Apple's Magic mouse scroll button is not working on windows-7

Following your initial installation of Windows 7 via Bootcamp you need to go a step further, boot into Windows and install the Bootcamp drivers supplied by Apple.  These can be found on your Mac's installation media or by searching for "Boot Camp Support Software" at Apple's support downloads page.  The installation of this software enables functions such as your Eject key, iSight camera, etc, as well as functionality for your Magic Mouse.

Hope that helps!


iOS7 iPhone: how to make Siri-initiated calls, SMS text msgs come from Google Voice caller ID?

This is not possible in 2014 and neither is it possible in fall of 2019.

Unless there’s an API or other way to script this, you might need to use a mac or other python enabled tool to automate this.

How can I initiate a Google Voice phone call from the command line?


How to always show the menu bar on fullscreen mode?

I don't think it can be done.

By default, the menu bar will float in if you hover the mouse at the top.

Alternatively, why not just use the window maximised, which will give a very similar look to what you want. [Green dot, top left of any window - though some apps will toggle full screen horizontally & vertically, others only vertically, you'd have to drag the corner for those]

Update for Yosemite, the green button behaviour is now reversed from Mavericks & before…

Green dot will set to fullscreen, without the menu bar.
 Alt ⌥  /Green dot will maximise, leaving the menu bar visible.


No Ads: This app is not receiving ads. Your iAd Network Contract has expired. It must be renewed for this app to start receiving ads

I just followed up with Apple Dev Support so YOU don't have to :)

Answer: even though iAd isn't being officially mothballed until the end of June, Apple is not renewing iAd accounts should they lapse before then.  In my case, my Developer Connect contract ended in Feb and was promptly renewed, but without a renewed iAd contract, and no way to renew it.  Time to look for iAd alternatives if you count on ad revenue as part of your app income.


How do I stop the play/pause keyboard buttons from launching iTunes on Mountain Lion?

I searched everywhere for a clean solution. Many solutions that worked for Lion and below no longer worked for Mountain Lion. However, this works and it took me hours to find. Enjoy!

http://gavinroy.com/posts/disabling-default-itunes-launch-behavior-with.html

From the website:

  In a search for a non-hacky way to disable direct mappings to iTunes for the play/pause/next/previous buttons in the keyboard in OSX, I stumbled across the "Remote control daemon" (rcd). As it turns out, disabling the iTunes launch behavior for these keys is as easy as unloading rcd with the following command:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist


How to open the Screenshot Folder right after taking the screenshot

Save this script as "Reveal_Screenshot.scpt", In Script Editor to your /Users/INSERT YOUR USERNAME/Library/Workflows/Applications/Folder Actions folder.

on adding folder items to theFolder after receiving theNewItems
    --  Called after items have been added to a folder
    --  theFolder is a reference to the modified folder
    --  theNewItems is a list of references to the items added to the folder
    tell application "Finder"
        activate
        reveal theNewItems
    end tell
end adding folder items to

Now add a folder action to your ~/Screenshots folder in Finder.app by control + click on ~/Screenshots folder

Because you saved that script in the previous step, it will now be available to choose as a folder action to attach to your folder

Now every time a screen shot gets added to your ~/Screenshots folder , it will bring Finder.app to the front and reveal the new file in your folder


How to get Apples Human Interface Guidelines 2016 as epub or pdf file?

Download iOS Human Interface Guidelines book in iBooks.app then drag and drop the file out of the "shelve" into the Desktop (or any other folder). It'll appear as .epub.


MBP 17" (2010) goes to sleep and can't wake it up

I’m new here, but old hat when it comes to troubleshooting Macs.
Sounds like the computer isn’t going to sleep consistently. Often this happens if there’s something running on the computer preventing it from sleeping.
These are the steps I usually take, for this kind of thing, with the more common, easier steps first. If you find something during one of these steps, take the action to resolve it, then test the sleep functionality.

Check for updates. It may sound awfully trite, but Apple does release firmware updates from time to time, often addressing issues relating to the System Management Controller (SMC), which has everything to do with this kind of issue.
Third-party software also plays a big role when it comes to software problems, so check for updates for all of these as well. (Most third-party software allows you to check for updates within the application.)

Check for any errant, unfinished print jobs. I’ve frequently seen this be the cause. You can do this by opening System Preferences > Print & Scan (or similarly named).
If you see a printer that says “In Use,” and you’re not trying to print something right now, then that’s a good clue this is your problem. From here, you can delete the troubled job (Apple Support article PH10608).

Check Activity Monitor (it’s in the Utilities folder) to see what’s currently running. Be sure to choose “All Processes” from the pop-up menu.
Backup software (like WD SmartWare), online syncing software (Dropbox, CrashPlan, Carbonite, etc.), out-of-date anti-virus or security software, auto-updaters and some third-party utilities can all prevent the computer from sleeping, especially if they’re in the middle of a task. Try disabling or turning them off from within its application or menu in the menu bar (and check updates for these, too).

Check how much hard drive space you have available. You’d probably have other symptoms, but it doesn’t hurt to check. Activity Monitor will tell you (click “Disk Activity” and look for the pie chart), or in OS X 10.7 Lion or later, Choose  > About this Mac, then “More Info…” and “Storage.”
It varies by version, and what you’re actively using on the computer but if you have under 10 GB hard disk space free then it’s time to empty the Trash.(Apple Support article PH10628) (Tools like DaisyDisk, WhatSize, and OmniDiskSweeper (this one is free) are great help for this. And keep in mind these may only report sizes for the currently logged-in user account.)

Check the file system using Disk Utility (also in the Utilities folder). When your computer goes to sleep, it saves the current state of the computer to a sleep image in /var/vm. If the computer has filesystem or hard disk issues, it may not be able to finish saving the data.
Choose your hard disk, then click “Verify Disk.” If any errors are found, you can repair them from the Recovery disk.

Check Console for disk errors (where else? Yep, in the Utilities folder). Usually you’d be noticing slowdown issues, but perhaps not if the drive is only just beginning to show trouble.
With “All Messages” showing, in the search box, type disk i/o. It’s possible to go further back in time through system.log and kernel.log. If you see repeated errors with disk0s2, that’s going to be your boot volume, which ordinarily will be your internal hard drive. You have a failing hard drive.

Check for any connected peripherals. USB and Bluetooth devices, like hard drives or audio interfaces can prevent computers from going to sleep. Disconnect these things and test it out.

Reset the SMC. Though hardly ever needed, it’s a simple and quick step that can easily fix power-related issues.

Try from Safe Mode. (Learn how to Safe Boot: Apple Support article HT1455.) This allows you to test without any auto-launching third-party software and non-essential items, and rebuilds your boot cache, too. (If it works flawlessly, restart and check Activity Monitor again for any constantly running processes.)

After that I suspect I’d backup and try re-installing OS X. And after that, I’d install a fresh copy of OS X onto a second partition of the internal hard drive, or onto an external drive (or erase the hard drive and install if you can afford it) and test. Should you narrow it down to this, try then installing your most essential software one at a time, testing after each item, until you find the culprit.
If after an erase and install you’re still encountering a problem, it’s probably a hardware issue, meaning you’ll need to take it in for repair.


Safari won't play Amazon Prime Video on my iMac?

You might want to check your Silverlight plugin and confirm that it's installed and working properly. According to their website titled: Prime Video System Requirements for Computers, these are the versions supported:

Mac OS 10.7 or newer
Safari (version 10 or newer on Mac OS 10.12.1 or newer)
The minimum supported version of Silverlight is 5.1

If you have the correct versions then make sure that the Silverlight plugin is enabled and configured properly in Safari, as shown below.

NOTE: You can navigate to HDD → Library → Internet Plug-ins to verify that Silverlight is installed.

Safari 12 and Amazon Prime

Curiously if I merely navigate to Prime Videos I'm able to play videos without any additional plugins using their built-in HTML5 player.

Additional research turned up this other AD Q&A titled: Silverlight Plug-In in Safari 12 which indicated that Silverlight was no longer supported in Safari 12.

References

Amazon Prime Video & Safari: Let's Call a Truce


This might be a case of using channels which are not allowed in your region. The wikipedia page on WLAN channels notes region limitations.

For example, in the US, in the 2.4 GHz spectrum you're only allowed to use channels 1-11, not 12, 13 and 14, while other regions may allow these.

In the 5 GHz spectrum, many countries only allow channels 34-165, or some subset of those (e.g. the US allows 36, 40, 44, 48-116, 132-165). Actually, you'll also note that not all channels in the ranges are listed (e.g. there's a big gap from 64-100, and a gap of 2 or 4 between most successive available channels) so its not necessarily obvious in the 5 GHz range if a channel is excluded in your region.

Anyway, the thing to do is check what region your devices (Access Point & Laptop) are set to, and either adjust them to be the same, and/or set your AP to use a channel common to both regions (e.g. 1-11 in the 2.4 GHz range or 48-64 in the 5 GHz range).


How does Apple calculate the energy consumption of a process in OS X Mavericks

There are many aspects of CPU utilization that affect energy consumption. It's not merely how much CPU does an application consume, but also how often and how flexible it is about it. The latter can have much bigger effect.

An application that needs to wake up exactly every 10ms to execute just a few lines of simple Obj-C code can have an order of magnitude larger energy impact than the same application executing thousands of lines of code but just once a second and not being very particular about exactly when within that second will the calculation happen.

Apple probably uses Intel's performance counters and accounts them to your application. You'd probably gain most insight by following Intel manuals first to understand the power states and energy management. This will highly vary between architectures. A badly behaving app can have a much bigger impact on Haswell than on an "old" Core 2 machine.

Use of other resources, such as the audio system, doing disk I/O or using USB devices may be also factored in. A likely accounting method would assign to your application all of the energy use needed by the resources your application uses exclusively (say a custom USB device, access to an otherwise powered-down audio syste), and do some sort of pro-rating for shared hardware.


"Apply Rules" to Sent Mail folder in OS X 10.9 Mavericks does not work

Try selecting all messages within your group folder instead, than Apply Rules command.


Added music not showing neither in the library, nor in the recently added

It took a time for iTunes to process a huge bunch of files so now they appeared in the library. However, there is no progress bar or something like this to recognize when it'll finish.


Changing sublime text 3 icon in dock on Yosemite

Here is a easy way to change the icon.

Remove Sublime Text from your dock.

Open two finder windows. One with Applications and one in the folder with the new icon. Like so:

Then click on Sublime Text and press CMD + i, this will bring up the Info Window for the App (Sublime Text). Like so:

Now, it's as easy as this: Drag and drop the new icon onto the small icon to the left of the App name (Sublime Text) in the top left hand corner of the Info Window. You should see the icon for both the app and the preview change to the new icon you just dragged.

Then drag Sublime Text from the Applications window over to the dock, and it will appear with the new icon.

Like so:


What does the square button in FastEver do?

The square is an unchecked checkbox, useful for making to do lists.


Why the storage of Documents showing wrong in mac?

The System Information view is misleading by naming it "Documents"

Under the category "Documents" it will trow everything in in that is not in the other sidebar listed categories.

For example in my case, it will show all my Movies as Documents.

The misunderstood display .. it says my "Documents" are 92GB which is not true for Documents Folder.?

In your case....


How can I restart from an Apple script without warnings?

Instead of telling System Events to restart, tell Finder.

tell application "Finder"
    restart
end tell


water splash caused minor iPad Power Button problems, what is the risk of mainboard corrosion?

I've been to one more repair shop, they also refused to open it and redirected me to official Apple Service center. I scheduled an appointment at the Genius Bar.

Apple representative provided me with following information:

They don't open iPads. Assuming you have Apple Care and there is a problem, they replace the whole unit.
They don't advise opening it, they say the device is sealed and glued and it would be hard to put it back together as it was.
They say they understand my concern about corrosion, after my requested, they showed me more or less where motherboard and batteries are placed.

I returned home and did more research on my own.

I checked settings of my iPad and got it's exact model: A1584
I Googled "A1584 teardown"
On this website I found very detailed photos of the inside. I grabbed the case my iPad had on during splash - it still had the mark after the splash.
I downloaded the x-ray photo and highlighted the pattern of the splash on it, I also highlighted where mainboard is placed and with arrows I marked potential entry points of water.
I estimate, since the device was not submerged, only trace amounts of liquid could enter inside of the case and I think it's reasonable to say it couldn't reach the battery or mainboard.
I estimate worst case scenario, potential corrosion could damage the the smaller circuit boards connecting power button, camera and volume buttons to the mainboard.

Reference on iPad teardown

My decision:

Taking into account following information:

Device was not submerged and I estimate liquid couldn't reach critical components.
Device is sealed and non-trivial to open, after closing it again might become less hermetic.

I decide to

Not open it for cleaning of the motherboard.
Prepare extra means of precaution for such events, purchased a case with better sealing.


Your question touches upon a few different areas so I will aim to address these individually:

Disabling a network service

You did not mention how you were disabling the Wi-Fi (i.e. WLAN) service, however there are generally two ways to do so from System Preferences in OS X:

Click the Apple menu (), then System Preferences, then Network
Click Wi-Fi or the custom-named service from the service list on the left
Click Turn Wi-Fi off, then close the System Preferences window

Alternatively:

Click the Apple menu (), then System Preferences, then Network
Click Wi-Fi or the custom-named service from the service list on the left
Click the gear icon (⚙), then Make service inactive, then click Apply

Both methods should persist through a reboot or shutdown. Neither method requires removing any known networks, as you were concerned about, and both should result in the service being disabled until turned on again using the same method.

It is important to note that if you click Turn Wi-Fi off in the method above, it is necessary to close the System Preferences window. If you reboot or shutdown without doing so, the option will not persist. Similarly, if you disable Wi-Fi from the menu bar icon (top-right of screen) the setting will not survive a reboot or shutdown.

If, as you mention, the service is activated again after following one of the methods above, I would suggest removing the service completely (by selecting it from the service list and clicking the delete or — icon) then recreating it using the same settings, perhaps under a different name (e.g. WLAN Test).

Note: You can always Revert any changes you make before Applying them in Network preferences. Be careful not to lose any details that you otherwise don't have written down.

Protecting against open networks

As you suggested, it's wise to be concerned about the potential risks associated with open Wi-Fi networks, and you can at least opt out of joining these automatically:

Click the Apple menu (), then System Preferences, then Network
Click Wi-Fi or the custom-named service from the service list on the left
Enable the Ask to join networks checkbox:

As described, known networks will be joined automatically. If no known networks are available a selection dialog will appear on-screen, giving you the option to join any available, but unknown, Wi-Fi network.

For additional protection you can require the administrator password when changing networks:

Click Advanced... then enable the Change networks checkbox under the heading Require administrator authorization to:

Adjusting network service order

It's generally advisable to prioritise your network services by their reliability, from most to least reliable, to give you the best experience when using multiple connections. In your case — since WLAN traffic appears to be taking priority over other traffic — this means giving the wired thunderbolt-to-ethernet service priority over your WLAN :

Click the Apple menu (), then System Preferences, then Network
Click the gear icon (⚙), and select Set Service Order... as shown below

In the panel that appears arrange the services by dragging them to the desired order, for example:

Click OK, then Apply

The system will attempt to utilise services in the order that you specified above. If a service is not available (e.g. cable disconnected, no network available) it will fall back to the next service, if any, until a valid service is found, or alternatively all services fail.


Why does Microsoft Messenger 8.0 crash when I open a new chat window?

It’s a typical BAD_EXEC. This could be related to two main things:

A bug in the program. The Mac programming framework (Called Cocoa) and the programming language used to develop most Mac programs (Objective-C) are very tricky with memory handling. A simple mistake could lead to unpredictable and unexpected crashes that seem to follow no “pattern”. It’s very common, it happens in the best software shops and until the vendor fixes the memory leak, there is nothing you can do (other than send them the bug report and pray).
If this behavior is exhibited by more software, there might be a problem with your hardware memory (RAM). Faulty RAM sticks are know to have caused this type of errors in a more or less unpredictable way. Programs start crashing and with time, new ‘problems’ arise, until the machine might eventually become almost unusable.

What can you do?

A simple test may be conducted by creating a new blank user in your computer, restarting your computer and using Messenger from the new user. This will rule any possible software problem with your user. If Messenger works fine under the new account, then further analysis of yours will lead us to try to find what’s interfering with MSN.

If it fails to work under the new account too, then the problem lies either in the MSN, Your OS X in general (weird but possible, usually a new user fixes 90% of the problems), or, worst case scenario, in your Hardware.

I suggest you try to above and take an action course. As a last resort, don’t hesitate taking the machine to an Apple Store/Genius Bar for further analysis. They will be able to provide you with much more information that what we could from here.


After you find a file using Finder, how do you get its file path?

Control click on the file (or right click)
Hold down option (when the contextual menu is still visible)
Select copy "filename" as Pathname
Release option

The keyboard shortcut Option - Command - C does the same work as the above GUI steps.
The full path to the file is in the pasteboard - so you can paste it where you need it. Also, Option - Command - P toggles the path bar in Finder windows. You need to select the file to see the path whereas the first option works with any visible file.
Lastly, you can control click (right click) the folder at the top of the Finder window to reveal the path hierarchically / visually.


iPhone iOS 10 compatible with Mac OS X 10.7.5?

iOS 10 requires iTunes 12.5.1 if you're on a Mac. However, the last version of iTunes to support macOS X Lion is 12.2.2.25, so I'm guessing that's your problem.

If you still need to be able to transfer media such as photos and music between your Mac and your iPhone 6, you can opt to use third party software. One example is iExplorer which happens to still support OS X 10.7 and iTunes 10.

Another possibility, depending on your actual model of Mac, is to install newer versions of macOS via alternative methods. If you want to pursue this, please post another question providing full details of your Mac hardware (including model, RAM, etc).


Assuming that each picture you shoot is 1 MB, 20000 pictures will take up 20000 MB which is approximately 20 GB. Now if you put these on your iPad 2, you have around 40 GB to work with keeping the reserved space in mind, which is okay. Looking at that information, you can upload 40000 more if you need. An alternative is to upload them all on a photo-hosting website to save all the 20 GB if you don't look at them often.

Responding to your second query, yes: it is quite responsive. My uncle has 8436 pictures and 129 videos on his iPad 2 and it is working perfectly.


I wrote some scripts to backup and restore Mac preferences. It does both System and Application preferences.

You can grab them here: https://github.com/clintmod/mac-preferences-backup

They're pretty simple. I just loop over the domains from running defaults domains and then call default export [domain] [plist file path].

Then to restore I just loop over all the plist files in the dir and run default import [plist file path]

You can modify the config.py file if you want to backup to a different dir. The default dir is ~/Dropbox/MacPrefsBackup.


Did this happen after a system update perhaps?
It seems that a lot of people have similar problems after the "Thunderbolt update" from Apple.

check this  thread


Is it possible to exclude different volumes from Time Machine between two macOS systems that run on the same machine?

I think it is possible for your situation.

(but before the reading: all writeup here is valid only for Mojave and Catalina, I cannot tell about other versions, it may or not be the same for other versions)

Historically time machine backups evolved into various kind of "marks" to determine which item is included or excluded. For the recent version I think most of them are valid. (I am referring to hidden files, extended file attributes, and similar identification "things" that time machine uses for it to know details about files to backups and for backup items)

But your case is not so complex (which would require a complex criteria to use file attributes or complex things)

You want to exclude a whole disk

Mojave and Catalina, when excluding an entire volume from Time Machine Backups, configure this setting on a local system config file, without touching files or inserting attributes on the selected volume to be excluded.

The volume exclusion list is saved under /Library directory of the operating system.
Specifically on this file:
/Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

This is the system wide configuration file to hold settings for the Time Machine application. Which means, Time Machine is not dependent of any user settings. It is a unique System setting. (There is no news here, it is just an emphasis on this information)

When you go to System Preferences -> Time Machine, and add a entire volume to be excluded, this information to exclude it is saved on that .plist file, inside a subcategory called "ExcludedVolumeUUIDs". That is very interesting because it saves the reference using the UUID of the volume, this way if you, for example, rename the volume, there will be no problem, because the UUID will continue the same, so this is a REAL volume exclusion, and not a weak reference to its name nor any folder reference [or mounted folder reference]... Another good thing about this, is that if you have any kind of external or exchangeable volume, it does not insert any Time Machine information on the disk/volume filesystem (Eg. You could have a volume used on 2 systems, which is backed-up when connected to your home iMac, but not when your are using it connected on your MacBook laptop at office.

The exclusion via UUID in is 'by system' and not 'by touching the volume'

So, considering the facts that:

the exclusion for Volumes is a system setting, and
it does not modify anything on the target volume

You can have different setting between your 2 operating system. Because each of them will have its personal Time Machine volume exclusion settings [configured inside itself on that individual system file]

You can look at that file, and I recommend you to look, to be sure it is correctly excluding by having the item under UUID volumes to be excluced (otherwise if not there, the exclusion would be using another method, like I mentioned before, such as file attributes. And we don't want other methods, we need UUID volume exclusion)

To read that entire file, use this command:

defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

here is mine:

{
    AlwaysShowDeletedBackupsWarning = 0;
    AutoBackup = 0;
    BackupAlias = {length = 334, bytes = 0x00000000 014e0002 00010e45 58544552 ... 45524100 ffff0000 };
    Destinations =     (
                {
            BackupAlias = {length = 334, bytes = 0x00000000 014e0002 00010e45 58544552 ... 45524100 ffff0000 };
            BytesAvailable = 1705257172992;
            BytesUsed = 1294991835136;
            ConsistencyScanDate = "2019-07-24 13:07:32 +0000";
            DestinationID = "C459ACD4-31AE-41D1-AC65-D88E5D317E43";
            DestinationUUIDs =             (
                "90991750-4768-36CC-8DFD-13BCA5C776AE"
            );
            LastKnownEncryptionState = NotEncrypted;
            RESULT = 0;
            ReferenceLocalSnapshotDate = "2019-07-24 11:24:46 +0000";
            RootVolumeUUID = "3DA126C7-122A-40C0-80B2-1225E390D130";
            SnapshotDates =             (
                "2019-04-20 22:31:05 +0000",
                "2019-05-19 03:42:05 +0000",
                "2019-05-26 03:38:32 +0000",
                "2019-06-04 09:24:07 +0000",
                "2019-06-15 17:25:18 +0000",
                "2019-06-30 08:33:36 +0000",
                "2019-07-04 18:10:38 +0000",
                "2019-07-12 16:11:50 +0000",
                "2019-07-24 13:07:32 +0000"
            );
            UnencryptedBackupWarningDate = "2019-06-01 05:01:48 +0000";
        }
    );
    ExcludedVolumeUUIDs =     (
        "92C778BF-621C-4017-866E-59031130661C",
        "78014957-8494-45A0-92A4-F36A059EEDE7",
        "6A3046E5-2EFC-48DE-909E-D6FF2744D140",
        "7B808A26-9743-4D3E-9605-DEA648D2776A",
        "CB723B05-D8B5-40D8-BBAD-0542A5AC1220",
        "0225C60C-86F7-44EE-A578-CCF60963BDCA",
        "52BD54AB-8E4F-41C0-AF85-2831913156EC",
        "909DA662-20A1-408E-BBA3-0CD8E9B1B3DB",
        "4E319128-35AA-4D50-A9E4-A8A5DA4B47BC",
        "7B4ED02C-7E46-4457-B1FF-5B884483CD7B"
    );
    HostUUIDs =     (
        "BD223C40-7AA3-592D-85CF-DE69305768BC"
    );
    IncludeByPath =     (
        "/Applications",
        "/Library",
        "/System",
        "/bin",
        "/private",
        "/sbin",
        "/usr"
    );
    LastConfigurationTraceDate = "2019-07-12 16:12:00 +0000";
    LastDestinationID = "C459ACD4-31AE-41D1-AC65-D88E5D317E43";
    LocalizedDiskImageVolumeName = "Backups do Time Machine";
    PreferencesVersion = 4;
    SkipPaths =     (
        "/Volumes/Scratch"
    );
    SkipSystemFiles = 0;
}

You can also be more specific to reading it by selecting the key ExcludedVolumeUUIDs:

defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist ExcludedVolumeUUIDs

(
    "92C778BF-621C-4017-866E-59031130661C",
    "78014957-8494-45A0-92A4-F36A059EEDE7",
    "6A3046E5-2EFC-48DE-909E-D6FF2744D140",
    "7B808A26-9743-4D3E-9605-DEA648D2776A",
    "CB723B05-D8B5-40D8-BBAD-0542A5AC1220",
    "0225C60C-86F7-44EE-A578-CCF60963BDCA",
    "52BD54AB-8E4F-41C0-AF85-2831913156EC",
    "909DA662-20A1-408E-BBA3-0CD8E9B1B3DB",
    "4E319128-35AA-4D50-A9E4-A8A5DA4B47BC",
    "7B4ED02C-7E46-4457-B1FF-5B884483CD7B"
)

You can see I have several excluded volumes, those are volumes on my secondary 2TB  disk that I don't want to backup.

Configuring your 2 systems for exlusion

Boot Mojave:

Just open System Preferences -> Time Machine -> Options

and select a disk volume from the finder open dialog:

save, and execute the command line to verify the exclusion by UUID:

defaults read /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine.plist

You should see the volume UUID included under the key ExcludedVolumeUUIDs

  Don't backup yet. Let's configure both and verify.

Boot Catalina:

And do the same.

Verify the the exclusion is inserted for UUID with the command line.

Also on the Time Machine Preferences item, of each MacOS, you will see the excluded volume of the other, and it will have an icon which is a hard-disk icon. The same icon of that Finder open dialog.

Boot Mojave again:

And confirm that the exclusion configured on item1 remains the same. (It should be the same as configured on item 1, untouched by the configuration done on item2)

This is it:

Each operating system now have the respective other-disk UUID item under that configuration key, and the Time Machine dialog should also show the other-disk of each one.


How to remove slo-mo tags from iOS videos using exiftool?

There is no tag for slo-mo. Photo uses the frame rate (over 60fps) of the video to decide wether it is a slo-mo or not. GoPro videos with 120fps appear also in the slo-mo folder.

You have to convert the video to 60fps or less to achieve this, iMovie should work for this.


Non-Apple-provided files in SIP-protected directories

I use the excellent software Pacifist to tell which files are installed from which source.

https://www.charlessoft.com/

You can also just make a new Volume and install a clean version of macOS to see which files result from a clean install with no migration.


Bluetooth icon keeps randomly disappearing from menu bar in High Sierra

Using inductive logic, and under the assumption that you didn't "un-tick" the box, then it must be software. My best guess would be software associated with a device that uses Bluetooth. One way to check that is:

Hold down shiftoption while clicking the BT icon in your menu bar. You should see all the usual options, plus one called Debug. From here, things get version dependent, but you should at least have a Debug option giving you more options to reset the Mac's BT module, or any connected Apple BT devices. Some earlier versions of mac os, prior to 10.13.6, are reported to also have a "BT log" option.

And so this might be the first stop, reset devices one at a time in a process-of-elimination mode.

If you're more conversant with BT, Apple has some tools that might help pinpoint an errant device causing the "un-tick". One of these tools is referenced frequently, and called Bluetooth Explorer.app (download). It's part of Apple's developer's toolkit. Another tool available in the same download is PacketLogger.app. Bluetooth Explorer.app would start on my system (10.13.6), but refused to display the GUI, making it useless. But apparently it does run on some systems, so YMMV. However the PacketLogger.app started without drama. It has features that may help find a particular message or message type - if you know what to look for :)

Yeah, I agree, fairly remote possibility that a BT device is the cause, and that these apps will pinpoint it, but if all else fails...


Menu command name for adjusting brightness

Apple hasn't made this easy (or if they have, I've missed it).

The only way that I know to do this is with Keyboard Maestro.

You may need to disable the iTunes media keys on your Mac keyboard:

launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.rcd.plist

And then you can use Keyboard Maestro’s Device Key option (for some reason the "Hot Key" didn't work.) Press the key that you want to use.


https://www.easeus.com/phone-transfer/mobimover-free.html worked great - Thanks Buscar!


Using pinyin with tones to input Chinese characters

Making the user input a tone used to be the default in OS X, but not since at least OS X 10.8. Now it continues to guess your characters as you keep typing, and since it's pretty good at guessing, I guess tone selection was deemed an unnecessary step.

There may be some way you can fiddle with com.apple.inputmethod.SCIM.plist or com.apple.inputmethod.TCIM.plist to bring the old behavior back, but at least in the preferences menu that option is no longer available.

One thing you can do: after typing the "untoned" pinyin for a character, cycle through the four tones by hitting Tab (it's Option + Tab in Traditional Chinese). This will limit the list of suggestions to one particular tone at a time (it also displays a diacritical mark over your pinyin as a visual indicator of which tone you're on).


Setting up TimeCapsule with existing Router(with DHCP disabled)

Disable NAT and DHCP on the router.  Plug the Time Capsule's WAN port into the router's LAN port.  Better yet, see if the router has a "bridge" mode.  The Time Capsule usually would run in 'distribute a range' mode, which IIRC means DHCP and NAT.  'Share a public' would be DHCP only.  And bridge is a simple pass-through mode (much like we've just tried to put your Belkin into).


Create partition on MacBook Air that isn't deleted during restore

Make second partition on the drive using Disk Utility and as long as you don't install to that partition, it will not get erased by an OS (re)install.

You should be able to live shrink your existing partition and create this new space at the end if the partition view of the disk.


Change the nature of a project with iMovie

Create a new AppPreview and then copy-paste your Movie project to it.


I looked up a couple of splitters including one from Belkin and another cheap one from Amazon. Neither splitter supports data transfer at all, through either port.

I'd hazard a guess that this isn't possible. At least I haven't been able to find a device that explicitly states that it does support data.


Mac OS X 10.10.5 - How can I encrypt only my home folder without Apple FileVault

I do this on my own Mac at home with scripts that run at boot and mount a Core Storage volume. I'm on 10.11.6, but the same principles should apply.

To be clear, FileVault is much simpler, but it is possible to do what you ask. I went down a rabbit hole to get an encrypted $HOME working, and so I still use it, but FileVault is superior in just about every way.

I wrote up an article detailing how I did this. I'd post the vital steps here, but it is a fairly long and involved process.

Here's the gist of it. You need to do the following:

Format a USB drive
Add a keyfile (max 1023 chars) to that drive
Create a core storage volume somewhere
Encrypt that core storage volume with your keyfile
Migrate files to your new encrypted home
Create a Launchd task that runs a mount script on boot
Create that mount script.

The mount script will read the keyfile from your USB drive
The mount script will attempt to unlock your core storage volume using the contents of the keyfile
The mount script must unmount the core storage volume from /Volumes
The mount script must mount the core storage volume to /Users

Unmount the USB drive so the keyfile isn't just sitting there

It took me a lot of trial and error.

There are probably ways to improve my steps like using an exported keychain rather than a plain text keyfile. You could probably also re-define the location of $HOME for your user in System Preferences, but I opted to mount the encrypted home over the normal home so that the path would be standard.

I tried changing $HOME to /Volumes/THE_ENCRYPTED_DRIVE, but I immediately noticed things like my iTunes library were messed up. All the library file references were stale and needed to be updated. That's an example of how screwing with $HOME can get messy.

Really, FileVault would be way easier if you can get it going. If FileVault is not an option, you should check out VeraCrypt, which is a fork of TrueCrypt that was recently audited and seems legit.


Does iOS allow any app to look at the clipboard data?

The whole purpose of clipboards is that apps can read from it and write into it. Usually this happens due to a copy/paste request by the current users, but there are apps (e.g. Podcast apps or browsers) which peek at the clipboard to see whether it is in a any form actionable by the app (e.g. if it is an URL). And there are, as recent news show, apps which seem to peek into the clipboard to grab data, passwords etc.
If you are curious about how code to access the clipboard can look like, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41452868/reading-from-the-clipboard-with-swift-3-on-macos gives some examples.


The key here is understanding the error message being generated.

When you see a message indicating a connection was refused (ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED) this means that the server actively rejected the connection attempt.  This is usually a firewall issue where the firewall rejects the packets.

When yo see a message indicating a time out (ERR_CONNECTION_TIMEOUT) this means that your client waited for a response and nothing happened.  This could be due to the service not being up/running, or not installed.

Getting an result back from configtest only checks to see if your httpd.conf file is correctly formatted, not that it's doing what you want it to do.  However, your httpd.conf file has little to do with whether your connection is refused or not other than the IP and/or port it listens on.

Finally, http://localhost and 127.0.0.1 (your hosts file) is a DNS related, not firewall.  An error here can cause your host to be not found but not rejected.

Things to check
So, unfortunately, nothing you've looked at is related to this.  What you have to look for is your firewall.  First, disable your firewall and see if it's working. Next, check your httpd.conf file for the Listen directive and make sure that is set properly.
For Best Results
Unless you're hosting a website on a Mac sever (very rarely done), don't install an AMP stack on your Mac.  Instead, deploy a small VM running the OS that you'll ultimately deploy to.  This way, you can configure the AMP stack exactly for what you'll be using in production and macOS updates won't have any effect on your web server configuration.


Any way to modify DISPLAY similar to how it works for X11 with the macOS display system / window manager so other users can display on active display?

No
X11 includes the ability to run an application on once machine with display on another.
For macOS the application and display must be the same machine.
What can be done is use screen sharing so that if you share B's screen to A. A can interact with the program running on A's machine.
There are also applications that allow you to broadcast from one machine to another - e.g. if running on B's machine, other machines can see B's interaction with the program.


If you need to get port knocking working as a client (i.e. you want to access a remote service that is protected by port knocking) - then install the knock program from Homebrew like this:

brew install knock

You'll need to have Homebrew installed in advance.

Then you can use the program from Terminal.app like this:

knock myserver 1234 5678 9012

where the numbers are the ports to knock.

If you need to get port knocking working as a server (i.e. you want to protect a local resource so that remote access is limited to those in-the-know by port knocking) - then similarly install knock from Homebrew.

After installation you'll need to create a knockd.conf configuration customized to your requirements (i.e. which type of service you want to protect, the ports to use, etc.) - and finally start knockd using launchd.

You can find an example of how to do this here:

Example knockd setup


Activating my unlocked iPhone 4S using a Friend's SIM temporarily

Yes. No it won't affect your phone.

An iPhone requires a SIM to activate. If the phone was locked to a specific carrier, it would require a SIM from that respective service provider. Since your iPhone is factory unlocked, any SIM (provided it's a micro-SIM) will suffice for activation. SIM cards to do not affect your device. You could get SIM cards from Fido, Rogers, Bell, AT&T, and Verizon and use each one every hour if you wish. This is why "world phones" (devices that are not locked to a specific carrier) are appealing to those that travel. They can use one SIM card in North America, for example, and another one in Asia during their travels.

SIMs only allow your device to connect to the carrier's towers, that is all. That's what SIMs are for, to talk to the carrier and say, "Hey, I'm authorized to be here." Older technology (CDMA) required direct device activation. This meant having to call the carrier and get the device activated. Should you change your device, you would have to call again to activate the new one. SIM cards (for the newer GSM network) solved this problem by registering the SIM and not the device. Once a SIM is registered, any device its plugged into has access to that network.


I've never been concerned with such a small measurement error. I'd be interested in seeing more data. If you make a month's measurements at least daily - please post and share. Perhaps something is concerning but the small fluctuation you report isn't concerning to me.


How do you sort columns left to right in MS Excel for mac?

To rearrange columns alphanumerically by their names, assuming the column names are in row 1, do this:

Select all cells of the table. (Click and drag from top left cell to bottom right cell.)
Click the thin arrow button next to the 'Sort' button and choose Custom sort….
In the Sort dialog box, click Options…, and in the pop-up, choose to Sort Columns.
Back in the main dialog box, un-check 'My list has headers'.
in Row: select Row 1; in Sort On: select Values; and in Order: select A–Z.
Click OK to execute.

(based on Excel 2011)


Apple Keyboard with Numeric Keypad on Windows-7

Hah! I actually use a mac keyboard as the normal keyboard on my windows boxes. I like the laptop-feel and the aluminium.

This is easy to fix.

Push "Clear".

The "Clear" key on the numberpad gets mapped to the "NumLock" key on windows.

If you want to fix the swapping of the alt and "Command" keys, KeyTweak works well.
It can also let you set the additional F-keys (e.g. F13-F19, which are not real F-keys) to be  whatever you want. I have them mapped as media keys (next-track, pause, etc...)


Finder doesn’t see files on Android devices from MacBook Pro USB commections

You need an app for OS X/macOS to transfer files from an Android phone to your Mac.

Try Android File Transfer from Google.

Also, a suggestion from another forum is:

  Try disabling Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB
  debugging in conjunction with setting Settings -> Applications ->
  USB settings to Mass storage.


Is there an application that moves menulets from the menu bar, and shows them in a little window?

It's not exactly the style used by the old Control Strip, but Bartender hides the menu extra icons, and show them in a little window that appears when clicking on its menu extra icon.

  Lets you tidy your menu bar apps how you want.
  See your menu bar apps when you want.
  Hide the apps you need to run, but do not need to see.
  Have the clean looking menu bar you want.
  Rearrange your menu bar items as you wish.

For each icon shown in the Menu Bar, it let you decide where the icon should be shown (Bartender Bar versus Manu Bar), and how long the item should be shown when it is updated.


What do I need to do to get my Mac to sleep properly?

This is the key to the entire issue:

  The internal HD failed some time ago, since which it's been running
  fine on an external usb hd.

It can't go to sleep when your USB is your boot drive.  If it did put the port to sleep, it would unmount the boot device which would cause OS X to crash.  You can confirm this with the line in your pmset output:

ExternalMedia                  1

(The USB drive is, by definition, "external media")

If you replace your failed drive with a new internal drive or SSD, the problem will go away.

I had a failed drive in my iMac and I can understand why you have not yet changed out your drive.  It's much easier than you think to replace it, it just takes some time.  Even though ifixit rates it as "difficult",  it's not difficult per se; it's time consuming and detail oriented.  You have to do this very carefully.

Before you undertake this fix, make you you have all the parts you need like the drive and the adhesive strips. (Get quality ones and not generic double sided tape - I have seen people that went cheap here and had displays fall out - quality tape is much cheaper than a replacement display)

Have a look at ifixit.com for step by step instructions


I wouldn't say it's for no rhyme or reason, obviously,things sorted chronologically will always be easier to find. But this is just a slight overlook on your part, very slight. You can create a new project with the following:

clicking on the 'Add' icon in the topbar or pressing ⌘+N.
Create with whatever theme you seem fit.
Name it whatever suits you, and select the corresponding event your creating a movie from.
This will automatically add the project to the same year or folder the event is in (keeping things together, more efficient workflow)
You know if an event has a working project if there is a movie slate next to it's name.

Is a fast link to your movie.
This is where you cut/exclude/split and select certain clips to drag-n-drop into the timeline (#3)
This is your working timeline, anything you've added to the movie will display here. All transitions go here as well.
Self-explanitory

This is a very very fundamental tutorial, there are thousands of features packed into iMovies you might have to review their own tutorials here : http://help.apple.com/imovie/mac/10.0.6/


Problem installing Devel::REPL using cpanm

perlbrew

You will find installing a local copy of perl, separate from the one bundled with Mac OS X, will make your module installation easier.

Use perlbrew to install and manage a specific version of perl. This isolates your perl from OS X updates and changes which have caused multiple problems in the past:

curl -L http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
perlbrew install perl-5.16.0
perlbrew switch perl-5.16.0

cpan minus

On your isolated copy, install cpan minus to reduce the memory cost of installing modules:

curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - App::cpanminus

Re-install Devel::REPL

With this done, try re-installing Devel::REPL using cpanm:

cpanm Devel::REPL

...or cpan:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install Devel::REPL'

You should find modules install with less problems and are no longer affected by system updates or changes in Apple's decisions towards perl on OS X.


I have a 38mm apple watch and I put in on power reserve and no matter what I do it wont get out of it.

To get out of Power Reserve, follow the instructions on Apple Support page.

To turn off Power Reserve:

1. Press and hold the side button until you see the Apple logo.
2. Wait for your Apple Watch to restart. You might need to charge your Apple Watch first.


MacBook Pro starts with "Installing onto SSD"

It was just the update to Catalina 10.15.3!


Install Mac OS X Tiger (PPC) to External HDD with an Intel Mac

You may try your luck with Pacifist. This application will take just the installer packages and extract them to where you want them as a destination.

However, the application falls short in a few areas for a really complete installation, as some things were not designed in: pre- and post-install scripts, blessing (making it bootable), ownership and permission will likely be off.

For these problems there is a nice writeup available at How to install a very small version of OS X on an external drive (2007):

  STEP 1: Format your drive (HFS+, journaled)
  STEP 2: Enable owners

 sudo /usr/sbin/vsdbutil -a /Volumes/CRUZER

  STEP 3: Install OS X
     Insert disc 1 of your OS X install media (you can close the Finder window that pops up; you don't need it), then open Pacifist and click the "Open Apple Install Packages" button at the bottom. A pop-up window will open that should have an option like, "OS Install - Mac OS X and standard applications (Mac OS X Install Disc 1)":

  Selecting an install package to extract from

  Highlight it and hit OK. Pacifist will load the relevant files, which will take a little while.Eventually, it will spit out disc 1 and ask for disc 2.

  Expand, "Contents of EssentialSystemSoftware", then expand, "EssentialSystemSoftwareGroup" and select both "BaseSystem" and "Essentials":

  Selecting the packages to extract

  With those two selected, click on File -> Install Files to Other Disk..., select your external drive in the pop-up window and hit OK. In the next pop-up, leave "Use Administrator Privileges" checked and hit "Install", then enter your password to start the process.

  During the extraction/copying process, you might see either (or both) of the following warnings:

  A file already exists at the following location...

  In response to this, check "Don't ask again for this installation", and click, "Leave alone".

  The application bundle [path to bundle] already exists...

  For this one, check the same box and click "Replace".

  Once this process completes you can open up your drive in the Finder and you should be able to see the system folders and files (along with anything else that was already there if you didn't format the partition in step 1):

  STEP 4: Copying additional files from your existing installation

  Open a Finder window and navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices on
  your main hard drive. Open a second Finder window to the same place,
  but on your external drive. Now copy the file SetupAssistant from the
  former to the latter. (You'll need to enter your password to confirm.)

  Similarly, navigate to /Library/Receipts (note: NOT
  /System/Library/Receipts!) on both drives and copy BaseSystem.pkg and
  Essentials.pkg from the former to the latter.

  STEP 5: Make the drive bootable

  Open Terminal and enter:

  sudo bless --verbose --folder "/Volumes/CRUZER/System/Library/CoreServices" --bootinfo --bootefi

  (Note the double dashes for each argument in this command! Also, if
  you're using a non-Intel Mac then you don't need the --bootefi flag.)

  After being prompted for your password, you should see a verbose
  output for this command, which should contain a number of indications
  of success, e.g. "boot.efi created successfully".

  STEP 6: Fix permissions

  In Disk Utility, select your external partition and click "Repair
  Permissions". This may take a little while depending on the type of
  drive you're using.

  STEP 7: Boot!

  Restart your Mac, holding down the option key until you see the list
  of devices that can be booted. If all went well, you should see
  something like this:


On OS X, how can I see which song/stream/... is playing in iTunes?

Unfortunately, even the most recent release of iTunes doesn't have a very good method for this.

You could use the Mini-Player option, either from the Window menu, or toggle with option-command-M, but that is designed for album art - and won't show you the track info unless you mouse over it.

There are plenty of 3rd-party utilities, however.  I still use Bowtie for an inobstrusive floating desktop status, there are also others that can display your current track in the menu bar or via Growl, Mavericks' Notifications, etc.


Can I use Split View on an older iPad model?

There's really nothing that you can do to change that. iOS is not open-source, so users can't change source code. But it's also hardware limitations, so even if you were to find a way to force Split View multitasking into your iPad Mini, there's no telling what would happen. Apps would likely randomly crash, if they were even to open in the first place. Apple does a great job of supporting older hardware, so if Split View was feasible to implement on older iPads, Apple probably would have done it.


Is there a way to see the automator script in text?

While you could look at, copy and transfer, the contents of the document.wflow file found inside the filename.workflow bundle or Automator filename.app bundle, it's just XML, I'm not sure how much good it will do you as it will not open in the Automator.app.  It will open  with the Automator Runner however it may not run as intended, depends on what's in there.


Upgrading early 2015 Macbook pro from Mojave to Catalina/Big Sur?

If you have enough free disk space, the best thing to do is:

reduce disk space for Mojave.
create a Catalina or Big Sur test environment and so you will see for yourself.

The other option is to install the new system on DDE USB-3 and, despite the loss of performance compared to the internal SSD, you can also test without touching in Mojave.
What is important to know is that Catalina or Big Sur no longer support 32-bit applications.


Audio input/output splitter for MacBooks without changeable input/output jack?

Yes, they are called 3.5mm 4 pin splitter, they separate a 4pin 3.5mm jack in 2 standard 3.5mm jack (1 for headphones, 1 for mic) as this one:

Startech.com 3.5mm 4 Pin to 2x 3 Pin 3.5mm Headset Splitter Adapter - M/F

you can read the comments, there are also some mac users that bought this splitter.


How can 3 different Apple Music users share the same Apple TV? (family or not family plan)

You can set up multiple Apple ID's on the Apple TV and have each user switch every time they use it.

You may opt to create a separate/new account that you leave signed in, so that somebody doesn't accidentally use yours (requiring you to sign in and out of your account every time).

  How to add multiple accounts to Apple TV

  Before you can use multiple accounts, you need to log into any and all
  additional accounts you want available.

  Launch Settings from your Home screen. Click on Accounts. Click on
  iTunes and App Store. Click on Add new Apple ID. Enter the additional
  Apple ID username. Click on Continue. Enter the additional Apple ID
  password. Click on Sign In.

  How to switch between multiple accounts on Apple TV

  While you have multiple accounts you can only use one account at a
  time. That means switching!

  Launch Settings from your Home screen. Click on Accounts. Click on
  iTunes and App Store. Click on the account you want to use.

  You'll now be able to download or re-download any apps or content
  available on that account.

  Family Sharing

  Multiple accounts work with Family Sharing, so kids can switch to
  their accounts and "ask to buy" just like on iPhone or iPad.


Does the iOS App Store share information with developers that can identify specific users of their apps?

No, developers on the iOS App Store do not receive information from the App Store that uniquely identifies users of apps. That includes both free and paid apps. The developer also do not receive a list of device names of devices where their app was installed or purchased.
The developer can access only aggregate information, such as the number of purchases made by customers in a specific country.
Note that the developer might have other means of getting information about their users. For example by including a login system in their app, letting the user link in Facebook accounts, and similar. However that would be something that is separate from Apple's App Store.


First let's clarify one thing: RAID is not the same as backup. Building a RAID array out of several (presumably USB) external drives would have many drawbacks. See this question I asked a while back for the explanation. I suspect what you really want is passive and seamless disk/data backup in which case OS X's built-in Time Machine works great. And if you have Mountain Lion it is capable of using all of your external drives to store the backups.


Many Applications accessing obsolete x509anchors

Did you perhaps upgrade from an earlier version of OS X? Apparently this error is benign:

  The X509Anchors keychain is harmless and can be left in place. If you do not use any third-party software that requires this keychain, it can be deleted.


This movie requires QuickTime, which is not supported by this version of iTunes. iTunes 12.0.1.26 in Yosemite

Found the answer here: http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS3771
Basically, you need to get iTunes to startup in 32-bit mode.


You can "REPEAT PLAYLIST" in iOS 8.4. I play my playlist on a daily basis in a repeated manner.

Do refer the User Guide for iOS 8.4 version, under page 71.

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/1000/MA1565/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

Let me know if it helps.


Enable Voice Control without floating mic icon

Not a cure, but a visual option:  I move the 'Voice Control' icon 99% off screen, you can select wherever you want to move it off screen


Bluetooth keyboard not working after update to Windows 10

The new Keyboard driver on Bootcamp broke the connection for my keyboard under Windows 10 and it might break yours too.

So after using the solution from Zidad for the last couple of months (thank you) I decided to find a better solution to be able to use the Fn button and all the volume and multimedia functions of the Apple keyboard, here is what you need to do:

You need the Apple Keyboard driver that comes in the Bootcamp 5, you can either download the full pack from Apple (version 5.1.5621 works), or download only the keyboard driver from my dropbox (64bit windows only):

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jexvjcg2zlmjg3e/AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe?dl=1

   •If you downloaded the file above proceed to step 4.

Unzip the BootCamp 5 pack
Navigate to the unzipped folder and go to BootCamp/Drivers/Apple
Run AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe
It will tell you that it's installed, but it won't work yet.
Open Device Manager and go to 'Human Interface Devices', right click Apple Keyboard and select "Update Driver Software"
Click 'Browse my computer for driver software', then 'Let me pick a list of device drivers on my computer'
Select the Apple Keyboard version 5 that you just installed (NOT the newest version 6).

Profit!


Please have a look at this article: http://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/10/01/el-capitan-boot-camp-windows-changes/

Just follow the next steps and windows should install without using a USB drive.


How do I create a symlink to MacVim configuration files?

You are misunderstanding the way (Mac)Vim processes its configuration. Simplifying slightly, there are three layers to it on OS X:

the vimrc and gvirmc files in $VIMRUNTIME are the runtime defaults for the Vim install. For MacVim, this is set to point inside the application bundle – the files you found. These will be overwritten each time you update MacVim.
the vimrc and gvimrc files in $VIM are the system wide settings. This is meant to provide a system administrator with a way to set defaults. When not expressly set, $VIM is equal to $VIMRUNTIME.
finally, the ~/.vimrc and ~/.gvirmc files are your personal configuration. These are the files you, as the individual Vim user, are meant to customise.

These configuration files are sourced in the above order, from top to bottom. To use your personal configuration from another directory (e.g. for version control), just symlink their location to the canonical personal configuration files, i.e.

ln -s /your/configuration/dir/vimrc ~/.vimrc
ln -s /your/configuration/dir/gvimrc ~/.gvimrc


What is the canonical directory in which to install parallel versions of LLVM?

There is no real standard.

Your choice of your home directory is easiest for compiling them. The only comment here is why the svn part of the directory I would just use ~/llvm.

If you are the only user that the home directory makes sense however if your system is multi-user then they could be placed in /usr/local/llvm. As Unix is multi user and I suspect before OSX very few machines had one user the Unix standard is /usr/local and even now systems administrators and distributions have to assume multi user uise.

I would also consider using package managers like Macports or Homebrew. From reading Macports mailing lists compiling and using llvm is not just a simple compile and the porters wioll have worked out the issues or can work with you to fix problems.


How do I add a featured iTunes Radio station to my stations on iOS?

According an Apple support doc:

  You can add a featured station to My Stations by tapping the Info (i)
  button, then tapping the Plus (+) button to the right of "Add to My
  Stations."


Why does Mac OS overwrite whole folders rather than merging their contents?

Merge two folders with the same name

If you have two folders with identical names at two different locations, you can merge them into a single folder.

Press and hold the Option key, then drag one folder to the location that contains a folder with the same name. In the dialog that appears, click Merge.

The Merge option appears only if one of the folders contains items that are not in the other folder. If the folders contain different versions of identically named files, the only options are Stop or Replace.


How do I change a username? (shortname and home folder)

Apple's own instructions work quite well. There may be more complex and faster ways out there, but I've never run into an issue (such as incorrect permissions) with these steps.

Mac OS X v10.6 and earlier: How to change user account name or home directory name


Create a new project (on top), with or without a theme. Then the timeline will be on bottom and the iMovie library on top. Now you can drag pieces in, just like before.


In Safari, is there a way to use the keyboard to select and click links/buttons on web pages?


Deleting Wifidiagnostics file and others under private/var/temp and /folder on Catalina

I would say no at this point, don’t mess with /private and instead open a support case if you catch the system not keeping it under 10 GB for a 250 GB disk. Other than swap files which can be controlled by choosing software that’s efficient or periodic restarts, the rest self clean quite well in my experience.

Unless you’re quite experienced, the risk/reward here has been high risk / low reward.

For instance, partial download and staged installers will be cached here, so if you find them and remove them, the system could have issues patching itself as it’s primed to install at restart after confirming a good download. Other things are placed here that speed up the mac greatly - so you just slow down the system as it has to recreate the files you just trashed.


That is definitely the sign of some failure related to your HDD. The SMART status is not real helpful in many cases either; for instance if you have bad blocks it probably won't detect them.

My recommendations would be back-up everything, then reformat the drive and see if the problem persists - or send it back to WD, since your HDD should be covered under warranty.


Crazy Memory usage on Transcend 128GB JetDrive 130 Expansion Card for MBA

As mentioned in my original question, the SD Association (of which Transcend are a member) cite performance impacts as a reason against using standard drive formatters.

However, they have a formatter available for download at https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4. On Mavericks, I reformatted my drive using this utility and recopied my files.

The results were as follows:

A single file 14.57GB took 4 minutes to copy. This is the exactly as advertised 60MB/s write speed.
80k files (16GB), however took 92 minutes to copy. which reflects about 5MB/s

In both cases, however, the info window was as expected showing a reasonable amount of memory usage and memory remaining. So, this solved my original problem.

As a comparison, I decided to reformat as a Journaled and found the following:

14.57GB file took 10 minutes to copy, which is only about 50% of the advertised max speed.
80k files (16GB) more importantly took only 10.5 minutes.

For me, sticking with a Journaled format is a no brainer, particularly if writing lots of small files, which I will be. It also may allow me include this on a Fusion drive, although I haven't investigated this yet.

TL;DR - It is probably best to reformat to a Journaled partition as it provides a more consistent write speed of about 30MB/s, no matter the file sizes. ExFAT ranged between 5 to 60 MB/s speeds, depending on the number of files being written (lower number is faster).

UPDATE: Transcend replied to recommended a replacement.


How to determine how much RAM I can put in my Mac Pro

It looks (according to my copy of Mactracker) that your max RAM is: 16 GB for a quad-core or 32 GB for an octo-core.

You're already using six gigs, so if you have a quad-core machine you can put in up to ten more. They don't make five-gig sticks that I know of, so four gig sticks would be your maximum, for a total of 14 GB. If you have an 8-core machine, you can put in up to 26 more gigs. If you can find 12-gig sticks (which I doubt), you can put an additional 24 gigs in, but it is more likely that you can put two 8-gig sticks in for sixteen more gigs. This will bring you to 20 GB or (more likely) 22 GB of total RAM.


There is no official timeframe that Apple hardware will support the latest operating system or versions of particular software. It will vary depending on the type of enhancements that occur in hardware and what impact this has in terms of what the latest software needs in order to be able to perform certain tasks.

The person who told you that Apple has an "8 year support window" may have been getting confused with Apple's policy on Vintage and obsolete products, but this relates only to hardware/parts support and has no implication in terms of the operating system and other software.

In summary:

Vintage products are those that have not been manufactured for more than 5 and less than 7 years
Obsolete products are those that were discontinued more than 7 years ago.

However, even the above will have some exceptions depending on local laws.

Using macOS Sierra as a guide, it is officially supported on:

iMac: Late 2009 or newer
MacBook and MacBook Retina: Late 2009 or newer
MacBook Pro: Mid 2010 or newer
MacBook Air: Late 2010 or newer
Mac mini: Mid 2010 or newer
Mac Pro: Mid 2010 or newer

Source: Apple

As you can see, in some cases support goes back to 2009 models, while in others it goes back to 2010 models. Therefore, there is no official timeframe that Apple hardware will support the latest operating system or versions of particular software.


Why won't my Macbook remember any Messages chats anymore?

You need to click on the word Messages at the top of the screen (next to the Apple Logo) and then click on preferences and then Accounts. You need to click on your iMessage account (iCloud) and then sign back in to your account to reactivate the account.


How to change a users name on a Shared Photostream?

Following these steps should do the trick:

Unsubscribe to the shared photo album.
Change the full name on the Apple ID account.
Subscribe again to the Photo Stream by getting a new invitation.

Afterwards, all the comments you'll post should display the new name. The thing is that once a comment is posted, the name does not change, so if you want to change the name on an already posted comment, you'll have to Delete the comment, follow the steps, and post it again.


My app was rejected citing 11.3 (In-app purchase)

Read through the other points of the App Store Review Guidelines under Section 11. Purchasing and currencies. One more that stands out for your situation is this:

  11.13 Apps that link to external mechanisms for purchases or subscriptions to be used in the App, such as a "buy" button that goes to a web site to purchase a digital book, will be rejected

So while you could provide a link that will open in Safari (instead of opening the page in-app), if that purchase will be used in your app in some way, it's likely to get rejected by citing this clause.

Also keep in mind that any interpretation here or elsewhere of single line policy statements to provide a clear "yes" or "no" to questions may not be final. It's Apple's interpretation that actually matters.


What do Memory and Compressed Memory columns mean exactly in Activity Monitor

I have had trouble finding documentation that is from Apple that clearly lays out the difference between looking at the compressed memory for a process, versus looking at the total amount of compressed memory in the Memory tab. Their support document speaks only to the latter.

That said, I have never seen the compressed memory for an individual process be more than the process, but I have seen it be exactly equal to the memory of a process. This suggests to me that compressed memory is telling you how much of the total memory of an app is compressed. Otherwise I'd expect there to be at least some cases where a process that was mostly dormant might have more total compressed memory than uncompressed.

However the amount of total compressed memory is considered an addition to the total app memory when calculating the total memory used categories on the Memory tab.


AppleUSBMultitouchDriver

is your touchpad, it has some problems but eventually it does it, however, I would recommend the Internet recovery (cmd-opt-r) to reinstall the driver.

The

  IO80211Controller

is your Network interface 802.11 making a note.


Slow to install an enterprise IPA on a real device

I found someone offline who had a solution.

Unzip the IPA. (In Finder you can rename it from .ipa to .zip then double-click on it).
Open the resulting folder called "Payload".
Drag the file in the folder into Xcode devices (or iTunes).

Copying is much, much faster than dragging the IPA.


Mac mini 2012 with Dell U2717D & Dell U2417H

There are two things I would try at the outset: Resetting your SMC and NVRAM. Instructions follow.

Resetting the SMC on your Mac Mini

There are a number of ways you can reset the SMC on the Mac mini. My preferred option on older Mac minis is to follow these steps:

Shut down your computer
Unplug it from power
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds
Plug it back in and turn it on.

Note: If you prefer, you can also use Apple's latest steps for doing this instead. If so, ensure you're using the option for Reset the SMC on Mac desktop computers.

Resetting the NVRAM on your Mac Mini

Shut down your machine. Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out.
Press the power button and then press the commandoptionpr keys. You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work.
Hold those keys down until your Mac reboots again and you here the startup chime.
Let go of the keys and let your Mac reboot normally.

Note: When you log back in you may need to readjust some of your system preferences (e.g. speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection, time zone information, etc).

Let us know how you go.


Transferring photos from my new iPad to 2008 refurbished MacBook 13"

You've tagged that you're running Snow Leopard so no, not really. iCloud was introduced with OS X Lion (which is no longer available) and unless you upgrade to the maximum RAM for your system (Apple lists it as 4GB), I wouldn't recommend updating to OS X Yosemite just yet.

However, you should still be able to access iCloud from the website through Safari to access your Reminders, Calendars, Photos and Contacts, and Mail will allow you to set up  your iCloud email account. You can also use Image Capture and iPhoto to copy photos from your iPad to your MacBook, so long as they were saved to the device's Camera Roll (that is, weren't copied to it from another computer via iTunes).


Very slow to open Outlook on Parallels 8 with Windows 7 on OS X 10.8.5

I disabled most of the Outlook Add-Ins, and the issue seems to have been resolved. The only Add-In I use is the one for Exchange to work properly.
thx-


Remote Management Port 5900 Not Responding

I did two things in sequence, which cleared up the problem.  First,

sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -activate -configure -access -on -users admin -privs -all -restart -agent -menu

Second, in the GUI, I turned off remote management and turned on screen sharing.  now port 5900 responded.  Next I turned off screen sharing again and turned on remote management.  Now it is still responding.

Probably a bug in macos...


How do I get the iTunes play control widget back in Dashboard?


How can I listen music on OSX without let iTunes take a copy about it?

If you want iTunes to play it but not copy, then as you said, uncheck Copy files to iTunes... Though that will still add it to iTunes' music, with a reference to its original location, which will then be irritating if that file is no longer there at some point in the future.

...however, if you just want to listen to it once then trash it/file it for future reference/etc without bothering iTunes at all, then just select the file & hit the Space Bar - Quicklook will play it.


Recover deleted files from MacBook Retina's SSD

Unfortunately, most SSD firmware permanently wipes pages soon after they're marked as free by the OS sending a Trim command, so unless you've only deleted it within the last couple seconds, you're basically out of luck.


Cursor freezes for a split second around every 10 seconds

I've had something like this issue (with the mouse freezing momentarily every few seconds), and it was related to my second screen. If I left this second screen turned off after waking the Mac from sleep (or from having the laptop lid closed), this issue happened every time

Also had an issue with it even when the screen was on; it usually cleared after I unplugged and replugged the second screen cable.


What is the explorer.exe equivalent in OS X?

This is a very wide reaching question, but to answer the central theme, the rough equivalent of explorer.exe on Windows is the Finder application.  Finder is the only application you cannot remove from your dock, mainly because it is the finder that runs the dock etc, much like explorer.exe runs the taskbars etc in Windows (I think I got that right for windows)

You can kill the finder, and it will automatically re-spawn.  The equivalent of Task Manager would be Activity Monitor as a graphical app, and of course you have a fully featured Unix command line environment in Terminal, which allows you to interact with processes using all sorts of commands, for example:

ps -ef (lists active processes)

kill -9 243 (send interupt request 9, or terminate with extreme prejudice to the process number 243)

There is no Registry in OS X, which is nice because that was a horrible idea (in my opinion), but settings and preferences etc are commonly stored in .plist files that reside in either the system or an individual users Library folder, which I suppose could be analogous to the windows\system or user\application data folders in Windows.


Install backup of my old Mac on my new one

You could use the Disk Utility to create a new APFS volume in your current APFS container. Next, download macOS Catalina from Apple App Store which will appear as the Install macOS Catalina application. Run this application and install Catalina in the new volume. Boot to the new volume and run the Migration Assistant application to transfer applications and data from the old Mac. This transfer is in the form of a copy. In other words, nothing is removed from the old Mac.


MBP Late 2011 15" Windows 10 Installation Problems

This is for that person looking at this thread some months or years from now, knowing what I did. Just go out to your local Target, WalMart, Best Buy, what have you, and buy some DVD-Rs. A ten pack cost me $7.00. I then burned the Windows 10 ISO to one of them and installed from there. Worked like a charm. Only problem was I had trouble booting into Mac OSX after the installation, but I'm sure I'll figure that out, too. I will update this (hopefully) when all is 100% up to snuff.


I can't change my desktop background-image for my macbook air

Might be corrupted desktop preferences...
Make following steps:

Open the Finder

From the Finder Menu Bar click Go > Go to Folder

Paste the following in this field:
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist

Click Go then move the com.apple.finder.plist file to the trash.
Restart your MacBook Air, then select a desktop background photo from System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Desktop and then it should work.


Activation in the sense of iPhone, or any cellular phone, for that matter, is registering and provisioning that phone for use with your cellular carrier. (Or more specifically for GSM networks, provisioning the SIM card.) It is unrelated to the type of activation found in Windows and other software.

It basically registers your phone with the carrier and obtains your specific settings (phone number, etc).


The semi-untethered Pangu jailbreak only works on iOS 9.2 to 9.3.3, and no, you cannot upgrade specifically to iOS 9.3.3.

But, to answer your question about what a semi-untethered jailbreak means, taken from the Jailbreak Subreddit,

  After rebooting your device, your tweaks will not function and your device will appear to not be jailbroken. To fix this, open the Pangu app, lock your phone and wait for it to [refresh].

A normal jailbreak as we know it is called an untethered jailbreak. Back in the day, there were also tethered jailbreaks. Tethered meant that every time you rebooted your iOS device, you were required to re-jailbreak with a computer (or else your device wouldn't even boot!). Untethered meant that the device can jailbreak itself automatically every time during the boot process. Semi-untethered is a mix between the two - it needs to be jailbroken every time you reboot, but it can be done by an app on the device instead of needing to do it with a computer.


Unable to verify mail every time I am at a different location

Per Microsoft:

Microsoft prioritizes account security and works to prevent people from signing in without your permission. When we notice a sign-in attempt from a new location or device, we help protect the account by sending you an email message and an SMS alert. If your phone number or email changes, it's important to promptly update the security contact info on the Security basics page so we can work with you to keep your account secure and active.
If you sign in to your account while traveling or if you install a new app that signs in with your account, you may get an alert. We just need you to provide a security code so we know it was you, and that your account is safe.

I added the bold part.  It appears that MS notices the IP or access location is new or different than usual and requires the additional security login measures.
Catalina does not control your email access, it simply sends the credentials to the mail server.  It's possible that it takes time for MS's mail servers to validate your response to their security challenge.
I also have a Hotmail account and I use Spark as my email client on Catalina.  This happens to me when I travel but I find when I wait 10-15 min I can login again.  Strangely, this doesn't happen to my Yahoo or gMail accounts, only Hotmail (and Outlook but it's the same system).


On OS 9.2.1, how can you access shared files from windows computers?

Mac OS 9 has no built-in support for Windows file sharing. There were third-party file sharing applications for Mac OS to allow access to Windows networks, and there were also Windows server tools which could allow Mac access to Windows servers. One tool I remember using was DAVE, from Thursby software. It used to be a Windows networking kit for Mac, but has morphed into something else now. If you found an older version it might work, but I doubt it would be compatible with the latest Windows.

I'd recommend looking for an FTP server for your Windows machine and a FTP client for your Mac.


Do Macs run the full Windows OS making full use of Windows functionality?

There are basically two ways you can run Windows on a Mac.

You can run Windows in an emulator like VirtualBox, Parallels or VMWare. You get the entire functionality of Windows, but it is running within a VM on another operating system so you don't get the entire performance of the Mac as the resources are shared between Windows and OS X.

But you can install Windows directly on a Mac with the help of Boot Camp. When you do this you are running Windows directly on the Mac hardware and get the entire functionality of Windows with all the performance of the hardware as OS X isn't involved.


Convert Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Time Machine contents to APFS

If clicking the date doesn't move to that date, it's because there is no backup for that selected location. It doesn't mean there's no backup at all.
See this image…

I have backups only for my boot drive. Other drives have been removed from Time Machine's backup prefs. If I start from 'Now' then all the drives show in the list on the left. As soon as I scroll back, then the other drives grey out, because there's no data [Acronis is an NTFS volume & Time Machine doesn't know what to do with that].
So, to see what's really there, start from your boot volume & go backwards from there. At each step some locations may grey out, but the boot drive itself should have data going back in time.


Can Facebook Messenger spy on me to the degree many sites are claiming?

This answer is from a public API point of view. Jailbreaking will obviously change this. The permissions are clearly from Android where apps have much more 'free' access to the device—this is what the permissions translate to from an iOS point of view for this site.

  Allows the app to change the state of network connectivity

Not going to happen. Apps can only read certain information such as Wi-Fi info (including but not limited to SSID, BSSID, vendor, IP, subnet mask and received/sent total since boot) and cellular info (including but not limited to carrier, country, network type, IP, MCC, MNC and received/sent total cellular data since boot). Apps can not change any kind of network information; they can't even change the Wi-Fi network.

  Allows the app to call phone numbers without your intervention. This may result in unexpected charges or calls. Malicious apps may cost you money by making calls without your confirmation.

Nope, making a call using tel:// (or telprompt://) throws a huge dialog box on the screen at the OS level requiring the user to press Call or Cancel. As the dialog is at OS level, the app can't simply bypass it. The connection can't take place unless Call is pressed. Also, as this requires confirmation for each call, the call can't take place in the background without user interaction.

  Allows the app to send SMS messages. This may result in unexpected charges. Malicious apps may cost you money by sending messages without your confirmation.

This is the same as calling. Using MFMessageCompose requires user confirmation at an OS level and can't happen in the background as discussed above.

  Allows the app to record audio with microphone. This permission allows the app to record audio at any time without your confirmation.

Attempting to access the microphone throws an OS level alert at the time the access is first requested by the app. Subsequent attempts at accessing the microphone will not require confirmation, but only when the app is in the foreground. Using the microphone in the background shows a double-height red status bar to inform the user of the case and using the microphone in the background must be initiated by an app that was in the foreground when the access was requested. Access can be removed from the app at any time in Settings → Privacy → Microphone.

  Allows the app to take pictures and videos with the camera. This permission allows the app to use the camera at any time without your confirmation.

Pictures do not require any special permission until iOS 8 and will then throw an alert like the microphone. Video requires the microphone permission, which throws an alert.

  Allows the app to read you phone's call log, including data about incoming and outgoing calls. This permission allows apps to save your call log data, and malicious apps may share call log data without your knowledge.

Nope, apps have no access to your recent calls list. The data is not accessible through APIs and is stored outside of any app's sandbox.

  Allows the app to read data about your contacts stored on your phone, including the frequency with which you've called, emailed, or communicated in other ways with specific individuals.

Contacts access is granted through an OS level alert. This grants read/write access to the contacts themselves, but no further information. Communication frequency, etc, is not able to be obtained as discussed for the previous permission.

  Allows the app to read personal profile information stored on your device, such as your name and contact information. This means the app can identify you and may send your profile information to others.

This can only be obtained through the access of the 'me' card in your contacts, which requires the user grant specific permission at an OS level as discussed above.

  Allows the app to access the phone features of the device. This permission allows the app to determine the phone number and device IDs, whether a call is active, and the remote number connected by a call.

An app can access the phone number that the device was activated with using NSUserDefaults. Note that this is the phone number the device was activate with and is not read from the SIM card. The UDID (Unique Device Identifier) was depreciated and Apple no longer accepts apps which access it. I'm not aware of any way to determine whether a call is active using public APIs and definitely not what phone number the call is with.

  Allows the app to get a list of accounts known by the phone. This may include any accounts created by applications you have installed.

Accounts such as Twitter and Facebook require OS level permission to be granted to the app. Other accounts such as mail accounts can not be accessed by other apps. Apps that create accounts such as mail clients store accounts themselves as opposed to using the system's storage and therefore such accounts are not able to be accessed unless that app specifically shares such information in that way (for example, logging in to your Google account in the YouTube app also makes your account available in Google Chrome and visa versa).


OK, blinking ? mark means it lost your boot sector.

Sometimes that can be easy repaired by using the OS X restore function.

Press and hold cmd+r during the start up to get in to the recovery mode.

Pending your computer type and age it might have it already on your hard disk and it will use it to repair your OS X without impacting your personal files.


TextEdit paragraph numbering - number on paragraph break NOT on line break

I've been using Macs since 1984, and command+return has never produced a line break. The correct combination for a line break is option+return.


No, ncdu is not natively available in OSX. But, if you want it, you can install it via homebrew. You just need to type the following to install it:

brew install ncdu

This is the version available:

$ brew info ncdu
ncdu: stable 1.10, HEAD
http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu
Not installed
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/blob/master/Library/Formula/ncdu.rb


Can an app be restricted to access Internet

You can not prevent it from accessing the internet completely. However, you can disable it from using mobile data. Go to Settings -> Network and scroll down.


How can I scroll to the top/bottom of web page with a three finger gesture?


Who first wrote the kernel for Mac OS X based operating systems?

It wasn't really Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs helped create OSX which is derived from the original operating system kernal.

OSX is based on the Mach Kernel. "Mach is an operating system kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University to support operating system research, primarily distributed and parallel computation." Richard Rashid was the lead developer on the Mach project. Avie Tevanian was also one of the original developers on the Mach project.

OSX was then developed from this Mach Kernel by Steve Jobs' company NeXT. This happened during the time that Jobs was away from Apple. So Jobs' (company) developed the first iteration of OSX which was then purchased by Apple. Apple actually purchased NeXT outright, and Jobs went to serve as CEO at Apple.

Mostly from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_kernel


Are there downsides to quitting the Finder after enabling the menu item to quit it?

Finder is the application Mac uses to well... find files.

It should be perfectly fine so long as you do not run anything that specifically calls finder, i.e. AppleScript. You'll also (obviously) lose all your open Finder windows.

I completely understand quitting for presentations, but there should not be much of a performance improvement if you quit Finder.

So, no, it should not be a problem, just note that apps that call on Finder should open Finder for you, so you'll need to quit it again.

Thanks to @user3439894 for catching me on something I said wrong.


Why can't I disable iCloud keychain on my MacBook?

If Calendars is the only thing that this Mac needs from your AppleID, then one solution would be to give this Mac a separate AppleID, and share the Calendar.


Can't create a new partition on an external drive's free space

ElCapitan?
If yes: startup in the RecoveryPartition (CMD+R):
Open DiskUtility from the Utilities menu,
Select your disk, then the Partition bar,
move the slider to make the main partition to take all space...
Then apply and close DU.
Restart.
See the picture:


Pages File edited on iPhone and synced with iCloud on OS X EL Capitan, Getting dotted cloud icon

This link can be helpful for you to understand what's going on. Please refer also to the following pics, to see what's exactly your case.

In general, a dotted-lined iCloud icon means that it is waiting to be uploaded.

In order to force the sync, you can try to open the document that you are trying to upload, make whatever modification to the file (even just a point or a comma somewhere) and then save. In this way, you should make the file sync.


What's the purpose of removing an iPhone from Account in icloud.com > settings?

I do this when I have a device that is lost or stolen. I’ve already documented the serial, filed a police report, sent a remote lock or wipe command. Now it’s time to remove it.
I never expect it back, but Apple has my back and will notify me if it ever comes back online.
I also have some older devices I keep for sentimental reasons. They go in airplane mode, get charged to 50% and powered off, I wake them every 6 months or so to prevent deep discharge of the batteries. No need for them to clutter my list, but they are still under activation lock and my account.


I forgot what my Apple ID was, but I remember my password. How can I find my e-mail?

Apple made a site just to help you and others:

https://iforgot.apple.com

Then click the link that says Forgot Apple ID?


shortcut for starting and stopping youtube video on second screen on mac

YouTube videos are correctly detected as media in Safari, so the media keys will control playback. F8 (or fn-F8 if function keys are enabled) on Macs without Touch Bar or Play/Pause in the Touch Bar control strip will play/pause the YouTube video.


Put computer to sleep and have it ask for password on wake

There are multiple answers to the question of how to programmatically enable 'Ask for password after sleep or screensaver' -- the option that appears in the Security preferences panel.

Once you've enabled that option, you can use the following command to run an AppleScript to sleep the computer:

osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to sleep'


Cut in CLI doesn't work as expected - returns full lines every time

You can squeeze the white spaces into a single white space in ls 's output then use cut.

ls -l /usr | tr -s ' ' | cut -d ' ' -f3

but avoid parsing ls output. Here's an alternate solution.

stat -f'%Su' /usr/*


How can I Spotlight search exclusively in `.txt` files in `~/.` on my disk?

In terminal app using the command line, this is easy to do.

mdfind -onlyin ~ Ramanujan|grep txt

You could make a complex query and get rid of the pipe to grep, but the above should work very quickly. You could probably assemble a finder search as well with about 12 clicks if you couldn’t use the command line tools.


How can I save a template email on my iPhone so I can send it repeatedly?

Use the Note App! Just type your email subject on the first line of the note. Hit return and type your body text. Each time you want to send this info to someone use the email function within the note. Your email is populated correctly and it's a really quick process. I use this system to send payment receipts to my guitar students.


Are there pin differences on the audio jack between a 2015 and a 2017 MacBook Pro?

Answering instead of deleting question:

I took this to the company help desk and they determined that my macbook 2017 probably has a defective ground on the headphone jack.


If you connected the Ethernet cable while the backup was running, it is probably still utilizing the wireless interface. It can not re-route an established connection in the middle of the backup.

Start by cancelling the backup. Then do one of the following:

Disable the Wi-Fi interface on the computer; OR...
Open Network in System Preferences; click on the cog button below the list of network interfaces; click on "Set Service Order"; drag the services so that Ethernet is on top of the list; click OK and Apply.

Now, restart the backup.


How to renew my Apple Developer Program Account after it has expired?

I have run into a similar issue like this before when I was taking my ACMT certification. Essentially I created an iCloud email account and tried to use it to take my 10.9 Apple Certified Associate certifications fine but when I went to take my ACMT and log into GCX it told me I could not with that Apple ID.

After calling Apple and being on the phone with a few different people for a few hours they came to the conclusion that I needed to create a new Apple ID in order to take my ACMT. Luckily I was able to transfer my certifications over to my new Tech ID just fine.

Sometimes an Apple ID can get messed up in there system and there is nothing Apple can do about it. I would create a new Apple ID and renew your developer account with it.


Does macOS 10.13.4 display 32-bit warnings like the beta versions do?

Yes, after midnight, April 12, 2018 in the user's local time zone
From Ars Technica's "Apple has begun notifying macOS users of coming 32-bit app incompatibility".

Starting at midnight April 12, 2018 in the user's local time zone, they will see the following message the first time they launch an app that only supports 32-bit in macOS High Sierra 10.13.4:

This app needs to be updated by its developer to improve compatibility.

Along with that message, they'll see a "learn more" link that takes them to Apple's support page on the subject with more information. The support page broadly explains Apple's plans to "eventually" require all Mac software to be 64-bit.


How do I add a song to a playlist on an iPod Device (running iOS4)?

On the device, in the tab bar, select Playlists, then select the playlist you want to edit. Press the Edit button, then in the top right corner is a plus sign. Tap the plus sign to add tracks to a playlist on your iOS4 device.


What are some effective ways to save power when using my MacBook Pro?

If your Mac has dual GPU (integrated for tasks not requiring much graphical performance, and dedicated for high performance tasks) then I recommend using an app called gfxCardStatus. It allows you to lock specific GPU to be in use all the time instead of dynamically switching it. It provides HUGE battery life boost, mainly because OSX's GPU switching algorithm is very far from perfect, triggering dedicated GPU on even very basic apps eg Coda 2.

Just to give you an idea (based on my own MBP 15 2011):

Dynamic switching: ~3h on battery
Locked to integrated GPU: 7h on battery

I have found that very often in order to actually lock your GPU you need to select it twice in the app.


Does Sys Prefs > Software Upgrade > "Automatically keep my Mac up to date" automatically install Catalina on a Mac running Mojave?

No it does not.

I have Mojave and it installed several updates yesterday automatically but a major system upgrade has to be authorized manually. So it is telling me it is there and available but not installing until I give permission.

Edit: I have the updates checked in the advanced panel and it did not install Catalina. See:

I suggest it is a question of understanding: "install system updates" is relevant to the current system not changing to a new system


iPhone calendar app for multiple gmail accounts

You don't need any third party app to add different calendars to the built-in app. Just open the iOS preferences, go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars and add another account of your choice. In your case, just add another Google account.