Logic Studio 9 : Is it possible to use tracks or buses as "virtual devices"

If Skype supported the ReWire protocol directly this would be no problem at all. You'd wire Skype's output to Logic 9, run it through your effects, and then wire the output from Logic 9 to Skype's input. But Skype doesn't support ReWire.

So instead you have to hijack it's audio input stream and feed it a stream from Logic 9. To do that you can use the most awesome SoundFlower app from the great folks at Cycling '74. It's free!

SoundFlower presents itself as an audio device to your computer. Except its only use is to route audio between applications. The 2ch mode is what you'll need to accomplish your goal here.

You'll set Skype's audio (microphone) input to be SoundFlower's output -- lets say the left channel output.

In Logic you'd create a new Audio track that takes its input from from the built-in microphone on your Mac. To enable the internal mic in Logic go to Preferences -> Audio and under the Devices tab select the Core Audio sub-tab and pick 'Built-in Microphone' for device.

Create a new Logic project. Add a new, mono Audio Track with the input coming from the internal microphone. Connect output of the track to the SoundFlower input channel. Pile on whatever effects you'd like on the channel (no real need to use a sub-mix buss in Logic here). Watch the levels in Logic and Skype and adjust to taste.

There's going to be some latency involved in all of this. And whether your third party will pick up on that or not depends on how big the latency gets as you pile on effects.


What's the difference, in Apple parlance, between a Cursor and a Mouse Pointer?

Apple (and the computer industry as a whole)  is using the two terms to mean the same thing.
Going to the full extreme and setting the "cursor size" as large as you can, you can see that the pointer, even though it has changed to indicate I'm in a text box, is extremely large while the actual blinking cursor is still a "normal" size.

Definition of Cursor
Per Wikipedia:

In computer user interfaces, a cursor is an indicator used to show the
current position for user interaction on a computer monitor or other
display device that will respond to input from a text input or
pointing device. The mouse cursor is also called a pointer, owing
to its resemblance in usage to a pointing stick.


Why doesn't my name show when I send a text message?

The recipient would have to have your contact added in order to associate your name to your number.

Also, sometimes the format of the number would matter: it's better if the recipient copies the number as it appears when you send him am SMS.


Can you upgrade the RAM in the latest MacBook Airs if you ship them to Apple themselves?

Apple will replace the motherboard. The RAM is not desoldered and replaced, but the motherboard is simply swapped for one with the amount of RAM you want.


How to view movies stored on external drive on my iPad?

You can connect USB devices to your iPad with one of Apple's USB camera connection adapters, but there are a number of limitations and requirements to make this work.

There are also drives now that are specifically designed to work with Lightning connectors — if you are viewing this page from a Google search and don't have a drive yet and want to see if you can make this work, you might want to look into buying one of them instead.

If you already have a non-Lightning USB drive and want to use it with your iPad, read on.

Limitations

The drive must either be externally powered (plugs into the wall) or require only a tiny amount of power. I wasn't able to find exactly how much power the port is allowed to supply, but it almost certainly won't be enough for a hard drive — flash storage/solid state only.

Note: It might be possible to skirt this requirement by using a USB hub which draws power from an external power supply. I wasn't able to find definitive information about whether this works, though, so do some testing before buying anything.

The drive must be formatted in a certain way. I don't have the kit myself, so I can't test this, but some sources claim it must be FAT/FAT32/exFAT formatted and others that it must be HFS+ formatted. NTFS definitely won't work. (This may be a variable dependent on your iOS version — test it out with another drive first that you don't mind reformatting a couple times.)

Establishing the physical connection

If you have an older iPad with the 30-pin dock connector (1st, 2nd, or 3rd generation iPad), you will need the iPad Camera Connection Kit (discontinued, but available from Amazon or other places).

If you have a newer iPad with a Lightning connector (any iPad Mini, Pro, Air, or the 4th generation iPad), you will need the Lightning to USB Camera Adapter ($29) or the Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter ($39). The more expensive one's only advantages are that it will allow you to charge your iPad simultaneously, and if you have a 12.9" iPad Pro it will allow you to transfer data with USB 3 speeds.

If your iPad is jailbroken

If you're jailbroken, it's pretty easy. Simply use a file manager like Filza or iFile and view the files from there, or a media viewer like Kodi (formerly XBMC).

If your iPad is not jailbroken

If you aren't jailbroken, it is still possible to view movies on an external drive, though it necessitates that you have enough spare storage on your iPad to hold a movie, that it's fine to either reorganize or duplicate your movies, and that all your movies are already in iOS-readable formats (I wasn't able to find a list of supported formats for this, but it's a fair bet that MKVs are out, for instance).

On your computer, copy the movies you want to watch to a "DCIM" folder at the root of the drive.
You may need to also rename the movies to something like "DCIM_1234" — sources vary as to whether this is a required step.
Connect the drive to your iPad with the adapter and open the Photos app.
It should now prompt you to import your media.
Select the movie(s) you want to copy to your iPad and tell them to import.
Once the import has finished, you can unplug the drive from your iPad (no "eject" button is necessary).
Your movies will be in the Photos app as though they were videos you took with a camera. You will need to watch them in Photos or in a third party app which can view media in your Photos library.

If any of the requirements of that method aren't an option, there may still be a way to do it with a third-party app, though I wasn't able to find any options in my research while writing this answer. If I find any further information about this in the future, I will update my answer to include it.


How to specify non-breaking space on Mac Excel - Mac version of char(160)

try char(202) instead of char(160).   That seems to be the code in Excel Mac

The reason is that your Excel Mac is working in the old MacRoman character set, where 160 is a dagger (U+2020) and 202 is a no break space (U+00A0)

http://www.alanwood.net/demos/macroman.html


OSX Hierarchy questions and organization

OS X spawns from two different cultures: Unix/POSIX and Mac OS.

Folders like /usr, /var, /etc, the command line shell in the Terminal (bash by default) all belong to POSIX environment. Portable software targeting Unix-based systems (like git) go into /usr/local by default, or into package manager's defined location if installed by it (Homebrew uses /usr/local, MacPorts use /opt/local).

Library, Applications, /System and others belong to Mac OS specifically. Apple's software, services, and GUIs of third-party apps go there.

The ~ symbol in path is a traditional way to denote path to current user's home folder. Things that must not be seen by other user accounts go into ~/... counterpart. For example, Mail keeps emails in ~/Library, but standard stationery templates in /Library.

Library folders are supposed to be accessed by applications programmatically, not browsed by user via Finder. Since 10.9, ~/Library is hidden so that users won't unknowingly screw anything there.

There are no out-of-the-box recommendations how to store your files. They will be as good organized as you are good in organizing. They only thing to say in context of OS X is that your files must be in the home folder, but not in ~/Library, and probably not in ~/Public which exists to share files with others.


Is there a way to find a dead or offline iPhone?

Unfortunately no, all of the methods for locating lost/stolen iOS devices depend on the device being on and connected to the Internet in some way. If it is not on and/or not connected to the Internet in some way then you are just as likely to find the Boy Scout knife you lost when you were 8 the same way.

Note I am not being facetious here, just trying to be clear.

If someone finds the phone and decides to charge it up, it may reconnect to a network somewhere and become findable again. I would log on once a day and see if that has happened. That chance of that happening? Well your guess is as good as mine.


Go to System Preferences → Mission Control and change the Show Dashboard shortcut to something else.


How do I force send a text message in iOS 10?

Go to settings and turn off iMessage.
Send your message.
(Optional) go back to settings and turn iMessage back on.

I just verified that this works in iOS 10.


How to hide preview of text contents from Messages.app notifications in Mountain lion?

There is an option to "show preview" that can be ticked off in the settings of the Messages app: Go to Settings> Notification> Messaging.

Stated another way:

1) Go to Settings = Click on the GEAR icon (System Preferences)

2) The top-most section of System Preferences on My Mac is labeled "Personal" at the far right is "Notifications" (a black square with a red dot in the center)

3) Click that square and the dialogue window will show a list on the left which should include "Messages" with a sub title "Badges and Sounds"

4) Click that item in the list on the left and you will notice on the right side, toward the top it has three options (the default is Banners).  Click the item to the left of Banners (should be None).

Now you can press CMD+Q on your keyboard to close System Prefs and the alerts will stop popping up in the upper right of your screen (you may want to test it)

This was an issue for me because I was allowing one of my staff to use my Macbook for some training and all my personal iMessages kept popping up in front of her -  NOT COOL.  This ended that problem


Change Partition size on internal AFPS drive

Ok, so it turns out this error -5344: MediaKit reports not enough space on device for requested operation is caused by the fact that you are trying to expand a container backward into free space that exists before it on the partition list, even though Disk Utility (and by extension diskutil) can only expand partitions forward into free space that comes after the container in the partition list. Another notable error is your attempt to resize the Physical Store partitions on which the Container disks are stored (disk0s2 and disk0s4), rather than the Container disks themselves (disk3, disk4, and disk5 in the below example).

With a bit of trial and error I was able to figure out how to effectively merge Containers 2 and 3 into one, with no data loss to Container 1. Note that this will require the deleting of the Mojave beta partition, so make sure you either have it backed up, or have an installer on hand.

UPDATE: There is a way to do this without having to reinstall the second OS. In macOS versions up to Sierra (I haven't tried it in newer) you could create directly bootable backups of your entire system with (adjusting for the disk names you gave in your question) sudo ditto -V -X --nocache /Volumes/Mojave\ beta/ /Volumes/Untitled/ NOTE: for backing up the currently booted system, subsitute /Volumes/Mojave\ beta/ with /

For posterity please make sure you have a macOS installer (USB or Recovery HD) on hand for each OS you have installed.

Please also remember that these disk lables are just the ones for my disk on my system, always double check the names are correct for yours when running these commands by comparing them with the output of diskutil apfs list

In order to replicate your situation the best I could, using Disk Utility I formatted a 4 GB flash drive as APFS. I then partitioned the disk two separate times, which resulted in three APFS Containers, and three virtual volumes, in the following order:

  First Container
  Container disk3  -  1.85G
  Physical Store disk2s2
  Volume disk3s1

  Second Container
  Container disk4  -  0.94G
  Physical Store disk2s3
  Volume disk4s1

  Third Container
  Container disk5  -  0.94G
  Physical Store disk2s4
  Volume disk5s1

I then opened a terminal, and deleted the Third Container with: diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk5, which resulted in disk2s4 being converted into an HFS+ volume.

After this I deleted the partition disk2s4, and in so doing freed up the space necessary to expand the Second Container by running diskutil eraseVolume "Free Space" "" disk2s4

At this point the partition list looked like this:

  First Container
  Container disk3  -  1.85G
  Physical Store disk2s2
  Volume disk3s1

  Second Container
  Container disk4  -  0.94G
  Physical Store disk2s3
  Volume disk4s1

  Free Space  -  0.94G

Finally I was able to expand the Second Container to 1.85 GB with diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk4 1.85G. The final result of this is two APFS Container disks of equal value on the flash drive:

  First Container
  Container disk3  -  1.85G
  Physical Store disk2s2
  Volume disk3s1

  Second Container
  Container disk4  -  1.85G
  Physical Store disk2s3
  Volume disk4s1

Besides adjusting the commands so that the disk labels match those on your own machine, the one notable substitution you should make is changing 1.85G to 100G in the final command. Beyond that this should be all you need to make the conversion requested.


How does a Google iOS app save and restore active accounts across app deletion?

Apple advises developers to store app login credentials in the encrypted iOS Keychain. When you delete an app from your phone it doesn't delete the related records from the Keychain.

  Keychains are secure storage containers, which means
  that when the keychain is locked, no one can access its protected
  contents. In OS X, users can unlock a keychain—thus providing trusted
  applications access to the contents—by entering a single master
  password. In iOS, each application always has access to its own
  keychain items; the user is never asked to unlock the keychain.
  Whereas in OS X any application can access any keychain item provided
  the user gives permission, in iOS an application can access only its
  own keychain items.

https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Security/Conceptual/keychainServConcepts/01introduction/introduction.html


How to change Default alert sound in iCal?

There is a alternative way to do that.

Go to System/Library/Sounds and create a sound file with the same name as Basso.aiff and it will supersede Basso without the need for deleting a system sound file.


How to make USB drives connect again in OS X

Removing entry:

    /Volumes        auto_custom

In /etc/auto_master answered first question and solved my issue.


Menu Bar Display icon has disappeared from the macOS Menu Bar

Looks like you have a lot of third-party widgets in your menubar. That's not inherently bad, but I'd suggest rebooting into safe mode and attempting to reproduce the behavior there.
Whether you can or cannot reproduce it, there's a chance this will resolve the behavior when you reboot again into normal mode. It's magical voodoo when this happens, but it has worked for me on similarly mysterious problems in the past.
If the problem disappears in safe mode and returns when you come back to regular mode, try disabling your third-party menubar widgets one at a time.


Can you format a Numbers cell by calling a function?

In the formatting inspect ("Cells" pane) there is a section called "Conditional Format" in which you can change the text or background color based on the value in the cell.


Viewing external video input over mini displayport

Screen sharing https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh14066/mac or you could use a VNC solution. Have a look at Real VNC: https://www.realvnc.com/en/


How to differentiate between applications with the same name in applescripts

You can use direct path to the application inside Your Apple Script.
This will looke like:

set p to "/Applications/Safari.app"
tell application p to activate

Here's the link about AppleScript and POSIX paths


How can I force Photo app on the Mac to scan for faces in a given picture?

I have noticed on El Capitan Photos that manually adding faces on individual photos (cmd+i, click circle with + , position manually and resize circle, type person name) then skipping forward one by one (right arrow or slide) will rescan sequential photos.

Then going directly to Faces and clicking person face which you were working on will suggest that more photos could be added.

This made Photos to gain additional 10-20% face recognition for me.


I have the newest 3TB since a few days and for me it is basically without any substantial noice.


Can I add music to iPhone from a computer without my full library?

No, the phone can only be synced with one computer over the cable. If you purchase an apple music subscription, your music is cloud-hosted and you have more flexibility.


iPod doesnt show songs, iTunes and Explorer does

First, remove all songs from the device (from within iTunes) and then try re-adding them. If that fails to have any effect, remove all songs, unplug the iPod, re-plug, and add a few back. (Don't bother checking for songs in Explorer; that's not going to help.)

If that doesn't work, back up any data that has made it to your iPod and restore the firmware in iTunes. Then try to add a single song and see if that works. (Add a playlist with one song, then try dragging one over manually, if you prefer that setting.)

Comment on what worked or didn't: if nothing works, I'll come up with more things to try.


Why can't I no longer boot into my MacBook Air?

Looks like there's a reference to parallels and it might have modified something in the directory.
You can do a re-install which shouldn't wipe your data.
Startup with CMR+R and just re-install the OS. Don't choose the option to erase.


Prevent iTunes from importing sound files when they are played

To permanently change iTunes behaviour, you'd need to switch off
Keep iTunes Media folder organised - though it will soon disorganise itself if you also uncheck...
Copy files to iTunes Media folder when adding to Library

Unless you want to permanently change the behaviour of how iTunes keeps itself organised [or temporarily, with the added challenge of remembering in what state you last left it], I would recommend not using iTunes for 'casual' playback, but use Quick Look instead.

iTunes will never know or care you played them, won't add them to its content.

Just drop all the files into a single flat folder [or any hierarchy you like], select the first one, hit the Space bar.
That one file will play as a one-shot.
Use the arrow keys to switch the currently-selected file, that will play. [if you have a nested hierarchy, all 4 arrow keys come into play to navigate around, column view is easiest]
Replay is either drag the play position marker back to the beginning, or quickly arrow up/down to select another file & back - easy to do before it starts to play the other file.

When you're done, Space bar again will kill the Quick Look window.

Works with anything iTunes can play, aif, wav, mp3, aac etc

Downside is you can't touch any other file or folder whilst it's playing - but you can use other apps & switch between, so long as you don't touch the Finder itself.


What steps I should take for data security and prevent misuse of my lost iPhone?

Call your phone carrier and disable your sim card and report the phone stolen to the police. If law enforcement finds evidence that the phone SIM, serial number or IMEI were involved in illegal activity, a dated police report is something they may consider when investigating a crime. Of course, a bad person could report a phone stolen and still use it for crime, so you can't really get the carrier or Apple to erase their records but just do what you can if you lose a possession.

You won't be able to use "Find My Phone" as you've erased all the data on the phone. So yes, you might get tracked down if there are records that you once owned or operated that phone.


The 4 pixel margin is shown on the side of the screen the Dock is on.

I don't know any way to remove it other than to disable Dock:

launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.Dock.plist

However that also disables Mission Control and the application switcher, and it makes full screen windows stop working.


I had the same issue for a long time. At first, 60Hz worked. Then something happened and I'd only get 30Hz on my 4K Lenovo ThinkVision 27".

I stumbled upon this article and simply went to Display settings and hit "Resolution: Default for display". Immediately the display switched to 60Hz. Then I could reapply my Scaled text size setting and 60Hz remained.

What an unsatisfying fix!


Converting publisher files for use on Mac

LibreOffice 4.0 and later can open publisher files.


Is it possible to automatically back up my mac to Microsoft OneDrive?

IF the onedrive is mounted then you can use sync and cron with a script
(Please note on kindle fire and format may be off so this will be simple):

cd $HOME
rsync -ar . /Volumes/<mount point of one drive>

This has more details:

Once you have saved script, and gave it execute permission, use crontab -e to add your frequency.

Please see this for crontab example (I can not give proper screen display with kindle)

If the drive is not visible with df, then I am not sure.

Following up on this answer, you could use this utility to mount your OneDrive folder and to the backup using the info above:


how to do screen+audio recording when mac is muted?

I used quicktime + soundflower.

Worked well :)


Airplay to more than one screen concurrently?

I just tried it with my mid-2011 Mac mini running 10.8.  I can choose to mirror to either of my ATV's, but not both at the same time.  One ATV is version 2, one is version 3, which could have some effect (they are different native resolutions), but I somehow doubt that's a factor.  I'd think multiple mirroring could create quite a demand on the GPU and the network, so I don't think it's supported.


Can I replace RAM or processor in new Mac mini?

No RAM or processor replacement in the Mac Mini 2014
An iFixit teardown reveals this. And @Pol posted a link to macminicolo.net were you can read about the soldered RAM.
The processor and the RAM is soldered onto the motherboard. Even in a clean room, a soldering iron and a steady hand, it would be nearly impossible. You are not allowed to do this on your own, your warranty will expire on this one.
You can replace your RAM yourself, Apple has even provided a guide on how to do it on similar hardware (2012 model). Here you can find the guide: "Mac mini: How to remove or install memory". No problems with your warranty.


Can't install any app, App Store asks for credit card

You need to select that you don't have/want a payment option.

Navigate to this magic link on iOS or macOS:
https://apps.apple.com/account/billing
Remove all payment types from the list and choose None as the payment type.

If you're not able to select None or the None option is not present for you to select, there are some possible reasons as to why this is the case:

Unpaid balance
Changed country/region
Family Sharing management

For more information, see the Apple KB article:

Why can’t I select None when I edit my Apple ID payment information?

If you want to create a new Apple ID with None as the payment method, purchase a free app from the App Store and choose Create Apple ID. For more information, see:

Create an iTunes Store, App Store, or iBooks Store account without a credit card or other payment method


Well, my experiments have found an end, here are my ideas:
the origin of the error -69854 seems to be that there is not enough storage space.

After another failed attempt installing MacOS Mojave from the USB, I went into the local Recovery Mode, before downgrading, and see: "Convert to APFS" in DiskUtility was not greyed out. It failed, as expected, with the -69854 error. When booting from the USB, the option there was clickable too, but leading to the same error.
After moving and deleting some stuff to make more free storage space on Macintosh HD, the "Convert to APFS option" suceeded! Afterwards, installation of Mojave from the USB suceeded too.

But to answer the rest of my question, after some more research:

To convert to apfs: diskutil apfs convert <Name of the Disk>. The correct disk seems to be – in my case – /dev/disk2 according to the Details of the DiskUtility. DiskUtility itself uses /sbin/apfs_hfs_convert – use man apfs_hfs_convert in Terminal if you want to learn more about that one.


How to create custom text format style and apply to hotkey in Pages?

I just noticed that there's a thing called "Character Styles" as well that allows me to do exactly what I want!

I created a new style based on a selection and tied it to the function key that I wish to use.
Perfect.


Create a script to enable dark mode
This shell file will run an AppleScript command to enable Dark Mode. The first time this script is run, it may require permission to modify your system settings.
It is critical to mark the file executable with chmod +x - otherwise, it will not run and you will get a vague 'Load Failed: 5: Input/output error' from the launchctl service.
echo "osascript -e 'tell application \"System Events\" to tell appearance preferences to set dark mode to true'" > ~/AlwaysDarkMode.sh
chmod +x ~/AlwaysDarkMode.sh

Create a launch agent
Create a new text file in ~/Library/LaunchAgents titled AlwaysDarkMode.plist (or something else, if you'd like). Paste in the following contents, ensuring to change the username to your own. You cannot use relative paths like ~/AlwaysDarkMode.sh - you must write out the full path to the file.
<?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>AlwaysDarkMode.sh</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Users/YourUsername/AlwaysDarkMode.sh</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
</dict>
</plist>

Test the launch agent
Because the plist is stored in ~/Library/LaunchAgents, it should run automatically when logging in. However, it might request permissions the first time it runs, so you can load it manually with launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/AlwaysDarkMode.plist.


How do I get iOS Reminders to recognize my location/geofence better?

The Reminders.app does not allow you to customize the geofence perimeter in the application. In iOS 6, it will allow custom address input versus someone from your address book.

A way to get around this is use one of the several other apps available.

I ended up using Checkmark. You can enter custom locations, and for each of those locations, you can adjust the perimeter. This has worked great, I have a larger perimeter around my work, and a medium size one around my house.

Finally, I think this comes down to the GPS sensitivity in the iPhone 4. My wife's iPhone 4S picks up our location much closer and quicker when it comes to geofencing.


Is iWork for iOS a real office document editor?

There surely is a risk for data loss, mostly in the formatting of documents. As you suspected, the files are converted when opened (and saved) to the iWork format. Certain features in Office aren't present in iWork, such as SmartArt or VBA applications.

For handling simple letters it could be a compliment, but for business critical documents that shouldn't change their formatting all the time I would stick to one of both. Since your employer decides what you use at work I don't think iWork would be a very good option in this case.


You won't lost service with your cellular service provider simply by erasing your iPhone.

However, you iPhone will need re-activation once it is setup again after erasing. Activation process is generally happens automatically.

The iPhone can be erased with or without using iTunes.


ImageMagick - Convert multipage pdf to animated gif

The following command worked well for me from a paper PDF I've worked on. The only difference from your original command is deactivating the alpha channel:

convert -alpha deactivate -verbose -delay 50 -loop 0 -density 300 paper.pdf file.gif

I'm using Version: ImageMagick 6.8.3-3 2013-02-21 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org and homebrew.


How do I migrate an expired Mobile Me account to iCloud?

This article from Apple Support answers some commonly-asked questions related to the Mobile Me to iCloud transition. This article from Apple Support explains how to move to iCloud. From this article we read the following:

  Inactive and expired MobileMe accounts do not need to move to iCloud.
  Simply use your inactive or expired account to sign up for an iCloud
  account and follow the onscreen instructions

This article lists some additional troubleshooting issues with accounts and iCloud. It is important to note that the number one troubleshooting issue mentioned is iCloud outages. As it has been mentioned on this thread, iCloud is being hit pretty hard today on its official launch day. From the article:

  Check System Status to make sure there are no outages or scheduled
  maintenances currently affecting your iCloud account. System Status is
  displayed at the iCloud Support web site.

The "Lean More" link on the original question (above) is the same link as the first one I include on this answer. If some of these links are not working in your area, it may be a matter of waiting for the pages to propagate across Apple's worldwide servers (and their backbone providers). The links work within the US. It also worth mentioning that more articles are literally being made available by the hour. In other words, There is a chance the some of these links will not work immediately for you, but they eventually should. Hope this helps.


Can I mount an encrypted image BEFORE Finder loads?

Mounting the sparsebundle can be accomplished via command line using the 'hdiutil' command. You can also create a shell script that will perform this action. This script assumes that the image is located at /Users/somebody/Image.sparsebundle, and that the passphrase used to encrypt the image is "testpass"):

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script mounts the disk image at /Users/somebody/Image.sparsebundle
#
echo -n testpass | hdiutil mount /Users/somebody/Image.sparsebundle

After creating that script in some text-editor, you can change the permissions of the file to allow it to be executed. Assuming that this script was created at /Users/somebody/MountSparsebundle, you can use Terminal to make it executable:

chmod 755 /Users/somebody/MountSparsebundle

Once you've made the file executable, you should be able to run the command using the Terminal. In Terminal, type the full path of the script to execute it:

/Users/somebody/MountSparsebundle

The script should run, and cause the sparsebundle to mount. Note that you will want to unmount that sparsebundle before running the script (to confirm that it is mounting when you use the script).

After verifying that the script is working, you can create a LaunchDaemon that will be responsible for mounting this sparsebundle on boot. The LaunchDaemon configuration file should be installed in /Library/LaunchDaemons, which will cause it to be loaded before the loginwindow. Here's an example of a launchd configuration file that runs a script located at /Users/somebody called "MountSparsebundle":

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Disabled</key>
    <true/>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.example.mountsparsebundle</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/Users/somebody/MountSparsebundle</string>
</dict>
</plist>

The last step that you'd need to take would be to configure the launchd system to load that launch daemon at boot. This can be accomplished using launchctl (Assuming that the file in the previous step was saved to "/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.example.mountsparsebundle.plist"):

sudo launchctl load -w /Library/LaunchDaemons/com.example.mountsparsebundle.plist

Alternately, you can use a LoginHook, which will suspend launching of the Finder until the login script exits. Although Apple does not recommend LoginHooks, they can be used to accomplish what you're trying to do. You can setup the script mentioned above as a login hook using the defaults command:

sudo defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginHook /Users/somebody/MountSparsebundle

Note: LoginHooks are run as root, which is something of a security risk...However, this will also allow you to examine the current user that's logging in (as part of the script), and perform actions based on the user credentials. Here's a modified script that shows an example of how to parse the username that is logging in (which is passed to the script as argument $1):

#!/bin/bash
#
# This script mounts the disk image at /Users/somebody/Image.sparsebundle
#
if [ "$1" == "somebody" ]; then
    echo -n testpass | hdiutil mount /Users/somebody/Image.sparsebundle
fi


The only way to get rid of it is to disassociate your AppleID from Messages. Merely disabling won't do it. There is no graphical interface for completely removing the AppleID from messages this. You either have to create a new local computer account, or:

In High Sierra,

cd ~Library/Preferences/ByHost/

Now list the files with "idstatuscache" with the following command:

ls *idstatuscache*

delete it with:

rm com.apple.identityservices.idstatuscache.your unique string.plist

Now restart. You should no longer get that popup on boot. Now I get Facetime ones. I also deleted my chat history, I don't believe that helped.

To deal with the Facetime ones that will follow: http://osxdaily.com/2015/03/04/fix-mac-asking-icloud-password-randomly/

Sources:

https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/975913

How do I remove an iMessage account from OS X (Yosemite) Messages app?


I don't know about Kate, but with emacs you can do : Alt + X - Shell and you have a terminal inside a text editor inside a terminal :)

https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/running-shells-in-emacs-overview


Two Time Capsules in one network, Macbook connects to the slower one when backing up

You don't explicitly state it, but is one of the APs extending the other, or are they both separate network IDs?

If they are participating in what used to be called a WDS extended network, then it's tricky to tell it which one to use.  But if you have them operating separate SSIDs, then you can simply not store the password to the one that is furthest away and allow the macbook to not even have a choice.

If you already have the 2 routers connected over cable, then there is absolutely no need for them to broadcast the same SSID other than for neatness.  Usually when you do that, it it because one it extending the range of the other by repeating the signal.  This is utterly redundant in your scenario, and you are far better off forcing any traffic that enters the network on Router A to route over ethernet to Router B if it is required.

Having a repeated wireless means you have 2 possible identical access points to connect to and having it potentially connect to the wrong one, and even if it connects to the right one, it will still just subsequently pass it back to the other one over Wifi thus negating the denefit of the lovely wired link you have.  It won't dump that traffic onto the local wired LAN to traverse over to the other router.  WDS is for when you can't link via a cable.

There are other considerations:

Your links speed to one AP may be faster than to another, but that doesn't consider (or even tell) what the link speed "back to base" is.  Imagine this.  You sit 30 metres from 1 wifi AP, and 70 from another, each of you in a straight line.  Your strongest signal is clearly from the one 30 meters away.  However your best connection may be to do the 70 meter link to the furthest point instead, as it will be closer and likely faster than going 30 meters in one direction to what appears to be the best conection, which then needs to go 100 meteres back the other way to complete the route.

Also, don't go thinking 300Mb wireless is faster than 100Mb wired.  It's not.  The speeds shown are for total bandwidth speeds, not usable bandwidth.  Wifi has considerable overhead that ethernet does not, including extended packet information for encrypted packets and associated handshaking etc etc that a wired LAN link will not have.


Facetime with more than one apple device

Do you want to place calls between two iDevices using the same Apple ID?

By default, all devices connected to the same Apple ID utilize the primary email address associated with that Apple ID. This means they'll all ring if a FaceTime call is placed to that email address. It also means you can't place a class between two devices, just as you can't use one home phone to place a call to your house and answer it with another phone. But luckily, Apple has provided a rather easy workaround for placing FaceTime calls on the same Apple ID.

To place a FaceTime call between two of your Apple devices, you will simply need to add a new email address to one of the devices. This will allow FaceTime to differentiate between the two and place a call to a specific device.

You can add a new email address to FaceTime in the iPad settings. Simply select FaceTime from the left-side menu and tap your finger where it reads "Add Another Email..."

Once you add a new email address, you must verify it by going to that email's inbox. There should be an email waiting for you from Apple with a link that will verify the email address.

Source - http://ipad.about.com/od/iPad_Guide/ss/How-To-Use-FaceTime-On-The-iPad_2.htm


Alot depends on what Mac Mini you have. Early Mac Minis only had a single DVI out, later versions had mini DVI out, still newer versions had a mini DVI and a mini DisplayPort out, and the newest all metal version has a mini DisplayPort and HDMI out and comes with an HDMI to DVI adapter.

Negrino was correct in saying that you could get a USB to DVI adapter but you might only have to get one of them, depending on your Mac Mini's video out ports. If you have an early G4 or Core Solo Mini, you would have to get 2 adapters.

For a little clarification, are you planning on mirroring your desktop 3 times or having 1 desktop extended over 3 monitors? If it is the first option then you could simply get a VGA or DVI Y adapter that would mirror the image coming out of one port to 2 or more monitors.


I just needed to resize the container (because apparently that's a simple thing to do). I first had to restart into recovery mode and run firstaid on the container. I ran it on all 3 of the drive, the container, and the volume to be safe, but I'm certain only the run on the container did anything. Then I restarted and logged in and in a terminal ran the following:

diskutil apfs resizeContainer /dev/disk1 0


How do I get current location by using Google Map or Apple Map

I've never understood why we couldn't get location coordinates from Apple Maps etc. Seems like such an obvious function.

However, you can use the default Compass app and it'll give you your current location at bottom of screen. See screenshot below for the format these appear in:

Otherwise you can also download dedicated GPS Location apps as well if you need different formats.

[EDIT]

Just thought I should add that tapping on the coordinates in the Compass app will then open the location in Apple Maps.


if you have macOS Catalina, in Reminders App, you can create a reminder that alerts you every 2 hours, for example.

for another, you have free apps in Mac AppStore like for https://apps.apple.com/us/app/time-out-break-reminders/id402592703?mt=12


Can I Recover Lost Emails on iPad After Changing Password?

After being told on the Apple Discussion boards that this can't be done, I found a solution.

I re-entered all the original log in information into the account details.  It took a bit to get them to stick, because iPad kept trying to verify the account, which it couldn't do, because the legacy server wasn't responding, but I finally got it.  Once the I had the original credentials entered, all the original Inbox and Sent emails were back.

One important key: Although I didn't change my email address, the new server did require a different username syntax.  The old username was just "name" while the new username was "name@mydomain.com".  That little change is what caused iPad to decide it was an entirely different account.


Will new desktops with Thunderbolt capabilities work with existing 27" Apple Thunderbolt displays?

The best guess is that it is going to depend on the computer. Carrying a DisplayPort signal through Thunderbolt is a feature but not necessarily a requirement for having a Thunderbolt port. But, yes, assuming that a given Thunderbolt port is carrying the  DisplayPort signal, there should be no reason why the Thunderbolt display will not work on that port as a display, regardless of the kind of computer.

Now as for other features included, it may depend on drivers for those features and how the host operating system recognizes what other things are included in the Thunderbolt display. For example, how customized the drivers are for each extra included device in the Apple Thunderbolt display is probably yet to be determined. For example the speakers, extra USB/FireWire ports, network card, etc. may not work if the host OS can't find a driver.

The specifics of how a motherboard-based Thunderbolt port can talk to any given PCI-Express graphics card installed in that board is also an interesting detail to address, hopefully the next generation Mac Pro will give an example of this since its implementation is questioned as well in the Thunderbolt wiki article as well:

  Because the PCIe bus does not carry video data, it is unclear whether a standalone PCIe card could offer a Thunderbolt port. The Intel Thunderbolt Technology Brief does not give a conclusive answer. Intel disclosed documentation where video stream is sent to a dual-Thunderbolt controller, with the video stream being only sent to one of the Thunderbolt ports, giving the assumption that video stream is not mandatory on Thunderbolt implementation.

It looks like many of questions will be answered in the future as more hardware is rolled out but here is a bit of speculation on the noted next generation Ivy Bridge Thunderbolt controllers.

  Another aspect that makes the DSL3510 interesting is that it supports multiple internal DisplayPort inputs. What this means is that it could in theory interface with a discrete graphics card as well as the integrated graphics from an Intel CPU. This is likely to be the chip used by Apple in its desktop systems, whereas the more power efficient DSL3310 will end up in notebook products.


Display IP address in an Automator alert

You can set a variable containing your IPv4, then append the contents of the variable to the contents of the alert message:

set ipaddress to IPv4 address of (get system info)
tell app "Finder" to display alert "SFTP opened and your IP address is " & ipaddress


How to scan a Mac for rootkits and other stealthy security hazards

I ended up using a second Mac to do a scan with the questionable machine booted into target disk mode.

My actual scanning procedure was

0) (done before using target disk mode) update system and apps on both machines to current versions

1) compare files on both machines using this script:

DIRS=(Applications Library mach_kernel bin "private/etc" sbin usr);
# leaving out /opt as it seems to just contain MacPorts stuff

for dir in "${DIRS[@]}"; do
  # diff: recursive, just output whether files differ
  diff -r -q --speed-large-files "$1/$dir" "$2/$dir";
done;

1.1) I used a high-powered text editor (vim) to make sense of the output.  My basic strategy was to just organize the lines of output by the first couple of levels of the directory structure using indent-based code folding.  This technique does require some general and POSIX-ish-specific computing knowledge, in particular to differentiate "okay" differences from potentially dangerous differences.

2) I ran chkrootkit using the command

sudo ./chkrootkit -q -r /Volumes/system/

2.1) chkrootkit came up with the following output.  These indications seem to be due to running the scan on a target disk and/or due to differences between the various operating systems that chkrootkit supports.

error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/strings: can't map file: /Volumes/system/ (Invalid argument)
error: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/strings: can't map file: /Volumes/system/ (Invalid argument)
not tested
not tested
unable to open wtmp-file /Volumes/system/wtmp
not tested: not found wtmp and/or lastlog file

2.2) In order to get chkrootkit to compile, I had to uncomment a line in the Makefile.  It's clearly indicated in the Makefile.  See here for more info.

SUMMARY

I feel pretty confident that this was an effective scan (given the clean state of the scanning system).  However, there are a few downsides to this method:

It assumes that the scanning computer is clean
It requires another Mac (obviously)
It can be painfully difficult to find a 9-pin-to-9-pin Firewire cable

In case you don't have an extra Mac available, here are a couple of alternatives to this approach:

It's possible to put a clean install of OSX onto a USB drive.  To do this, you boot the machine while holding down command-option-R to do an Internet Recovery.  This bypasses the disk contents and uses firmware code to install OSX from Apple's servers.  Apparently you can just plug a USB drive in and choose this as the installation target; afterwards you can boot the machine from the USB drive and run scans on the system drive.  Downside here is that this is a >5GB download, so you'd better have a fast Internet connection (or some patience).
I could have also pulled the drive out of the machine and put it into a hard drive enclosure.  The advantages here are that I wouldn't have had to use a Mac to scan it, and that I wouldn't have had to find a 9-pin-to-9-pin Firewire cable.  Of course, if I didn't use a Mac to scan it, I wouldn't have been able to use my first scanning method (the diff).


How can I launch .sh scripts from the finder in iTerm2 instead of Terminal?

It works for me but only if the file is executable. For example this runs a.sh in a new window:

echo say a>a.sh;chmod +x a.sh;open a.sh -a iTerm

If you want it to work with non-executable files, set an application like this as the default application for .sh files:


Your iPhone could not be activated because the activation server is temporarily unavailable

The two major causes of this are:

Network related - change the network used to connect
iOS related - something is amiss with the code signing / provisioning

The most likely cause of software is a beta. Apple disables the iOS betas soon after the release happens. If you never manually installed the official release, this can happen. If not, consider backing up your device after checking a couple networks and reinstalling.

If you need to get a beta off, do the following to fix it:

Hold the Power and Home buttons until the phone reboots and you see the Apple logo.
Release the Power button but keep holding the Home button.
Release the Home button when you see the iTunes logo and the connector below it.

Do this while connected to iTunes. Click Restore. Hopefully you have a recent back-up.

Note: It is a large update and will take a while. Apple servers are currently getting slammed.


How can you limit your use of time-wasting apps on iOS?

No, there is nothing like that.  Your choices are simple and stark:

1: Willpower

2: Backup your iPhone and remove them from the sync list, this way yopu will not lose your data.  Reinstalling the App direct from App Store will not bring your data back, meaning you need to be at your computer to sync properly in order to get your data too, which may be handy if it's at home and you are at work/school etc.

In order to make option 1 a little more palatable, you can try any number of tricks.  For example, if the apps you want to a void are strewn all over the place, try to put them on teh last page, and simply ban yourself from visiting the last homescreen.   This may assist in not tempting you when the app you need to use is right next to the game you shouldn't be playing.  Also, you could invent some reward system to give you some motivation to not use them.  If you don't use the timewasting apps homescreen all day, you get to treat yourself to an in-app purchase, or a half hour uninteruppted game slot once your works done etc.  Whatever works for you.

Update:  Loïc Wolff reminded me of a question I answered before that has a similar answer.  In summary: "Anything you can do or install or configure in order to produce a technical block to stop you running these apps, can also be undone", so the only real answer is to work on yourself.


Trying to restore Macbook Pro to factory setting, but it freezes when inserted the DVD

I think that the problem is your new ram. You have upgraded with 1333MHz DDR3, and you should use 1066MHz DDR3 RAM. The problem is that the chipset does not downclock your ram to 1066MHz and when MacOS enters graphic mode, the machine freezes.

The problem lies somewhere within the low performance (shared memory) graphic chip MacOS drivers. Under text mode, MacOS works perfectly. Running Apple Hardware Test and testing ram (1333MHz) also works. I have been told that Windows runs also.

If you cannot replace your new ram (it's was hard for me to find 1066MHz 4GB SO-DIMMs), you can temporary fix this problem by inserting one slow (1066MHz) DIMM (if you still have it) and one of the new 1333MHz. This will make chipset run your MBP with the least common speed, and your notebook will boot.

I have found and published a way to downclock your ram and fix this issue in this Apple Support Discusions thread. I'm quoting myself:

  It's possible with a software Thaiphoon Burner (http://www.softnology.biz/) to modify the SPD EPROM (a small non volatile flash, located on the memory, containing information about it) IF the EPROM is not protected (http://www.softnology.biz/tips_pswprotection.html).

If you decide to take this path of flashing the SPD EPROM of your RAM, I could expand this or make a new one question, to cover in details the flash process.


APFS - how do I enable transparent compression

The standard Mojave setup does have APFS compression implemented, but there's no user visible tools that allows you yourself to select files/folders for compression.

It seems that the "ditto" command supplied with macOS is supposed to be able to employ compression on APFS, but it only actually works with HFS+ file systems.

However, even though no user visible tools comes with Mojave - the developer level APIs are actually there. A third party utility exists that uses these APIs to provide a user tool for compressing files/folders:

https://github.com/RJVB/afsctool

You refer to the wikipedia page for your statement that APFS compression is supported. The wikipedia page actually refers to the above mentioned tool for that support.

You can install afsctool from Homebrew by this command:

brew install afsctool

And you can install afsctool from MacPorts by this command:

sudo port install afsctool

You can compress a file or folder like this:

afsctool -c filename

where filename can be the name of a file or a folder.

You can check if a file is compressed, and how much, by this command:

afsctool -v filename

The built-in compression feature of APFS is implemented in the same way as it was on HFS+. That support was introduced with OS X 10.6. Even though it has thus been a part of the macOS system for almost 10 years, it is not really widely used.

In my own experience it just works (HFS+ or APFS - doesn't matter). However, you might run into an edge case where some program reports the file size incorrectly or something like that. I haven't seen any such misbehavior yet. The whole idea with transparent compression is that user programs do not need to know that compression is used at all.


Grr - the store is having a rough week.

I would do these three things:

Make a new admin user account and log out of the broken "MAS account" to get a clean state.
Run the app store on the new user account. You don't need to sign in for security updates, so this will test that Apple's side of things is working and/or your core system is working.
If that doesn't work, open terminal and run these two exact commands:

softwareupdate --reset-ignored

softwareupdate --install --all

You can take a picture of that screen and then call AppleCare or open a web support ticket if you can't get that to work. They should cover that for free since it's security related as well as they generally support anyone's Apple ID that would be used to spend money on the store without charging them for that incident of support. The core updates should work even when your account or the Apple servers for authentication are overloaded. When that happens you get errors like you mentioned and Apple's support pages rarely log an error until everyone is locked out. (i.e. thousands of people could have problems and it's not a big issue when millions of accounts still work).

http://apple.com/support/systemstatus

I use that "contact us" link from the system status page to initiate my support requests for cloud and Apple ID issues :-)


Is the iPhone5 and up not Network locked?

This is not true. iPhones can still be network-locked.

See this Apple KB article for information on unlocking iPhones, demonstrating that they are still able to be locked:

http://support.apple.com/HT201328


How to get a list of URLs from an defined bookmark's folder in Safari

After some googling and learning XPath expressions, the solution is really simple:

The following shell script - let say its name is dump_bookmarks.sh,

#!/bin/bash
for foldername
do
    /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -x -c Print ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist | \
    xmlstarlet sel --net -t -v "//key[.='Title']/following-sibling::string[.='$foldername']/parent::node()//key[.='URLString']/following-sibling::string[1]"
    echo    #print an newline after the last entry
done

and using it as

./print_bookmarks.sh perl  #argument is the bookmark-folder name

will print a list of bookmarked URLs, like for the above screenshot will print:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Path::Tiny
http://perlmaven.com/perl-based-open-source-products
http://www.perl.com/pub/2012/04/perlunicook-standard-preamble.html
https://acidcycles.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/implementing-factories-in-perl/
http://gcstar.softonic.com/
http://steffen-wendzel.blogspot.de/p/blog-page_24.html
http://continuity.tlt42.org/

For the script you need install the xmlstarlet command, for example using Macports

sudo port install xmlstarlet


How do you position your hand to press Command (cmd) + Option (alt) keys?

I am also suffering the same issue. I think logically and ergonomically these Apple keys really suck.

What I do is that I have to use my both hands. I leave my right hand from mouse and Press cmd key with my right hand and other combination keys from the left hand


According to OSX Daily, there is an alternative clipboard with the Mac that will not overwrite the standard clipboard. The commands are Control-k, which does a cut on selected text (not copy) and Control-y which then pastes that data. The article is here: http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/01/use-a-secondary-cut-and-paste-function-to-avoid-overwriting-clipboard-contents/

The article also mentions a 3rd part app, ClipMenu which also might address your desires.


How to Remote-Sync IPad Calendar with Outlook

You can configure Exchange on your iPad by:

Open Settings
Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Tap on Add Account
Tap on Microsoft Exchange
Fill in the information for your company's Exchange account. You may need to get this from your IT department.
Check the Mail, Calendars or Contacts sliders as necessary.

Open the Calendars app and you're good to go.


I found an answer here

Basically it is going to

  /System/Library/LoginPlugins/BezelServices.loginPlugin/Contents/Resources/BezelUI/HiDPI/.

You'll see there a lot of pdf-pictures, one of them volume.pdf. You'll want to overwrite that one (backup the old one!) with an empty .pdf. You can also overwrite the mute.pdf, but I dont think that is necessary in movies.

When you open this PDF in Preview, you will see a white square, by default, Preview will show transparency as 'white'. As the illustration is white, and the transparency is white, you will see a white square instead of the white volume logo. You can turn the white transparency off. Go to View, Show Image Background (AltCommandB)


Copying files to the clipboard using applescript

This isn't quite perfect for what you want, but I think it might get you closer. Quicksilver has a command line tool. When installed, you can pipe files from the command line to Quicksilver app, and from there send them as attachments in Mail.

To install Quicksilver command line tool, activate Quicksilver. Then navigate to Quicksilver > Preferences to open preferences window. Click on Preferences on top right of window. On the left, click on Command Line Tool and install.

In Terminal, you'll be able to type

qs path/to/file1 path/to/file2 path/to/file3 path/to/file4

Pressing enter will send those files to Quicksilver's first pane. Press tab to move to the action pane and choose the Mail/New Email With Attachment action. Press enter, and a new email with your selected files attached should appear.

Note that you will also have to install the Mail and Command Line plugins in Quicksilver (Quicksilver > Preferences > Plug Ins).


Does one Thunderbolt port mean I can only add one additional screen?

Thunderbolt is a serial bus and can be chained, so only having one port does not mean you can only have additional monitor. Assuming the Thunderbolt monitor has two Thunderbolt ports you can use the second one to chain the two monitors in series Thus having 3 monitors (2 external and one from your iMac).

How many monitors (and which resolution)can be driven by your iMac depends on your specific model though.


Unable to start firefox profile manager on MacOS

To start the Profile Mnager, Firefox must not be running.  Also, the command to start Profile Manager from the command line is:

/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox -ProfileManager

Note, that it's only one dash preceding the option and you don't need to use firefox-bin.  You can also use the short hand version, firefox -P as well.

Mozilla has excellent documentation on its Command Line Options.


How do I delete attachments from mails I sent

Based on the page
http://lifehacker.com/5841097/how-to-delete-or-archive-attachments-in-apple-mail-and-free-up-disk-space
I used the steps bellow.

** Method recommended only for those who feel comfortable using the Terminal **

open the terminal app (Applications > Utilities > Terminal)
change to the directory/folder with the emails typing in the terminal window

$ cd ~/Library/Mail/V2

list the folders you have

$ ls

or

$ ls -1

you will obtain something like:

$ ls -1
IMAP-info@furia.com.br@pop.furia.com.br
IMAP-infofuria@imap.gmail.com
MailData
Mailboxes

go to the folder of the account you want to clean, list the files and the result shows one or more mbox

$ cd IMAP-info@furia.com.br@pop.furia.com.br
$ ls -1
INBOX.mbox

or

$ ls -1
INBOX.mbox
INBOX0.mbox
INBOX1014.mbox

if you have only one mbox, go to this folder, list it and you will see

$ cd INBOX.mbox
$ ls
CE7AE9-C83C-410A-9406-4DEFB7034
Archive.mbox
Deleted Messages.mbox
Drafts.mbox
Info.plist
Junk.mbox
Sent Messages.mbox
Trash.mbox

change to the folder of the messages sent (note the backslash before the space) and list to see the files

$ cd Sent\ Messages.mbox
$ ls
CE7AE9-C83C-410A-9406-4DEFB7034
Info.plist

the first file is a folder and contains all the messages and attachments in a series of subfolders. Now you will use the powerful unix find command to find all the files to be deleted and delete them.
the find command can recursively descends the directory tree to search files by name and by size (among other options), so if you know that the attachmentes to be deleted are PDF files with more than 200k you can use the first command to find and list the files. Then if it's ok, delete them with the second command. The second example will find and delete zip files with more than 1 MB.

$ find . -iname "*.pdf" -size +200k
./77CE7AE9-C83C-410A-94/Data/Attachments/303/2/abc.pdf
./77CE7AE9-C83C-410A-94/Data/Attachments/305/2/xyz.pdf
$ find . -iname "*.pdf" -size +200k -delete
$ find . -iname "*.zip" -size +1M -delete

and if you want to delete all attachments bellow the present folder, you can use one simple command. To confirm that you are at the correct folder verify first printing the working directory. Then, remove every Attachments folders bellow it.

$ pwd
/Users/user/Library/Mail/v2/IMAP-info@furia.com.br@pop.furia.com.br/INBOX.mbox/Sent Messages.mbox
$ find . -iname Attachments -exec rm -R {} +

repeat these operations on all mbox of the account


How to enable push notifications of emails?

You're talking about the notification settings for Mail, not whether push is on. To see new mail messages in the Lock Screen:

Settings > Notifications > Mail > Make sure "View in Lock Screen" is turned ON.

If you're concerned about your mail's push settings, those are in:

Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendar > Fetch New Data > Make sure "Push" is set how you want it.


Apple Bug Report (Apple's Response Time?)

There is no easy way to tell how/when/if Apple acts on your bug report. I have filed quite a few bug reports during the last years. Some still seem to be unchanged since I created them, some got closed silently and there is only one where I ever got notified that the fix would be in the next OS X release.

So basically you filed the report, now just ignore it :-)


Can I use the same cell number as my Android phone with an Apple Watch Series 3?

Actually, what you want to do has already been done. It is possible, but not recommended. Below I will explain how you can get this to work, and then I’ll explain why it’s probably not worth doing.

Before you begin

Before you begin, you will need all of the following:

access to an iPhone 6 (or above) that is running iOS 11 and is unlocked (or, if locked, is on the same network as your Android phone)
an Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE
your Android phone (but it must be an Android phone that uses a microSIM)

Obviously, it goes without saying that you also need to be on a network that supports the Apple Watch Series 3 LTE models (which you already say you are).

What you need to do

Follow these steps to setup your Apple Watch Series 3 with LTE on the same mobile number as your Android phone. Note that these steps assume you have a brand new Apple Watch that has yet to be setup.

Remove the microSIM from your Android phone
Remove the microSIM from the iPhone you’re using
Insert the microSIM from your Android phone into the iPhone
Wait about 30 seconds or so for the iPhone to register your mobile connection
Open the Watch app on the iPhone
Press and hold the side button (not the Crown) of your Apple Watch until you see the Apple logo appear (Note: This may take a while, so be patient)
Once it’s on, ensure you have the Apple Watch and iPhone close together
On your iPhone, tap on Continue when you see a message about setting up an Apple Watch
An animation will appear on your Apple Watch screen. Hold your iPhone over it so that the animation is centred within the viewfinder on your iPhone.

Once it is paired, select whether you eat to wear the Apple Watch on your left or right wrist
When the terms and conditions appear, tap on Agree
Now you’ll be prompted to tap on Agree again
Follow the rest of the prompts to sign in with your Apple ID, create a passcode, set up your Cellular (or Mobile) connection, etc.
Eventually you will see an Apple Watch is Syncing message. Be patient while this process finishes, as it can take quite a while!
Now remove the microSIM from the iPhone and re-insert it into your Android phone
Wait about 30 seconds or so for your Android phone to register its mobile connection

Now you should be able to use your Apple Watch with the same number/network of your Android phone.

Why it’s not recommended

There are a number of reasons why using an LTE Apple Watch with Android is not recommended. In summary, the three main reasons not to do this are:

Your Apple Watch’s battery life will be really bad as it’ll be relying on it’s cellular connection the whole time, as opposed to using a paired connection with an iPhone most of the time
All your health and fitness data will remain on your Apple Watch and can’t be synced with any of your Android apps
Because of the above two reasons, your overall user experience will be poor!

Further reading

Set up your Apple Watch
Set up and use cellular on Apple Watch Series 3 (GPS + Cellular)
How to use an LTE Apple Watch with Android


USB port not functioning on a user account, works on another

I have solved the problem.  I booted into the Lion recovery mode and repaired the disk permissions.  It is now working fine. Hope this can help someone else.


how long time to get approve for Apple Developer Program enrollment?

It usually takes 5 to 7 days for Apple Developer Program enrolment to take place. This may take longer if they have a query, but they will contact you if so.


What’s the difference between diskutil unmount and diskutil eject?

You can at least be certain that diskutil eject does all that diskutil unmount does, plus (sometimes) more. Examples given in the man page mention removable media readers equipped with a motor to physically eject a volume, such as a CD-ROM player. Also, when there are more than one filesystem on the media, diskutil eject will unmount all volumes on the media, while diskutil unmount just unmounts the one filesystem you mention explicitly.

When in doubt, I'd always go for the eject verb.


Can google inbox on iPhone NOT show contact pictures

Try changing their photos in your saved contact so that your photo of them shows up instead.


Yes. That would undo the jailbreak. All you need to do is start the iPhone into recovery mode and then click restore in the option when your iPhone is connected to your Mac or Windows in iTunes/Finder.


I was using UTF-8 instead of UTF-16 and didn't space between entries (I should have double-spaced). Changing those fixed my issue.


How to change the default language of Facebook share page on iPad?

Did you try to set your default language on Facebook on English (in account parameters) ?
What is the language you use on the iPad and on Facebook right now ?

EDIT : after some tests it's seems that is more Facebook API related (because the problem is on several apps at a time).
Either developers don't call correctly the Facebook login, or it's a bug.


Actually your second choice is a bit odd but possibly the way to go.
macOS will certainly read (not write) from/to the default Windows 10 partition format, NTFS.
You should be able to access that partition and, assuming you know what to look for, copy the needed save files from your games to a flash drive to then transfer to your PC.
And depending on how "hands on" you are, you could theoretically remove the iMacs internal drive, stick it in an external USB enclosure and access the drive from your new Windows PC. Assuming it's not a fusion drive.
There are also utilities that will back up the Boot Camp partition, and presumably you might then be able to restore it to an external drive and access it from the new PC. That would depend on the software you use to do that and how it restores any backups it creates.
All of this depends on the Boot Camp partition being largely intact. you say nothing about that, just that it blue screens.
Also if you have a bootable Windows 10 flash drive (like the one Boot Camp created, you could boot from that and repair Windows. I use Windows 10 install media all the time to repair a blue screen error.
But there is absolutely no way to get the data off the partition without accessing it. As to get the data off of it (no matter how) you must access the partition.
Hopefully this gives you some starting points for avenues to recover your data.


Directory in my mac filesystem has sub directories with greater size than parent directory

Depending on who is calculating directory sizes, hard-linked files can easily get counted twice, even though they are really only a single inode and should be counted only once.

The du terminal command is the surest way to find out how much space a directory is really taking. It never counts hard-linked files more than once.

(Caveat. If a file in directory A is hard-linked to a file in directory B, and neither directory is contained in the other, du A and du B will each count the file once, so you cannot just add the reported sizes together and get a meaningful sum. However, du C, where C is a directory that contains both A and B, will count the file only once, arbitrarily deciding whether to count the storage as part of A or as part of B.)


Upon conversion your iPhoto events have been transformed into Albums.

In Photos there are no events anymore since iPhoto Events and Albums overlapped in functionality.  There is automatic sorting by Location and Date Information (something like "Automatic Events") and you can still create Albums if you want to collect Photos.


I figured out a workaround. I took the clue from my account that uses a custom port. For the accounts in which SSL doesn't work, I checked "Use custom port" and tried each of the standard port numbers until I found one that worked. With the custom port selected I can successfully disable SSL.


Is there a second-generation Airport Express 802.11n?

Not yet on a 2nd gen 802.11n Express.

Apple has published four different manuals on the Airport Express:

AirPort Express 802.11n (1st Generation) - Setup Guide

The three expresses prior to that were not 802.11n so perhaps that's where the three previous generations (and the 1st and only newer generation names have come to be) A tad confusing, no?


macbook aluminum started backing up to time capsule without asking

I don't have a Time Capsule so I'm not 100% sure this will solve your problem, but I use TimeMachineScheduler to ensure that Time Machine only runs when I want it to (generally on my not-at-work hours).


Can't Download Mavericks via App Store nor Upgrade from OS X 10.8.5 -- Command Line Installs Not Supported

This isn't the ideal path, but you could always boot to the Recovery HD and re-install the OS to an external USB drive. Your Mac might re-download Mavericks directly but more likely would re-download the version that created the Recovery HD.

At that point, you would leave your internal drive untouched and install a clean system on the external drive.

From there, you would be able to boot off that external drive that doesn't have the new iTunes and download Mavericks. Once you had the installer, you could run it against either the internal drive or the external drive and migrate data over if you chose to upgrade the external to Mavericks first.


Set up your iPhone with your Exchange account and it'll sync over the air.

Settings -> Mail, Contacts... -> Add Account

Then choose Microsoft Exchange.

It'll configure email, contacts, and calendars, although you can choose to turn off email and calendars if you want to.

Then, in Contacts, select your Exchange contacts, and add new.


Losi iPhone 5 and device is turned off and hence can not locate using Find my Phone app

I lost my iPhone5 few months ago in August 2013. I think I had pass code setup but not iCloud (so there was no way to remote erase or to find it). The next thing I did was called the customer  service (mine was T-Mobile) and they temporarily suspended my line. I immediately changed all my passwords. I never got my brand new iPhone 5. I would suggest erasing the phone and/or if possible changing all the passwords you could remember ASAP.


For Adobe products, you definitely want to use the uninstaller because they place files in locations other than just the App itself, so just dragging the application to the trash won't get rid of everything. I would suggest just making a separate folder in Launchpad for uninstallers, then you can drag all of them into that folder and it will only use up one tile.


Making a Bootable Windows 7 USB without Bootcamp

Microsoft has a tool for creating a bootable USB stick installer that works with Windows 7, 8 and 10. You can find it here. http://www.microsoftstore.com/store/msusa/html/pbPage.Help_Win7_usbdvd_dwnTool#installation

The caveat is that you will need a windows PC to use the utility.

Now Bootcamp will do the same thing plus it will put all the right drivers in the installer to be installed with Windows and help you resize the Mac partition and create a Windows partition. You don't technically have to do it that way though. If you open the Boot Camp package there will be a Windows driver installer package you can copy onto your Windows 7 install USB media and then run once you have windows installed.

Note that you will likely have to re-partition the drive yourself. the Windows 7 installer will not likely resize your Mac partition, you'll probably need one of those Linux bootable "rescue" utilities that will let you resize your Mac's partition so you can install Windows in the partition you could create with it.

It is not terribly difficult but does require enough computer experience to not mess things up and do everything in the right order.

One bit of advice though make a backup image of your Mac's HD before you do anything else. As things going wrong are not unlikely at all.


How to change opera for mac's search engine for special dial page?

You can not change that search box. Even if you change the browser's search engine, it does not affect that special box.


If I sell my iPhone, how will the warranty be affected?

The original warranty usually the standard 1 year + any AppleCare stays with the iPhone. And any remaining warranty transfers to the new owners.
Apple Care FAQs

Is the AppleCare Protection Plan transferable?
Yes. If you choose to sell or give away your Apple product, you can also transfer the ownership of the AppleCare Protection Plan. Please see the AppleCare Protection Plan Terms and Conditions for complete details.


Is possible modify the App Store purchased listing (delete or hide some/unhide other hidden apps)?

Not on any version of the Mac App Store and iTunes App store for iTunes versions older than 10.5

It appears you can now hide iOS App Store purchases in the recently released version of iTunes.

And you can see them once they're hidden as well as un-hide them if you wish.


From my personal experience, I have had several problems encountered. This includes corrupt iso, improper installation of the OS resulting to a not running OS and etc. I have found this thread and I believe this is very helpful for me during the process of fixing my error. http://www.techyv.com/questions/common-problem-installing-vmware-tools


How to force the Mac to not expire passwords?

The feature is controlled by a tool called pwpolicy. Running pwpolicy -getaccountpolicies outputs an XML document. One of the things found in this XML is this:

<key>policyCategoryPasswordChange</key>
<array>
        <dict>
                <key>policyContent</key>
                <string>policyAttributeCurrentTime &gt; policyAttributeLastPasswordChangeTime + (policyAttributeExpiresEveryNDays * 24 * 60 * 60)</string>
                <key>policyIdentifier</key>
                <string>ProfilePayload:deadbeef-b187-1337-1ee7-abcdef123456:maxPINAgeInDays</string>
                <key>policyParameters</key>
                <dict>
                        <key>policyAttributeExpiresEveryNDays</key>
                        <integer>90</integer>
                </dict>
        </dict>
</array>

Delete that from the XML document and then consume the altered document using:

pwpolicy -setaccountpolicies <file.xml>

and the problem should go away. But there is a pitfall. If you dump the XML using the shell's > operator, edit the file, and pass it back to pwpolicy, you'll get this error:

Error: The data is not in the correct format.

The reason for this error is that pwpolicy -getaccountpolicies prints the following before printing the XML:

Getting global account policies


Can a single company enroll in both the Apple Developer Program and the Apple Developer Enterprise Program?

Yes, It is possible from a single company to be enrolled in both the Apple Developer (Organisation) and the Apple Developer Enterprise program.

Kindly note that you will require a separate Apple ID to enroll in Apple Developer Enterprise Program. Quoting from the Enrollment Support Page:

  Enrolling in Multiple Programs

  The Apple Developer Enterprise Program and the iOS Developer University Program each require a unique Apple ID than that used for any other membership. You’ll need to set up a new Apple ID and enroll separately. If you currently have an iTunes Connect account to sell another media type (books, music, TV content, or movies), you cannot use the Apple ID associated with that iTunes Connect account to enroll in any other programs. You’ll need to set up a new Apple ID for all other memberships.

Disclaimer: I have worked with a company as a developer which has enrolled in both the programs. I was not the legal entity responsible for managing the accounts. I recommended you go through the Membership Support documents before proceeding.


It is 2013. Is it feasible to purchase an iPhone 3GS for telephony and skype?

If you are thinking of doing video Skype then you better go with the iPhone 4 as the 3GS doesn't have a forward facing second camera.

The iPhone 3GS will likely be somewhat sluggish (depending on what you are used to), but it does go to iOS 6, and is a great phone - especially for calling and texting (although I have seen the keyboard be sluggish, which wouldn't be a problem if they were typing slow).


How do I tap multiple images to share them all at once with iCloud Photo Sharing?

Indeed, the screenshot does appear to have been edited.

The correct way to select multiple photos is to press the Select button, then tap the pictures.

As far as I know, it is impossible to select images without pressing the Select button, and pressing the button changes it to a Cancel button, and the navigation bar title changes to Select Items (or the number of items selected), as well as removing the back navigation button.

On the left: Apple's screenshot; On the right: how it should appear when selecting multiple pictures.


Can old deleted iMessage threads be restored setting up a new Apple device?

The thread you posted and information are from 2013. Old information relevant for older iOS versions. If you restore from an iCloud backup, messages are restored to the device.

With the latest iOS, you can also backup iMessages to iCloud separately from an iCloud backup. Now you can save iMessages to iCloud, but it's a feature that you have to enable separately through settings.

Go to Settings app → Apple ID → iCloud → Messages and enable the switch. You can also back up to iTunes to save/restore that kind of data. If you do not have the Messages in iCloud feature enabled and/or do not restore from an iTunes/iCloud backup, no iMessages will be restored to the device.

Here are a couple related Apple Support documents for reference:

Keep all your messages in iCloud
About backups for iOS devices


How do make a link open in a specific Safari window in macOS?

As a developer I researched the possibility of extensions being able to achieve what you want by always opening a new window when clicking a link contained outside of Safari itself. I'm sorry to say I don't think this approach is going to be possible.

Unfortunately, Safari does not give extensions a way to determine the origin of a new tab/window. What I mean by this is that a new tab can be created because the user clicks a link in an email, command-clicks a link in Safari, opens a Safari bookmark while holding down Command, clicks a link within a PDF document, or any one of several other actions that will open a page in a new tab. Regardless of the method, Safari does not provide how the window was opened to a Safari extension.

Since all these events look the same, no extension can force links from outside Safari to open in new windows without also affecting links opened in other ways (including while browsing within Safari).


Log into Mac Mini with unpaired Bluetooth keyboard and mouse

A mac with no USB keyboard or mouse and no Bluetooth keyboard or mouse pairings will automatically go into pairing mode to search for a Bluetooth keyboard & mouse.
I have not tested this with Bluetooth devices defined, but not available -- but from what I'm able to read, it should go into pairing mode if there are no input devices available.  If a display is attached, you would see the pairing window open -- so you'll know if this is working.
If it does not, your only option may be to use a USB keyboard & mouse (do you have any friends who have a keyboard & mouse that you can borrow for a few minutes?)
Normally when I do this on a mac, nothing is previously paired.  This is how Apple handles non-laptop devices where the owner only uses Bluetooth input devices.


Can I detect the frame rate of a video using built in programs or tools?

In QuickTime Player

press cmd-i (⌘I or Window > Show Movie Inspector)
expand the Video section
see the "Encoded FPS" value


Is it possible somehow to identify the problem with the battery that evoked the message to replace the battery?

From software?

Not really.  Why?  What you see there is a point in time measurement of your battery.  You’d need a lab with a bunch of diagnostic equipment.

Think of it like the gas gauge in your car.  It will only tell you at that moment how much fuel you have in your tank.  Now, if you were to place  a large brick inside your tank, the gauge will still be reporting accurately, but it would have no idea that the capacity would have changed by exactly the volume of the brick.

To accurately identify the problem, you you'd need to measure a number of things like how much fuel you used to fill it, how much you consumed over a period of time etc. The number of fill ups you made would be irrelevant.

Same for your battery.  It’s not a single battery cell that we fill with angry pixies each time we charge it.  It’s actually a series of cells and if, while discharging, it runs into a dead cell (meaning no charge in it), all of the point in time measurements will drastically change “setting off alarms” that you may have a bad battery.

It’s important to remember that when measuring voltage, it looks at the aggregate amount.  If it runs across a dead cell, the aggregate voltage will change, but so will the charge capacity and available current.

Why does it do this?

There’s a good chance your battery is bad or in the process of going bad.  The number of cycles is only a “rule of thumb” and not a hard and fast number.  Batteries can die with 100 cycles and they can continue to function well after 1000 cycles.  The bottom line is that they are man-made devices and not without manufacturing defects.  While rare, they do happen.

So, can you determine the exact cause of a failing battery?  If you had the time and resources, yes.  However, the cost prohibitive nature of this means it’s much, much, more effective snd efficient to just replace it.


macOS: Is there a way to show an image constantly on screen (like a watermark)?

You can accomplish this with OBS Studio. It allows to combine images, video sources etc into one stream and provides a virtual camera which can then be used as the video source in Zoom.


More colors than ls -G in file extensions

The colors used by ls -G are based on the file attributes (like directory, symbolic link, executable and so on). See man ls and go to the section on the LSCOLORS environment variable for the list of color values and the order of file attributes to define the colors for each file attribute.

You cannot change the colors by file extension by default. But one way to achieve this is by installing other software, like coreutils, from brew or MacPorts.

Also see this detailed answer on superuser - colouring output of ls according to file extension.


iPhone 4S I did upgrade and hate it, want to go back

I am sorry to tell you that there is no official way to downgrade from iOS7 to iOS6 anymore as Apple stopped signing the 6.1.4/6.1.3 firmware. Every time a software-upgrade is done iTunes asks for a verification of the firmware. As of 21st of September Apple stopped signed the 6.1.3/6.1.4 firmware and therefore iTunes will refuse a downgrade to iO6. For more information see the following blog for more information.

update: this question has already been answered over here: Can I undo the upgrade to iOS 7 by restoring to iOS 6.1.3?


Attach a sketchpad device to a MacBookPro to make use of sketch-enabled apps

Yes, you are right.  Here is one manufacturer of those kinds devices:

Wacom

I would recommend the Bamboo Tablet, it is a cheap and effective solution for what you are asking, they connect through USB and are very easy to set up and calibrate:

Bambo Tablet

They also make more expensive input tablets but I would only recommend that if your are doing very professional editing/art creation because they would be over kill for many people who just want to simply draw and sketch ideas and make art.

Most/All of the these tablet/sketch input devices work as alternative mouse inputs, so you can use this with your mouse or as a replacement for it.  They are even pressure sensitive allowing for multiple degrees of precision and line thickness.  They also usually come with basic art software like Photoshop Elements or Basic painting/drawing software like Autodesk SketchBook Express.  For only 50 to 79 dollars for the basic tablets, you can't really go wrong.

I hope that this information helps you out.


rsync option -E is OK for the standard but too old version 2.6.9 of rsync which is provided with MacOS X (Mavericks, Yosemite & El Capitan).
But this option -E has another function with standard rsync.

For a user installer version 3.1.2 which is the right one on MacOS X,
then the standard options to maintain ACL and extended attributes are respectively -A and -X.

Here you should use:

rsync -aAvX --progress --delete /source /destination


OSX System Logs: What would a port scan look like?

Scanned my device using 3 seperate port scanners and 1 System.log entry remains common between them:

Kernal[0]: Limiting closed port RST response1


It turns out that another user account (not the one I was logged into) had many gigabytes of photos stored on the hard drive. DiskImageSweeper, along with any other tools (spotlight search, etc.) could not search through the other user's files, so they were virtually undetectable.

I solved the problem by logging into the other user account and clearing up space. I imagine that you could also just delete the user's account and have the same effect.


Restore 10.8.2 to original developer settings

A common development configuration these days is to use separate guest OSes for development and testing.  With so many different OS's and configurations to test on, it seems like the only viable single-cpu solution.

In my personal experience, I tend to have the host OS tailored to looking up documentation and one Guest OS specifically for Development.  Then for each OS I will be testing on, I get the OS install image and make a new VM.  Those Guest OS's I modify as little as necessary to ensure their stability.

I still keep all my important files on the host OS's file system so that Time Machine will still pick them up.  Nonetheless, if you're hosting Mac OSes, a Time Capsule or some sort of shared AFP would still be viable if you chose to back them up.  I don't include the VM boot disks in my backups for the host OS - they change often and are rather large.

Generally I regard VMs as a disposable OS.  After initial configuration, I archive the VM boot disk and only touch it if I need to restore.

Also, if you're using VMWare, you can use Snapshots before installing your packages.  This is a good deal more convenient than doing a fully Time Machine backup, as is often want to do after messing with system files.

It sounds like you're not past the point of no return on your host OS.  You can probably still go this route, and you might find it better in the long run.


Is there an application that can check for broken aliases in Finder?

File Buddy might solve your problem. According to their website, it can:

  Find empty files and folders, orphaned files, duplicate files, broken aliases, and unused preference files.

The user interface is a little weird, but it does have the functionality to scan either the entire drive or a particular folder, so I think it'll meet your needs.

It costs $39.95, but you can give it a try for 30 days/10 launches for free and see if it works for your situation.


How to enable a disabled User Account on a MacBook Pro running OS X El Captain?

Usually the proper disable Login Shell value is: /usr/bin/false instead of /bin/false. So I don't know if your /bin/false is just a typo or not.

Even using the false UserShell I haven't been able to reproduce your problem though.

You can try the following: open Terminal and enter

dscl . read /Users/user_name

to check if the user user_name is still there.

Then check UserShell:

dscl . read /Users/user_name UserShell

To modify UserShell use:

sudo dscl . change /Users/user_name UserShell /bin/false /bin/bash

Depending on the value found previously you may have to use /usr/bin/false instead of /bin/false as shell which should be replaced.

Then recheck UserShell:

dscl . read /Users/user_name UserShell

which should yield:

  UserShell: /bin/bash

Exit Terminal and open System Preferences. The proper UserShell value should make the lost user visible again in the System Preferences > Users & Groups.


Why can't I ssh using a port other than 22 with macOS 10.15.4?

It appears my issue is specifically tied to a recent update of MacOS. The answer was found here: https://mjtsai.com/blog/2020/03/31/macos-10-15-4-broke-ssh/. Specifying the IP address of the server rather than its name resolved my issue.


iPhone functionality while using CarPlay

It all changed with the release of iOS 13. You can now have a different app open on the phone and different on the CarPlay screen. Enjoy!


iPad Air 2 restored now i need to activate it

I have forgotten my ID and password

We are well into the 21st century - your ID and password are as essential to modern life as your date of birth and Social Insurance Number. "I forgot my ____" is no longer acceptable.

If you are the original purchaser of the iPad, go to any Apple store with the device and the receipt. They can remove the activation locks. If you did not set it up originally, contact the person who did. If that isn't possible, go to any retailer with your credit card and get a new one.


Mac Mini 1TB HDD being 100% full - cant mount, cant boot

Create a bootable USB stick and boot the Mac off that. Make sure to use a MacOS version that is at least as recent as the Mac Mini’s date of manufacture, but not so new that it doesn’t support a 2007 Mac Mini. Apple’s instructions for creating a bootable USB drive are here. Then you can mount the hard drive (as long as you have the password, if it’s encrypted) and delete some files. Remember to empty the trash to actually get rid of them.


Migrating from MBA 2013 to Mac Mini Mid 2011 using Carbon Copy Cloner

My experience with Carbon Copy Cloner, which I use for daily backups of my external drives and for monthly checksum backups, is that, yes, it will copy anything that you do not tell it to specifically exclude.

I'm wondering, however, if there is not a more simple way to do this; did you, by any chance, download the 'extras' directly from Apple, as opposed to from the Mac App Store, as a .pkg that you might have retained and, so, could simply reinstall? Many people had problems downloading the extras in the traditional manner and Apple made all (?) (most, at any rate) of those 'pro packs' available as a direct download from their site. The link I have for that download is:
http://audiocontentdownload.apple.com/lp10_ms3_content_2013/ProAudioCoreContent10.pkg


I do believe that Mail.app does not have the ability to log into a shared (group) mailbox as I do not believe it understands the things that Microsoft did (very strange and awful things...) to IMAP to get the functionality that they wanted in Outlook.

For that you will need a copy of Outlook for the Mac, it may be available in the App store. not sure if it is free or not...


Reinstalling MacOS X Snow Leopard on a Mac over a crashed linux Ubuntu

You may need to separate the boot process from the CD reading.

First, power off and reset the NVRAM by holding option + command + P + R

Then, I would boot with the option key held until you have a grey screen. Once the Mac is at the boot chooser (no apple logo yet), you can then insert the CD.

This is firmware running the Mac, so you don't even need an internal HD to mount the CD. If it ejects, you need a repair of the drive or a replacement CD.

If the Mac can't boot to the boot chooser, then you have a hardware issue on the Mac.

Looking over the further details, if your Mac can't boot to the grey screen then there is a hardware issue. It might be as simple as disconnecting a failing HDD or just reseating the HD cable. It also might just need you disconnecting every single peripheral and bringing a new keyboard to the hardware.

I'd seek assistance from AppleCare or a hardware tech if you can't get the boot picker to show up. You could also see if your Mac supports internet recovery, but some 24 inch iMacs were made before that was added to the firmware.


By observing log messages in ~/Library/Logs/Ubiquity/<my username>/, I realized that Ubiquity (iCloud process) kept trying to create a file in a folder that doesn't exist:

I opened up the Terminal and created this directory and its parent directories up to .ubd:

cd ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/
sudo mkdir .ubd && cd .ubd
sudo mkdir peer-E2B13E4F-56F7-C79B-1621-E30738B638FE-v23 && cd peer-E2B13E4F-56F7-C79B-1621-E30738B638FE-v23
sudo mkdir ftr

Then I changed the newly created directories' owner from root to myself:

cd ../..
sudo chown -R <my username> .ubd/

The fan turned silent instantly.


Holding the mouse button automatically on OSX

Will the default double tap to drag work for you? You can enable it in System Preferences>Universal Access:


I ended up having to go to ~/Library/MailData, edit Accounts.plist,  and remove the keys and value entries related to SSLEnabled. Luckily I had a POP server that was okay to copy from. There were two entries, first the SSLEnabled one and the following entry all good for now.


Issue with audio for slideshow with Photos

I'm not able to reproduce what you are saying. The duration in the top right under export seems responsive. I add the song I want, notice how long it plays and the slide show duration updates.

My guess is you have more than one song queued in the top right under selected music, but it's hard to know without poking around your project.

 The above is from Version 1.1 (330.21.0)


How to wipe entire iCloud library without having to download it first?

You can delete them on iCloud.com but deleting thousands will be painful. Photos can be permanently deleted immediately by deleting them from the "Recently Deleted" album.

Just enable iCloud Photo Library on the Mac using the "Optimized Size" setting and placeholder/thumbnails for the photos will quickly appear. Delete them from the regular Photos view then delete them again from "Recently Deleted" and you should be good.


How to avoid lags when listening to music on a Mac?

Check out nice and renice which work on the command line.

You can change the priority level of processes, but to change other users processes you have to be admin level...

Just to provide a link with examples, see https://www.lifewire.com/uses-of-commands-nice-renice-2201087


How to delete invisible photos and videos from iPad?

Restore it by connecting to a computer with iTunes.  That will fix it.


You are running ssh command locally as root and the remote bash (hence the whole script) as the user ADMIN@macxxx (without switching to root on the remote server).

You must precede either bash or shutdown with sudo (provided ADMIN has passwordless sudo permissions for shutdown or all commands on macxxx machine).

So either:

ssh ADMIN@macxxx 'sudo bash -s' < ./documents/ShutdownUPTIME.sh

Or:

...
if [ $DAYS_UP -ge ${MAX_UPDAYS} ];then
    echo Mac is going to shutdown
    sudo shutdown -h now
else
...


Installing an SSD in a MacBook Pro mid 2010 but OS X is on an external USB HDD

what I did when my hdd died last week (coincidence):
I replaced my hdd with a smaller ssd and replaced the disk drive with a hdd.
Then I installed a fresh version of osx on the ssd.
After installation I plugged in my dead hdd with my old installation and simply dragged my home folder to my new hdd.
When this was finished i changed the path to my home folder in system settings to my old folder I just copied to my new hdd.
this gave me a brand new instal of osx and 99% of al my data I only had to re-download a few plugins.

You could try this aswel since I am guessing there is a problem with your old osx installation.

So:

Reinstall osx on your SSD
Drag your old home folder on your new drive
change the path to your home folder in system settings