How to get an LG Ultra HD (27UD88) and Macbook Pro 13" 2017 running at 60hz?

I got it working. I'm not sure exactly how, but here's what I tried, in the order of what I believe fixed it:

Enable DisplayPort 1.2 in screen configuration
Reverse the USB-C cable
Set "Ratio" to "1:1" in screen configuration (I've since tested this and switching it back had no negative effect)

(3) was recommended by a user in a forum thread.

Update 2018-01-29

I've since experienced the problem once more, without changing any settings. Attaching/detaching the cable fixed it.

Update 2018-05-06

After the most recent MacOS update (10.13.4) it no longer downgrades to 30hz, instead, it never comes on. If the cable is dettached, the computer crashes and has to be booted. So far, the only solution I know of is restarting the computer, which works 50 % of the time, and if not, reattach the cable (it usually won't crash after a restart).

This happens after screen sleep and detaching/attaching.

Update 2018-12-13

In this third evolution of the problem (MacOS 10.14.1) the computer no longer crashes. Roughly 9/10 times it will display in 30hz/horrible resolution and all I have to do (sigh) is detach/attach the cable until I hit that 1/10 where it works. It's a daily 5 minutes routine for me.

This setup (MacBook Pro 13" 2017 w/o touch + 27UD88-W) is not recommendable to anyone.


Can the an American iPhone 5S work in Europe and vice-versa?

It's not going to work because Sprint will not let you add her phone to their network. Sprint limits subscribers to phones specifically sold for the Sprint network. Verizon has a similar policy.

You may, however, be able to get the phone to work with a different carrier. Many European companies typically sell unlocked phones, so if the phone was purchased in Europe, it may already be unlocked. In that case, the only issue would be to find a network that supports the phone in the United States. Considering that European countries often use GSM networks, you may be able to use AT&T, T-Mobile, and possibly some other carriers. If you need to use the phone for only a short time in the United Staes, you may want to buying an AT&T GoPhone sim card or a similar contractless service from another carrier.

If you do, however, need to use the Sprint network then you should keep in mind that the two phones support different LTE bands so it's likely that you both would lose access to LTE. It's not certain because there is some overlap but it's quite likely.

https://www.apple.com/iphone/LTE/

Here's the FAQ for Sprint unlocking:

http://www.sprint.com/legal/unlocking_policy.html


How can I get curl to resume download after waking from sleep mode?

You could try using wget -c:

-c
--continue
    Continue getting a partially-downloaded file.  This is useful when you
    want to finish up a download started by a previous instance of Wget, or
    by another program.  For instance:

            wget -c ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/ls-lR.Z

    If there is a file named ls-lR.Z in the current directory, Wget will
    assume that it is the first portion of the remote file, and will ask the
    server to continue the retrieval from an offset equal to the length of
    the local file.


How do I put the dock on the top (external) monitor in a dual monitor setup?

Someone showed me one solution: there's a sort of "shelf" created where the bottom monitor is narrower than the top. If you move your mouse on the top monitor until it hits that shelf, the dock will pop up to the top monitor. However, if you move your mouse to the bottom of the bottom screen the dock will move back there.

This should be sufficient for my problem, but I'm leaving this up in case other people have alternative answers (and if this will be helpful for someone else).


Issue: Safari on macOS won't open a new window via keyboard shortcut

SOLUTION:

"There is a setting in System Preferences > Dock called "Prefer tabs when opening documents". Change this to "Manually"..."
(Solution via Stack exchange)


Is it possible to daisy-chain a 2019 MacBook Pro with Dell U2417H monitors?

Unfortunately, Apple (macOS) doesn't support this.

(IMO) it's a weird situation because the hardware supports it and you can actually accomplish it in Windows via Bootcamp.  For whatever reason, (I suspect "user experience" because it can get tricky to set up correctly) Apple chose to not implement it.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/259308/119271
Dual 4k displays on a Macbook Pro 15" Late 2013

  If not, can anyone recommend an alternative way to connect two monitors + peripherals with minimal cables into the Mac?

The best way is to use a dock

See this post for a solution to connect multiple monitors and multiple peripherals:   Easiest way to connect two non-thunderbolt monitors to my MacBook Pro 2017 and charge it at the same time?

You would have to use 2 Thunderbolt cables, but if you get a charging dock over one port you could drive a monitor, charge your device and support your peripherals while another TB port drives the second monitor.  This would limit the number of cables to just 2 - which isn't so bad considering if this was 2013, you'd have three - the MagSafe adapter cable to deal with.


Is there a hotkey/shortcut for Print to Web Receipts folder?

Create a very basic Automator Service Applescript with GUI Scripting. Then, use the Keyboard Shortcuts in System Prefs to assign a shortcut.

Open Automator and Choose 'Service'
Past this script in a 'Run Applescript' Action.

tell application "System Events"
    get system attribute "sysv"
    if result is greater than or equal to 4144 then -- Mac OS X 10.3.0
        if UI elements enabled then
            tell application "Safari" to activate
            keystroke "p" using command down
            tell application process "Safari"
                tell application "System Events"
                    tell process "Safari"
                        click menu button "PDF" of sheet 1 of window 1
                        delay 1

                        click menu item "Save PDF to Web Receipts Folder" of menu of menu button "PDF" of sheet 1 of window 1
                    end tell
                end tell
            end tell
        else
            beep
            display dialog "GUI Scripting is not enabled" & return & return & "Open System Preferences and check Enable Access for Assistive Devices in the Accessibility (or Universal Access) preference pane, then run this script again." with icon stop
            if button returned of result is "OK" then
                tell application "System Preferences"
                    activate
                    set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"
                end tell
            end if
        end if
    else
        beep
        display dialog "This computer cannot run this script" & return & return & "The script uses GUI Scripting technology, which requires an upgrade to Mac OS X 10.3 Panther or newer." with icon caution buttons {"Quit"} default button "Quit"
    end if
end tell

Set input to 'no input' and Application to 'Safari.app'
Save the Automator Service.
While still in Automator (or any app) go to the app's 'Services' menu and choose 'Services Preferences'.
Scroll rich down until you see your new service.
Assign the shortcut, click ok and your done.


Can I automatically remove my signature from all replies? Mail 6.2 OS x 10.8.2

Not sure if anyone ever answered this. I came here looking for a solution which was ever so simple.

Open Mail.app, go to Mail -> Preferences or use the key-combo Command,

Select the Tab that says 'Signatures' and uncheck the box that says to have the 'signature' above quoted text.


How to extract arbitrary iOS application Data from iPhone 11?

iTunes File Sharing
Some apps share their documents folder through iTunes file sharing. It's up to the developer to enable this functionality. If this is enabled, you can find the app's documents folder in Finder by selecting your iPhone in the sidebar and choosing the apps tab. Files can be transferred to your computer by dragging them to your desired copy destination.
Backup
Make a local backup of your device in Finder and use an app like iMazing to extract files from the backup.
Jailbreak
If your device is jailbroken, you can access the file system with Filza and share files as you would files in the Files app (AirDrop etc).


iPhone 5S cases compatible with Touch ID

I don't see the point why a normal iPhone 5 case not work for you as the physical dimensioning for both of them is same and the TouchID is on the Home Button and no Case in general covers that, So all the cases compatible with iPhone 5 will be compatible with iPhone 5S.


Apple does not provide any guidance as to which fingers you should set up. It is purely a matter of personal preference as to which fingers you use based on the ways you hold your device when unlocking.

I suggest adding fingers you consistently use when trying to unlock your device to Touch ID, and removing any fingers you don't use often. In case you didn't label your Touch ID fingerprints, you can see which fingerprint corresponds to which row in Settings by holding your finger on Touch ID when in the Settings page.


Automator service works everywhere except when using keyboard shortcut

It is working fine here.

However in my experience most problems using UI sequences are related to the lack of delay for the system to execute the thread. Often it will process the strokes so fast that the actions are not yet finished before automator sends another command, causing overlays and hence ignoring the last action. A simple solution is providing tiny delays between each stroke.

Also the return input line can be causing issues, because the input is empty and there is no parameters.

I have tested this script successfully:

on run
    tell application "Google Chrome" to activate
    delay 0.1
    tell application "System Events"
        key code 34 using {control down, option down}
        delay 0.1
        key code 15
    end tell
end run


Connect an external SSD (USB Type-C) to Mac Mini (mid 2011)?

I do not think a simple cable to going to be sufficient. The differences between Thunderbolt and USB Type-C are different enough that an adapter will be needed. One such possible adapter would be the Kanex Thunderbolt Male to USB 3.1 (G2 Type-A) Female/ eSATA Female Adapter - Black. Unfortunately, this item is more expensive than anything mentioned in your question.

Another possible way to access the speed of a SSD would be to replace your internal drive. Although, these instructions show the upgrade procedure may be difficult.


There's no automated way to do this.

As you would know, when you merge two or more cells the data all ends up in the new merged cell. However, if you unmerge the cell in future, Numbers will retain the data but keeps it in the left most cell (or, in the case of merged cells across rows and columns, data ends up in the top left cell when unmerged).

This behaviour is standard across spreadsheeting software (e.g. MS Excel, etc). Typically, if you want to unmerge the cell and then retain the data in the other cells as well, you would first unmerge the cell and then copy/paste the existing data from the first cell into the others.

If you needed to automate this because you had a large number of merged cells to unmerge and retain the data in all cells, you would need to look at using something like AppleScript to achieve what you want. Of course, this assumes you're talking about Numbers in macOS rather than in iOS.

Finally, your question refers to an Excel file (the .xls file you mention), so another option would be to use Visual Basic in Excel to make the changes first before opening the file in Numbers. However, this too would require coding a custom solution just like you'd have to using AppleScript. Any such option would have to be done within Windows or macOS (i.e. not Excel for iOS or Android).


How do I quickly find large files and folders on my mac?

try

du -sh *  | grep -E "\dG"

to get all files and folders of size 1G and above. (Output will only show once du is done)


Use spotlight (or Alfred) to open an existing chrome tab

There is a workaround that I use. And it's not that hard. It's called "Nativefier".

  Nativefier is a command line tool that allows you to easily create a desktop application for any web site with succinct and minimal configuration. Apps are wrapped by Electron in an OS executable (.app, .exe, etc.) for use on Windows, OSX and Linux.

So what this means is that you can create a app(that can be added to you're dock) for one webpage in Chrome for example. So you can easily use Cmd+Tab to switch apps. You just need a bit of 'command line' experience to achieve all this.

Full tutorial can be found here; https://www.npmjs.com/package/nativefier


Why my mac can not access external traffic to other port except 80, 443, 22?

Sorry all, the problem is caused by VPN application, after I turn off that I can access all port again. I didnt know if that running because that app not in the dock list, only in menu bar.

Thank @jaume for giving me the clue about that app.


You may have accidentally muted the SMS conversation.
To change this go to the SMS messages for that contact and click Details (top right) and make sure that Do Not Disturb isn't selected.


How well does VirtualBox perform when compared to VMWare Fusion for Linux guests?

Having extensively used VMware Fusion (all the versions from 1 beta till 3.1), Parallels (from their first public release till 5.x -haven’t yet upgraded to 6) and a lot of VirtualBox versions (Although I stopped using it six months ago), I can say that for Windows both Parallels and VMware ran circles around VirtualBox in terms of features, compatibility and speed.

I used to compile .NET code inside those Windows and the speed of VMware and Parallels was superior (I went ahead and clocked different timings).

VirtualBox’s advantage was (and still is) price. For a lot of stuff VirtualBox is enough, but it’s still (as far as I understand) slower than its two (only) competitors.

The advantage you have is that VirtualBox is free, so you can start trying it now, and both VMware and Parallels offer trial versions you can try. If you’re serious about finding the best virtualization solution for your scenario, I suggest you take the appropriate time to test all three options yourself.

I’m personally using Parallels 5 these months, because it worked better than VMware 3.1 for my Visual Studio C# very big solution. However, I’ve used VMware and skipped Parallels 3 and 4 because they were more unstable and slow (for me).

I didn’t want to upgrade to Parallels 6 because they annoy me with their $49 upgrade price that you have to pay every year.


Can the signal level at which Wi-Fi disconnects be changed?

Not configurable on iOS.

Depending on your Wireless Access Point/Router you can sometimes turn down the signal power to shorten it's reach to a smaller radius.


How do I install beta command line tools using softwareupdate -l on 10.14.5?

Apple looks to have fixed it. I had submitted a bug report, but I'm not sure if that helped or not.


Restoring deleted iTunes 12 user music libraries

When iTunes updated, whether automatically or under your permission, it replaced its data which contained information on getting your music. None of the music that you have downloaded via iTunes, or even added into iTunes from a CD won't appear. What only appears is links to stream anything that has been purchased from iTunes, even though it may still exist on your computer.

To fix this, do the following:

Navigate to your computer's music folder.

This is normally the folder called "Music". On Mac OS X computers, you can type this in Terminal:

open music

This should open your music folder.

Navigate to the iTunes folder

In the music folder, you should see an "iTunes" folder, which has a few files. Locate the iTunes Library.itl file. Rename it to iTunes Library (corrupt).itl.

Locate the missing user library

Next, there should be a folder called Previous iTunes Libraries. Inside this folder, should be a few files, which are called iTunes Library followed by the date. Choose the latest file (The order is Year-Month-Day. e.g. 2015-08-18 for August 18th 2015). Copy the file.

Place the user library back to its proper spot

Now that you've copied the iTunes library that holds all the information about your real music libraries, we need to place it back where it belongs. Go back to the folder where you renamed a file to iTunes Library (corrupt).itl. Paste the copied library here, and rename it to iTunes Library.itl.

Restart iTunes and Voila!

Restart iTunes, and your original music libraries should be there! Happy Listening!


Method for using F4 key without pressing function button on MacBook Pro

Palua

Palua lets you change all function keys for individual apps.

  With Palua, you just need one click - or one hotkey - to toggle the mode your Fx keys are.

FunctionFlip

FunctionFlip can 'flip' certain function keys only instead of changing all keys, but it works for all apps.

  FunctionFlip individually controls your MacBook or MacBook Pro's function keys, turning special keys back to regular F-keys, or vice-versa.

  FunctionFlip's purpose is simply to disable the special features — rewind, play, mute, etc. — on the function keys. For example, if you "flip" F7, F8, and F9, those keys — only those keys — will revert back to normal F keys. Press the fn key with the special key to get the special function back. That is, the "special" and "normal" functions are flipped.


how to maximise windows in mountain lion like windows 7?

No default option aside from the fullscreen button in the top right corner of some applications. The three colored buttons in the top left of windows also give you some control.

However, there are third party tools available. I found them because I love the snap feature. After trying out a few, I settled on BetterSnapTool because it was the simplest to use and had the most features. Set it to start on bootup and you're all set. I love it.

I don't remember if I bought it in the Mac Appstore or from their website, but the link above is a download from CNet.

Hope this helps. Good luck.


RSS app for iPad, that support https? (ssl-over-http)

Have you tried Reeder? I don't know for sure that it supports this, but it might be worth looking into.


FileVault on a 128GB SSD 80% full, it will be safe to do?

There's no extra risk associated with converting a 80% full disk. That should work fine without any problems.

After encryption you'll have about the same amount of disk space available. It is not going to result in any kind of noticeable drop in available disk space.

The Mac will run a tiny bit slower compared to before. I doubt that you will be able to notice it at all.

You can keep using the computer while it encrypts. It is impossible for us to predict how long the encryption process will take - but expect a considerably number of hours, perhaps a full day. It runs in the background allowing you to keep using the computer - and it supports you putting the laptop to sleep or even turning the power fully off. It wil resume where it left off when it is powered on again.


Can I cancel SMS sending on iPhone while it is still in progress?

Unfortunately, it's a done deal when the Send button is hit, and there is no native way to cancel it, or delay the sending, so the user could have the opportunity to cancel.

If after pressing send you swipe upwards from the bottom of the screen and hit the flight mode button (top left) then the message will not be able to send. You need to be reasonably quick, but if you practice it a few times it does become easier, and works every time.


can you add an SSD without removing the original HD

If the goal is to keep the HDD and add an SSD, articles document ways to replace the Superdrive with a SSD. If the goal is to keep all the machine's factory-installed parts intact, it would appear you would have to use an external SSD.


What can I use Apple TV for in an Android household

If you have a cable TV subscription, you can watch quite a lot of TV content through the different networks' apps.  If you own a lot of your own content, sitting on your network, install Plex Media Server on your PC/Linux/whatever, and the Plex app on the ATV.

I'd mention that you can play games on the ATV too, but I haven't found any worth the time yet...


Transparent colours and images are shown in red

Open Terminal and enter:
defaults delete -g CGContextHighlight2xScaledImages and hit the Enter key.

Restart your Mac.

This will disable highlighting non-retina images with a red overlay (probably in Apple apps only).
To reenable it open Terminal and just enter:
defaults write -g CGContextHighlight2xScaledImages YES and hit the Enter key.


I don't think the web interface (iCloud) supports adding pictures (yet). The only way to add pictures to a note is using notes.app from the Applications folder, but you figured that out already.


Will DVD Studio Pro work on an Intel Mac?

DVD Studio Pro 4.1 is the first Intel comparable version of the software. I believe that came with Final Cut Studio.

You have great control over DVD authoring. The best if not only solution on the Mac. Menus, scripting, tracks, etc.


How do I open Apple Maps from a Google Maps link in Safari?

I'm assuming you're referring to the ReMap Safari extension? Unfortunately, I'm not aware of any existing bookmarklet solution that takes a location highlighted in maps.google.com and opens it in OS X/iOS Maps (nor were my attempts at finding something fruitful).

It's an interesting idea and I'm guessing possibly feasible given that a given location's coordinates are in the maps.google.com URL - if I was up on Javascript, I'd take a crack at it. I'll be interested to see if a solution does pop up!


Why do debuggers need an admin password?

Scanning protected memory is something only something authorized (in this case authenticated) sudoers are able to do.

Not requiring this would be a huge security risk and is part of the reason Windows from the 90's and early 00's was at higher risk of virus infection.  An application could easily dip into the memory partition of another application, viewing or modifying its contents or inserting arbitrary executable code.


When I read an email on my iPad I am not receiving it on my laptop - how do I sync them?

In order to have your email sync on multiple devices, make sure your account is set up to use the IMAP protocol. Most free services, like Yahoo!, are set to use POP by default, which does not sync.

Go to your Yahoo! account settings at yahoo.com and change it to use the protocol to IMAP. You will have to then delete/change the email account on your iPad, and set it up as IMAP as well.


I want an operating system that can be used for both gaming and developing. Is Mac OS the right choice?

Most or all of the software that you've mentioned is available for OS X (except LoL, which you can run through Bootcamp under your Win7). OS X is a nice operating system with a lot of very well designed software, but the best way to see how it works is to actually use it for a while. I have used Linux and I believe that OS X is much more polished but some people might not care about this and would love to have the ability to tweak every single aspect of their OSs.

All Blizzard games run perfectly on a Mac. I do Android (and iOS through Xcode) development using Eclipse and I have no problem using OS X for all my needs.


Command + Shift + C  Will open up the inspector, and let you click an object to Inspect.

https://superuser.com/questions/175529/google-chrome-keyboard-shortcut-to-view-resources-inspect-element


Where does Photos.app store its library and files?

After looking for it, I found it. Quite obvious actually, it is next to the former iPhoto Library.

~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary

Researching a little more, because both libraries report the same size, the import from iPhoto to Photos changed all original files to hardlinks.
So either library contains a pointer to one file on disk, thus saving disk space.

For a full backup, I think it is sufficient to backup ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary.


As you are not on a WiFi network, data will be used to transmit the signal.

  If you have no wifi to connect to, then you will using cellular data which will eat up your data. don't want it to eat data, then get a wifi connection.

(Source)

As you have the move downloaded the data consumption will be reduced but data will still be used.


How to clear "bell" flag (icon, sound) in Terminal tab?

Terminal > Preferences, Profiles > Advanced and disable Audible and Visual bell.


Configuring and running postfix (Mojave 10.14.4)

Try this command:

postconf compatibility_level=2

Followed by a reload:

postfix reload

I don't know why this fixed the problem, but it did. I'd love to understand why this was not default and why it matters.


Airdrop between two MBPs only works in one direction - why?

I found the answer. Something in the side bar preferences was messing with the system. I deleted this file from the 2013 MBP (which could not see the other machine or network drives):

~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist

and rebooted.

Then everything came back online and started working.


Launch quicklook from the command line in full screen mode

This is probably not what you meant, but you could reveal the file in Finder and emulate pressing option-space:

open -R .; osascript -e 'tell app "System Events" to keystroke space using option down' -e 'tell app "Finder" to close window 1'


Running a gpg shell script to decrypt a file via Automator

The Automator “Run Shell Script” action runs the script in a non-interactive shell (for an explanation of the difference between interactive and non-interactive shells, see the pertinent section of the Advanced Bash Scripting Guide) – there is, simply spoken, no terminal to get user input from. I suppose the gpg utility recognizes this and skips the password prompt (else your script would hang).

You should be able to pipe your passphrase to GPG inside such an action using the --passphrase-fd 0 option (see gpg’s man page) , however, i.e.

echo "passphrase" |  gpg  --passphrase-fd 0 --output $outfile --decrypt /path/to/file.gpg

You can securely store your passphrase in the OS X Keychain and retrieve it from there. Although possible via a shell script (the TextMate blog has details on how to achieve that – be sure to read the comments), there are so many gotchas to that I’d recommend  using a bit of AppleScript and Daniel Jalkut’s excellent Usable Keychain Scripting app. Once installed, the following bit of AppleScript will retrieve your password (assuming the account name is “GPG”):

tell application "Usable Keychain Scripting" to get password of first generic item of current keychain whose account is "GPG"

Either wrap it in an osascript shell command, i.e.

passphrase=$(osascript -e '<command above>')

or, as you are using Automator, add an AppleScript action, retrieve the passphrase inside it and pass it to the shell script.


Disable Autocorrect with External Keyboard on iOS

Now in iOS 10 (or perhaps iOS 9) you can set this specifically for your Hardware Keyboard. This setting is ONLY available if you have the keyboard plugged in! Anyway, it's under Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Hardware Keyboards


|OSX 10.10.5] Script execution stops when screen locked?

EDIT: With macOS High Sierra (as of beta 5) you can achieve the same "lock screen" behaviour mentioned by @Phong simply through the  status bar menu:

What I think is happening is that your computer goes to sleep after a certain amount of time after you switched to the login window which causes your script to stop.

To prevent your system from sleeping while your script is running you can run caffeinate -s in Terminal (note: only works on MacBooks if AC power is connected) or include it in your script. To stop the command hit CTRL+C.

The way I go about securing my account while I'm still logged in is to enable the "require password" option in system preferences:

Then, as soon as the display (not the system) goes to sleep (also configurable in preferences) you have to enter a password in order to access the account.

You can also manually trigger display sleep by hitting CTRL+SHIFT+EJECT (if your keyboard has an eject button) or by running pmset displaysleepnow.


Finder and About this mac shows different free space sizes?

TL;DR: Trust the Finder

Sometimes, about this Mac gives false info about how much space is taken up on your Mac. You can fix this by telling spotlight to reindex your hard drive. Go into system preferences, go to spotlight and under privacy, tell spotlight to not search Macintosh HD. Remove Macintosh HD from the list of exceptions, and spotlight will start reindexing your hard drive


iMac's Built-in microphone doesn't work on Windows 7

I assume your microphone works fine under OSX?

Did you download and install the bootcamp drivers for Windows 7?

Windows needs the driver installed to "see" the microphone and access it.

Can you see the microphone in the device manager?

Did you check the input levels for the microphone in Windows audio setup control panel? The gain may need to be adjusted.


How to fix "com.apple.dock.extra: ... Could not connect the action buttonPressed: to target of class NSApplication" in system.log

You have a similar request to this question:

How to fix message spam from usbmuxd in console (_SendDetachNotification/_SendAttachNotification)

The answer I put there should work if this hasn't fixed itself via time or an upgrade to a newer OS. Just send the com.apple.dock.extra messages to /dev/null by editing /etc/syslog.conf


Administrator priviliges request dialog does not accept my password

You need to open the Users & Groups section of the system preferences and check what users are available. Is there one with admin privileges? Use that for the installation dialog. The inconvenience will be that in those dialogs you will need to enter the admin user name in addition to the password.

If there is no admin user, you could try to enable a root account. However, this needs admin privileges to be set up. Check if the padlock icon in the lower left corner of the Users & Groups section is closed (needs password, click on icon to open the password dialog), or open (you are free to add accounts). If the padlock icon is closed and you do not have any working admin user - password combination, I recommend to re-install OS 10.9 and to add the admin user at the appropriate prompt in the installation process. I hope this won't be needed - this should really be your last resort.

For Apple's explanation of the root account setup, see this article.


iPhone7 (ios 11.1.2) failed to connect to Macbook pro (10.13.6) with error msg "Installation Failed"

By following one suggestion from the discussion:

  I had the same problem when connecting iPad Pro (iOS 12.01) to a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.13.6). Changing the lightning cable did not help. Then I connected the lightning cable to the USB port on the HDMI port side of the notebook and everything worked just fine. I suspect that there is a problem with the USB port on the left hand side of the machine

So everything works after I use the right hand side USB port instead of the left hand side. I have no ideas why. My left hand side USB port is working fine with my USB external drive and all other USB devices I ever used with this macbook.

This is just weird to me.


How to configure a static IP for a specific access point on OS X?

I have found it myself. It's already built in in OS X. In System Preferences, goto Network and at the top of the window, you can see a combobox which says: Location. You have to click it and select Edit Locations.

At this picture I have already created my Home Network.

Create and configure the Home network. And click Apply afterwards. Close the window.

From now on you can choose which configuration (or Location) you want to use by opening the Apple-menu () in the Menu Bar. And choose from the Location submenu.


Update 'Find my iPhone' location with new wireless network setup

Apple has disclosed that when you opt in to share anonymous diagnostic information it will occasionally update their database with data seen on your iOS device. Simply connect each device to iTunes and use the "reset all warnings" command so you will have a chance to re-opt in or out to sending diagnostic location and crash reports to Apple. There is currently no public facing way to seed their master database.


Spotlight constantly indexes MacBook Air (Lion). Takes up 50+% of cpu

Try to erase the Spotlight index by either running sudo mdutil -Ea or by temporarily adding your startup disk to the privacy tab in the Spotlight preference pane.

If that doesn't work, try to run:

sudo lsof|grep mdworker

or

sudo mdutil -Ea;opensnoop -n mdworker

to see if the indexing hangs on some specific files.


Yes there is.
If you press the OPTION button while composing the query in the finder window, the "+" button changes into a "..." button, that exposes the interface that allows for testing "All | Any | None" of the subsequent conditions.


How to use a pipe in a script optionally

Just use cat as a no-op if xcpretty is not installed:

XCPRETTY="xcpretty"
which xcpretty || XCPRETTY="cat"
xcodebuild archive ....... | eval $XCPRETTY || exit 1


How can I get Armenian language support in iOS?

iOS does have an Armenian font and can therefore display Unicode Armenian in emails, webpages, and text.  For input there are at least two apps that let you construct custom keyboards, and one of them, UniKey, comes with Armenian already:

http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/05/custom-keyboards-for-ios-devices.html

Beyond that or jailbreaking, I think all you can do is ask Apple to add it via their feedback channel.

PS To see Armenian display on your iOS device you can go to

http://www.gov.am/am


The magnet can save your computer.

Let's suppose it's on a table connected to AC. If someone pull the cable with his foot by just walking by, the MacBook won't fall on the floor, the magsafe will just pop.


Unable to login to El Capitan Macbook Pro after booting, works after waking from sleep

This link https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT202842

Talks about how to force people to enter their passwords twice in order to login. It doesn't say so, but I read into this that it's possible to have a different password for unlocking the machine and for logging on.

I also remember once having a problem where the machine was asking for both passwords even though I had autologin enabled and the passwords where the same. I think I had to reset the PRAM or something like that. Sorry, was a while ago and haven't had the problem since.

Some other links that may give you clues:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6626285?tstart=0
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204837


how to move "wkhtmltopdf" in the right place with terminal commands

There are 2 answers ☺:

Don't do it!

The wkhtmltopdf wasn't installed in /usr/bin. It shouldn't.
This directory is reserved to standard user Unix commands.

Check carefully where brew installed the last rc version.

The following command will tell you the truth:

type wkhtmltopdf

Most probably this installation directory is:

/local/bin
/usr/local/bin
/opt/bin
...

How to do it

Once you have located where brew installed your not working rc,
let's say it's /local_installdir.
Once you have built the previous version in a directory,
let's say it's /local_builddir
here is how to use mv to place this previous version in place:

cd /local_builddir
mv wkhtmltopdf /local_installdir

If you get a permission denied error message on this operation,
then you will have to prefix this same command with the usual
sudo:

/usr/bin/sudo mv wkhtmltopdf /local_installdir


How can I get all my open TextEdit documents back?

I searched in Spotlight as well, using the term “Untitled” and reopened all the Rich Text Format documents from iCloud. Yes, it was unnerving that these are all in the cloud but I am grateful that I was able to recover them all. And now I have the task of saving 120 untitled docs!


Always show function keys on control strip when using terminal

The reason for this is that Apple doesn't seem to treat its Terminal app in the same way as other apps in terms of permanently setting Functions keys in the Touch Bar. Instead, you need to follow these steps:

Launch the Terminal app
Go to View > Customize Touch Bar
Drag the Function keys onto the Touch Bar
Click Done

Another option is to use another app as your terminal (such as iTerm2) and follow the usual steps for permanently setting the Function keys on the Touch Bar.

Based on your screenshots, it seems you know the steps for doing this, but just to be sure and for the benefit of others:

Go to Apple > System Preferences
Select the Keyboard preference pane
Click on the Shortcuts tab
In the left sidebar, select the Function Keys option
On the right-hand side click on the plus + button
Search for the app you want to use (e.g. iTerm2)
Add the app

Now, whenever you are using the app, the Touch Bar should display all the function keys.


After restoring from Time Capsule, a "Reset Password" button appears on the login screen

You should push the button and set the password to whatever you like.

Since the machine was "factory reset" (as per yours) and then you dropped the TM backup on top of the reset, she/he/it now has non-matching credentials and is asking you to set things right.

Do all this under the usual precautions: own risk, make sure your backup is good and usable in case you have to repeat the process, etc.


MBP will reboot after unlocking filevault partition

As a follow-up: I ended up completely reformatting the harddrive without encrypting. Then I could restore the data from the time-machine backup.


Time Machine with only one internal disk

You can partition the disk and run the OS on one partition and Time machine on the other.

Disk Utility can repartition without losing data. but as usual take a backup first.


Console reporting "Deprecated" in 10.8.x

It is not a problem for you. The code is working correctly.

"Deprecate" is what is used in development to tell the developer who uses a library that the next version of a library will not include the method that they are using. This allows the library writers to remove code and let developers using the code prepare to change how they called the library in the next version.


Why my iPhone switches from wi-fi to 3g each time screen blocks and does it take any data during? (or how to check it)

That is a feature to preserve battery life. If your iPhone is jailbroken, you can install Insomnia from Cydia to keep WiFi active while the screen locks.

If you want to check your data usage, you can go to Settings >> General >> Usage. There, you can check under "Cellular Network Data" for how much data you have used. You can reset that, then lock your screen for some time, come back and check what has changed.

Hope this helps!


Can I assemble an Apple labeled hard drive in another laptop?

Those hard drives are OEM-drives build by Seagate, Toshiba or other hard drive manufacturers for Apple.

Usually there should be no problem to put them in other non-Apple laptops if they fit physically.

You won't be able to mount the HFS-volumes on those drives without special file-system drivers like Paragon's HFS+ for Windows in a dual-bay configuration.

There might be rare cases however, where drives with Apple firmware in conjunction with special SATA- or IDE-controllers used in non-Apple laptops might not work reliably. Without knowledge and special hardware it's almost impossible to detect occurring errors (e.g. bit-errors).


Repairing Time Machine volume taking forever

The structure of a Time Machine disk is very complex.

Hundreds Gigabytes with hard links everywhere need a long time to check.

18 hours is not surprising.


What do the Photo Stream settings in Aperture do?

Automatic Import: Imports any pictures received via Photo Stream into the main Aperture library. A copy will be created for this which remains even after the 1000th picture has been added to the stream and which can be edited
For this to work Aperture has to be open/running. If the 1000 picture threshold is reached while Aperture is not running, pictures will get lost irregardless of the setting of this option.

Automatic Upload: Push any picture created in Aperture into the Photo Stream and on to all other connected devices


Updated Apple Mail, now hung and cannot send or receive emails

You can go directly to the folder where Mail saves its data through the Finder and duplicate it to store a copy elsewhere.
Inside the Finder, menu Go > Go to Folder and then paste this path:

~/Library/Mail/V5

It is that V5 folder you'd want to back up before reseting Mail.
There is also some software solutions like mailbackupx but I never used it so I can't say what it's worth.


iPhone Music Playing App That Uses Album Artist?

Since there are no answers to this question yet, and all the discussion took place in comments, let's write a summary. And please, up vote the relevant author in their comments on the question itself. Please please please.

Per @ghoppe;

When using the iPod app in list view (list view = the view with selections for your chosen category), the "More …" category on the very bottom right hand side has a few additional options, name there is "Compilations" view.

This view is identical to Album view, except it only shows albums that have two or more unique artists in it.

If this is a view you use often, you could put it on the category bar so it's quick/easy to get to. Perhaps a customization like: "Artist - Compilations - Songs - Videos - More …"

This of course does nothing to prevent seeing compilations when in an Artist entry.

(More is required and cannot be replaced nor moved.)

My suggestion was to default your browsing habits to using Album view instead. Instead of picking a song by an artist, you will always see a track-ordered list of songs after picking an album.

There's also the search box you can use to type in an artist/album, and pick the relevant view you want from it (scroll to the top of any view, or if you're already at the top swipe down once more to pull the top down, and the search box will be revealed).


It would seem that the drive is no longer "blessed".

First, try booting the Mac while holding down the option key and if the drive is in the list of boot devices then selecting it once will "bless" the drive and you should be able to boot off it once again.

If that doesn't work then boot off the bootable hard drive you mentioned and run Disk Utility which can be found in /Applications/Utilities and you should be able to see the drive in the drive list. Once there you can try to first verify then repair the disk.


Formatted a Bootcamped drive as a dynamic disk, now can't boot to either Mac or Windows

Here's some advice offered to others in situations I believe are markedly similar to yours:

"Saving my Data. Convert Dynamic Disk to Basic NTFS" [Contains a link to an open source software repair utility] http://www.allroundgeek.com/2011/05/saving-my-data-convert-dynamic-disk-to.html

"Convert Dynamic disk back to basic" [Contains links to commercial software repair utilities]
http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/running-windows-anything-else-your-mac/208489-convert-dynamic-disk-back-basic.html

"How to recover Bootcamp NTFS Partition" [A multi-page walkthrough of tailormade hex-editing, command-line and open source remedies offered by a knowledgeable (and patient) individual to an ongoing parade of Bootcamp users who unintentionally created dynamic (a/k/a Windows LDM) NTFS drives which will not boot into either Windows or OS X.]
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1405449


OSX Messages shows contact accounts as invalid

It's only a guess, but your scenario matches an issue I had with my iDevices and Message on the Mac too. See also the discussion here.

What resolved the issue was activating the iMessage Setting on my iPhone via Settings > Messages.

Strangely this does effect the Messages send/receive on the Mac as well!

Can you verify this?


It's supposed to use the phone's processor to do the voice recognition instead of sending the recording to the cloud to recognize as the Siri app does. This (apparently) requires the A5 processor.

It probably doesn't hurt, though, that it'll push 4S units.


How to disable horizontal scrolling on OS X Yosemite's Preview?

I used to have the same problem and I solved it by cloning and building a fork of the Scroll-Reverser tool, whose repository is below.

https://github.com/dawncold/Scroll-Reverser

As you can see in this commit the author made a little patch in the tool in a way such that if you check the reverse horizontal scrolling option, it actually disables it instead of reversing it.

This is also explicitly stated by the author of the patch here.

You will need XCode to build the project and to generate the corresponding app.

Just as general information (the original author deserves it), the original Scroll-Reverser tool, which was doing just reversing instead of disabling, can be found here


Following third party app that can do that.

  No need to copy your text messages manually, Mobile Transfer enables
  you to move data between different platforms with just a few clicks.
  The contents include the date when you received and sent them, and, of
  course, the messages themselves.

Read more here:

http://www.android-recovery.net/transfer-android-sms-to-iphone.html

http://www.transphone.net/phone-transfer/transfer-sms-from-android-to-iphone.html

Mobile Transfer

  Mobile Transfer is a professional transfer tool designed to transfer
  contacts, text messages, call logs, photos, audio, videos calendar and
  apps between iPhone, Android, Nokia (Symbian) and BlackBerry in just
  one click!

http://www.android-recovery.net/downloads/mac-mobile-transfer.dmg


How to not compress inserted pictures in Powerpoint 2011 for Mac?

In Word and PowerPoint for Mac 2011, you can change the compression behaviour for a placed bitmap image via the Format Picture ribbon. Double-click the image to bring that ribbon to the front, then click the Compress button and choose the option Keep Current Resolution. Or, choose File > Reduce Size to bring up the dialog box. This needs to be done before the presentation is saved with the newly placed image.

It's different for vector graphics from PDF files, which PowerPoint will simply convert into bitmap graphics and compress as soon as the presentation is saved with the newly placed PDF file. This can be avoided in MS Office by using vector graphics in the .EPS file format or in Microsoft's own .EMF format, which can be exported from most vector graphics editors, e.g., Inkscape, OpenOffice Draw, Adobe Illustrator, etc. (Beware: PDFs exported from bitmap editors like GIMP, Photoshop, or Pixelmator are not vector graphics images.)


A few hunches based on non-TM file transfer errors I've seen on macOS:

I would use Disk Utility to scan the drive and repair errors. https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22243?locale=en_US (Usually I tell people to back up any critical data first, but I assume you have a semi recent backup :))
Is the problematic folder a symlink to an external drive by chance? (Rare but something I've seen.)
How is the external attached? Check/swap cables & ports if you have spares available.


What's the port left to the audio output?

That's the audio in port.

Audio in/optical audio in port
The Audio In port accommodates both digital optical input and analog audio input.
Analog audio line input is accepted through a 3.5mm mini phone jack. The sound input port accepts line-level stereo signals up to 24-bit stereo 44.1-192kHz sampling rate. It also accepts a stereo miniplug-to-RCA cable adapter for connecting stereo equipment to the computer.
Optical audio input is SPDIF format and uses a standard TOSLINK cable with a TOSLINK mini-plug adapter, accepting up to 24-bit stereo and 44.1-96kHz sampling rate.

Source: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT202638


The PS1 variable is use to define the prompt. Below would set your current prompt.

export PS1="\u at \h in \w "

Set the variable as shown below to get the desired prompt.

export PS1="Max at MDFK in \w "

Normally, the PS1 variable is set in the ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, or ~/.profile file. Below is an except from the command man bash which gives more information.

   When  bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-inter-
   active shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes  com-
   mands  from  the file /etc/profile, if that file exists.  After reading
   that file, it looks for ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile,
   in  that order, and reads and executes commands from the first one that
   exists and is readable.  The --noprofile option may be  used  when  the
   shell is started to inhibit this behavior.

Appendix

Below are excepts from the command man bash.

PS1    The  value  of  this parameter is expanded (see PROMPTING below)
       and used as the primary prompt string.   The  default  value  is
       "\s-\v\$ ".

and

PROMPTING
       When executing interactively, bash displays the primary prompt PS1 when
       it is ready to read a command, and the secondary  prompt  PS2  when  it
       needs  more  input  to  complete  a  command.  Bash allows these prompt
       strings to be customized by inserting  a  number  of  backslash-escaped
       special characters that are decoded as follows:
              \a     an ASCII bell character (07)
              \d     the  date  in "Weekday Month Date" format (e.g., "Tue May
                     26")
              \D{format}
                     the format is passed to strftime(3)  and  the  result  is
                     inserted  into the prompt string; an empty format results
                     in a locale-specific time representation.  The braces are
                     required
              \e     an ASCII escape character (033)
              \h     the hostname up to the first `.'
              \H     the hostname
              \j     the number of jobs currently managed by the shell
              \l     the basename of the shell's terminal device name
              \n     newline
              \r     carriage return
              \s     the  name  of  the shell, the basename of $0 (the portion
                     following the final slash)
              \t     the current time in 24-hour HH:MM:SS format
              \T     the current time in 12-hour HH:MM:SS format
              \@     the current time in 12-hour am/pm format
              \A     the current time in 24-hour HH:MM format
              \u     the username of the current user
              \v     the version of bash (e.g., 2.00)
              \V     the release of bash, version + patch level (e.g., 2.00.0)
              \w     the  current  working  directory,  with $HOME abbreviated
                     with a tilde
              \W     the basename of the current working directory, with $HOME
                     abbreviated with a tilde
              \!     the history number of this command
              \#     the command number of this command
              \$     if the effective UID is 0, a #, otherwise a $
              \nnn   the character corresponding to the octal number nnn
              \\     a backslash
              \[     begin  a sequence of non-printing characters, which could
                     be used to embed a terminal  control  sequence  into  the
                     prompt
              \]     end a sequence of non-printing characters

       The  command  number  and the history number are usually different: the
       history number of a command is its position in the history list,  which
       may  include  commands  restored  from  the  history  file (see HISTORY
       below), while the command number is the position  in  the  sequence  of
       commands  executed  during the current shell session.  After the string
       is decoded, it is expanded via parameter expansion,  command  substitu-
       tion,  arithmetic expansion, and quote removal, subject to the value of
       the promptvars shell option (see the description of the  shopt  command
       under SHELL BUILTIN COMMANDS below).


If you can, go into Disk Utility (like you are), and use First Aid on the partition in question.  Depending on the size of your drive, it will take a while, but when it should restore write capability to your disk.
Source: I did the same thing when my MyBook 2TB was randomly showing up as read-only.


You can't put a folder in the left side of your Dock where the programs are, but you can drag a folder to the right side of your Dock. In Leopard (10.5) or later, by default, the folder will appear as a stack, but starting in 10.5.2, you have options for how the folder or stack appears. In Lion (10.7), for instance, you can select whether you want the folder to appear as a folder, or as a stack.


Email sent from my iCloud email has started going to everyone’s Junk

There's nothing you can do, except use a different email address.

What happened, most likely, is that some nitwit spammed from his/her me.com address (or spoofed it), and one of the commonly used spam blacklists added the entire domain. The other people will need to catch this and add your email to their personal whitelist, the details of which will depend entirely on their email provider and/or email software (depending on which one's actually doing the filtering).


How to prevent machine from renaming itself at start up

Recommend you try following in Terminal to make your windowlick static

sudo scutil –-set HostName new_hostname

sudo scutil –-set LocalHostName new_hostname

sudo scutil –-set ComputerName new_hostname


Messages app showing unread number after deleted message. Can remove/reset?

Two options:

Close Messages.app, then in the Terminal killall Dock. This worked for me.
Identify the message that Messages believes is unread (hover over icon in Dock) and delete it on your iDevice(s).

From here: http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/unread-messages-badge-on-mbp-is-stuck.1806575/

Also, this seems to be a duplicate of Why does Messages on OSX always show unread messages?


Can't send using Mail. I get "The SMTP connection to server "smtp.gmail.com" failed."

The most common issues with SMTP can come from

Anti-virus software
Firewalls
ISP Restrictions or Blocks

Since your problem is sporadic, I would guess it isthe Virus app if you have any installed.

There is a test you can do in Terminal with "Telnet"

Basic connectivity test is done with depending on what port you're using to send, type 'telnet smtp.gmail.com 25' or 'telnet smtp.gmail.com 587' in the Terminal prompt window and press Enter

source: http://www.socketlabs.com/blog/diagnosing-smtp-service-connection-issues/


Music videos are located in the Music app.  See this article describing the new Music app.

  The “Browse” tab is also entirely new, replacing the “New” tab. Along the top are side-scrolling headers much like we’ve seen in the past, but otherwise the interface is very simplistic. There are quick links to “New Music,” “Curated Playlists,” “Top Charts,” and “Genres.” The “New Music” interface shows “Hot Tracks,” new albums, new music playlist, new artists, music videos, and “Featured Curators.”


Does Apple accept apps which has a simple HTTPServer or FTPServer for transferring files via wi-fi?

Yes, I do believe you can include some or all of that functionality. Look at GoodReader's features, for example. It does wifi transfers, and it will connect to network shares. Some supported protocols include FTP, SFTP, SMB, AFP, etc. IIRC, I used a copy of it on my iPhone and a copy on my iPad to transfer files.

Good luck!


Apps stuck waiting for an update, won't delete

I had a discussion with Apple about that exact same issue. I have an iPad 4th gen and when I updated to iOS 10, apps just wouldn't update or delete. They told me to

Try restarting my iPad
Signing out of my Apple ID and signing back in

But since you already tried that, and it didn't work. You will have to do a factory reset. I recently did a factory reset, and I am very impressed with how much data was still saved from my device even when I didn't back it up. I'm sorry, but that seems to be the only hope.


Terminal Disk Free `df` returns Huge `ifree` free inodes

My best guess is that these are filesystems that do not have inodes (the vast majority of modern filesystems don't, actually pretty much only old Unix filesystems do), and so the filesystem driver just synthesizes an arbitrary number because the 50 year old API says the driver must provide a number of free inodes even though modern filesystems haven't had them in a decade.
In particular, I am assuming that your / filesystem is APFS, which is indeed neither a traditional Unix filesystem (it was designed specifically for macOS) nor an old filesystem (it was announced in 2016). APFS is fully 64 bit, and as far as I know, it doesn't use a traditional inode-based scheme. Actually, the entire design of APFS and the way it intersects multiple layers of the traditional Unix filesystem, VFS, and block device stack, is very much non-traditional, and much more reminiscent of ZFS and the Be filesystem (which is no surprise since the designer of BeFS works at Apple now).
Note that the number you showed is very close to the maximum 64 bit signed integer (9223372036854775807), or in other words, it is close to the maximum of size_t in a 64 bit version of Darwin. In fact, the sum of used and free inodes is exactly 9223372036854775807. So, what is happening here, is that the filesystem driver simply synthesizes 263-1 (size_tmax) inodes for use.
Presumably, when you say that "it has been going on for a few years", you are talking about the move from 32 bit to 64 bit Darwin, and before that, the numbers were closer to 2147483647, which is of course the maximum for size_t in 32 bit Darwin.
For fun, you might download the open source Darwin source code from Apple and compile a 32 bit version of df, and I bet you, the numbers you will see are 2253035 and 2145230612 (2147483647 - 2253035).


How to stop itunes from asking permission to allow computer to access info on my iPhone everytime i connect my phone?

I don't know of any way to disable it asking each time you connect it, but if you don't want to sync or transfer files, why connect it to the MacBook? If you're just doing it to charge, then perhaps connect it to an electrical outlet with the USB adapter it came with. While at my desk I connect my iPhone to a charging USB hub.


Uff, there are a “lot” of photo + fun applications in the App Store. Here’s a few I’ve tried:

Face Substitution
Swap Faces: Very funny (has a Lite version)
Face It: Allows you to add overlays of things (glasses, mustaches, etc)
Face Melter: allows you to deform a face (it makes you laugh a lot to be honest)

I have performed a “Face” search in the AppStore for iPhone apps and there are quite a lot, I suggest you take a look at those.


Making the macOS Special Character Popup Menu Appear Everywhere

I don't recall coming across a way to customise this on an application by application basis, but something that may work as a bit of a workaround is using the Character Viewer in the menu bar.

More specifically:

Go to Apple > System Preferences
Select the Keyboard preference pane
Ensure you have the Keyboard tab chosen
Select the third checkbox to show the keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar
Now your menu bar will have an icon looking like this:

Now, regardless of the application you're in, you can select the Show Emoji and Symbols option from the menu bar
Now the characters you're looking for are listed under the Latin category on the left.
Now you can just double-click on a character to insert it into Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop.

TIP: - Once you start using this, your frequently used items will appear within the Frequently Used category. You can also select particular characters and click on the Add to Favorites button so they're easier to find/use.


If your data is in any way important, you should consider  taking proper backups on a reasonable schedule.  If you are not familiar with the tools available, then the key is to use something simple that you can understand.  For most people, this is indeed Time Machine.  It will backup your whole computer, including your personal documents.  Recovery is simple, particularly if you know where the file was located before you deleted it, but is simple enough to search for also so long as you can remember roughly what it was called.

The requirements to use Time Machine are

1) A spare hard disk partition, you can partition your own internal drive into 2 but this will obviously reduce your working space and will not protect you from a full disk failure.  The better option is to get yourself an external USB disk drive.  The drive needs to be at least equal to the size of the disk you want to backup, but for preference should be 2x bigger to allow for revisions and history etc

2) Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) onwards.

To set up TM, just plug your disk in, and the system will simply ask if you want to use it for backups.  Once you say yes, it will backup changes hourly so long as it is connected.  If you disconnect for any reason (you have a laptop and travel with it leaving your backup at home) the changes will just stack up and then be pushed onto your backup disk when it is next plugged in.  If you forget to plug it in for any length of time, it will eventually start to remind you that it has been X days since the last backup.

Once you have a backup completed, you can recover files individually, or whole folders, or the entire system onto a fresh disk/computer.

EDIT: I see Disk Warrior recommended a lot, but to me it seems like it's a tool for people who are desperate having already lost data.  It will potentially help you recover a "lost" file (but this is never guaranteed).  It's a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted.  If you had a backup, you would not need to use this sort of software, but that requires you to be pro-active.  Also, it costs $99, and you could buy a backup drive of 1Tb or more with that kind of cash, and be better protected in the future.  You just had a near miss, so luckily you appear to have got away with it this time, but better to be proactive and backup, then reactive and try to "undelete" etc.


Update (March 31, 2016): Apple has released iOS 9.3.1 (13E238***) to fix more issues. If you update to that, this issue will be resolved.

Original Answer

There were some issues in the original release of iOS 9.3 (13E233*) for older devices. A newer build (13E237**) was released on March 28, 2016.

You can check your installed build in Settings > General > About > Version. If your installed build is 13E233*, that may be the reason for your indication. Whether you choose to update is your choice. If you choose to not, then you may have to just deal with the notifications (until the next real update).

Note: Build numbers vary per device.
13E233*: all devices except iPhone 6s/6s Plus and iPad Pro (9.7 inch).
13E234*: iPhone 6s, iPhons 6s Plus, iPad Pro (9.7 inch).
13E236**: iPad 2 (3G, GSM).
13E237**: all iPads except iPad Air 2, iPad Pro (9.7 and 12.9), iPad mini 3 and iPad mini 4. all iPhones except iPhone 6/6 Plus, iPhone 6s/6s Plus, and iPhone SE. iPod touch (5th Generation).
13E238***: all devices currently supported by Apple.


Does VSCode have Full Disk Access via Terminal?

That is a mix of misconceptions.
You do not run Terminal in VSCode. Vscode calls macOS to request macOS to launch Terminal. So VSCode does not have Full Disk Access that way.
VSCode also can run command line tools directly not via Terminal. These tools might need Full Disk Access which I think can is done by giving VSCode Full Disk Access.
VSCode also might need Full Disk Access to access files in various different places on the disk.
Except for a few special cases for an App to get Full Disk Access requires the user to manually give it. This is via System Preferences->Security & Privacy -> Full Disk Access
Note I don't use VSCode at the moment but this is the setup for my programming editors.


Mac Mail App - Lot's of flagged emails: getting rid of it

Stars on Gmail are flags on Mail app. You can go ahead and remove the flags if you wish; the Flagged folder is a smart folder and removing the flags or stars will empty it. Or you can just leave them there, it depends on what you used Stars for.

I wouldn't delete them though; while usually items in folders are just tags in Gmail, I'm not sure if deleting mail in folders will result in just removing the tag and keeping other copies on their folders, or deleting them for good; it will probably depend on your settings.


How can I use command+tab to switch between windows of the same app in addition to all the other apps?

What you are trying to achieve is not provided by OS X and I don't know if a third-party application would be able to interfere this deeply in the window management.

You have two options:

(⇧ +) ⌘+→ to switch between apps
(⇧ +) ⌘+` to switch between windows of one app in one desktop

Option two is configurable in System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard & Text Input → Move focus to next Window.

You can still achieve something similar to what you have in Ubuntu by using Mission Control and not choosing the option Group windows by applications in: System Preferences → Mission Control → Group windows by applications

Then define a gesture to use initiate Mission Control for all individual Windows in:
System Preferences → Trackpad → More Gestures → Mission Control

Note that there is also an option for App Exposé which is like Mission Control for just one application.


How can I use bluetooth to transfer files between my iPhone 6 and my Windows 10 laptop?

iOS 11.x does not support sending files using the Bluetooth OBEX protocol. So unfortunately you can't transfer files using this method.

You may be able to transfer files over Wi-Fi with apps like FileExplorer.


How do I stop my iPhone from asking to upgrade to iOS 10?

I know you won't like this answer, but you can't. Apple wants you to update to the latest version.


Storing data on a external drive used for backup

Time Machine will only have access to its own backups.  So, anything besides Backups.backupdb will not be touched.

Keep in mind though that Time Machine is set to use up the entire drive eventually.  Having it shared with outside data may have adverse effects for either storing more of your data outside Backups.backupdb or for Time Machine (depending on which part fills up the remaining space first).

While it is safe to use a Time Machine-marked drive with other data, it is recommended to leave Time Machine alone on a separate partition and use a different partition for your "outsourced" data.


What is AEServer and why is it requesting macOS Accessibility permissions?

As benwiggy already said, AEServer is a background process that processes incoming AppleEvents from remote Macs.
AppleEvents are the underlying technology used by the Apple Event Manager, which is in turn used by e.g. AppleScript to communicate with applications and processes.
Starting with macOS 10.15 Catalina, remote AppleEvents have additional security requirements: The user account sending the remote events has to be the same as the one receiving them. More details in the release notes.
To turn off this restriction and revert to pre-10.15 behavior, you can use the following Terminal command:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AEServer RestrictAccessToUserSession -bool false


Why isn't my music syncing from itunes to my ipod?

Can you play the songs on iTunes? The exclamation mark means iTunes can't find the file associated with that song. Maybe you moved it or it was deleted, or it lived on another hard drive. The solution is to locate the files for your songs first, and then either re-import them into iTunes or re-link them in iTunes. More information here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1408


connecting with samba: privileges issues windows server

If I understand your question correctly you are able to mount the folder via samba, but you can't read the upper folder within the share.

To access the folder you have access to you can go directly to the folder using the 'Go to Folder' option in Finder: Click 'Go' in the menu bar and choose 'Go to Folder':

Or hit Command + Shift + G.

I assume your samba share is mounted as /Volumes/home/my_folder, so enter this path in the text box that shows up and hit enter. Finder should open a new window showing your folder within the share.

If your share is mounted on a different path you could check the folder /Volumes for its name, using the same method as described above.


You can also do this in Terminal. Go to the directory where you want to create the file, then run the following:

touch file.txt

Or redirect 'nothing' to a text file

> file.txt


I suppose you refer to S/MIME encryption and signatures.

When you receive a signed email (you see the seal symbol below the header of the email), you should be able to simply reply to the email. On the right of the reply email, there should be a lock symbol now that should be in locked state. You can toggle the state by clicking on it.

If Mail does not allow you to toggle the symbol to the locked state, return to the received email and click on the seal symbol. The associated certificate should be displayed now with an option to import it into your keychain if hasn't already been imported. After that, try above steps once again. It may be necessary to restart Mail.


Is a refurbished Macbook Pro's battery new?

I called Apple's Sale Support, and I asked them what their policy was for batteries in a refurbished Macbook. Their answer is that the battery will be replaced if it has a defect, but if nothing is wrong with it, then the laptop will include the original battery which may or may not have many used cycles.


What data can only be migrated to a new iOS device using backup and restore?

Apple Watch Data

As this support article indicates, the only way to pair an Apple Watch with a new phone and maintain continuity of your data is to restore the new phone from a backup.


Why am I asked for my Keychain password when the keychain is already unlocked?

This happened to me after changing my login password. I fixed it thanks to article on Apple support: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6724601

Simply I had to change password for my "login" keychain.

But I was asked to input password to open "Local items" keychain. I solved that issue exactly according this post: http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203897
You need to open folder ~/Library/Keychains/, find and delete folder with name similar to "A8F5E7B8-CEC1-4479-A7DF-F23CB076C8B8" and restart your Mac immediately.

I had to fixed both "login" and "Local items" prompt to solve it. Only changing password for "login" keychain seemed not to work although it should according Apple support. But I haven't test it heavily.

Hope it helps.


I have realised that wiping the iPhone does not downgrade it, so it was as simple as setting it up as a new iPhone, updating it, wiping it, and then restoring.

This can all be done without a computer (as per my question), unlike the other answers.


In order to reset your Mac to your shipped OS you just need to boot it from Recovery Mode, but install from the Internet. It's probably installing Yosemite because you might be restoring from a backup or your possibly doing a Recovery from the drive (which in this case would be the current OS recovery: i.e., Yosemite)

Here is the difference between the two:

If you use the Recovery System stored on your startup drive to reinstall OS X, it installs the most recent version of OS X previously installed on this computer.
If you use Internet Recovery to reinstall OS X, it installs the version of OS X that originally came with your computer. After installation is finished, use the Mac App Store to install related updates or later versions of OS X that you have previously purchased.

See the how-to-guide and additional information reguarding Recovery HERE

NOTE it states in the docs that it automatically detects when the Recovery System on the startup drive isn't available, however you can manually elect this in the Recovery menu


Note: This answer assumes you're using either the day- or the week-display.

On OS X 10.7 and up, the calendar indicates that there are events that aren't displayed on the screen with a tiny "flob" better explained by this screenshot:

You can see that on both the 18th and the 19th there are some events not being shown. These will stay on the screen until you scroll far enough up (or down) to see them.

That said, you can't really "disable" the time interval of 10pm->8am, but you can make space for more events on one screen. To do this, open the Settings (Cmd+,), and select the desired amount of hours to fit into one calendar window. 8am to 10pm is 14 hours, so pick 14.


Macbook Pro fan running full speed, activity monitor shows no computationally intensive applications

Like Allan said in the comments, try resetting the SMC, or if you want to manually bring down your fan speed manually, try using Macs Fan Control (this app can and will come in handy later in your life).


Creating a desktop shortcut to a file in the iCloud

Apple's vision for iCloud seems to include isolating users from the confusion of the file system. iCloud files are accessed from within the application that created them–which is advantageous in some situations and a problem in others.

To use iCloud to share documents between iOS and MacOS you'll need to install iA Writer on both platforms. (Byword fans can now do the same).

If you want to use a different text editor, or editors, on your Mac, implement my (previous?–my test of the  Byword iCloud setup is working well so far) workflow that included a storage system using DropBox.

I can't recommend this path because I haven't fully explored it, and it isn't officially supported by Apple, but if you're determined to create file aliases on the desktop, you might find a solution by exploring the folder ~/Library/Mobile Documents

↬Kirk McElhearn: Make your own personal dropbox with iCloud

Note that on the Mac I'm writing this from, the folder for my Byword documents did not exist within the Mobile Documents folder until I used the Open from iCloud… menu item. (I didn't have to load a file, just access the menu and allow the file requestor box a minute to populate.) Once the Byword folder existed, I was able to create an alias on the desktop that opens the file. I can also use the alias to Open with… TextMate but have not tested editing/saving the file using an alternative application Proceed with caution.


Unread marks not updating reliably in Mac Mail with Exchange server after upgrade to Yosemite

Same issue, and on two different machines. One is a MBP (mid 2010) the other is an iMac (early 2013). I am getting mail from an Exchange server. I find that closing and reopening mail will temporarily solve the problem. I also find that switching mailboxes and switching back works.


Since online shopping is out of question the local Apple Store might help you with the parts,

the instructions you can find at iFixit

or youtube


How to move file from one users account to another? Permission denied.

Its a permissions issue. To resolve simply, first copy the file to /Users/Shared/, then copy again from there, then try to troubleshoot your permissions issues afterwards. You are logged in as administrator, yet you still are lacking the authority to escalate to root or change permissions, and that is odd. Even as admin, you would still need root access to move a file belonging to one user to another users' account. In Terminal, try sudo bash and enter your password when prompted. To use mv command, the syntax is mv /path/to/origin/file /path/to/destination/directory/

Also, changing permissions with chmod doesn't change ownership. You use chown for that.


What should I do when "An error has occurred" when downloading Lion?

I have sorted the issue. I just had to use a different router. The BT Business hub that I previously been using had a problem on it which prevented anything above 2GB do loose connection. This would explain other problems as well.


Actually that is pretty easy and a common question out there on the internet. OSXDaily says this is the best way to copy a keychain to a new Mac.

  From the Mac OS X Finder of the Mac containing the original keychain file, hit Command+Shift+G to bring up Go To Folder and enter the following path:

~/Library/Keychains/

  Copy the user “login.keychain” file to the new Mac, do this with AirDrop, Ethernet, USB, etc
  On the new Mac, hit Command+Spacebar to open Spotlight and type “Keychain Access” then hit return, this launches the Keychain manager app
  Pull down the “File” menu and select “Add Keychain” and browse to the keychain file you copied to the new Mac, selecting Add to import the stored keychain data to the new Mac.

Sounds about right to me.


Delete an app completely (special case) and question regarding empty trash

All the apps installed from the App Store are stored in the /Applications folder.
Go to the Applications folder (Finder menu -> Go -> Applications or check the Finder window sidebar for this folder), check if the app you want to delete is present there. If it isn't, then it's gone. Else, move it to Trash and then empty it.

If it doesn't help, please clarify how are you determining that 20GB is still occupied by the app.


How can I temporarily turn off the Apple watch display?

I think Apple's new Theater mode is what you are looking for. It's now available as of WatchOS 3.2.


How to determine the cause of MacBook battery not charging?

What steps should I take next?

There's only one step to take next:  replace the battery.

  Disconnecting the MagSafe causes the machine to switch off. Sounds
  like it's a dead battery, except that Coconut reports the battery as
  detected, in good condition, but not charging.

It's a dead battery.  Coconut battery can only give you a calculation based on the voltage it's measuring at the time you run it.  It cannot tell you how much charge is actually left in the battery.  There's no "electronic dipstick" to measure the capacity.

Fully charged MacBook Air turns off when power cord removed
Why does a 12 inch Macbook refuse to turn on with a lot of battery remaining unless it is plugged in?

Coconut battery (not a fan and I don't use it) doesn't provide you anything but "a moment in time snapshot" of your battery health.  Thing is, you can get this info right from the command line:

system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep -i "charge information" -A 10

The problem is, it can't "see" dead cells.

Algorithm to check batteries

Reset SMC
Verify that your charger is being detected (green/amber light)
If charger not detected, verify charger/dc in board.  Do this by

checking for "gunk" then plugging in a known working charger.
If it works - it's your charger
If it doesn't work, it's your system (chances are, DC-In board)


Yosemite not displaying external HDMI monitor at full resolution

1080p = 1920x1080 so you are already getting the highest resolution available on your monitor.

Are you missing the menu bar at the top of the screen and the dock at the bottom? If so, moving the underscan slider beneath the resolution section in the Displays preference pane should resolve your problem.

If you are still having trouble, try a PRAM reset (instructions below). Display resolution settings are stored there.

1.Turn off your computer.

2. Locate Command+Option+P+R keys and be ready to press them simultaneously.

3. Press the power button then immediately press and hold the keys until you hear the startup chime a second time.


Control volume with right mouse button + mouse wheel

I haven't heard of a new tool for some time, but SteerMouse might be worth a look, but it depends on your current OS version. I'd verify it would work with you machine before you download/purchase.


How can I use Apple News without changing my region on macOS Mojave?

To access Apple News on Mac, simply enter this in Terminal. This will open the News app, no matter where it is located in on your Mac. As such, your region does not need to be set to the United States.

open -a "News.app"

If you want to access it conveniently, add the app to Dock.


Where does MacOS store remembered Wi-Fi Names?

Ah. I finally found it. The file is /Library//Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.airport.preferences.plist and it's under the KnownNetworks key.


Okay, so I knew it was going to be simple but for some reason apple decides that text messages should be backed up without ever explicitly saying so, so old text messages take up gigabytes of iCloud space.


How exactly do I get Facebook to link my friends to iPhoto's Faces tags when sharing from iPhoto?

I bit the bullet, and went with the following 4 Rs:

Removed all faces from iPhoto who were participating in the event
Removed my Facebook account
Reauthenticated my account
Restored (manually, one by one) the faces, making sure to use Facebook's name suggestions

And Facebook finally recognized and tagged my friends with links to their profiles correctly. Huzzah!


How create an identical timestamp format as used in ppp.log file in a shell script?

After a lot of searching, a search for "date format without alphabetic time zone abbreviation" returned Info on ISO 8601, the date and time representation standard. That information helped me to find out that the timestamp format that is being used in Mavericks its /private/var/log/ppp.log file, is actually the ANSI C's asctime() format.
C asctime
To create C style asctime in a shell, a non English system might need to override the environment variable for time messages:
export LC_TIME="C"

And then there is the $ date formatting option %c that now displays local date time in the desired format:
$ date +%c
Sat Apr  9 21:10:20 2016

A tip when using echo date, do put the date between apostrophes echo "$(date +%c)", otherwise the filler space in single digit dates might be stripped from the output:
$ echo $(date +%c)
Sat Apr 9 21:13:57 2016
$ echo "$(date +%c)"
Sat Apr  9 21:14:30 2016


Is it possible to do a "clean" install of Lion?

Yes, it is possible. It is bootable, and will be able to do a complete clean install (with you having to format the hard disk first).

Also, if you have installed Lion already, you would be able to do a reinstall by holding ⌥ Option on bootup and selecting Recovery HD. Wait for it to load, and you will be able to see an option for reinstalling.


Why I can't remove iTunes and how to remove it?

If you just want to prevent it from launching, running

sudo chmod 000 /Applications/iTunes.app

should do the trick. Needs to be repeated after every OS X/iTunes update, but this also applies for any solutions involving removal of standard applications.

PS: Just to put things into perspective as far as disk space is concerned:

root@Mithos:/Applications$ du -sm iTunes.app Chess.app Game\ Center.app Stickies.app Photo\ Booth.app Photos.app
191 iTunes.app
5   Chess.app
3   Game Center.app
5   Stickies.app
5   Photo Booth.app
31  Photos.app

Even on a system with just a 128 GB SSD, squeezing out 200 MB doesn't give you much.


Change the duration for the screenshot thumbnails

The default behavior is to display a thumbnail of the image for a short delay before writing the image to the Documents folder. An alternative would be to set the Clipboard as the Save to in the Screenshot options. In this case, the image is placed in the clipboard instead of being written to a file. You can then paste the image. Here, no thumbnail is displayed, but the image in the clipboard can be viewed in the Finder. (From the Finder menu bar, select Edit➝Show Clipboard). If you need to drag and drop the image, then one method would be to set Preview as the Save to in the Screenshot options. From the Preview application menu bar, select View➝Thumbnails or the option+⌘+2 key combination. You can drag and drop the thumbnail.

I realize your question was to increase the delay. This answer attempts to point out alternatives to having the image end up being saved to the Documents folder by default after the delay has expired.


df -h command in Terminal shows wrong amount of disk space

Apple measures gigabytes as 1,000,000,000 bytes (in the decimal system) for advertising purposes whereas dh properly uses binary, converted to decimal, which means it's actually 1,073,741,824 bytes.

If you take 120,000,000,000 (Apple's advertised capacity) and divide it by 1,073,741,824 you get 111.75 GB when properly measured in binary.

If you visit:

https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/

and scroll ALL the way to the bottom of the page, you can see footnote #1:

1. 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes; actual formatted capacity less.


The camera's probably just stopped working and needs to be replaced. Check out ifixit.com for a step-by-step guide on how to replace it and then decide if you feel comfortable with the doing the repair. If not, there's probably someone in your area that can do it for you.

If it were me, I'd save any money I'd put towards a repair, back the phone up to iTunes, save the photos to my computer, and just upgrade to a newer iPhone.


Parental Controls with FaceTime app does not work properly on iPad Air

This domain(*.ess.apple.com ) is not only work for FaceTime, but also service many service of Apple, such as iMessage, the authentication, administration, key and contract request runs over https.


How do I find out more information about a pending software update?

From the provided result, the Security update "061-90745" is an update still trying to be installed for Mojave!

Clear the old update with defaults delete com.apple.preferences.softwareupdate LatestMajorOSSeenByUserBundleIdentifier && softwareupdate --list

It removes the old incompatible string then refreshes the list from Apple

Congrats on the move to Catalina!


How to recover files from command "git clean -df"

If you are working with an online repository and you keep it up-to-date you can download all the file from the online repository using the following commands:

git pull                            # in the case the remote is set
git clone <address_of_repository>   # in the case the remote is not set

Using these commands you'll be able to restore your deleted files, obviously only if the online repository is up to date.


MacBook Pro beeps and powers on after 5 tries

Found the answer. The problem was due to the installation of rEFIt for the triple boot.

I found the detailed video solution here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPoU8838KDo


Not a full answer but as you seem to primarily look for hints and pointers:

According to this MacOSXHints article from three years ago it seems to be possible to route Bonjour over VPN using OpenVPN or LogMeIn. This should (with some hacking and routing magic probably) at least allow WiFi syncing as long as you have computers (not iDevices) on both end of the VPN (and connect the iDevice to one of them).


How to record soundcard audio and output to speakers with the BlackHole driver?

The steps below are for BackgroundMusic, another open-source driver which works pretty much the same as Blackhole. The same steps have also been verified to work with BlackHole.

In the Audio MIDI Setup.app create a Multi-Output Device and select the checkboxes for Built-in Output and Background Music.
Option+Click on the top-right speaker icon in the Mac menu bar and under Input Device select Background Music.
Under Output Device select Multi-Output Device as shown below.

You'll notice that after setting Output Device: Multi-Output Device the volume slider and the volume control keys won't work anymore. BackgroundMusic adds a menu icon in the top bar which you can click and use the volume slider in the dropdown that appears.

Both BlackHole and BackgroundMusic seem to cause occasional crashes of the Audio MIDI Setup app, and are not yet 100% stable and reliable (at least not on the MacOS version I tried), but they do work. I would classify both drivers as 'not-100%-stable' at the time of writing.


What characters/length are supported in Mail.app IMAP passwords?

I have longer IMAP and SMTP email passwords than that, using all of those special characters (except maybe $) and have no problems using Mac OS X Mail.app
While it's possible that one of those characters caused the issue, I think that's more likely on the IMAP server side.
As far as I am aware there's nothing in OS X Mail.app which should have prevented that password from working. I know it handles passwords that are 50 characters long and contain a variety of special characters just fine.
If you're concerned, try changing the password again, and if you run into problems try adding length to the password and using letters instead of special characters. Length generally beats complexity for password entropy anyway.


How can I figure out why Applications will NOT add to Dock?

When you "right-click on Applications on the Sidebar and select: Add to Dock", nothing obvious happens if you have the Dock hidden, which is the default behavior. If your Dock looks anything like mine, after you add the Applications folder to the Dock, you might not even notice it.
When I right-click on Applications on the Sidebar and select: Add to Dock on Catalina 10.15.6, and then mouse down to the bottom of the screen to reveal the Dock, the Dock now has what looks like a new Application Icon next to the Trash Basket. It does not look like a folder at all. Instead, it is a stack of icons, with the top-most being the first (alphabetically) application in the Applications folder, so at first glance it looks like just another Application on the Dock.
When I hover over it, a label "Applications" pops up over it and when I click on it, it expands into a grid of icons representing all the Applications in the Applications folder. So that is the Applications folder in the Dock.
If I then drag the Applications folder from the Finder to the Dock, it disappears when I release the mouse, because the Applications folder is already in the Dock and you cannot have it duplicated in the Dock.


Terminal command ls/cd not finding any files on external harddrive

For whatever reason, the drive got mounted/attached under /Volumes/ShanStore 1. The number will not be shown in Finder but bash (in Terminal) is a bit more strict here.

To fix:

Unmount/eject the drive in Finder und shut down the drive
Run sudo rmdir /Volumes/ShanStore /Volumes/ShanStore\ 1 (you'll probably get an error message about a non-existing /Volumes/ShanStore\ 1, which is ok)
Run ls -l /Volumes to (hopefully) see /Volumes/ShanStore gone
Restart the drive again


Issue with Mail, receiving my own sent emails in Inbox

I've solved the problem for my own use. The problem for me was a glitch in gmail itself. Elsewhere the question was asked, does this behavior happen with messages sent from the gmail web interface as well? If those messages are also showing up in your gmail inbox, it's probably not a Mail fault. Check your gmail filters for the following:

  When you use a filter with the "never send to spam" option enabled
  that is (accidentally perhaps) matching message you send, they will
  show in the Inbox.

This is considered by some to be a gmail bug. The solution is:

  The filter does the same thing as the "Not spam" button, which puts
  the selected conversations in the Inbox. You can exclude sent mail
  from your "Never send to spam" filters by including "-me" in the From
  field, or by adding "-from:me" in the "has the words" field.

In my experience it is not necessary to fully comply with Google's recommended settings for IMAP accounts, namely that you should uncheck the box to "Store sent messages on the server." I very much want to leave this selected, and having it selected is now working fine for me, now that I have added the "-me" exception to the misbehaving filter.

Refer to these threads for further background:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/hdItaHiUAgc
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/gmail/NI1aRo6SvTc


Just to provide an answer...

The screen appears to have had an impact roughly where I've circled below. This could have been caused by a strike, but equally could be that something was on the keyboard when the lid was closed.

The initial impact has cracked the screen out in radial lines from the impact site, causing the circuitry in the screen to break along the lines - this is why there is no image above them; data cannot transmit across the broken circuit.


Homebrew: Easy way to add 'gnubin' to path for multiple packages?

The proposed find based solution takes about 5 seconds to execute on my system. The following bash snippet executes in a fraction of a second.

if type brew &>/dev/null; then
  HOMEBREW_PREFIX=$(brew --prefix)
  # gnubin; gnuman
  for d in ${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/opt/*/libexec/gnubin; do export PATH=$d:$PATH; done
  # I actually like that man grep gives the BSD grep man page
  #for d in ${HOMEBREW_PREFIX}/opt/*/libexec/gnuman; do export MANPATH=$d:$MANPATH; done
fi


Reset iPhone 3GS with broken power button and touch screen

This happened to me too.  My son forgot his password, and he didn't want his iPhone anymore, but I wanted to erase the device before selling/recycling it.

The broken power button (also called the "sleep/wake" button) makes this difficult - normally you'd hold down the power & home buttons simultaneously while connected to iTunes via USB, all the way through a power cycle, through the apple logo's appearance, until it shows you the Recovery Mode screen as shown here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201412

Without a working power button, a variation is necessary.  What I did was use the Assistive Touch feature, which my son had already turned on months before, since the power button wasn't working.  Plug the device into a computer with iTunes loaded.  Hold down the "Lock Screen" button (in the "Device" submenu) for a few seconds until the power-off slider is shown.  Then, while holding down the Home button, slide the power-off slider to the right - keep holding the Home button for a long time, through the device powering off, through the Apple logo, and until the Recovery Mode screen appears.

Now follow the prompts in iTunes on the computer, and the device should reset as normal.


Lost all files after installing Yosemite

The Installation of new operating system will normally not touch your files.

What it might have happened is you created a new user account and all your files are in the old user account.

If you have admin privileges you should be able to see the old user account in sys pref users and switch to it.


Shell script to rsync or if not mounted - mount and rsync

Using the proper normal syntax of the command line version of the mount command from the command line or a bash script for a password protected SMB Share will require entering the password, by one means or another. However from a bash script or command line there is a way to access the stored Keychain password to mount the SMB Share without entering the password in the bash script or from the command line.

The following assumes both the authenticating User Name and Password for the target SMB Share is stored in the User's Keychain.

Since the authenticating User Name and Password for the target SMB Share is stored in the User's Keychain then mounting the target SMB Share can be done via AppleScript within the bash script or command line using the osascript command.

In the following example I shared the Temp folder on another system on my Network having the IP Address: 192.168.169.227

I first mounted this via Finder's Go menu > Connect to Server... where I checked the "Remember this password in my keychain" check box so it's stored in the Keychain.  Once that was done I unmounted the share and used the following command to mount it from a bash script.

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to mount volume "smb://192.168.169.227/Temp"'

I did not need to pre-create the "/Volumes/Temp" folder as that is done automatically by this method unlike using the mount -t smbfs //... command normally where the mount point supplied has to already exist.

So as you write your bash script use this method in place of the normal command line version of the mount command.


Swipe it left.

You get 2 options, Move & Delete.

Move allows to to move it back to where it came from, or anywhere else.
[Delete is permanent from that folder, so be careful]


macOS + Excel: Shortcut to highlight current row?


How does finder figure this directory is 6MB?

Because your directory may contain hidden files. OS X uses hidden files (prefixed with a . dot when using ls -la) to store meta information on the folder (position and sorting of the icons for example). To have a precise breakup of your directory size use

du -h /Users/azz0r/Sites/Personal/php-rest-api

in Terminal. You can limit the depth of displayed files with the -d DEPTH option.

To see the hidden files recursively from a directory use the ls -laR command.

To show hidden file directly in the finder, you could also follow this post Show hidden files Mac OS X 10.7 Lion and 10.8 Mountain Lion.


Fans kick in very late after ssd upgrade

It is not a problem that your CPU is at 95 degrees celcicus for a short period of time.

The mid-2010 MacBook Pro with Core i5 processor is specified to withstand up to 105 degrees.

So unless you have some kind of practical problem (for example the underside of the laptop being too hot to handle), there's really nothing to worry about.


This rm -rf will not ask if you are sure when you delete, so be sure the cd command works to get you out of /tmp (the cd /tmp gets you to a safe place in case you copy/paste everything in one go so you don't delete files from your current directory)

Try this in your Terminal:

cd /tmp
cd `brew --prefix`
rm -rf Cellar
brew prune
rm `git ls-files`
rm -r Library/Homebrew Library/Aliases Library/Formula Library/Contributions
rm -rf .git
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew

More info about this topic can be found in the Homebrew FAQ.


Ok, the groups are made and edited in your Contacts not in your mail.

But to hide the group members names and addresses you do that in Mail preferences.

To not show group names/addresses un-check the Addressing.

You can only have show or do not show.


Intellimouse Optical-side buttons for Catalina

SensibleSideButtons might help with your problem, but keep in mind it is a third-party solution, so there is a chance it won't work properly.