpapers) from where the wallpapers are downloaded. You'd need to check if any of them allow you to use a locally stored Photos album as your wallpaper source.

Disclaimer: I have not used any of the apps listed above, nor do I have an association with any of the developers. You will need to determine if any of them meets your needs and what cost, if any, they have.


This issue has little to do with an iPod Nano but has to do with MP3 settings for the MP3 file itself in iTunes. To change a plain MP3 to a podcast, open up iTunes, select the MP3 then select Get Info on the MP3, select Options & then look at the Media Kind list. One of the Media Kind options is Podcast so just select that and then copy the newly modified MP3 file to your iPod Nano or any iDevice. You should be good to go.


What happens when interrupting a zip -erm process?

Am I left with something that could be continued where it left off

No. If you send a an Interrupt Unix Signal to zip using Control-C, you'll terminate the zip process and when you run it again it will start from the beginning, overwriting anything it already extracted.

If you instead send a Stop signal Control-Z, the zip process will be paused, and you can resume it later using the fg command.

Note that this will only work if you can maintain the state of your system. That is, if you sleep the system you'll be OK, but if you shutdown, then zip will still be killed. Also, it assumes that the file zip was working with remains available while it is stopped; that is, if it resides ona  network share which you dismount, sending a SIGSTOP will still not work.


The switch on the bottom is the on-off switch.  The mouse should not move after you turn it off.  If it still moves after you turn it off, it's possible the switch is defective (assuming you're not also touching a trackpad or have another BT mouse connected at the same time).


How do I see the queue of untagged faces in the 2015 Mac Photos App?

Albums > Faces - the pending list should appear at the bottom of the page, if there are any new faces to tag.


How to filter out only searchable PDFs from amid a myriads PDF files?

Can you just use the finder search, and search for 'the' (or another search term that is guaranteed to be in every searchable pdf). Then just copy those files to another folder.

Just pick a term that doesn't appear in the filenames of the other files.


Does hot weather causes Lithium-ion batteries in Apple devices to drain fast?

we are experiencing hot summers....the battery on my Apple devices are draining way quicker than they use to from before.  Is there any technical reason and evidence or explanation thereof that would support this theory?

Yes.

Temperature extremes (cold and hot) are bad for batteries in general, but they have different charging and discharging characteristics depending on temperature.  Batteries are much more "sensitive" to charging than they are discharging.

Basically, the battery should be brought back to a "normal" temperature when charging to get the best performance.

Source:  Battery University - Charging at High and Low Temperatures

A Li-ion battery has a charge temperature range from about 0°C to about 45°C.  In a tropical climate, freezing temperatures aren't really a problem, but past 45°, you can get reduced charge.

  Batteries operate over a wide temperature range, but this does not give permission to also charge them at these conditions. The charging process is more delicate than discharging and special care must be taken. Extreme cold and high heat reduce charge acceptance, so the battery must be brought to a moderate temperature before charging.


Transferring photos from "Documents by Readdle" app to Camera Roll without uploading it to cloud or connecting to a PC?

Documents by Readdle has a feature using which you can export images to Camera roll on your iPad. You can either export images individually, or select more than one images and export them all in one go.

To export a single image to your Camera roll, do the following:

Open the Documents app, locate the image you wish to export and tap on the options button (three blue dots) towards the bottom right of the image icon.

Tapping on the options button will reveal the app's share context menu. Tap on the Share button.

You'll be presented with iOS's share sheet. Tap on the Save Image button to export the image to the Camera roll.

A copy of the image will be saved in the Camera roll and can be viewed in the Photos app. This image will be available to any app which is permitted to access Photos.

To export multiple images to your Camera roll in one go, do the following:

Tap on the Select button in the toolbar at the top right and select the desired images.

In the sidebar on the left, tap on the Share button to reveal the iOS's share sheet. Tap on Save x images to export them to the Camera roll in one go.


Is it possible to edit a macOS alias with vim?

macOS aliases are just normal files. macOS knows when an alias is being accessed and passes the right file along to the app. Since aliases are just normal files, other tools just open the alias file itself rather than reading the contents of the file and finding where it points to.

If you actually want a link to another file, you can create a symbolic link instead of using aliases:

How can I create a symbolic link in Terminal?


OS Catalina Recovery mode: "Downloading installer information to the target volume failed"

I am having the exact same problem. Something weird that helped me past the "downloading instaler information...failed" is using different wireless connections, and retrying many times. Some (magical) times it just passes to the next screen. This is very weird, I know, but it helped in my case. When I get passed that error, I find a different one: the installation gets a timeout around 90% of the installation. I have probably the same computer as you, Macbook pro 2019, 16 inches, 8core base model with T2. Please let me know if you find a solution as I am in the same condition as you. I will let you know if I find a solution too. What I will try is continue trying on different wifi connections and let you know. I am 1000 miles away from an Apple store too (at a mountain village in Argentina). God help us, hahaha!


Website says enable cookies even though they are enabled, on Catalina

If there's any hint of "best viewed in these browsers" on the site, it's good to use them.

You can "empty cache" using alt+command+E or by using Develop Menu in Safari.

Also, try turning off "Prevent cross-site tracking" to see any effect. You can turn it back on later, if you want.

  Some websites use third-party content providers. A third-party content provider can track you across websites to advertise products and services.

  With this option turned on, tracking data is periodically deleted unless you visit the third-party content provider.

https://support.apple.com/en-in/guide/safari/sfri35610/12.0/mac/10.14.5

Also disable all extensions and third party safety applications you might have.


USB Port of Macbook frequently stop working

The ports are designed to shut down when an over current situation is detected. It stands to reason that this circuit is reset at boot, so there could be damage to the sensor or damage / fault to the logic board or it could be a result of actual over current from whatever's connected.

Have you considered taking it in to a shop for a diagnosis?

Also, look in the Console app - all messages - and search for USB. You might be able to see the time when the over current (or other error condition is logged) since the system should notify the logging subsystem when a USB port gets shut down.


Remove "Move to Dropbox" menu from Finder context menu

If you go to Preferences -> Extensions -> Finder, you will see the Finder extension that you can enable/disable and you can enable/disable the Finder extension from the Dropbox app itself.

Unfortunately I don't believe you can simply remove the one option but rather it's an all-or-nothing scenario based on the extension itself. Well, at least until Dropbox makes some improvements.


I do not connect my iCloud account to my work-assigned MacBook Pro. It is against company policy for starters (although not actually blocked) and risks intermingling my work and personal lives.
Sidecar is the only thing that is a non-starter without it, the rest are things that would simply be more convenient if you were signed in. If I needed Sidecar–or really wanted one of the other services, I probably would sign in, but turn off all services–especially iCloud Drive and Find my Mac.


Is it possible to run Snow Leopard on a LATE 2011 MacBook Pro?

I'd like to confirm that it IS possible to run Snow Leopard on a late 2011 MBP 15" without ANY FLAW although AppleCare technicians told me that it is not possible ! I did it on mine (CTO, 2.2 GHz i7) bought in fev. 2012 and had not the slightest issue since.

But from Apple side it is NOT recommended and certainly NOT supported . - But hey, my love and I have some scientific software and also Adobe products that only run smoothly on Snow Leopard and all our other Mac's in the family are on SL so I had to give it a try to stay productive. And personally, I'm not really happy with Lion, but that's an other story. - For me it's just roaring and definitely not the 'King' of the MacOs as the name suggests...

So here is what I did :

As I couldn't lay my hands on a original MBP 15" Install-DVD from last summer (10.6.7) which should allow you to boot the MBP15" directly from it, I did a clean 10.6.7 install with my iMac 27" (iMac11,1 - i7 2.8 GHz) on an external hard drive starting from a 10.6.3 iMac install DVD and applying all the updates up to 10.6.7.
Then I formatted my MBP internal drive in target disk mode and created 3 partitions (SL, Lion, Bootcamp).
Using CarbonCopyCloner I cloned the clean SL installation one the first partition of the MBP, then disconnected the laptop and booted in SL.
There was one little glitch with the splash screen resolution (not full screen) but nothing serious.
Now I ran the 10.6.8 combo update that I downloaded before cloning and did all the software updates and another reboot.
That done SL runs now without any problem - not one incompatibility issue in one month (would have been surprised because there were no major hardware changes from early to late 2011 MBP15").
As next step I rebooted the MBP holding the alt-command-R keys to start from the Apple servers and did a new Internet install of Lion on the second partition.
And last I installed Windows 7 on the third partition reformatting it using NTFS (be careful to choose the right partition - by the way there is a fourth partition : the rescue partition created by Lion you don't want to touch).
   Once Win7 installed I ran the Bootcamp Assistant and did all updates.

And so now we have a nice triple boot MBP15" allowing us to use all the software we need without the slightest problem. You could probably even try a quadruple boot adding a Linux partition...

But be careful! I wouldn't bet that this method works for all new MBP and MBA so you want to make sure your model ran with SL back in summer 2011 and had no major hardware changes before trying! You can also test booting it first from an external drive with the clean install on it.

I neither do know if my method worked because the iMac 27" and the MBP15" both have a i7 Quad Core.

that's it, have fun!


Understanding a panic is quite easy: The core scheduler for the OS got lost in the weeds. This is a fail-safe in that the computer decides to stop running itself.

The inner most portion of the OS's control logic got derailed and the system was designed to drop all processing and leave a log file for engineering to troubleshoot further.

You can see these files after a restart by looking in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports and especially if you have several that recur (in the same day or hour) it is sometimes useful to compare the reasons and patterns in the file.
Back to the high level - how to understand this design is that some fundamental things went so wrong in the core of the operating system, the designers have all concluded that it's almost certainly worse to keep running with this error than to halt the computer immediately.
Think of this as a fail-safe at the level where the computer decides what program or instruction gets to run next. The computer is literally out of ideas how to continue, so it dumps what it was working on (as best as it can recollect now that things are off the rails) and stops immediately.

Kernel Panics are some of the hardest to debug unless you have one that you know exactly how to trigger it. In that case, it's pretty easy to keep eliminating possibilities until the source is obvious. Here is the best writeup of Mac specific information on Understanding and Debugging Kernel Panics. It is very technical, so take what you wish and move on to the steps below.
Like anything, it's best to isolate the problem to avoid chasing down thousands of potential causes. If you want to be systematic about how you isolate the cause (or worse causes) of a panic, here are the two articles with general steps for isolating software causes before investigating hardware.

Isolating issues in Mac OS X - great general reference, links to specific sub articles
Mac OS X: How to troubleshoot a software issue

In your specific case - Core Storage is either the root cause or just an innocent next bystander that "falls into the hole" that another process left behind. Good Luck if you decide to isolate this, hopefully it was a one-off error and you can just use your Mac in peace.


Grey screen on startup of OS X when using Boot Camp 5

Problem solved (for now). Started up OS X successfully in Safe Mode and was able to remove the Windows partition via Boot Camp Assistant. Restarted and everything seems to be back to normal.


Why do external drives spin up for webpage rendering?

In Activity Monitor.App you can see for each process Open Files and Ports. You can do the same things with Instruments.app which is part of the Xcode/Development bundle.

You should dig it that direction, it can be that Chrome loads something for your external Volume.


Hooking into Active Screen (Hot) Corners

I don't know any way to assign custom actions to screen corners without using third party applications, but one free application for that is CornerClick.


Mac running Windows 7 unable to detect Mac hardware, Windows Support Software issue...how to fix (no USB)

The answer, you referred to in your question, started out as an answer to the question Boot camp install of Windows 7 issue, no bootable devices. This question was often asked by owners of older Macs where the optical (DVD) drive was either damaged or replaced by a second internal HDD or SSD. The improved answer, which you referred to, was thought to be general enough to cover later Macs with no internal optical drive, but could still support a BIOS booting Window 7. However, this answer has proven to fail at step 10 for several model Macs where neither a keyboard, mouse, or trackpad would work. Fortunately, other questions/answers have been posted (such as Is it possible to use Boot Camp with Windows 10 from an external HDD?) where this fatal step 10 can be avoided. Since your updated question indicates you can get a keyboard, mouse or trackpad to work with Windows 8.1, I posted the instructions below for installing Windows 7.

Instructions for Installing Windows 7 SP1 using Windows 8.1 ISO

  This method does not use VirtualBox. Instead, the method relies on being able to boot from a Windows 8.1 flash drive. However, if this does not work out, a virtual machine could be use, but the instruction for doing so have be omitted from this answer.

The following files were downloaded from the internet. You can substitute files from another source, if you wish.

Windows 7 Professional SP1 English (64-bit) from this Microsoft website:
Download Windows 7 Disc Images (ISO Files).
Windows 8.1 English (64-bit) from this Microsoft website
Download Windows 8.1 Disc Image (ISO File).
The Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5640 from this Apple website.

The drive letters are given below along with a described. If you get different drive letters, then make the appropriate substitutions.

Drive C: is the fourth partition on the internal drive. Here I assume this partition has been MS-DOS (FAT) formatted and named BOOTCAMP by the Yosemite Disk Utility application
Drive D: is the bootable Windows 8.1 flash drive. Basically, a flash drive created using the Boot Camp Assistant and the Windows 8.1 ISO.
Drive E: is a MS-DOS (FAT) formatted flash drive containing the Windows 7 SP1  files.
Drive F: is a MS-DOS (FAT) formatted flash drive containing the Boot Camp Support Software files.

  Note: Here, I assume different flash drives were used for Window 7 SP1 and the Boot Camp Support Software, although an individual flash drive could be substituted.

Use the Startup Manager to boot from the Windows 8.1 flash drive. You should see the following image.

Press the shift+F10 key combination to open a Command Prompt windows, as shown below.

Enter the commands shown in the example below.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]

X:\Sources>wmic logicaldisk get volumename,name
Name  VolumeName
C:    BOOTCAMP
D:    WINDOWS8
E:    WINDOWS7
F:    BOOTCAMP5
X:    Boot

X:\Sources>format c: /fs:ntfs /v:BOOTCAMP /q
The type of the file system is FAT32.
The new file system is NTFS.
Enter current volume label for drive C: BOOTCAMP

WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVABLE DISK
DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST!
Proceed with Format (Y/N)? y
QuickFormatting 204.3 GB
Creating file system structures.
Format complete.
     204.3 GB total disk space.
     204.3 GB are available.

X:\Sources>dism /get-imageinfo /imagefile:e:\sources\install.wim

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.3.9600.17483

Details for image : e:\sources\install.wim

Index : 1
Name : Windows 7 HOMEBASIC
Description : Windows 7 HOMEBASIC
Size : 11,710,161,360 bytes

Index : 2
Name : Windows 7 HOMEPREMIUM
Description : Windows 7 HOMEPREMIUM
Size : 12,222,587,449 bytes

Index : 3
Name : Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL
Description : Windows 7 PROFESSIONAL
Size : 12,122,886,417 bytes

Index : 4
Name : Windows 7 ULTIMATE
Description : Windows 7 ULTIMATE
Size : 12,285,492,779 bytes

The operation completed successfully.

X:\Sources>dism /apply-image /imagefile:e:\sources\install.wim /index:4 /applydir:c:\ /checkintegrity

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.3.9600.17483

Applying image
[==========================100.0%==========================]
The operation completed successfully.

X:\Sources>dism /image:c:\ /add-driver /driver:f:\$WinPEDriver$ /Recurse /ForceUnsigned

Deployment Image Servicing and Management tool
Version: 6.3.9600.17483

Image Version: 6.1.7600.16385

Searching for driver packages to install...
There was a problem opening the INF file. f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelHDGraphics64\autorun.inf Error: 0xE0000100.
Found 9 driver package(s) to install.
Installing 1 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\AppleBluetoothBroadcom64\AppleBTBC64.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
Installing 2 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelHDGraphics64\DisplayAudio\IntcDAud.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
Installing 3 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelHDGraphics64\Graphics\igdlh64.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
Installing 4 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelxHCISetup\Drivers\HCSwitch\Win7\x64\iusb3hcs.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
Installing 5 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelxHCISetup\Drivers\HCSwitch\Win7\x86\iusb3hcs.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
Installing 6 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelxHCISetup\Drivers\xHCI\Win7\x64\iusb3hub.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
Installing 7 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelxHCISetup\Drivers\xHCI\Win7\x64\iusb3xhc.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
Installing 8 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelxHCISetup\Drivers\xHCI\Win7\x86\iusb3hub.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
Installing 9 of 9 - f:\$WinPEDriver$\IntelxHCISetup\Drivers\xHCI\Win7\x86\iusb3xhc.inf: The driver package was successfully installed.
The operation completed successfully.

X:\Sources>bcdboot c:\windows /l en-us /s c: /f bios
Boot files successfully created.

X:\Sources>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.3.9600

Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: MININT-DQVBS9Q

DISKPART> select volume c

Volume 6 is the selected volume.

DISKPART> active

DiskPart marked the current partition as active.

DISKPART> exit

Leaving DiskPart...

X:\Sources>exit

After the Command Prompt window closes, click on the red X. When the popup shown below appears, click on the Yes button.

When the Mac restarts, hold down the option key until the Mac boots to the Startup Manager. Next, hold down the control key while selecting Windows on the internal drive.

After Windows 7 finishes installing, you will need to run the Boot Camp Support Software installer.

Suggestions, If You Can Only Get a Keyboard, Mouse or Trackpad to Work.

If only an external or internal keyboard works, you should still be able to navigate by using the keyboard. Once you have installed Windows 7 and run the setup utility included in the Boot Camp Support Software, the keyboard, mouse and/or trackpad should work.

If you can not get the keyboard to work, but can get a mouse or trackpad to work, then you can use the on-screen keyboard. When booting Windows 7, you will see the image shown below.

If you click on the icon in the lower left, you will get the following popup. Select Type without the keyboard (On-Screen Keyboard), then click on the OK button.

The result should be the appearance of the on-screen keyboard, as shown below.


How do I prevent kernel panics and failures on my MacBook with a Thunderbolt display connected?

Surprisingly, Apple Support’s advice of resetting the SMC and NVRAM was actually the solution to this issue.


How to regain warnings about permanent version storage?

For apps that are not sandboxed

Example:

To regain warnings about permanent version storage for Apple Pages

Quit the app, then a one-line command in Terminal:

defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Pages NSDocumentSuppressTempVersionStoreWarning -int 0

– in the Preferences area that's familiar to users of Snow Leopard and less.

For apps that are sandboxed

The operating system uses a different approach to containment of some preferences:

~/Library/Containers/<bundle_id>/Data/Library/Preferences

Example:

To regain warnings about permanent version storage for Apple Preview

Quit the app, then a one-line command in Terminal:

defaults write ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Preview/Data/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Preview NSDocumentSuppressTempVersionStoreWarning -int 0

Thoughts

I should have thought first of ~/Library/Containers when, in the question, I observed –

  com.apple.Preview.plist is not recently modified

– but I didn't realise what was going on until after I used fseventer to visualise writes for a different user of the OS.

References

App Sandbox Design Guide: Migrating an App to a Sandbox

A visual record of me finding the relevant key in the .plist for Pages

A visual record of me finding the relevant key in the .plist for Preview


I did a spindump via the activity monitor and so i found the resposible app.
In my case it was Firefox (HTML5 Vids)


NTFS Partition got merged in Time Machine

As you can see from the output the APFS partition created by TM uses the whole disk, the NTFS partition is gone. Depending on whether you already created a backup and other factors the data may or may not recoverable by a data recovery service.


iterm2 tab and window titles remove current process information

In my .zshrc I uncommented the line:

DISABLE_AUTO_TITLE="true"

This keeps the process from being put into the title because it's not changing the title automatically. The precmd function is called regardless of this setting so in there I change the titles manually.


Change Apple ID from "only valid for purchases in" another country

You can change your App Store country with the Support document by Apple which is given below. Please note that all your current subscriptions will be cancelled.

On your device, tap Settings > [your name] > iTunes & App Store.
Tap your Apple ID.  If you're not signed in, sign in with the Apple ID and password that you use with the iTunes Store.
Tap View Apple ID. You might be asked to authenticate your Apple ID.
Tap Country/Region.
Tap your new country or region, then tap Next.
Review the Terms and Conditions and Apple Privacy Policy, then tap Agree if you agree.
In the prompt that appears, tap Agree.
Select a payment method and enter your payment information.
Enter your billing address and tap Next.

Change your Apple ID country or region


Mac Chrome Scrolling issue (followed many guides, none have worked, video showing problem included))

After explaining my situation to my co-worker and explaining that I was not experiencing these issues in Incognito, he pointed out that extensions are disabled in incognito.  This was my issue, I had an extension that was added a long time ago that affected scrolling, and google synced it with my new install.   If you are having these issues in this day and age, be sure to disable your extensions at Chrome://extensions and see if this resolves your issue! :)


What causes chmod to not work on an ssh file in OSX?

I'll bet your USB stick is formatted as FAT, FAT32 or NTFS. OS X's Unix-style permissions are not compatible with FAT and FAT32 filesystems. Additionally, by default, OS X cannot write to NTFS volumes. Make sure the USB stick is formatted as HFS+.

And finally, the file containing the SSH private key must have permissions set to 600 and the folder containing the file must have permissions set to 700


Possible to choose Screenshot output method with Keyboard Shortcut?

It's already there…

System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Screenshots

By default
 Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧   4  will save as a file
 Cmd ⌘   Opt ⌥    Shift ⇧   4  will save to clipboard.


Archive folder not appearing in IMAP account on Mail.app

I figured it out.  I pressed the "archive" button (command+option+a) on a message, it moved the message to that folder and then the folder appeared on the left.


When my iPhone is hooked up to iTunes, I can't sort music by Album

With your iPhone connected, go to the Summary page and check Manually manage music and videos.


Force Finder to use only a single window?

I figured it out. Oddly, the Finder setting "Open folders in tabs instead of new windows" seems to do nothing unless the following setting is also in effect: Settings > Dock > Prefer tabs when opening documents set to Always.

Now commands to open folders, whether from Spotlight or "Reveal in Finder" open in new tabs instead of windows.


This is HTTP Authentication and the iPad cannot "remember" the credentials of these sorts of logins.  It has no problems with a normal web form however.

If you are happy to have your username and password stored in plain text on a bookmark in Safari however, there is a way to allow you to login without filling out those details again.

Just visit the site with the following formatted url :

http://username:password@domain.com/

Rememer to change the 3 obvious variables (username, password and domain).  This should log you straight in.  You can save this as a book mark and then use that going forward.

The username and password must be URL encoded if they contain any special characters.

Just remember that anyone who picks up your iPad could view the bookmarks and see the clear text username and password, so I wouldn't use this on your banks website :)

Hope this helps.


Is there a way to stop Xcode from switching to split view when running?

I'm an idiot, it can easily be disabled in the behaviors menu.


From what I have read on sites like iJailBreak, it is not possible to downgrade a device more recent than those using the A4 system-on-a-chip. (iPad 3 uses the A5X.) This is regardless of jailbreak status. The link above gives more technical details about the current situation.


How to change a MacBook's "main" login/user?

It seems like her user needs to be enabled to unlock FileVault. See this answer on how to add users: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/242749/45492


Prevent external monitors to be shut down when sleeping

I don't have any experience with El Capitan, but I'm on a MBP (pre retina) right now with an external monitor and when the displays go to sleep and are woken, everything is as it should be.

If I unplug the external monitor, all windows revert to the internal screen. Plugging the screen back in reverts the windows back to their second monitor positions once again. The change from dual monitors to single and back to dual again is obvious with the internal monitor physically blinking during the transition.

This occurs whether I unplug it at the monitor end, MBP end, or in between (ie I'm using a display port to DVI adapter).

If I turn the monitor off (via the soft power button on the front), nothing changes.

Physically unplugging the external monitor's power cable, also changes nothing (I actually thought it might).

My initial thought with your scenario is that maybe when your model monitor turns off it could physically cut the video connection (electrically) internally at the monitor. Although I would think that's unlikely.

If there's anything you'd like me to test/compare at my end, feel free to ask.


Why doesn't anything happen when I connect my Nexus S to a MacBook Pro 2010 using a USB cable?

Fire up system profiler on your mac. This can be refreshed to show all USB devices connected - even if there is a driver issue, at least you'll know if the cable and physical connection are good.


Is it safe to discharge my body's static electricity onto my MacBook Pro?

That shouldn't be a problem at all if your MacBook is connected to the power source since it's grounded and by the way I wouldn't consider harmful to touch the MacBook body after being electrically charged even if the MacBook isn't connected to the power source. You have to pay attention only if you're touching directly motherboard components.

EDIT

My answer is not completely correct.
Check the comments


WD external hard drive got disconnected without eject

What should I try next?

Remove the drive from the WD enclosure and use a different enclosure/cable to test the drive.
Basically, you have to go through the process of elimination to figure out what your next steps are, if any.  There are two possibilities here:

The drive has failed
The enclosure (USB to SATA controller) has failed.

(I detail this more in this post)
If it's the drive that failed, your only option is to send it in for recovery.  If the USB enclosure has failed, you can salvage the situation by removing the drive and putting it into a different enclosure or connecting it with a USB to SATA cable (see the linked post for details).
How will you know which is the problem?  You won't until you remove the drive and connect it to a known working USB to SATA enclosure/cable.
Backing up your data
You're using a 4TB external drive with a 128GB internal drive meaning that 4TB drive is your "main drive" for at least your Lightroom work.
You need to back this drive up
How?  Get a second drive of equal or greater capacity.  Then there are two ways to backup your files:

Use normal backup techniques like Time Machine or even the included WD Utilities.

Use Lightroom's built in functionality

Lightroom allows you to instantly make a backup copy of your file during import:

All you have to do now is backup your catalog.  If one drive fails, you simply apply the catalog to the backup files and all your changes will be saved.


Show all x-axis markers for Numbers' bar graphs

Select the chart, then in the Format inspector, choose Axis → Category (X) and under Category Labels choose Show All Category Labels.

All the columns are always present in the graph regardless of this option, however they will be unlabelled.


Some text messages showing phone number not contact name

I've seen this happen to me before. To fix it for myself I've had to disable iCloud Contacts and then enable them.

Although, it might be best to restart your device before disabling and then reenabling your iCloud contacts?

Steps:

Settings
Apple ID (top of settings)
iCloud (2nd set, 1st item)
Toggle contacts switch to disable
Delete from My iPhone
Toggle contacts switch to reenable


I have two iCloud accounts. How do I address all backups to one single account?

You can sign in to each account in turn at https://iCloud.com and delete backups or examine the storage for each. Once both are under their respective quoaptas, the warnings will go away.


iPhone 7 Plus running iOS 13.6.1 not supported by Xcode 11.7

Seems that Xcode 11.7 is missing some files.
This topic has helped me: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/659166
Or try to upgrade your iPhone 7 Plus to iOS 13.7.


Is it possible to configure (or trick) internet recovery to load Lion instead of Mountain Lion?

Yes - you can download the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0 and write a Lion specific Recovery HD to an USB drive with 1 GB of space on it. This will erase whatever information is on the USB partition, but then you can boot to a Lion Recovery HD and re-install Lion even if the Mac has Mountain Lion installed.


How to reset iPhone to factory settings from computer if screen doesn't work?

Indeed, placing the iPhone into recovery mode, then connecting to iTunes and restoring will do the trick. Here's an Apple-provided article on how to place the iPhone in recovery mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1808

Make sure you use the official Apple to USB lightning connector when attempting this recovery process. I tried several non-apple cables and I was unable to follow the recovery process and generated errors in the recovery process. As soon as i used an official Apple cable - no issue.


macOS can't detect my Feitian MultiPass U2F Device over BLE

It seems that they are not compatible with Macs via BLE.  Their site lacks this info and so does the amazon listing if you purchased there.  To top it even if you could connect your mac to the device the chrome browser is looking for a USB key.  This is pure garbage since all macs don't carry the same ports, I.E my mini is USB3, my pro is USB-C.  Returning and turning off Advanced protection.


Dragging a file between desktops in El Capitan

It would appear you have the Finder assigned to a specific Space. Right click it & see what it says in Options [as in the picture below, it will only show a specific number if it is assigned to a Space you're not currently on - otherwise will just show All/This/None]

The quickest way to carry any file to another Space is to hold it then invoke the key command for the Space you need - by default  Ctrl ⌃   [num]
This also works for any Application window.

The key commands are automatically added each time you make a new Space, but are not switched on by default. System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control to enable...

Also, by default, the number keys are those above the QWERTY part of the keyboard. If you wish to use a 10-key instead, you must replace the default key combis with ones using the 10-key [this is not obvious as they both look identical but are responded to individually]


Numbers : Conditional Highlighting with decimal

I tried this and even though 99.90 is changed to 99.9 in the conditional highlighting rule, it works perfectly even if the value in the cell is 99.90.


I found an answer here:

Equivalent to alt-. in terminal

  ESC + . inserts the last argument and is the direct
  equivalent to Alt + . on Linux

  see https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/85152/31470


The Music app is pretty limited in terms of the metadata it displays. At the moment it's not possible to view the play counts for songs.

Third party apps can access your music collection, but I'm not sure how much metadata is exposed to them. It may be possible to see play counts with a third party app, but I don't know for sure, nor do I know of any apps that do this.


Question on display resolution macbook air 2010

The macbook can output to the apple display at full resolution supported by that display with the extended desktop preference set in system preferences. If you set the mirror desktop preference in system preferences, the resolution will change on the external display to match your macbook.

I have a dell monitor with display port out and bought a display port to mini display port cable and it works great. There are adapters for basically any conversion, but I suggest a monitor with display port or mini display port because it supports higher resolutions, and it's the future obviously.


Reboot the device by holding both the power and home button until the Apple logo is shown. This will reset the SpringBoard cache which should show the app on the home screen if it's been downloaded (and in Spotlight).


How can I prevent the iPad 2 from playing music in my rucksack?

Arrrgh.

I found the reason, my own stupidity. :) I use a Bluetooth keyboard whose keys are extremely sensitive to pressure when it's stowed in the backpack. It usually goes to sleep when not used, but wakes up when you press a key. The "play" key on that keyboard was what made the iPad blare away.


How to change the font size of Open/Save dialogs?

It depends on which application is showing the larger text as it may have it's own view settings.  For instance, your Finder window has view settings (accessible from CMD-J or View->View Settings) where you can change the font of the view window to produce exactly the results you are seeing (the default is 12), whereas in Mail you can configure this from the Fonts & Colors section of Mail Preferences.  I know in some programs I've used that those settings are in the data stored in Application Preferences in the Library.

If nothing else works and it's system-wide there isn't really a systemwide way to change fonts in macOS but there are some tools out there to help.  You could try TinkerTool to see if that is helpful for you, there is a specific tool to adjust macOS system fonts:


Automator service does not work from Finder

Here is a simple Automator Finder Service that will do what I understand you're trying to do. It will render PDF pages with 200 dpi as PNG images then invert colours in them.

You will notice that I left the Show this action when workflow runs turned on so you can specify the folder you want the PNG files to be in.

Here is a test 3-page PDF file and the output this service generates:

PNG files output:


Problem configuring mongo db to start up using launch agent

It seems like the problem was tmux. When executing launchctl without tmux running this bug doesn't occur.


Cannot use ssh/ping domain name after connecting to openvpn

I solved my problem by switching to Vicosity. After installing Viscosity I imported my Tunnelblick configuration and have been able to connect to the VPN of my company instantly. In opposite to Tunnelblick Viscosity is not free. But the price is fine for me.


The last thing you can try to do before sending it to repair is making a new install by Erasing All Content and Settings. There are many ways to accomplish this and many layers of wiping. One of them is through installing a new firmware (ipsw) file just in case the one iTunes download is somehow corrupted.

But doing anything beyond the regular Apple way is entirely up to you as the process are even more time consuming and not all that simple.


Deleted iCloud contacts keep coming back

I had the same issue before. After some experiment, here is what I have found working:

Go to Setting > Mail,Contacts,Calendars > Fetch New Data > iCloud > Select "Push" (if you select "Fetch", the iPhone changes will supersede changes made on iCloud. It is up to individual preference)

After "Push" is selected, you may make all the changes you want to iCloud Contacts. Your iPhone will be updated in the next Sync.

Hope it works.


Unique wallpaper for desktop and lock screen

I found this blog post titled: How to Change the Login Screen Background In macOS Sierra, Yosemite, and El Capitan which illustrates a method where you first select the Change Background option by double tapping on the background.

After doing so go through and change your background to whatever image you'd like it to be. After doing this if you look through your system's /Library/Caches you should see a blurred version of your background as a .png file there.

For eg:

$ sudo find /Library/Caches/ |grep png
/Library/Caches//Desktop Pictures/0733888D-B1ED-4F99-B177-108EED834365/lockscreen.png

If you change this file out with another file that you'd like to use for your lockscreen you can then override the blurred version that macOS automatically generated for you when setting your background.

NOTE: Just be sure to keep the name of the file identical to what macOS placed in your /Library/Caches sub-directory.

References

How to Change the Login Screen Background In macOS Sierra, Yosemite, and El Capitan


kernelmanagerd using 50% of the cpu constantly

I found the cause of the problem, it is Karabiner-Elements.
Funny thing was I have installed Karabiner-Elements in my mac when it ran macOS High Sierra but I immediately uninstalled (I was trying something with it) but some residue was left behind.
Today when exploring the activity monitor, I noticed some karabiner process was there, so i installed the latest version of Karabiner. Instantly i noticed kernelmanagerd CPU usage became 0.0.
Then I uninstalled Karabiner as in this document
Now my MacBook Pro is normal.


Is there a way to have a scheduled task that will run later if MacOSX is asleep / off at the expected runtime?

There are various mechanisms in Mac OS X to do scheduled tasks. They take a little bit of effort to configure, but this page (formerly elsewhere) explains it and has links to more info. The at service, which was a bit easier to use, is deprecated as it wastes battery, and is no longer enabled by default.

The main recommendation now is to create a launchd plist, although cron is still supported.


Inconsistent charging of 2017 MBP 13" (A1708)

Sometimes, your mac will do this to preserve the battery. It learns from your charging habits and will wait to charge past 80% until you need it. for example, if you go to work every day (ok, maybe not right now during covid) at 8 o clock, and have your mac charge the entire night, it will charge to 80 during the night, then at around 7 o clock, finish charging, and by 8, it should be at close to 100%.


Smart Mailbox filter "Message is not in mailbox" for iCloud mailboxes

I had the same problem and I found a solution here luckily after searching like crazy. The problem was, that I used my Gmail account as my Apple ID, so mail got confused. After I deactivated mail in my iCloud account settings, it was working fine. This is obviously only a solution if you don't use both accounts. Anyway, maybe it helps someone:

  And here's the solution, or rather the explanation for the problem: If
  you're using your gmail Adress as your apple-id (and therefore as your
  login credentials for your iCloud account) Apple Mail seems to get
  confused. Simply change your iCloud Username to something else and
  your good to go.


Does mdfind allow wildcard searches on filename?

This should work:

mdfind "kMDItemDisplayName == test*.pdf"

Enclose the pattern in single quotes and add 'c' to match case-insensitively:

mdfind "kMDItemDisplayName == 'test*.pdf'c"

Here is a list of available attributes. You can combine multiple attribute/value pairs with &&.


iPhone SE2: Strange box with percentage appears when pressing Home button

Turning off and force restart didn't help, but letting the device drain the battery completely did help. After a complete drain and recharge, the box was gone.


Accidentally deleted /usr/share directory... what can I do to fix it?

Tough break.  If you have never backed up with Time Machine, then you should look at this link for a post on free undelete utilities.  Or you can ask a colleague to compress their /usr/share folder if you're desperate.  Last suggestion would be setting up a VM with your OSX version and copying it from there, but if you don't have Fusion or Parallels already installed, they'll ask for a reboot.

Good luck.


I have a few different solutions:

This applescript immediately kills all speech that is running on your computer:

do shell script "killall com.apple.speech.speechsynthesisd"

Alternatively, you could have a single script that checks to see if the speech is running and will kill that particular speech, (basically simulates the shortcut for alt-esc, BUT you can add the rate function to the script). I found a script online a while back that does this. Here's the link. I also made my own version that changes the rate (at the bottom of the post). The rate control is where it says [[rate 800]]. This script copies text to the clipboard and adds '[[rate 800]]' which apple tts voices interpret as a command to change to that rate. The clipboard is read at the modified speed. You can adjust up to like 1000 or something.
However, if you really just want to make your mac's default text to speech rate faster (which is what I suspect you are using this script for), I highly recommend you just change the default rate using a little hack I came up with a while back (It allows you to go up to 720 WPM). I have a video that describes it all. Basically, it changes the default rate using a script.

use AppleScript version "2.4"
use scripting additions
use framework "Foundation"
use framework "AppKit"
property this_say_Pid : missing value -- the persistent property

if this_say_Pid is not missing value then -- check the pid of all 'say' commands, if exists then quit the unix process
  set allSayPid to {}
  try
      set allSayPid to words of (do shell script "pgrep -x 'say'")
  end try
  if this_say_Pid is in allSayPid then -- the PID = an item in the list
      do shell script "/bin/kill " & this_say_Pid -- quit this process to stop the speech
      error number -128 -- quits the AppleScript
  end if
end if

-- Back up original clipboard contents:
set savedClipboard to my fetchStorableClipboard()

-- Copy selected text to clipboard:
tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using {command down}

delay 0.1

tell application "System Events"

  set varClip to "[[rate 800]]" & (the clipboard)
  delay 0.1
  set the clipboard to varClip

end tell

delay 0.1 -- Without this, the clipboard may have stale data.

-- Speak the clipboard:
--  pbpaste = the contents of the clipboard , this run the commands without waiting, and get the PID of the 'say' command
set this_say_Pid to do shell script "LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pbpaste -Prefer txt | say > /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $!"

-- Restore original clipboard:
my putOnClipboard:savedClipboard

on fetchStorableClipboard()
  set aMutableArray to current application's NSMutableArray's array() -- used to store contents
  -- get the pasteboard and then its pasteboard items
  set thePasteboard to current application's NSPasteboard's generalPasteboard()
  -- loop through pasteboard items
  repeat with anItem in thePasteboard's pasteboardItems()
      -- make a new pasteboard item to store existing item's stuff
      set newPBItem to current application's NSPasteboardItem's alloc()'s init()
      -- get the types of data stored on the pasteboard item
      set theTypes to anItem's types()
      -- for each type, get the corresponding data and store it all in the new pasteboard item
      repeat with aType in theTypes
          set theData to (anItem's dataForType:aType)'s mutableCopy()
          if theData is not missing value then
              (newPBItem's setData:theData forType:aType)
          end if
      end repeat
      -- add new pasteboard item to array
      (aMutableArray's addObject:newPBItem)
  end repeat
  return aMutableArray
end fetchStorableClipboard

on putOnClipboard:theArray
  -- get pasteboard
  set thePasteboard to current application's NSPasteboard's generalPasteboard()
  -- clear it, then write new contents
  thePasteboard's clearContents()
  thePasteboard's writeObjects:theArray
end putOnClipboard:


There is a good answer over on Stack Overflow:  How to upgrade Git to latest version on Mac OS X?

Basically, you want to use brew to install and manage your (separate) git installation and leave the one provided by Apple alone.  You will obviously have to have Home Brew installed initially.

To install:

brew install git

To update:

brew upgrade git


Adding website to block via /etc/hosts not working

Safari keeps its own ephemeral DNS cache. If you've just added the record to /etc/hosts, try quitting Safari, running dscacheutil -flushcache and restarting the computer.


Process Flow Diagams - Chemical Engineering

I would recommend Omnigraffle for any diagrams. It's easy to use and highly compatible with OS X frameworks. It also has quite large database of additional stencils here and here. Omnigraffle 6 is 99$ and Pro version is 199$.


Did you try to press the "option" key during startup? This will prompt you to select the startup disk if several are available. Set the system to boot into the one you will boot into most often, and if you want to boot into the other, press "option" when you switch the Mac on and wait for the prompt.


How can I get notifications on my iPhone of Twitter hashtag mentions?

At first, I thought there would be a straight-forward, albeit hidden, solution. However, after doing some digging, it seems that something that should be a simple swipe or click to do is more complicated than that. This is going to be a little long, but hopefully will be incredibly helpful. I was going to post this earlier today, but did not get the chance to make this whole post until tonight.

Boxcar

From what I've seen, Boxcar.io is one of the best ways to get push notifications for tracking hashtag mentions. Both the iOS app and the web client allow a user to add a varying amount of sources to get information from. Twitter, email, RSS feeds, etc. can all be collected into Boxcar and keep track of all of your updates. Boxcar is not made specifically for what you are trying to do but the iOS app has the option of adding filters, where a group of sources can be viewed as one folder and have a key phrase that is picked out from all the sources to create a push alert.
What I did in Boxcar that worked was create an RSS feed using Queryfeed.net to generate an RSS feed for the term #hashtag. Queryfeed is extremely useful for this because Queryfeed can create an RSS feed for Twitter, Google+, and Facebook using specific search terms.

After adding all the sources that you may want (Twitter accounts, RSS feeds, etc.)  you can create a filter in the iOS app where you can select which sources you want in the feed, as well as other settings for updates.
There is a lot of customization that a Boxcar user can do, especially in tracking certain hashtags or trends. It is a little more work than some may want to put in and it is not problem free (in my experiments with Boxcar today there was definitely a lag in getting RSS updates at first, and the web client and iOS app are not exactly intuitive in their own unique ways) but it definitely does allow someone to track and receive alerts for specific hashtags.
IFTTT
There is another option that I won't delve into as much as I did Boxcar simply because in my experience, it is a little more finicky.
IFTTT is an app that operates in If-Then statements. An example they use on their about page is as follows: if I post a picture to Instagram, then save that photo to Dropbox. "If"s are called triggers (in this case, the mention of #hashtag on Twitter), and "then"s are called actions (getting an iOS push notification when a tweet is made using #hashtag).
Combined, triggers and actions make Recipes. A Recipe connects Channels (the channels you would want to use are Twitter and iOS Notifications). In essence, IFTTT links one application's actions to get a reaction from another.
While the user interface is a bit easier than Boxcar, IFTTT Recipes are one trigger, one action. You cannot, for example, have a feed like in Boxcar that searches for a specific term across multiple platforms, like finding the use of #hashtag in Facebook as well as Twitter. My (limited) personal experience with IFTTT is that occasionally Recipes don't want to work and I did not have the patience to figure out why. However, IFTTT is supported in Boxcar, so trying both and seeing which works best for you won't be much of a hassle.


Screen Scratch Repair - Early 2013 15" MacBook Pro w/ Retina Display

https://youtu.be/4UpWfmpETg0 - video instruction.

He used PolyWatch Polish


Recurring Volume damage + Time Machine issues

Not much of an answer, but I eventually solved both this issue & also Notification Centre - What happened to Calculator widget? by cloning the drive, reformatting to HFS+ & cloning back again.

No amount of messing with APFS would fix it.

Late Edit:
Some time later I now have two of the ABA/ACA & the odd one out, an HDWQ Toshiba drives giving the odd "Volume [name] on disk4s2 has 0 bytes of trailing loader space and it needs 134,217,728 bytes" error.
Always that precise number.

Late Late Edit:
All this trouble went away with Mojave [mainly]. I have found that periodically I need to run DiskWarrior over the Time Machine drive, if anything starts to play up, but only every 6 months or so.


How to get 60Hz on a 4K Monitor using a 2018 Mac mini

Get this USB-C (Thunderbolt) to DP cable.

I use it myself to run a 4k Dell monitor with 60hz, and it works flawlessly. You are right that most HDMI adapters don't support 4k with 60hz, although the official specification supports it theoretically from HDMI 2.0 onwards. Using the mentioned USB-C to DP cable solved this issue for me.


How to hide the Flagged folder in Mail.app (Mountain Lion)?

Drove me crazy too, so I made a mailbundle to right this wrong ;-)  Download it here:
http://eelco.lempsink.nl/NoFlaggedMailbox.zip

Note: I’ll update the plugin every time when Mail.app breaks it for ‘compatibility’ reasons.  Just download it again and run the INSTALL script again to update.  (Might take me a couple of days though.)


What applications enable AirPlay mirroring for Mac?

With the new OSX Mountain Lion you will be able to airplay from the Mac to an Apple TV.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/mountain-lion/features.html#airplay


Can I use iTunes to sync a folder of photos onto my iPhone without losing my iPhone Camera Roll?

Yes, you can safely sync a specific folder from your Mac to your iPhone via iTunes without overwriting your iPhone's Camera Roll.

You don't specify your version of iOS, but typically what will happen is that the sync will create an additional album in the Photos app on your iPhone. So, using your example, if you use iTunes on your Mac to sync selected albums and then select the "Pictures From Brazil" folder, this will add an album on your iPhone called "Pictures From Brazil".

This additional album doesn't impact your Camera Roll at all.


I want to backup my Mac partition, including the OS, so that I can use the backup to restore my hard drive to its current state

Simply connect external hdd with enough storage and use Time Machine application (which is included in OS X)

Here's tutorial from Apple


Wake for network access without Bonjour Sleep Proxy?

Wake on Lan works great on Macs with the following configuration :

Connected using an Ethernet cable.
Port forwarding if you're behind a NAT Router.
Enable wake on network access
A sleepy Mac (not Shutdown, it has to be on sleep)

That's it !