I can not visit localhost with apache on OS X 10.9

Run this command:

sudo apachectl start

That should start your standard apache server software as well as edit the system startup files to cause it to start at boot. Replace start with stop to reverse that change. Your grep shows that httpd is not actually running and there's just the grep process active. You may need to look at the logs if after asking apachectl to start things up, the httpd process doesn't stay running (or even start in the first place).


Sync iOS5 reminders between people using iCloud

The other user (@Paul) is incorrect! Create a list that you want to share using your iCloud account. On your Mac, click "Reminders" to the side of the calendar view in iCal. Right-click on the calendar you want to share, then click "Share Reminder List..." On the menu that appears, select "Only the people you invite" and click Ok.

Easy and effective!


chmod 760 or 777, could this be a security problem?

See man chmod for what the command does. Basically it sets access permissions on files and folders, with the three digits standing for user, group and other permissions. So the first digit defines the permissions for the user owning the file, the second for the group owning the file, the third for anybody else.

In your case

chmod 777 gives everybody read, write and execute rights which for most problems is definitively too much
chmod 760 gives all rights to the owner, read and write to the group owning the file and no rights to users which neither own the file nor are part of the owning group

Granting too many rights might be a security problem, depending on whether other people can access your computer and/or your computer is accessible from outside.

To resolve apache/PHP issues, granting 777 seems to be rather broad. I would go with 664 (or even 660) first.


Numbers formula for rolling 12 month sum

You can do this using the SUMIFS() function in Numbers. The SUMIFS() function allows us to conditionally add up a group of numbers with multiple criteria.

The picture below shows how to do it using this function based on the samples of the input data table and the outcome table you have given. Pls pay attention to the absolute references in the formula, i.e. the "$" signs; they are necessary for the formula to work correctly when you copy & paste it to other cells.

If you have any difficulty in creating the formula in cell E5 based on the picture below alone, you can recreate it by typing its following form (or copy & pasting it from this post) into an appropriate cell.

= SUMIFS(Table 1::E$2:E$7,Table 1::$A$2:$A$7,">="&$A5,Table 1::$A$2:$A$7,"<="&$B5)

Note, however, if your actual input data table is placed differently (the one in the example I gave, including the header row, starts from A1) or bigger than the one in the example I gave, you would need to change some or all of the cell references in the example formula I give here.


You keyboard input language is controlled by system preferences/keyboard/input sources and what you select in the "flag" menu in the Menu Bar (not by Language and Region).  Check your settings there.


How do I make TextEdit remember last Save As location in Mountain Lion?

There is software that can track this folder and augment the standard behavior that you are seeing.

I find Default Folder to be the best of class, and you can try it for free and then decide if it's worth paying once you've had a chance to kick the tires a bit.

http://www.stclairsoft.com/DefaultFolderX/


Unable to open a terminal window from specified folder with shortcuts

You need to click on a folder first so it is highlighted, then use your keyboard shortcut for "New Terminal at Folder". It will open terminal at that folder's location.


grepping /Library and "Too many levels of symbolic links"

The Mono.framework neither belongs to Apple nor is it installed as a part of Xcode. I've cross-checked that with a VM (10.8.5/Xcode 5.1.1)

Checking your profile i'd suspect it was installed with Xamarin (or another cross-platform dev environment).

IMHO your Mono installation is hosed/got corrupted. A proper install looks like this (/Library/Frameworks):

Your path to Mono looks like this: /Library//Frameworks/Mono.framework/... (Please notice the double slash in the path).

So check your disk with Disk Utility first, then delete Mono.framework and the superior no name folder (or whatever it is), download the latest Mono.framework installer and reinstall Mono.


I have heard a few people complain of brightness resetting on reboot. Traditionally brightness settings are stored in the PRAM, which you can reset via ⌘⌥PR on booting. I would be interested to see if it gets "stuck" on a brightness setting that you do not wish to have after resetting the PRAM.


Make QuickTime player ignore mouse gestures and touches

You can try BetterTouchTool that will give you much more control.

There is a setting that will allow you to add per-application rules:


Display configuration problems with Mac Pro

Apparently, there are three buses on the Mac Pro, which can handle either two normal (p.e. Full HD) displays or one 4k display.
[1]     [2]
[1]     [2]
[0]     [0]

The numbers indicate to which bus those ports are connected. Moreover, the Mac Pro has got an HDMI output, which is also connected to bus 0.
Apparently however, if you want to get three 4K displays to work, you have to plug one of them into a port from bus 1, one into a port from bus 2 and one directly into the HDMI-port for some reason. (I assume that this will not be a problem as you are using Thunderbolt to HDMI adapters anyway)
For more detailed information, please take a look at: How do I connect a 3rd 4K monitor to my 2013 Mac Pro?
Good luck!


OS X change Admin user to Standard user with command line

Just fought this battle, you can drop the dscl line and use the following;

Type the command
:

sudo dseditgroup -o edit -d UserName -t user admin

Where UserName is their actual AD username.

Berry


Chrome on macOS suddenly rejects self signed certificates

You can temporarily disable the SAN enforcement using the EnableCommonNameFallbackForLocalAnchors policy, see this page for details. This will allow you to reissue your certificates when time allows it.

On OSX this can be achieved using the following command:

defaults write com.google.Chrome EnableCommonNameFallbackForLocalAnchors -bool true


Honestly, this sounds like a hardware problem. It wouldn't be software causing that. Chances are it's simply a bad switch. Hopefully you have AppleCare. If so, wait until it gets bad then take it in. They probably would just replace it. Otherwise - purchase AppleCare if you're still within the time. ;-)

I suppose there is also the possibility something like that could come from something somehow getting in the switch, or damage from a drop. Likely not the case for you, but I think it could happen.

Again, in conclusion, it's probably a bad switch.


From the command line, how do I tell if a particular VPN connection is up?

If you know the network address range, you could use "ifconfig" and parse the output to see if an interface is up and running with an IP in the appropriate range.


If you haven't done it yet, first check the system on the Mac side to make sure sound is normal. (great point bmike) You also don't have extra software on the Mac side modifying the default sound, do you? Like in iTunes how you can adjust the EQ settings?
Others have commented how Apple is not spending much effort adding Equalization optimizations to BootCamp. Apparently there were issues with speakers blowing out so they also adjusted the volume levels.
My recommendation is if it sounds like the issue is only occurring in Bootcamp, then you may want to provide Apple some feedback:
https://www.apple.com/feedback/bootcamp.html
Here were additional
Comments regarding Windows 10 BootCamp sound differences on Reddit


You are experiencing something most of us do – the Facebook push notification server is notoriously unreliable. See this Daily Buggle article for both confirmation and a possible workaround using Boxcar.


How to create a pkg installer with a custom action?

Ideally you want to avoid custom user interface elements within modern installer packages on macOS.

Where possible, fit your needs into the built-in options provided by the Installer. Alternatively, place the requirements into a supporting tool or first run sequence of any installed application.

Installer Plug-in

If you must use a custom Installer plug-in, the latest Xcode continues to include a template project to get you started. Know that this route will be expensive in terms of development time and effort; additionally it is unlikely to be supported in future versions of the operating system.

Create a new plug-in in Xcode using the menu item:

Xcode.app > File > Project… > macOS / Installer Plug-in

The project includes a template for you to customise. In particular, take a look at the source code of the InstallerPane class. The header file contains comments and insight into how to subclass the class.

Examples and Documentation

The plug-in tutorial by Stéphane Sudre looks like a great resource.

Another good resource is the Installer Developer mailing list archive.

Showing End User Licence Agreements

If you need to show an End User Licence Agreements (EULA) in your installer, use the built-in license entry in the package's distribution definition file.

Where more than one EULA is required, concatenate the licences into one document.


Is it possible to force macOS to play audio only on the active app?

I just came across an answer that mentions an app called Sound Control ($19) that should do what you want, but I haven't tried it yet.


How to download macOS High Sierra from the Mojave App Store?

In previous versions of the beta this was not possible.  But in the latest release (as of 9/15/18) it is possible to use direct links to open the download page.

This links can be found on Apple's How To Download pages.

Here are the direct links for a some of them:

High Sierra
Sierra
El Capitan
Yosemite

All other OS can be purchased from Apple directly and are not in the App Store.


How do I change iOS iTunes Store Region?

Quit the iTunes Store and the App Store on your iPhone. Then go to 'Settings > iTunes > iTunes & App Store' and sign out of your Apple ID, and then back in. When you relaunch the iTunes Store app it should then automatically direct you to the iTunes Store for the appropriate country.


Apple stopped bundling Java with the OS with Lion - you need to install it.


SOCKS proxy environment variable ignored by command line applications

If you're passing --sox5-hostname, then the equivalent in environment variables is "socks5h://", per the man page for curl(1):

PROXY PROTOCOL PREFIXES
       Since curl version 7.21.7, the proxy string may be specified with a  protocol://  prefix  to  specify
       alternative proxy protocols.

       If  no  protocol is specified in the proxy string or if the string doesn't match a supported one, the
       proxy will be treated as an HTTP proxy.

       The supported proxy protocol prefixes are as follows:

       socks4://
              Makes it the equivalent of --socks4

       socks4a://
              Makes it the equivalent of --socks4a

       socks5://
              Makes it the equivalent of --socks5

       socks5h://
              Makes it the equivalent of --socks5-hostname


What WiFi authentication protocols does OS X support?

From the Support article Accessing 802.1X networks in OS X Lion:

  This process can be used to join networks with the following EAPOL
  authentication types:

  PEAP
  TTLS (see note 1)
  LEAP
  EAP-FAST (see note 2)
  TLS


You can sync the photos in iPhoto to picassa (on your mac) with this tool http://code.google.com/p/phoshare/

You can sync the photos in iPhoto to picassa web albums with this tool
http://picasa.google.com/mac_tools.html


Apple Watch Not Allowed to be Activated by New Owner

You can easily ask Apple's servers if a piece of hardware is currently locked:

https://www.icloud.com/activationlock/

On e procedural side, https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205009 covers the unlocking process, but the seller needs to log into iCloud.com and delete that watch from their account.

They use the settings web app and "Under My Devices, click the Apple Watch that was sold and then click the X"

Should take them 5 minutes or less on a computer to sort that out.


Why is my screen bowing out on my iPhone 5?

Nice issue, it happened to me just a couple of weeks ago.
I solved it taking the iPhone back to the Apple Store (3 years old, not covered by warranty). They replaced my iPhone with a refurbished one in 10 minutes for free. I think this is the best solution.
Otherwise you can try to fix it on your own. The issue here is that the battery is collapsing and expanding, pushing your screen away from the case.
Here is a useful illustrated guide for DIY fix. Here is the replacement kit (part + tools).


Just for anyone else with the same issue. I tried another browser and it worked fine, so it's some kind of browser issue.


Outlook: How to move all mail from a certain recipient into Junk

Open Outlook (2011) Junk > Email protection.

Add the sender manually to the list.

or simply do this and select BLOCK sender.


Move mail boxes data to external drive on Mac Mail on Mavericks

I believe Mail updates the .mbox file each time it closes which basically overwrites the symlink.

You could consider trying to symlink in the other direction as spelled out here on Mac OSX Hints or alternatively symlink a parent directory of the .mbox instead since it does not get rewritten.


This is an excerpt of Appple's Application Kit Release Note for Lion regarding fills screen apps & multiple desktops.

Multiple Monitors and Full Screen (New since early 2011 seed)

We have made some simplifying assumptions for Lion Full Screen
behavior on multiple monitors. Multiple monitors are treated as a single unit by Spaces, and therefore are also treated as a single unit in Full Screen. This means that all monitors will be dedicated to windows belonging to the full screen application, and there can be only one primary full screen window visible at a time. A secondary monitor is useful for inspector windows.

Secondly, because the menu bar is located on the main monitor, the
primary full screen window will be located on the main monitor as well. This allows the menu bar, floating toolbar, and full screen window to maintain their interrelationship on the same monitor.

full document can be found here: http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/Cocoa/AppKit.html

According to this document it isn't possible.


ios 8.0.1 - download completed but unable to install

Apple revoked iOS 8.0.1 last night after issues with iPhone 6 models were revealed.

The installation is failing as the device can't verify the download is correct as iOS 8.0.1 is no longer available.

To delete the download, go to:
Settings app -> General -> Usage -> Manage Storage

Find the iOS 8.0.1 option, select it and tap delete.

Finally, go back to the Software Update screen and it will show iOS 8.0 as up to date.


How can I locate unused drivers (kext files) on my mac which I see exist using kextstat command?

You can search for the bundle id with kextfind.

kextfind -case-insensitive -bundle-id -substring 'com.iospirit.' -print

The above should print a list of the kernel extensions (kexts) you've mentioned, including their paths.

Usually kexts are found in...
/System/Library/Extensions/
/Library/Extensions/
...or within Application packages and /Library/Application Support/.

There is also StagedExtensions, since the introduction of "User-Approved Kernel Extension Loading", where they can also be found in e.g.
/Library/StagedExtensions/Library/Extensions/

StackOverflow has a relevant question and answers about "StagedExtensions", including removal here:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46535279/what-is-library-stagedextensions-for-and-how-to-remove-extensions

For more information on user-approved extension loading and their locations (mentioned above) see also this archived Tech Note from Apple about "User-Approved Kernel Extension Loading"


second hand ipad needs apple id from original owner?

Contact the previous owner and have them release this device or get your money back from the seller.

This is an anti theft feature so you won't be able to simply bypass it.


Can I change an application's listed category in the Finder?

The answer is posted here:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20111017134102735

  To add or modify a category, you have to open the application bundle
  ('Show Package Contents', the under the folder Contents open the file
  'Info.plist').

  You then can change the existing category by changing the key called
  'LSApplicationCategoryType' (or create the category by adding a child
  named accordingly).

A list of possible categories is listed here:

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/General/SubmittingToMacAppStore/_index.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40010572-CH16-SW8


Boot Camp "Can't install the software" error

I was getting this error as well. In my case the initial download was completing, and then the supremely unhelpful "Can't install the software" error was popping up. There was nothing in system.log to indicate why.

I eventually figured out that it was due to the fact that I was running Boot Camp Assistant as a non-administrative user (for security reasons my day-to-day user is non-admin). Even though, as with most apps that require admin privileges, it asks for an admin password when run as a non-admin user, in the case of this particular app it doesn't work. You must actually be logged in as an admin user.

Also, make sure you don't have any other users logged in or any other apps running while you are doing the Boot Camp setup, or it may hang at the last minute.

Overall this is a flaky bit of software. When it works it's great, but it copes spectacularly badly with failure. The fact that it insists on re-downloading the support software every time is particularly galling (have these people never heard of rsync?) when you end up running it dozens of times trying to get it to work...


How to transfer photo sent as SMS to Photos/iPhoto.app

If you visit the conversation in your iPhone/iPad in Messages, click on the 'Details' button in the upper right hand corner, scroll down to attachments, then press and hold one of the photos you'd like to transfer. Select "More" from the menu that appears.

You should then see Apple's 'Select' arrows appear in the bottom of each attachment. From there, select your photos, and share them however you'd like (email all 6 or save them to your photo app).

Hope that helps!


What methods are there for making a screencast from an iPad 2 or 3 with iOS 5?

Reflector App

I have purchased and evaluated a newly released program called Reflector App (which runs on your Mac) that does everything I need it to do. It costs US $15 and works using Apple Airplay on your iOS device, so it supports iPad 2, iPad 3, and iPhone 4S. It makes its own QuickTime recordings with audio and video. If you have a good connection with a WiFi N router (such as my Apple Time Capsule) and an Ethernet connection to your Mac, you get a frame rate good enough to record yourself playing Angry Birds, at full iPad screen size. It records audio and video from your iPad.

This app is quite new and small updates are being released frequently. The documentation is sketchy but the tech support via email is responsive.

You can download a trial version that will only work for 10 minutes total; after that you must pay for the app. It's not available in the Mac App Store and I suspect it won't be. You can purchase it directly from the web site.


Open a link in new tab in Safari on macOS Sierra

⌘-click works fine for me in Safari under macOS sierra 10.12.

Check that ⌘-click opens a link in a new tab is checked under: Safari > Preferences... > Tabs

If it's checked and not working, uncheck it and close Safari. Then Open Safari and check it. Does it work now?


What does the @ sign and the number next to it mean in ls -l display?

The "@" means that the file has extended attributes.  You can see them with the xattr command.  The "1" is the number of links to that file.  In most cases, for normal files, this will be "1".  For directories, it is the number of files/subdirs + 2 (the two actually represents the directory itself, and the parent directory).


Growl has an AppleScript dictionary. I didn't find any way to show a single notification in Notification Center, but they are shown in it by default you've enabled forwarding all notifications.

tell application id "com.Growl.GrowlHelperApp"
    register as application "Scripts" all notifications "test" default notifications "test"
    notify with name "test" title "title" description "description" application name "Scripts"
end tell


How can I control the Terminal in the current space with AppleScript?

Do you need to actually have it input into a terminal window or is that just the way that you found it to work? I am not sure if you are aware of this or not but you can run shell scripts directly from an AppleScript by using this "do shell script" command. As an example:

do shell script "echo snow"


How to clean my Mac from malware like ps4ux

One of the apps that can help here is malwarebytes. It's free to use for 14 days and seems to work for the ps4ux problem.


iPad 2 16gb WiFi can no longer connect to home WiFi after iOS 6 upgrade

The solution is to clear your Safari cookies and settings:

Settings - Safari - Clear Cookies and Data - Restart


Can I Enter Sleep Mode While Downloading File?

Have a Mac in sleep mode while also downloading a file with iTunes, is currently not possible.

However the idea is not out the question, doing things while in sleep is possible on certain new Mac hardware running OS X 10.8, via the new Power Nap feature.

What you asking to do is currently not a feature of Power Nap, however it is something that might be possible with a hack or a future version of  Power Nap.

Therefore Power Nap can only do the following:

  When your compatible Mac goes to sleep in Mountain Lion, Power Nap still gets things done silently

  Mail. Receive new messages.
  Contacts. Your Contacts update with any changes you may have made on another device.
  Calendar. Receive new invitations and calendar updates.
  Reminders. Reminders updates with any changes you may have made on another device.
  Notes. Notes updates with any changes you may have made on another device.
  Documents in your iCloud account. iCloud pushes any edits you made to a document to your Mac notebook.
  Photo Stream. Your Photo Stream updates with new photos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
  Mac App Store updates. Your Mac notebook can download updates from the Mac App Store.
  Time Machine backup. Your Mac notebook can back up while it sleeps.
  Find My Mac. Locate a lost Mac notebook even when it’s sleeping.
  VPN on demand. Corporate email updates securely.
  Configuration profile. Macs in managed environments can receive configuration profile updates.

  Power Nap does more when your Mac is plugged in to an AC outlet

  When your portable Mac is connected to a power source, it also downloads software updates, makes backups with Time Machine, performs Spotlight indexing, and can continue Mac App Store downloads.  It also updates Help Center.


OP here. (made an account). I already found a solution to my question thanks to the editor who used the title "Hover doesn't follow mouse until click" It turned out to be an issue with my RAT 7 drivers. Apparently, Yosemite messed up a few things. An update fixed it, thankfully!
http://madcatz.com/downloads/


Yes - Apple’s API/SDK and framework for location aware Bluetooth technology is branded iBeacon.

https://developer.apple.com/ibeacon/

It is designed for your device to orient itself and take actions as soon as it comes within range of known devices. Look for this to get another jolt of attention when iOS 14 ships with App Clips and App Clip Codes.

https://developer.apple.com/app-clips/

For tracking people, I would look first at the best dog tracker around (IMO).

https://tryfi.com/

Mount that puppy on a bag, helmet or backpack until your children are old enough to merit their own smart device that uses Apple Find My tracking would be my advice for parents invested in the Apple ecosystem.


USB C, HDMI Switch for MacBook Pro/Mac Mini

Keyboard and mouse only

Only taking into account the keyboard and mouse you can perhaps use software to share those with multiple devices instead of hardware.

Synergy can do this, but is currently paid.
The last free version is 1.8.8 and is available at sourceforge.

Screen, keyboard and mouse

Alternatively you can access one machine (e.g. the Mac Mini) via remote desktop from the other (e.g. the MacBook Pro). If they're on the same local network and depending on the use case the speed should be very acceptable.

I'm not affiliated with Synergy, just a happy user.


Which USB to RS-232 serial drivers are installed by default on macOS?

macOS 10.14 Mojave

Running the following commands, I found FTDI, but there could be more.

$ cd /System/Library/Extensions
$ ls | grep -i ftdi
AppleUSBFTDI.kext


You're connecting a router to a router, so you will get dual NAT.

The shared router is translating the single IP from the ISP into a shared network for you all to use. If you connect a second router to this to connect multiple devices, then you are creating a second network, and network address translation (NAT) is happening twice.

I'm not sire if the airport express supports bridged mode, but you could try this to see if it will allow you to connect multiple devices over Wi-Fi with the main shared router distributing the IP addresses. If you can do this, it should solve your dual NAT problem.

Dual NAT shouldn't however cause intermittent connection, that's more likely interference from other nearby Wi-Fi devices, so I'd suggest selecting different channels (if possible) until you find one that gives you a more stable connection.


How to do Ctrl+Alt+Del via Logitech iPad keyboard

If it's Parallels Mobile, you need to use the on-screen keyboard for complex keyboard commands such as this one. According to the documentation, once you bring up the on-screen keyboard, there are arrow keys on the top of the keyboard to switch to a "function" keyboard; from there, you can press "delete" with both the Ctrl and Alt modifiers active.

The Mobile Guide (link) produced by Parallels for this application can help guide you further. (the Page 19 area references the items I mention above)


MBP 2010 15" won't boot without disconnecting power and battery

Not sure what is going on, but, I've found that even though the machine looks like it is shutdown, I have to hold the power-button for 10 secs for force turn it off. After I've done that it starts up fine.


Is it possible to keep Whatsapp from saving *outgoing* sent videos to Camera Roll?

This is not a supported feature as of March 20, 2021 per Whatsapp customer service. See screenshot.


Upgrade to High Sierra fails leaving the Macintosh HD unbootable

I think the upgrade process failed trying to do something with the FileVault encryption on the disk, because the disk was left in a weird encryption state that wasn't bootable.  I was able to recover my system by reverting the "Macintosh HD" CoreStorage logical volume back into a normal physical volume (which decrypts the volume as part of the "revert" process).

Recovery steps:

1) Boot into the recovery mode and open the Utilities -> Terminal

2) Run "diskutil cs list" and find the line that shows the logical volume UUID.  For example:

Logical Volume 5ACC8C0D-005C-4693-9EC6-9F6725A42D66

The logical volume UUID in this example is 5ACC8C0D-005C-4693-9EC6-9F6725A42D66

3) Run diskutil corestorage unlockVolume <UUID> -stdinpassphrase to unlock the volume.  When prompted for the passphrase, you need to input the disk encryption passphrase.

4) Run diskutil corestorage revert <UUID> -stdinpassphrase to revert the CoreStorage logical volume back into a normal physical volume.

You can see in the photo below, that the conversion process is "Paused":

Since we're running these commands from the recovery partition, I guess the CoreStorage volume manager isn't running by default, so this will just sit here forever in the "Paused" state without actually doing anything...

5) Open a new Terminal tab and run /usr/libexec/corestoraged in this second terminal window.  The corestoraged volume manager will stay running in this second window until the volume has been completely reverted.  Just leave it for now.

6) While corestoraged is running in the second window, switch back to the first terminal window and run diskutil cs list.  You should see that the conversion process has started now!  You can keep running the diskutil cs list command repeatedly to check the status.  This will probably take an hour or two to complete.

7) Eventually, the conversion process will complete and the corestoraged process in the second tab will return to the terminal prompt.  If everything worked correctly, when you run diskutil cs list, you should NOT see any volumes listed.

8) Quit Terminal

9) Go to the Apple icon, choose "Startup Disk" and pick Macintosh HD.  Reboot the computer.

10) When the mac restarts, it should boot from the Mackintosh HD instead of the recovery partition.  You should now be able to login as normal to the decrypted disk.


Is it safe to turn off Block IPv6 on my Airport Extreme

It has been my experience, that with OS X, enabling IPv6 is not a good idea. I live in the USA and outside of the USA things may be different. The default should be to prefer IPv6 over IPv4. Since most, if not all, of the USA is still using IPv4, one is better of setting your computer to prefer IPv4 over IPv6. With Windows, this can be done by downloading from this site.

The problem is OS X prefers neither. Instead it tries to determine which is better. The result is you end up waiting. Sometimes this can be a long wait. It is my understanding that if you can configure OS X to prefer IPv4 or IPv6, the operating system will ignore the setting. The only reasonable option is to turn IPv6 off.


AdBlock still works - better than the newer App Store version - on Mojave & Safari 12.

You can simply drag a box round content you want rid of & then shift a slider until you're happy, then Click Done.
I use it on SE to remove the Watched & Ignored Tags sections, as well as standard ads.


You might get a small trickle-charge by connecting to a Windows laptop, better if you don't run the iPad whilst doing so, but only a Mac is capable of recognising & supplying the higher power requirement of an iPad.

Connected to any standard USB port on a PC, the device will claim it is not charging - though in practise it will eventually manage to charge it, it will be very slow.

Your best bet, if you don't own a Mac, is to buy a dedicated iPad charger.


MacBook Pro won't go to sleep when lid is closed

This is looking like a hardware problem. It's possible that the repair shop may have hooked it up incorrectly (even professionals make mistakes) such that the lid closing doesn't register, or the connection may have been knocked out of place.


It's probably Spotlight indexing the drive, which is going to include full-text indices of those PDF scans if they've been OCR'd.

If you want detail--to see the status of the indexing, for example, there is a handy chart at http://commandlinemac.blogspot.com/2008/12/spotlight-on-command-line.html


What happens to your voicemail greeting when you "erase all contents and settings?"

Make back up.

Scan your Mac to locate iPhone backups. Then locate the voicemail greeting by going to this location:

System Files/Home Domain/Library/Voicemail

Inside the Voicemail folder locate the greeting.amr file. Select it and click the Export button to save a copy on your Mac’s Desktop. Double-click this file to listen to it to make sure it’s the file you want to retrieve. If so, you’re now ready to restore this file to your iPhone.


This error is logged on iOS 11 and on macOS 10.13 for sure and I'm not seeing it cause any specific function or problem on any platform.

I'll link to the main question here about "does macOS log too much" since that's an opinion and impression that is worthy of discussion. Some people might feel better if there were no messages unless a really serious condition needs action. Others want even more detail so they can know what's happening / learn / measure. So, it's going to be a tradeoff how these are issues / categorized / used.

Fresh macOS install: Console.app displays errors/faults. Is that to be expected?

One interesting developer that has some tools is Howard Oakley who blogs at https://eclecticlight.co/

His downloads page has two apps of interest (use the left downloads link as the product versions below are beta and may not be current in a day or week):

Consolation - an alternative console browser
Woodpile - a tool to count / bin / analyze patterns of logging


How do I restore the audio balance to default?

It should automatically snap to midpoint if you manually move it there.


How can I sort by date consistently in the Finder?

When in finder, go to "view" in the menubar and then select "Show view options" (or something similar, or alternately just press cmd+J) When presented with the new window configure the options how you like them, and then press the "use as default", and now everything should be consistent.


Mavericks mail.app to/cc header detail white color

In case the system fonts got modified somehow I recommend to reset them.

To do this open the app called Font-book and under the File tab click on the "Restore standard Fonts".  Then, reboot the computer.

That should fix your problem.


Mac freezes after entering login password

Try starting your Mac in safe mode by holding Shift key right after pressing the power button. If that works, you can at least back up your files and we can try to find a solution from there.

You can find more details on safe mode in the Apple support article, Use safe mode to isolate issues with your Mac.


Look in System Preferences/Keyboard/Shortcuts/Screenshots to see if that key is set as a shortcut to take a screenshot. Maybe it got set accidentally.


Operations: how to filter text messages on iPhone

You could send the SMSes through an online service like Google Voice that might be able to do content filtering (or at least would forward certain ones to email to filter).


2 Column Text plain text or markdown editor?

There is also Emacs where you can split a window horizontally:

vertically:

or in a more complicated fashion:


Free solution to converting PostScript type 1 font to ttf?

Yes. You can try FontForge.

  An outline font editor that lets you create [or edit] your own
  postscript, truetype,  [... ] fonts. Also lets you convert one
  format to another.

It may be a bit intimidating to install and use at first, but it’s very powerful and should be able to do the job. One way to install FontForge: use Homebrew (brew install fontforge)


Error while using setfile to set icon for dmg created via hdiutil in mac

found another way to set icon.
Right click the DMG file and click "GetInfo"
Drag and drop the icon file to the icon location present in the GetInfo dialog box.
it sets.

Thanks and regards,
Saravana


See the options under M-x customize-group ns

There you can adjust the behavior of the modifier keys. I have set the right alt to "No modifier" - that's the same behavior as on PC keyboards with Alt-Gr.

Another setting I like is to unset both alt keys and use the function key instead for alt.


Default to Pages '09 when Pages '13 is also installed?

If Pages '09 is already open, any Pages documents you double-click will open in that app, rather than in Pages '13.

To make sure Pages'09 is always open, I added it to the list of Login items (System Preferences —> Accounts —> Login Items).


Are iPad/iOS updates region dependant or serial number dependant?

AFAIK, hardware wise they are all the same (well outside of storage and 3G) it is serial number that determines some features. The serial number has a country code in it and the update process can determine which applications need to be removed. If, for example the SN country code is in the EU, the volume has to be limited and the radio has to be adjusted for differences in Wifi channels.


How to index one folder on a (huge) smb shared drive for Spotlight?

I'm not sure you can index a single folder in quite that way. Indexing starts at drive level…

But how about the other way round?
Tell it to index the drive, then add everything else to Private?
Exclusive rather than inclusive method.

You can do that at the server by adding a file called .metadata_never_index at the top level of each other directory, rather than have to do it at each user's machine from the Spotlight control panel.


An "Administrator" account has complete access to all other accounts through tools such as "sudo". To the extent that iCloud data is unsecured in the user accounts, it could be accessed by anyone with an administrator account. However, without the user's login password, access to information stored in the login keychain is not possible - so passwords to servers and websites and the like are reasonably "safe".

The simplest way to give reasonable secuity is to not make everyone an administrator - the standard setup requires administrator privledges to view files stored in other login account folders, so non-administrator accounts cannot view such files. If using non-administrator accounts is not feasable, one could create encrypted files and/or disk images to store private things.

The FileVault whole disk encryption does not do what you want, since it still allows full disk access to any administrator account.


No. This won’t work since the drivers to run this hardware only ship with Catalina.

If your support team isn’t ready for Catalina have them get you VMware fusion so you can run the older OS virtually while they contemplate supporting the new os.


How can I use a USBC DisplayPort monitor with my 12” MacBook and charge at the same time?

If you intend to use the Asus MB169C+ while also charging your MacBook, you will need an adaptor, hub, dock, etc.

Here are some examples for you:

Hub+
Kadi Port
Arc Hub

NOTE: I have not used any of these personally - I have linked to them just to provide some examples of how you can achieve what you want. However, there are many products that will meet your needs varying from cheap to expensive.


You could use BootCamp, but that would require you to buy Windows. The next best thing I can think of trying is Wine, which can run (some) Windows programs on a Mac. To check if your program has been tested to work under Wine, check the WineHQ app database. The database may not include a test of your program, so try running your program using WineBottler (free) or WineSkin (free) which can repackage your Windows exe to a Mac app. Another you can try is Crossover for Mac (Paid, offers Trial) that runs off of the same Wine backend. Hopefully one of those will work for you!


How do you make the dock more sensitive to being shown?

Not sure why but with that setup, it feels pretty easy to trigger dock show/hide for me. I found 0.4 suits me most.

defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-delay -int 0
defaults write com.apple.dock autohide-time-modifier -float 0.4
killall Dock


If you run a cable directly between the two, and make sure that the NAS is accessed over that cable (for example by using an IP address specifically available over that link), you can make sure that the Mac and the NAS has the full gigabit speed available to them. If you have other devices accessing your NAS at the same time, this will somewhat improve the speed (given that the NAS does not have other bottlenecks).
It will however not give you combined speed of both interfaces.
If you want that, you want to go ahead and setup link aggregation. This way you can "bond" the two ethernet ports into a single virtual network port. The Mac will then have a higher capacity link to your switch. This can increase bandwidth capacity when you community with multiple different devices connected to that switch. If you also similarly connect the NAS using link aggregation with two or more interfaces, you can get the combined speed of both ethernet ports of the Mac when accessing the Mac.
NOTE: This requires your switch to support link aggregation (notably in the form of LACP). You need to set this up on your switch.
To set up link aggregation on your Mac, you do as follows:

Open System Preferences > Network

Click the cog-wheel below the list on the left, and select "Manage Virtual Interfaces"

Click the plus button and select "New Link Aggregate"

Select the two ethernet ports and click "Apply"


How to get Mac App Store to stop thinking app is installed on external drive?

Figures I found someone else that runs into the same problem as myself and no one has answered with a solution yet.

What I can offer is a work around for now until someone chimes in with a better fix, because I have an external drive that I use as backup by cloning my OS X partition. So when I decide to format and reinstall fresh I run into the same problem as you except I can't even install the apps because it says they're already installed.

Simple and Quick - Just disconnect the drive and restart the App Store, it will refresh with the correct information.

-Idea's I've been kicking around, but have not given it much more thought or a go.

I was going to make the drive hidden by putting a "." as the first character of the partition name, but I kept running into another problem (can't remember).

Anyways I hope this will work for you since anytime I've ever ran into the issue i've always resolved it by disconnecting the drive.

Good Luck!
-Mac


Can files be exchanged between FAT32 and HFS+ partitioned drive?

It might make sense to make the entire drive FAT32 to ensure readability between systems, unless there is a need for having multiple partitions not described in your question. As for the specific answers,

Yes, dependent on #2
The files MUST be moved on a Mac because a PC cannot read an HFS+ partition by default and even then, cannot read without special software. Your friends would only be able to read the FAT32 portion of the drive.
Yes, your older Macbooks should be able to read the partition, and compatibility exists all the way back to OS 8.1 (source)


"All My Files" Folder was Emptied when I Deleted Content of the Downloads Folder

The "All My Files" folder is actually a virtual folder, using Spotlight to find all the documents, pictures and videos which you may have and displaying it to you in a categorized manner.

Deleting the contents of "Downloads" will potentially remove some documents you may find listed in "All My Files" (if they were located inside Downloads), but does in no way remove every single personal file of your computer.

On the other side, if you inadvertently opened "All My Files" thinking it was "Downloads" and removed all files there, everything what Spotlight can find will be placed into the Trash.  Since "All My Files" gets opened by default when opening a new Finder window, it is a possibility.  This behavior can be set inside the preferences of Finder.

Additionally you stated that you preferred "console", which I interpret as using Terminal or command line (Console is actually an application which allows you to see log file output) over GUI, which is very powerful and can easily lead to dataloss when forgetting to type certain characters, especially when using "sudo".

Example would be rm /Library/* vs. rm ~/Library/*.  The first would go for the system-wide Library folder while the second would use the Library folder of the currently used user.  Removing all the contents of the Library folder, user or system-wide, is a bad example, however, both folders do exist and just one character can have a profound difference.

Finally, when one (or more) of your files where so-called application or package bundles, it is normal that you delete one file and Trash when emptying shows the number of each of the bundle files.  This would not explain "All My Files" being empty thereafter, but depicts the difference in putting a file (bundle) into Trash vs. emptying Trash.


This won't work for .avi files (at least it didn't for one I tried), but for .mp4 or .mov files, it should.

To list a file's codecs:

$ mdls -name kMDItemCodecs "/path/to/some/file.mp4"
kMDItemCodecs = (
    "H.264",
    AAC
)

To find files that are movies, but don't have the H.264 codec:

mdfind "kMDItemContentTypeTree == 'public.movie' && kMDItemCodecs != '*H.264*'"


The "slide to upgrade" screen doesn't update your iOS firmware; it simply prepares your backup for iOS 9.


iPhone - How to add people to on-going video chat in Facebook messenger?

I got it. It's not the iPhone's fault, it's the fault of the other phone which uses Messenger Lite. Messenger Lite doesn't have conference call feature (at this moment). So if Messenger (full version) calls Messenger Lite, the "add people" button isn't available. So I install Messenger (full version) for the other phone and try calling again, and now I can see the "add people" button.


"Home" and "End" HotKeys in Vim INSERT Mode with MacBook Pro

Go to Terminal -> Preferences -> Profiles -> Keyboard and add:

Key: ↖ Action: \033OH

Key: ↗ Action: \033OF


Applescript - Unable to find resource when inside application

There are a few reasons it didn't work.

path to resource basically takes the bundle path and finds files in there, so you need to actually put the subdirectory, in this case "Data."
Applescript uses its own (stupid) file path syntax, so you need the POSIX version.
It breaks on spaces because appending the POSIX path ~/Desktop/test folder shows up as 2 arguments to bash. To fix this just put quotes around it, as you would any other time, with quoted form of.

Here's the fixed script:

set bashFile to path to resource "Data/df.sh"
do shell script "bash " & quoted form of (POSIX path of bashFile)


Library folder listed size is 90 GB. Why so large

It depends on your settings. If you have it configured to store everything locally, you won't save any space on your internal drive by moving files to iCloud Drive. If you have it set to store them only locally as needed, then you can save storage space that way.

You can change the settings in System Preferences > iCloud and then "Options..." for iCloud Drive. At the bottom you'll see "Optimise Mac Storage" that you can check to request that files can be stored in the cloud only.


How do I get curl to work with SSL endpoints?

Protocol "“https" not supported
          ^

See that extra quotation mark? That's a curly quote, not a normal double quote. curl thinks the protocol is literally called “https.

I bet you copy/pasted a URL from a web page which included that symbol and curl is trying to interpret it as part of the protocol. Remove it, and curl should start working as expected.


Had this issue for a while and stumbled on the solution this morning.

Open Applications folder in Finder
Right Click 'Install macOS *****'
Click on "Show Package Contents"
Click and Drag Contents folder to Trash
Empty Trash
Click and Drag the Application to Trash
Empty Trash

All Gone!


How can I change a special app folder into an ordinary folder?

Packages (‘app folders’) are displayed as packages only in Finder. To open a package as a folder in Finder, right-click on it and choose Show Package Contents.

For all other purposes they are normal directories.

/Applications ❯ ls Safari.app
total 0
drwxr-xr-x@   3 root  wheel    96B  6 Dec 23:39 ./
drwxrwxr-x+ 190 root  admin   5.9K  3 Mar 15:26 ../
drwxr-xr-x   10 root  wheel   320B  7 Nov 07:23 Contents/


Can't run Python script from anywhere, even after PATH variable was edited?

Make sure the script is executable.

chmode +x filename

Make sure the script has the appropriate shebang line at the top:

#!/usr/bin/env python

Double check the path, it should be /Users (note the s at the end)


Xcode, from version 4.3 on, is a single app and self-contained. Source :

  This version of Xcode is distributed as a single application bundle,
  Xcode.app, installed through the Mac App Store directly to the
  Applications folder. Installing Xcode 4.3 no longer requires the
  Install Xcode application

The command line tools, which are stored elsewhere on the filesystem, are an optional download which you can install separately.

When copied over manually, the App Store will recognise Xcode.app's presence  and change the badge for the application in your "Purchases" from "install" to "installed".


How can I kill/launch wifi from terminal

As found here:

Wifi can be turned on and off using

networksetup -setairportpower en0 off

and back on using

networksetup -setairportpower en0 on

When I use this, it says something along the lines of en0 is not wifi, turning on/off en1 instead, presumably because en0 is my ethernet connection.

EDIT: Also, this should be a comment, but I cannot yet comment, but sudo killall WiFiAgent does not appear to do anything on my computer.


Can't download app that is compatible with my IPad

Call Of Duty Mobile isn’t compatible with iPad Mini 2.

The App Store page says:

That’s why you won’t be able to download it.


Is there a way to send a text message via voice command in iOS after dictating it?

If you have asked Siri to Send a new Message to some person, Siri Normally asks " Do you want me to send it" when it thinks you have finished.
Saying "Send" normally works. And Siri will say "Ok then I will send the Text message.."

I do not think there is a way to do it after you have used dictation.

Apples dictations command list


AppleScript : searching for a tab on chrome and saving the tab as a variable

Summary (TL;DR)
Store a reference to a tab or window
Either by id (which is fixed):
    set T to the id of the current tab in the front window
    ...
    set the URL of tab id T of the front window to "https://apple.stackexchange.com/"

Or by object (which is fixed):
    set T to the current tab in the front window
    ...
    set the URL of T to "https://apple.stackexchange.com/"

BUT not by index (which changes).

You have a couple of options when storing references to objects (such as tabs) in AppleScript.  Specifically, you're asking about the id property of the tab.  You have to be mindful here: there are two ways of referencing Chrome tabs and windows using numbers:
Referencing Tabs/Windows by id/index

❶・By index: e.g. tab 2 of window 1

This refers to the ordered position of the tab from leftmost to rightmost, i.e. tab 1 refers to the left tab, tab 2 refers to tab to the right of tab 1, etc..
These indices change if tabs move, open and close.  For example, if you close the middle of three tabs, tab 3 then becomes tab 2.
With the windows collection, the index is the ordered position of the window from frontmost to rearmost, ordered by which window most recently received focus.  window 1 is synonymous with the front window, and currently has focus.  When you switch to a different Chrome window, this now becomes window 1, and the previous window 1 is now window 2.
Therefore, referencing an object and storing references to that object by its index property is a very unreliable method, with the exception of references to the front window or front tab where it only matters that the object currently has focus, regardless of which one it is.  Therefore, tell the front tab of the front window to... is perfectly reasonable use of the index, and probably the only one.
Note, that the index property is a named property for window objects, which can be read and set (set it to 1 to bring it to the front).  Although tab objects do get referred to by an index property, it is not a named property that one can read or set.

❷・By id: e.g. tab id 54 of window id 53

This is a unique, fixed property assigned to each object at the moment of its creation, and it typically ascends in value as each new object in a family of similar objects is created.  So, generally speaking, window id 2088 was created after window id 25.
Importantly, the id provides a fixed reference value with which you can reliably and safely store objects in variables for later use, knowing that they will still refer to the exact same object regardless of where in your script the variable is evaluated and how the arrangement of objects has changed (until the object is destroyed).
Setting and Getting The Variable
When you wish to assign a reference to a tab or a window to a variable, you can choose to:
either store its actual id property value, then reference the tab by its id later on, the value of which will be the value of the variable;
or you can store the entire object itself in an AppleScript variable.  This is often the easiest.
By id
To store by id, you can do so like this:
    set T to the id of the active tab of the front window

In Chrome, the active tab of the front window might return tab id 34 of window id 2045.  The id of that tab object is 34, so T gets assigned the value 34.
Then, later, to perform actions on that same tab, which may no longer be the active tab, you can do so like this:
    tell tab id T of the front window to execute JavaScript...

(assuming the front window is still window id 2045; otherwise, you'll have to store the window id value in a separate value too.)
Note that the reference is to a tab id T and not tab T, which would be tab 34 (i.e. index 34, if you had 34 tabs open).  The id label must be included.
By Object
To store the tab object itself, which is often preferable, you do so like this:
    set T to the front tab of the front window

Although I've implicitly used index values here, AppleScript actually references the tab and the window both by their id values (which it does so in almost all situations).  So if you evaluate T, you'll find it contains tab id 34 of window id 2045 and not tab 1 of window 1.
You can also assign the tab object to a variable like this:
    set T to the first tab of window id 2045 whose URL is "chrome://newtab/"

and T will contain tab id 30 of window id 2045, which you can later call on to perform actions within/upon:
    set the URL of T to "https://stackexchange.com"

or
    tell T to close


Disk space given back to Mac HD after removing partition, but is not usable

As DavidAndersen noted in his above comment, this was me needing to resize the Stack. In hindsight, that should have been more obvious to me as 839 was not the full size of the TB disk. After issuing the diskutil cs resizeStack F3D44897-0134-4C19-871A-72E258AECDA8 0 command the last volume is at 1 TB.

    +-> Logical Volume Family 74B7428F-8D10-4BB8-87D3-19B8F73C2844
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Type:         None
        |
        +-> Logical Volume F3D44897-0134-4C19-871A-72E258AECDA8
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          1021952655360 B (1.0 TB)
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS
            LVG Type:              Fusion, Sparse


How can I resize an image created using dd which contains a block-by-block copy of my Mac drive?

In my opinion this may be possible but it's not effective because to accomplish this you would have to extract and shrink one part of the dd raw image and then reassemble all three parts. Additionally you have to manipulate the gpt partition table inside the reassembled raw dd image by hex-editing it. Then you have to dd back the image.

Instead do the following which is significantly less time consuming and probably less error-prone:

Partition your new disk with 3 partitions: EFI, main system volume and a Recovery HD partition
Since EFI and recovery partition have fixed sizes and defined start blocks you can simply dd the EFI and the Recovery HD in your dd raw image to the respective partitions of your new SSD
To copy the content of the old main volume, mount the dd raw image and rsync the content to the new main volume.

Here I assume you have an external disk with a full OS X (El Capitan) to prepare the SSD. All device names/identifiers or sizes are just examples and may differ from your actual environment/results.

Preparing your new SSD:

Open Disk Utility and erase the new disk (Name: SSD/Format: OS X Extended (Journaled)/Scheme: GUID Partition table)
Open Terminal and enter diskutil list. The result should be (the sizes may slightly differ from yours):

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *480.0 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS SSD                     479.6 GB   disk0s2
/dev/disk1...

In Terminal enter sudo gpt -r show disk0. The result should be (the sizes may slightly differ from yours):

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  936755120      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  937164760     262151
  937426911         32         Sec GPT table
  937426943          1         Sec GPT header

Now unmount disk0 and remove the second partition:

diskutil umountDisk disk0
sudo gpt remove -i 2 disk0

Add the recovery partition. The recovery partition always has the size 1269536 blocks and starts at total size of the disk in blocks - 1269576 blocks (in my example that's: 937426944 - 1269576 = 936157368)

sudo gpt add -i 3 -b 936157368 -s 1269536 -t 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0

Enter sudo gpt -r show disk0 again to show the new partition:

      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
         34          6
         40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
     409640  935747728
  936157368    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
  937426904          7
  937426911         32         Sec GPT table
  937426943          1         Sec GPT header

In the empty space between partition i=1 and i=3 add a new partition. The start block and the size are given by the data found above:

sudo gpt add -i 2 -b 409640 -s 935747728 -t 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0

Unmount disk0 and format the new volume:

diskutil umountDisk disk0
sudo newfs_hfs -J -v "SSD" /dev/disk0s2

Restoring your data:

Mount your raw disk image by double-clicking it.
Enter diskutil list. You should see a new entry similar to this one:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
...
/dev/disk3 (disk image):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +1.0 TB     disk3
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            1.0 TB     disk3s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk3s3

dd the EFI and the Recovery HD from the image to the SSD:

sudo dd if=/dev/disk3s1 of=/dev/disk0s1 bs=4096
diskutil umountDisk disk0
sudo dd if=/dev/disk3s3 of=/dev/disk0s3 bs=4096

mount the main volume of the SSD:

diskutil mount disk0s2

rsync the content of the main volume of the disk image (which should be visible on your desktop in contrary to the EFI/Recovery HD partitions) to the main SSD volume:

sudo rsync -a /Volumes/Volume_name_of_Diskimage/ /Volumes/SSD

This is a very basic rsync command example. You may refine the rsync command (options/exclusions) according to this or this linked scripts.

Please check all device names in the various command containing dd or gptthoroughly or you will delete or overwrite important partitions/data unwantedly.


How can I burn a slideshow to a DVD in its present form in iPhoto 2011?

Have you tried exporting the slideshow without the audio, then re-adding the audio manually in iMovie? This way, you can make sure they both end at the same time by cutting the audio out early. Then, you can burn that to DVD.


iBooks - is there a way to organize bookmarks by page number?

Short Answer:
There is simply no way to do this as of iOS 6 and iBooks 3.x.
Long Answer:
Apple is amazingly quiet about bookmarks in iBooks - other then mentioning that it is possible. If you follow this link to the iBook FAQ, click "iBook Features", then "Can I bookmark and save my page?", you will notice that they mention it is possible to bookmark pages, but don't even mention how to view the bookmarks - let alone an alternate way to sort them. About the only other iBook information page I could find was this with no information that was pertinent to you.
On the other hand, the Kindle iOS app seems to prefer ordering bookmarks by page number instead of date. It might be painstaking, and I'm not even sure it would transfer you bookmarks over (in which case it would be worthless), but I do know it is possible to email books and PDFs to Kindle for reading (see "Read Personal Documents:" in the above link). It may be possible to sync the books to your computer, and then email them over.
Honestly, what you're asking for doesn't seem to be a very popular request, so it may be a very long time - if ever - before Apple releases such a feature.
I also tried searching for a variety of general terms to see if it would pull up a list of bookmarks - in page order, but even that failed.


Your account is temporarily unavailable. Try again later

First, open the App Store app and swipe all the way to the bottom of the page. Tap the "Apple ID" button (It should show your Apple ID in the button).

Next, tap "View Apple ID" and log in using your App Store password. If something is wrong, you'll be notified to rectify it at this point. Sometimes it's an expired credit card, missing code, etc.

You can also go to "http://appleid.apple.com" with the email address and password you use for the App Store and ensure there are no issues there. If there are, you'll be prompted once you successfully log in.


How to delete cache of Microsoft Teams on macOS?

There are multiple locations with Teams cache files:

as noted by @JMY1000, the regular cache folder ~/Library/Caches
see @grg's answer here or this answer by a Microsoft employee: ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams

If you remove just those, you don't need to login again, so the following Terminal commands would work:
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/com.microsoft.teams
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/Application\ Cache/Cache
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/blob_storage
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/Cache
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/databases
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/GPUCache
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/IndexedDB
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/Local\ Storage
rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/Microsoft/Teams/tmp

For those who prefer a solution outside Terminal:

open Finder
open the 'Go' menu, choose 'Go to Folder...'

(or alternatively, use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Cmd+G)

enter ~/Library/Caches and press Enter
delete the com.microsoft.teams folder

Similarly, go to the ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Teams folder and delete these folders:

Application Cache/Cache
blob_storage
Cache
databases
GPUCache
IndexedDB
Local Storage
tmp


Does iMessage fallback to SMS on a per message basis?

Yes, it will.

I've experienced it a few times, if the message stays undelivered for something between one to five minutes (I haven't checked exactly), it will fallback to SMS.

This behavior can be changed in Settings > Messages > Send As SMS, checking it off will not send the message as SMS if iMessage is not available. Rechecking it will send the message not delivered (even if they were sent before).


Any way to update now from iOS 7.0.4 to 7.1.2?

Apple is no longer signing iOS 7, while you can manually update to v7.1.2, it won't activate.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/26/apple-stops-ios-712-code-signing-restricts-downgrading-from-ios-8


Sharing & Permissions has 2 "everyone" entries, OS X 10.10.5

You can use Onyx - [freeware] to check/repair the disk, fix permissions & reset ACLs.

Maintenance tab > permissions, check the box at the top & Execute.

Make sure you get the Yosemite version, they're OS specific.

This will default whatever it is you did to the permissions structure... which looks a bit complex to pick through manually.


Where Exactly are Apple Diagnostics Results Stored on Disk

Have you tried?:

/Private/var/tmp

http://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/02/29/sysdiagnose-system-diagnostic-mac/

How do you get system diagnostic files from OS X?

I usually dont just post links but there are several things in this post that you can see if they are locatable on your system. If not feel free to let us know so we can search for you.


How can the iOS 8 version of Notes be backed up locally?

I realized I had the answer at my fingertips, si I'll submit an answer to my own question.

An application I use for file transfers, but sometimes overlook, called iMazing, offers native Notes conversion and backup.
There might be other apps that do this, but this is what I did and how I solved the issue in less than 30 seconds.

1-Link the iPhone with the Notes to your computer running iMazing

2-Launch iMazing

3-Select the iPhone in the list of devices, and click on the "Notes" shortcut in the left-side panel

4-A list of notes will show up. In the Finder, create a folder to receive the backed-up notes, then go back to iMazing, and Select them all [cmd+a]

5-Drag and drop them onto the Finder's folder previously created
The notes will all be converted to .txt and saved as a local file.

It's a great app, what really sucks about it is that you have to pay for it but other than that it does the task of exporting Notes quite well.

Before that, I used to use IExplorer, which worked well too.

I don't recommend using the app "Notes Explorer", unfortunately, it's a free program, so I would have loved for it to be my first answer, but when I tried it it exported Notes in a sort of HTML format with large text blocks and  code snippets everywhere.

There are other apps that claim to do this, at least one other which is called Syncios, which I haven't tried. If you know one that's good, feel free to recommend it in the comments section.

Also, iOS 9 now supports images in Notes, so this answer might be edited depending on what solution will work the best with this new format.


What is causing softwareupdated to use excessive resources and kill the responsiveness of my Mac?

If you open the Console application I believe it defaults to "All Messages" which might not provide any useful information.

However if you open the Console application, then open the "/var/log" option at the bottom of the left-hand source pane you should find an entry for "install.log". If you select that you should see some information on what softwareupdated is actually doing, or trying to do, to your machine.


how can I add photos from an external drive to the new Photos

Open the Photos app, go File -> Import, and navigate to the folder with the photos.

If the photos can't be imported using the Import feature in Photos and are in an iPhoto library, you could first open the library with iPhoto, go File -> Export, and export the originals. They could then be imported using the Photos app.


Using an external merge tool does not work on SourceTree

Assuming you are on latest version of SourceTree (Version 2.0.5.5 (2.0.5.5))

Try adding the following manually to your .gitconfig (or verify that SourceTree has put these exact lines)

[mergetool "sourcetree"]
    cmd = /Applications/SourceTree.app/Contents/Resources/opendiff-w.sh \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" -ancestor \"$BASE\" -merge \"$MERGED\"
    trustExitCode = true

Or you could just enable
"Allow  sourcetree to modify your global mercurial and git configuration files." in Preferences -> General tab

These lines will be automatically updated


Do I need the latest version of macOS to run Xcode and publish macOS/iOS apps?

The short answer is no, not necessarily.

Versions of Xcode, like any software, will have a minimum version of the operating system it requires to run. However, that isn't necessarily the latest version of the OS.

Some examples:

Xcode 9.2 requires as a minimum macOS Sierra 10.12.6 to run
Xcode 9.3 requires as a minimum macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 to run

This highlights the crux of the assumption in your question - that you need the latest version of Xcode to develop and publish apps. However, this assumption is false. Developers do not have to use the latest version of Xcode to develop and publish apps to the Mac or iOS App Stores. In fact, you don't necessarily have to use Xcode at all.

Having said all that, the latest release version of Xcode (9.4.1) requires macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 to run, so in that sense it does require the latest major version of macOS (although not the latest minor version). But, as I said, you don't need to use the latest version of Xcode to develop/publish an app.


It sounds like there a good possibility of it being a hardware issue, in which case you should contact Apple.

If you haven't already, about the only thing to do, is plug it into your computer for about 15 minutes. Sometimes it takes awhile, if the battery is completely dead, to get the charge started. But, I'm pretty confident that won't work, considering it had life before you plugged it in. It would be something to try if you wanted to take the time.


Apple Watch shows only new message from whats app user but not the message itself

Check your WhatsApp settings (within WhatsApp app itself), and under Notifications, ensure to turn on the 'Show Preview' option (or equivalent, since I don't know how it is spelt in your language).


GitHub account unavailable on Xcode 10.2

This is kind of a tough one to search for but I did find this SO Q&A titled: Xcode source control wrong username on github
. There's an answer there that shows the use of a CLI tool called xcrun to manipulate your Github credentials that are stored in Xcode, for eg:

$ xcrun git config --local user.name 'new_user_name'
$ xcrun git config --local user.email 'new@email.com'

Might help with getting your issue sorted out.

Xcode 10

I was also able to find reports of people having the same issue as you where their source repos (Bitbucket, Github, etc) were greyed out in Xcode. For eg:

This reddit thread titled: Add GitHub account greyed out on Xcode 10, can't fix mentions this process for manually deleting out the creds. This appears to be a issue with Xcode 10 itself.

  Happened to me, this is the only thing that worked (from StackOverflow):

  Make screenshots of the custom preference settings
  Delete /Applications/Xcode
  Delete all files containing com.apple.dt
  in ~/Library/Caches
  Delete all files containing com.apple.dt
  in ~/Library/Preferences
  Open App Store.app, download and re-install Xcode.
  Create the Apple ID developer account

  After those steps all account types were enabled and I could create the GitHub account. Finally restore your custom preference settings from the screenshots.

References

Xcode add Github account not possible


iOS 5.0.1 (jailbroken) binutils package or alternative to search for strings in binaries

The GNU package "binutils", on darwin, is handled by the package "cctools" (which contains a really old version of gas, but is mostly Apple-specific tooling). We use the package name "odcctools", due to a lineage from OpenDarwin. Regardless, if you use the version of strings from there on a binary that was not linked by the linker in that same package, you will get an error, but can solve that by putting strings in raw mode using "-"; so: "strings - myBinary".


Why is a command line change to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist not effective immediately?

From Apple’s Launch Services Programming Guide (all emphasis mine):

All applications available on the user’s system must be registered to make them known to Launch Services and copy their document binding and other information into its database. It isn’t ordinarily necessary to perform this task explicitly, since a variety of utilities and services built into the Mac OS X system software take care of it automatically:

A built-in background tool, run whenever the system is booted or a new user logs in, automatically searches the Applications folders in the system, network, local, and user domains and registers any new applications it finds there. (This operation is analogous to “rebuilding the desktop” in earlier versions of Mac OS.)
The Finder automatically registers all applications as it becomes aware of them, such as when they are dragged onto the user’s disk or when the user navigates to a folder containing them.
When the user attempts to open a document for which no preferred application can be found in the Launch Services database, the Finder presents a dialog asking the user to select an application with which to open the document. It then registers that application before launching it.

In spite of these automatic registration utilities, it may sometimes be necessary to register an application explicitly with Launch Services. For example, although developers are encouraged to package their applications so that they can be installed by simply dragging them onto the user’s disk, some applications may require more elaborate custom installer software. In such cases, the installer should call one of the Launch Services registration functions LSRegisterFSRef or LSRegisterURL to register the application explicitly.

Note the API calls needed by the only named manual registration procedure (source not available on opensource.apple.com, I’m afraid).
While working around a bug in processing of Launch Services on Leopard with FileVault enabled, I noticed that ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist is:

processed only on login after boot, as input data to the buildup of the Launch Services database proper (FileVault-enabled Leopard often failed to do this step, resulting in seemingly lost user settings); and

cached as long as the machine is not rebooted.

Simply put, it’s the user domain persistence layer of Launch Services, and modifications to that persistence layer are only acknowledged on next processing – reboot or reseed.


Movie from iTunes: We've determined that your purchase does not meet the conditions for a refund

I had this issue once before and if I recall correctly, I was able to use the support chat on apple.com to resolve the issue. Give it a try.


The Easy Way to Uninstall Preference Panes

Remove preference panes with just a click or two:

Launch System Preferences by clicking the System Preferences icon in the Dock, or by selecting System Preferences from the Apple menu.
Right-click the preference pane you wish to remove. (This tip only works for preference panes listed under the Other category.)
Select Remove xxxx Preference Pane from the pop-up menu, where xxxx is the name of the preference pane you wish to remove.

This will remove the preference pane, no matter where it was installed on your Mac, saving you the time it would have taken to track down the installation location.

If for some reason the easily uninstall method doesn't work, you can use the manual method outlined below.

Removing Preference Panes Manually

System preferences are located in one of two places on your Mac. The first location is used for preference panes that are only used by you.

You'll find these personal preference panes located in your home folder in the Library/PreferencePanes directory.

~/YourHomeFolderName/Library/PreferencePanes

The other location for system preference panes is in the system library folder. This location is used for preference panes that can be used by any user who has an account on your Mac.

You'll find the public preference panes located at:

/Library/PreferencePanes

Once you figure out which folder a preference pane is located in, you can use the Finder to go to that folder and drag the unwanted preference pane to the trash.


Share iPhone Tethering Through Airport Express?

Probably it's not the best way but you can tether your connection to one computer, and the share the Internet connection through Ethernet other the network (Airport Express Ethernet input) from that computer.

If you have a Mac it's simple. Go to Settings, then Sharing and finally flag Internet sharing. You have to configure it for sharing the Internet connection from Wi-Fi to Ethernet.


My MacBook Pro (2011) is saying there are no software updates, however there should be.

For OS updates, the software updater only shows minor releases (so if you are running 10.6, you'll get all the 10.6.x updates etc.). In your case you need to upgrade to a more recent major release (10.8 or 10.9).

I would suggest going into the Mac App Store and examining the new OS X Apple release called Mavericks. It is 10.9 and might have several features of interest to you. Before purchasing and installing it though please backup your computer and files (perhaps via Time Machine).

With 10.9 installed you can run the lastest version of Xcode but be aware, I don't know what other programs you have on your system and it could be that older apps and app versions might not support 10.9 at the moment or without further updating ($$$).


Why does my path not get saved even after editing ~/.bashrc?

OS X Terminal does not source ~/.bashrc. Instead, it sources ~/.bash_profile. Either…

Put the lines that are in your ~/.bashrc in your ~/.bash_profile instead.
Source your ~/.bashrc in your ~/.bashprofile.

Add the following line to your ~/.bashprofile:

[[ -s ~/.bashrc ]] && source ~/.bashrc


Boot from an install DVD or USB key (If you have one).

From the first installer page choose Disk Utility from the Tools menu.

Check to see if it finds your partition.

Verify/Repair it.

Then, from Tools, choose Startup Disk, and see if you can set your system partition.

If you don't have an install DVD or USB key there are plenty of instructions around on how to do it.

iPartition can change partition schemes without wiping the disk if it comes to that. It's a great tool to have, I've used it a lot for various disk activities over the years, with Linux, Windows, and OSX partitions.

You need a GUID disk to boot OSX normally, not sure how you had it working with an MBR. Disk Utility will normally tell you what you have and how to correct it, if it can.

This is similar: HD accidentally reformatted to MBR, how to get back to GUID?

Long story short - make sure you back up your disk, you're probably going to be reformatting it.


Click app in dock to show open instances

While generally most applications allow only for one instance of an application to be running, I believe that you mean the multiple windows open for an application.

By default OS X does not show icon or window previews on the Dock.  However, there are two options for allowing to see the windows:

Mission Control (built-in)
Mission Control gives you the overview on the entire screen with all open application windows grouped together, but there is also an integrated function, called "Application Windows", which just shows you all the windows open for the currently active (foreground application).  You can assign keyboard shortcuts and and trackpad gestures inside System Preferences. Additionally, if you prefer to use the mouse for this feature, you can drag the Mission Control application into the Dock for you to click on.
3rd party application (e.g. HyperDock)
There are some 3rd party applications, which mimic the Aero window preview of Windows 7.  The one I used to have was called HyperDock, which looks almost like the real thing, but there are others as well.


The iPad 1 is literally almost 7 years old, which is an eternity in computers, but even more so in mobile devices. You won't be able to upgrade your device past iOS 5.1.1. Even if it can be argued that maybe it could've gotten one or two more updates, that Apple stopped updating it prematurely, at some point the hardware is literally incapable of running the software. The iPad 1 has long since passed that point. (It received OS updates for two years after release.)

Most apps (at least commonly-used and updated ones) have long since abandoned iOS 5.x as a supported platform. Even Facebook, which has a vested interest in ensuring that the reach of its app is as wide as possible, requires iOS v8 or above. Instagram requires iOS v8 or above. Google Maps requires iOS v7 or above. The list goes on. The hardware simply isn't capable of running modern apps.

Apple has a track record of supporting hardware far longer than its competitors. Most iOS devices receive four years of updates, compared to competitors who ship devices with versions of Android that are outdated at the time the phone is released, and then maybe get one update if it's a particularly well-selling model.


iPhone App to limit the data usage to 10 Gt?

The following looks the most promising apps and recommended here.

My Data Usage Pro here
DataMan here


So far the best solution i've found with an ATV2 is just to use playlists. The files themselves are named ShowName.S01e01.ext, then i've sorted each show into a playlist so that I can watch them continuously without going back to the menu between episodes.


What does MD545FD/A model of iPad means?

Looking on the box my MacBook Pro came in the Model No: is designated as e.g., A1398 and the Part Number: is in the form of AlphaNumeric/A as is with the part number you've shown.  So with an iPad I'd assume it's the same, a part number, as there would be no reason to have different inventory control systems.  If you Google "MD545FD/A", it shows as an Apple iPad mini Wi-Fi + Cellular 64GB.


Where is my macOS installer file located?


Shortcuts suddenly stopped working in Chrome browser

Alright I found the solution.

Apparently, Chrome disables tab shortcuts when it's in fullscreen mode.

I exit the fullscreen and now the shortcuts are working...


iPhone 4s not connecting to the Internet using the sim and heating up in standby

The next things to replaced once you've replaced the antenna and the battery are to double check the wires and connection points and then replace the logic board which contains both the cellular chip and the firmware/software to run that part of the system.

Field test mode might also let you know what signal levels are being reported/measured and compare them with other iPhone 4S if you have them handy.

iPhone 4 has 3G connectivity but can't access internet
iPhone field test instructions


Can Sierra be installed on a virtual machine created by Parallels Desktop 10?

Yes, this is possible.

It’s not actually too hard, but there’s a lot of steps (a couple of which can be fiddly) so be patient and read this carefully. I’ll try and outline all the steps involved, but feel free to let me know if you get stuck at all.

Also, some of these steps are not strictly necessary, but I’m trying to make this foolproof so that it's useful to other users, and also because I want to ensure that my Terminal command at Step 12 can just be copied and pasted.

On your iMac, download the macOS Sierra installer via the Mac App Store
After its downloaded, the installer will launch automatically. When it does, quit the installer.
Grab a USB flash drive of at least 8GB in size
Connect the USB flash drive to your Mac
Launch the Disk Utility app (by default it’s in the Applications > Utilities folder)
Select the USB flash drive on the lefthand side
Click on the Erase tab
Do not change the default name of Untitled
Click on the Erase button (do not worry about any of the other settings). Note this will totally erase your drive!
Quit Disk Utility
Launch the Terminal app (by default it’s in the Applications > Utilities folder)
Now enter the following command into Terminal. It may be best to just copy it from here (try triple-clicking) and paste it in.

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app
You will be prompted to enter your user password. Enter it now and press return (note that you won’t see the cursor move or display any of the characters you enter)
At the next prompt (about erasing your drive) press the Y key
Wait for your USB flash drive to be erased (you’ll see the progress via % values appearing within the Terminal window)
Once the erasure is complete, you will see a prompt that files are being copied to the disk. This may take a while, so be patient.
Eventually the copy process will be over and you should see a Done message in Terminal. You can now quit Terminal.
Now launch Parallels.
Go to File > New (or press commandN)
In the window that appears, select the Install Windows or another OS from a DVD or image file option
Click on the Continue button at bottom right
At the next window, ignore what Parallels is searching for and click on the Continue button again
At the next window, give your virtual machine a name and select the location you want it created in
Now, click on the checkbox to indicate you want to Customize settings before installation
Click on the Continue button
Parallels will now create your virtual machine
When complete, you will be presented with the configuration settings
Click on the Hardware tab
Select the Boot Order option in the left hand list
On the righthand side, tick the Select boot device on startup checkbox. This is a temporary, but critical step!
Feel free to configure your other settings for the virtual machine
Once you’ve configured everything, exit the configuration screen
Click on the Continue button
You should see a message that your virtual machine is starting. Wait until you see the Boot Menu appear (it’ll probably be a grey screen with blue and black text on it).
The Continue option will probably be selected. Ignore this and use your down arrow key to select the Boot Maintenance Manager option
Press return
Once the Boot Maintenance Manager window appears, use your down arrow key to select the Boot From File option
Press return
Once the File Explorer window appears, use your down arrow key to select the second file listed
Press return
In the next window, use your down arrow key to select the .IABootFiles option
Press return
In the next window boot.efi should be preselected
Press return
Shortly the Apple logo should appear on a black screen

Now you can follow the prompts to install macOS Sierra.

NOTE 1: - Once you’re within the Boot Menu screens (i.e. Steps 34 - 44) you can press the ESC key at any stage to go back to the previous screen if you need to.

NOTE 2: - Please be patient - the macOS Sierra installation process can take a long time within a virtual machine!

NOTE 3: - Once you're all set up, you will want to go back into the configuration settings for your macOS Sierra virtual machine and uncheck the Select boot device on startup checkbox you ticked at Step 30.

NOTE 4: - If you get stuck at any stage, feel free to post a comment below.


There are a number of possible causes for this (e.g. an extension you have installed is running amuck).

However, the first thing I would try on your particular model of MBP is to turn off hardware acceleration in Google Chrome. To do this, follow these steps:

Launch Google Chrome
Go to Chrome > Preferences (or just press the command, keyboard shortcut
At the bottom of the page, click on Show advanced settings...
Look for the System subheading in the new settings that appear
Uncheck the Use hardware acceleration when available option
Restart Google Chrome

Unfortunately, since your issue is intermittent it may not be obvious if this has resolved the problem. But what I can say is that this fixes the problem for many users I've helped (especially on mid-2010 and early-2011 MBP computers).


Top Left Corner of the display not rendered while using Final Cut Pro 10.0.8

Updating Final Cut Pro from 10.0.8 to 10.1.2 has solved this problem.


How to set cumulative Screen Time Allowances?

Not sure if it's always been like that, but with current macOS Catalina 10.15 it's possible to combine app groups. Just DON'T use "All apps".

The first limit is "Everything" (all groups except social networks), the second limit is "social networks". This will then be added.

Also, it has become very easy to select single apps:


How to restore wrongly edited + wrongly saved TextEdit file?

TextEdit (and other apps that use the autosave system) will automatically save snapshots of documents at various times (e.g. when they're opened but before they're changed). Reopen the document in TextEdit, then from the File menu choose Revert To. It'll have a submenu that might have a relevant snapshot listed that you can choose directly. If not, choose Browse All Versions. You'll get a Time-Machine-like history on the right side of the screen, and you can look for the latest good version, then when you find what you want click Restore.

See this OWC/MacSales article, this one at OS X Daily, and this Apple support guide for more details and options.


One issue could possibly be with the Shake mouse pointer to locate.

To turn it off:

Go into System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display.

Uncheck the option: Shake mouse pointer to locate.

This might fix it but I'm not sure.


How to find empty folders using smart folder

Just select options in the image below and you will get all empty folders.


If you never set one, it then should be the passcode you used to unlock your phone (the 4-6 digit PIN) when you performed the back up.

If that doesn't work, look in your Keychain Access app, in your Utilities folder. Launch it, search for "iphone backup", and chances are you'll get a match. Open the item, click "show password" and enter your Mac system password.


It's a good idea to reformat the machine, because who knows what all was run on it, and whether that may cause problems for you later or more so now. So it's a very good idea starting off from a clean slate - you will know what is installed, since you installed it.

In fact, I would never use a re-purposed machine without formatting it first. It's a security risk not formatting, and I would not want to chance my data etc on it. And since the machine was a server connected to the internet, there's even more reason to reformat it.

It will take you much less time to just start over than it would to go through potentially hundreds of thousands of files located on the system that could have been modified intentionally or maliciously.

A typical install of OS X usually takes less than 1 hour, usually around 35 minutes or so.  Server may take longer, and all you really need to do is get it started which takes less than 5 minutes.

Additionally, you would not even need the original install disks, you can install any version of Mac OS X newer than what came with the server originally. Which might not be a bad idea since you are not really needing the features that a server version has to offer, based on what you said your were doing with the systems.  But that really depends on what the Mathematica setup requires.


To open the app right-click it and click 'open'. This will open the app with Apple's Gatekeeper (System Preferences > Security & Privacy > General) still activated.

You can see more about this on Apple.com (WWDC video) and on Apple's Developer pages.

Other URLs:

About Gatekeeper

  Mac App Store and identified developers (default in OS X Mountain
  Lion) – Only allow apps that came from the Mac App Store and
  developers using Gatekeeper can open.

macOS Security

  Gatekeeper gives you two security options. The default option allows
  you to download apps from the Mac App Store, as well as those from
  other sources that are signed with an Apple ID.

macOS Human Interface Guidelines: Gatekeeper

  Users can set Gatekeeper to download and install:

  (...)

  Apps from the Mac App Store and apps signed with a Developer ID (this
  is the default setting) With the default setting, if an app is
  unsigned, Gatekeeper blocks the app from installing and warns users
  that the app did not come from an identified developer. Users can
  choose to override Gatekeeper or change the settings.


Have you tried all the  steps recommended by Apple?

Use Target Display Mode

Follow these steps to start using your iMac as a display:

1   Make sure that your iMac is turned on, and the other Mac is logged in to a macOS user account.
2   Connect the Mini DisplayPort or Thunderbolt cable between the two computers.
3   Press Command-F2 on the keyboard of the iMac that you want to use as a display.

After you press Command-F2, your iMac displays the desktop from the connected Mac.

If Command-F2 doesn't work

If your iMac doesn't switch to Target Display Mode when you press Command-F2, check these things:

•   Make sure that the iMac you're trying to use as a display supports Target Display Mode.
•   Target Display Mode works only when your primary Mac is logged in to a macOS user account. For example, if your first Mac is at the FileVault login screen, pressing Command-F2 on your iMac does not enable Target Display Mode. You must first log in to your Mac (using a regular display, if necessary) before you can use an iMac in Target Display Mode.
•   Make sure that you're pressing Command-F2 on the keyboard that's connected to the iMac you want to use as a display.
•   In Keyboard System Preferences, if the checkbox is enabled for "Use all F1, F2, etc. keys as standard function keys," the key combination changes to Command-Fn-F2.
•   Make sure that your Mini DisplayPort or Thunderbolt cable is connected to both computers.
•   If you're currently logged in on the iMac you want to use as a display, try logging out to return to the login window. Then press Command-F2 again.
•   Some older Apple keyboards and third-party keyboards might not allow Command-F2 to toggle display modes. If this happens, use the keyboard that came with your iMac to toggle Target Display Mode on and off.
•   If your iMac is currently started up in Windows, it won't enter Target Display Mode. Target Display Mode isn't supported in Boot Camp.


Jabber XMPP chat client for iOS with push notifications


The MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009) originally shipped with a Mac OS X 10.5.7 DVD and if you have the Mac OS X DVD that came with your system, or one that's compatible with your system, you can boot it from the Mac OS X DVD and see and test using Disk Utility and Terminal.


How do I copy files off a failed system partition without encountering permissions problems?

The simple solution to this is to reset all the permissions on all copied files to everyone read/write and let the system handle fixing them.

Reset all the permissions on a folder and its contents recursively with:

chmod -R 777 /path/to/folder

Then, run Repair Permissions in Disk Utility, and reset the ACLs on your home folder using the ACL tool on the Recovery HD:

Boot into the Recovery HD using ⌘R.
Run resetpassword in Terminal (available from Utilities → Terminal).
Select your account from the drop-down list.
Click the Reset button for Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs.


How can I post a photo to instagram that was on my computer and not taken from my iPhone?

Send the photo to yourself
Save it to camera roll from the mail you just sent to yourself.
Post it on instagram

That's it ;)


Keyboard Only Control When Hotkeys, Hinting, and Tabbing Fail

I've settled on an ultimate method of final last resort when mousing is simply not an option. Karabiner (recently renamed from KeyRemap4MacBook) offers a "Mouse Keys Mode" which allows vim-style hjkl control of the mouse pointer and uio for left-middle-right click. There are a few options for the hotkeys that will activate this mode. My current preference is Cmd + S + D.

https://pqrs.org/osx/karabiner/

As much as possible this method should be avoided but if you, like me, often don't have a mouse or trackpad readily available then it can be useful.


I cannot remove Sound Booster Driver in Audio MIDI Setup

You can't remove registered objects from Audio MIDI Setup. You need to get a proper uninstaller for the app.
Direct link: https://soundbooster.froyosoft.com/UninstallSoundBooster.zip


Apple Configurator includes a feature that allows you to select an app to 'lock' a supervised device to. When supervising a device, you can Lock to App and the iPad will be unable to escape from the app. This feature will prevent all hardware buttons from leaving the app (except a hard reset initiated by holding both Home and Power).

Source: Hands-on: Securing iOS, pwning your kids with Apple Configurator 1.2


How can I export my iPhoto library so I can import it on another computer?

Everything in your iPhoto Library is stored in ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library.aplibrary (note that the extension is hidden by default).

Simply copy that file to whatever Mac you'd like to move it to. Just make sure you are running the same version of iPhoto in both cases to minimize incompatibility and error.

Apple has an article about moving it if you are interested.


Bose® MIE2i mobile headset 's volume control stopped working with IOS8

So far we concluded it is a iOS- 8 issue.

My online chat with Bose support came with same result, it is not a Bose problem.

It is not officially confirmed by Apple, but sure they are working on a fix already.


Airprint on older HP Printer (Color LaserJet 2600N)

I don't know that you'll be able to install firmware into the printer that  lets you accept jobs directly from iOS. However, if you have a Mac running on your network, you could try something like AirPrint, which runs on your Mac and makes all the printers available on the Mac available to Airprint as well.

This works great for me with my old Mac Mini that I run as a server and an HP CP1515 printer. This might not be an option if you don't have a machine available all the time, but it's a great solution if you do.


Disable Calendar Location Correction in Yosemite

It appears to be a known issue without a switch yet. Check out this forum https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6634705

  Send Apple feedback. They won't answer, but at least will know there
  is a problem. If enough people send feedback, it may get the problem
  solved sooner.