Create WPA2 Enterprise Wifi + Certificate Apple Device Configuration Profile Without a Mac?

Mobile Device Management.

Mobile device management allows you to remotely deploy profiles, and many let you create basic profiles in the web interface. You'll need to chat with several companies to find one that suits your needs.

Basically, all you have to do is install a premade profile on all the devices you need, then you're free to create a profile online.

The only downside to this approach is that many of the better solutions require payment. I know SimpleMDM, Miradore, Jamf NOW and many others give free trials.


From your question it is ambiguous whether you want to

a) Be able to reinstall Lion in future, if, say your HD crashed.

or

b) Save your Lion install to prevent having to download it again.

or

c) Create a bootable install disk.

If a):

The Apple Recovery Disk Assistant will create a rescue disk for you on a USB drive. Follow this link:

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433

When you use it, the latest version of Lion will be downloaded from their servers. NB You do not need a copy of your Snow Leopard install disk to use this.

If b)

You need to save the "Install Mac OS X Lion" app which is downloaded from the app store when you install Lion. The other answer here by bmike will tell you how to do that.

if c) see:

http://lifehacker.com/5823096/how-to-burn-your-own-lion-install-dvd-or-flash-drive

Regarding legality: a) and b) are permitted by Apple, c) is probably not.


Sierra Beta: External keyboard won't type "a" and types an "i" instead of "h" after several seconds of being plugged in

EDIT: I updated my machine to the latest Beta and I also got this issue. I resolved it by going to:

Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys...

And then "Restore Defaults".

This is a known issue in latest Beta.


Deleted Bootcamp partition space is not unavailable anymore

You have a strange configuration. The drive's disk0s3 is type APFS in the GUID Partition Table (GPT), but does not appear to be APFS formatted. This would explain why the Boot Camp Assistant failed. Hopefully, these commands will fix your problem.

sudo diskutil apfs deletecontainer -force disk0s3
sudo diskutil erasevolume free none disk0s3
sudo diskutil apfs resizecontainer disk0s2 0


As one potential route to take, IPSWs (firmware files) for iOS 8.4.1 are still being signed as of the time of this posting (according to ipsw.me). If you act quickly, you could try downgrading and see if the problem persists.
From an article by Realty Today:

Back up your device data and settings so you don't lose them when you downgrade. There are two ways to back up. First is via transferring them to your computer. Plug in your device to a computer, open iTunes, and click Back Up Now on the device page. The second option is via iCloud. Go to Settings, iCloud, and tap the toggle button to turn on Backup. Ensure that you have enough space for all your data. Apple provides 5GB of free storage only.

Download the iOS 8.4.1 IPWS file that corresponds to your device model.

Plug in your iPhone to your computer, open iTunes, and go to the device page. Press Option/Alt on your keyboard (for Mac OS X) or Shift key (for Windows), then at the same time click Restore iPhone.

When the explorer box popped up, select the iOS 8.4.1 IPWS file you've downloaded then click Open to start the installation process.

When iOS 8.4.1 has been installed, iTunes will prompt you to restore backup. Click Yes to have your data and settings back.


Powerbook G4 not fully booting to login screen

If you have another Mac nearby with a FireWire port, you can likely book the PowerBook in Target Disk Mode. Power it down, then hold the T button when you turn it back on until a FireWire logo appears on screen. You can mount it as a drive on another Mac, and restore the files you altered from your backup.

If you don't have a backup, you could at least use Target Disk Mode to make a backup of your data so you won't lose it when you restore the PowerBook from its restore CD/DVD.


How can I get SnailSvn to run a custom diff command?

With the help of this answer, I found eval:
#!/bin/bash
args=$(grep opendiff "$@" | sed -e 's,"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/opendiff",/usr/local/bin/mvimdiff,')
echo diff: $args >> ~/snailsvndifftool.log 2>&1
# What's this shady thing?
eval       $args >> ~/snailsvndifftool.log 2>&1

However, doing eval on arbitrary arguments seems unnecessarily insecure and I couldn't get arrays to work (i.e., mvimdiff ${args[@]}), so instead I force mvimdiff to be at the beginning of the line and only allow a set of characters:
#!/bin/bash

args=$(grep opendiff "$@" | sed -E 's,"/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/opendiff",,; s/[^A-Za-z0-9.~/"_ -]//g; s,^,/usr/local/bin/mvimdiff,')
echo diff: $args >> ~/snailsvndifftool.log 2>&1
eval $args >> ~/snailsvndifftool.log 2>&1

There's probably something I'm missing, so I hope someone has a better answer.


QuickTime .mov file requires quicktime 7?

The name for these types of files is QuickTime VR. With this name you can search for applications to help open and convert the format.

FreePV is an open source project for Linux and Windows that claims to view QuickTime VR files:

  FreePV - Opensource panorama viewer

  FreePV is a viewer for QuickTime (QTVR), SPiV, cylindrical, cubic and cylindrical panoramas. The package provides a standalone panorama viewer and a Firefox/Mozilla plugin.


macOS Mail app takes ~60 seconds to send emails but only for one SMTP server

I only managed to solve this by changing the port that I was using on my mail server to send emails (I was using a non-standard port to bypass ISP filtering). When I changed to using TCP port 587 (the Message Submission port) the issue was resolved.
I'm still not convinced that Mail and/or macOS (or possibly my mail server) is doing something weird as other devices (iPhone and iPad) use the non-standard SMTP port just fine.


How do I use a Mac as a wireless speaker for an iOS device?

I found that this question solves my use case; It doesn't work for apps not supporting AirPlay, unfortunately.


How can I have one password for FileValue 2 (pre-boot password) and another for my user login?

As you've found, there's an sync process when you change your password that automatically updates your account login at the FileVault 2 pre-boot login screen. However, if you're OK with having to login twice, there's a way to set the FileVault 2 login process on Mavericks so that you're stopped at the OS login window after logging in at the FileVault 2 login window.

The way to do this is to disable FileVault 2's automatic login, which is the process that the OS uses to automatically log you into your account after you've logged in at the FileVault 2 pre-boot login screen. Apple has a KBase article here that shows how to do this:

OS X: How to disable automatic login when FileVault is enabled

Once you've disabled automatic login, set up a new local account on your Mac and set it to use a different password from your account's password. New local accounts should be automatically enabled for FileVault 2 access, so you shouldn't need to do anything else. Since this second account is only going to be used as a FileVault 2 login, I'd recommend making it a standard user with no admin privileges.

After that, reboot your Mac and login at the FileVault 2 pre-boot login screen using your new account's password. When the OS unlocks and boots, you should then be stopped at the OS login window. At that point, login with your regular username and password.


What to do (besides rebooting) when Finder won't navigate to /tmp?

The answer appears to be related to setfile. If one runs getfileinfo /private/tmp:

Tomass-MacBook-Pro:tmp tomasgallucci$ getfileinfo /tmp
directory: "/private/tmp"
attributes: avBstclinmedz
created: 07/30/2016 14:32:36
modified: 01/16/2017 14:56:52
Tomass-MacBook-Pro:tmp tomasgallucci$

In my case, the bundle flag was turned (capital letters mean attributes are turned on, lower case means they're turned off). To resolve the issue I was able to run

setfile -a b /private/tmp

And I could once again navigate to /tmp in Finder.

What set the Bundle bit? I don't know. But life wouldn't be worth living if there weren't at least a few mysteries.

Here's a Super User article that discusses the topic in some detail.


Since Mavericks, I can't mount ISO files on my Mac over a network

It sounds more to me as if it's a Windows issue than a macOS issue, even though I realize that it didn't start until after the Mavericks upgrade.  Have you tried any other mount tools, such as CloneDrive or PowerISO?  It may be worth trying a couple of other tools as a test.  Are you able to mount the ISO from another Mac?


Terminal - lose useful keyboard shortcuts during SSH connection

Tab completion etc is configured in the shell, not in Terminal. So if you miss that functionality when logging in into a remote system you need to configure it in the shell you are running there.


How to get iMessages in sync across an iOS 5 iPhone, iPad and Mountain Lion Mac?

Theres been a few reports online of messages sync being a bit buggy if you don't set it up exactly right. Heres a few solutions that should get everything syncing nicely for you:

Firstly, you need to have all devices set up to the same Apple ID

iOS Devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad):

Navigate to Settings > Messages.
Make sure iMessage is turned on.
Tap on Receive At.
Check your Apple ID. Make note of this Apple ID.
Tap on Caller ID.
Use your email address. If you use your phone number (assuming you’re on an iPhone), then the non phone devices (including the Mac) may not (and probably won’t) see the messages.

Mac version:

Navigate to the Messages app.
Go to Preferences > Accounts.
Add the same Apple ID as you used on the iOS devices.

In a nutshell: everything needs to be consistent. Use the same Apple ID everywhere and an email address as a caller id for best results.

If things are still not syncing, try the following.

Delete all your previous conversations: Some people have reported that they had to delete all of their conversations before things would sync up.
Make sure you have your phone number added to your Apple ID account online.


How do I move my Health data from one device to another?

iCloud will back up your health data on your iPhone so you can restore your health data to a new device or to your device if it fails or needs to be wiped.

If you don’t use iCloud, iTunes also backs up health data but only if you select "Encrypt iPhone Backup".

When you do a "Restore from Backup" on your iPhone 6, select the encrypted backup you just made. Your health data will then come across along with all other backed up data.

If you do not encrypt your backup (as I did) and you have already "moved on" with your iPhone 6 with new apps and data, well then, that is another question that I am trying to find the answer to, as the above will not help you much.

See http://support.apple.com/en-us/ht5262


Reinstalling macOS High Sierra from Recovery Tools takes many hours on 2016/2017 MacBook Pros

The one thing that I would say is that Apple has changed the recovery process somewhat in 10.13 High Sierra. Newer model Mac computers now have to pull down much more from Apple's side.

What sort of internet connection are you on. 5 - 6 hours does sound pretty extreme but 2 - 3 hours I have seen in our lab at work for sure!


Anyone else having issues with the weather app?

This has been noted on a couple of blogs.
The jailbreak screwed up some files. There is a fix which requires you to:

( taken from cult of mac

Open Cydia and install Open SSH and MobileTerminal
Load MobileTerminal and type “su root” (no quotes). Then hit enter.
Enter your password. It’s probably “alpine” if you haven’t changed it yet.
Copy and paste the following script into MobileTerminal

#!/bin/bash
chmod -x /usr/libexec/mobile_installation_proxy
killall -9 mobile_installation_proxy
rm /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore
launchctl stop com.apple.mobile.installd
launchctl start com.apple.mobile.installd
while [ ! -f /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.mobile.installation.plist ];
do
sleep 1
done
while [ ! -f /var/mobile/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices-045.csstore ];
do
sleep 1
done
sleep 10
chmod +x /usr/libexec/mobile_installation_proxy

sync

reboot
5. Wait for your iPhone to reboot.
6. Have fun, you’re done.
For info on how to jailbreak your iPhone the right way, check out our video.

Read more at http://www.cultofmac.com/214443/heres-how-to-fix-your-ios-weather-app-that-was-broken-by-the-evasion-jailbreak/#xR7kVryBZBXPmMAd.99
)


Dual WiFi network cards route outgoing traffic to specific cards

This would probably be a lot of work for people that don’t set up networks for a living, but let’s assume you have a good reason and propose a solution.

You would need to serve two networks so that each AirPort connects to a different network segment so each could have different routing or different DNS. All the setup would be on the network side and you wouldn’t really need to do anything other than set up DHCP on each wireless adapter and possibly set up a hosts file over-ride or tunnel traffic to onlybeta.com through a server / gateway on the network for the beta wireless card.


How to disable the Character Viewer in Big Sur?

How should I change shortcut or disable emoji menu by ctrl+cmd+space. Is it possible?

Yes, it's possible, and you can change the default keyboard shortcut to something else in: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > App Shortcuts
Click the [+] button and in the sheet that appears...

Set Application: to: All Applications
Set Menu Title: to: Emoji & Symbols

Use the actual menu title as it shows on the Edit menu on the menu bar, based on your Language & Region settings. In this example it's English.

Set Keyboard Shortcut to e.g.: ⌃⇧⌘Space

After setting focus to it, press the keyboard shortcut you'd like to use. Once you've pressed the keys, click the Add button.

Note: Assigning global shortcuts can be problematic, and you'll need to use a keyboard shortcut that is not already assigned in whatever application has focus when pressing the new keyboard shortcut.


As mentioned by @GordonDavisson in his comment How do I use launchctl print? use this command

launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/com.foo.http


Confused about Compressed option in Disk Utility?

When you create an image and you select Compressed, you are doing so at the sake of speed and read/write capability

To access the data on a compressed image, you have to uncompress it first; that takes cycles (cpu time).  Secondly, per Apple, the image is read only, not read/write so you will lose that capability as well.

The "Compressed" format is great for archival of data, not for daily access.


It just sends the corresponding bytes to the shell. Same thing as "send escape sequence" but with different notation - the raw data otherwise represented by symbols and characters. It's then up to the shell to interpret this (usually through readline and .inputrc bindings, or equivalent) into commands.

In your specific example, 0x15 means Ctrl+U, the standard binding for backward-kill-line. So when you bind Command+Delete to send that, it works because you are just piggybacking on the standard bindings.


How many fans does a 2.26 GHz 15" 2009 MacBook Pro 5,5 have?

Two fans, unless it's a trick question and you consider them blowers :-)

See http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Installing+MacBook+Pro+15-Inch+Unibody+Mid+2009+Right+Fan/1710/1


Stream matched/uploaded music when local files are not available

I solved this by creating another iTunes library and switch between the two libraries: iTunes Match and Library on NAS.

See: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201596


You can use the Shortcuts app to set custom icons: https://www.cultofmac.com/723677/customize-iphone-home-screen-icons-ios-14/


Have you tried disconnecting peripherals? I have a 30-60s delay before login items are opened, but it's removed if I unplug my Huawei USB modem.

Is there anything interesting in system.log (or the default view in Console)?

You could first try disabling login items in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Items. After that, try disabling launchd plists by just moving them away from {~,}/Library/Launch{Agents,Daemons}/, or kernel extensions by moving them away from /System/Library/Extensions/. You can use Consultant's Canary to print a list of other components that were not preinstalled.


Apple Remote Control options does not appear on Advanced Security Preferences panel

iMacs late-2012 and newer, MacBook Air 2010 and newer, Retina MacBook, Mac Pro 2013, and Retina MacBook Pro do not have an infrared receiver. You computer may be one of these models.


Problem after cloning a Mac with dual boot

Your MBR table is messed up. One way to fix this would be to download and use the gdisk command.

In a Terminal application window, enter the command sudo gdisk /dev/disk0. If prompted, enter your login password. Next, enter the following commands. (If the line is blank, hit the return key to use the default.)

r
h
2 3 4
y

n

n

y
o
w
y

An example of what to expect is shown below. Some values, that may be different from what you will see, have been replaced with X's.

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.0

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
  MBR: hybrid
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): r

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): h

WARNING! Hybrid MBRs are flaky and dangerous! If you decide not to use one,
just hit the Enter key at the below prompt and your MBR partition table will
be untouched.

Type from one to three GPT partition numbers, separated by spaces, to be
added to the hybrid MBR, in sequence: 2 3 4
Place EFI GPT (0xEE) partition first in MBR (good for GRUB)? (Y/N): y

Creating entry for GPT partition #2 (MBR partition #2)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AF):
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): n

Creating entry for GPT partition #3 (MBR partition #3)
Enter an MBR hex code (default AB):
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): n

Creating entry for GPT partition #4 (MBR partition #4)
Enter an MBR hex code (default 07):
Set the bootable flag? (Y/N): y

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): o

Disk size is 976773168 sectors (XXX.X GiB)
MBR disk identifier: 0xXXXXXXXX
MBR partitions:

Number  Boot  Start Sector   End Sector   Status      Code
   1                     1       409639   primary     0xEE
   2                409640    781659623   primary     0xAF
   3             781659624    782929159   primary     0xAB
   4      *      782929920    976773119   primary     0x07

Recovery/transformation command (? for help): w

Final checks complete. About to write GPT data. THIS WILL OVERWRITE EXISTING
PARTITIONS!!

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to /dev/disk0.
Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Warning: The kernel may continue to use old or deleted partitions.
You should reboot or remove the drive.
The operation has completed successfully.

If after entering the o command, the values displayed do not match what is shown above, then a mistake has been made. In this case, enter an q instead of w to quit without making any changes.

If successful, then the output of sudo fdisk /dev/disk0 should be similar to what is shown below.

Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE    0   0   2 -   25 127  14 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF   25 127  15 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 -  781249984] HFS+
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 781659624 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [ 782929920 -  193843200] HPFS/QNX/AUX

Note: You may need to restart your Mac after using the gdisk command.


Executing commands in PS1 on macOS Sierra not working?

With a minimal test case (minus, of course, the frivolous colors) it appears that the quoting of PS1 is important:

gitfoo () {
    echo >&2 "was run"
    git status -bs 2>/dev/null | head -1
}
#PS1="x$(gitfoo)x "
PS1='x$(gitfoo)x '


Internet page not loading, ping not working but host www.example.com return an IP

Ok. I fixed it.

A bit of more details first.

dig / nslookup / host commands were working. So I actually had access to internet.

The problem was ping and all Browser using the System resolver that was not working.

I unload then reloaded the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mDNSResponder.plist with the -w option. And it worked.

Hope it can help,


Remove all files that match name in a list

To delete a list of comma separated filenames from a folder, you can use the following:

tr , '\n' <<< "file.jpg,second.jpg,…" | xargs -I{} rm /path/to/folder/{}

Replace file.jpg,second.jpg,… with your comma separated list of files.
Replace /path/to/folder with the path to the containing folder of the images.

tr , '\n' replaces commas in the input with new lines. xargs takes the lines and runs the given command for each line, replacing {} with each line input (as instructed by -I{}). tr is used since xargs in macOS does not support -d for a custom delimiter.

However, I notice that your list does not include file extensions. You can add the extension to the end of the command instead.

tr , '\n' <<< "file,second,…" | xargs -I{} rm /path/to/folder/{}.jpg


After Windows 10 Update, ICloud no longer installs. Hangs at removing backup files

I was told by a Microsoft technician that if your computer had Windows 10 installed as a virtual copy to your computer as opposed to having the physical install disc and installing from disc then the iCloud installation cannot remove the the backup files as they don't exist in reality, they only exist in the virtual copy of the program.  I may not be explaining this completely accurately but the jist is that if your original set up was from the factory where they used a "photo" copy of the program data to your hard disc in lieu of doing an actual install, then iCloud will always have problems.


Why does my phone sometimes unlock with TouchID, but not go to home screen/app?

Are you using raise to wake? There is a timing that is difficult to duplicate, but can be repeated, where you can press the home button and raise to wake at the same time. The Touch ID unlocks the phone, but the wake seems to register from the raise instead of the home button press and so you stay on the lock screen instead of opening to the last app/home screen.

If you want the behavior of the phone being unlocked, but staying on the lock screen so you can look at your notifications, then just raise to wake, rest your finger on the home button, but don’t press until you’re ready to leave the lock screen.


Though similar to the linked question your partition table has some specific differences: you have a second Recovery HD with a false partition type and your main volume is part of a CoreStorage stack.

First you have to determine the proper system versions of the Recovery HDs and then remove the older or - if identical - remove the one with the wrong partition type (disk0s4). After removing one of the Recovery HDs you have to resize the CoreStorage stack:

Preparation:

Restart to Internet Recovery Mode by pressing alt cmd R at startup.

The prerequisites are the latest firmware update installed, either ethernet or WLAN (WPA/WPA2) and a router with DHCP activated.
On a 50 Mbps-line it takes about 4 min (presenting a small animated globe) to boot into a recovery netboot image which usually is loaded from an Apple/Akamai server.

I recommend ethernet because it's more reliable. If you are restricted to WIFI and the boot process fails, just restart your Mac until you succeed booting.

Alternatively you may start from a bootable installer thumb drive (preferably Yosemite or El Capitan) or a thumb drive containing a full system (preferably Yosemite or El Capitan). If you boot to a full system and login as admin you have to prepend sudo to execute some commands like gpt ... or newfs_hfs ...!

Check system versions of Recovery HDs

Open in the menubar Utlities->Terminal
Enter diskutil list and gpt -r show /dev/disk0 to get an overview
Get the product version of the visible Recovery HD:

grep ProductVersion -A 1 /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/SystemVersion.plist

depending on the main system version it should yield something like:

<key>ProductVersion</key>
<string>10.11.5</string>

Unmount disk0s4:

diskutil unmount disk0s4

Mount the hidden Recovery HD partition:

diskutil mount disk0s3

Check that only one Recovery HD (disk0s3) is mounted:

df

Get the product version of the invisible Recovery HD:

grep ProductVersion -A 1 /Volumes/Recovery\ HD/com.apple.recovery.boot/SystemVersion.plist

depending on the main system version it should yield something like:

<key>ProductVersion</key>
<string>10.11.5</string>

If the product version of the visible is the same or older than the one of the invisible Recovery HD delete the visible Recovery HD partition:

diskutil list
diskutil umount diskX #Unmount the logical volume residing on disk0s2 with X: 1...~16 (e.g. disk1) like shown in the previous command
diskutil umountDisk disk0
gpt remove -i 4 disk0

Get the UUID of the logical volume:

diskutil cs list

Resize the CoreStorage stack to fill the whole disk:

diskutil cs resizeStack lvUUID 0 #lvUUID: UUID of the logical volume

The 0 (zero) as magical size sometimes fails. Then use a size ~1g smaller than your disk size (i.e. 250g or 249700m).


It's likely the case will have to be replaced. I've fixed this before by lightly tapping on the area below the gate, but it's a recurring thing.

You can also slide the optical drive housing out and take a look at the mechanism that raises and lowers the gate. Try manually pulling it up and down a few times.


How to add app icon for iPad Pro in Xcode

You need Xcode 7.2 beta 3 or later to add iPad Pro app icons (167 × 167) to asset catalogs.

rdar://22915712


The workaround is to go into the VM’s settings and on the Mouse & Keyboard pane change the mouse and keyboard to be “Optimize for games”.  The drawback to using that setting is that it automatically activates the “Mouse pointer sticks at window edges” function, with no way to disable it.


How do I access my private browsing history?

Here is a quote from a Wikipedia:

Privacy mode

  Privacy mode or "private browsing" or "incognito mode" is a privacy feature in some web browsers to disable browsing history and
  the web cache. This allows a person to browse the Web without storing
  local data that could be retrieved at a later date. Privacy mode will
  also disable the storage of data in cookies and Flash cookies. This
  privacy protection is only on the local computing device as it is
  still possible to identify frequented websites by associating the IP
  address at the web server.

You may try to find logs from any routing, filtering or tracking hardware or software inside your network, or from your Internet provider.


See Apple's excellent FAQ on multiple App Store and iCloud Accounts: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4895

Particularly these sections:

Using the same Apple ID for Store purchases and iCloud (recommended)
Using an individual Apple ID for iCloud and a (different) shared Apple ID for Store
Purchases


What are the benefits of earphones with the W1 chip?

Headphones with Apple's W1 chip will sync between all of your devices using iCloud. That means if you pair W1 headphones with your iPhone, they're instantly available on all your other devices like Macs and iPads. (This requires an iCloud account and macOS Sierra, iOS 10, or watchOS 3.)

W1 headphones are also easier to pair than their Bluetooth counterparts - simply holding the headphones in proximity of a compatible device and pressing a button will allow the headphones to be paired.

These benefits are available on some iPhones, iPads and Macs - though not all devices support them. It's worth noting that even if your device doesn't support the benefits provided by W1 headphones, you can still use them as normal Bluetooth headphones.

In addition, the W1 chip also includes a more robust bluetooth implementation that is supposed to provide a more reliable connection and better battery life. This applies when using W1 embedded headphones with non-Apple products.

According to Apple's webpage on AirPods:

  It produces extremely efficient wireless for a better connection and improved sound. And the W1 chip manages battery life so well, you can listen for 5 hours on a single charge.


Are Apple silicon M1 Chip MacBook Air/Pro "laptops" usable on the lap?

The M1 machines are much more portable since the Processors fit within a 10 Watt thermal envelope. Intel CPU fit in about the same thermal design power (TDP) envelope, but measures and battery life show the M1 run far cooler in the same metal case.

Apple always avoids calling them laptop computers, but the Apple Silicon M1 is designed to be far more efficient which makes them cooler, use less battery and do more work for the fixed battery power available.


How to restore OS X to out of box / factory experience prior to reselling?

The instructions below were tested on OS X 10.6 and 10.7.

Preflight

Back up any data you wish to retain.
Make backup copies of iLife applications (iPhoto, GarageBand, iMovie, iWeb, iDVD).
Deactivate relevant licensed software such Adobe CS.
Unregister the machine from your iTunes account.

OS Cleanup

Boot from an external OS X install media, if you wish to completely wipe the hard drive. Boot from the recovery partition (hold ⌘-R on power-up) if you wish to retain the recovery partition as-is.
If booting from external media, use the Disk Utility to repartition the hard drive with one partition. Note: With SSDs, you ideally should first use a utility that lets you do a secure erase of the medium instead.
Use the Disk Utility to erase (zero out) the hard drive. This will take an hour or longer on a mechanical drive, and at least several minutes on an SSD. If it takes just a minutes, you didn't zero the disk!
Reinstall the OS X. Create a user account called factory.
Reinstall iLife either from media, or by copying it from the backup you've made in preflight.
Perform all system updates.

Restoring the Out-Of-Box Experience

Boot into the single-user mode by holding down ⌘-S during boot. A bare console will appear in a dozen seconds or so.

Remount the root partition in read-write mode.

/sbin/mount -uw /
Start the directory services.

OS X Lion and higher:

launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.opendirectoryd.plist

Ignore the error related to com.apple.DirectoryServicesLocal.plist

OS X Snow Leopard:

launchctl load
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plist
Access the directory services command line utility and remove the factory user:

dscl . (that's dscl, space, period)

list /Users shows the user list. The factory user should be there. That's the only one we care about. The usernames starting with an underline, those are system accounts that have to be left alone. Same goes for the  daemon, Guest, messagebus, nobody and root accounts.

read /Users/factory GeneratedUID shows the UID of the user, we'll need it below.

delete /Groups/admin GroupMembers <uid>, where UID is given above. Don't worry if you enter it wrong, you'll receive an error message. Press ↑ to go back and edit the command.

delete /Groups/admin GroupMembership factory

delete /Users/factory

exit
Remove the factory's home folder.

rm -R /Users/factory/
Remove the caches.

rm -R /Library/Caches/*
rm -R /var/vm/swapfile*
Remove the flag indicating that the initial setup has been done.

rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
Reboot or shutdown.

reboot or shutdown -h now


How can I install Windows 10 64-bit in El Capitan Boot Camp?

I think because you download an iso and mounted it (open it) and that silly error pop out. I just unmount and it's work


How can I install the app for iPhone to iOS Simulator on the ARM/M1 powered Macs?

You can go to the App Store on an M1 mac.
At the bottom left where you see your name, click on it.
Your account page will appear.
Under the word 'Account' are two buttons, 'Mac Apps', 'iPhone and iPad Apps'
Click on 'iPhone and iPad Apps'
Now you will see a list of apps on your iPhone and some that are not but perhaps you once had.
Click on the 'open' button on the app you want to run and the app will start.
Note this is not the simulator but the REAL app. To debug this app you need a debugger.
Use XCode's debugger
https://developer.apple.com/support/debugging/
Here is an introduction to the debugger
https://raygun.com/blog/debug-ios/
Here is a more complete reference
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/ios/ios_application_debugging.htm


Default Bash 3 overriding shebang /bin/bash with brew installed bash 4

This is the main reason nowadays for using a different shebang:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

Why is #!/usr/bin/env bash superior to #!/bin/bash? - Stack Overflow

This will use the first bash in the PATH, which will most likely be the latest version. Since /bin is in the standard path (getconf PATH), this falls back gracefully for those without a custom bash.


Will a Perl script still run after I log out of my user account?

In addition to @stuffe's answer, if you are logged in via ssh and run your command, it will die when you close the connection.  So, if you were at home and ssh'ed into your office workstation and executed your perl myScript.pl & command, it would die when you exit'ed from the ssh connection.

To avoid this problem, you'll want to use the nohup command, which dates back to the teletype days and stands for "no hangup" --- essentially it causes the command to ignore the POSIX HUP (hangup) signal.  It is used as:

nohup perl myScript.pl &

This will keep running on your office workstation even after you have disconnected/logged out from your home machine.


How to identify explicitly saved versions when reverting a document?

You can't.

Keep doing the manual versioning series that you should always have been doing. At each milestone save a new copy with a new file title that describes what it is.

All that's new with a Lion Autosave/Versions app is that you'll have to suffer horrifically each time you do so.

Start with your working document, save it as "MyReport - workingcopy".
When you want to save your manual milestone version, first press CMD-S to "Save a Version" (or you may get a dialogue about reverting to a previous version).
Then select File / Duplicate , which will pop up a second window of your open document (not prompt you to save a copy to disk).
The new window will be titled "MyReport - workingcopy copy". This is very confusingly a tentative filename only that doesn't actually exist as a (user accessible) file on your drive yet.
Now press CMD-S to save that open duplicated document window. This will give you the normal file save dialogue where you can rename it "MyReport - Milestone 1".
Now CLOSE THAT NEW DOCUMENT "MyReport - Milestone 1" and go back to working on the previous document "MyReport - workingcopy" -- leaving your new milestone file safe (for now) in its saved state.

If you've cleverly thought of going to System Preferences / Keyboards to create a CMD-D keyboard shortcut for that Duplicate command, TextEdit at least will completely ignore it.

The shortcut will not appear in the File menu next to the Duplicate menu item. Pressing it will do nothing.


Macbook Pro limits resolution of Samsung U28D590D to 1920x1080

I looked up the specs and that display supports 4K resolutions.  2011 model Macs do not support 4K displays.  I understand that you're trying to run it at 2560x1440, which Apple specifically says that model MBP supports for external displays.  However, here's the issue you're running into...

To get that 4K resolution, you must have either an HDMI 1.4 or DisplayPort 1.2 source.  HDMI 1.4 is definitely out.  You cannot get anything higher than 1080p over a MiniDP -> HDMI adapter.  So that leaves just DisplayPort 1.2 as your only hope.

I cannot verify whether or not the MiniDP port on 2011 MacBook Pros actually supports DP 1.2.  Apple doesn't say on their spec pages and there is argument among tech sites as to whether or not it's does.  But let's say for argument's sake that it is supported...

4K displays require the use of a specific feature of the DP 1.2 spec, called Multi-Stream Transport (MST). Even if the MiniDP port on your Mac is DisplayPort 1.2, both the GPU and the driver must also support MST in order to drive a 4K display.  Even though you're not trying to run the full 4K resolution on it (which you definitely cannot do), the screen may still be attempting to negotiate an MST link over the DP connection even though it doesn't need to and is failing to do so.  That would explain why you don't see anything.

The first thing I would do is check your display's menus to see if there are any settings relating to disabling MST support (maybe called SST mode?).  If so that might just be your golden ticket.

If that doesn't work, try running it over DisplayPort in a Windows BootCamp partition with the latest AMD graphics driver.  If it can work at all then Windows will be able to do it because the drivers are supplied directly by ATI/AMD and BootCamp Windows does not have to worry about graphics switching with the Intel HD graphics controller.

If you can't turn off MST support and it works in Windows fine, then then it might still be possible to use that screen over DP in OS X.  Apple advertised that the new Retina MacBook Pros could support 4K displays but caused kind of a stink because only some 4K displays actually worked (and even then, only at 30Hz refresh instead of the usual 60).  This was due to the lack of driver support in OS X for MST streams.

They fixed that as of the Mavericks 10.9.3 update.  HOWEVER, that fix is only reported to apply to 2013 Mac Pros and Retina-display MacBook Pros.  I'd bet you a sandwich that they didn't backport that fix to earlier models.

So here's the bottom line:

IF the MiniDP port on the 2011 MacBook Pro is DisplayPort 1.2,
-- and --
IF Apple backported the MST fix to non-retina MBP models
-- OR --
You can disable MST mode on your display,
-- Then --
You might be able to use that display the way you want.

There are a lot of ifs there.  If none of those things is true, then you may well be screwed.


using OSX server in conjunction with Windows server

Yes - servers work well together and you could configure things in just about any manner you wish.

As long as you can map out on paper how you want things to connect, you can configure the server and clients to connect to either or both servers at the same time. You'll have different shares on each server for many cases, but you could have one directory run for both servers so people's names and passwords were centrally managed and not different on each server.


Why does my finger buzz when I slowly move it near the trackpad?

Normally this vibration sensation is due to the MacBook being plugged in. From personal experience my 2008 MacBook Pro does this when plugged in (Official Charger) and my 2012 MacBook Pro only does this when plugged into the college power (Official Charger) so cant say for sure as I don't have your specific MacBook but am confident this may be the answer.

As you stated with the haptic feed back this could be the answer as there could be a software bug causing the vibration to be stuck on but I can't help thinking this may not be the case.


How Do I Stop FileVault from Decrypting my MacBook Pro?

Ideally, let it complete and then turn FileVault back on once it's done. Not elegant but should work.


Show an installed app's icon in Launchpad

To add an icon/app to Launchpad, you can simply drag it to the Launchpad icon.


Is it possible to download/acquire iMovie 10.1.6?

Get iMovie 10 via iMovie 9

It turns out that if you have iMovie 9, the App Store will allow you to upgrade to iMovie 10 without the normal checks.

I'm running macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 and the App Store just let me upgrade iMovie a moment ago.

Get iMovie 9

# 1. Download the iMovie 9.0.9 update package
curl 'https://updates.cdn-apple.com/2019/cert/041-98154-20191017-1fbef983-8d87-49af-83b1-edecc007ce2e/iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg' -o ~/Downloads/iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg

# 2. Mount the dmg
open ~/Downloads/iMovie9.0.9Update.dmg

# 3. Expand (unarchive) the pkg
pkgutil --expand /Volumes/iMovie\ 9.0.9/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg ~/Downloads/iMovie/

# 4. Rename `Payload` to `Payload.zip`
mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip

# 5. Unpack `Payload.zip` (it will get named `Payload 2`)
open ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload.zip

# 6. Move `iMovie.app` to the `Applications` folder
mv ~/Downloads/iMovie/iMovie9.0.9Update.pkg/Payload\ 2/Applications/iMovie.app /Applications/iMovie\ 9.0.9.app

# Enjoy!
open /Applications/iMovie\ 9.0.9.app

Get iMovie 10

Go into the App Store, see that the option now says "Upgrade".

In case when you can not upgrade iMovie because of information: "your system can not meet minimum system requirements" :

# 1. Check whether your App Store contains iMovie in tab "Purchased"
(You should see iMovie with button upgrade, If you don't see you should
turn on iMovie)

# 2. turn off iMove 9 and App store.

# 3. move to trash iMovie 9

# 4. Open App Store, go to "Purchases" tab and click "Install"

Notes

I don't know if this is perfectly reproducible, but I know that I just did it and it worked on my machine.

Some things that may or may not be important (i.e. I may have triggered a glitch mode):

I had opened App Store to iMovie 10 before installing iMovie 9
I installed iMovie 9 twice as a matter of verifying the script above
When I went back to App Store it gave the option of Upgrade instead of Get
I clicked upgrade and it downloaded, but requires a restart that I haven't done yet
I have a number of other downloaded but not installed upgrades in my queue

I hope that helps and it's not just me.


well sense you exhibit the same problem on your bootcamp suggest to two things. either one, its your hardware, or two your internet. your hardware can be testet quite easily, just find another wifi and try it out for a while. if it is your internet however, it gets a little more complex sense it can be your router, modem, or provider... so i would try another wifi first, then contact your provider


How do I get the password hint for an encrypted disk?

Have you tried entering an incorrect password? If I enter a wrong password three times, I get the hint displayed.


How to open a files that's currently in Trash

To avoid the message, e.g., "The document “Filename.mkv” can’t be opened because it’s in the Trash. To use this item, first drag it out of the Trash.", and open the target file without having to remove it from the Trash, do the following:

Open INNA, so it's window is showing.
Open the Trash.
Drag and drop the target file from the Trash onto INNA's window, and it will play.

Note: If INNA is open without a window, you can drag and drop the target file from the Trash onto INNA's Dock Tile, and it will play.

Another method to use for apps that will not respond to drag and drop on its window or Dock Tile:

Open the Trash.
Open Terminal.
In Terminal, use the open command:

If the target app is the default app for the target file you can do the following:

Type open followed by a space, then drag and drop the target file from the Trash onto the Terminal window, and then press: enter

Or, if it's not the default app for the target file you can do the following:

Type, e.g., open -a IINA followed by a space, then drag and drop the target file from the Trash onto the Terminal window, and then press: enter

Note in some cases, depending on the app and its location, you may have to use its path as well:

Type,  e.g.,open -a /Applications/IINA, adding .app if necessary, followed by a space, then drag and drop the target file from the Trash onto the Terminal window, and then press: enter

Note: IINA does also have a command line interface, e.g.:

/Applications/IINA.app/Contents/MacOS/iina-cli

You can use the -h or --help argument to display its builtin help.


Why do apps in El Capitan open a new window when opening a file?

TextEdit has always operated this way.  Most applications do.


Administering multiple computers on local network from another computer

It is possible to remotely administer Macs without needing a dedicated server.

Command Line via ssh

Consider using Secure Shell, ssh, to connect and issue commands via Terminal.app.

To remotely run software update on a Mac, use the softwareupdate command.
To install packages, use the installer command.

There are numerous command line tools for performing common administrative tasks. For specific tasks, ask a new question on [Ask Different] to attract more focused answers.

To enable ssh support on each Mac, enable Remote Login:

System Preferences > Sharing > Remote Login

Screen Sharing

Since Mac OS X 10.4, Apple have included built-in VNC support. With VNC, you can remotely connect to and use another computer.

With OS X 10.9 and later, you can remotely connect via VNC and start a new graphical session without affecting any active local user. This is ideal for performing administrative tasks.

To enable Mac to Mac screen sharing support, enable Screen Sharing:

System Preferences > Sharing > Screen Sharing

Enabling VNC requires a few more steps but once done, PCs and non-Mac devices will be able to connect.


How does Time Machine make room for new users?

My experience is that TimeMachine does not cross the "per-machine" boundary when deleting old backups.

We have a disk attached to an AirportExtreme AC and which is the target for four Macs. These machines have significant differences in the size of their backups. One of them in particular is an old Mini running 10.6.8 that does not see much activity other than the occasional software update, so the incremental backups are rather tiny. The MacBook Pros on the other hand are a lot more active and regularly submit incrementals that are several GB in size.

Whenever the MacBook Pros need space TM just discards their own history, never touching the others' directories.

This fact is immediately evident when comparing the number of backups for each machine. The Mini has a long history saved, the MBP's quite shorter ones.
Hope it helps.


Data Leak Prevention software for mac OSX

You don't really describe how your software works, but if you work with an app like Exces (that make it easy to work with, but the feature is available to OS X without the software) you can always work on an encrypted image and close it after use.

Of course you can use Filevault as well to maintain your filesystem encrypted.

Sadly, these have nothing to do with number three, since that is network dependent.


How to find the location of the items I created in iTunes?

Select track in iTunes
Right-click -> Show/Reveal in Finder
Drag files from Finder window into new mail message

Alternatively (if dragging directly in step 3 doesn't work) you can click the Attachment icon in the new mail message, navigate to the folder opened in step 2 (or just drag the MP3 from the folder window into the Open dialog) and attach the file directly.


Alan R, I think your sync is broken.

Taken from this article : http://email.about.com/od/googlecalendartips/qt/Sync_Google_Calendar_and_iPhone_Calendar.htm

I think you should sync a Google Calendar with iPhone Calendar, it works best!

  Make sure you have no conflicting iCal, Exchange or Outlook calendars with which to synchronize. iPhone Calendar can only sync with one calendaring source.
  Go to Google Sync in iPhone Safari.
  Tap your iPhone under Manage devices.
  Make sure all calendars you want to sync are checked.
  Tap Save.
  Press the Home button.
  Tap Settings on the Home screen.
  Go to Mail, Contacts, Calendars.
  Tap Add Account... under Accounts.
  Choose Microsoft Exchange.
  Enter your Gmail address under Email.
  Enter "m.google.com" (not including the quotation marks) under Domain.
  Tap your full Gmail address under Username.
  Enter your Google Calendar password under Password.
  Optionally, tap "Google Calendar" under Description.
  Tap Next.
  Enter "m.google.com" under Server.
  Tap Next again.
  Make sure Calendars is ON.
  Turn ON Mail to enable push Gmail in iPhone Mail.
  Turn ON Contacts only if you have copied your existing contacts to Gmail. Otherwise, your existing iPhone contacts will be replaced with your Gmail address book contents.
  Tap Done.


I would go with MacBook Pro for the better CPU, GPU (iris vs HD), and screen resolution since you are going to work with photo and video editing.


Installing a HP Color LaserJet 1600 on MacOS 10.6.4

HP has published a list of printers not supported on OS X Mountain Lion on their web site:

Products not supported
The following products are not supported in Mac OS X including the Mountain Lion operating system
...

HP Color LaserJet 1500 and 1600 Printer series


Apple officially stacks 4 on 1. So at least 4*1.3kg=5.2kg I thought.


Can I view Shared Albums in the iCloud Photos web interface?


Delete misspelled words from user dictionary in macOS

Microsoft Office Word adds all changes to its own Speelling and Grammer database.

For apps that are using the built-in macOS dictionary you can simply remove it like this:

Open Textedit
Paste initiaitializatyion
Select initiaitializatyion
Hold down Command (CMD/Rightclick) and select Unlearn Spelling

If you do not get the Unlearn spelling option, 'initiaitializatyion' has not been added (learn option) to the Spelling Dictionary.


I fixed the Kernel Panic by formatting my hard drive and reinstalling my OS.


Delete all backups of specific file/folder with tmutil

I found this SU Q&A titled: How can I delete Time Machine files using the commandline
 which demonstrates a method for deleting specific files from the CLI. This answer highlighted a method that sounds like what you want:

  My backup disk is full. I have a very large file (many gigabytes) that
  has been backed up for months. There is one physical copy of it, but
  many snapshots with hard links to that copy. To actually get rid of
  that file, I need to remove the hard link from every backup.

In that answer it was shown that one could use this method to delete a file:

$ cd /Volumes/WD\ 500G\ USB/Backups.backupdb/csm-laptop
$ ls -li */Macintosh\ HD/Users/csm/vm.img
...
2740350 -rw-r--r--@ 28 csm  staff  42949672960 Feb 17 16:12 2015-05-08-005636/Macintosh HD/Users/csm/vm.img
2740350 -rw-r--r--@ 28 csm  staff  42949672960 Feb 17 16:12 2015-05-08-015812/Macintosh HD/Users/csm/vm.img
2740350 -rw-r--r--@ 28 csm  staff  42949672960 Feb 17 16:12 2015-05-08-030036/Macintosh HD/Users/csm/vm.img
2740350 -rw-r--r--@ 28 csm  staff  42949672960 Feb 17 16:12 2015-05-08-041307/Macintosh HD/Users/csm/vm.img
2740350 -rw-r--r--@ 28 csm  staff  42949672960 Feb 17 16:12 Latest/Macintosh HD/Users/csm/vm.img

The method to delete the file uses a helper CLI tool included with Time Machine called bypass:

$ sudo bypass rm -f */Macintosh\ HD/Users/csm/vm.img

bypass's location

Since bypass is considered a helper script to Time Machine, it's location is not typically on your $PATH. Therefore you'll need to specify the full path to the executable. Additionally Apple has relocated it for different versions of macOS.

$ sudo /System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Contents/MacOS/bypass \
    rm -rfv /Volumes/[disk]/Backups.backupdb/[path]

  In 10.8 Mountain Lion, bypass moved into 'Helpers':

$ /System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Helpers/bypass

  In 10.10 Yosemite, bypass moved here:

$ /System/Library/Extensions/TMSafetyNet.kext/Contents/Helpers/bypass

References

How can I delete Time Machine files using the commandline


16, 32, 64 GB iPhone / iPod touch: are there any negative effects of size?

It shouldn't have any impact on performance or battery life.

I believe the same number of flash memory chips are used in the 32 GB and 64 GB models, just in different capacities, so the power drain would be almost identical. Either way, flash memory  takes up very little power compared to things like the screen and wireless radios, so any impact would almost certainly be unnoticeable.

As for performance, I haven't seen any metrics on it, but iOS performance isn't really affected by device capacity. The possible exception here is when you have very little free space, but that's just a guess.

Bottom line, I would suggest not worrying about it - just buy the capacity based on your budget and needs.


Permissions issue when copying files over SMB to server on OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Usually the authentication prompt is in relation to the destination for your copy.

Thus, from what you're describing, you should enter your Gentoo login credentials. However, I suspect the owner/write permission are too restrictive on that specific volume. Have you checked owner user/group on the problematic volume vs. the other "problem-free" volumes? Are the read/write permissions the same?

To change the permissions without resorting to Terminal, highlight the folder you want to put the user file in and select Get Info (Cmd+i). At the bottom are the permissions. Make sure that where it says "everyone" that it also says "Read & Write." You may have to click the little gold lock at the bottom of the Get Info pane to adjust this. Once you do this, you will be able to copy your folder over.


I set this one up using LaunchControl.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>foo/bar</string>
    <key>Program</key>
    <string>/foo/bar</string>
    <key>Sockets</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Sock1</key>
        <dict>
            <key>MulticastGroup</key>
            <string>224.0.0.253</string>
            <key>SockFamily</key>
            <string>IPv4</string>
            <key>SockProtocol</key>
            <string>UDP</string>
            <key>SockServiceName</key>
            <string>12345</string>
            <key>SockType</key>
            <string>dgram</string>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>inetdCompatibility</key>
    <dict>
        <key>Wait</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
</dict>
</plist>


Can't uncheck "disable extensions" in Safari Develop menu

This worked for me on Safari 11--> bottom of developer menu there is "allow unsigned extensions" click that;  Now go back to the developer menu and click disable extensions...


If it asks for multiple passwords when a user logs in, probably you did not enable that user in FileVault.

You can do that from the System Preferences:

On the Mac computer, open System Preferences > Security & Privacy.
Click the FileVault tab, and if necessary, unlock the padlock.
Click the Enable Users button and an account list pops up.
Click Enable Users to add and enter the password of that user.

or from the command line:

on the Mac computer, open the Terminal application.
Run the following command: sudo fdesetup add -usertoadd user1 and if prompted, enter the sudo password.
When prompted, enter the primary FileVault-authorized user name —
this is the user who you specified to manage FileVault 2 (in Assign an Active Directory user who is authorized to manage an encrypted disk).
When prompted, enter the password for the primary
FileVault-authorized user.
When prompted, enter the password for the new user who you specified
on the command line (user1 in this example).

Regarding your other question, to prevent Volume unlock Prompt, I think you can combine some things since on MacOS there is not a native utility to do what you asked (like libpam-mount for deb systems). More specifically:

You can disable an APFS volume to automount. You can follow the second answer to this question.
You can write a script to mount a volume, instead of typing the command line command every time you need it. You can read more about this here.
You can launch the script at startup. You could use launchd. You can check some approaches in this thread.
Obviously, you'd want to launch the script on a user basis. Here, you can read the official documentation for it. Additionally, in the thread linked at point 3 there are some mentions about launching a start-up script on a user basis.

I hope it is useful now in some sort of way, and sorry for misinterpreting the question.


Can I disable pinch to show all open tabs in Safari?

You can disable this feature in Safari, but it will also disable "Zoom in or out" in all other apps.
System Preferences > Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom

I actually had to check the "Zoom in or out - Pinch with two fingers" box to even figure out what you were talking about.
Limitation: This disables the gesture in more places than Safari.


I can't play any type of media or hear anything

You have a problem with the Audio chip on the iPod touch. iOS devices use a separate chip for decoding audio files, so that the processor can be put to sleep. The chip can probably decode all supported formats, but it may be optimised for mp3 and m4a. If the audio chip is dead, nothing will work. Movies won’t play because the iPod decodes only the video part (which has a dedicated chip on A5 and later devices) and not the audio.


Disable "natural" scrolling on MacBook with High Sierra

System Preferences >  Trackpad > Scroll & Zoom


How to connect Apple Magic Mouse to iPhone

Without jailbreaking, iOS does not have mouse support.


In app purchase + redeem points as gift vouchers

Contact App Review

Only Apple's reviewers can answer your question authoritatively. Contact Apple App Review and ask them directly.

App Store Review Guidelines

You can get a feel for what Apple will accept, see Apple's App Store Review Guidelines. In particular read Section 3.2:

  3.2 Other Business Model Issues

  The lists below are not exhaustive, and your submission may trigger a change or update to our policies, but here are some additional do’s and don’ts to keep in mind:

  ...

  (iv) Wallet passes can be used to make or receive payments, transmit offers, or offer identification (such as movie tickets, coupons, and VIP credentials). Other uses may result in the rejection of the app and the revocation of Wallet credentials.

  ...


Change Sierra Login Screen Background Blur Amount

The image file is stored in Macintosh-HD:Library:Caches:

There will only be like 3 files there so it should be easy to find.

You can take this file and edit it in an image editor such as GIMP(free) or Photoshop(not free) etc.

Don't forget to make sure that the image keeps it's name or OSX will get confused.

You may also need to use the original image, if, you want to blur it down.

Hope this helps!


Batch update the birthdays in my iPhone contacts

If you want to just clear the birthday field programmatically, you could do that on a Mac that syncs contacts with the iPhone (either via iCloud or iTunes).

Open up AppleScript editor, paste in the following and hit run to clear every birthday in your address book.

tell application "Address Book"
    set thePeople to every person
    repeat with thePerson in thePeople
        set the birth date of thePerson to missing value
    end repeat
    save
end tell

If you have the birthday data already in some other format and are looking to import it, that could be done, but would be a bit trickier. You'd probably need to get the AppleScript to look up the birthday for a given person from a file. If you need something like that, please edit your question to be more specific and give some sample data if possible.


Can I make a bootable drive for mid 2010 MBP with a Windows computer?

Have you tried Command+R when booting to access your recovery partition (if Yosemite created one during installation)? That would be your easy get-out-of-jail-free card.

Otherwise you're looking at seeking the help of some kindly Mac owner who has disc images of the original install discs (or a retail Snow Leopard disc). If you put some contact details in your profile I have a friend who may be able to point you in the right direction. Once you have a disc image you can burn a disc off with any Windows disc-authoring software supporting .ISO files, which is pretty much most of them.


MAS showing an application I never bought (CodeBox)

Its not in a backup on an external drive? As I've seen that before an application in a backup of a old users home folder that showed there were updates even though the applications were not installed on the Mac. Removed the external drive and the App Store no longer showed any available updates. Then deleted the old backup on the external drive so it wouldn't prompt again.


Would updating to OS Sierra remove my third party apps?

To add to @Tetsujin 's answer as well as give it more depth, that entirely depends on the application it is and the version you currently have. Whatever version of MacOS was out when your last update was released is the version that update was made for, and the changes to MacOS from that point onward could all harm app stability or break the app entirely... or do nothing at all.

Different apps have different needs, and when a part of macOS gets changed and that app needs it, the app sometimes needs updating to work consistently again. Depending on the apps needs this is more frequent on some than others. The built in Stickys app for example, or TextEdit I doubt ever need updates ever because of their simplicity. The updates that come out for them would be new functionality or eye candy.

On the other hand some applications are very picky in their function. Take the older version of ProTools HD as an example, which needed an $8000 processing card in your Mac Pro to run. Updates were very frequent and the app would need several updates per MacOS release, but it pushed the hardware to the limits.


Share my Mac’s internet connection (WiFi) with my iPad or iPhone via Lightning cable

Check System Preferences > Network

There appears to be a problem with your network configuration. You should indeed have seen a iPhone USB item in that list of “Ports”.

Check your System Preferences > Network settings. On the left you should see an item for the network interface name something like “iPhone USB”. If not, try using the Location popup menu at top to Edit Locations and add a new location. Alternatively, you might try the + icon button to add an interface of that type to that list.

Now go back to your System Preferences > Sharing > Internet Sharing where you should now see an item named something like iPhone USB.

From there, turn on the Internet Sharing checkbox to start sharing. If it does not work, try rebooting your iPhone (hold down Power/Sleep button).

You can test to be certain by turning off your iPhone’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Cellular Data. If you have internet access, then you must be using the USB cable connection to access the internet over your Mac’s Wi-Fi connection.


A boot loop is not necessarily an issue with the drive and it’s your last sentence that lends credence to this:

Right now I am just back to using my HDD, and it has begun to exhibit the same problem. It goes to the progress bar on startup and abruptly reboots.

A boot loop is when, during the boot process, something loads that causes a system crash that forces a reboot.

Corrupted macOS installation
Corrupted partition maps
failing hard drive
logic board issue
GPU issue
and more

However, your last bullet point offers a bit of hope that it may be your SATA cable (common problem with this vintage MacBook Pro)

Putting the HDD in the enclosure and boot it from there(which works but is extremely slow and I still don't know what to do afterwards)

This means that the operating system and things being loaded isn’t crashing the system.  What you’ve taken out of the equation is the everything between your drive and your logic board (the same drive works via USB) which is the SATA cable.


What causes ssh to return Network is down?

SSH is just the messenger, and is likely calling strerror(3) or equivalent on a bad exit code from some socket call:

$ find /usr/include -name "*.h" -exec grep 'Network is down' {} +
/usr/include/apr-1/apr_errno.h:#define SOCENETDOWN             (SOCBASEERR+50)            /* Network is down */
/usr/include/sys/errno.h:#define        ENETDOWN        50              /* Network is down */
$

If we dig around in the system man pages for ENETDOWN this will turn up documentation...

$ find /usr/share/man -type f -exec grep -l ENETDOWN {} +
/usr/share/man/man2/connect.2
/usr/share/man/man2/connectx.2
/usr/share/man/man2/intro.2
/usr/share/man/man2/send.2
...

Though not much as connect(2) or intro(2) merely indicate

 [ENETDOWN]         The local network interface is not functioning.
...
 50 ENETDOWN Network is down.  A socket operation encountered a dead net-
         work.

Is IPv6 working on this host? You'll probably need to debug with ping6 (not ping) and maybe check the IPv6 settings via some clicky interface or instead ifconfig and netstat -rn.

To avoid the GUI, the network settings for IPv6 can be adjusted with something like

sudo ipconfig set en0 AUTOMATIC-V6

see the ipconfig(8) manual for details.


You can switch between screens using the Ctrl+Right/Left Arrow shortcuts (by default, this can be of course modified in the Keyboard Shortcuts settings).

You can scroll in the terminal using Shift+PgUp/PgDn keys. On MacBooks you will need to press Shift+Fn+Up/Down Arrow.

Fn+Up/Down also works in Finder.


External HD shows "Invalid Extent Entry" in Disk Utility First Aid for the Time Machine "Backup" volume. Erase that Backup volume?

The invalid extent entry error basically means the directory on your drive is corrupted. In other words the index of what files are stored and where they're stored is all mucked up.

This can be repaired but not without risk. You basically have two options if you still want to keep using this drive:

Use a third party disk utility that can repair the corrupted directory (e.g. DiskWarrior, Techtool Pro, etc)
Reformat the partition

Note: I have no affiliation whatsoever with either DiskWarrior or Techtool Pro.

Regardless of the option you choose I would still recommend manually backing up any files you can still access to another drive. Obviously this is a must do if you opt for the second option.

As to your concern about accidentally reformatting the other partitions, this shouldn't be a problem as long as you're only selecting the particular partition (or volume) with the error.

More specifically:

launch Disk Utility
select the partition in the sidebar
click the erase tab
make sure the format in the drop-down menu is the one you want
give it a name
click on Erase


You can right-click on the book of interest and you get a menu of options. Under 'share', there is an option to email the book. You can email the book to yourself and then save it on your iPhone.


My entire music collection is gone from Finder

It seems unlikely it would delete them, but I don't know how that app works at all...
...so, assuming Tomahawk has moved the files to its own cache/storage location, you could try using something like EasyFind (freeware) - which can search hidden locations far more easily than Spotlight - to look for either Folders containing the name Tomahawk, or one or two actual music file names.

Chances are, you find one, you've found them all.

Without Time Machine as a quick revert, moving them back to their original locations may not be so simple - it might be a case of dragging each one back to its correct folder, one at a time.


Anything can create ~/Applications.

It's usually used to store apps that you don't want to (or can't because you're not admin) install globally on the system. The folder doesn't exist by default, but if created it will be given a custom icon like /Applications. Any app on the system can create this folder and since no record of what app created it exists you probably won't know.


Setting a automator action to run everyday

You can save an automator workflow as a Plugin, and it becomes an actual alarm action available in iCal.

Here's a doc for an older version of Automator.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Automator/1.0/en/ensm2063.html

In Snow Leopard/Lion, when you create a new Automator event you can choose "iCal Alarm"


Go to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Zoom. Uncheck Show Touch bar zoom (not sure what exactly it says, not on my computer right now).

As of 10.12.3, there is a bug. If that checkbox didn't appear, restart your computer will make it appear.


MacBook Pro 13" (2018) cannot drive 4k display @ 60Hz from right-hand USB-C ports

In 2016 and 2017, the left-hand Thunderbolt ports were higher bandwidth than the right-hand ones, and this would be expected behaviour. For 2018 models, all 4 ports should have the same performance.

So is it possible that you have a 2017 model without knowing it? If not, then I think this is unexpected behaviour.


Option + arrow left/right moves window rather than moving caret

This can be caused by custom software. In my case the problem was that I was running the window management tool Slate which changes this with it's default configuration.


How does the lighting cable work plugged in any way round?

Per this site:

  Apple Lightning interface is adaptive - the controller chip dynamically assign pins function according to plugged device.

  The Apple Lightning connector plug can be inserted with either side
  facing up (the processor inside the plug detects the plug's
  orientation and routes the electrical signals to the correct pins).Two
  differential pair lanes (L0p/n and L1p/n) may swap in IC of device
  connector (lanes don't swap if accessory identification chip connect
  to ID0 pin).


How do I remove search suggestions from iOS Safari?

Those entries appearing as completion suggestions in the mobile Safari drop down under "Google Search" (or your default search engine of choice) are locally cached and are from your personal search history: e.g. somebody on that icloud account had typed "stranger things" in before -- not necessarily on that specific browser.

It can be cleared in the Settings > Safari > Clear History and Browsing Data. This will clear history, cookies, and cached pages (but not bookmarks or passwords) from the browser and from linked iCloud browsers. I tested this, and suggestions disappeared from my Safari "Google Search" list.

Unfortunately there does not appear to be a way to delete cached searches without deleting cached pages.

For a walk through see for example: Cult of Mac: Clear Your Browsing History And Web Data From Mobile Safari -- iOS Tips


Number one, the more you use your iPad, the more chance that your missing data that might be recoverable will become overwritten so I have to mention that... it sounds like you already know.

Which generation of iPad is this? If it is an iPad 1, it should mostly be recoverable (either by a data recovery firm, or maybe some do-it-yourself recovery software such as Dr. Fone).

However, since you mention iOS 8.3, it must be a later generation iPad. Unfortunately for your situation, these are all hardware encrypted by default (whether or not you set a passcode), and once factory reset, to my knowledge it's impossible to decrypt the old data. Encryption like this is a security feature, but it also can kill the chances of data recovery like in your situation.

Your best bet would be to work from a backup of course (iTunes or iCloud), but I guess you don't have that option. I have heard that 3rd party app data (but not data from native apps) might be recoverable somehow but I'll have to check on that.

I know this isn't the answer you're looking for and I really hope you can scrounge up a backup from somewhere. We are seeing the always-on encryption of some devices now becoming a major problem for data recovery. It's better for security, but that necessarily also severely reduces chances for people to recover their lost data. We have seen some manufacturers backstep a little on this recently, but it seems like the overall trend is for more encryption.

You can still send this to a professional data recovery firm that can work on mobile devices as a last ditch effort, and if there is any chance, maybe if something slightly different from what we're discussing occurred, then they would have the best chance at recovering it. Most do not charge if they cannot recover the needed data.


Time Machine is a Backup Tool, not a File-Management Agent.

All it does, is copying new files to the HDD (as a mirror) and all older/deleted files go into a time-stamped archive.

If the disk is full, time machine deletes old stuff.

I assume you want to manage the data. Nit really "backup".
Because you do not copy them, you move them to the disk.

I also assume you have 2 Hard-Drives (1 for you and 1 for your wife), that should be in sync.

So in total you have 2 Macs and 2 Hard Drives.

Now Unix has a very popular command called 'rsync'.

You can sync (copy) or move data via rsync to the Hard Drive.

Rsync is command-line based, so it is a bit difficult.

But i would recommend it for your situation.

And because I was bored, here is a starting point for you.


Changing local IP address with networksetup command on OSX?

The command to manually set an IP address is:

networksetup -setmanual Ethernet 192.168.0.6 255.255.255.0 192.168.0.1

This assumes the following:

netmask is  a /24 (254 hosts)
the router/gateway is the "common" 192.168.0.1
Your interface is Ethernet

You will need to adjust your settings accordingly.  To get a list of network services (interfaces), you can issue the command:

networksetup -listallnetworkservices


How can I prevent external hard disk from sleeping when connected to Airport Extreme?

You can run Keep Drive Spinning on a Mac that's connected to your drive over the network. It continuously accesses a hidden file to keep the drive awake.

You can also set it up yourself per these instructions.


Reinstalling iMovie on a mid 2009 MacBook Pro

You should be able to find a version of iMovie from Apple's iMovie download site:

https://support.apple.com/downloads/imovie

Available: iMovie versions 2.x to 9.x.


Find device information when Activation Lock is activated

The activation lock screen will display the first few characters and domain name of the Apple ID used to lock the device. This should be sufficient information for you to tell which Apple ID is being requested.


Is a 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo better than a 2.0GHz dual-core Intel Core i5 with turbo Boost up to 3.1GHz?

Don't be fooled by the Ghz. The i5-6360U is in the Late 2016 13" MacBook Pro and is a Skylake CPU. I assume your 2008 MacBook Pro is a 15" model, as the 13" did not ship with that CPU.

The newer i5 machine has a Geekbench score of 3609 vs 1320 for the Late 2008 MacBook Pro 15".

Not only that, but the newer Mac features better graphics (even integrated graphics), built in SSD, etc. If  you still have a hard drive in your old Mac, the SSD alone will shock you in performance improvements for your Mac.

GeekBench

Update: I see some additional questions in the comments about how a 2 Ghz processor can 'beat' a 2.4 Ghz processor. One thing to note is that the transition at Intel from Pentium to Core Duo essentially ended the Ghz wars. Intel found the adding cores, reducing heat and improving cacheing improved performance more than Ghz. This really showed when their mobile CPUs were beating out their desktop CPUs, so Intel switched to their 'mobile architecture' for everything, thus Core and Core Duo.  The i Series are built on that philosophy.

Another way to look at it is this: Most common car (US) V8 engines in the  70s produced as little as 110 HP. (Muscle cars made much more, but enlarged the engine and got terrible gas mileage) Today, we have 4 cylinder engines that produce 300 HP, and V8s that produce muscle car HP but get economy car fuel mileage. So, how does a 4 cylinder make more horsepower than a V8?  Its far more than the number of cylinders, just as its is far more than Ghz for CPUs.


Magic Mouse Left-Click Intermittently Doesn't Work Sometimes in Chrome

As it turns out, the problem only happens while Magnet is running:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/03EmKuDuw5c;context-place=topicsearchin/chrome/category$3AStable%7Csort:relevance%7Cspell:false

I have contacted Magnet and asked fi they will release a fix to solve this problem. If they do, I'll post an update here.


# of windows opened in the Dock indication?

Apple only provides Mission Control (ctrl↑) and Application Windows (formerly Exposé: ctrl↓) for window management. Yes, this was (and still is) my least favorite change after switching to macOS.

Under  → System Preferences → Dock, you may also uncheck Minimize windows into application icon to avoid “losing” minimized windows, but this can quickly clutter your Dock.


Fetch new mail only while on Wifi (but not while on cellular data)

Go to the settings app:

Cellular

Turn of mail for using cellular data. (Swipe up to see the M section).  Unfortunately, this will disable all syncing over cellular data, and it will prevent you from even a manual fetch of email while on cellular data.  So, you'll need to twiddle with things whenever you want to do a manual fetch while on cellular data.


Changing the default screenshot filename

You can change 'Screen shot' to 'screenshot' with the following commands

defaults write com.apple.screencapture name screenshot
killall SystemUIServer

If you want to go digging a bit deeper in Terminal, you can achieve what you want by doing the following:

NOTE: Make a backup of any files you change in case you make a mistake.

cd /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemUIServer.app/Contents/Resources/English.lproj
Make a copy of the existing file:
sudo cp ScreenCapture.strings ScreenCapture.strings.old
Enter Admin password if prompted
Convert to an editable format:
sudo plutil -convert xml1 ScreenCapture.strings
sudo vi ScreenCapture.strings

Locate the following lines:

<key>%@ %@ at %@</key>
<string>%@ %@ at %@</string>

and replace with the following lines:

<key>%@ %@ at %@</key>
<string>%@_%@_%@</string>

Convert back to binary:
sudo plutil -convert binary1 ScreenCapture.strings
killall SystemUIServer

which combined with the first change should get you something like this:

screenshot_2011-08-30_10.01.36.png which is very close to what you need I think


Can't install Apple Fitness app to iPad 14.3

It's looking like there is a delay in rolling it out to iPadOS devices at the moment.
I'm sure they will get this issue resolved shortly.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/12/14/apple-fitness-plus-ipad-unavailable/

Added a link with new about the issue.


How to control MacBook volume from an iPhone?

There is an app called Remote Control For Mac - Lite. There is a free version that allows volume control.

I am not affiliated with the software.


I want to power off multiple Macs everyday at 23:30 (11:30 pm)?

As patrix has pointed out in a comment, you can set up any Mac to start up or wake up, and sleep or shut down at specific times, via the System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Schedule... settings.

You could also try using AppleScript, e.g. this code (edit it with Script Editor, then save as an Application):

tell application id "com.apple.systemevents" -- System Events.app
    shut down
end tell

And then use OSX's Launch Services to run this script at a given time. To set this up, you could use a free tool such as "Lingon X".

Besides, why shut them down like this? If all you care about is to preserve electrical power, why not instead set up the Macs to go to Sleep after being idle for, say, 30 minutes? That way, they will go to sleep much sooner usually, saving more power. If they do not go to sleep as expected, you can check with the Terminal command pmset -g what might prevent them from sleeping. Often it's a pending print task (which you may want to delete, then) or mounted server volumes.


Why can't I run `su`? (and how should I do?)

In MacOS X, the root user is disabled by default, therefore su will not work. As others have stated, it's best to use sudo.

If you must enable the root user, see Apple's technote: Enabling and using the "root" user in Mac OS X.


Secondary click and primary click at the same time?

No you can't. The trackpad only has one physical button, so it cannot detect a primary and secondary click at the same time, neither can any Apple mouse for that matter.

But, two-button mice come cheap...

Alternatively, perhaps the game allows custom keybindings, or has alternate keyboard shortcuts available.


From Apple Support Communities, with some correction:

Command-S at startup for Single User Mode
Repair the files ystem as indicated on screen using fsck (took three runs)
Mount the file system as indicated on screen, /sbin/mount -uw /
Go to /Library/Caches and do rm -rf *
Go to my home folder /Users/.../Library/Caches and do rm -rf *
Remove a Spotlight folder, rm -rf /.Spotlight-V100
Go to /var/folders and do rm -rf *
Start normally using exit or reboot command as indicated on screen

Be extremely careful with the rm -rf commands! To double-check that you're in the correct directory:

pwd

I hope that helps!


How do I convert 120FPS video from the iPhone 5s to 60FPS?

Update2: Official Apple Support iMovie (2013): Slow down and speed up clips:

Make a clip play more slowly
In the timeline, select the clip you want to slow down.

Choose Modify > Slow Motion, and choose a speed percentage from the submenu.

Update: Maybe i misunderstood the question, you just want to make it half the FPS without changing the play speed, right? iMovie 11 for Mac is supported to export 60 FPS videos:

So, here is what you have to do if you want to export a 60p movie made with your 60p footage :
- create a NTSC (29.97 fps) project in iMovie
- choose "export using quicktime" in the "Sharing" menu
- choose the correct codec settings (I choose a Quicktime movie with the H264 and AAC codecs, max quality, and recompress the movies with Handbrake afterwards)
- be sure to check the correct framerate (59.94 fps for my 2 cameras, I guess it should be pretty standard - you can always check it in the information window in Quicktime Player for a raw file from your camera)
- export and enjoy.

Source

You can slow it down using iMovie on iOS:

Or you can use different applications for record, like SloPro - 1000fps Slow Motion Video.


Remove macOS Big Sur "Upgrade Now" button in System Preferences

I too do not like seeing the red badges and use the following method to remove them in System Preferences and on its dock tile on the Dock.
In Terminal, run the following compound command:
defaults write com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs 0 ; killall Dock

Note however, this is not permanent and the command will need to be run again if you go back into Software Update in System Preferences, or the system automatically checks for updates.
Also, the killall Dock command will un-minimize all minimize windows, but the command needs to be executed for the red badges to not show after modifying the plist file.
I do not know of a way to permanently remove the red badges or the Upgrade Now button.


Where can I find the terminal on a MacBook Air 2011

By default, spotlight should find all apps (command space) if you don’t know where they sit.
The terminal app is in /Applications/Utilities
Also, the help menu works if you search for terminal, it’s not the top hit, but you should see an article covering apps included with macOS. This user guide has links to open each app (including terminal.app) and very helpful summaries of what they do.


Here's how to fix error -45076 if you have downgraded iTunes 12.7 to 12.6.2 still under Sierra and have then upgraded your OS to High Sierra:

Re-download the iTunes 12.6.2-DMG directly from the Apple Servers.
Make a backup of ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Library.itl (just in case).
Delete iTunes 12.6.2 from your High Sierra Mac, this time entirely (list of ingredients courtesy of macrumours.com member driveparty):sudo rm -rf
/Library/Documentation/Applications/iTunes/Acknowledgements.rtf
/Library/Documentation/iPod/Acknowledgements.rtf
/Library/Frameworks/iTunesLibrary.framework/
/Applications/iTunes.app/
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/iTunesAccess.framework/
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.fpsd.plist
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreFP.framework/
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CoreADI.framework/
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.adid.plist
/System/Library/CoreServices/UAUPlugins/ADIUserAccountUpdater.bundle/
/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Library/MobileDevices.bundle/
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.usbmuxd.plist
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/AirTrafficHost.framework/
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/DeviceLink.framework/
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/MobileDevice.framework/
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext/
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleUsbEthernetHost
Install iTunes 12.6.2 again from the DMG downloaded above.


Dropbox Public Folder Alternative - so I can copy public links from the Finder?

I don't know if we are taking about the same, but I used to use also quite much the public folder but since I can get a link to any file in my Dropbox, right clicking on it, I am not using it so much anymore and have my file in proper folders.

Have you tried right clicking and getting a link to file in your Dropbox but not in your public folder?


Is there a way to disable the auto-recognition of addresses in Safari?

This is almost definitely caused by a setting in your system preferences:

Maybe you have the new trackpad (or a macbook) in which case this part of the system preferences might look a little different, i know trackpads/laptops with 3d touch probably have some variation in regards to the appearance of the trackpad preferences, but it must be a setting thats analogous to the setting near the top left in the above picture, 'look up & data detectors'.

To me this would suggest one of 3 things:

You're accidentally clicking the "shortcut" you assigned to 'look up' when you're intending to hit the shortcut assigned to 'click'
Your trackpad is defective/worn-out and thats why its doing this.
You have 'look up' and 'click' assigned to the same shortcut. (which doesn't seem to be possible on my computer)
You've been 'clicking' everything using 'look up' (not sure thats possible either).

An easy solution to this is to simply disable any "mouse shortcut" for 'look up'. You can still access look up by right clicking.

For anyone who just wants to see whats happening with their own eyes (I know I was pretty curious):

if anyone on a mac highlights all of

  30 rockefeller plaza new york ny

(or any address) and right clicks it, then selects

  Look Up "30 rockefeller plaza new..."

then they'll see the same pop up.


How to terminate cleanly another session left running?

Bob’s user can send a Kill signal to all their processes.

sudo su - bob
kill -9 -1

This leaves all non Bob processes running and sends the non maskable SIGKILL to all processes by that UID. On newer os, some processes will respawn as uses Bob, but you’ll have cleaned them up momentarily and the old session will be gone.


Is intermittent high ping an issue in my Macbook or my router?

In my case it turned out to be the router. It was an old 802.11g router that I replaced with a 5GHz 802.11n router. It works great now, no problems whatsoever.


Apps shown as "open" but that are not the foreground app are in the Suspended state (described below), with a couple of exceptions. So the apps you are seeing in the app switcher are generally not actively doing anything.
On a general level, these are the states an app can be in on iOS.

Not running: The app has not been launched or was running but was terminated by the system.
Inactive: The app is running in the foreground but is currently not receiving events. (It may be executing other code though.) An app usually stays in this state only briefly as it transitions to a different state.
Active: The app is running in the foreground and is receiving events. This is the normal mode for foreground apps.
Background: The app is in the background and executing code. Most apps enter this state briefly on their way to being suspended. However, an app that requests extra execution time may remain in this state for a period of time. In addition, an app being launched directly into the background enters this state instead of the inactive state. For information about how to execute code while in the background, see Background Execution.
Suspended: The app is in the background but is not executing code. The system moves apps to this state automatically and does not notify them before doing so. While suspended, an app remains in memory but does not execute any code. When a low-memory condition occurs, the system may purge suspended apps without notice to make more space for the foreground app.

Background Execution is possible, as noted above, but only for specific use cases:

Apps that play audible content to the user while in the background, such as a music player app
Apps that record audio content while in the background
Apps that keep users informed of their location at all times, such as a navigation app
Apps that support Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
Apps that need to download and process new content regularly
Apps that receive regular updates from external accessories

There is one other case, which is downloading in the background. This is a special case, though, because the app itself is still suspended and the download process is handed off to the system, in case the app has to be terminated by the system to reclaim resources.
Specifically with Google Photos, the app would need to be in the Active state, meaning phone unlocked and in the foreground, to find any photos that need to be uploaded. (After it has a list of them, it may be able to pass the actual uploads to the system for Background Execution, but I don't know if that's how it actually operates.)
For IFTTT, it likely has to be in the foreground to execute recipes that rely on iOS-specific things (i.e. Reminders). It might qualify for background execution under "Apps that keep users informed of their location at all times," but maybe not (even though it does have location-based triggers).
The Android Wear app should qualify under "Apps that receive regular updates" for background execution. Since it's working some of the time, it seems to be set up to do that. In the case of that app, I would guess it's being terminated by the system to reclaim resources.
A newer device with more resources would definitely not hurt the situation (especially for Android Wear, I bet), but some of this is just down to the way iOS operates in order to conserve system resources (and consequently, battery life).


How do you specify which zip version to compress with?

Years later, but in case someone else comes across this, Canvas has written a very useful guide to .imscc files. It discusses why they're problematic on OS X:

  It won't work on a Mac, because the Mac adds junk hidden files to the zip file that cause the cartridge to not be recognized.  There might be a work-around for getting zip files without extra junk on the Mac, but I don't know it, so we just used Windows instead.


Will iOS 14.5 mean my HomePod can use Spotify?

There are two separate things to be discussed here:

Streaming from an i-device to a HomePod/Airplay speakers
Using Siri on HomePod to directly play music

The first option does not limit you to use Apple Music. You can actually airplay any sound over to your HomePod. Just select your HomePod in the Airplay settings or hold your phone close to the speaker while its playing music.
However, asking the HomePod via Siri to play music from Spotify is currently not supported and that is apparently due to lack of Spotify supporting it. There has been a feature request at Spotify forums but it didn't reach enough votes.
This also implies that updates on Apple's side won't change anything. 3rd party support was announced on WWDC last year. Even further, iOS updates do not necessarily mean anything about HomePod.
Therefore, I would be skeptical about this feature, although it is possible that support will be added at some point.


How can I install Windows 7 on a Retina MBP with no optical drive?

Here are the 32 bit and 64 bit ISO files that you would download for Windows 7 since Microsoft only supports digital downloads of Windows 8.
You could also look at this Windows 7 forum for more download links.

You would use Disk Utility to restore the ISO file to a USB Flash Drive (4 GB) (See picture below, but ignore the error :) )

In Boot Camp Assistant, you would then select this ISO file in the USB Flash Drive, assign how much space you would like, and it should complete it for you.


Is it possible to make Mail require a password on startup?

To keep email secure in an unsecured account, webmail may be a good option to use instead of Mail.app, which isn't designed to be secured separately from the account it's being used in.


How to stop AppleScript application content files from appearing in "Recents" folders?

The following answer will add a .metadata_never_index file inside the Application folder. This will prevent indexing by Spotlight of the folder hopefully preventing it from appearing in Recents.

Here's the script. Save it to /Library/Scripts/Folder Actions Scripts/:

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
    repeat with myItem in theNewItems
        tell application "Finder"
            if myItem's name extension is "app" then -- make sure its an app
                set myPath to the POSIX path of myItem
                do shell script "touch " & quoted form of (myPath & ".metadata_never_index")
            end if
        end tell
    end repeat

end adding folder items to

Navigate to the folder where you save your Apple Scripts
Right click on that folder and select Services>Folder Actions Setup

Select the script that saved and click Attach
Make sure Enable Folder Actions is checked in the upper left
Test.
Celebrate!


El Capitan incompatible with Mad Catz Editor

I'm having the same issue, in a chat with Madcatz support they stated to come up with a new driver by end of this year - still a bit to suffer unfortunately.

Installing USB overdrive and controller mate are too much for me to achieve a little bump in functionality.


Does iOS log emergency (911/999/112) calls?

Mine does.

(Pardon the image quality... I had to take a picture of one smartphone's call log with another, very old smartphone.)


iPhone 4 updated and now wants me to restore or setup as new

I went to the Apple Store the next morning, and the person went into the "Set up as new iPhone" option and found a "Skip" option that I had not seen. This bypassed the whole set up process.

All of my data except some passwords and bluetooth pairings seem to have been preserved.

Suggestion: There should be a fourth option, something like "Use existing data". The three options presented, along with the failure to go further, certainly made it look as if I had lost all of my data. Why would one choose "Set up as new iPhone" if one had data they wanted preserved?


Cannot "slide to unlock" when iPhone is in dock. Any idea why?

Strange issue...

I would guess that the dock is somehow interfering with the capacitive 'field' of the screen. You could confirm this by unlocking the device before connecting it to the dock and see if the rest of the interface is affected in the same way.

Though I guess the only way to proceed would be to get the dock replaced (if it's under warranty) and see if that fixes the problem or buy a different one.


What does the layered HDR icon mean in my photos?

Older iPhones would put the 'HDR' overlay only on pictures that used HDR.

The iPhone XS/XS Max has some form of Smart HDR on at all times (when turned on in Settings).  You will only see the HDR overlay for times when the system had to use extreme or excessive HDR to the photo.

If you have Auto HDR turned on then be assured that it's apply Smart HDR to your pictures.


Character Accent Menu doesn't appear anymore in macOS High Sierra

Like @TomGewecke said the only way I found to solve this bug was to create another user or to reinstall Mac OS High Sierra


Although the bmike's answer will probably work, I suggest to try something more leightweight first. This article describes the procedure:

Boot your Mac's Recovery Partition by pressing cmd+r at startup
Go to Utilities > Terminal
Enter resetpassword
In the GUI select the disk and user and enter a new password.
Press Save. (Reset of home directory should not be necessary)


iTunes match is on but I can't copy songs from my PC to my iphone without redownloading them on my iphone from the cloud

It's by design. iTunes Match will upload (or match) your songs with your iCloud. They will show up on any other device (up to 10 devices) where you've enabled iTunes Match. But in order to play the song on your other device, it needs to be downloaded (or at least streamed).
Which is kind of obvious, since you can't play a song out of nowhere. So your iPhone will stream (or download, depending on what you choose) the song and than play it. It will even start playing before it finished downloading the song.

You can find more information about iTunes Match and the working process behind on this website.