It appears that it was a bug in macOS Catalina (10.15.4), which is now fixed on macOS Big Sur (11.0.1). So the outputs are consistent now - both are showing:
Zero bytes (Zero bytes on disk) for 1 item


There is a simple solution, which is to download Ukelele and then create a new US keyboard from your current (or whatever language you are reading this in), and then modify the dead keys to whatever you want. I made https://github.com/norcalli/undead-us-keyboard as result of this with a keyboard layout already made and installation instructions.


Restart automatically if the computer freezes

The Mac models that support this have a secondary processor, independent of the CPU (it's the LOM on Intel Xserves, SMC on regular Macs).  Basically, the secondary processor can have a countdown timer set up, and reset the CPU (forcing a reboot) if the counter hits 0.  Meanwhile, a process running within OS X (originally it was a program called watchdog, but I think launchd handles it now) resets the counter periodically.

If the OS ever gets hosed enough that launchd/watchdog/whatever fails to reset the counter within the time limit, the LOM/SMC/etc takes over and forces a reboot.

BTW, regarding @TJ Luoma's comment on kernel panics: when a panic occurs, the OS is basically dead.  There's no way for launchd to be notified of this, because it's dead along with everything else.  What happens is that some information about the panic gets stuffed into NVRAM (the surviving shreds of the OS can access that without needing drivers, etc, which all went away in the panic).  After reboot, the NVRAM is checked and (if appropriate) its contents are reported in the panic log.


Boot Camp Assistant Install Fails to install Windows 10 1709. "An error occurred while copying the Windows installation files."

I created a macOS tool to solve the problem and create a new ISO that works. I also wrote up an explanation. It is related max file size of FAT32 and how Boot Camp Assistant prepares the installation.

https://twocanoes.com/using-larger-windows-10-isos-with-boot-camp-assistant/


As far as I know, applications handle the right-click context menu on their own and there is no way to modify it. The general way of registering a service or having an application add a context menu entry only works for Finder (possibly also for other system contexts, but not Photos), which allows extending the menu.


How to shrink a Windows XP VMWare Fusion virtual machine?

In VMWare Fusion 3. There are 2 parts

Prerequisites are the VM cannot have any snapshots and the virtual disk does not have a preallocated size. Making virtual disk sparse

Clean up Windows

I would then in Windows run the MS Disk Cleanup tool to remove files and then Disk Defragmentor to put all the space in one place.

VMWare tools includes a shrink disk command

Then power off the VM

Clean up the virtual disk

Search for Clean Up a Hard Disk in Fusion's help

  1
  From the VMware Fusion menu bar, select Window > Virtual Machine Library.
  2
  Click the thumbnail of the virtual machine and click Settings at the bottom of the library window.
  3
  Under Removable Devices in the Settings window, select Hard Disks.
  4
   In the Hard Disks panel, select the hard disk in the source list.
  5  Click Clean Up Disk in the Disk Cleanup section.

  VMware Fusion displays a progress dialog as it cleans up the virtual
  disk.


Is there a way to prevent a Macbook Air from sleeping when external monitor is plugged in but power is not?

The power adapter is required for closed display mode on any Apple portable machine, without it you can't use closed display mode.

Reference:  http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3131

There is however a third party solution, called Caffine.  Which when enabled, forces the mac to stay on until the battery dies, it won't ever sleep.

http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/


You cannot remove the first volume on the disk - Mac

You can't work on the volume you are booted from.  The recovery mode is a minimalist partition at the start of the volume.

Easiest way is to create a bootable USB stick, boot from that.

A second way is to install onto a external hard drive, boot from that, then work on your main disk.


Can you use the iTunes gift card to buy the cards on the new iOS5 cards app?

Cards uses your Apple ID to make purchases rather than your iTunes account, when I ordered a card it asked for my CCV, the security number on the back of my card registered with my Apple ID. You will find the order history in your Apple account and not in your iTunes account.

This is the same service as the one found in iPhoto, which uses the same procedure.


2012 MacBook Air screen immediately falls down, can it be repaired?

Yes - this is eminently repairable and easy to diagnose remotely since you describe a typical and physical hinge clutch failure.

The good news is you can buy liquid damaged / logic board broken Macs that are vintage for very low cost and possibly know the screen assembly is fine by booting to recovery or just trusting the seller.

Swapping the entire display is pretty easy but to get to it are numerous delicate and fragile connectors likely to break the rest of your mac if you’re not careful or have a helper to hold things. Also, you have to remove the battery, which can be bent / damaged and cause a fire risk.

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Air-13%22-Mid-2012/Screens

This also is a very easy repair for someone that does repairs professionally and they can source parts cheaper than you in most cases. They are right, you can’t just repair the hinges - you need an exceptionally strong press that costs far more to make than buying hundreds of displays.

You risk breaking the LVDS cable if there is a sharp piece broken, so short term you need to use it in closed clamshell mode with an external display and baby it while you decide if it’s worth $300 to fix.


Quite simply, you purchase a license for OS X by buying a Mac. It is licensed only for Apple hardware.

There is no other way to legitimately run it, either natively or in VM.

Running it on any other hardware would be against Apple's EULA & would also be off-topic for StackExchange.


Is there a gesture to drag and drop with Expose on Lion?

I don't know when this has been re-enabled, but in OS X Lion 10.7.4 I am able to do the following:

Click drag and object in Window A and hold it with your thumb.
Initiate App Exposé/Mission Control using a four finger gesture. Do not release your thumb.
Drag the object to Window B using one of the remaining four fingers.

So, this is basically the same as you used to do.


Very suddenly, only purchased music is showing up on iPhone ( but everything is in iTunes)

It sounds like you use iTunes Match? if so, did your annual subscription run out or expire?  if so, you may need to pay the ANNUAL fee and turn the service back on.


It does the same for me, too, sometimes. Generally it solves itself. If it does not, try giving them the rest of the day and see if that logs them out.

Also, rebooting will log them out, for sure.


macOS detects location but doesn't Set Time Zone Automatically

This just happened to me on High Sierra. Kept trying to change so that the Mac's location would automatically update the timezone. The Mac could detect where is was (both using the Maps application and the red pin in System Preferences / Date & Time / Time Zone showed the correct location) but the time zone was 'stuck' in the place where I was last week. This continued through reboots and toggling all the options in Date & Time.

Here was the fix for me. In Bash (ie, launch Terminal):

$ cd /etc
$ ls -l localt*

It should be a link to the IANA timezone database like so (assuming this Mac is near LA):

lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  45 Aug 30 17:32 localtime -> /var/db/timezone/zoneinfo/America/Los_Angeles

If it is not:

Turn off the automatic time zone in System Preferences / Date & Time / Time Zone
In Terminal sudo rm /etc/localtime to remove the incorrect link
Reboot (localtime will be recreated)
Restart automatic time zone in System Preferences / Date & Time / Time Zone

That worked for me after Googling and pulling hair for a few minutes. YMMV.


iOS 8.2 iPad mini iCloud login stuck at "Verifying"

Asking another person to call you, if the call is successful the bug goes away. At least that happen in my case, after upgrading to 10.3.1 suddenly my wife called and voilá! eveything back to normal.


Unable to open sleep image due to permission issues

Find these keys on your keyboard command+I this will open the get info window

After the windows opens scroll down and click on the sharing & permission

Now if you don't see your username in the filed which appears after clicking on sharing & permissions then add your username (Admin) by clicking on the plus sign

Now if this doesn't works then again click on the plus sign and add Administrator (First check is Administrator is visible in the filed or not after clicking sharing and permission)

After pressing command+i you will get to see a window like this after which you will have to click on the lock icon!

Then enter your password

Now a second overlaying window will appear on your mac screen

Now, You will have to select either your username or administrators and add it to the sharing and permissions field

After that there wouldn't be any permission issues!


How can I have Windows keymapping on my Macbook, CTRL+C, CTRL+V

If you got at least MacOS Sierra on your MacBook you might use Karabiner Elements. If there is no suitable set of "Complex Modifications" importable for your case on their site, you'd have to manually edit
~/.config/karabiner/karabiner.json

with e.g. BBEdit (better make a backup copy before you start!).
Doing so you'd have to go to:
"rules": [ /*...*/ ]

Here is an example from another question asked here:
{
  "Description": "Ctrl-C to Cmd-C, next and last re-mapping",
  "manipulators": [
    {
      "from": {
        "key_code": "c",
        "modifiers": {
          "mandatory": ["left_control"]
        }
      },
      "to": [{
        "key_code": "c",
        "modifiers": ["left_command"]
      }],
      "type": "basic"
    }
  ]
}

I suppose this should work with any app as the key code is altered low level.


According to Apple, yes, it can carry power for devices in some circumstances. Specifically:

  7. Does the Thunderbolt port supply power to connected devices?

  Yes. A Thunderbolt port supplies power if that Thunderbolt port is part of a device that is connected to an AC power outlet or is operating on battery power. If your Thunderbolt devices have their own power supplies, you should connect the power supplies to them for optimal functionality. If you are using Thunderbolt devices that get their power only from the Thunderbolt bus, computers running on battery power will experience battery drain more quickly.

The Thunderbolt specs on the Wikipedia page for Thunderbolt currently say the copper-based version of the Thunderbolt protocol can deliver 18 V at 550 mA (9.9 W max). Presumably all Thunderbolt cables are built to this spec and can handle that kind of power passing through them. Whether the connected device can supply that kind of power is another question that can only be answered by looking at specific devices.

Thunderbolt over an optical, instead of copper, connection would not be able to carry any power with the data signal. I note this only because Thunderbolt was original designed to be an optical protocol; though its since been adapted to copper which is a good thing.


To remove just the app you can drag it to the trash, use ⌘ cmd+⌫ backspace, or right-click → Move to Trash the app.

To remove the app, its preference files, and other related files, you will need another app along the lines of the free AppCleaner application.

Here is a Lifehacker article titled "The Best App Uninstaller for Mac", which chose AppCleaner as the best uninstaller for the Mac (in 2011).


You can't mount a http/https server as a filesystem since it won't provide a directory table for you. (I left a comment on why httpfs isn't what you need)

The best way to do the task is to make a list of the URLs you need to check and use a shell script (run from Automator for convenience perhaps?)

You will need to USE curl or wget which will do the http downloading for you (they both provide post and http basic auth support for sending login info, however you probably need to install them on Mac Os X, off the top of my head I've forgotten.)

You can get fancy and use diff to check automatically for changes in the files, so that you only need to get personally involved with the process when you really have to.

Need more info, I'll happily expand on this.

References:

Wget and Curl
Diff


Recursively converting files from dos line endings to unix line endings

Try find . -name "*" -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;.

In case dos2unix is not available on your system, you can use the following script (save as dos2unix and set as executable):

#!/bin/sh

perl -pi -e 's/\r\n/\n/;' $*


Mojave not recognizing my bootable USB stick, reverts back to Apple Partition after flashing

In my case it seemed to be my USB-C to USB-A connector. I used a different one and it worked.


iOS: Delete default Apple apps built-into iOS 9.3.5

It is not possible to delete/remove the unneeded built-in, Apple provided iOS apps from a device running iOS 9 or earlier.

In iOS 10, it became possible to remove a selection of Apple's built-in apps, but only from the Springboard (Home screen). The apps weren't really removed from the device, but simply hidden from view (thereby reducing clutter). They continue to persist on device, thereby consuming storage space. (Technically, this was due to the reason iOS 10 was built. Apple's built-in apps were part of the iOS itself, rather than installable from the App Store).

Starting with iOS 11, Apple changed the way it built iOS and shipped first party apps such that it finally became possible to fully delete a selection of built-in apps and reclaim the storage space occupied by them. The same can be installed later from the App Store if need be.

For more information, refer to the helpful support article from Apple, Remove built-in Apple apps from the Home screen on your iOS 10 device or Apple Watch


What happens to files restoring from case-sensitive to case-insensitive?

Time Machine by defaults formats the backup disk as case-sensitive, even when the original source disk is case-insensitive. This means that in any case, the file names are preserved when backing up.

If you when restore files from a backup made from a case-sensitive file system to a disk with a case-insensitive file system, Time Machine detects conflicts. The first of the two (or more) conflicting files will be copied over as normal. For the rest of the conflicted files, you'll get a popup stating that the destination disk already contains a file of that name. The popup allows you to either keep only the first file, keep only the second file - or keep both, where it automatically renames the second file to include "copy" in the name.

In general I would say that you should never do this with a complete system backup. Always restore a case-sensitive backup to a case-sensitive file system. If you have a limited number of files and expect a low number of conflicts, it could be done ofcourse - but it probably more work than justified.

In fact by default, if you wipe the volume completely and let Time Machine do a full restore, it will create a file system with the same case-sensitivity setting as the original source volume. I.e. if the backup was created from a case-sensitive disk, it will format the volume as case-sensitive during restore.

You can change by altering the com.apple.backupd.VolumeIsCaseSensitive"extended attribute on the top folder matching the name of your source volume. below your computer name in Backups.backupdb.


When I receive a phone call now, my MacBooks always open up FaceTime and do not allow me to take the call!

I think what's going on is that with my 2017 Touchbar MBP the only way to take the call is to use the touchbar. This worked for me today.

Next time I will see what happens with the Macbook, which has no touchbar.


Kernal Panics, High Sierra : Late 2013 MacBook Pro Retina 15"

Usually kernel issues are related to software but they can also be caused by bad hard drives. I would boot the Mac into recovery mode (turn mac on, hold down "command" + R until you see the Apple Logo. And then go to Disk Utility and run a First Aid on your Macintosh HD hard drive (do all hard drives anyway just to make sure). If it passes then try reinstalling macOS (OS X). If it fails I'd replace it and do a backup of it ASAP.


Does it make sense to Quit apps before Sleep?

Yes and no.

Without knowing the model of MacBook and level of Mac OS X - you may have safe sleep enabled by default. Safe sleep writes the entire contents of RAM to the hard drive, so anything that is still hitting the hard drive for IO might slow things down until the OS has suspended all the active applications in preparation for this write. It is theoretically possible this suspending process could take more time - but in practice I have never seen reports that it is measurable.

Recovering from sleep is the same since that means that power was not removed and the RAM contents were maintained. I would guess that the number of apps running does affect greatly how long it takes for the mac to become responsive again. Every app will start processing events (keyboard, mouse, periodic checks to save) so there will be a burst of activity to "catch" up to the current time. Newer OS also use launchd to kick off processes that should have been started while the machine was asleep. For example, the daily clean up script runs daily at 3:15 AM - so if the mac was asleep at that time, waking it up at 10am means the 3:15 script gets started as part of the waking from sleep which might slow things down. Add in several other processes on a full mac - and you get the slowness you are observing.

The no would be if you don't have it asleep over a time when events are started by launchd and if your apps are efficient or don't need to "catch up" - it really depends on your mac and the specific programs running.

In the end - if you want a more responsive mac when waking it and quitting apps makes that happen - do it! Don't worry of other people have different experiences. The apps you quit are most likely still in virtual memory (which is saved during sleep) so launching them again will be faster than an initial launch which is the entire reason why sleep exists. (unless you have less than 1/4 total RAM listed as inactive RAM in Activity Monitor).


iMac (27-inch, Late 2013) 3.5 GHz Intel Core i7 with fusion (SSD and HDD)

The easiest method to install Windows is to use the Boot Camp Assistant. However this method limits where Windows can be installed. This limitation can be overcome my avoiding the use of the Boot Camp Assistant, but is increases the complexity of the installation process.

The Windows installer GUI (Graphical User Interface) can also limit where Windows can be installed. Some of this limitation can be overcome by first running the diskpart command before using the Windows installer GUI or by avoiding the use of the Windows installer GUI altogether and installing Windows by using the CLI (Command Line Interface).

An EFI booting of Windows is easier to install than one that uses the legacy BIOS boot method. Your model Mac can use either method. However, the Windows Support Software drivers you download using the Boot Camp Assistant are designed for an EFI booting Windows 10.

Your comment indicates you are having problems with the Windows installer. Can I assume you were able to create the partitions on the SSD drive using the Boot Camp Assistant and now have booted the Windows installer from the flash drive only to discover the Windows installer will not let you select the SSD drive partition created by the Boot Camp Assistant? Or, other than perhaps using the Boot Camp Assistant to download the Windows Support Software, you are installing Windows without the use of the Boot Camp Assistant application? If the later is true, then could you outline the steps you have taken so far? For example: How did you get the Windows Support Software? If you used a flash drive, then how did you transfer the installation files to this flash drive? If you avoided the use of a flash drive, then where did you put the files the normally a put on the flash drive? Once you have answer these question, I would be better able to offer the steps needed to install Windows 10.


Does the iPhone 5C still work after being unsupported?

Yeah, it would still work.

It wouldn't be a bad phone for very simple tasks like the ones you have listed.

You could run apps that support iOS 9(some apps require a certain minimum iOS). This would be assessed on an app-by-app basis. You might get lucky with some, but you should research the requirements of the specific apps you'd like.

You could sync it with iTunes to listen to music and podcasts.

You could still make phone calls.

You can use iCloud for iMessage, Find My Friends/iPhone and syncing contacts etc.

Overall the phone is still very much usable, but it may be frustratingly slow if you're used to newer models and I'd try to get one with at least 16gb if not the 32gb memory version. The 8gb model would have maybe 4gb of usable storage.

As a side note - there is still some stores that sell these phones, although most of them would be pre-owned/refurbished. €189 for a used one in Ireland from a reputable chain of stores. They seem to hold their value reasonably well, which shows that they are definitely a viable option.


Why can't my Mac Pro connect to an SMB share over the network?

First, try to restart File Sharing in the Sharing Preference Pane.

There is a bug in OS X that still lives in 10.8.5, where a race condition can cause File Sharing to start before an auth configuration is done, causing it to fail any SMB connection to network shares with any sort of privileges.

If this solved your problem, one way to automatise this process is to create a launchd agent with the following contents:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
        <key>Label</key>
        <string>com.mcdado.restart_smb</string>
        <key>ProgramArguments</key>
        <array>
        <string>/bin/bash</string>
        <string>-c</string>
        <string>sleep 60;touch "/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.smb.server.plist"</string>
        </array>
        <key>RunAtLoad</key>
        <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Save this file to ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mcdado.restart_smb, then load it by running the following command: sudo launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.mcdado.restart_smb

Source: SMB and Lion | Oceanside Coding


Why doesn't Automator service appear in iTunes?

To get it to work in iTunes, you can try setting it up like this:

Service receives selected: text in: iTunes

Actions:

"Get Selected iTunes Tracks" - Get selected: tracks

"Open Finder items" - Open with: VLC


Where do iPhone voice memos sync to on my Mac?

You'll find Voice Memos in

/Users/yourname/Music/iTunes/Voice Memos


Pendrive bootable not showing after trying to reinstall Mavericks

How do you know you made your drive bootable?

The first thing to attempt is to see if you erased the entire drive or just the original boot partition. Boot your Mac and hold down 'Command-R' and if it is still there you will boot into the Recovery partition. If you have a recent Mac and an internet connection then it will boot into internet recovery if you have deleted the Recovery partition.

Once you are in Recovery mode you can re-install the OS your Mac came with and try the Mavericks install again.


If they are ID3 tags, you can change them with exiftool (perl).

mutagen (Python) can also change them.


Turn off MacBook Pro's display while connected to external monitor on Yosemite

Found this wonderful free application :

https://github.com/Eun/DisableMonitor/

Works like a charm.


I got the patch to work after running sudo spctl --master-disable. I don't know if there is any way to use spctl to target only rcd though.

Replacing the code signature with an ad-hoc identity with sudo codesign -f -s - /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/ didn't seem to work. Edit: but as mentioned by user48986, it works if you specify the path to the executable, like sudo codesign -f -s - /System/Library/CoreServices/rcd.app/Contents/MacOS/rcd.


displayDialog returns an object, not a string. When printing an object as a string, it is shown as [object Object]. The object returned from displayDialog is as follows:

{"buttonReturned":"Continue", "textReturned":"your text here"}

Therefore, you need to use the textReturned property of the object. You seemed to attempt this when you accessed the text property of Origin, but since the property is called ‘textReturned’, this didn't work either. For each of the variables where you are printing it in a string, replace

+ '     From \t\t\t\t- ' + Origin.text +'\n'
+ '     To \t\t\t\t\t- ' + Destination + '\n'

with

+ '     From \t\t\t\t- ' + Origin.textReturned +'\n'
+ '     To \t\t\t\t\t- ' + Destination.textReturned + '\n'

In the future when attempting to debug something like this, create a minimal, complete and verifiable example. In this case, just use one displayDialog and observe the value of the variable. (MCVE is something generally required in Stack Exchange questions, and I think this question was pushing that limit providing an entire script.)


When I was 99% drafting the question above, I came upon a solution adapted from this post on AppleToolBox.

Here are the steps:

Go to ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Saved Application State and delete com.apple.mail.savedState.
Go to ~/Library/Containers and drag com.apple.mail and com.apple.MailServiceAgent to your desktop.
Go to ~/Library/Mail/ and drag everything in that folder to your desktop.
Restart.
If it's now working, trash everything on your desktop.

Because I had already tried deleting accounts before finding this solution, I had to re-add all of them to the user, but it otherwise seems to be working normally again.


Growl comes with a commandline tool, 'growlnotify', that can send notifications. You can use that in scripts or from tripwire to send notifications to Growl.


What is the iTunes Connect role I need to add a new app?

The Role Permissions documentation includes a table My Apps: App Store that states Create apps and submit versions is available to:

Legal
Admin
App Mgr

  iTunes Connect Developer Help

  Role Permissions > My Apps: App Store


Weird spam message overlay appears on my iPhone's screen (FLASH SMS)

Chances are your phone number was used by someone (else, or had belonged to someone before it got cycled to you) and they had subscribed to those services. If your phone bill is clean meaning there are no odd fees showing up out of the blue then I doubt it is an app.

My personal experience. I once installed an App on my iPhone and like a dumb idiot in a rush to get to work I loaded and accepted the usage terms (why would I read 45 pages).... well shortly there after I was getting billed an extra 20 Euros a month. Had to change my contract with my provider.

Another story, I was recently overseas and needed a prepaid SIM for my phone. I put it in and everything seemed fine until I was getting random SMS with jokes, weather, and sports that I didn't need nor had personally subscribed too. But the person who had my phone number before me had subscribed.

Best thing to do is contact your provider in any case and see if they can block the attempts on their side so that you don't get harassed anymore. Sorry to hear of your woes.


Actually emulate another terminal type instead of just declare

This is not possible with Terminal.app, as it does not support emulating older terminals.

You'll have to use a different terminal program in order to see how your output looks in terminals that do not, for example, support 256 colors.

Note that $TERM (the variable used to commmunicate to user programs which kind of terminal you have) is not read by the Terminal software itself to configure it - it is read only by user programs such as a for example top so that it knows what kind of commands it can use. Not all software supports it however.

Also be aware that the usage of legacy terminals is very, very low. Desktop and laptop computers have for ages come with software that supports modern terminals with support for 256 colors. You'll need to either setup your computer purposefully for a 16 color setup, or have a really, really setup in order to be limited there.


Getting quotation marks to the bottom of a line

On my (german) mac keyboard

I get „ when i press ALT + SHIFT + w
I get ” when I press ALT + SHIFT + 2
and I get “ when I press ALT + 2

On your keyboard this can be different depending depending on the language and/or setup. Another option I recently saw here could be as follows:

get „ when you press ALT + .
get “ when you press ALT + [

In order to find the right key combination it can be useful to turn on the keyboard viewer from "preferences > languages and text > input sources ..."  as described here.


Where is the "Send to Archive" option in High Sierra

It should be in the same place still (and it is also in the File menu):


How do you unschedule a task in automator?

Automator by itself does not provide scheduling facilities. You'll need to disable the scheduled launch of a workflow using whatever you used to schedule the workflow originally. For example,

if you used a recurring calendar appointment, you'll need to use Calendar to delete the appointment.
if you used a third-party application, you'll need to use that application to disable the schedule.


Is there a way to have Snow Leopard match the scrolling behavior of Lion?

This post by John Gruber outlines several possibilities:

For OSX:

Scrollvetica
Scroll Reverser

For Windows:

An AutoHotkey hack

On the Mac side, Scroll Reverser looks nice in the menu bar, is free, and works from Tiger to Snow Leopard (10.4 - 10.6).


How to disable the 'Offload Unused Apps' option in iOS?

This is in the settings app in two places by default:

Offload Unused Apps

You can search settings or just do a spotlight search system wide to go right to the place where this is set. (It’s under General and iPad/iPhone storage)

If you don’t see it there, head over to the 'iTunes & App Store' section of the settings app and scroll the content up to look for the same toggle at the bottom of the page. Tap it to disable the opt in for this setting.


You will first want to use HandBreak (free) to convert your .wmv files to .mp4, which can then use according to your tutorial.


External Harddrive Permissions Changed / No Access

Please don't use any apps to do this, just open the terminal.

Try taking ownership first:

sudo chown -R LCLindley.admin /Volumes/Little\ Travel\ Buddy

then try fixing permissions so you can actually read and write it:

sudo chmod -R 755 /Volumes/Little\ Travel\ Buddy


Scaling different amounts on each axis in Keynote

I don't think you can do it through the usual Actions applied to the object, but you should be able to get what you want using Magic Move.

Get your slide the way you want it, then duplicate it.

In the second copy, scale the object to the new stretched out size (deselect Constrain proportions to stretch the vertical axis).

Then click back on your first slide and in the Animate tab, choose Magic Move.

When you play your slide and go to the next, it should scale your object to its new vertically stretched size.


Application development ON the iPod Touch?

I don't think there will be any with a compiler, due to iOS and App Store restrictions. The best thing on an iPhone or iPod I think would be a text editor to write code (I use Nebulous and its Dropbox syncing) and an SSH app (I use Prompt) to compile and run the code. Though it might be tough to keep a connection during a commute for SSH.

If you need a computer to SSH to, you could use an Amazon EC2 app to create and use a box on the go. I haven't done that yet, so I don't have a good recommendation, but it's on my list of things to try.

Also, if you have an iPad, Textastic is a fantastic code editor, but it's not available on iPhone or iPod.


I believe your iPhone 5 is in good condition. Your charging speed seem to be similar to other iPhone 5 data. Charging should take around 3 hours. They have a fast charge function till 80% and they'll start filling up slowly.

However, your battery might be a little lesser than expected of a new iPhone. All lithium-ion batteries lose a little amount of capability of holding the energy. They are called charge cycles and commonly, the Lithium-Ion battery degrades to around 80% when charged 300-500 times.

Your iPhone is perfectly normal :D!!

Learn how to maximize your battery performance:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/maximizing-performance/
Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5568093?start=0&tstart=0


Can't remove warning about removing files from iCloud desktop

Probably because you're running El Capitan. If I'm not mistaken, the feature was added in Sierra.


iCloud password broken on iPad, works on computer

Solved! It turns out in this situation the "incorrect password" error is really "can't connect to iCloud server to determine if password is valid" error.

After enabling WiFi, establishing a connection to local router, verifying internet was indeed available, login is possible.


Select the disk where you want to install macOS?

You are going to need to format your newly installed ssd before the macos installer recognizes it as a viable medium to install your os on. If you cant format it in disk utility, try going to internet recovery and selecting the terminal. once in the terminal type
diskutil list
Then find the your newly installed disk drive labeled in the format of /dev/diskXwhere "X" is whatever disk number your new ssd is. This will most likely be /dev/disk0 or /dev/disk1.
Once you have identified your disk number in the terminal, you can erase and format your new sdd by running the command
diskutil eraseDisk apfs MacHD GPT /dev/diskX
Dont forget to substitute the "X" in "/dev/diskX" with your real disk number.
For example, if your new ssd shows up in the terminal as /dev/disk0, the command to properly format it would be:
diskutil eraseDisk apfs MacHD GPT /dev/disk0

After that your new ssd should show up as an option in the mac installer application and you should be able to install macOS on it.


In Mountain Lion why do remote shells via ssh do NOT inherit the environment of the launchd parent process?

I've looked for an answer too and eventually found a related answer to this question, How to set system-wide environment variables on OS X Mavericks.

It is a security measure, particularly to ensure secure shell users with a disabled shell, where SHELL is set to /bin/false, cannot gain unsolicited access.

One workaround is settting PermitUserEnvironment in your ssh config; please read security caveats in above mentioned answer before doing this.


I use MacTheRipper to copy DVD and Handbrake convert to suitable formats for viewing on iPad etc. I do not know how it would handle copy protection.


Universal Clipboard doesn't work anymore

Turn continuity (=handoff) on for both devices, and also make sure they are logged into the same iCloud account.

Relevant documentation on Apple's website.


How to mark multiple contacts to send same text as bcc - feature that exists on Android

This is currently not possible on iOS. You can provide feedback to Apple here:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html


Changing iCloud id to email: The requested application was not found on this server

Reload the page. The servers are overloaded (this question was posted on the iCloud launch day).


iPhone sometimes goes to sleep running Pandora, sometimes doesn't

I figured out a reliable way to make sure the phone doesn't go to sleep while running Pandora:

Launch Pandora
Insert headphone jack
Connect dock/power cable

If I dock the power cable before launching Pandora, then the screen will go to sleep.

Still not sure why it does this, or if it is specific to the Pandora app, but hopefully this will help someone else out :)


How to change the default folder viewed when finder is opened

Go to Finder → Preferences and change the default folder:


Odd bug in iTerm — Why is my name wrong?

It should be the name of your computer. If you go to sharing in the system preferences you should see "Computer Name" there.


Does the iPhone 4 still vibrate in your ear if you receive a text message during a call?

Haven't tried with text messages, but with Whatsapp and emails it does, unfortunately :(

So to answer the second part of your question, yes notifications vibrates during call.


Remove Preview window for all Finder windows

Close all Finder windows except for one.
In the only open Finder window, arrange it in a manner that you'd
like as the default without having the Preview window showing.
Press commandj (⌘J) and then at the bottom of the
View Options sheet, click the Use as Defaults button.


Can I configure my Mac to store documents and pictures on iCloud only

You can buy additional storage, but this will not help you in your case. Documents in iCloud are always synced with your Mac, so anything you remove on your Mac will also be removed from iCloud.

You need to look into other cloud storage solutions (eg Dropbox with selective syncing) if you want to temporarily want to offload something into the cloud. Or buy an external drive (which may be simpler).


I think I've found a workaround (or "ridiculous hack", if you will). You can't modify Backups.backupdb, but you can delete it and replace it (back up your backups, if you feel the need):

Create a folder named "WhosTheBoss"
Copy any backups you want to keep in there (same directory structure)
Delete the original Backups.backupsdb folder
Rename "WhosTheBoss" to "Backups.backupsdb"
Point Time Machine and/or Migration Assistant to that location and win.


How can I change the color of tentative ("Maybe") events in Calendar?

I have a calendar for tentative events and I move them there / make that my default calendar.

Once I accept the meeting, I recategorize it according to my other colors / must attend / optional / travel / etc...

It’s not automatic, but it works to get things color coded.


i think my harddrive died? did an internet recovery, whats the status of my computer? can't restore from backup until i get home

What could have caused this? What does that error even mean?

You may have a hard drive that is going bad. The flashing folder means that the Mac can not find or read the needed system files to boot up.

What is the current status of my computer? Is everything wiped from my HDD?

Hard to say, but probably not. You could remove your harddrive, put it in an external HD dock, and try to recover you personal files.  Or, you could restart it while holding down the "T" key to put it in target disk mode and then connect it to another running Mac computer via a Firewire or Thunderbolt cable. Your hard drive will show up as another disk on that computer and the can get to your files.

Either way, I would consider replacing the hard drive.  To check for errors, in the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities), type

grep -i "i/o error" /var/log/system.log

If you see any results, your hard drive may be dying.

3. Is is safe to leave it sleeping on the Disc Utility until I get home?

Yes

4.  Can I restore from Time Machine if I didn't backup system settings?

Yes


How to download Bootcamp drivers without Bootcamp assistant?

Yes, It is possible to download the Bootcamp drivers outside of the Bootcamp tool:

Updated:

timothy-sutton's answer will make your life so much easier, go there first
For Windows 7 through 10, Apple have published a table of 'which download you need for which model' at https://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634. Win 7 download might work for Vista.
For WinXP, see robmathers' answer.
The hard way which follows here, taken from
http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p682/download-bootcamp-drivers is your fallback if you want or need to work it from scratch.

Download from Apple the http://swscan.apple.com/content/catalogs/others/index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog file. Don’t double-click it.
Open the index-lion-snowleopard-leopard.merged-1.sucatalog file in a text editor or word processor.
Search for each occurrence — as at August 2012 there were 6 — of BootCampESD.pkg. For instance, the one I needed is http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/33/54/041-2011/pRtCDYcWShMLxFggy3TzFzmfnnWQNFQBfJ/BootCampESD.pkg
Notice in each such URL, the /041-2011/ or similar /041-XXXXX/ bit of it.
Below each such occurrence, notice the URL for a file with the same 041-XXXXX in it and ending in English.dist, e.g. 041-2011.English.dist
Paste the URL for each such English.dist file into your browser and open that url. Here’s a list of them:

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/11/05/041-0925/g27es04pw9re5ggrfp3vuf8ew6r53asfz8/041-0925.English.dist
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/53/34/041-4776/TpFRDjFyRJjSvtyj2vFsPyx2bH2NSYvwN9/041-4776.English.dist
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/55/51/041-3891/se4uhpqng48t842cdsosqh28lft54fmswl/041-3891.English.dist
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/32/15/041-4775/hgMfrNHd9W8W7d8n4JyqSFLksk5TYr2HXN/041-4775.English.dist
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/32/33/041-2303/W5jKtsQhhMgMXs3TKhPDqLXrpXyY2HdXMN/041-2303.English.dist
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/33/54/041-2011/pRtCDYcWShMLxFggy3TzFzmfnnWQNFQBfJ/041-2011.English.dist

Search for the Model Identifier for your Mac. For instance MacBookPro5,2 or Macmini4,1.

For instance the 041-2011 file contains these models: MacBook2,1 MacBook3,1 MacBook4,1 MacBook5,1 MacBook5,2 MacBook5,3 MacBook6,1 MacBook7,1 MacBookAir1,1 MacBookAir2,1 MacBookAir3,1 MacBookAir3,2 MacBookPro2,1 MacBookPro2,2 MacBookPro3,1 MacBookPro4,1 MacBookPro5,1 MacBookPro5,2 MacBookPro5,3 MacBookPro5,4 MacBookPro5,5 MacBookPro6,1 MacBookPro6,2 MacBookPro7,1 MacBookPro8,1 MacBookPro8,2 MacBookPro8,3 MacPro1,1 MacPro2,1 MacPro3,1 MacPro4,1 MacPro5,1 Macmini2,1 Macmini3,1 Macmini4,1 iMac5,1 iMac6,1 iMac7,1 iMac8,1 iMac9,1 iMac10,1 iMac11,1 iMac11,2 iMac11,3 iMac12,1 iMac12,2
How do you know your Model Identifier? Open System Information, and look in the Hardware Overview section. i.e. click Apple menu -> About this Mac -> More Info… -> Report -> Hardware -> and now read down the Hardware Overview looking for “Model Identifier:”

Having found your 041-XXXXX number, download the BootCampESD.pkg url that has your number in it. Again, here’s a list of them:

http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/55/51/041-3891/se4uhpqng48t842cdsosqh28lft54fmswl/BootCampESD.pkg
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/32/15/041-4775/hgMfrNHd9W8W7d8n4JyqSFLksk5TYr2HXN/BootCampESD.pkg
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/32/33/041-2303/W5jKtsQhhMgMXs3TKhPDqLXrpXyY2HdXMN/BootCampESD.pkg
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/33/54/041-2011/pRtCDYcWShMLxFggy3TzFzmfnnWQNFQBfJ/BootCampESD.pkg
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/53/34/041-4776/TpFRDjFyRJjSvtyj2vFsPyx2bH2NSYvwN9/BootCampESD.pkg
http://swcdn.apple.com/content/downloads/11/05/041-0925/g27es04pw9re5ggrfp3vuf8ew6r53asfz8/BootCampESD.pkg

Be patient as it’s probably 600MB.
Once your pkg is downloaded, double click it and install to a folder on your hard drive so you know where to find it.
The folder contains a nest of folders, the last of which contains a dmg disk image file. Double click to open. Voila. Here are your Windows installer files.
Copy them to a USB drive, or a burnable CD. It’s still 660MB or more, so it’s a full CD worth of burning time.
Done. You can now proceed with Boot Camp assistant Windows installation.

source: http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p824/bootcamp-drivers-direct-download-of-bootcampesd-pkg . The page was aimed at people struggling with BootCamp, but either way, it gets you to the BootCamp.pkg file, which contains the drivers.

You still need open the OS X installer pkg file to get the the contents out, and to open a DMG file. If you are already in Windows, 7-zip will open it: http://www.cafe-encounter.net/p860/opening-a-bootcamp-driver-download-on-windows-7-or-8-with-7-zip


pharos and krb524 are both just guesses about network services, based on the service <-> port number listings in /etc/services; in this case I'm fairly sure they're both wrong guesses, so just think of them as identifiers for port numbers 4443 and 4444 respectively. To  find out what's really going on, you need to find out what programs are connecting via those ports. You can do this with the lsof commands, like this:

sudo lsof -i:pharos -i:krb524

(you'll need to enter your admin password for sudo to get root access.) In the output, the important bits are the first two columns, which list the program ("command") names and process IDs of the processes that are using these ports. If the program name doesn't tell you what's going on, you can use ps and/or Activity Monitor to investigate those processes in more detail.

EDIT: If I'm reconstructing the lsof output correctly, it looks like this:

COMMAND   PID          USER  FD   TYPE             DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
collabd    237 _teamsserver  7u   IPv6 0x7da9dd76981ec947      0t0  TCP localhost:pharos->localhost:50603 (ESTABLISHED
ruby       323 _teamsserver  31u  IPv6 0x7da9dd76981eeb47      0t0  TCP localhost:50602->localhost:krb524 (CLOSE_WAIT)
xcsbuildd 6943 _teamsserver  8u   IPv6 0x7da9dd76981ecd87      0t0  TCP localhost:50603->localhost:pharos (ESTABLISHED)

Those all look like components of OS X Server -- I'm not very familiar with the details, but collabd is a background process relating to "collaborative services" parts of OS X server, and the _teamserver user ID is used for those services.  From comparing to my server, it looks like the ruby script handles notifications, and xcsbuildd is probably the Xcode build server. Apparently, they all talk to each other over ports 4443 and 4444.


This seems to be a bug with Bridge.app (Apple Watch app on iOS) not syncing properly.

To force iOS sync all notification settings properly to your Apple Watch follow these steps.

As this takes some time, please try force reboot each device separately first. Check if the bug still persists.

Fix notification issues with an Apple Watch (watchOS 3.2)

iOS App Store: "Re-install" the iOS Calendar app
iOS: In Bridge.app (Apple Watch app on iOS) enable iOS Calendar notifications for Apple Watch
iOS Settings: enable iOS Calendar notifications
iOS: Force reboot your iPhone. Wait for it to connect to your Apple Watch.
watchOS: Force reboot your Apple Watch. Wait for the Watch to connec to your iPhone.
iOS: In Bridge.app (Apple Watch app on iOS) disable iOS Calendar notifications for Apple Watch (without mirroring)
iOS Settings: disable iOS Calendar notifications
iOS: In Bridge.app, unpair your Apple Watch
iOS: Pair your Apple Watch and restore it from your last backup.

Note: After you restore your Apple Watch backup, you may need to re-pair it to your Mac in order to unlock it with the Watch.


How to create a record at the runtime in applescript?

Try:

set def to "My Text"
set bcd to run script "{" & "abc:\"" & def & "\"}"


I removed the file

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

and after a reboot the error

The server encountered an error processing registration. Please try again later.

was gone (Mac OS X creates a new 'NetworkInterfaces.plist' file during the boot process).

The file

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/NetworkInterfaces.plist

contains informations about the network interfaces, it looks like the upgrade from 10.7 to 10.8 broke something (at least on my system).

'imagent' itself has no debug option but you can try tools like

dtruss

or the

Instruments.app

to monitor the program. Instruments.app is part of XCode and a GUI to dtruss.

Or you can monitor the network traffic between imagent and the server.


How to activate built-in PHP in macOS Server 5?

Usually, it is not necessary to do something like this when configuring services using the Server app, but in this case I had to manually restart the web service:

sudo serveradmin stop web
sudo serveradmin start web

After that, the PHP on my page was interpreted as expected.


How to access a video podcast playlist on the AppleTV 2G

The part I was missing was that I was viewing the "unwatched" list of podcasts which does not show the playlists. I simply switched the view and the playlists option appeared at the top.

Everything works as expected.


How do I control Macbook volume when a DP display is connected?

MonitorControl Control your external monitor brightness & volume on your Mac. It does not require installing a driver.
SoundFlower MacOS system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications.


I installed Xcode but I still don't have gcc in my terminal

Great question — this recently changed, so I suspect many other people are wondering the same thing.

In the latest version of Xcode, the command line tools are distributed as a separate package. Luckily they're very easy to install:

Open Xcode, and open the Preferences window (⌘+,).
Switch to the Downloads tab.
Click "Install" (or "Update") next to "Command Line Tools". You can also configure automatic updates, and additional Xcode components.

Note: since these tools are actually a completely separate package, you can install the command line tools without installing Xcode, if you don't need Xcode and want to save some disk space. They can be downloaded separately from the Apple developer site.


How can I upgrade Mac OS without the administrator password?

You can boot from installation media and use that to reset your password. To do this:

Boot from installation media, or, if the Mac OS version is recent enough, from internet recovery.
Once in the installer, Utilities --> Reset Password will allow you to reset the password of the administrator user.

See this link for more information, including instructions on how to perform the reset without an installation disk.

Once the password is reset, you can perform an OS upgrade. Of course, as this is a second-hand machine, you may be better off doing a reinstall (in which case, just reinstall and don't bother resetting the administrator password first).


Will it be fine to charge my iPad with 61W MBP charger

Yes it is safe and shouldn't cause any damage. The iPad actually determines the power it receives.

For more information look at this article


Is Adobe illustrator GPU acceleration available on Mac mini with iris graphics card

The Mac Mini supports OpenGL 4.1, which is required, but may not have to enough Video RAM (VRAM). Low End Mac and Every Mac differ on how much VRAM the Mac Mini has.

If Every Mac is correct, GPU acceleration is supported.
If Low End Mac is correct, GPU acceleration may be disabled.

OpenGL 4.0+ Required - OK

See the Mac OS section of Illustrator Help  /
System requirements | Illustrator:

  Optional: To use GPU Performance: Your Mac should have a minimum of 512 MB of VRAM (2 GB recommended), and your computer must support OpenGL version 4.0 or greater.

  To check for VRAM values:

  Mac 10.9: Choose Mac > About This Mac > More Info (Graphics information).
  Mac 10.10, 10.11: Choose Mac > About This Mac (Graphics information).

  To find out if your computer supports the required OpenGL version (4.0 or later), see this Apple Support document.

The linked Apple Support document states the Mac Mini (Late 2014) with Intel Iris Graphics supports OpenGL 4.1. So the GPU acceleration is technically possible.

512MB VRAM Required - Maybe?

Low End End claims 288 MB is available to the graphics card; this is lower than Adobe's recommended 512 MB:

  GPU: Intel HD 5000 Graphics/Intel Iris Graphics
  VRAM: 288 MB DDR3 SDRAM (shared with main memory)

However, EveryMac report this Mac Mini has access to 1.5 GB of VRAM, shared from the Mac's RAM:

  This model has an Intel Iris 5100 graphics processor that shares memory with the system.

  Apple reports that this model uses "Intel Iris Graphics" and allocates up to 1.5 GB of system memory for video function.


Depending on your Windows 7 (32bit/64bit) you may download - booted to Windows 7 - the Bootcamp drivers for Windows 7-32bit Boot Camp Support Software 4.0.4033 or Windows 7-64bit Boot Camp Support Software 5.1.5621 for your MacBook Pro Early 2011 directly.

Overview for all supported Mac models: System requirements to install Windows on your Mac using Boot Camp

Unzip the downloaded file and start the setup.exe. Or update single drivers with the usual Windows methods.


Restore Time Machine Backup of 2016 MBP to 2011 MBP?

You could install the macOS you want on the old machine first to be sure it runs. Get all the work done before you upgrade the component. Even if the specs are OK, I like to know everything is in working order.  The OS only needs 15 GB or so to install.
As long as you can run the same or newer OS than was backed up, you’ll be able to restore apps and data.


iCloud Photo Sharing - Not receiving invitation

I've never experienced a similar issue, but these 2 steps won't hurt:

Make sure both your iPhone and the other member's iPhone have iCloud Photo Sharing AND iCloud Photo Library turned on.
Make sure you have the same settings set up on your Mac/iPad if you use any.

Also, if your shared iCloud Photo Album has more than 5,000 photos, you will need to make a new album to continue sharing.

Here's a great site for everything related to iCloud Photo Library:
https://tidbits.com/article/15584


You could mute the voice before inserting the earphones and then put in the earphones and set the volume. This way the alarm sound will only come through the earphones because you have muted your phone, not the earphones.


Can I use (interact with) Siri without light the screen?

No.  This is not possible.  There are no configurable options to diable Siri screen dialogs.

I don't want to turn on the screen, because I don't need to read the response, I only need to hear it.

Siri (and Siri's developers) can't predict when you're going to read the screen or when you're only going to want to hear it. So, it is unlikely that this will change; Siri responds with both visual and auditory queues.


How to display received/sent bytes over Bluetooth on Mac

The best tools I found are from Apple: Bluetooth Explorer.app and PacketLogger.app are part of the Additional Tools for Xcode.


A calendar embedded in OS X desktop that allows me to cross off days I workout - does something like this exist?

Use the build in calendar (came with osx), open it, click on the (+) sign to add new event for today, type worked, then you have lots of options to use if you want to, but that is the simplest way to do it.
You can even make a new calendar specific to your activity.
You can email the event to yourself, etc...


Will my A1522 iPhone 6 Plus work in New Zealand?

After arriving on New Zealand and being using Spark carrier for six months, I can say with confidence that the iPhone 6 Plus A1522 works, in both 3G and 4G networks.


Memory usage on Mac OS, how Activity monitor works?

I suspect you probably are using Mac OS 10.7 which is very memory hungry. As noted by kccqzy, the purge command may reclaim some inactive memory if you have XCode installed.

Something you should try is closing and reopening applications which are memory hungry or have a tendency to leak memory (Safari, Firefox). Alternatively, restarting your computer would also accomplish the same though take considerably longer.

To answer the question, are you really using 4GB of memory. Yes. Technically more if you take note of the "Swap used:" stat.


How to clean install Windows 8 Pro *Upgrade* on BootCamp already running Windows 7?

It should be possible to do the clean install of a Windows 8 Pro upgrade on an existing installation of an earlier qualifying OS as these steps for Windows 7 suggest:

http://www.tuaw.com/2009/11/02/an-illustrated-guide-to-boot-camp-and-windows-7/

In this guide above, search for string: "Theoretically, you're doing a fresh installation of Windows 7. In that case, select the "Custom (advanced)" installation"

(remove just the outermost quotes when searching for the string in the guide.)

In summary, after the Mac BootCamp app has done its original setup (including the partitioning), the rest of the setup is as per usual Windows installation - all the Windows steps are shown. In the event of the usual ReBoots, be sure to select the Windows drive to continue the installation.

During the install, once the Windows 8 upgrade installer has found the previous qualifying OS on the disc, it can then offer the format disc as the clean installation option.


Change Banking Information in Apple developer account

As mentioned on iTunes Connect:

  To setup a new bank account on iTunes Connect, take the following steps:

  Access the Contracts, Tax and Banking module
  Click on either the "Set Up" or “View/Edit” link in the Bank Info column
  Click on the "Add Bank Account" link
  Select your bank country and click "Next"
  Enter the relevant bank code (local clearing or Swift code) or look up your bank, and click "Next"
  Confirm your bank selection and click "Next"
  Enter your bank account information and click "Next"
  Review the confirmation screen, select the check box at the bottom of the screen to certify your information, and click "Save"
  On returning to the bank account selection screen, select your new bank account from the drop down list, and click "Save"


How can I connect to ftp server in terminal?

ftp hostname

or

ftp://username:password@hostname

Now, once connected the 5 most common options are:

cd foldername      #e.g. cd /downloads/recent
get filename       #e.g. get thisisthefileiwant.text
put filename       #e.g. put sendthistotheserver.txt
mget filenameregex #e.g mget * to get every file in a directory
mput filemameregex #e.g. mput *.txt to upload every txt file to the server

The only trickery is sometimes you might need to put it into binary mode by typing binary

To exit, type bye

The difference between mine and @grgarside 's solution is his forks it to the Finder using open, while mine uses Terminal


Altering a hard linked file in one location seems to destroy it in another location

A friend of mine found the answer for me. Apparently OS X has a function writeToFile:atomically, which causes a copy of the edited file to be made, then, on saving, replacing the original file with the copy. Since the copy exists in a different place in the hard disk, it has a different inode number. So after the save, the opened file points to a new location and the data at the original inode is removed. This causes the other copy of the file to now point to nothing at the original inode location.


You can select the "publishing" method on the top level of the web site you are editing:


Periodic Backups to a remote Windows Server folder with OS X

If the remote (Windows) filesystem is mountable in the Finder than any application that does file level backups should work. I use SuperDuper and have used Carbon Copy Cloner and Chronosync in the past with good success.

Note that CCC backs up to either a Mac filesystem or a DMG (disk image) file which may be problematic on a Windows PC with no Macs around.


After Yosemite, the volume adjustment doesn't make noise?

This bugged me as well.  You can change it by modifying the sound it plays.  Open Terminal.app and execute the following commands.

First navigate to the following directory:

cd /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources

Then make a backup of the Yosemite sound, if you want to.

sudo cp volume.aiff volume_backup.aiff

Move the old sound file from Mavericks (or anything you want), found in the link below and rename it to volume.aiff.  (If you use the link below it will already be named volume.aiff afer you extract it)

sudo cp "~/Desktop/mysound.aiff" volume.aiff

Change ~/Desktop/mysound.aiff from above command to the path to the new sound file you want to use.

Restart for it to take effect.

Original sources I used below:

MacWorld Change Volume Sound

Macrumors forum with original sound.aiff


Can I remote desktop into a Windows-based corporate network from my iPad?

If you’re talking about accessing a Remote Desktop via a RDC Client, There are a lot of applications that work fine. I’m personally using iTap Mobile RDP and it’s fantastic.


iPad displays "Not Charging" when plugged into USB ports.  What can I do?

From the article, The iPad's USB charging caveat:

[Originally posted on Neowin.net by giga on 04 April 2010 12:26]

  The iPad specifications page clearly state the ability to charge with USB (with no mention of OS requirements) but Apple have additionally provided a support document disclosing that "some USB 2.0 ports and accessories do not provide enough power to charge iPad."

  Providing some further clarification to Macworld, Apple asserts that USB charging is supported but that it varies according to the state of the iPad and the power output of the USB hub:

  For the fastest charging, use the iPad’s included 10-Watt USB power adapter. This will fully charge the iPad in a few hours, even if you’re using the iPad at the same time.
  When connected to a high-power USB port—such as the ones on recent Macs and the iPhone Power Adapter—the iPad will charge, even during use, but more slowly. (We haven’t yet determined how much more slowly.) Some third-party powered USB hubs provide higher-power USB ports, but many don’t; similarly, the USB ports on most Windows PCs don’t provide this additional power.
  When connected to lower-power USB ports—those on older Macs, most Windows PCs, and most USB hubs (powered or unpowered)—the iPad’s battery is not charged while the iPad is awake, but is charged (again, slowly) when the iPad is asleep. What’s confusing here is that the message "Not charging" appears in the menu bar when the iPad is awake, which might lead you to assume that the offending USB port can never charge  your iPad. But rest assured, Apple says: once you put the iPad to sleep, the battery will indeed charge. (If you could see the screen while the iPad was asleep, it might even display the charging icon. It’s the modern-day “Does the refrigerator light stay on when I close the door?” mystery.)

  Further analysis from Apple's statements indicate that the iPad can only be charged off of USB connections that provide near 1 amp of current. The majority of USB ports on most older Macs and PCs only provide 500 mA and thus can't be used to charge the device.

  The USB 2.0 specification provides 500 mA of current to high-powered buses and 100 mA for low-powered buses. But in April 2009, the specification gained a new "Battery Charging Specification" which provided additional current to high power devices and it seems that Apple has started to incorporate it in their newer Macs.


How can I control a Mac through TS-Gateway?

Macs share their screens using VNC technology where pictures of the screen are sent as opposed to RDC where drawing commands are sent (primarily). They do not integrate with TS-Gateway out of the box or with any software I've seen.

On the Mac side, you need either a location service (like Back to my Mac or Screens connect client) or a VPN tunnel to get your client past the firewall and back into the local network.

Also on the Mac side, you simply enable either Remote Management or Screen Sharing as both can turn on the VNC server and allow incoming network requests to be served.

Since I put a lot of OR options in the text, here is what you need:

Turn ON VNC in Sharing preference pane
Open VNC ports (or bypass the firewall with NAT/VPN or ssh tunneling) on the Mac and incoming from the network
A VNC client similar to iTap if it does not work with plain VNC implementations.


Is it Possible to RDP into a BootCamp Image running Windows 8.1?

I use RDC all the time and I know a few things about it. I have a similar setup as you, Apple based server but with a windows 8 partition. I RDC into the partition from another Mac and it all works fine. Here are a couple links that should help you with the setup on your Windows. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows/remote-desktop-connection-faq#1TC=windows-7 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKUcU4KBb8s. This should help you get up and running. The setup I have on the Mac is the Domain is the internal IP that you will get from your Windows and obviously the Username and password... are the username and password to your Windows. Hope I haven't been too blunt, but feel free to ask for help.

Nick


I would like to report that the update to iOS 6.1 solves this problem. I had the issue and now it's gone.


Increment CSS property values in Safari web inspector with keyboard arrows

Use Option + up or down arrow, the list of inspector shortcut can be found here. https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Safari_Developer_Guide/KeyboardShortcuts/KeyboardShortcuts.html


Macbook Pro w/ USB-C and multiple monitors occasionally swap non-main screens

So one "solution" is to unplug the USB-C cable from the computer and replug it in.  I have at times had to do this several times before it picks up the correct configuration. Its totally anecdotal but I have found better results by unplugging and plugging it back in immediately before the computer has a chance to reorganize the windows on the laptop. So its not like the information is somehow corrupt or lost, it must be triggered by the order in which it recognizes the monitors.


I would remove the old accounts for the sake of organization, especially if their details, or even addresses are the same (it sounds like they might be, just with different mail server configurations). You can archive old emails on your mac using the mail app. With the mail app open, go to the menu, click Mailbox -> New Mailbox. This will allow you to create a local mailbox:

Click OK, and the mailbox will be created. Copy all emails you want into this mailbox. It may help to create multiple local mailbox for organization purposes. Once all of your old emails are moved to local storage, you can remove the old accounts while keeping all of your old emails safely on your Mac.


How to expand partition into free space that lies before it

You can't do what you are asking, per se.  What you would have to do is create new partition "above" your existing partition, copy the data there, kill the partition below, then expand the partition with the data into the newly created free space.

You can do this with  Disk Utility.  OS X Daily has a really good write up on it (limited on how to resize the partition)

However, I am personally not a fan of resizing disks with any sort of data on it.

I prefer to follow these steps:

Copy all data from the drive to my desktop, a USB, burn a DVD;
basically make a backup copy of the drive.
Using Disk Utility, erase and repartition the drive.
Copy data back to the drive.

Yes, it's a bit old school, but it is super reliable (not that the partition resizing is a failure by any means).  I am just old school and this procedure gives me peace of mind.


I just realised that I activated this behaviour in Karabiner-Elements myself.


Is it OK to charge my iPhone with my iPad charger?

Your assumption is correct. Your iPhone has an intelligent charge controller on-board and this controller will only draw as much as it needs.

Sure, the iPad power supply can supply twice as much power as the iPhone needs, but it should not be dangerous by any means.

I don't know if there is an "official" word on this, but I would be genuinely surprised that it voids your warranty. Apple engineers are very smart and know that users will interchange powersupplies if they recognize that the connectors are physically compatible (as is the case here.)

Long story, short: you should be fine.


Python Launcher shows nothing on the terminal

When you run python launcher you should get a set of menu items. Go to the Python Launcher menu item and under that select Preferences. The panel that appears should look like the image below.

As you can see there is a checkbox to run in a terminal window.


What is the latest iOS version for iPhone 4?

The latest iOS available for the iPhone 4 is iOS 7.1.2

Have a look at: Maximum Supported iOS Version

The direct download links for the full releases are:

iPhone 4 (GSM Rev A)

iPhone 4 (GSM)

iPhone 4 (CDMA)

Download the appropriate file for your device and then in iTunes select the device and option-click the Check for Update button and select the downloaded .ipsw file.

Also, if you Google "how to install ios from file using itunes" (without quotes) you'll find additional information.


Can I connect my Mini DisplayPort monitor with a Thunderbolt cable?

Yes that is possible!

But all you need is a Mini DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cable. Skip this upscale Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cable. You'll find Mini DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cables much cheaper in other retailers.

For example Amazon..


Firstly, you can't send a normal SMS using iMessage since they are completely different messaging services even if both can be sent from the iPhone Message App. iMesssage only relies on iCloud account and internet access (Wifi is sufficient) while SMS requires a SIM card that is functional and access to your carrier network (and not necessary GPRS, 3G, 4G...).

Secondly, it is not a network issue or a bug to not receive delivery report for SMS on iPhone as Apple never provided such service (as far as i know). Moreover there is no alternative app to deal with SMS and delivery report on iOS (while it is possible on Android OS). As far as I know alternative SMS apps are not allowed by Apple (only instant messaging apps are allowed, that are apps using a cellular connection i.e. 3G, 4G and so on).

SUMMARY

There is no option to enable SMS delivery report on iPhone and there is no app that can achieve this goal because it is not allowed by Apple.

Note:
Back in the days when jailbreak was quite common a solution used to exist but jailbreak is not recommended and may be hard to achieve on recent OS.


You can't disable one app update access.

You can turn off automatic updates and not update it manually, to turn off automatic updates:

Go to Settings
iTunes & App Store
Find App Updates and turn it off


Not able to download game applications from App Store

Per my comment above, apps simply do not show up (in iTunes itself, anyone can view the web-page overview versions) in iTunes if they are not available in your region.

If you do follow a link to the app specifically, you should get an error message explicitly stating that the application is not available.
Any other message indicates some other problem entirely.


How do I pair a second smartcard to my MacBook?

Figured it out: sc_auth using various options. It also has the pairing_ui option to force the dialog box to pop up.


How do I add the "explicit" tag to albums in iTunes

It seems that this is a tag within the file. If you are using Windows, follow this guide here. Per Mod request, I've put the instructions below.

Begin by downloading MP3Tag, whether the most recent version or a portable version.
Open iTunes and find a song that you’d like to mark with an appropriate tag. Click the song once, so that it is highlighted, and then press “Ctrl + I.” The next window will have a button marked “File.” Under it you can see if the track is an AAC or MP3 (iTunes calls MP3 ‘MPEG audio’). Unfortunately, adding these tags to an MP3 file is not possible, so any track you wish to mark must be AAC.
Right-click the track and choose to “Create AAC Version.” In our case, we’ll use a copy of Hard-Fi’s “Suburban Knights.” iTunes will play a tone when the AAC version has been created, and it will appear alongside the original version in your library. Use “Ctrl + I” again to double-check which file is the AAC version if you are unsure.
Open MP3Tag at this point, and right click the song in iTunes to see a list of actions. Choose “Show in Windows Explorer,” then drag the song into MP3Tag.
Right-click the entry within MP3Tag and select the “Extended Tags” option. The tag is not part of MP3Tag by default, so you’ll have to add it via the first of the three buttons.
After clicking the first of the three buttons, another window will appear asking for two properties: the tag name and the tag value.
Call the tag “ITUNESADVISORY” (without the quote marks), and choose the correct value. Entering “0” will mean that no icon appears, just as before. Entering “1” will give the song the “Explicit” tag, and entering “2” will give it the “Clean” tag. Leaving the value blank will give no tag.
After modifying the details for the song, press “Ctrl + S” in MP3Tag to get a window informing you that the changes have been saved.
Remove the songs you’re changing from iTunes. As iTunes cannot register changes to the song, you’ll have to remove and re-add them. Make sure you choose to “Keep Files.”
Drag the modified tracks back into iTunes, and you’ll see the corresponding tag. Sync them with an iOS device and the same remains true.


HGST 1TB in Mid 2012 MacBook Pro not working in SATA bay but drive seems fine

Solution: So I swapped the drives, put the 1tb HDD into the cage and the ssd into the standard drive bay. I don't understand why exactly but it works :)


When upgrading to Yosemite from Mavericks are there any traps with Brew and Ports

If you have a lot of stuff installed in /usr/local, the upgrade will be extremely slow. It's faster to move it away before upgrading and move it back when the upgrade is done -- see here for full details.


How do I change the default font size for reading the body of messages in Mail 14.0

Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors provides selectors for font style, size, usage (list, text body), and color.
Here's the Fonts & Colors preference pane:

To change the text font, style, and size, push the "Select" button that appears at the right end of the line "Message font." Doing so brings up the regular macOS font selector dialog:

Make your selections, and in a moment or two Mail.app will update its display.


How to backup and access iOS Safari's reading list?

Assuming you have your backup under $backup_dir, the reading list is stored in the sqlite database file $backup_dir/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.db, under the table bookmarks.

This table also contains favourites, which can be distinguished from reading list bookmarks by the fact they have no value for the column extra_attributes. Therefore, we can use the following query:

select url,title
from bookmarks
where url not like '' and extra_attributes not like '';

To import these in browsers, we can transform the entries into Netscape Bookmark File Format. You can use, for example, the following AWK script:

#!/usr/bin/awk -f

BEGIN { print \
    "<!DOCTYPE NETSCAPE-Bookmark-file-1>\n" \
    "\n" \
    "<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"Content-Type\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\">\n" \
    "<TITLE>Bookmarks</TITLE>\n" \
    "
Bookmarks
\n" \
    "

"
}
/^[[:space:]]*$/ { next }
{
    split($0, parts, "|")
    url = parts[1]
    title = separator = ""
    for (i=2; i in parts; i++) {
        title = title separator parts[i]
        separator = "|"
    }
    print "
" title ""
}
END { print "

" }

In sum, you can do all this with the following bash "one-liner":

echo "
select url,title
from bookmarks
where url not like '' and extra_attributes not like '';
" | \
sqlite "$backup_dir"/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.db | \
./"$awk_script" > bookmarks.html


Mount sparse bundle with a WD My Cloud EX2 NAS

To mount your .sparsebundle (requires command line), try

hdiutil mount /path/to/sparsebundle

Ensure that your EX2 is mounted as a network share on your Mac. Usually, this will involve mounting your Time Machine share to reveal your .sparsebundle.

Be aware that this will take a substantial amount of time depending on the size of your .sparsebundle.

side note: I tried mounting my sparsebundle on the WD My Cloud I backup to, and it seems that there isn't really much of an issue except for the sluggishness of browsing. Could you post the issue you're facing in your native language?

By the way, to find files in the sparsebundle, navigate to

*.sparsebundle/Backups.backupdb/[name of your computer]/Latest


iPhone 4 unable to connect to any Google service on Wi-Fi

It might be related to the DNS on the iPhone.

Go to Settings -> Wi-Fi -> And Connect to your home Wi-Fi Network

Now:

Touch on the "i" icon on the right;
Where it says DNS edit the value for: 8.8.4.4
Go Back to the Wi-Fi networks listing and wait to confirm that the blue tick appears on the left.

This DNS address is from Google, so it will work with everything Google related but also outside of Google universe.
I've set that address for all my DNS addresses in every machine I use and never had a problem.


To offer you a different point of view: I assume you're going to have a Backup of your system before performing such a drastic operation.

If you do have a backup, I strongly advice you to install Snow Leopard from scratch and then, using migration assistant, transfer your data from your backup (Time Machine or clone).

I have upgraded seven machines from Leopard to Snow Leopard. Three with the method you describe and four with a fresh install.

I had problems with two of the upgraded machines (that eventually had to be reinstalled) and zero problems with the fresh installs.

That's my experience and ymmv, but bear in mind that the changes to the underlying system between Leopard and Snow Leopard justify a fresh start :)

You can always try the upgrade, but always have a backup, there are a lot of things that -depending upon your system- can fail.


Any way to reset volume level after unplugging headphones?

You can use a third-party app like Keyboard Maestro or EventScripts to trigger a low volume setting script whenever you plug your headphone!

For exemple, with EventScript:

Click on Open Folder from EventScripts menu in order to open the scripts folder.
Add the script you want to be triggered, in your case something like do shell script "osascript -e 'set volume 1'" (note that set volume function works from 0 to 7, 0 being mute and 7 maximum volume).
Click on Choose Script from EventScripts menu and select the script to be used.
Add the event Headphone connected.

See my own setup as exemple to quit or launch Boom whenever headphone or Bluetooth device is found:


Is there a Game Boy Color emulator for Lion?

http://vba.ngemu.com/
Visual Boy advanced should work on Mac. I haven't personally tried it out, but if it's at all as good as their program for PC you'll be set.
Best of luck


Why does a full screen application black out the other display?

Enable the setting System Preferences > Mission Control > Displays have separate Spaces:

It requires you to log out/back in, and then you will be able to use other displays as regular when an app is full screen in one of the displays.


Is there a signature-taking attendance app for iOS?

I've used FormEntry for Mac to do this at team meetings. I push out the form to an iPad, and send the completed signed roster to a PDF when the meeting is completed. Caveat: you do need the Mac to design the form, and then you need to push the form to the iPad when completed. This might not be the most cost effective solution, but it works nicely for this and other applications.


It sounds like a resolution issue, more than a font size issue. If so, take these steps:

You may have to shut down (not suspend) your VM whilst making these changes.

Open the Virtual Machine Library window (Shift + Command + L)

On the left side of the window, select the VM you want to change the resolution.

At the top of the Library window select "Settings"

Under Settings, choose "Display"

On the bottom half of the Display preference pane, uncheck "Use full resolution for Retina Display".

If this does not resolve your issue completely, you may need to adjust the display resolution within your VM was well using it's own display preferences.


Transfer between two ethernet connected Time Capsule from a wifi connected computer

There is no way to have two Airport Time Capsule devices talk directly to each other to transfer files.

Usually, for inter-device file transfers, either a login mechanism like ssh (into the devices) should be available or the devices should support direct inter-device transfers through a protocol like FXP - File eXchange Protocol (where the connecting client helps initiate the transfer but does not act as a middleman in the actual transfer).

Unfortunately, the Airport Time Capsule supports neither ssh nor FXP.

The options below may be faster than going over WiFi (depending on what performance you're seeing now). If you need to do this often and would like to make it faster at some monetary cost as well as loss of convenience, your options are:

Get a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter

Connect the devices like so: USB drive <-> Time Capsule <-> MacBook Air.
Connect the MacBook Air to one Time Capsule on its Gigabit ethernet port via this adapter.
Connect an external USB drive to the same Time Capsule, then transfer files to it from the Time Capsule (this would get you a higher data transfer speed, depending on the external drive and your ethernet cable).
Disconnect the USB drive from the Time Capsule, connect it to the second Time Capsule (switch the MacBook Air to the other one too over Thunderbolt<->ethernet) and copy files to it.

OR

Get a Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter and a USB Ethernet Adapter

Connect the devices like so: Time Capsule 1 <-> MacBook Air <-> Time Capsule 2.
Connect the MacBook Air to one Time Capsule with the USB<->ethernet adapter and to the other Time Capsule with the Thunderbolt<->ethernet adapter.
Copy files from one Time Capsule to the other (just like how you're doing now).
The speed will vary depending on the direction of data transfer as well as network conditions and the number of files.


How can I disable wireless captive portal support?

As documented in the Apple knowledge base:

  If you cancel before logging in to the network

  Tapping Cancel on the Log In screen disassociates the device from the captive Wi-Fi network.

  If you joined the network from the Wi-Fi screen using the ⓘ button, or you joined less than eight minutes ago, you'll see a message telling you the network isn't connected to the Internet. You can choose one of these options:

  Use Without Internet: this option will dismiss the Welcome screen, turn off Auto-Login for the network, keep your device associated with the network, and allow you to interact with the network in other ways.
  Use Other Network: this option will dismiss the Welcome screen, disassociate your device from the network, and return you to the Wi-Fi Settings screen. From there, you can choose a different network.
  Cancel: this option will return you to the Welcome screen.

Therefore you can (now—I don't know in which version of iOS this was introduced) click cancel and then "Use Without Internet".


Recovering files from an unbootable partition in OSX

I will post this as an answer although there are some uncertainties since some info is missing.

A 200mb Partition usually is the EFI partition (more detail what this is) which allows your Mac to boot into Windows.

Deleting this does not at a all delete your actual Mac/Windows partition. Therefore, I doubt you have actual done too much harm.
It is not clear if you have tried and failed, but you should be able to boot into macOS. After startup go into the finder and show all drives (finder hit cmd, select sidebar and tick everything that says disk).
You should then be able to see the remaining two partitions, Macintosh HD and some other name (e.g. Windows). Usually, you can simply open either and then do whatever you want, e.g. clone one disk, save the data,...


Can I move a volume from one computer to another in Time Machine?

No, you can't do this. The folder you've selected doesn't contain the entire backup, just the changes from the last backup, and many symlinks to the older data contained in other backups. Such symlinks will break if you do this.


Folder name change in Finder but not changed in Terminal

You probably have "Hide extension" set for that folder or have globally disabled "Show all filename extensions" in Finder Advanced preferences.


Short term answer, try this command to see if your brew installation worked:

/usr/local/bin/brew doctor

It seems that your bash environment may not be looking in the /usr/local/bin for executibles (which means you have to write the full path rather than just the name of the command). The solution may be just resourcing your conf files, which can be roughly done by closing your terminal and opening a new one. Otherwise, you'll want to add a line to your ~/.bash_profile. I think resourcing will do the trick though.

So after confirming the success with the first doctor, try quitting your terminal application and starting fresh, then your original usage of brew should work. If it doesn't try:

echo $PATH

and report  back the results.


How change language of interface in itunes connect

Found that very frustrating too (I'm Russian as well). It based on your "preferred language" settings in browser. If you use Chrome, it can be found there chrome://settings/languages, move "English" upper. That's it.


I have the same issue and I'm looking for a solution. However, I think I know the cause...

When you unplug a monitor the OS creates a new Desktop for the lost screen and moves all the windows onto your laptop screen. When you plug back in it thinks you want that extra Desktop so it doesn't re-use it for the monitor, then when you unplug again it creates a new one. For people who rarely use the Desktops / Spaces feature (or mission control) these extra desktops can build up and you only notice them on the rare occasions you go into mission control. I sometimes find 20 or more Desktops there.

I'm not sure if this is exactly correct, or how to solve it, but I think this is what causes multiple Desktops to keep appearing.


To avoid a long and fastidious answer:

Time Machine is duplicating (incremental backup) your root folder, i.e. /.
However, you have the ability to exclude folders from the backup (see: macOS Sierra: Exclude items from a Time Machine backup
The answer to question 2: caches and temporary files are not backed up. They are a part of the default exclusion list of Time Machine. You can see the full exclusion list here: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist.
The answer to question 1: Time Machine backups folders as Applications Support, Preferences. So, to be short: if you consider that removing an app == moving  in the Trash folder, then you will restore all the files spread on your system by the apps you "deleted" before your last backup. If you deleted them properly by removing the .app and all the linked files spread on your system, you will end up with a clean system.


Stop Automatically Switching to Bluetooth Audio

This little menu bar app works for me to quickly switch audio sources:

Audio Switcher

It's more of a Band-Aid then an actual fix of the problem.

NOTE: This app is not available in all regions.


Is there a way to change a short name in OS X

Use these steps to change the short username of an account on your computer:

Open System Preferences
Choose the "Users & Groups" preference pane
If the padlock at the bottom left is locked, click on it to unlock it with an administrator password
Control-click on the account in the users list
A menu will appear with "Advanced Options…". Select that and you will get a sheet where you can change the account name.


Xcode 6 on Yosemite: Give me back my title bar!

Try command clicking on the blue Project folder, for you it's the Portfolio Manager App bit on the left.


My SD card doesn't fit into my MacBook Air, but it fits into my MacBook Pro!


Can the excessively limited "Recent Items" list be adjusted to include more document types?

Another way to try it is to set the recent items list to zero, so it shows nothing, ever. You can do this in Terminal.

In Terminal:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSRecentDocumentsLimit 0

Normally that's a 20. just set the default to zero and you shouldn't see anything in recent items.

For an application-specific change (for instance, Safari) use this command:

defaults write com.apple.safari NSRecentDocumentsLimit 0

Replace com.apple.safari with the proper wording for the app you wish to modify, like vlc or flipplayer or whatever.

To reset default values, type:

defaults delete com.apple.app_name NSRecentDocumentsLimit

to remove the application-specific setting, or

defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSRecentDocumentsLimit 20

to set the global value back to 20 (or whatever you want)


Calendar wiped out on iPad 4th Generation

Just out of curiosity, what accounts are listed in Settings > Mail, Contacts and Calendars? Check this on both devices. Do any of the accounts have Calendar turned in?

If both devices are running iOS 5 or later (which your iPad definitely is), you can simply sign into iCloud and let the information sync across.


Indeed, OS X Terminal can receive mouse input through ⌥-clicking:

However, certain Terminal apps don't receive the passed mouse input.

You can install MouseTerm which will pass mouse events to the terminal.

  Mouse button reporting.
  Mouse scroll wheel reporting.
  Simulated mouse wheel scrolling for programs like less (i.e. any fullscreen program that uses application cursor key mode).
  Terminal profile integration (with preferences dialog).

It's a SIMBL plugin, so you'll need to install SIMBL to make it work. I recommend installing EasySIMBL instead though.


macOS Sierra Installer not launching: The application “Install macOS Sierra” can’t be opened

I know it sounds stupid, but I compressed the file and transferred it to my personal Mac via USB, decompressed and it worked, but seriously couldn't find out what was causing that error.


Prevent encrypted APFS volume on partition to automount / ask for password on login - Catalina

Starting with MacOS BigSur 11.1. the /etc/fstab/ solution works (again):

find the volume label from the volume name:
diskutil list | grep <volume name>
the last entry (e.g. disk2s2) is the volume label.
find out the volume UUID from the volume label
diskutil info <volume label> | grep "Volume UUID"
open /etc/fstab for editing:
sudo vifs
add a line preventing the auto-mount of the volume:
UUID=<volume uuid> none auto noauto

Here's a complete example:
> diskutil list | grep "Macintosh HD2 - Data"
2:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD2 - Data       341.8 GB   disk2s2

> diskutil info disk2s2 | grep "Volume UUID"
Volume UUID:               C58A1BDC-593C-4854-B954-702A73ABD67C

> sudo vifs
# add the following line:
UUID=C58A1BDC-593C-4854-B954-702A73ABD67C none auto noauto

On the next reboot the popup asking for the password will no longer appear.


Old Mac Pro starts randomly hanging - how do I figure out what's wrong?

Is Lion Server a fresh install, or is it updated from a prior OS? My suspicion is that you're likely suffering from a hardware issue (the only times I've experienced that sort of problem, HW was the culprit), but your first step is to get it running as vanilla as possible and see if you're still having the issue.

Best bet is borrow a monitor, run diagnostics on the boot drive (make sure the drive isn't dying and the culprit), wipe the drive and install the OS fresh. Confirm you don't have any weird third party hardware connected and see if you're still having the issue. RAM is notoriously finicky, so I'd also look into that (although I admit I've never heard of janky RAM causing this sort of problem) - if the RAM has been upgraded at some point, try just running the original RAM that came with the machine when new.

If you can eliminate software being an issue, then at that point you'll know a hardware tech (Genius Bar or otherwise) would need to root out the hardware cause.


At present, Apple's WatchOS won't connect to Wi-Fi or iCloud directly. Even if you brought up each image and took a low resolution screen capture - there isn't a viable way to send them off the device in the absence of the phone to which it was paired.

I would do two things just in case there's a maintenance procedure for this:

Contact AppleCare and ask about watch backups when the phone is gone.
See if waiting for the phone to dry out over a week or more and/or risk opening it to expedite the drying process.

Most devices that get submerged will function for a short time (with greatly reduced lifespan) once they dry completely - and that process could take a week or more before you introduce it to the best chance of working (known Wi-Fi network, connect to power to see if it boots and then connect to iTunes in the presence of the watch and a pre-joined network to try and get a backup of the photos).

Sorry I can't offer a higher chance of success. Going forward, you can make sure photos back up to iCloud and get the phone to network access periodically to reduce the window in time where photos only exist on the phone/watch combination.


If someone has access to my iCloud account, can they see all my text messages or just my iMessages?

To start off, as of August 2017, there is no way to view or send iMessages from the web. So before she could view your conversations, your friend would need to register one of her Apple devices with iMessage using your Apple ID.

When that happens, you will get a notification on all of your devices, informing you that some new device is now registered to use your Apple ID and phone number for iMessage.

Your friend will then be able to see all iMessages you send and receive. It doesn’t matter if you initiate conversations from your phone number or from your Apple ID. Not only will she be able to see everything, she can also impersonate you (by sending iMessages on your behalf, from both your phone number and Apple ID).

Regular text messages (SMS/MMS) work a bit differently. They are sent and received through your cellphone carrier, then forwarded from your iPhone to your other devices. Even if your friend registered her Apple device with iMessage using your Apple ID, you would still need to go into Settings → Messages → Text Message Forwarding and allow forwarding to her Apple device.

Currently, registering a new device for iMessage only allows that device to view new messages that are sent and received. However starting in iOS 11, with iCloud Messages, registering a new device will allow it to view all conversations synced to iCloud, past and future.

Text conversations are absolutely the least of your worries, however. Much more importantly, with your Apple ID password, your friend can login to iCloud.com and read your email, impersonate you by sending email on your behalf, use your email to change your password on other websites (and essentially login to any of your accounts, anywhere), view your photos synced to iCloud Photo Library, access your contacts and view their private information, etc.

In essence you’ve given her full access to your account, much of your private life, and private data belonging to your friends and family. In many ways, you’ve given her your identity.

Remember that arguments and falling-outs do happen, even among best friends. If/when that happens, she could also change the password on your iCloud account and steal it from you.

I strongly recommend you visit id.apple.com, and change your password immediately. Then remove any devices she may have registered with your Apple ID.

I’m just not sure how giving her your account password solves the problem where she forgot hers. What she needs to do is recover her own Apple ID.


OS X Yosemite & Time Machine: identity of the backup disk has changed

There seems to be an issue with Yosemite renaming the computer local host by adding (#) after the computer name. There are other reports of this happening in a thread on MacRumors Forum and I believe a few people have blamed this as a cause of time machine backup failures. I've tried a few of the suggestions in the thread but so far none have worked. I've stopped using time machine for now and reverted to an old bash rsync script.

A really simple solution is to open the terminal and type:

rsync -avu ~/ /Volumes/backup_disk/backup_folder

replacing 'backup_disk' with the name of your external hard drive and 'backup_folder' with the name of the backup folder i.e.: 'yosemite_backup'. The three flags -avu mean: archive (a) copy the home directory recursively into sub folders, verbose (v) print to the terminal window everything you are copying (feel free to leave this out) and update (u) will only overwrite files that are newer than the archived file (useful after the initial main backup). This solution isn't as hands off as time machine but at least it's a simple way to back up vital information in Documents and Pictures/Videos.

Edit: 2014/10/28 - I've had success with the following procedure:

Go to Macintosh HD > Library > Preferences > SystemConfiguration and delete the following files:

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

Then remove the numeric iteration (#) from the computer name (or rename altogether) in System Preferences > Sharing and reboot. The plist files will be recreated after reboot. So far this has fixed the computer name issue with Yosemite on my machine and time machine seems to be back on track.

Note: This fix seems to be inconsistent with users and may not fix the naming issue after all.

Edit 2: 2014/11/11 - The above seems to have worked for about 2 weeks but the renaming issue is now back.


The personal recovery key is read from /dev/random and base32 encoded afterwards:

  ... When activating FileVault 2, the
  System Preferences application displays a randomly generated
  120 bit password, encoded with base32, to the end
  user and advises them to securely store the password for
  recovery (see figure 2). The recovery password is read
  from /dev/random (through libcsfde and SecCreateRecoveryPassword()
  in Security.framework).

Source: Infiltrate the Vault: Security Analysis and Decryption of Lion Full Disk Encryption, page 9


Uninstall all programs installed by Homebrew

I usually just do brew remove --force $(brew list).
Edited: brew list now requires the --formula argument, so it should now be
brew remove --force $(brew list --formula)