How can I restore from today's iPhone iOS 9 backup when iTunes not giving me the option?

I am assuming you have looked through the drop down menu for backups and didn't see your most current one. Have you tried restarting iTunes/MAC or PC? If restarting didn't help...

In that case I would look at the iTunes backup folder to see if the latest one was even created. Go to the iTunes mobile back up folder. Here is how to find that folder:

Under Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8 or Windows 10, stored in
\Users(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup

Under Mac OS X, stored in
\Users(username)/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/.

You should see bunch of files that have random character file names. Sort them by date and see if the one you just created is there. If not, then your only option is to use the Sept. 15 backup.

If it is there... Back up all your backups to another location! (keep in mind that backups can be large and you may need extra storage space and it may take a long time to copy all the backups). There are software out there available that will make backups for you if you aren't comfortable doing this yourself. You can also take your computer and iPhone to the Apple store and they should help you with this.

What I have done in the past is copy all the backups to another folder (with iTunes closed). Then I deleted all backups in the backup folder leaving only the one I want iTunes to use. Please be careful with this step as you may risk loosing all your backups. Then restart your iTunes and the right backup should be there. If it isn't there, then the backup maybe corrupted and in that case I wouldn't even try to use it.

Don't forget to put all the other backups back into the backup folder in case you want to use them at another time.


Apple iPhone 4 does not recognize my DC car charger

The most likely explanation is that this is a generic charger not designed/tested for use with an iPhone. Have a look here for a more detailed explanation, but in a nutshell, iPhone-compatible chargers need to put out some very specific voltage levels on the USB data (NOT power) lines to be recognized by the iPhone.

So, unless this charger specifically states that it is iPhone-compatible, it just won't work without internal modifications, and you should just return it and get one that is made for iPhone.


Screen flickers intermittently / regular interval Macbook pro 2019 touchbar

Luckily few days back i got an upgrade toCatalina. without wasting my time i upgraded the OS and now its been almost a week since that screen flickering has gone.

Ps. For all the software engineer folks. Even big giants like Apple also ships buggy software. so dont hesitate in writing buggy code ;-)


This is a bug.
My personal hypothesis is that the root cause is the new iOS 6 iCloud syncing for text abbreviation sometimes fails, thus breaking the whole abbreviation system.

Since it appears to be quite common, a fix is hopefully coming soon. To increase the chances, be sure to report the bug here:
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html


First, download this file to your desktop: ffmd.sh
Open a terminal, and run the following:

  sudo mkdir /usr/local
  sudo mkdir /usr/local/bin
  sudo mv ~/Desktop/ffmd.sh
  /usr/local/bin/
  sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/ffmd.sh
  sudo chown root:wheel
  /usr/local/bin/ffmd.sh

Now, schedule the task with crontab. The following line will schedule for 10 minutes:

  0,10,20,30,40,50 * * * *
  /usr/local/bin/ffmd.sh > /dev/null
  2>&1

This script is in the public domain, and intended for those with a little experience with UNIX.

the source is here.


How to change the input source to different language with shortcut (only one key combination)?

I ran into the same issue with Chinese and Japanese. (The icon on the menu bar changed but the input source was not actually changed until I switched to another input source and back.) It's a known bug according to a post at Karabiner's mailing list:

  It's one of the most annoying bug of OS X.

  Changing CJK input sources directly from program is not handled appropriately.

  So, you need the following procedures.

  Step1:
  Enable "Select next source in Input menu" (command-option-space) on System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts.

  Step2:
  Change input source by sending command-option-space.

<autogen>
  __KeyToKey__
  KeyCode::K, ModifierFlag::OPTION_L,
  KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTMODE_US,
  KeyCode::VK_WAIT_100MS,
  KeyCode::SPACE, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R | ModifierFlag::OPTION_L,
  <!-- adjust wait for your machine -->
  KeyCode::VK_WAIT_10MS,
  KeyCode::VK_WAIT_10MS,
  KeyCode::VK_WAIT_10MS,
  KeyCode::SPACE, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R | ModifierFlag::OPTION_L,
  <!-- adjust wait for your machine -->
  KeyCode::VK_WAIT_10MS,
  KeyCode::VK_WAIT_10MS,
  KeyCode::VK_WAIT_10MS,
  KeyCode::SPACE, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R | ModifierFlag::OPTION_L,

  Option::NOREPEAT,
</autogen>

changeinput is affected by the same bug.

Another workaround is to just change to another input source and back:

<root>
  <vkchangeinputsourcedef>
    <name>KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_HIRAGANA</name>
    <inputsourceid_equal>com.apple.inputmethod.Kotoeri.Japanese</inputsourceid_equal>
  </vkchangeinputsourcedef>
  <vkchangeinputsourcedef>
    <name>KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_SPANISH</name>
    <inputsourceid_equal>com.apple.keylayout.Spanish</inputsourceid_equal>
  </vkchangeinputsourcedef>
  <vkchangeinputsourcedef>
    <name>KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_US</name>
    <inputsourceid_equal>com.apple.keylayout.US</inputsourceid_equal>
  </vkchangeinputsourcedef>
  <vkchangeinputsourcedef>
    <name>KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_CHINESE</name>
    <inputsourceid_equal>com.apple.inputmethod.TCIM.Pinyin</inputsourceid_equal>
  </vkchangeinputsourcedef>
  <item>
    <name>inputsources</name>
    <identifier>inputsources</identifier>
    <autogen>__KeyOverlaidModifier__ KeyCode::COMMAND_L, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L | ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_US, KeyCode::COMMAND_L</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyOverlaidModifier__ KeyCode::COMMAND_R, ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R | ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_SPANISH, KeyCode::COMMAND_R</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::C, ModifierFlag::OPTION_L | ModifierFlag::COMMAND_L | ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_CHINESE, KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_US, KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_CHINESE</autogen>
    <autogen>__KeyToKey__ KeyCode::C, ModifierFlag::OPTION_R | ModifierFlag::COMMAND_R | ModifierFlag::NONE, KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_HIRAGANA, KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_US, KeyCode::VK_CHANGE_INPUTSOURCE_HIRAGANA</autogen>
  </item>
</root>


iCloud is primarily a syncing mechanism and not a backup solution.  What this means is iCloud gives you access to all your files, pictures, contacts, etc. on any device that's logged-in with the same Apple ID.

The pictures and contacts are stored in iCloud and your other devices access it from there.  When you deleted the info from iCloud directly, you deleted the source files and not copies of the files.

However, there is something you can try. iCloud provides a 40-day grace period in which you can recover deleted photos and 30-day grace period for other types of files.  See this site for more detailed info.

Restore deleted photos

Log into iCloud from a computer and not a mobile device.
Go to Photos.
If the sidebar is not already visible, click the Open sidebar button on the top of the screen.
In the sidebar you should see a menu item named Recently Deleted.  Click on it.

You will see any recoverable images along with the days remaining until the image is permanently deleted.
Click on any image (or album, if available) you want to restore and click the Recover button on the top-right of the window.
Click Done.

Restore deleted files

Log into iCloud from a computer and not a mobile device.
Go to Settings.
Scroll down until you see the Advanced section.

Click on Restore Files.
You will see any files eligible to be restored
Click to check off the boxes to the left of the files you want to restore or click Select All if you really need to restore everything.
Click Restore Files.

Click Done.

Restore deleted contacts

Follow steps 1, 2, and 3 in 'Restore files' above.

Click on the Restore Contacts tab at the top of the window.
Select the contacts you want to restore.  Important: the restored contact will replace the contact on all devices signed-in with this Apple ID.

Click Done.


macbook pro encounters prohibited sign while booting with USB

In verbose mode, you will find that OSX gets stuck at:

  Still waiting for root device

This error usually happens when your media used to boot OSX is not detected properly and can't be mounted. You can therefore try these methods to get it to work:

Changing the port you insert your USB into
Remaking the bootable media
Getting a new USB

If all fails your device may need special drivers of some sort. You can also check it out with an Apple Genius.


@Jason's link to SO is correct - the out-of-the-box iPad will not support Bluetooth printing. However, there are receipt printers like Blue Bamboo or the Star Mobile printer, but these solutions might not be what you're looking for.

There are iBluetooth apps now in the iOS App Store - it's possible that the vendor no longer supports the Cydia version.

Another possible solution is an app like PrintCentral, which allows for printing wirelessly over 3G and WiFi.


What HDMI to DVI adapters are high quality?

One of these adapters is available from eBay in the US at this link: HDMI to DVI Adapter. Many more are available from other sellers.


How to check my MBP's logic board properties?

The only way to truly know if something is wrong with any replacement part installed by Apple is based on symptoms of the computer and symptoms alone. Apple does have diagnostic tests they run on each computer that is repaired. That is just a stop gap to find a bad part on the way out the door. Diagnostics will never catch every problem. In other words, if the computer is not exhibiting the symptoms you brought the computer in for to begin with,  the computer (and its logic board ) are fine.

You can always run the Apple Hardware Test to check for yourself.


How can I abort a High Sierra installation?

You should be able to safely abort the install. Quit the installer without reboot. Then open Terminal.app and remove the installer folder (SIP has to be disabled to remove everything - most files and folders are deleted though, even when SIP is enabled!):

sudo rm -Rf /macOS\ Install\ Data

Then enter

sudo systemsetup -setstartupdisk /System/Library/CoreServices

A quick scan revealed that the only file/bundle installed/replaced (except some receipts) is /System/Library/CoreServices/MRT.app

Its version number is 1.23. The original file's version in macOS Sierra is 1.22. MRT is (Apple's) Malware Removal Tool.

If SIP is enabled I recommend to execute the steps above. Then immediately boot to Recovery Mode and disable SIP. Then reboot opening the Start Up Prefs and choosing your main volume. Remove the remnants of the macOS Install Data folder (which should be possible now).

Reboot again to Recovery Mode and enable SIP again. Reboot to the main volume.

Apparently Sierra's MRT.app isn't available in any Sierra Combo updater. You would have to extract and re-install it using Pacifist and the latest macOS Sierra installer.

High Sierra's MRT.app may also work in Sierra; so it's unclear whether installing the original version is really required.


What are the differences between these two mail preferences within iCloud settings?

The first option, System Preferences → iCloud → Mail, controls whether the iCloud Mail account is available in the Mail app. Unchecking this option will remove the account from Mail, along with all the associated email. This won’t permanently delete the mail: it will still be accessible on iCloud.com, and in Mail if you switch the option back on.

The second option, System Preferences → iCloud → iCloud Drive Options → Mail, controls whether Mail can use iCloud Drive. This is used when you try to send a file that is too large for email; you will be prompted to use Mail Drop, where the attachment is uploaded to iCloud Drive and transferred senselessly to the recipient.


It has something to do with not having a serial number on your Mac (after motherboard repair or so). You need to go to an Apple Store to have it “flashed” back. iMessage and FaceTime won't work without the serial.


Where can I find a map of my MBP french keyboard layout?

To activate the Keyboard Viewer, click on the Input Menu on the right side of your menu bar, and then click on "Show Keyboard Viewer".

Simple as that! :)


No sound from internal speakers on a Macbook?

Given that you changed OS's -- to the linux partition -- and still had the same problem, it sounds like a hardware problem.

If you did damage the hardware, don't worry -- you're not completely screwed.  This may be the best excuse to upgrade your audio hardware with an external sound card.

Creative has some great ones that I have used along with Adobe Audition.  However most of them are PC only... but in their professional brand (E-MU), they have some great ones for mac.

Creative's professional brand, E-MU is what I currently use.
Details here:

http://us.store.creative.com/0404-USB-2.0/M/B000IXNE3E.htm

Amazon link here:

http://www.amazon.com/Creative-Professional-0404-USB-2-0/dp/B000IXNE3E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1295028320&sr=8-1


iPhone not connecting to 3G after losing wifi connection

Is it Jailbroken?
If not, I'd suggest going to see Apple Genius and see whether its anything hardware wise.


What is the most effective way for a iPhoto user to have all photos synced and stored in the cloud for sharing?

iPhoto supports sharing of albums (including synchronising of comments, and name/face tagging) with Facebook.

This allows you to select a group of photos, and either put them into a Facebook album or post direct to a wall.  If you synchronise with a Facebook album, then iPhoto will perform a 2 way sync and pull the new pictures down locally for offline storage.

If you are worried about Privacy, you can always create an account just for this and really lock it down.

If even works on photos of girls with seemingly impossible sized teeth:

Other than Facebook, sharing options are more limited.  Apple used to offer the MobileMe gallery service, but that is now not open to new customers and will be turned off in the coming months.

There is limited support for Flickr (believe it was better in '09 than in '11, which is weird), but to get anything close to the Facebook levels of deep integration you will have to get happy with some scripting and automation to (for example) run a script after each import to automatically copy the contents of the last import to Flickr etc.  This article talks of numerous ways to Flickr Sync, but non of them are as self-contained as Facebook sync, and require other tools and software to create a more complicated workflow, but it is possible and if you are a Flickr fan the extra effort may make it worthwhile

As a final option, you can still happily use your Picassa Web Albums, and just not use the local application, this question elsewhere in AskDifferent has an accepted answer on syncing iPhoto to Picassa.


How do I combine two text values from different cells to equal another cell?

I would approach this a little differently to (hopefully) simplify things a little!

Let's assume you will use Rows 4, 7, 10, etc to enter the text of your words/sentences (which is the approach in your screenshot).

Let's also assume that you're only going to use Columns C to W to enter your text into (although there's no reason why it can't be more columns, but this is just what I gather from your screenshot).

For this answer, let's assume your Alphabet is in Row 50 and your Substituted letters are in Row 51.

In summary, this means:

the formula you need will have to be entered in every cell from C5 to W5, C8 to W8, C11 to W11, and so on
your alphabet will be in Row 50
your substituted letters will be in Row 51.

So, let's build this using the following steps:

In Row 50 add the letters of the alphabet from A50 to Z50
In Row 51 add your substituted letters
Enter the following formula in cell of C5:

=IFERROR(LOOKUP(C4, $A$50:$Z$50,$A$51:$Z$51),"")

(The reason we're using IFERROR in the formula is so Numbers will ignore any spaces in your sentences, rather than displaying an ugly error icon.)

Copy and paste the formula from cell C5 to your other cells (i.e. cells D5:W5, C8:W8, C11:W11, and so on)
Now start entering your text to be ciphered into cells C4:W4, C7:W7, C10:W10 and so on
As you enter the text, the ciphered result should appear in the cell below. If it's a space, the cell below will remain blank

NOTES:

Be careful to only include the letter and nothing else in each cell of your Alphabet row. Having a space or anything else will cause problems. For example, if you entered your E with a space after it, then Numbers will never find the E because it's looking for an 'E' and not a 'E ', if you get what I mean.
If you have the need to have no substitute value for some letters of the alphabet, then the result will be a 0 (i.e. a zero is displayed) instead of a blank cell. If this applies to you, you could create a conditional highlight to hide the result.
Personally, I would actually put your alphabet and substituted values in another worksheet, but this may not be necessary for your purposes.


Network client is released unexpectedly and mac goes to sleep

Where do I find logs why the sleep happens?

how to find out the start time of last sleep

  You can use the pmset command to obtain this information. The
  following command obtains a log of the sleep/wake entries then
  restricts this to the last entry in the list which should be the most
  recent sleep:

  pmset -g log | grep sleep | tail -n 1

  You can obviously play around with anything after pmset -g log to give
  you what you need.


Pages: How to restore original lists styles

Pages '09 or 4.x

Here is a receipe working for Pages '09:

Open Pages, and choose the same template you want to restore defaults,
Select File > Save and save this empty file as Desktop/Untitled.pages
Open the document where styles were deleted, let's say my_file.pages
Select Format > Import Styles... and choose Desktop/Untitled.pages
Select the missing formats you want to recover, and to avoid duplicates, check the lower left box Replace duplicates, click OK
Remove Desktop/Untitled.pages

Pages 5.x

Since Apple removed this function with Pages 5 there are two workarounds:

if (you have Pages '09 available)

then save your file under Pages '09 format and apply the above receipe

else apply the following very manual (and stupid) receipe:

Open Pages, and choose the same template you want to restore defaults,
Create in this file a new dummy text line which will be used as an area to copy styles from
Select File > Save and save this empty file as Desktop/Untitled.pages: this will be the source document
Open the document where styles were deleted, let's say my_file.pages: this is your target document
Create at its end a new dummy text line which will be used as an area to use to paste styles
For (every style xxx to restore) do:

In source document select the 1st dummy line and apply it the style xxx
Select Format > Copy Character Style ⌥⇧⌘C if it is a character style, or Format > Copy Paragraph Style ⌥⌘C if it is a list or paragraph style
In target document, select the last dummy line
Select Format > Paste Character Style or Format > Paste Paragraph Style ⌥⌘V

Remove Desktop/Untitled.pages
In my_file.pages remove the last dummy line


Uncaught exception raised in open directory client-side plugin

It seems difficult to believe that it is as you suspect, that something that a client did has locked you out of control of your own server.

Check permissions! Break out the Terminal and attempt to discover where the critical configuration files are for Open Directory, and make sure your permissions ( ls -l ) haven't been "bonked" <-- (sorry for the inscrutable admin rhetioric ;-)

Also, if you find the config file(s) in question, you will be able to examine and edit manually ( sudo cat ____ and sudo vi ____). If these files are in an xml binary form, they can be converted with plutil -convert xml1 config.plist and converted back with pluitil -convert binary1 config.plist -- as always, copy the orginals somewhere else, back them up, and work with copies to experiment, so you can always restore them necessary.

also you can attempt to use the serveradmin (<---that's hotlinked) command line tool to attempt what the GUI is preventing you from doing. here is another good reasource, as well as here

It is difficult to diagnose/troubleshoot this without having access to the machine, so I hope I give you ideas to try that may lead to new paths to a solution. Again, let me know in comments if this answer is not helpful, and I will again delete to prevent noise. Good luck!


Using terminal to get current fan speed?

smcFanControl

You mention in your comments having smcFanControl installed; this open source project includes the command line tool smc. You can use smc to get fan speed information via Terminal.app:

smc -f

See the smc manual page for more options.

Since Mac OS X 10.5, you need to use a third party piece of software to access the fan speed information. It appears no tool, installed by default on OS X, exposes this information through the terminal.

The open source project Fan Control includes a command line tool that provides fan speed information. This article, OS X: Current CPU temperature on command line, talks about the project and how to extract the fan speed:

smc -k TC0D -r | sed 's/.*bytes \(.*\))/\1/' |sed 's/\([0-9a-fA-F]*\)/0x\1/g' | perl -ne 'chomp; ($low,$high) = split(/ /); print (((hex($low)*256)+hex($high))/4/64); print "C\n";'

Avoid spindump

spindump requires administrator privileges and when run manually, spindump samples user and kernel stacks for every process in the system. This is a computationally expensive process, even when run for one second.

Alternatives

Other tools and applications exist, including Temperature Monitor. See Can I get the CPU temperature and fan speed from the command line in OS X?

Pre-Mac OS X 10.5

This article, get sensor information, shows how to use ioreg to extract the fan speed information with:

ioreg -c IOHWSensor | grep -B3 -A11 '"type" = "fanspeed"'

The above article and the script it contains was designed for Mac OS X 10.4.3.

See also:

Reading hardware information from command line with built-in tools.
Determining Fan Speeds


Replies to text messages sent from iOS arrive at OS X only

If their reply is in blue, it's an iMessage, and you disabled iMessage, so it won't come through. If the message is in green it is an SMS, which will always come through. The only way around it is to disable iMessage on all your devices so that your friends' iPhones don't pick you up as iMessage-enabled contact and hopefully send you SMS instead of iMessage. If the iMessage didn't went through they can touch and hold the blue message and tap "Send as text message" to send as SMS.

So the solutions are to enable or disable iMessage on all your devices. I'll go with enable, because you have nothing to lose and makes life easier for everyone and yourself.

If you really don't want to enable iMessage on your phone, at least narrow down the emails/numbers where one can get to you. (if that is the reason why you don't want iMsg??)


How can I select paragraphs easier in iOS 7?

The short answer is no, you can't triple tap to select a paragraph. Here's what I do, however, to select larger chunks of text.

Double-tap and hold your finger puts iOS 7 into "drag to select" mode.

Double-tap and hold your finger on the first word of the paragraph
Drag down to select


Check your iMac model and the date.
In About this Mac (here is mine)

Yosemite requires iMac (Mid 2007 or newer)
Log in App Store and get it from there. The download process can take very long time, a hour or more (it is > 5 Gig file), depending on your Internet speed.
Once it is done, find the file called "Install OS X Yosemite.app" and click on it.
If Yosemite does not work for you then get the 10.7.5 (minimum required) for TurboTax 2014.


iTunes Radio runs as a separate app. If it's running in the background, the tab may disappear from Music. Double-tap the home button to see background tasks, swipe left to find the running Radio app. Swipe up to kill it, if needed, and the tab in Music returns.


How can I disable the suspend to disk function on my MacBook Pro

To disable Safe Sleep:

$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 0
$ sudo nvram "use-nvramrc?"=false

Further details can be found at http://www.normalesup.org/~martinez/macosx/, Including how to enable it again.


What Apple mouse or trackpad is best for navigating large two-dimensional documents?

I don't use storyboards in my development workflow, but my experience with the Magic Trackpad has been vastly superior too my experience with the Magic Mouse. Lion's gestures were designed for the trackpad, so it's pretty much a win-win there.


Where is the backspace button on a MacBook keyboard?

The delete button is the equivalent of backspace on Windows, while fn + delete is the equivalent of the Windows delete.


Not able to read Command line argument in shell script using getopt in OS X Terminal

See man getopt. Basically the getopt which is part of macOS doesn't support long option names. Using

OPTS=`getopt f:l: $*`

works as expected.

PS: The man page also recommends to use $* instead of "$@" but this is not related to your problem.


Automatically hide notifications from Notification Center while in fullscreen

This isn't a perfect answer, but it's a smooth workaround.  In System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control you can map a keyboard shortcut to "Turn Do Not Disturb On/Off."  I chose command shift spacebar as I believe it does not overlap any default keyboard shortcuts and it's similar to activating Spotlight.  Now I simply hit those keys to quickly hide and show notifications.


What happens when I've closed all of an application's windows on OSX?

There is no consensus on whether the app must quit when you close the last window or if the app continues to run, so the decision is left to each developer to decide on an app by app basis. What is true is that quitting an app does release the resources it took - even if some files and code are still stored in RAM or cache until those stores get flushed or used for caching other apps and files at a later time.

Furthermore, there is no restriction prohibiting bad coding, hogging memory, using CPU when no real tasks should be executing, so that as well varies on a case by case basis.

Both Windows and OS X have very good scheduling smarts, paging systems, thread control, etc... and the CPU are all the same in terms of shutting down cores and lowering/raising the frequency based on load to save power and give a "turbo boost" when only one core is executing a single thread.

OS X is starting to let apps signal that they support sudden termination - so that the OS can handle automatic termination, sudden termination and automatic document saving (plus versions) for an app developer. So even if you have told the OS to run a program it can and will decide to "quit" the process so that it won't consume resources while you are doing other things with the computer.

Lastly, with PowerNap on OS X hardware, the line between alseep and awake begins to blur with the system waking partially to perform periodic network tasks which make OS X a bit different than traditional UNIX and Windows in terms of thinking about apps and resource usage.

More reading:

The Core App Design - covers both apps that quit when its window closes and those that do not. Further down, the discussion of termination is fairly readable but also technically detailed
Mountain Lion: About Power Nap - HT5394


Just to let you know, I solved the problem by reinstalling the operating system.

This can't be done directly from the app store (because it was not working)

Instead restart the mac and when the grey screen comes press Cmd + R; then connect to the internet and reinstall it.

I did a backup of my data beforehand but fortunately I didn't need it as all my files were in place.


2012 MacBook Air has wear spot on the bottom left

I took the computer in to Apple, and they determined that the spot was the result of a bulge caused by a piece of foam on the speaker. They told me that the foam and its attached components were the wrong parts.


You said that the drive doesn't work with other Macs or in an external enclosure, so the problem is unlikely to be a dodgy cable on your MacBook Pro. If the drive doesn't work with any computer, it's most likely dead.

At lot of OEM drives have 3-year warranties from the drive manufacturer. Your drive may still be under warranty so I would contact the company and do a warranty claim.

Also, definitely get a known working drive and see if it works with your MBPro.


Why does the cloud have my photos when I haven't saved them there?

You are confusing your iCloud Backup with iCloud Photo Library.

iCloud Backup by default makes a copy of your whole iOS device, in case you have a problem with it (you erase something by mistake, it gets stolen, lost, damaged) to be able to restore it to the last available backup.

You can selectively remove different data from the backup, that —of course— won't be available to restore later on.

iCloud Photo Library is a different service: it will allow you to upload all your full size pictures to iCloud, save a smaller sized copy on your device to save space (if you set it that way) and sync them between different devices.

So "the cloud" has a copy of your whole phone for backup purposes because you activated iCloud backup. You can deactivate it and erase it, —I would advice to make a local backup regularly with iTunes in that case— or leave out only your pictures from the iCloud Backup, by deselecting the "Photo Library" item on the "Manage Storage" settings under iCloud Backup (shown in your screen capture).


Is my USB drive broken, or is it my MacBook?

If it happens to your drive only with your macbook (on both OS X and Windows) and works fine with other machines, then the problem is most likely your USB port.

I suspect that it is supplying more than the stipulated voltage (5V ± 5% for USB 2.0) and your device must not be sophisticated enough to only take what it needs.

You can check this using a multimeter and a USB male connector (I chopped a spare USB extension cord when I needed it). It should register the correct voltage and if not, there's your problem.

If you're going the chopping an extension cord route like me, here is what it will look like if you strip the wires (image source)

The white and green wires are for data transfer — you don't want that. The red is +5V and the black is ground. Connect your multimeter to those to check the voltage.


Finder treating symbolic links differently than terminal MacBook Pro Retina OS X 10.9.4

I was able to reproduce this as well (on OS X 10.9.4). A simpler case is as follows:

touch file.txt
ln -s file.txt link.txt
mv file.txt moved.txt
touch file.txt

If the Finder was open to the working directory while mv was executed, then it will (incorrectly) follow link.txt to moved.txt until it is restarted. Interestingly, you don't even need the Terminal to reproduce this bug, since it also applies to aliases:

Create file.txt.
Make an alias of file.txt.
Rename file.txt to moved.txt.
Create a new file also called file.txt.

The desired behaviour for aliases is to point to the moved file (moved.txt) unless a new file has been created in the original location (file.txt, created in Step 4). But the actual behaviour is just like in your example: Finder continues to follow the alias to the moved location until it is restarted.

This is a bug in the Finder. The workaround is to relaunch the Finder if an open window shows a symlink/alias while you move or rename the target file.


Downloading previous purchases in iTunes says "Buy"

If you really purchased it, it will show buy and then tell you it's free since you already bought it. As long as you didn't mistake a newer version of the song you can "buy" again for free. There is a report a problem link if you do accidentally re-buy substantially the same item and I wouldn't hesitate to ask for a refund when the storekeeper doesn't make it easier to know if it's a re-download or a buy.


What is the iOS developer payment schedule?

Developers get paid within 45 days of the last day of the month. For example, the amount you earned in March should be paid to you before mid-May. For my case in March, 2015, I got paid on April 30.

Also note that the minimum threshold depends on the currency and country pair Apple set. If you decide to get paid in the pair Apple set (e.g. HKD in Hong Kong or JPY in Japan), it's $10 USD or equivalent. If not, it's $150 USD.

This information is from Apple's documentation in iTunes Connect.

  When will I be paid?

  Payments are made within 45 days of the last day of the month in which
  book purchases were made. To receive payment, you must have provided
  all required banking and tax information and documentation, as well as
  meeting the minimum payment threshold.

  If your bank and bank account currency is listed in this table, you
  must exceed a minimum payment threshold of $10 USD. All other bank
  countries and bank account currencies must exceed a minimum payment
  threshold of $150 USD.


How do I toggle between the most recent app and Desktop while keeping them in the same space?

There is keyboard shortcut for viewing Desktop:
System Preferences > Mission Control > Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts > Show Desktop
This should be F11 by default but alternative key can be chosen from options provided in drop-down menu.
Pressing key set shows desktop, pressing it again takes you back to the window you were.
Addressing border issue: in addition to Solar Mike solution to display desktop without borders and in case there are more than one app window open 'hide all except active and minimize last' approach can be taken.
There is keyboard shortcut for hiding apps except active: ⌥+⌘+H
After that, while keeping ⌥+⌘ down press M (minimizes active app, it's enough to minimize with only ⌘+M too).
Desktop is now displayed. All app windows are hidden except last which is minimized (sadly there is not possible to hide all except active and after that hide active).
To restore last (minimized) window use ⌘+TAB to navigate to app, while holding ⌘ press ⌥ and after that release ⌘ first and ⌥ after - this opens minimized app window.
There are caveats if on other space(s) the same app is also open.


It's under /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Screen\ Sharing.app here. You should still be able to call it directly (e.g. via Spotlight) or just use Cmd-K in Finder to initiate a VNC session (use vnc:NAME-OF-REMOTE-SYSTEM as address).


What does this statement about saving battery power on iOS mean?

It is actually neither of the two. It is a third variant, namely that ordinary apps cannot run in the background. So when you're looking at some app, other apps in the background aren't consuming CPU time (which translates into battery power) - so quitting the app won't make it consume less.
In regarding to receiving notifications, which you mentioned, they will be received no matter if the app is quit or not. In some cases more battery power will actually be used here if you quit the app instead of leaving it be.
In general you should not be quitting apps unless you're experiencing some kind of bug or problem with the app where it doesn't work.


macOS Mojave (10.14) - how to get a full installer without using the macOS Mojave Patcher Tool

Link from Apple to create offline installer:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372
Under "Download macOS" there are links in blue to macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, macOS High Sierra, etc.
Click the link & scroll down to step 4 - the link to download your desired OS will open the app store & bring you to the download page.
Note: you need to open the link on macOS using Safari for it to work properly.


How to recover this damaged CoreStorage PV records?

PV UUID is stored in the beginning of that volume.

Thus, this is a GPT Type error.

Use cgdisk to modify Type from af00 to af05, done.


How do cope with a space when setting the $PATH

Use backslash or quotes, not both. You put the sequence backslash-space in the PATH value.

export PATH="/Applications/Sublime Text 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl:$PATH"

or

export PATH=/Applications/Sublime\ Text\ 2.app/Contents/SharedSupport/bin/subl:$PATH

Be sure not to wrap the line: it has to be spaces, not newlines.

Note that if you see an error like /Applications/Sublime: No such file or directory from the export PATH=… line, then you have a syntax error in that line, such as a space after the equal sign: the assignment doesn't try to look up the directory. If the error is at some later time, then it isn't due to the PATH value, or if so only very indirectly: it's perfectly ok for entries in $PATH not to exist, and a non-existent directory will not lead to an error message.


I forked MarcoPolo for the explicit purpose of getting it working right on Snow Leopard and Lion.  I use it on Lion everyday, everything should be working perfectly.

http://controlplane.dustinrue.com/

https://github.com/dustinrue/ControlPlane


mount_smbfs: server rejected the connection: Authentication error on Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.6

According to its man page, mount_smbfs takes its share point argument in the form:

//[domain;][user[:password]@]server[/share]

Note the "user[:password]" part -- the colon and password are in the same brackets, indicating that they're optional but if included, they must be included together. Essentially, if you include the colon, whatever's after it (up to the "@") will be taken the password. But you have nothing after the colon, so you're explicitly specifying a blank password.

Also, the man page says you should never run mount_smbfs directly, but instead use mount -t smbfs.

You need to either include the password explicitly, like this:

mount -t smbfs '//share;user:password@server.domain/share' /Volumes/share

Or leave off both colon and password:

mount -t smbfs '//share;user@server.domain/share' /Volumes/share

...in which case it'll look for a password in ~/Library/Preferences/nsmb.conf, and if it isn't there it'll prompt for one. I had thought that it could look in the keychain, but apparently it doesn't know how to do that. This means that there is no non-interactive, secure way to supply a password to mount_smbfs.

Depending on the context this is running in, you might be able to use the open command instead:

open 'smb://share;user@server.domain/share'

I think this'll need to be running in a user session, and doesn't give you control of the mount point (it'll be auto-created in /Volumes).

Oh, one other thing: the "share;" part of the URL specifies an authentication domain to find the user in. Is that part actually correct? If it is, the open command should work interactively.


Can't un-mute sound when mini-jack unplugged

If you are seeing the greyed out output volume when no headphones or plug is physically present than the physical switch to detect a plug missed the unplug event.

The system things you still have speakers connected and is routing the information to the jack.

Check for lint with a magnifying glass or very gently blow some clean compressed air. Service might be an option if this is something that happens very often.

Responding to the comments about this happening each time at reboot, that would indicate that the hardware is somehow saving headphones on as a default setting or the hardware is mis reading things at boot. Resetting NVRAM might help if it's a saved setting issue.

There are only 3 things in play here:

The physical package in the jack that is responsible for sensing if anything is inserted and telling if it's a metal jack or an optical jack.
The brains of the hardware - storing settings in NVRAM and turning the physical sensor into something the software can show you on the screen.
The OS - Lion or Snow Leopard

I would be very surprised it's Lion related - but I've seen strange things before where software doesn't make the correct read on a sensor. It's good you can restore things temporarily by plugging / unplugging a jack. If you took it to a repair shop, they would hopefully test your mac with Snow Leopard again to rule out lion before doing an actual repair on the jack or the hardware. If this is something you can depend on - it happens each and every time, you might test by booting from a backup or installing Snow Leopard onto a USB drive and testing. It sure sounds like an odd but reproducible thing you have happening to your mac.


Is there a way to get information from email using the Terminal and without external software?

It depends :-)

The Terminal.app itself doesn't know anything about Mail or the Internet, all (well, practically all, it can do some additional stuff but let's keep things simple) it can do is handle keyboard input and text output between the user and a so-called command shell (which on macOS usually is an application/binary called bash or nowadays zsh). So strictly speaking the answer is "no, Terminal.app is not able to access your mail".

If we widen the scope a bit and read the question as "Can I access my mail with bash/zsh and any Unix-type utility which is part of macOS and doesn't require additional installations" the answer is Yes. Using GNU Netcat to access your POP3 mail account shows how netcat (which is called nc on macOS) can be used to access mail stored on a POP server. I didn't find anything for accessing mail on an IMAP server but this should be possible as well.


Store matching files in iCloud AND on Mac and Macbook

First and foremost: iCloud is not a backup service. In order to achieve what you want, you need backups!
You can use various forms of backups to realize your goal: For example you could use the built-in Time Machine software with external USB-drives in order to have a complete backup that you could store at a seperate location. You could also use a cloud service such as Backblaze, SpiderOak or similar.
That being said, you can avoid the Mac removing files from your local disk to free up space by opening up System Preferences, click Apple ID and then remove the check mark from Optimise Mac Storage.


SystemUIServer and other processes crash repeatedly on login

So I ended up just starting up from the recovery partition and reinstalling OS X.

The Reinstall Mac OS X option is like upgrading from 10.7 to 10.8: it could just as well be called something like repair OS X. I only had to reinstall Java, replace Apache configuration files, and so on.


What to do when my Time Machine drive is getting disk errors?

It sounds like you might be out of luck if Disk Utility was unable to repair your partition. You are also correct that a clone of your Time Machine partition would copy over the problem to a new drive. It is probable that your best "solution" at this point would be to erase the partition and start Time Machine backups again. If you end up doing this I would also make sure to run "Verify Disk" on your internal HDD (or SSD if that's what you have) to make sure there aren't any errors there, either.

This might be a symptom of a failing drive; however, it is also possible that it might simply be a bunch of directory errors that can be repaired if you boot from a recovery partition, clone, or use another Mac to repair. I have had both dying drives and drives that looked like they were dying, but were actually just errors piled on one another. Before you throw the drive away, try repartitioning. Do systematic checks with Disk Utility and keep an eye on system logs (either in Console.app or /var/logs/system.log). If you continue to see the same problem, then it is indeed time for a new backup drive; however, you might find that a quick erase fixes the issue.

Also, see this article over at Pondini.org. The article essentially corroborates what I've already said, but the rest of the site is an excellent resource for all the headaches that Time Machine can throw your way.

Sorry you have a bunk backup - hope you get it sorted without much extra trouble!


securityd goes nuts every 4 minutes & 30 seconds

You are facing a continuous flow of information messages.
This flow is truncated by chunck of 500, which is the default value of
mps_limit in /etc/asl.conf. This means that your flow of security related messages is at a rate > 500 / s. This is huge.

Could you open:

/var/log/secure.log
/var/log/kernel.log

and check which message could be related with this continuous
flow of information messages?

Could you type the following command (in an xterm or Terminal window):

top -o msgsent

to check if the culprit could be a local process and tracked down through its huge level of messages sent? You will have to enlarge
your window to more than 152 characters large to see the film.


How can I use an iPhone to "tag" a location using GPS so I can bookmark a location?

I use the Maps app to drop a pin and then either save it later once I get data access or save it to a new contact and then work on it from the Contacts app at a later date.

This avoids needing a dedicated GPS app to save waypoints, but there are hundreds of those as well should you want to go shopping on the iTunes store for a more GPS like experience.

You can also get many apps to do this - here are the ones I like and use:

Pro Compass - most basic - compass and coordinates - no log file functionality.
Spyglass - basic Augmented Reality (shows camera and an overlay of GPS and other data). No log file functionality, so you would save snapshots of the screen to the camera roll.
Theodolite - Has log file functionality and all of the above. Can snap the screen easily, add annotations to the locations it logs, etc... A veritable swiss army knife.

None of the above apps need data connection - just your iPhone with enough battery charge to run.


Inbox by Google doesn't update unless opened

Go to Settings > Inbox and check that it is allowed to access Background App Refresh and  Cellular Data


My Macbook Air 2010 (11 inch) goes black and needs to be restarted every 8 - 12 or so hours

This sounds like a problem with your logic board.

You can run a preliminary hardware test by plugging in your Mac OS X flash drive, and holding down the 'D' key when starting up. See this Apple support article for more info.

A bad logic board usually needs replacing, which can be expensive. Luckily, your computer is new enough that it should still be covered by your warranty.

I recommend that you take a trip to the Apple store so that they can fix/replace the computer for you.


iPhone storage too far from its actual total amount?

Keep in mind that you don't start with 16GB, but 16 x (1,000 x 1,000 x 1,000) ÷ (1024 x 1024 x 1024), or roughly 14.9 GB.  So, the OS itself is only using up around 1.5GB.


Will using the iphone camera flash as a flashlight for long periods harm it in any way?

I would say no for two reasons,

The flash on an iPhone is an LED which unlike old camera flashes doesn't mind running for extended periods of time.
Flashlight use isn't limited by iOS. If the letting the flash run for a while would break the phone apple wouldn't allow you to do so or at the very least set a timer to turn it off after so long.

The only problem T could see is the bulb will eventually burn out, but considering you don't seem to need the camera anyway that probably isn't an issue for you.


Is there a way to share two internet connections simultaneously?

No - this will be hard on two levels.

Your default routes and network routing would be quite involved to set up the correct paths for the Mac OS to route traffic along the paths you defined as opposed to the route each network would prefer.
The graphical interface has no design / affordance to set up more than one route (currently)

The closest way I could see to accomplish this would be to run a second Mac OS virtually and move C and D to the virtual machine with networking set up in bridge mode. That way you would be close to just having a pair of OS with a pair of forwards in place - one per OS.


How can I prevent itunes to sync mp3 files in downloads folder?

Follow these steps to prevent your device from syncing automatically.

Open iTunes Preferences and select the Devices tab.

To prevent iPod, iPhone, and iPad devices from syncing automatically, select the option below:
"Prevent your device from syncing automatically"

After you select this option, reconnect your device.

You can than select music you do want to sync. You can also use smart folders to sync selective music.

source support.apple.com


Mac will not boot into OSX after installing windows 10

The GUID types for partitions 2 and 3 are wrong. The both current values are DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC, which indicates two "Windows Recovery Environment" partitions. The procedure given below can correct type partition types, but there is no guarantee the data (OS X) did not get overwritten while installing Windows.

Boot using Internet Recovery.
Enter the command given below to get the GPT partition data.

gpt -r show /dev/disk0

Below is an example of from my computer. Your output will be very
different.

gpt show: /dev/disk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1           1         Pri GPT header
           2          32         Pri GPT table
          34           6
          40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
      409640        2008
      411648   394530816      2  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   394942464   394530816      3  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   789473280    97654784      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
   887128064      262144      4
   887390208   478769528      5  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1366159736     1269536      6  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1367429272   195995208
  1563424480   388568960      7  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1951993440     1269544      8  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  1953262984      262144      9  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
  1953525128           7
  1953525135          32         Sec GPT table
  1953525167           1         Sec GPT header

From your output, you will need to record the start and size
integer values for the rows with the index of 2 and 3.
Enter the following commands. Replace the values of start and
size with the integer values you recorded for row with the index
of 2.

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk0
gpt remove -i 2 /dev/disk0
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk0
gpt add -i 2 -b start -s size -t 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk0

Again, enter the following commands. Replace the values of start
and size with the integer values you recorded for row with the index of
3.

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk0
gpt remove -i 3 /dev/disk0
diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk0
gpt add -i 3 -b start -s size -t 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk0

Try to boot to OS X.


Rather than ask for lots of details here is your guide for quick hardware triage.

Power off the Mac for literally 5 minutes (go make tea or get a paper/pencil to make notes and a clock with second hands).
Power on the Mac holding the option key - once the screen goes grey - note what happens after 60 seconds. Wait another 60 and then power it off.
Power it on and hold Command R. Be prepared for images showing it trying to connect to a network. Make note of what you see and when the screen changes.
Wait up to 10 minutes for a Recovery HD to show up. At this point, you can run Disk Utility and note anything it marks as wrong.

At this point, you will have enough data to ask a follow on question and/or search this site or Apple.com/support for how to diagnose a startup issue.

Also, make note of wall clock times. You will now know how long the machine can run a clean OS (the recovery HD) without restarting itself. That will be useful in comparing how fast it restarts to the old OS or a new OS if you choose to reinstall Mac OS to see if that's the cause of the restarts.


Why does installing applications require Volume and mount on Mac?

Note that there are usually two ways of installing applications on Mac OS X:

A simple and common way is to send the user an application bundle. The user can copy it to whichever directory (s)he feels like it. Typically, applications are copied/moved to the /Applications directory and can be moved around the filesystem (or to other filesystems).
Another way is to provide an installer. Installers are helpful in case there’s need for pre-/post-flight scripts or specific directories.

So, answering your questions:

In Mac/Unix since there is no control panel, I could be installing same dmg again and again. I would never get repair option ?

Although there is something similar to Control Panel, namely System Preferences.app, there is no stock application to manage applications (list, install, remove). Since most users install applications to the /Applications directory, listing applications is done via inspecting the directory, installing applications is done via copying/moving application bundles to that directory, and removing applications is done via removing application bundles from that directory.

Yes, it is possible for a user to install the same application repeatedly — but I can’t really imagine a use case for that. Maybe you’re asking this because of a ‘repair option’? What would that do? If you’re considering the case where an application bundle gets corrupted by some reason then it could be just a matter of copying the application bundle again.

Why are Volume and mount required ?. Isn't the installation on unix like copying files to a target system ?

.dmg volumes are not required to install applications. A developer/distributor can ship an application bundle in a .zip file, or a .tar file, or a compressed .tar file. Many developers prefer to ship applications via a .dmg volume because it is possible to customise the appearance of the volume when it is mounted — custom background, custom icons, custom icon sizes, or a link to the /Applications directory to make it easier for the user to copy the application bundle to that location.


video resolution of iMovie app export in iPhone 4S

My understanding is that the new Garageband (iOS 5.1) supports 1080p video.


Lightweight SQL server to serve .sql content

I use DB Browser for SQLite. It's free and has the feature I need, but it's pretty lightweight, so you won't have some features like SQL Procs, etc. I think it supports triggers though, so I guess you can get around the no-sql-proc issue by writing some triggers.

The database runs on SQLite, which is a pretty popular free version of SQL, so you should be able to find compatible Python packages for it. Like these for example: 11.13. sqlite3 or 12.6. sqlite3, but I don't use Python so I haven't tried either of them.

Anyhow, it works well for me. I use it for managing data that's too messy to parse with excel. For doing analysis I use the Julia programing language (but Python should work just as well).

Edit:
If you do decide to try SQLite and are wondering how to get your MySQL data into SQLite, here is a StackOverflow page that talks about exactly this.


MacBook in bed: M1 Air vs. M1 Pro with fans disabled

Think different.
After surgery I needed some recovery time at home, so I had to use a rolling table that cantilevered over my bed for a few weeks. Amazon has a top 100 rolling & over-bed tables list to choose from.
One model (#92) actually looks like it can hold an iMac or perhaps even an external monitor and a laptop:

One added benefit is a real table capable of holding meals, books, and other essentials. Hot liquids are best consumed from a travel mug with an auto-closing top. Trust me.


Require Administrator for AirPort

You can set up your computer to require an administrator password to change AirPort settings, including changing networks.

Open System Preferences → Network.

Select your WiFi service in the services list.

Click Advanced… in the bottom-right corner.

Select the options that you would like to require administrator authorization for.

Click OK, then Apply.


Remove completed reminders in OS X and iOS

In OSX, go to Completed in Reminders, Click on the first one in the list, shift click on the last one, go to Edit menu and then Delete.


Make RSS screensaver show more articles?

Sure — the easiest way to do this is to edit the screensaver's Quartz composition file. It's located at

/System/Library/Screen Savers/RSS Visualizer.qtz

In order to edit this, you'll need Quartz Composer, which you may already have (if you installed an old version of the developer tools), or you can download it with the Graphics Tools package here.

Open the aforementioned file, click on the "RSS" macro patch, and change the News Count to your liking:

Then save the file or make a copy and put it in ~/Library/Screen Savers.

Edit: I just spent a while trying to figure out if you can expose this option via the options panel, but it seems there's some very specific interface in place for the RSS Visualizer screensaver (see /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/.Quartz Composer.saver/Contents/Resources), so you can't do it if you also want to see the normal RSS options.


Should I be able to run disk utility on my Time Machine Backups?

TimeMachine is rock solid. I have used it extensively and exclusively since it came out at on many different machines and have never lost any data. Like any backup system, it is only as reliable as the person using it. You need to have multiple disks rotated at regular intervals. Time Capsule is just one Time Machine disk, so don't confuse the two. You need additional Time Machine backups on other disks. Unfortunately all disks fail eventually. If it says that the last back was a certain date then that is what you have.


How do I tell Siri to show me pictures I took at a state park rather than pictures of the state park from the Web?

I just tested on my iPhone when I tried searching for photos that I snapped at the Brooklyn Bridge Park by asking Siri "Search photos for Brooklyn Bridge Park" and it opened the photos app and filtered out showing me only those photos.


MacBook Pro 13 (early 2015) with 4K Television: Can I get 60Hz?

The cable that you listed does not support 4K.  In fact, on the description page, it specifically states the following:

  Supports video resolutions up to up to 1920x1200 and 1080p (Full HD);
  easy-grip

If you are going to convert a signal from one to another (mDP to HDMI in this case) you need an active adapter like the Plugable Active Mini DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 Adapter


The reason that script doesn't delete all the bogus groups is that it only repeats 50 times, so it will only delete 50 in one go.

This script will delete every group with the name that you input (it asks you with a dialog box) until it can't find any more:

set counter to 0
display dialog "Name of group to delete?" default answer ""
set theGroupName to text returned of result
tell application "Contacts"
    repeat
        try
            set theGroup to group theGroupName
            delete theGroup
            set counter to counter + 1
        on error
            exit repeat
        end try
    end repeat
    save
    display dialog "Removed " & counter & " instances of the group" with icon caution buttons {"OK"} default button "OK"
end tell


iPad (Air) as 2nd screen using Lightning cable?

Bluetooth is not possible:

  Bluetooth does not provide enough network bandwidth, or throughput, to be able to support Air Display.

If the device is jailbroken, you can tether the device to your computer over USB and use Air Display this way.

Install Air Display on both OS X and iOS.
Install MyWi and connect the device to OS X using USB.
Turn on USB in MyWi.
Select the device from Air Display's list of available devices.


For account groups, you need to remove or disable in the preferences. In the "Contacts" app, go to the menu bar, "Contacts" then "Accounts..." those accounts should be listed. If so, you can remove or turn them off (uncheck the "Enable this account" box) there.


Why is the iphone 6s battery inferior to the 7?

I'm not entirely convinced the author of the article you referenced did his homework! I've heard that battery improvements from iPhone 6 to iPhone 7 have been incremental. That jibes with battery technology progress in general (i.e. slow progress), and a quick search found this article that seems to back up the "limited improvement" opinion:

  "... the battery capacity has changed little (iPhone 6 - 1810mAh, iPhone 7 - 1960mAh) and you’ll still struggle to get a full day out of it...

Those figures are repeated in this article - a compilation of battery capacities for all iPhone models from 2007 to 2017.  One interesting thing to note from the table is that "size matters" - for batteries at least. Notice that the jumbo phablets have significantly more battery capacity, but that's down to the batteries being larger. And of course a phablet will demand more power than a 'normal' phone due to the larger display.

For all these reasons, I'd tend to discount the claim that battery life is "inferior" for the 6S. I'm not saying that there's no improvement; I'm saying that the improvements are "evolutionary" instead of "revolutionary". "Inferior" suggests poor quality and/or significant differences, and the data simply do not bear that out. I think Apple will do what they have to do to remain competitive; that includes battery technology.


Font Book says multiple copies are installed

Have you, first of all, looked in /System/Library/Fonts, in /Library/Fonts, and in ~/Library/Fonts to see what actually exists ... as opposed to depending on software to tell you.

I expect that both Photoshop and TextEdit fonts behaving properly depends on the Mac default fonts - and fonts commonly used by those (and other) apps - being in the correct location.


Can I continue to use a Mac while Carbon Copy Cloner is cloning its HDD?

The Carbon Copy Cloner FAQ states:

Yes and no, it really depends. Performance will be affected during the clone (especially the first one) as CCC reads the entire source volume and writes to the destination volume. If your work is "disk bound" -- that is your applications are reading or writing to either the source or destination, then you'll notice a performance hit. If you're just reading email or writing a Pages document, then you probably won't notice the performance hit.
Affecting the accuracy of the backup task is something else that should be considered. Typically it's OK to work from the source volume while you're copying it, with the understanding that if CCC copied a file, then you open it, make changes, save it, then CCC completes the backup task, the modified version of your document is not backed up (this time around). Typically that's no big deal, the modifications will get backed up the next time the backup task runs. More importantly, though, if you're working with large files (mounted disk image, Entourage email database, VMWare/Parallels container) during the backup operation, it is possible that those large files could be modified while CCC is backing up that file. This won't affect the source file, but there's a good chance that the backup version of that file will be corrupt. For this reason it is a good idea to stop using applications that may be modifying large files.

TL;DR: there is performance hit depending on the intensity of file I/O you produce; files you work on will not be backed up; large files may get corrupted.


It's not a built-in feature so you won't be able to view past logs.  However, you used to be able to enable/disable logging of notifications with scripts I've included below but I don't know if these still work.  If they do, then you could enable logging of future notifications.

Enable Growl Notification Logging:

#!/bin/zsh -f

function growl_setdefault { defaults write com.growl.growlhelperapp $* }

growl_setdefault 'Custom log history 1' "$HOME/Library/Logs/Growl.log"
growl_setdefault 'GrowlLogType' -int 1
growl_setdefault 'GrowlLoggingEnabled' -bool YES

Disable Growl Notification Logging:

#!/bin/zsh -f

function growl_setdefault { defaults write com.growl.growlhelperapp $* }

growl_setdefault 'GrowlLoggingEnabled' -bool NO


TextEdit, which is part of every version of MacOS, does exactly that, if you check this box when shutting down or logging out.

The downside is trying to discipline yourself to put things away once in a while.  At this moment, I literally¹ have three dozen "Untitled" text windows in my Dock.

¹The pre-2000 meaning of "literally"


I have a MacBook (2008) that sleeps as soon as you put in a battery

Had similar problem, so took it to Genius Bar for investigation. Turned out to be the battery charger sensor module, which is built into the battery level indicator on the side of the Macbook (the 5 green light thing). It was malfunctioning, basically telling the Macbook that any battery was dead, even if the battery was good. YMMV.


Can Apple Preview display the page size (dimensions in inches) of a PDF?

Tools/Show Inspector gives you this information and more. The shortcut is ⌘ commandI.


Typically the Wi-Fi antenna is kept close to the outer shell of the phone, so overall thickness shouldn't matter. This may be due to your wireless router being an older model and using an older standard than the XR was designed for (Wireless G/N, for example). Have you performed the speed test with both devices one after another, and have you attempted a test with a different Wi-Fi connection point to see if the problem is the router rather than the phone?


disable failing AMD GPU on a 2011 MBP? from Linux, because of Sierra's SIP?

There is a fix to this that allows you to bypass the discrete GPU and always use the integrated GPU! You will have to boot into archlinux to bypass SIP and disable the discrete graphics card.

Moving just the AMD Kexts will allow you to boot up the Mac, but it will be very sluggish and slow. Following this method will allow you to completely use your Mac again! I typed this response off of my 2011 15 inch MacBook Pro that recently had its GPU fail.

Here is a link to a video I made discussing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrBLJIepJXU

Original forum: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/force-2011-macbook-pro-8-2-with-failed-amd-gpu-to-always-use-intel-integrated-gpu-efi-variable-fix.2037591/


How can I remove a non-MAS app from Launchpad without uninstalling?

Launchpad Manager will allow you to delete any app from your Launchpad. Just open it, select the app you want to delete and press ⌘⌫.


Accidentally unloaded all launchctl daemons and now can't boot

for a persistent fix you can login to single user mode, then mount -uw /,
and then delete the launchctl override database.
I'm not sure for Yosemite, but on Sierra that would be rm /var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/*.plist.
after that you can just exit or reboot.
this is not as a sledgehammer as it seems. the system re-enableds some of its overrides (from various other configuration files i guess) and so you actually get a nice and fresh override db without masses of "disabled: false".


How did my new iPhone know my WiFi credentials?

iCloud Keychain shares your WiFi networks, including passwords, to all of your devices. So if your new phone had been logged into iCloud, that’s where it got the network details.


iTunes holds its data in an XML structure. On the surface what may appear to you to be a single Album file consisting of 10 separate tracks may, in fact, be 10 separate tracks, each with a separate link to the Album artwork. How this comes about I am not sure, but I think it's related to how the files were input to iTunes. For example, ripping your own CD may produce a different result from 'acquiring' the same album from - shall we say, a download sharing site.

Normally what I do is

(1) if an album has no artwork, I select all the tracks and drag'n'drop the artwork (from Amazon for example) into the box for Selected Item. Normally this will lock the artwork to EVERY track in the album. If, however, the structure isn't 'correct' the artwork will only be locked to a single track. You can check by clicking on several tracks in the same album.

(2)If the artwork isn't there for all the tracks, you can select all the tracks, then go to File>Get Info and drop the artwork into  the Artwork Box. You should then have artwork for every track

(3)Failing all this, as a last resort I drop the artwork in for each track separately.

One of these methods always works for me.

Bit tedious for a few albums, but for more than 1500 albums in my Library, I've only had to go the most tedious route a few times.

I should add that iTunes allows you to include several versions of the artwork for each track. If you replace artwork you may in fact simply be adding another version. Which one gets displayed is determined in the following way. Click a track. Go to File>Get Info>Artwork... here you will see all the versions of the artwork. Delete the ones you don't want. The one you are left with is the one that gets displayed.

I know.. it's confusing..


Where is the Thunderbolt Display's microphone located, and what are its specifications?

According to the iFixit teardown (see step 19) the microphone is indeed located above the camera behind the mesh. No word on the specs.


Command Line method to backup using two Time Machine disks

Note: The restore component of backing up like this has not yet been tested.
Get the ID of the attached drive
defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine BackupAlias

Eject, plug in 2nd drive, make it the Time Machine drive with the GUI, repeat.
Write (rather than read) the ID:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine BackupAlias '<00000000 014e0002 ....>'

source & thanks to Christian Stocker. Key comments from that post:

http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man1/defaults.1.html "WARNING: The defaults command will be changed in an upcoming major release to only operate on preferences domains. General plist manipulation utilities will be folded into a different command-line program."

Also the property DestinationVolumeUUID should be set.


How can I prevent certain tracks from going to iPod?

I love the setting where you can only sync songs with the checkbox to one or more iOS devices.

Simple deselect the songs by plalist, genre, or as you find them and even if they are in a playlist or genius mix that would normally install the song on your device during a sync, iTunes will suppress those songs that are not check marked.


Can I exempt a single file in iCloud directory from deleting locally?

Unfortunately, there is currently no file or folder level controls for storage optimization. It's an all or nothing feature, which is really too bad.
Here are your options as I see them:
Option 1: Turn off Storage Management
System Prefs -> Apple ID -> (uncheck) Optimize Mac Storage
By default this keeps everything. You can Right click -> Remove Download for any files in an iCloud drive you don't want to keep locally. But you'll have to manage them by hand.
Option 2: Move the file out of an iCloud folder
Storage Management will stop deleting the file, but it also stops syncing.
Option 3: Use another service
You could keep Storage Management on for most files but move the things you need more control over into another cloud service (ie dropbox) that does what you want.
Option 4: Open the file frequently
In theory Storage Management will keep files you "open frequently". You could probably even do so automatically if you're comfortable with a command line:
For Example:
export VISUAL=nano
crontab -e

0 12 * * * touch -a /Users/yourname/path/to/file
Should make the OS think you've used the file every day at noon. Make sure to pick a time when your computer is on.


Symantec is the company who makes Norton Anti-Virus & also Symantec End-Point protection.
If you have another antivirus product on your Mac - Avast - then you should completely uninstall Norton &/or Symantec [Symantec may have been installed as part of a corporate package, in which case you'd need to check with the relevant IT department].
Having two live-scanning* antivirus products on one machine is bad - they can fight each other.
This doesn't include such as Malwarebytes Free, which does not live-scan.


Terminal command to arrange all files/folders by name on hard drive

Deleting .DS_Store SHOULD reset the appearance of a folder's content.

BTW, the problem with the other answer could be the handling of special characters, which in my guess is space.

For example, you have a home directory named "First Last". In find, the result it pipes out would be:

/Users/First Last/.DS_Store

etc. Try,

rm /Users/First Last/.DS_Store

would end in error, because the two properly escaped forms are:

rm  /Users/First\ Last/.DS_Store

or

rm "/Users/First Last/.DS_Store"

The correct way to go about it should be: run

find / -name ".DS_Store"

first to list all .DS_Store files. (Don't mind the Permission Denied.) Then

find / -name ".DS_Store" -delete

to delete all that you saw. Then

find / -name ".DS_Store"

again to confirm.

sudo is excessive. Unless you have used "sudo open -a Finder; killall Finder" before. A user's Finder has not have permission necessary to create .DS_Store files in /Library, /System, etc.


Different key-maps/bindings for in-built keyboard and Bluetooth keyboard

If you only want to disable key-mapping for the internal keyboard for Apple keyboards, the GUI offers a simpler way that doesn't involve reimporting your profile and editing private.xml:


This question will likely only attract opinions; only Apple can answer your question with any authority. You should consider e-mailing or phoning Apple's developer team before embarking too far.

No Duplicate Apps Allowed

Note that Apple will not accept duplicate applications in the store. You may be able to delete the developer app and re-submit to the production account. I suspect a new bundle identifier would still be needed. You would also be exposed to another review.

Transfer Before Publishing

Knowing that, have you considered submitting the application to completion using the development account and then transferring the application to your distribution account?

  Can I transfer my app to another account?

  Yes. Use iTunes Connect to transfer qualifying apps to another account in case of an acquisition, asset purchase, or other similar situation. When you transfer an app, it will remain available on the App Store or Mac App Store, all ratings and reviews will carry over, and users will continue to have access to future updates. To learn more about transferring apps, sign in to iTunes Connect.

The submitted application can remain unpublished until after the transfer.
Using some iCloud features will prevent the application from transferring.


I created an account just to answer this question.  I ran into this issue myself months ago and was unable to find an answer.  The short of it is, Apple is backing up things even if you have them disabled.  In my case, Messages was completely disabled from iCloud backup.  In fact, almost everything was but my initial backups kept saying 4.4GB or so.  I looked at my storage and noticed the closest to that were my Messages.  So as a test I deleted a top conversation that was over 1GB and when I recalculated my iCloud backups, sure enough it dropped by a gig.

So great job to Apple backing up something I explicitly disabled.  Thankfully I resolved this issue on my own doing testing.  I hope this helps others.


Unable to change my email notification sound on iPhone 4s

Go to notifications under settings and then mail. Update the sound for each form of mail coming in. Hope this helps!


Turn off notification for certain messages

You can create a filter, which makes them automatically read, and therefor no message. A downside is that you need to create a filter (or rule) for every newsletter (or whatever you want to block) you receive. This way you will not receive a notification, but it isn't removed from your inbox.


Running custom software on an Airport Extreme base station?

Currently there is no way to jailbreak either an Airport Extreme or a Time Capsule.

Whilst they are probably in the same order of difficulty as jailbreaking as say an iOS device, no one has really spent any effort on doing so.

Personally I think this is probably for the following reasons:

limited target audience (low numbers of product in the world)
limited 3rd party development support


How can I mix multi-channel input device down to mono?

Been a while since I have played with Audio Hijak but I do believe it may do what you need it to do, and a lot of other audio tricks handy for people who do podcasts and audio mixing, though not for free.
https://rogueamoeba.com/audiohijack/


Why can't I select tracks in Apple Music?

The problem is indicated by the track names being grey.

Something is preventing your device from connecting to the store.

Try another network connection
Try on cellular data
Try powering off phone
Ensure that you were allowing cellular data to playback iTunes music from the cloud
once you've ruled these out, consider filing a bug or feedback to Apple

You will know that you solved the problem when you see the track names in bright white just like the rest of the text on the page. Compare the shuffle text with the first track name in your screenshot for example.


Can my iPhone automatically send me an email when I turn it on?

No, the phone can't email itself. He probably went into your accounts, checked your email address, and made a backup of your notes by emailing the stuff to your email address. That's what people do sometimes to remind themselves about stuff the next day or later when you read your emails.

If he sent it to your email address, and then read his own email, it is flagged as read/seen, and won't appear as a new/unseen email on any other email client. So this means you could have missed the notification, but he sure did email it to your email address from your email from your phone.

Hope this explains it. :)


Making an exhaustive list of all processes that call a specific API or process would be technically challenging even for one single release point of MacOS. You would either need access to the source code of all of MacOS and every single app - both first party and third party - or you would need to debug/reverse engineer all processes as they run and expose those calls.

The application Little Snitch does that for the network stack - so you might have better luck just blocking network access to Apple servers rather than trying to block the calls to the service locally.

Even if you were to process all the geo location aspects on developer.apple.com - it's widely used - far greater than just the Core Location API - https://developer.apple.com/documentation/corelocation.

Weather
Calendar
Address Book
Maps
Siri
iCloud (finding the best data center to route uploads)
Store (which geographic region should your content be)
Time Zone and Night Shift
Safari location


How to remotely change iCloud settings on iPhone 5?

Remove it from Find My iPhone via the web

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

At that point, iTunes will be willing to erase the device and/or restore it. You could also use Apple Configurator 2 which has a command line option to wipe devices:

cfgutil restore


Problem connecting to public wifi on Macbook Pro

Since you have a pop up, it’s almost certain the WiFi link is connecting and you are dealing with the networking side / captive portal.

One thing that sometimes helps is opening a web browser and going to http://captive.apple.com or just any web page.

Typically the security / registration / portal then lets you answer whatever questions / accept any EULA and then give you a proper IP address / DNS server / connection to the internet.

Past that, you’ll need to look at DHCP response or contact the person that supports that network to check their side.


How to implement text editing features in terminal interface?

There are ways to navigate in the terminal but they don't use the macOS keystrokes for navigation as the BASH shell actually predate macOS/NeXT. For example CtrlA moves to the beginning of a line and CtrlE moves the cursor to the end of a line. A quick search online on BASH shell keyboard shortcuts will yield a whole list like this, for example.

As an alternative BBEdit is a text editor that has been around on the Mac for ever. Way Pre-OS X. And one of the features is a command line window that acts much like a text editor and uses the standard Mac keybindings. But then you'll have to buy a programmers text editor to get the features you want in a shell window.

Might be best if you just learn the BASH keybindings, as that is lots cheaper ;-)


You should look into configuration profiles.

Their contents are described here:

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/featuredarticles/iPhoneConfigurationProfileRef/Introduction/Introduction.html

You can build two profiles, one with and the other without proxy, and you would be able to create a link to each. Add those two links to a single webpage, and then add that page to Home Screen.

That's two taps rather than one, though.

Another option is two make two separate pages, each with a javascript redirect to download the profile. You could then save each of the pages to the home screen.


Why I can browse my Photo library (camera roll) in iOS 14.3 with Wish mobile app with no permission?

Here is a short explanation. Wish uses the PhotoKit technology provided by Apple, and more specifically the PHPickerViewController class. It's the pop-up that allows the user to upload or take a picture.

Since iOS 14, this panel doesn't need any permission to display your pictures, since you have to select which one you send to Wish (or any other app); nothing is sent before you select them.
No need to worry, Wish can't access your pictures/camera or your cloud storages!
If you want to learn more about the Photo picker here is a WWDC 2020 video : https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10652/


Error when restoring a iOS 4.3.5 backup onto a iOS 5 device

After the restore fails, take a look at the phone and see if your data is installed.

Restoring data after every major iOS update has failed on me, but after I put the apps back on, all my data is there.  Pick a few apps that you know contain data (Contacts, games, documents, Notes, login details) and see if your data has at least been restored.

It takes some time to put the apps and usic back on, but major iOS updates only happen once every couple of years.


Why are all ports closed even without firewall or router?

I think you're getting a bit confused about terminology. Typically ports are often referred to as open, closed, or not reachable.

An open port is one that is not blocked by NAT or a firewall, and has a service answering requests at it. An example would be if you enabled Web Sharing on your Mac, the standard HTTP port (80) would be open.

A closed port is one that is reachable, but has no service to "answer" it. In some cases firewalls or routers with NAT will close ports, but usually this is a port that can be reached, but has no service there.

An unreachable port (which will often show up in port scans as "timed out") is one where the firewall or NAT actively ignores any attempt to contact it, rather than sending a response that says "this port is here, but closed". In theory this is more secure, since it doesn't even confirm to an attacker that there is a computer at the IP they're touching. In reality the benefit may be less, but I'm not qualified enough to make a definitive judgement. This is the status that will show up with most consumer routers and firewalls.

You may want to try a different port scanner, as in my tests, the one you linked doesn't distinguish between closed and ports that timed out.


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How to gain access into /etc/networks/loopback file from terminal?

/etc/networks is not a folder, it's a plain text file with the contents given in your question.

loopback, 127 and loopback-net are not files within a file, they're just words within the contents of the /etc/networks file, as part of the configuration expressed within. There's no /etc/networks/loopback, as it's just the file /etc/networks with the word loopback within.


You may not have noticed it, but Oracle Java 7 installs a new item in System Preferences with a feature that automatically checks for updates by default, and prompts you to install them. Thus, this is taken care of.


Apple TimeCapsule 2TB (2013) real life expierience; store data next to backups?

Time Machine is the software that runs on your Mac so that won't change at all with the new device.

I would run a few manual backups from the command line on your existing Time Capsule to see what amount of data you are backing up and how long it takes:

 date; tmutil startbackup --block; date

Once you have a feeling for what your speeds are, you can start to determine what the bottleneck is. If your Mac takes too long to send the files itself due to a busy filesystem and CPU - no external upgrade will help. If you are waiting on the hard drive in the Time Capsule - that too is the same technology and you should expect minor speedups as the controller seems to be marginally faster in the new Time Capsule. Only if your bottleneck is the network speed between the Mac and the Time Capsule will the faster network make a difference for the time spent backing up.

The new antennas are working very well for cases where we have one or two machines at the edge of the wireless range - but we don't have many of the new Air that speak 802.11ac yet so although some speedup is possible - it's not as dramatic as the benchmarks show except in some limited circumstances.


When is an updated app downloadable from the App Store on the iPhone and iPad?

This is one way you can try, not guaranteed to work but it might:

  Delete your app, and then just install it again

the App Store app / server might decide it would waste too much bandwidth to let you download the old version and then update you within a day or two, so it will just give you the latest version.


How to enable read receipts for messages in iMessage on Mountain Lion?

From the Messages app section of the Apple Mountain Lion "what's new" page:

  Turn on read receipts, and they’ll see when you’ve read a message.

According to this OS X Daily post, you can send read receipts in the Message app by following these steps:

  Open Preferences in iMessage, and select the “Accounts” tab
  Select
  the Message account from the left
  Check the box next to “Send Read
      Receipts” to enable
  Close out of iMessage Preferences

Screenshot from this post:

I can confirm the presence of the checkbox on my own Mac.


case mismatch in Mail.app between raw and displayed from fields

Just a quick idea: have you checked Window > Previous Recipients?


Iphone 6 plus will not default to SMS when other user iphone is not on wifi

If any capable device receives the iMessage, it's considered delivered.

Log out of iMessage all other devices/computers & then it should resend as SMS.


How to upgrade a harddisk in Macbook Pro

1) I would suggest using an external drive? Why? For the simple reason that upgrading the MBP SSD is expensive! It's not your standard SATA drive. A new 1TB SSD for that computer will run you ~$650 (based on OWC prices).

2)Your SSD Read/Write speed should already be around 400-500MBps. A new SSD's performance would probably not be noticeable. It is almost certainly not worth paying the $650 for just the speed boost.

3) I would suggest at least one (possibly two) backups. Note that if you buy your new SSD from OWC or if you get the OWC Envoy, you can plug your old SSD into your computer via USB, so having an extra (second) backup is less important if you take this route.

4) I'm not sure exactly what you mean here. You can use an external SSD as either a storage drive or a boot drive or both, but boot times from an external drive might be slower than from an internal drive.

Please comment with any questions or if you see any mistakes in my answer.


Can an iPhone act as an audio source to a Mac?

Yes, you can do it, but you would require some professional paid apps for it like blue phone elite or phone amego.


How can I prevent Mac terminal ssh from disconnecting when the screen is automatically turned off?

As mentioned by Jakuje in the comments above, I strongly recommend using screen (or tmux) for long running commands or sessions that you would want to resume if disconnected for any reason.

Another approach would be to install mosh (https://mosh.org/) to make the connection. You can use it just like SSH and but it has support for intermittent connectivity (e.g., your laptop going to sleep) so that you can resume the connection without interruption from a user perspective.

However, I suspect your problem is not necessarily from the screen turning off, but from the SSH session timing out due to an idle connection.  You can edit your ~/.ssh/config file and add in an entry similar to the following

host your.remote.host
     ServerAliveInterval 180

which will cause your client to send a packet to the server every 180 seconds if it doesn't receive a packet from the server.


How can I make my Apple TV 4th generation show up as a device in iTunes on my Mac?

Unfortunately, you cannot push apps and media to your Apple TV (4th generation) using iTunes.

The only way to install Apps currently is via the tvOS App Store. I don't think you can use the internal storage on the Apple TV to store media in any way, it is just used to dynamically store data like apps and their downloaded or cached data.


Upgrading your iCloud storage does not add internal storage/RAM to your phone. If you need more storage on the phone itself you need to buy a bigger model.


Looking at the first error message from make it seems as if the paths got configured wrongly by configure. So just rerun it and make sure to specify any required paths in full (without ~).


How do I add a user and group with a specific ID

Found the answer that works from in a 4 year old post on this board.
This creates the user, and the group, with the specific gid.

dscl . -create /Users/vmail UniqueID 5000 PrimaryGroupID 5000 RealName "vmail"

It can be checked, because it runs silently, with the following. The command in my case gives the following output.

bash-3.2# dscl . -read /Users/vmail UniqueID
UniqueID: 5000 PrimaryGroupID 5000 RealName vmail
bash-3.2#

Ok, for some reason it doesn't actually add a the group - so you have to go into the GUI, System->preferences->Users/Groups and add the group, and set it's UID at the top, to 5000 - then it all works


Swapping HDD RAID 1 with SSD in Mac Mini

Is it a viable option?

Yes.

You could do either of your options given that you are using RAID 1.

That said, I am not a fan of software based RAID.  It consumes CPU cycles that could otherwise be used somewhere else.    Given that SSDs are far more reliable than TSM (traditional spinning media), the chances of a drive failure go down significantly.

What I would do is use the SSD as my primary drive and the second hard disk as an internal Time Machine drive.  You will get increased performance, more reliability and much quicker backups


How to extract/rip audio contents of an .exe?

Try File Juicer - it extracts images/text/audio/video from many types of files (see this list of supported inputs/outputs). The PC executable type (exe) is specifically listed as a supported file type. It's not a free app, but can be used in trial mode.


Can an HFS+ formatted drive be shared with Windows

Attached to an OS X Server you can use the RAID-volume formatted to HFS+ or ExFAT to create shares for Windows clients.

After enabling the share it is accessible via AFP and SMB by default:

Example screenshot OS X Server 3.2.2 Mavericks:

Example screenshot OS X Server 5.0.15 El Capitan HFS+:

Example screenshot OS X Server 5.0.15 El Capitan ExFAT:

Both shares are accessible as usual (Data:HFS+ formatted/data2: ExFAT formatted):


OpenSSH is not compatible with iOS 10.2 and will break things in later releases of the jailbreak. You should uninstall both OpenSSH and OpenSSL (dependency).

yalu102 comes with dropbear.


Mac freezes when I try to open a particular Folder

It seems likely that the problem stems from corrupted data on your hard drive.
The Finder asks the FileSystem to give it information about the content of the folder and either the Finder fails to properly handle the error returned by the FileSystem or the FileSystem keeps trying endlessly to access the faulty data without properly returning.

In order to make sure it's not simply a Finder bug, check whether you can access the folder fine from a Terminal:

Open a Finder window and go to the parent of the problem folder.
Select the parent folder and command-click on it to reveal the contextual menu.
Select Get Info.
Look for the Where: field, it shows the actual path of the parent folder.
That will be something like /Users/your-user-name/Path/To/Parent
Select the path and copy it.
Open a Terminal window (press command-space and type terminal).
type cd (ending space) then paste the copied path. This should look like:

cd /Users/your-user-name/Path/To/Parent/problem-folder
If any folder in the path contains spaces, enclose the whole path with double quotes. I.e.: cd "/Users/your-user-name/Pa th/T o/Parent"

type ls -lR "problem-folder" replacing the last parameter with the name of the problem folder.

Normally this should list the content of the problem folder as well as that of all its subfolders (this should print a lot of text if the folder hierarchy is deep).

Since this completely bypasses the Finder, if this works it means that the bug lies with how the Finder deals with the folder data (for whichever reason). However if the Terminal freezes when running this command, this would really point toward a hard drive issue.

In the latter case I would recommend that you first run Apple's DiskUtility application and attempt to verify the disk:

Launch DiskUtility (press command-space and type Disk Utility).
On the left pane, select the hard drive your folder resides on.
On the right pane, click the Verify Disk button.

This should take a bit of time and will print a list of possible errors. If there are any issues and/or if the log indicates that you should run a repair on the disk then you should press the Repair button.
In any case it should not hurt if you choose to repair the disk even if no errors are displayed.

If a repair fixes the issue, then this likely indicates that the error was not due to a faulty hard drive but to invalid FileSystem data and you should be good to go again.

However, if the problem persists your hard drive could be the cause of the FileSystem corruption.

In this case I highly recommend to buy a more powerful disk diagnostic and repair program such as DiskWarrior (you will find it at http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/), it is one of the most reputed disk repair program on the Mac.

Update:

If ls -lR works correctly, this points to a Finder issue.
It could be a buggy QuickLook plugin which is triggered when opening the folder and which has trouble opening some of your files. This does not mean that these files are corrupt.

Using the terminal, use the mv command to move files to another folder to see if this fixes the issue. For example you could do:

mv problem-folder/a* fixa
mv problem-folder/b* fixb
etc.

Then try opening each of the fix folders to see which ones freeze or not.

This way you would be able to identify precisely which file(s) causes the issue if it's caused by a file.

If you have installed Quicklook plugins you might want to try to disable them temporarily to see if that fixes the issue.


AppleID is tied to purchases though. Are you using a NEW AppleID for the iPod? If so, use THAT login for iCloud. If not, just create a new ID with an email account you currently use. You'll lose access to purchases from the old ID, and any documents saved in the cloud though.


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