How to change the Finder title bar font from the command line?

Got it. It's in ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist

Modify the following entry:

<key>NSTitleBarFontSize</key>
<integer>11</integer>

with your desired font size. This file actually contains a lot of your system's preferences, from your locale setting, to the antialias threshold, to the scrollbar behavior. The file is a binary plist, so you'll either have to use Xcode or convert it into XML and then back again using this method.


The error is rather clearly informing you that the command you executed is the old ruby based installer. You should go to the Homebrew website and re-copy the bash based installer from the https://brew.sh website.
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install.sh)"


Colors by file type in terminal (running bash)

Have a look at http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/l which sets up colors among other things in an attempt to give the same output on different platforms


Best way I found was to:
Open Health App and head to Health data < All and use the arrow on the upper right of the screen then choose Export.

It will take a while if you have a data. You'll be able to get a ZIP file that you can mail to yourself.

Just use XCode and you should (at least!) be able to read your data. You could then use dropbox to sync it with your other devices.


Drive speeds ... PCIe vs external thunderbolt SSD

The 900MB speed is realistic, this is achieved on a few of apple's new mac offerings.
An external Thunderbolt SSD would not be as fast, the only way to make it the same speed (or possibly faster) is if you have a multidrive thunderbolt enclosure running in something like Raid-0 with SSDs in all slots.

The prior enclosure would be rather expensive though. It is probably best to have as much of that internal storage as possible as that is not easily upgradable. I would stay with the 1TB model more internal storage is always better.


All three of your VMs are stored on your NAS, correct? I am not surprised that they are all slow. You are streaming tons of data over a network and expecting it to work as if it were being used locally.

Virtual machines perform a lot of disk IO. Using network storage for VHD files and other resources that are used by your VMs is not really a great idea if you need responsiveness. A lot of software has been developed to try and solve the issue of streaming VMs over a network.

You may want to look into the many VDI solutions that are available if you really want to continue using your VMs over a network. Just a thought.

If this is not a good solution for you, why don't you try keeping a small VHD locally with just the operating system installed on it, and then add the bulk of the storage onto the NAS? That way, the VM would boot/run as quickly as it should (locally), and the majority of your data would reside on the NAS (and be accessible from all VMs and the host OS).

Edit: unless you are connecting your NAS via SATA, in which case I am unsure of a solution to your issue. As soon as I saw "NAS" I thought of you streaming your VM images over a network...


iPhone app that displays temperature as a notification badge

There are several Weather Apps that perform this function. The one I am currently using (as I live in Canada and it has good Canadian weather support) is Degrees.

You could also try Weather Live or eWeather HD. I'm sure there are many more.

One limitation of those badges, if you live in a part of the world like mine, is lack of negative numbers in the badge. Since I use Celsius, this is an issue even this time of year. :)


WiFi-only Apple devices do not contain a SIM card tray, unfortunately.


How to view Microsoft Document Imaging (MDI) files on a Mac?

MDI files were a proprietary file format used by Microsoft Office 2003 and 2007 on Windows. Searching around online, some people have luck opening them with QuickTime (which is already on your Mac), or GraphicConverter. Not having access to these files, nor a direct Mac equivalent, without more information we would be unsure if this would work or not. Office 2008 and 2011 on the Mac won't open them.

The best way to view these (and free too, really), would be to have a Windows using friend to open them in Windows and export as another file type.


What takes so much space in my external disk?

The default permission on .Trashes do not allow for reading.  Use sudo du -ch .Trashes as this will give you both the total and in "Human-readable" output vs. used sectors which you'd then have to convert.

Also you should not delete .Trashes, just empty your Trash.

If you want to take a graphical look at the contents of the disk use Disk Inventory X, you might find it interesting and can do some cleanup from within the App too.


What happens when PCIe boost circuits are overloaded?

Still running strong 30% overclock..

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/mac-pro-4-1-and-5-1-pcie-aux-power.2035519/


Lost screen on Panasonic 55 inch with Mac mini

Try resetting your NVRAM (formerly PRAM).

Resetting NVRAM

Shut down your Mac.
Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option, P,
and R.
Turn on your Mac.
Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys immediately after you
hear the startup sound. Hold these keys until the computer restarts
and you hear the startup sound for a second time.
Release the keys.

After resetting NVRAM, you may need to reconfigure settings for speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection, and time zone information.


Move programs and games to external storage

There are two ways developers can make their apps for Mac. The recommended way is to put everything the app needs into a "bundle". Apps created in this way enclose everything they need in the .app. As a result, these apps can be moved to anywhere you want, and they'll still work.

If you installed an app by dragging it's .app file from the DMG into Applications, or whatever folder it's in, it can be moved without any problems. Xcode is one of these kind of apps. Just drag the app anywhere you want. (Note: you may need to reset paths to your custom files once you open the app, such as pointing to the locations of your custom sounds, movies, whatever.)

The other way of developing apps involves using files external to the .app bundle. These apps generally have files in the system or user's Library folders or other folders, usually hidden to the average user. As a result, these apps must be "moved" differently - if they can be moved at all.

If you installed an app by double-clicking the .app or a .pkg file from within a DMG, it is very likely one of these more complex apps.  Creative Suite is an example of one of these. You might be able to move these apps in one of these ways:

use the app's installation process to select the new location, or
search around or contact the vendor to get the locations of all the external items you'll have to move, point to, or change in order to use the app from an external drive

Note: these are rules of thumb, so apply generally. Apps you get from the App Store are required to be in the bundle format, but that doesn't mean that once you open the app it doesn't store some stuff in other locations. I believe GarageBand does store information in some of the Library locations, for example.


How can I increase my scrolling speed with a third party mouse?

Figured out the problem. The Razer official driver takes over the mouse settings, but does not allow you to configure mouse scroll speed, and the setting was too low.

Well that is annoying.


Inbox empty using OS X Mail with outlook.com account (IMAP)

I've faced the same problem trying to set up my wife's Hotmail account in Mail.app. After much fiddling I eventually gave up and used POP3 instead.

About the only suggestion out there that I didn't try was trimming down the inbox (she had, I believe, 3k+ emails in her inbox), since some people reported solving the problem by getting their inboxes down to, say, 100 emails or so. I didn't even bother trying that solution since it seems so fragile -- what happens when she receives new email above the magic threshold that breaks IMAP? Is it just going to break again?

Much as it pains me to say this, it appears POP3 is the way to go for Hotmail/outlook.com/etc. accounts. IMAP appears to be simply broken.


iPhone app or mod in cydia to remap headset inline remote buttons?

In case anyone needs this too I've found that the package External iPod controls ($0.99), lets me remap my iPhone external volume buttons to change songs, so I can skip to the next song pressing the volume buttons when my iPhone is in my pocket, and I can still control the volume levels from my headset buttons.


I realise this is an old thread but I just resolved this by contacting apple as it transpired that my nephew's apple id had been suspended. Got the above message when trying to log in to iMessage on iPad and Mac so suspected it was the account rather than device.


I'm unable to reproduce this. Automator seems to returns all files/folders, whether they are symlinks or not.

I set up the following:

$ mkcd testfolder
$ mkdir originalfolder
$ ln -s originalfolder symlinkoforiginal
$ ls
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   5 grgarside  staff   170B 23 Jul 20:04 ./
drwx------@ 11 grgarside  staff   374B 23 Jul 20:04 ../
-rw-r--r--@  1 grgarside  staff   6.0K 23 Jul 20:04 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x   2 grgarside  staff    68B 23 Jul 20:04 originalfolder/
lrwxr-xr-x   1 grgarside  staff    50B 23 Jul 20:04 symlinkoforiginal -> /Users/grgarside/Desktop/testfolder/originalfolder

I ran the following Automator workflow:

As shown in the results, both the folder and the symlink were returned.


Go to Preferences -> Accounts -> specific account, and change the pop-up entry for Attachments from "all" to "last" (or however the "zuletzt" entry is called in english).


MacBook Pro freezes 4 or 5 times a day with no info in the Console

Your hard drive could be failing. Download SMART utility to check.


How do I print on mac, when needing a printer administrator

If it's your macbook, usually YOU are the administrator.  Try using your own username and password.

I don't remember my username and password

Click the Apple (grey, upper left)
 =>System Preferences
 => Users and Groups

Your name should be highlighted.  You can change your password here.

It will also say if your account is standard or has admin rights.


Do iPad apps work on iPad PRO and vice-versa?

That depends on how the app was made.

Apps are meant to define the position of interface components in terms of their distance from the edges of the screen by using a technology called AutoLayout (included in Xcode, the development environment for Apple devices).

If the app was made with AutoLayout then yes, it will scale.

As for whether or not they will work, iPhone and iPod apps can already be used on iPad so there should be no reason for which iPad apps shouldn't work on the Pro.

However, when the interface contains a lot of stuff and the interface was designed for a bigger screen, the components could get squashed together. If particular technologies are required (e.g. Apple Pencil) they won't work on the regular iPads.


Keep posted for updates!

Make sure you check for updates to your system. Also, upgrade your system to El Capitan to get a better experience and new features.


How to stop the brightness of MacBook Air Display from fluctuating?

The first thing I would try is to disable auto brightness: System Preferences → Displays → uncheck Automatically adjust brightness.
If that doesn't work (or if it does and you still want auto brightness), try resetting the SMC (System Management Controller) — the SMC controls many hardware features of the Mac and resetting it can fix such problems.

Lights

The display backlight doesn't respond correctly to ambient light changes on Mac computers that have this feature.

Source: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201295

Shut down the computer and connect the power adapter.

Press ⇧⌃⌥ and the power button, then release them all at the same time.
The Mac shouldn't boot and will remain off. The LED on the MagSafe connector may change colour and/or flash briefly.

With the charger still connected, press the power button to turn your Mac back on.


Should I use the manufacture's print driver instead of secure AirPrint?

Consider this.

In the near future, there will be a macOS update. Your printer manufacturer may or may not release a timely driver update that matches the updated OS. As a result, your system may become unstable, not be able to print or worse.

My strong suggestion is that, unless there's some mission-critical functionality you need, it's always best to go with the built-in drivers. With it, there's a much higher probability that your system will remain stable through multiple OS updates.


How can I indent a selected paragraph in Pages on OS X?

⌘] and ⌘[ to increase and decrease indent level works in Pages too. These are the default shortcuts for the options available in Format → Text.


Is there a way for the host of a Zoom meeting running the Zoom app on a Mac to admit everyone from the waiting room via keyboard not mouse?

There's a couple of scenarios to consider.

Showing/hiding the Participants view
No people in the waiting room
Only one person waiting in the waiting room
More than one person waiting.

I'll cover only the case where the Participants View is already active, and the Admit All link is visible due to multiple clients on the waiting list.
This code will click the "Admit All" link
tell application "System Events" to tell process "zoom.us"
    click last UI element of UI element 1 of row 1 of outline 1 of scroll area 1 of splitter group 1 of window "Zoom Meeting"
end tell

To Bind it to a keyboard, 2 options:

Use Keyboard Maestro to run an AppleScript on a hotkey trigger - Simplest, but KM is not free.
I'll save the script above as an Application so that it's available to run from the Spotlight.


Time Machine: Is it possible to exclude 5000+ files via TMUTIL?

If there are hard limits, sorry, I don't know what they are however I have many exclusions set for Time Machine and one in particular has 294,691 files in it.  So instead of doing it folder by folder try setting the exclusion from Options... in Time Machine under System Preferences.

Plug in the external drive and then either drag and drop the parent folder containing the files you want to exclude or the drive icon into the Exclude these items from backups: list area or use the [+][-] buttons.


Is there any way to use a non-apple remote control with a Macbook Pro?

Since it is IR, universal remotes will work, too.


How to disable composite keys on Mac OS X

Composite keys are bound to the 'Input Source' of your mac.

In your 'System Preferences', in 'Language & Text' you will see the option 'Input Source'.

If you have selected 'U.S. International - PC' for example, you will have the dead key problem. But if you change that to ordinary 'U.S.' you are fine and dead keys won't be a problem any longer.


Can iOS apps be removed from iTunes Music Folder after upgrading to iTunes 12.7?

The short answer is: YES you can delete the folder.

The longer answer is: It depends on which apps you have. If you have some apps that you no longer can download from the App Store, you still need them as a backup, so that you can drop them onto your device when/if needed. So you can delete the apps that you know you still can update/download from the App Store.

And when you decide if you still need the old app, you should also see at the app’s spec. - is it a 32-bit or a 64-bit app ?? only 64-bit will work with iOS 11


How to delete a word, which was typed mistakenly, from Safari autocomplete recommendations?

Okay, I've found the solution myself. Hope it helps others MacOS users:

Go to Safari Settings, the select the AutoFill tab. Click the Edit button of the Other forms option. Locate the related website, and click the Remove button.


How do I see the location path of an application?

Navigate to your Applications folder, right click on any app, choose Show Package Contents and navigate to Contents/MacOS/. Most of the times, the binary is named after the app so, if using the path on a script, you'll be mostly safe by using /Applications/(appname).app/Contents/MacOS/(appname), where (appname) is, well, the name of the app. If the app name has a whitespace in it, eg. Sublime Text, don't forget to put the path between double quotes (or escape it), in your script.


The command sudo /usr/bin/dscl . -delete "/Users/ali" will remove the user ali  from the local Directory Services database.

After login out you won't be able to login with user ali again. The user folder of ali won't be deleted.

To delete the folder /Users/ali and its content an additional command is necessary.

The user ali can be recreated though by booting to single user mode and using the remove .AppleSetupDone file trick in a two-stage process.

Create a new admin with a different name than ali (e.g. ali2)
After the configuration is done create a new admin with a different name than ali (e.g. ali3)
Logout as ali2 and login as ali3
Modify ali2 (e.g. name/user directory/user id etc.) with Users & Groups PrefPane/Directory Utility.app/command line to restore the previous entries of ali.

This won't work if your main volume is encrypted with FileVault2!

It's absolutely not recommended to test user creation/deletion scripts like this on your production Mac. Download VirtualBox, create a virtual machine running macOS and test your scripts inside there.


How to use a different mirror of macports rather than the offical mirrors?

I guess you wanted to use a mirror for the binary archive , while the linked question on Stack Overflow is only about the port metadata. So instead of looking at /opt/local/etc/macports/sources.conf, you should be looking at archive_sites.conf under the same folder. The default content of that file is at GitHub; see the file comments for usage.


How can I replace the right-most 30 pixels of my movie with black?

There is a free video conversion tool available on Mac, Windows and Linux called Handbrake. Handbrake does a lot of things, one of which is crop a video.

If you open a video and go to the picture tab you will get something that looks like this.

At top right you have Cropping. Select custom and then adjust the number of pixels on each edge you want removed.


You can use source

source ~/.bash_profile

From the bash manual:

    .  filename [arguments]
   source filename [arguments]
          Read and execute commands from filename in the current shell environment and return the exit
          status  of  the  last command executed from filename.  If filename does not contain a slash,
          file names in PATH are used to find the directory containing filename.   The  file  searched
          for  in  PATH need not be executable.  When bash is not in posix mode, the current directory
          is searched if no file is found in PATH.  If the sourcepath option to the shopt builtin com-
          mand  is  turned  off, the PATH is not searched.  If any arguments are supplied, they become
          the positional parameters when filename is executed.  Otherwise  the  positional  parameters
          are unchanged.  The return status is the status of the last command exited within the script
          (0 if no commands are executed), and false if filename is not found or cannot be read.


Why is Time Machine over-stating the amount of data that needs to be backed up?

Time Machine uses FSEvents to determine what has changed, which is based on folders rather than files. Hence, I've always assumed† that the larger number indicates the total size of the folders it has to process. Next, within each folder it will evaluate each file. (In 2008, some wrote "Time Machine considers two files to be identical if their path and dates and size are the same", so some changes might even go unnoticed. But that's another story.)

If many files in a large folder have not changed, then the total number to actually back up is much lower, but Time Machine does not know until it has processed those. Note that files might have the extended attribute com.apple.metadata:com_apple_backup_excludeItem set, or might be excluded by Apple's factory settings, implying they won't be put on the backup. See Does Apple's Time Machine app really copy everthing on Super User.

(So: I guess you need to find large source folders that are small on the backup. Tools like Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective could indeed show large folders, like in /private/var. Might be easy to compare that to the few folders on the backup?)

† Now that I think of it years later: seeing the size of my Downloads folder, I doubt that it's (always) showing the folder size in the amount of data it's going to back up. Downloading another small file does NOT make Time Machine claim it needs to back up the full size of that Downloads folder. (And yes, that folder is on my backups.)


My Mac isn't locking when I put it to sleep

In System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General, make sure you've checked "Require password [x seconds] after sleep or screen saver begins":


I interrupted a transfer with Migration Assistant (wirelessly)...am I in trouble?

Unlikely. MA only transfer user files, apps, and any associated files those apps need to run (like Photoshop, which installs things into /Library, and not just your particular user's directory, although it does do that too).

If anything, the only thing you can break are the apps that are being migrated or fail to transfer some of your files (music, documents, etc.).

The Power Saver preference pane is located under /System/ and that is in no way modified by MA. Nothing under the "/System" directory is written to, and that is where the OS (and it's core files) are found (among other places, not openly visible to the end user).

It may be that the settings for Power Saver are corrupted (and those reside in the user's directory, specifically ~/Library/Preferences/).

The best solution, would be to boot using the recovery utility (or safe-mode) and delete the user's directory (e.g., /Users/{your username}) and start migration assistant again once you reboot normally (at which point OS X will take you through the registration process again). Obviously this would delete all the files from that user (music, movies, etc.) so make sure you have backups of everything.

Alternatively, you can log into OS X, create a new administrator account (but don't use your regular naming convention, call it Jonny Appleseed/john, for example) using the System Preference's Users & Groups, log out, and log back in using that new account, and then delete your old administrator account, then recreate it using the same steps you did with the currently logged in account. Once that is done, log out and back in with your newly recreated account, and delete the extra administrator account. This will ensure your new account is set up using the same naming convention your original account was set to (making things easier for MA).

Running MA after that, should transfer all the files over again cleanly without having to worry about somethings getting overwritten or not overwritten.

It is also of note that MA just copies over files and doesn't move them. So all the source files are still there and once you delete the user directory, it'll be a total fresh start.


Can't connect to SMB share between two current 10.9.x machines not connected to the internet

Answering my own question since I had not seen this specific question answered.

After some log searching I finally found out that the issue was because the time on one of the machines was drifting causing it to become more than 5 minutes off from the computer it was connecting to and the server (computer connecting to) was displaying this log entry:

<date> <time> kdc[80]: Too large time skew, client time <time> is out by 356 > 300 seconds -- <user>@LKDC:<SHA1>

After finding this log entry I noticed and corrected the local time on the machines and the SMB connection via finder worked right away as expected.

The moral of this story is don't trust the Mac internal time without NTP backup; either via the Internet or a local NTP server.


WiFi rejection problem after Mavericks upgrade

My new MacBook Air was effected by this problem (but the old white MacBook was not).  Here's what I did 2 days ago in System Preferences in this order: renew DHCP Lease, uncheck Keychain in iCloud, and then restart the computer.  So far so good.


How should different sized RAM be added to iMac?

I'm going to take WAGuess* and suggest that any gains (realized or not realized) due to memory-size matching will pale to insignificance beside the gains due to tripling your memory.  My rule of thumb for processor speed is that our perceptions tend to be more logarithmic than linear and that we don't really notice a speed increase until it is 50% - 100% greater than what we had before.

If you're in a situation where a few - consistently acheived - percentage points matter, such as frequently or perpetually running long, compute-bound jobs, and and where finishing a job a few minutes earlier might have a significant benefit for someone, then there may be an advantage to optimizing your memory placements.  Otherwise enjoy the speed of you newly augmented machine!  You've already got 99++% of the benefits to be had.

'*' That guess isn't completely WA'd: I've already looked into using mis-matched memory sizes on two of my older Macs, and the above is what I concluded from at the time.


Windows runs on a Mac independent of the Mac operation system (OS X). Included in OS X is a utility called the Boot Camp Assistant which aids in installing officially support versions of Windows. In your case, both Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 are supported. You will need a 16 GB or larger flash drive to install Windows on your model Mac. While I personally have only installed Windows 10 on iMacs, I would assume you should not have any problems installing on your MacBook Pro.

Once Windows is installed, you will be able to boot between the Windows and OS X. Windows can be selected from the OS X System Preferences application. OS X can be selected from the Windows Control Panel or directly from the Desktop.

More information can be found at the Apple web site: How to install Windows using Boot Camp.


You must select a drive that’s not the installer in step 7 since the volume where the installer exists is read only until the install completes.

I’ll assume this is your Apple guide.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

Any drive except the installer you prepared should be chosen. This lock is to force you to  it over write the installer.

if you want to erase the main drive - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
If you have room, make a second volume on APFS beside the Catalina so you can put Mojave not on your main drive and not on the main external partition.

This is something that trips up people that come from Knowing how to install other OS. Use internet recovery if you have no bootable macOS to run an installer rather than copying your installer onto the volume you want actual macOS on.

Also, since you may not wish to erase your Mac (it’s running Catalina and you want Mojave on an external drive) and if there’s not enough free space on the internal or external for a second volume to hold Mojave, get a third external drive so the installer can be on one external and boot to it to install to the second external drive (or second volume).


Is it possible to invoke play button using terminal?

You can control iTunes using AppleScript:

tell application "iTunes" to play

To run it directly from Terminal command line, you can use osascript:

osascript -e 'tell application "iTunes" to play'

To figure out what commands are available in iTunes, use the ScriptEditor app and open the dictionary of iTunes, see How do I find out the applescript commands available for a particular app?


How do I change the answers to the export compliance questions in iTunes Connect?

Either uploading a new binary update or rejecting the App's actual binary and then pressing on Ready to Upload Binary should do the trick.
As written under Apple's iTunes Connect Guide:

Cryptography and U.S. Export Compliance
U.S. export laws require that products containing encryption be properly authorized for export. When you’re ready to upload your first binary for your app or upload a binary update, iTunes Connect presents a series of questions regarding software encryption. The questions are designed to determine the level of encryption in the app according to U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) classifications.


Why does my Exchange account work on my iPhone, but not Mail.app?

Most likely because your corporate exchange server is running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003. Snow Leopard now only connects to Exchange 2007 (See http://www.apple.com/macosx/exchange/) whereas Leopard used to connect to Exchange 2003 using the OWA mechanism.

iPhone supports both Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 it seems (See iPhone User Guide , page 2);


How can I synchronize the shell view and Finder view of a directory?

This is a known quirk with Finder; it's supposed to refresh automatically, but sometime it's won't.  Unlike Windows, there is no refresh button nor can you press F5 to refresh the window.

There are more details and workarounds to this in the article Refreshing Finder Windows in Mac OS X.  However, I find that the easiest thing is to just go up one directory and then back.

If you use Keyboard Maestro, you could create a "refresh keystroke" of sorts by mapping a key combo to something like Command Shift A  and then Command [ which will take to you the Applications Folder then back to where you were.


How to free up storage taken by the "On My iPad" app?

Well, it was sort of a mystery.

I'm not really sure which of my actions produced desired effect.

I copied a lot of files to iPad using the same "On My iPad" application to completely use up all available space. Then I deleted them via the Settings - Storage and also via the "On My iPad" app (where I could see the files going into the "Recently Deleted" location and where I could delete them completely).
I played with iTunes, connected the iPad to my Windows PC.
Rebooted iPad by holding the button on the top of the case and waiting till "Slide to turn off" appears on the screen.
Rebooted iPad by holding both the button on the top of the case and the Home button simultaneously till the screen goes black and then the Apple logo appears.
Also, probably, rebooting while it was connected to a PC with iTunes running.
Deleted the iPad's backup from the iCloud.
Turned on the iCloud Drive.

Eventually, I looked into the Recently Deleted location in the "On My iPad" application and I saw a bunch of files and folders that I have deleted few days ago. Those files that were hiding somewhere and taking up that 1.02 GB of space. As you can see from the screenshots in the question there was nothing showing up in the Recently Deleted location at the time when I was writing this question.

So, I don't really know what made those files to hide. I suspect that those files were not properly moved into the Recently Deleted area, because when I tried to delete them few days ago the iPad's storage was completely full and the deletion operation didn't go correctly. What an irony - there is no free space on the device, but when I try to delete a file it disappears from the view, but still stays taking up the space.

Most importantly, I don't know what made those files become visible again. Probably one of the things I did above.


Question for applescript with dragon Dictate

This does the query part. The encoding routines are from https://macosxautomation.com :

set defaultAnswer to "Albert Einstein"
set cancelButton to "Cancel"
set buttonResearch to "ReSearch"

display dialog "Query: " default answer defaultAnswer buttons {cancelButton, buttonResearch} default button buttonResearch cancel button cancelButton with icon 1
copy the result as list to {button_pressed, text_returned}

if (button_pressed is buttonResearch) and (text_returned is not "") then

    open location "http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=" & my encode_text(text_returned, true, false)

end if

-- encoding high-ASCII characters:
on encode_char(this_char)
    set the ASCII_num to (the ASCII number this_char)
    set the hex_list to {"0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F"}
    set x to item ((ASCII_num div 16) + 1) of the hex_list
    set y to item ((ASCII_num mod 16) + 1) of the hex_list
    return ("%" & x & y) as string
end encode_char

-- TEXT ENCODING: encode spaces and high-level ASCII characters (those above 127)
-- encode_URL_A = encode most of the special characters reserved for use by URLs.
on encode_text(this_text, encode_URL_A, encode_URL_B)
    set the standard_characters to "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789"
    set the URL_A_chars to "$+!'/?;&@=#%><{}[]\"~`^\\|*"
    set the URL_B_chars to ".-_:"
    set the acceptable_characters to the standard_characters
    if encode_URL_A is false then set the acceptable_characters to the acceptable_characters & the URL_A_chars
    if encode_URL_B is false then set the acceptable_characters to the acceptable_characters & the URL_B_chars
    set the encoded_text to ""
    repeat with this_char in this_text
        if this_char is in the acceptable_characters then
            set the encoded_text to (the encoded_text & this_char)
        else
            set the encoded_text to (the encoded_text & encode_char(this_char)) as string
        end if
    end repeat
    return the encoded_text
end encode_text

The problem to speak the result is not the speaking itself but to select the relevant parts. So better look for a tool that does that, or even better yet, use the website's services for that, often they have some sort of interface.


Numbers: checking if cell with specific text exists

This formula works where A3 is the cell which contains the search string and "Example Semester::A3:A4" is the range to search.

IF(IFERROR(MATCH(A3,Example Semester::A3:A4,0),FALSE),"YES","NO")


Wifi doesn't work but Skype does (and it's not like the one case you already solved)

To find the hosts file, open Finder and, in Finder’s menu bar, select Go > Go to Folder. In the box, type the following location and press Return.

/private/etc/hosts

That will show you the Host file.

Double click on it and you will see:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1             localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

Yours has to be exactly as this, nothing more or less.

If it is different, let me know so we will fix that.


Programmatically convert formulas to their values in Numbers

You probably can automate the conversions you have described to some extent with AppleScript but sorry that I don't know how.

Until you figure this or another automated solution you might use the following keyboard shortcuts in the given order to select multiple rows and copy & paste them in-place as values. These are likely to reduce the time you spend on such conversions if you are not already using them.

Go to the first cell in the last row you wish to convert to values,
Press Shift ⇧+Command ⌘+Right Arrow → to select all of the row,
Select as many rows as you like by pressing Shift ⇧+Up Arrow ↑ ,
When finished, copy all the rows by pressing Command ⌘+C,
Paste all the rows in-place as values by pressing Shift ⇧+Command ⌘+V.


How can I disable all stack exhange sites except stackoverflow.com?

Here's the list of all Stack Exchange sites (wow this was hard to do on my phone...):

http://stackoverflow.com
http://serverfault.com
http://superuser.com
http://meta.stackexchange.com
http://webapps.stackexchange.com
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In Yosemite, can you "un tag" more than 10 files at once?

You can do this using the Edit Tags button as seen in the screenshot. Just delete the tag of the selected files from the typing field.


There is no direct control of this for an individual screen in Mac OS as you also can't go the other way round and turn off the laptop-display to only use the external one without closing the lid and keeping it closed.

I guess you have to not plug in your external monitor if you don't want to use it.


Apparently the color is chosen based on the color of background image, i.e. dark bg = white text, light bg = black text.


You can't directly send an invite via text message with the stock iOS calendar.

However, you can send an invite to the email address of their mobile device.  For instance, if I want to send a calendar invite to someone who has an AT&T mobile number, I can send it to their number @txt.att.net.

This will be seen as an email address by Calendar and you can send it out. The person receiving it will get it as a text message.  Depending on their mobile network provider, they'll be able to accept to decline the invite.

Of course, this requires you to know the mobile network of the people you wish to invite so it isn't perfect. There might also be 3rd-party apps on the App Store that can provide the service you're looking for but I don't have any names offhand.


How to replace Yosemite icons with those from Mavericks?

Following @ohho's answer, I wrote a quick script that will save you the effort of adjusting the colour of each icon. This script handles Dropbox folder icons too. You will need imagemagick and xcode command line utilities installed. The best way to get both is to install homebrew and then run

brew install imagemagick

Here is the script. I chose to reduce saturation by -20% and adjust the hue to make the colour less green and more blue.

#!/bin/bash

# List of system icons which need to be changed
sys_icons="ApplicationsFolderIcon.icns BurnableFolderIcon.icns \
DesktopFolderIcon.icns DeveloperFolderIcon.icns DocumentsFolderIcon.icns \
DownloadsFolder.icns GenericFolderIcon.icns GenericSharepoint.icns \
GroupFolder.icns LibraryFolderIcon.icns MovieFolderIcon.icns \
MusicFolderIcon.icns OpenFolderIcon.icns PicturesFolderIcon.icns \
PublicFolderIcon.icns ServerApplicationsFolderIcon.icns \
SitesFolderIcon.icns SystemFolderIcon.icns UsersFolderIcon.icns \
UtilitiesFolder.icns"

# Back up CoreTypes.bundle just in case and copy the icons to ~/folder_icons
cp -r /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle ~/CoreTypes_BACKUP.bundle
mkdir ~/folder_icons
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources
cp $sys_icons ~/folder_icons

# List of dropbox icons which need to be changed
dropbox_icons="DropboxFolderIconYosemite.icns DropboxAppFolderIconYosemite.icns \
DropboxPublicFolderIconYosemite.icns DropboxReadOnlySharedFolderIconYosemite.icns"

# Check if yosemite-ready dropbox is installed and copy the dropbox icons to ~/folder_icons
if [ -f "/Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources/DropboxFolderIconYosemite.icns" ]; then
    cd /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources
    cp $dropbox_icons ~/folder_icons
fi

cd ~/folder_icons

# Change ownership of icns files to user
sudo chown `whoami` $sys_icons $dropbox_icons &> /dev/null

# Convert icns files to "iconset" folders containing png files
for icon in *.icns; do iconutil -c iconset "$icon"; done

# Use imagemagick to adjust saturation (-20%) and hue (+2%)
for icon in ./**/*.png; do mogrify -modulate 100,80,102 "$icon"; done

# Convert "iconset" folders back to icns files
for icon in *.iconset; do iconutil -c icns "$icon"; done

# Copy the modified system and dropbox icons back to their original bundles
sudo cp $sys_icons /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources
if [ -f "DropboxFolderIconYosemite.icns" ]; then
    cp $dropbox_icons /Applications/Dropbox.app/Contents/Resources
fi

# Set owner/group to root/wheel and delete extended attributes
cd /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources
sudo chown root $sys_icons
sudo chgrp wheel $sys_icons
sudo xattr -d com.apple.quarantine $sys_icons &> /dev/null

# Delete icon cache (restart necessary)
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.dock.iconcache -exec rm {} \; &> /dev/null
sudo find /private/var/folders/ -name com.apple.iconservices -exec rm -rf {} \; &> /dev/null

# Remove working directory
rm -rf ~/folder_icons

Save this as say '~/folder_colour_adjuster.sh' and then run

sudo sh ~/folder_colour_adjuster.sh

Restart your mac and enjoy:


Mail app not allowing me to add my outlook(exchange) account

I set up the normal way, just add email and it did it magic.
Edit
Well someone mentioned that it shouldn't be an exchange account, for what's worth I did the set up 2~3 years ago I couldn't remember.
So what I did is:
1. Go to system preferences > Internet Accounts > Add other accounts

2. Then select Mail Account

That's it.


Synching without erasing songs on my iPhone

I suspected that there was no way to get around it ... I guess I'll just have to start the laborious business of reconstructing my iTunes database by restoring all 3,000 songs ...

Thanks for the responses.


Trying to wake my Mac using Apple / Power Manager Script triggered by Folder Actions

This script works with the latest Power Manager, once the first line is changed to read:

tell application "Power Manager"

See Power Manager's AppleScript documentation for more examples.

If you need help with Power Manager, please contact support@dssw.co.uk. We are be better able to help via e-mail.


How to create new message in iChat without sending, using Automator to grab selected text

You have to do it with UI scripting :

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Messages"
    set input to "http://aol.com" as text
    click button 1 of group 1 of splitter group 1 of window 1
    delay 1
    keystroke "Buddy@provider.com" -- type the reciever
    keystroke return -- validate the previous input
    keystroke tab -- move to message input
    keystroke input -- type the message
end tell


Can Disk Utility format an SD card with FAT32?

Selecting "MS-DOS (FAT)" will automatically format as FAT16 or FAT32 depending on the target's size.


Deleting or permanently halting old automator scripts

The most common place to put a workflow is System Preferences → Users & Groups → Login Items. Select the workflow and click the – button to remove it from the list.


Access chat in Microsoft Teams after meeting

Those chats are stored in the storage bucket belonging to the tenant that paid to host the meeting. As a guest to the meeting it’s up to the persons configuring teams server-side whether you get to participate in chat past the meeting time or just for the duration of the meeting.
I’ve found the in app help to be excellent, but we pay a lot for O365 and I believe our requests go into a priority queue. I would still recommend even free accounts try the help in app, nevertheless for this situation.
Your app is the same as everyone’s. Just like Office apps on macOS, it’s the same app for everyone, but the license you bring to it enables features based on which license Microsoft sees for your app/account. All you may need to do is pay more for your teams license if you need extra features.
In the paid version, the meeting chat is stored in the calendar, so as Microsoft adds features to the free tier, be sure to check in the calendar tab for past chats in case you do have access to them now or later.


Accidentally deleted /Library/Developer files

Open Terminal from Application -> Utility -> Terminal
Type in the following.

xcode-select --install

This should install Mac Osx commandline tools and also create the /Library/Developer Files


Is it safe to remove ~/Library/Mail folders

By safe, I assume you mean "will not delete message on the server?" That's correct, you can go ahead and delete those - think of the as a "cache" of your emails. As long as you aren't deleting and emptying the trash from within whatever mail client you are using, they will remain on the server.

Do consider a backup before deleting ANYTHING from ~/Library (or any other Libraries on your Mac).

In this specific case, I would explicitly rebuild the mailbox indexes just in case the system will clean them up once you're done deleting things...


youtube-dl in automator action file; video and audio not muxed

I did some more digging and found I needed to add the location of ffmpeg binary in the "do shell script" call by adding: --ffmpeg-location /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg

on run {input, parameters}
    try
        tell application "System Events"
            set pid to do shell script "cd /tmp/; /usr/local/bin/youtube-dl  --newline --ffmpeg-location /usr/local/bin/ffmpeg " & input & " > /tmp/vidstatus 2>&1 & echo $!"
            delay 1
            repeat while ((do shell script "kill -0 " & pid) is "") -- check if pid is still responding
                display dialog "Status: " & (do shell script "tail -n 1 /tmp/vidstatus") -- display last line of output
                delay 5
            end repeat
        end tell
    on error
        display notification "YouTube Download Finished" -- show error message
    end try
end run


Make sure that you turn on the option "Automatic Import" in your iPhoto preferences :

If it is not working, try to disabled and then enabled Photo Stream in iPhoto.


Prevent application from requesting password on MacOS

In my opinion, any app which is routinely asking to escalate permissions is either badly written or suspect, or is an admin-type tool which should be run intentionally from an already-elevated user condition at all times.

If this is supposedly an app aimed at everyday users, and it's routinely needing escalation, that indicates it's needing to change preferences or permissions in a way which violates the most basic tenets of security and/or sandboxing to a degree which would worry me until I determined exactly what the offending subprocess(es) was or were, why this caused continual escalation, and if that was either acceptable to me or defensible in some manner.

So for me, the answer would start with "what, why and how" is causing the escalation, and only after nailing that down really solidly would I consider undertaking setting this app to always run elevated, which honestly is a simple thing to do in Terminal, but... it's very much a non-trivial, only do it when both essential and you are dead sure it's safe and appropriate way to go.


Is it possible to use Macbook with 0% health?

It doesn't matter when you plug it in. You can even remove (not advised though) the battery and still use it when the adapter is plugged in. I can imagine the battery does not work properly (or even work at all) when it hits the 0%


Macbook and external hard drive : A better solution?

What do you want to use this drive for? Storing Documents, Backup, etc?

If you have a router with an usb port you could use this to set it up as a network drive that you can automatically connect when you login.


Regarding how to prevent this in the future (question #3):

Log in to iCloud Calendar on a computer web browser
Authenticate if needed, then select the Calendar view
Select the Settings Gear icon ⚙ in the bottom left corner then hit Preferences...

Select Advanced

Choose the option to receive calendar invitations by email instead of allowing the server to insert them without review into your calendar:

Select Email to [youremail] instead of In-app notifications

You now get to decide and delete or process calendar spam like regular email spam, allowing you to filter out these spam calendar invitations systematically.


What is the equivalent of netstat -tln on OS X?

Should be this command:

sudo lsof -iTCP:$PORT -sTCP:LISTEN

Who is listening on a given TCP port on Mac OS X?


MacBook: Force hibernation, even on AC power (not battery power)

I've used the DeepSleep app for years to put a Late 2012 Mac Mini into hibernation.  After "upgrading" from OS X 10.11.5 to 10.11.6 two weeks ago, DeepSleep stopped working.  It would only put the computer into normal sleep mode, not hibernation.  I spent a few days communicating with the author of DeepSleep and none of his suggestions fixed it, so I reverted the system to 10.11.5 using Time Machine restore and DeepSleep again works.  So your problem may simply be that you're running 10.11.6.

I have also tried sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25 on the command line, as well as sudo pmset -a standby 0 and sudo pmset -a standbydelay 0.  None of those have ever made my Mac Mini hibernate when the power button is pressed, even if left overnight, and even on earlier OS X versions.  However, those commands are supposed to work on laptops.  Since you say they don't, that's more evidence that Apple completely broke hibernation in 10.11.6.  However, someone here says they got pmset options to work only after resetting SMC and NVRAM so maybe give that a try.


Extracted from here and supported by the W3 Wiki:

  Currently iOS is the only platform with adaptive streaming, supporting Apple's own HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol. Android 4 introduced HLS support too, but its market share is still low.


For documentation: If you want to read any of the Unix library instructions, you can open the Terminal application. Type "man curl" and you will get the manual for the curl function. There is an app called "iMan" which does a nice job of showing manual pages in a more readable format, and can search for manuals or show variations of similar libraries (https://sourceforge.net/projects/iman-macosx).


Keyboard and Trackpad not working after login after spilling liquid

As physical connectors heat and cool, they may loose contact with what they are connected to.  Rather than logging in immediately upon boot up, let the computer get up to temperature.  In other words, wait 5-10 minutes.  Can you log in at that point?  If not, the increased heat from normal startup may have exposed some hardware damage done by the liquid.


spctl "command not found" on Recovery start (mac OS Big Sierra)

You seem to have booted into an older version of macOS Recovery (there's an item called "Install OS X Yosemite.app" visible in your screenshot). This is something that can happen with Internet Recovery, depending on the Mac model and OS version.
If you use the regular local Recovery (⌘ R), the spctl command should be available.
If you HAVE to use Internet Recovery, try ⌥ ⌘ R. This should load the latest version of macOS compatible with your Mac.


i think you´re looking for mount_smbfs :) or mount -t smbfs ...


Do a hard restart:
Hold the home button (the round one at the bottom) and the sleep wake button (the one on the top or the right side of your device) for 15 seconds or till the apple logo shows up.
If it does not appear, try to check if the device is still on, then try again, if it's off hold the sleep wake button.


bash prompt acting weird when I click UP key and then down KEY

As far as I have been able to tell, this is caused by a bug in iTerm2, where actions such as ctrl+a make it act as though the colour-specifying characters in PS1 are treated as though they have a length.

The best solution I have found is to not specify colours in your .bashrc, and instead use triggers to generate the colours.


It is pretty easy, you need to download again the Trial version of NTFS for Mac (if you do not have it anymore in your Downloads folder).

Now in Finder, go to your Downloads folder and double click on the NTFS for Mac file. The file should be mounted now. You will see that there is a Uninstall NTFS for Mac program, simply double click it.

That's it. For more information you could refer to the user manual, especially the chapter "De-installing the Driver" page 21.


Delete all bookmarks from Google Chrome macOS app in one go

You can easily delete all the bookmarks in Google Chrome in one go.

Open Bookmark manager by going to Bookmarks → Bookmark Manager or by using keyboard short Option + Command + B.
Use the keyboard shortcut Command + A to select all bookmarks and folders.

Press the Delete key to delete all the bookmarks in one go.

Do note that Google Chrome doesn't ask for confirmation before deleting the bookmarks. They are gone as soon as you press the Delete key. However, you can undo the delete operation by clicking on the Undo button shown in the bottom left for a few seconds, immediately after the operation is performed.


The location of the file has not moved. It is still located at /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist.

Please make sure you are not in your User's Library folder (~/Library/Preferences/).

The best way to go to the correct folder in Finder is to use the menu item Go > Go to Folder..., or press cmd+shift+G, and enter the folder you need to go to. In this case, /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/.


Can I record iPad screen contents over AirPlay to an Apple TV and then recording the HDMI output?

There is a more elegant solution: Reflector

Unfortunately, it is a $15 app, but it serves a perfect function for your case. You can use your computer as an AirPlay receiver, and screen record the screen via ordinary computer screen capture software. No need for an Apple TV nor any cords, just a $15 app and a WiFi lan.


dragging browser tabs to new window moves old window

Since this is not a OS X error, and is instead a browser error, you should submit it like this: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95315?hl=en

Hope this helps!

(Note that this bug is nonexistent on Safari, latest beta)


Pushing offline viewable content to iPads for Enterprise

Dropbox shared folders and Dropbox for teams sounds like it would fulfill your needs.


I know this old, but I just solved this problem, and I had found this question while searching for an answer.

In my case, 2005 iBook wouldn't recognise the 10.5 install DVD. I imaged the DVD to an 8GB usb stick in Disk Utility. I did format the USB stick as Apple Partition Map first in case that makes a difference.

It wouldn't boot from the USB when holding down option or C though I could get a menu.

I booted to open firmware by booting with command+option+O+F
then I ran the following command:
boot usb0/disk@1:3,\\:tbxi

It booted into the installer and everything worked as expected.


Why is there something white behind the "slide to unlock" in my lock screen? (iPhone 4, iOS 7.1)

It's just the Slide to Unlock's shinning effect that is less subtle on an iPhone 4 with a black background.

Some of the iOS7 effects and animations, like Control Center's blurry background, are less fluid and subtle because of the processing power of the device.


Will I get charged for an iOS app that a family member already paid for, if I download normally?

Short answer is, it depends on whether the app in question has Family Sharing enabled for it by the publisher of the app.

  If the price shows up, even though a family member has already paid for the app, does that mean I'll actually get charged that price again?

You won't get charged for the app in question if and only if the following conditions are met:

You are a part of a Family under Family Sharing.
A family member has already bought the app in question.
The app in question has Family Sharing enabled for it by the publisher.

  Or is this simply a (giant!) bug in Apple's App Store app?

This is not a bug from Apple, it's by design. Not every app on the App Store automatically becomes available for free to the rest of the family if at least one of the family member has bought it. It's up to the publisher of the app whether to enable Family Sharing for their app or not.

So it would appear logical and consistent that you as a user would see the app normally along with a price tag on the purchase button (which is an expected behavior). When you attempt to buy the app by tapping on the price button and it meets the eligibility criterion for Family Sharing, you are prompted that a family member has already bought the app, and, because it has Family Sharing enabled by the publisher, you won't be charged for it.

(P.S.: While it's for fact that this behavior is by design, the reasoning behind logical and consistent appearance is based on my personal interpretation.)


Disk Utility Partitions Wrong Part of Fusion Drive

To create a proper "Fusion Drive" in your case, you first have to create a normal CoreStorage Logical Volume Group with one physical volume and one logical volume. Then you have to install macOS. In a last step you have to add the second physical volume to the CoreStorage Logical Volume Group and expand the existing logical volume.

backup your main volume
boot to Internet Recovery Mode (or a macOS installer thumb drive)
get all necessary listings:

diskutil list
diskutil cs list

destroy the LVG:

diskutil cs delete lvgUUID #lvgUUID: UUID of the Logical Volume Group

completely erase both disks (each to one volume with the names e.g. "data1" and "data2" but not "Macintosh HD")
get the device identifiers again: diskutil list
create a new LVG and LV on the larger disk (here I assume the 500 GB SSD has the disk identifier disk0):

diskutil cs create Fusion disk0
diskutil cs list
diskutil cs createVolume lvgUUID jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" 100%

Install macOS to "Macintosh HD"
After configuring macOS open Terminal and enter

diskutil list
diskutil cs list

add the 24 GB disk (here I assume the disk identifier is disk1) to the LVG:

diskutil cs addDisk lvgUUID disk1

Expand the main system volume:

diskutil cs resizeVolume lvUUID size #with size e.g. 526800m

If you get an error "Error: -69720: There is not enough free space in the Core Storage Logical Volume Group for this operation" choose a slightly smaller size like 526400m or 526000m


I have solve the above formula requirement.
I posted this on discussions.apple.com. Link to discussion is https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7778822

I had to add a hidden column H:H, then the formula

  =IF(F3=DURATION(,,24,0,,),F3+H3,DURATION(,,0,0,,))
  +IF(F3< DURATION(,,24,0,,),F3,DURATION(,,0,0,,))

I then copied formula all the way down column H

The second formula in I:I column is written so that it only returns a time if there is a time in the B:B range.

  =IF(B2="","",B2+H2)

I hope this helps someone. It has really made my life easier.


How to get rid of emoji (emoticons) in Terminal.app (OS X 10.9)

Emoji are simply unicode characters that are rendered as such by the operating system. In the following screenshot, you can see that unicode is "allowed" in filenames:

In fact, these are even rendered by Finder:

To fix this, simply rename the file through Finder or Terminal.

This happens because whatever glyph substitution algorithm that they use is picking up the unicode text in the filename and replacing it with Emoji (which is a ttf font on OS X).


Upgrading from iCloud documents to iCloud drive

Those files should be copied across to iCloud drive with one caveat, you will no longer be able to access them with any devices using the old iCloud system. It is a one way update.

Here is a FAQ from Apple with more info.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201104


Mac OS merge other partition into OS partition without losing data on primary OS partition

Apple does not provide a way to add the space occupied by disk0s4 to disk0s2. To enlarge disk0s2 there must be significant free space directly below the partition. In your case, disk0s3 is below disk0s2 which blocks the possibility of enlarging disk0s2.

You could backup the contents of disk0s2. There does not appear to be enough space anywhere on disk0 to do this. You would have to find addition storage such as a external drive. Once the contents of disk0s2 is backed up, you could remove both disk0s2 and disk0s3. Next, you could enlarge disk0s2 to occupy all the newly create free space. Finally, you could recreate the "Data" volume by either adding a new volume to the APFS container or shrinking disk0s2 while creating a new disk0s3. You could then restore the contents of the "Data" volume from the backup.

I should note that when I stated there was not enough space to backup disk0s2, I did not consider a compress backup of this partition. You could consider trying to make a backup in the form of a dmg file by using the Disk Utility application.


I think that old .ispws will eventually get deleted, depending on the quantity and version.
I don't think there are any commands
Yes, it shouldn't harm your computer or device in any way.
Yes, by using Felix Burns or if you click restore iPhone, let iTunes download the *.ispw, but eject before it can restore (this worked for me once, but I can't be certain, so don't loose all of your data!).


FileVault causing long boot time and terrible lag in the login screen

I have had this exact problem.

I have a 2015 13" MBP running Yosemite (Mac OS X 10.10.5), not Sierra, though I have 8gb RAM and about 20% free space on an aftermarket 500gb SSD (e.g. not Apple factory installed). I use the laptop constantly and travel a lot with it. I've run into this bizarre boot/lag problem with FileVault roughly 2x-3x a year, and as luck would have it, it usually happens when I don't have access to any hands-on tech support besides myself.

The only thing that works for me:

Disable FileVault: boot into Recovery Mode (command-R after startup chime) or if you have another boot partition. I have a TechTool Pro (TTP) emergency boot partition. Run Apple's Disk Utility from that boot partition and use the "Turn Off Encryption" command.
Reset the SMC: shut down computer; hold shift-control-option-power for at least 10 seconds; start up computer.
Once decrypted, run disk utilities on that drive. Besides Apple's Disk Utility for disk and permissions repair, I use TTP's "Volume Rebuild" tool (once I've booted from the emergency partition).
Use the drive for a few days un-encrypted, with several clean reboots.
Boot back into Recovery or emergency partition and run all those utilities again.
Turn FileVault back on.

This typically works for me. However, it's annoying and time-consuming to resolve. And this is a repair, not a fix.  It will still happen again, randomly, sometime in the future.

The fact that you have this problem on Sierra (Mac OS X 10.12) suggests to me that the problem is deeper than just the OS.


FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF partition type for primary partition

Note: This answer assumes the Mac only has one internal drive.

Follow the steps given below.

Determine the partition offset and disk size in blocks. To do this, enter the command given below in a Terminal application window.

diskutil info disk0s2 | grep -e Offset -e Size

Below is an example output where the block size is 512 bytes. From the output, the partition offset and disk size can be determined as 409640 blocks and 195312500 blocks, respectively.

   Partition Offset:         209735680 Bytes (409640 512-Byte-Device-Blocks)
   Disk Size:                175.8 GB (175790436352 Bytes) (exactly 343340696 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

Below is an example output where the block size is 4096 bytes. From the output, the partition offset can be determined as 76806 blocks. To get the disk size in 4096 bytes blocks, the value of 390625232 512-Byte-Units needs to be divided by 8 to get 48828154 blocks.

   Partition Offset:          314597376 Bytes (76806 4096-Byte-Device-Blocks)
   Disk Size:                 200.0 GB (200000118784 Bytes) (exactly 390625232 512-Byte-Units)
   Device Block Size:         4096 Bytes

Use the key combination Option-⌘-R to boot to macOS Recovery over the Internet.
Enter the commands below in a Terminal application window. Here, you will need to replace <offset-in-blocks> and <size-in-blocks> with an actually numbers.

Disk=$(diskutil list | grep "(internal, physical)")
Disk=${Disk/ *}
gpt -f remove -i 2 $Disk
gpt -f add -i 2 -b <offset-in-blocks> -s <size-in-blocks> -t apfs $Disk

For example, if you used the output from the first example in step 1, then you would enter the commands given below.

  Note: The commands are case-sensitive.

Disk=$(diskutil list | grep "(internal, physical)")
Disk=${Disk/ *}
gpt -f remove -i 2 $Disk
gpt -f add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 343340696 -t apfs $Disk

  Note: Below is the legacy version of the above commands. You can use these commands, if the above two commands generate an illegal option error message.

Disk=$(diskutil list | grep "(internal, physical)")
Disk=${Disk/ *}
diskutil unmountdisk $Disk
gpt remove -i 2 $Disk
diskutil unmountdisk $Disk
gpt add -i 2 -b <offset-in-blocks> -s <size-in-blocks> -t 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC $Disk

Boot back to macOS.
Enter the command given below to recover the free space.

sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0


software update is stuck on "less than a minute"

Anything interesting in console? Have you tried just installing airport and not itunes and vice versa?

Can you try running software update from terminal:

sudo softwareupdate --install --all --verbose


There is another workaround: Add the webpage of your pinned tab to your bookmarks. The pinned tab will then show the first letter of your bookmark title. So this way you can at least make sure that all your pinned tabs have different letters, which might already be sufficient :D


Chrome for macOS shows raw HTML for gmail.com

This was solved thanks to a solution posted in the Google forum. It was solved but hitting command-shift-R. I have no idea why.

Link to forum post.


Renewing iOS Developer Program with Lebanese credit card

I had a case where i needed to add a credit card to the Hong Kong App Store, but i only had a Thai credit card. I called them and they said that i should just use the Thai credit card and the Thai address, even though the country was fixed to Hong Kong. I tried it and it worked. Have you tried this?


Forgot my password to a disk image (.sparseimage)

CrowBar is somewhat out-of-date.

Probably the most comprehensive and up-to-date free password-recovery package is JohnTheRipper. Among many other formats, it can test .dmg's as well.

Note that JtR does not "break" the encryption, it just automates and speeds the process of trying thousands (or millions, or trillions) of dictionary-based and random passwords in hopes of eventually hitting the correct one that decrypts your data.

JohnTheRipper is a command-line tool and requires one to be pretty well-versed in standard shell syntax, etc.

If you don't want to compile JtR yourself, there are also free unofficial pre-compiled Mac OS X binaries available.

The latest "jumbo" and "magnum" community-contributed versions can handle .dmg files, sparse-images through OS X 10.7. If you dig around in the recent patches you can even find code to handle OS X 10.8 passwords.


How can I get Xcode to install under Lion?

When the App Store is "Installing" keep in mind this  includes "Downloading", and Xcode is usually about 4 GB. Leave it overnight or monitor your network traffic to see the progress.

Once Xcode is installed, you will need to run xcode-select to expand your path since tools like make and compilers/linkers are in /Applications/Xcode and not in your typical bash path. You can go to settings and download the command line tools to keep them if decide to delete Xcode later.


I recently accidentally installed this app. Then, I carelessly deleted the app without thinking about its associated Library files and menu bar icon.

It is likely your friend did the same thing and is now stuck with this useless menu bar quick access icon. In that situation, the uninstall directions won't work because the app is deleted.

The easiest way (and only way I know of) to remove this is to re-install MalwareBytes, open the app, and then go to Help > Uninstall MalwareBytes.

This will remove the app and all its associated files ... and that menu bar icon.


How can I automount afp volumes at startup?

I found this script from http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20050215082247458, but I'll reproduce it below.

Open up Script Editor and paste in:

    set sfiles to "afp://user:pass@host/volume"
    tell application "Finder"
        mount volume sfiles
    end tell

Replace sfiles with the appropriate details of your AFP volume.
Add appropriate other lines for the other servers you have, both above and inside the tell
Save this script somewhere safe and add it to the login item pane (instead of the Volumes you have there now)


How to scroll using an external USB trackpad that is not a magic-mouse?

I suspect that the trackpad settings/bluetooth settings may not be all that useful for this.
Firstly if you do a system report (Apple icon ► About This Mac ► System Report...), you can check to see if the USB device is recognised. This seems to be the case since your saying it recognises left and right clicks.
My only suggestion is that this may require some third party software to properly recognise it. For example: SteerMouse. Similar to if you have ever installed a joy stick for a simulator, it usually requires the actual third party software to recognise it.


External display color changes when MacBook lid is closed

If you update to macOS 10.15.4 it may now detect that you have a HDR screen, and makes your external screen colors look weird.

To fix this:

Go to Display settings
Uncheck "High Dynamic Range" for your external display
Everything should be back to normal.


How to see root user processes in Activity Monitor?

View menu > All Processes

Default is just My Processes.


When I upgraded my iPad to ios 7, I was forced to restore to factory settings. I lost all of my photos and videos. Are they somewhere?

Have you ever backed up your iPad? Camera roll photos will be in your backup.  If you have ever synced your iPad to iTunes on your computer then you will have a backup on your computer.  If you had iCloud backup turned on then you will have a backup on iCloud. Go to Settings>General>Reset on your iPad and select 'Erase all Content and Settings', follow the prompts and select restore from iTunes Backup and connect your iPad to your computer, or select restore from iCloud Backup and wait for your backup to be downloaded from iCloud over the air.


Now that El Capitan is "rootless", is there any way to get dtrace working?

System Integrity Protection in 10.11 can be disabled, though it's not something you should do lightly.

You can disable SIP entirely by doing the following:

Reboot your mac
Hold ⌘R during reboot
From the Utilities menu, run Terminal
Enter the following command

csrutil disable

Alternatively you can re-enable SIP while still allowing dtrace to work by also running the following:

csrutil enable --without dtrace

Note, that when doing so you'll get the following warning:

  This is an unsupported configuration, likely to break in the future and leave your machine in an unknown state.

Once you reboot, dtrace will work as it did in Yosemite.


Stop finder from opening search by default

Turn this off and then add a new shortcut in app shortcuts, with text exactly New Finder Window with keys you want.


Why isn't my ipad saving videos I was emailed?

Did you check in the Camera Roll? It isn't going to be in an album if you save it on your iphone from your iphone.


Why does my MacBook not display the date and time in Welsh?

Try using this command in Terminal:

defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleLocale -string cy_GB

It worked for me in 10.13, but have not tested in later MacOS versions.

This question indicates it may no longer work.

Mojave and its non-respect of the AppleLocale preference


This generally happens when you've used a utility that changes your sidebar icons to colorized versions. iCloud Drive and Downloads do not use the standard icon format. These products are based on a SIMBL plugin called ColorfulSidebar that does not recognize the non-standard format. Even if you've changed the icons back to the non-colorized versions, the routine that changes the icons may still be running. You have to totally disable the software that colorized the icons.


How I can copy to the clipboard the path (or the full url) of a file or a folder?

On OS X "El Capitan",

Option+Command+C the selected file/folder

OR

option right click the file/folder (in Finder)
Select 'Copy "file/folder" as Pathname'.

  Copy file path in Finder

  You now have the option to copy the path to a
  file without copying the file itself, perfect for working with files
  stored on a server. To copy the file path, right-click the file in the
  Finder, and then hold the Option key down and choose Copy as Pathname.

  (From Apple) http://www.apple.com/osx/all-features/#other-features


Dictionary: Syllable-hyphenation interpuncts (dots) missing

You can install the old dictionary from your old OS X install disk.

Here's what I did with my Snow Leopard disk on my Mavericks installation:

Quit Dictionary
Turn ON hidden file visibility in Finder by typing this into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles Yes

Rename /Library/Dictionaries/New Oxford American Dictionary.dictionary to something like  New Oxford American Dictionary-orig.dictionary, since you'll be putting the older OS X version of this dictionary here.
Grab the application Pacifist from http://www.charlessoft.com and run it
Pop in your old OS X Install disk to your DVD Drive
Find the dictionary package.  I found mine here:

/Volumes/Mac OS X Install DVD/System/Installation/Packages/OxfordDictionaries.pkg

drag this package into Pacifist
Within Pacifist, find your dictionary folder named New Oxford American Dictionary.dictionary
Drag this folder into /Library/Dictionaries
Start up Dictionary
Optional: Go into preferences and enable/disable the dictionaries you want.  The just-copied dictionary is probably already enabled, since it has the same name as the original dictionary.  But you can also enable the original dictionary so that both are active.
You can turn off HIDDEN FILE view by typing into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles No

Now, I have the syllables displayed on Mavericks!


Re-installing Mavericks from recovery temporarily unavailable. Also can't download a new image

Try getting the Mavericks Installer from a friend how can also upload it to a Google driver for you.  Then you create a bootable USB with Mavericks on it.

I did that for my friend who is in Europe while I am in USA and it worked.

Once you have the Mavericks Installer...

create Bootable USB

Format it, using Disk Utility, as a Mac OS Extended (Journaled) drive, named Mavericks.

This can be done from the Erase tab within the app; make sure the USB drive does not have multiple partitions (that can happen, so turn to the Partition tab to verify and correct this).

Open Terminal.

sudo /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Mavericks --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Mavericks.app --no interaction.


The password used for encrypting the DMG is not stored in a log file or similar. Having full admin access doesn't help you, I'm afraid.
The only real resort is to brute-force the passphrase for the DMG. It seems you have a pretty good idea of what the password is and how long it is - that should make brute-forcing worthwhile to try. I'm assuming here that you made a typo when setting the password or something similar to that.


I realize this is a very old question, but here goes.  The option to change to linear allows for copying as plain text.  This option can be found in the Equation ribbon.  Also, the Equation box dropdown has the change option as well.


MacBook Pro 2011 with fuzzy screen won’t boot

Managed to sort this! Absolute stoked.

Visit here for details

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/198711/MacBook+Pro+2011+GPU+Glitch#answer469270


How long should Lion take to set up Spotlight?

First off - Spotlight works incrementally as you write any data to the drive. This processing has filters and pattern detectors that extract information from files and store those "nuggets" in a database structure that allows spotlight to find things.

Lion changed the filters, so your old database is now out of date. The entire hard drive has now to pass through the changed filters one time. The first pass could be done in about the same time as the install took if you have nothing on the mac.

It's hard to know what type of files you have - as spotlight will take a lot longer to index a 5 MB text file than it will a 5 MB music file. Using the mac will slow down the updating, so many people turn off spotlight after an upgrade and let it do the entire drive scan over night or when you are away from the Mac so it can just do that one task without slowing you down.

I would say most macs that can run Lion should be done indexing in 12 hours unless there are problems. Those problems usually have messages in the console log (/var/log/system.log) - but it's probably just something you need to wait out.


Slow start up following File Vault 2 Trial on Mountain Lion

This issue fixed itself when I upgraded to Mavericks. Very very weird that an os upgrade fixes something a clean reinstall didn't.


Is it possible to use Time Machine with iCloud?

Unfortunately, Time Machine doesn't support this feature and there are a couple of reasons why.

Time Machine makes physical backups of all your files, not just links to them. If it backed up to iCloud Drive (which syncs to your Mac), it would duplicate 150GB on to your HDD. It would then try to back all of that up too (unless you exclude that location from the backup) so it would try to add another 150GB to the backup, and so on.
Time Machine makes incremental backups. Sure, your backup is just 150GB now. But you change a few files and it backs up an additional 25MB. You install a new app and it adds another 2GB. While you may keep your actual drive below 320GB, your Time Machine backup could end up over 1TB in size! In my case, I use about 400GB of storage on my Mac, but my Time Machine backup is over 1.3TB due to deleted files.

Having said all that, sure, theoretically it is possible. If you created a link to a folder on your iCloud Drive in /Volumes/ it should show up as a disk to back up to, and if you excluded backing up iCloud Drive through Time Machine it wouldn't double in size every backup. Your hard drive would fill up very very quickly though, and your performance would suffer. To me, at least, this seems a lot more effort than it is worth.


GPU restart Mac Pro 3rd Gen. Early 2009 with GTX 1070, how to diagnose?

NVIDIA recommends that the system in which the card is installed should supply 500W: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/10series/geforce-gtx-1070/

However, Apple warns that across all the PCIe expansion slots, not to pull more than 300W: https://support.apple.com/kb/sp506?locale=en_US

So, my guess is that whenever the GPU power consumption spikes, perhaps when you're playing games or videos, the Logic Board shuts off as a precaution.


Mac Keyboard Shortcut to Bring Up Finder

Launch Automator (in Utilities)
Menu: File -> New Window
Choose: Quick Action*
Worflow receives: no input
In Utilities on left, double click: Run Shell Script
Shell: /bin/zsh
Enter for the shell command: open -a Finder
Save the service with whatever name you want
In System Preferences, click on Keyboard
Click on Shortcuts at the top and then on Services at the left
On the right part of the window, scroll down to General
Find the service that you just saved, make sure it is checked, and set a unique hotkey for it
Quit the System Preferences

Enjoy your new hotkey to bring up the Finder.

* In versions of macOS before macOS Mojave, the option was called Service.


Unable to start gdisk due to "dyld: lazy symbol binding failed" error

Well I certainly feel foolish...

Somehow in never occurred to me to check that both computers were running the same version of gdisk.  It turns out that the version on my laptop is a few versions older than the one on my mac mini and between those versions gdisk was updated to not use libicu because "it seems to have broken somewhere along the line" (according to change log).  Upgrading to the newer version fixed it.


My iPod has fallen out with iTunes. What's the safest way to get them back on speaking terms?

Yes, it should work.
All music she has bought is under Purchased in Quick Links menu in iTunes Store in latest iTunes. It can be redownloaded from there.


Windows 10 - installed on external SSD , gets stuck on Windows logo after installing bootcamp drivers

I have installed Windows 10 on an external SSD as well. I have experienced the same thing while I have my USB-C to HDMI adapter plugged in. Maybe you could disconnect all your USB-C connected devices but your SSD and try again?


The default track zoom is controlled by a little slider in the upper right corner just above the tracks area:

Clearly, I must have accidentally touched the mouse button while the pointer was above that slider. Once that slider is set to a sensible value, everything behaves normally, and shift-double-click on a track header border resizes all tracks to that sensible height.

However, they will never behave quite normally again. A sad and inexcusable mess on the Logic team's part.

The automation issue must be unrelated.


I was trying to install Boot Camp using macOS Big Sur. For some reason, Beta 1 installed some Snapshots on the Macintosh HD volume that prevented the disk from being partitioned. I did eventually get it working, but the solution did not come from me. Credit goes to user tomadimitrie on the Mac Rumors forums who found the solution.

First I booted into macOS recovery mode, and made sure that Macintosh HD was mounted in Disk Utility.
Then I opened Terminal from Utilities > Terminal.
Then I needed to find out the id of the Macintosh HD drive by using the command diskutil list, and finding the IDENTIFIER of the Volume called Macintosh HD. This ID may be different in recovery mode than the one in regular macOS, so make sure you run the command in the recovery mode terminal. The IDENTIFIER looks something like this: disk1s1.
Then run the command diskutil apfs listSnapshots <Macintosh HD's disk id> to list all the snapshots, all which start with com.apple.os.update-.
Then delete each Snapshot by using the command diskutil apfs deleteSnapshot <disk id> -uuid <snapshot uuid from the previous command>. The last one should return an insufficient permissions, but that is fine.
Reboot into macOS.

Only do this at your own risk.
Again, all credit goes to user tomadimitrie on the Mac Rumors forums, and here is the original post to the solution: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/bootcamp-not-working-deleting-com-apple-os-update-snapshots-using-tmutil.2243872/post-28654311


Nobody here can answer your question, that's between you and your cellular carrier.

Data is always reported to you on a delayed basis by your provider.  You could go over your allowance on one day but not be notified of this for several days.

Work with your provider on how they measure hotspot data and adjust your viewing accordingly.


imagemagick's convert jpeg to pdf rotates even pages 180°

It seems like the scanner I used to scan the documents I was trying to make PDFs of was saving the images with an orientation property. These were the two properties:

Orientation: 1 (Normal)

Orientation: 3 (Rotated 180°)

So, although it looked as though the images were upright, every second image would technically be flipped 180°, which is the property that imagemagick would use.

Removing this property from multiple images should be possible on macOS using a tool like ExifTool.


iOS's Spelling Predictive Analysis - for bilingual writers?

You have to activate the corresponding keyboards on Settings > General > Keyboards > Keyboards. Then when writing on each language, tap the world icon to the left of the space bar to switch between languages. The spelling check, prediction and dictionaries will be independent. The voice recognition also switches with it.

If you keep the globe pressed, a list will pop up, and you can chose the language directly.

Esto me da una buena excusa para escribir en español (mientras no exista un "Pregunta Diferente").

As you see from the screen-grab, no spelling suggestions are made to my Spanish phrase because I had the Spanish keyboard activated while writing it. However, if I go back and tap on it with the English keyboard activated, it will get red all over.


If their name at the top of the message window shows in red, 'apple' thinks it's an sms-only number.

Check & if necessary re-select their proper connection details from that red name
[becomes a drop-menu if you click it - down arrow to the right of the name]
Will turn blue when it connects successfully, or stay red if it is only SMS-capable.


Disk utility, shrink 1 partition, expand the other

Yes, you are restricted in that sense, you can only modify the partition space "at the end" of the disk, as you have discovered.


Is there any way to recover a deleted Notes.app note that was deleted from the "Recently Deleted" folder?

You can recover your deleted notes as long as you have an iTunes or an iCould backup. Don't make any new backup on your iPhone because the backup files can be overwritten.

Take a look at this tutorial. You can extract your deleted notes from an iTunes backup file on your computer. You also have a solution if you have a newer iCloud backup, as long as your phone has enough space on it and the data was not overwritten.


Is there a way to "split" one display so that it treated as two separate screens?

There is No: True Multi-Monitor Support for a Single Display
There is no way to get the OS to treat a single display as more than one display.
You Can:  Fill Defined Sections of your Screen with an App
You can get very close to what you are looking for with a tool like SizeUp or Divvy. They will allow you to fill sections of your screen with an app. Halves, quarters, etc.
Update: Answer still largely accurate as of 7/2020
After many years a friend mentioned he came across this post. Here is an updated response:
You still can't do true Linux-like window management or split a large screen into multiple monitors. Mac OS has added to it's Spaces feature including the ability to have fractional spaces (two apps side by side) which is really just a first party version of the third part solution mentioned above. It is still very limited as a window management system and generally less useful than any of the third party tools mentioned in this thread so far.
You can find a pretty thorough walk through of Spaces over at Apple Insider.
Also, today I use Moom (as mentioned by other commenters below). I find it to be the best modern answer to this question.


I've noticed the same thing when I connect to a hotspot after upgrading to Yosemite, and to a lesser extent any wifi network. It seems to be an issue of new software issues and the wifi max speed.

Workaround

Option-clicking on the wifi icon and selecting Disconnect from <Network name> will disconnect you from your current wifi network, which has tripled or quadrupled speed for me when starting a new transfer. This works best when both computers are disconnected. It kind of sucks, but when you're transferring files in the hundreds of megabytes as I was, it's worth it.


How to correctly plug an iPhone for charge?

Looks like basic guidelines when handling electric devices: The moment with the highest risk of anything going wrong is the moment you plug something into the power outlet (or remove it from there). So it makes a lot of sense of not having your expensive device (the iPhone) already attached to the other end.


Hindi not supported? - iTunes Connect (App Store)

Apple's list of supported languages for the App Store does not include Hindi.

It does include language support for:

  Chinese (Simplified)
  Chinese (Traditional)
  Danish
  Dutch
  English (Australia)
  English (Canada)
  English (U.K.)
  English (U.S.)
  Finnish
  French
  French (Canada)
  German
  Greek
  Indonesian
  Italian
  Japanese
  Korean
  Malay
  Norwegian
  Portuguese (Brazil)
  Portuguese (Portugal)
  Russian
  Spanish (Mexico)
  Spanish (Spain)
  Swedish
  Thai
  Turkish
  Vietnamese


You can move it by pages in the iTunes interface but (so far as I know) not on the iPad itself.

Connect to your computer
open iTunes
select the iPad in the left column
select the apps tab along the top

At this point at the upper right is a view of the apps on the iPad.  You can drag and drop apps to move them around.  You can grab a page and drag it up and down the list to rearrange the pages.


Do not worry about getting one that is specifically "for iMacs." Any 168-pin PC 100/133 chip should fit just fine.

I have been working with several iMacs over the last few weeks. From my experience with them, a slot-loader seems to max out at around 1GB (two 512mb chips.)

If your RAM is not working, you likely got a bad chip. See if you can exchange it for another one.


Does FileVault prompt for passwords more often?

No. It will not prompt you for your password when it wakes up unless you have that selected in the "Security" pane in System Preferences. I've had FileVault enabled for as long as I've had my Macbook, and I don't believe that it has asked me for my password once except for when I was first setting it up.


How do I disable screen dimming *only during sunset*?

This AppleScript may or may not work on your system.  On my Mac book Pro running the latest version of Sierra, this following code enables the "Automatically adjust brightness" checkbox If your current time is between 6 am and 6 pm, Otherwise it disables that checkbox If it is already selected.

if hours of (current date) is greater than 6 then
    if hours of (current date) is less than 18 then
        tell application "System Preferences"
            reveal anchor "displaysDisplayTab" of pane "com.apple.preference.displays"
        end tell
        tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to tell window "Built-in Retina Display"
            tell checkbox "Automatically adjust brightness" of group 2 of tab group 1 to if value is 0 then click
        end tell
    else
        tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences" to tell window "Built-in Retina Display"
            tell checkbox "Automatically adjust brightness" of group 2 of tab group 1 to if value is 1 then click
        end tell
    end if
end if
tell application "System Preferences"
    quit
end tell

You can adjust the hours values at the top of the script to suit your needs

If your display preferences looks like this picture... This script should work for you.


I myself was looking for the answer to this this afternoon, but unfortunately it wasn't answered here, so I tried to figure it out myself with some experimentation, and this answer is what I came up with.  FYI, I was doing this with OS 10.9 with somewhere between 2-9 windows open.

The application windows, in what I'll call "view mode", are presented, more or less, in a rectangular grid.  If I have 8 windows open, view mode is a 2x4 grid.  The main preference for the algorithm seems to be to try to approximate the relative positions of the windows on the screen.  If the windows are cleanly ordered on the screen, then the position of the windows in view mode will be completely determined by their order on screen (e.g., the top left window will be the top left window), regardless of how they are layered (e.g., which is currently on top (in front)).

However, it often happens, particularly if you have a lot of overlapping windows open, that their positions cannot be cleanly put in a rectangular grid.  (Think about the case where you have 2 windows open, one small and one big, where the small window is positions completely in the center of the big window.)  In this case, the layering comes into play.  I tried with just 2 windows of the same size open, occupying the exact same position on screen.  In this case the one in front (on top) appeared on the left.  (If they were not in the same position, which one is currently in front does not affect this.)

Now if you have many windows open, and there is a lot of overlapping with ill-defined relative positioning, then these rules combine in a way such that changing which windows are in front may not change the order in the "view mode" at all, or it can mix things up quite a bit, so that the order changes in an apparently random way.  My guess is that the order in view mode is completely determined by the "3-d positions" of the windows (2-d positions on screen + positions in layers), but it becomes complicated to understand completely when you have more than a few windows open.


How to use Microsoft Office 2016 behind a proxy?

The problem is related to the fact I'm working behind a proxy.

After reading this article     Microsoft Office 2016 and proxy URLs.

I've added the following url's:

nexus.officeapps.live.com
ocos-office365-s2s.msedge.net
config.edge.skype.com
officeclient.microsoft.com
odc.officeapps.live.com
store.office.com
omextemplates.content.office.net
nexusrules.officeapps.live.com
templateservice.office.com

to the bypass proxy list by going to : System Preferences -> Advanced... -> Proxies and filling the field Bypass proxy settings for these Hosts & Domains

P.S.: the domains must be separated by commas.

== EDIT ==

Today, I tried to refine this list given by the above mentioned article and I discover that Word was still running fine even without the list. Apparently, it's needed only on the first start of the application.


How can I remove the music bar in iMovie 10.0.3?

I presume you're referring to this bar at the bottom of the timeline:

At the time of writing (iMovie 10.0.4) this bar can not be hidden from the timeline. You can provide feedback to Apple here:

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


iTerm2 applies strange color to vim's default

Because set termguicolors in .vimrc is not set.

This is how I understand it; correct if I am wrong.
A terminal emulator may either use ANSI colors or the terminal's own color palette.
Mac's native Terminal can only achieve the former; iTerm2 can do both.
With termguicolors off, iTerm2 uses ANSI colors.
After termguicolors is set on, it uses its own GUI colors.
Colors becomes more vivid, as is in the screenshot.

Only when I converted to "solarized" color scheme did this suddenly occur to me.
Still, you can see in the picture, it seems that newer version of iTerm2 has lighter color.
Never mind. I am a "solarized" fan now.