Why should disabling wifi on Router speed up internet connection?

You mentioned that the Airport Extreme is just within range. It could be that as the Airport Extreme is not able to put through as high a throughput (weak signal) it leaves more internet bandwidth available.

An alternative diagnosis is that since you are using a full range of encryption and filtering on the Archer D7 you are maxing out the processor. The TP Link specs suggest the processor is single core (usually manufacturers tout dual or quad core when available).

The easiest way to deal with the Apple TV would be to hardwire it using TP Link's own powerline adapters (only about $30/pair for 500 Mbps version, other brands are available but TP Link are the least expensive first rate powerline adapters and the one's I'm using at both home and work) which would allow you to use the Airport Extreme for your wireless knowing that your Apple TV is sipping directly on a reliable wired connection.

You could equally move the Airport Extreme to a better position in your home using the TP Link powerline adapters. I've lived with separate wired ethernet routers and wifi access points for years at a time (principally with Airport Express routers which burned out regularly alas but worked great while they worked).

I've been building networks at work and at home for fifteen years with up to forty live users at a time. Out of the hundreds of hours spent troubleshooting these various networks, about ninety per cent of the time has been spent troubleshooting wifi. Apple in particular has not always been compatible with the standards to which Airport promises compatibility. The less wifi you can build into your networks, the less time they will take to maintain.

Incremental Testing to Troubleshoot Archer D7 wifi

If you do want to keep trying with the wifi on the Archer D7, I'd recommend:

resetting the router
doing a firmware upgrade to the latest reliable firmware
testing the wifi without encryption

If the wifi passes the tests without encryption, then you can gradually turn on encryption first and then filters, step by step, ready to undo whatever settings cripple performance.

As you are concerned about piggybacking, you should be able to monitor in the Archer D7 interface what devices are connected via the DHCP server menu item. Just make sure to go and check when you find your network has slowed down. You can also monitor what connections are active. Unlike Tomato firmware, I don't think you can monitor bandwidth per connection via TP Link firmware.

Long Term Home Network Maintenance

Something else to keep in mind is that routers go bad all the time. They small closed plastic boxes which run hot. Make sure to give a router the best ventilation you can. Even then you should expect two years of 24/7 use to cook the circuit boards. As you've learned, even the slightest router flakiness turns a household or a business upside down. Always keep a working backup on site (can be older generation 100 BaseT for emergency service). The only routers I've had which have stood the test of time are industrial strength routers in much larger cases (also TP Link btw) which are generally two to five times the price of the consumer routers.

Buying middle of the road and upgrading every couple of years is the most economical way of keeping close to state of the art performance, while maintaining working backups on hand. If you just leave the old router configured exactly as it was when you remove it from the network and you don't not remove the wifi credentials from your computers you can just drop the old router in any time you like with zero downtime.


You can install a newer version of cpan in /usr/local/bin with the following CPAN configuration:

cpan
cpan> o conf makepl_arg "INSTALLBIN=/usr/local/bin INSTALLSCRIPT=/usr/local/bin"
cpan> o conf commit
cpan> exit
sudo cpan -i CPAN

This solution, and others, is discussed at perlmonks.


Missing space after deleting bootcamp partition

I believe the commands below will return the free space to your "Macintosh HD" volume.

diskutil  resizevolume  disk0s3  650M
diskutil  unmount  disk0s3
diskutil  cs  resizestack  7FA484C3-705F-4C19-B060-659CEB006623  0

To be sure of the 650M value, I would first need to see the output from the command given below.

diskutil  resizevolume  disk0s3  limits


How do I disable the charging chime with Mojave on 2018 a MacBook?

In my case it did work after running this in the Terminal
(I am using a USB-C monitor for powering the MacBook Pro)

defaults write com.apple.PowerChime ChimeOnNoHardware -bool true
killall PowerChime

also this question discusses more ways to solve:

Turning Power Chime Off


I have a 2009 MacBook Air, bought a year ago - will I notice much of a performance improvement if I buy the latest version (Late 2010)?

The flash storage makes a huge difference (a fresh system boots in about 15 seconds, apps will start instantly etc.), and the new MBA does not need to throttle the CPU when it gets hot. So you will probably notice a big improvement. See Macworlds benchmark results, for example.


Update 2017-03-31:
Rogue Amoeba, the previous maintainers of the open source Soundflower project, has a new (paid) application called Loopback which seems to be easier and more dependable to work with than Soundflower. It solves some issues with Soundflower, like reenabling volume up/down via the Mac media keys. Again, it is a paid product with a trial mode. https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/
Soundflower can still be found here: https://github.com/mattingalls/Soundflower

Soundflower is a virtual audio device for OS X that can pass audio from applications to other applications. It does this by routing your audio output as an audio input to the system.
Step 1
After installation, a new device will be available in System Preferences > Sound. Go to the Input tab and select Soundflower (2ch) as the input device.

Step 2
If you want to route the audio and hear it yourself at the same time, skip to Step 3.
If you're okay with not having to hear the output yourself, you can now go to the Output tab and select Soundflower (2ch). You are now routing your Output to Input, and will be able to record the audio playing to an application like QuickTime, Evernote or Just Play Record.

Step 3
If you want to hear the audio while it's playing on your normal Output device (e.g. your Built-in speakers or attached headphones), you need to open the native OS X application Audio Midi Setup. It's located in your Applications folder under /Applications/Utilities.
Press the + button in the bottom left corner, and press Create Multi-Output Device. Mark to use both your Built-in Output and Soundflower (2ch). Now you can hear audio as usual while routing the Output into your Input via Soundflower.

Now that you have created a Multi-Output Device, go back to System Preferences > Sound and select it on the Output tab as in Step 2.
Tip: You can also change the Input/Output settings by holding ⌥ (alt/opt) and left-clicking the Volume icon in the OS X menu bar.

Troubleshooting
HOWEVER, while the above will work at times, I have noticed that the behaviour of Soundflower can be erratic from time to time. When originally composing this answer, I couldn't get it to work even though I hadn't modified the setup that was working the day before.
It has stopped working a few times before, and while I haven't exactly identified how to mitigate the issue, I have noticed that something of the following may have helped to get it working again:

Check if the volume has been reset for the Multi-Output Device or any of it's sub-devices in Audio Midi Setup. Be sure to check all tabs (Input/Output) on both the aggregated Output device and and its aggregated sub-devices. There's quite a few tabs here, and the volume sliders on one of them may have been reset to zero. This has happened to me a few times.

Volume resetting to zero wouldn't have to be a big problem, if the normal volume controls (media keys and menu bar volume icon) worked as usual. But sometimes, the volume icon in the menu bar is grayed out and the volume can only be manipulated in Audio Midi Setup. I don't know why this sometimes happens, because when I use some other Multi-Output Devices I have created that also includes my other computer connected via Thunderbolt in Target Display Mode, I can magically use the volume media keys as normal. More experimentation is needed here.


Fullscreen app unusable due to focus loss

You could use a combination of App Expose (4 finger swipe down) and Mission Control ( 4 finger swipe up or F3) to view all possible app windows. Make sure you have these setting enabled.


How to find out which file triggered an action from spotlight

Would something like this work for you:

on run argv
    set theFile to (item 1 of argv)
    set theFilePath to quoted form of POSIX path of theFile
    -- your script using the parameters follows
end run

You could skip the first line and just pull off the path if you don't need to use the file itself later in the script.

Also, you'll really want to get ASObjC Runner to parse files and paths easily for 10.9 and older or BridgePlus for newer os.


How can I get the name of connected devices on an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station?

With Airport Utility 6 you find IP, Mac, and network name for WiFi (not ethernet) devices by holding option key, then double click on the AirPort device (e.g. base station) providing DHCP services. You will see a new 'Summary' tab, click outline icon in wireless client list to see details.


Reformatted Hard Drive & Transferring Over User Data and Apps

Caution: You don't really want to do a full restore, because the backup may contain whatever "totally messed up [your] Mac."  Instead, if it were me, I would install the O.S. from the net or from media that you are sure is uncorrupted, then restore as many apps as possible from the App store or where ever else they came from.  Finally, restore the user account(s) one at a time and test things.  If you find problems in a user account, delete it, create a new account with the Prefs app, and then bring in data and documents a few at a time.


Mac mini-hosted WordPress websites won't load on any of the Macs on LAN

Doh! Okay, my bad for not including the gateway IP in the DNS listing as well as in the "Router" field on the Macs. The DNS listings for all of them now say 192.168.70.1, 75.75.75.75, etc. and the sites are now visible.


Looks like you need to encrypt your iPhone backups for your local backups to retain health data:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6357

Hope this helps?


There are two parts to this:

Preparing your content: screenshot the pages you want to present. Use Cmd+Shift+4 to get all the screens. Don't worry about getting some incorrectly, just do a few tries is you have to, you can filter them out later.
Build a presentation: create slides, add highlights and transition animations,  time it just right and practice your speech. You can use Apple Keynote for this, or any other presentation software.
Record your show: do your screencast in "Present" mode and record your screen. Open QuickTime player and use the option File → New Screen Recording to get some (limited) editing options after you record it. On the start screen, set the audio recording options to pick up or ignore your microphone

If you want to fine-tune the result, or to export it to other formats, make an iMovie project out of it.

Enjoy :-)


How to check total call duration in ios 7?

Yes you can see this by clicking:

Settings
Cellular
You can see total duration on this page including since last reset


Create Windows 10 installer USB without bootcamp

You can simply click past the error, but when you try to install windows, you'll get an error that it's in the wrong partition style. You can create the bootable USB drive, it's just telling you that you won't be able to install windows unless you decide to do that.


Messages showing "Tap to Download" instead of images

On the device with the issue, go to Settings -> Messages -> Send & Receive and then click on your Apple ID to sign out and then sign back in again. This seems to resolve the same issue for other people.

I think the reason for the issue you are experiencing is a corrupt file, by signing out and back in your device deletes a handful of files associated with your iMessage chats and regenerate them afresh from Apple's servers.


If you setup your phone to use iCloud, it is easy to restore.  My wife broke her phone and when the Apple store replaced it everything was easily setup and downloaded via iCloud.

Because at this point I don't know if you ever backup up via iCloud, I will provide directions in case you have... hopefully, you did.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859

If you didn't, you should do it moving forward ... it is never to late to learn from something like this.
Turn on iCloud follow the steps, try to normally connect to a wireless router and from now on make sure to backup via iCloud.


Make table which exceeds document body but moves with text in Pages

The margins set in the document inspector cannot be exceeded by objects placed to move with text. Instead, set the margins to the maximum width of all objects throughout the document, then alter the indents as appropriate.


How to access the full capacity of hard drives larger than 2TB with OS X Yosemite?

The only conclusion I can draw at this moment is that OS X Yosemite does not support hard drives larger than 2TB.

Very wrong. Yosemite supports drives up to 8EB (exabytes. Or 8 million terabytes. You could download the internet with some room left over).

What it has problems with is proprietary file formats from other companies, esp. if the patent holder doesn't want to share.

If you want to access the full drive on your Mac, repartition it in Disk Utility and format as HFS+. If you want to share the data on this very large volume across platforms, the easiest way is a NAS enclosure (Network Attached Storage - basically an external drive with an ethernet port). The disk format only matters to the device it's directly connected to.


Shuffling Songs from Multiple Playlists on iPhone

Since I got the Tumbleweed badge for this, I'll respond with what I did.

Cleared all the star ratings from my entire music library.
In each of my "genre" playlists, assigned every song a rating of 5-stars
Created a smart playlist that includes every song with 5 stars. This playlist will sync over iCloud to my iDevices for listening.
Created a second smart playlist that lists every song in my "genre" playlists that doesn't have 5 stars. This playlist is for maintenance and is only available on my Mac.

This works as long as I do the following:

Continue adding songs that I like to my "genre" playlists.
Every once in a while, check the second smart playlist, and give a 5-star rating to any songs in it. It will then be empty, and the songs will automatically be added to my listening playlist.


How can I stop sound switching to internal if I close the lid on my MacBook while playing video on HDMI-connected TV

You didn't mention what media player you're using.

Personally I use VLC Media Player. With VLC you can explicitly set the audio device in the menubar > audio > Audio Device > HDMI, in your case. I use VLC in conjunction with NoSleep to close my laptop while playing media. The screen turns off when I close the lid, but the computer stays awake. The brightness button also will step/dim down to "display off" on my laptop. I usually opt to do it this way instead of closing the lid all the way so as to be able to pause and play and also to keep the laptop from getting hot. Not sure if an older model like yours will do that, do let me know.


Does a power cord use energy when it is not pugged into a Mac?

Yes, the charger will use power when plugged in, but much less than when it is actually charging.

Once the mac is charged then unplug the power supply - it serves no purpose leaving it in, but if you forget it is not a huge waste of power.

The term for this is vampire power and if you assume the MacBook charger in this test was equivalent to 3 of the tested chargers combined, it might consume 18 cents of electricity per year in the US.

https://www.howtogeek.com/231886/tested-should-you-unplug-chargers-when-youre-not-using-them/


MacBook Pro detects external monitor but shows black screen

I had the same problem, and I think I found what causes the problem. My macbook air was detecting the display, but only thing I saw was black screen.

Either your monitor is using VGA signal even if you are using DVI cable or you are using DVI to VGA adapter in between. MiniDP to DVI only produces digital signal.

For more information check a blog post of mine.


How can I identify who is using Sharing to access my Mac?

Why do you ask? What are the things you are noticing? If you haven't turned on your firewall, you should. (System Preferences>Security and Privacy). The likelihood of you being 'hacked' are very low regardless.


Huge file when exporting iPhoto slideshow

Your best option I think is to reduce the size of your images. This can be done with Preview but is doesn't run in batch mode. There are third party apps like Pixillion that will change your image to a different format or just reduce the quality slightly resulting in a much smaller image. Pixillion has a trail period so you can play with it and see if it works for you. It also appears to have a batch mode option. I saw a 50% reduction by degrading quality by a slight amount. You should play with this to see when you start noticing degradation in the image. See Pixillion panes below.

After pressing the "Compression Settings" button you get the pane shown below.

Another option is the App Squash. I don't know how this pwrforms but it sounds like it may do what you want. Developers do not offer a free trail period so its $15 and cross your fingers it helps you.

The last option is the one I mentioned earlier. In preview you can go to the  tools menu and click on Adjust size as shown below.

When you click on adjust size you get a pane that looks like the image shown below. As you can see you can adjust the image size or the resolution. You can play with these parameters to find the best values.


TeXShop is already included in MacTex (also LaTeXiT, which is probably more interesting for you). Basically, MacTex is a carefree package, which should include everything you would ever need in a  LaTex distribution. This really is the best way to install LaTex on a Mac, it's easy and requires little to no configuration (basically what you get used to on a Mac).

If you just want a text editor and run all the LaTeX command in Terminal, you can use TextWrangler, which is free and very good. It's not LaTex specific though and doesn't do any LaTex highlighting. If you want that, you may want to look at Aquamacs Emacs, which does very good highlighting.


Check Preferences - Accounts - Mailbox behaviors that you don't have options 'Delete [Sent, Junk, Deleted] messages - when quitting mail'

Also, how many messages do you have? If there are many (like around 10k and above), then I think this is inevitable that you have such app closing time. Probably in this case it is better to reorganize your mails. Probably create some local archive.


Mobile Account as Administrators Not Working While Mobile

I have encountered the same issue with our Mountain Lion image for our Macbook Pro machines when they are connected to our (2008 R2) Domain. When connected they are able to Administer, but when disconnected the ability to Administer is removed. I even enabled administration by the Domain Users Security Group, but this did not help.

What I do to correct this issue is ensure the mobile account has been created on the machine, then log in with the hidden local admin account, disconnect all networking (turn wi-fi off and unplug from lan), then restart the machine. Log in once again with the local admin account, then set the "Allow user to administer this computer" flag for the user's mobile account. You have to then restart the Macbook once more (for the change to be embedded). You can then either log in yourself using the local admin account or allow the mobile user to log back into the machine and turn the networking (wi-fi) back on, or plug back into the network, depending on your architecture. Yes it is a manual process, but it is the only one I have found so far that works.

When the machine is connected to the domain it can validate the Domain security group the user is part of, and set the Administration option appropriately. I can only surmise that OSX does NOT store Domain security information, so that when disconnected from the Domain the security group cannot be determined, so it reverts to the "local" mobile account option (which we have now set to allow administration). I do not know if this same issue applies when using Open Directory.

I hope this helps.


So, I solved it by going back to OSX, removed the trackpad from the Bluetooth settings, then disabled bluetooth. I paired the trackpad with a tablet to test, and it paired, so I logged back to windows 10, then it paired with the '0000' code.

Strange, but it worked.


Installed refind to a separate HFS+ partition alongside macOS 10.14, but can't set it as the startup disk

First of all, you do not need to disable System Integrity Protection (SIP) to install rEFInd. Second, you do not need use the bless command to make rEFInd the default on startup. Third, while installing to a HFS+ partition does work on a 2015 Mac, eventually this will no longer be possible on the 2018 and newer Macs. (See the recently posted question: Bless error when installing rEFInd)

As for your specific question, recent versions of macOS will not allow rEFInd to be selected from System Preferences. However for a 2015 Mac, you should be able to select rEFInd as the default on startup by using the Mac's Startup Manager. Restart the Mac and immediately hold down the option key until the Startup Manager icons appear. Next, hold down the control key while selecting the partition rEFInd is installed on. In your case, this partition should by default be labeled the same as HFS volume. Now on subsequent starts, the Mac should boot to rEFInd.

I should also point out that if Windows is installed with the Windows Support Support software, then rEFInd may be set as the default at startup from the Windows Control Panel. This option is only possible when rEFInd is properly installed to a HFS+ partition.

  Note: The rEFInd Boot Manager can also be installed 2015 or newer Macs to either an EFI partition or a MSDOS (FAT) formatted partition. You can use the default EFI partition or on any additional EFI partition of your choose to add. If installed properly, rEFInd can be blessed by the Startup Manager.

One final comment. If you install rEFInd to a MSDOS FAT partition, then you can change the default operating system, that rEFInd will boot, directly from macOS, Windows or Linux. This can be done by using a text editor or by installing a script. (The use of these scripts is shown in this answer.) The same is true if rEFInd is install to an EFI partition, except accessing the EFI partition usually requires elevated permissions.


Issues with Boom Beach and Clash of Clans

Apps such as Boom Beach and Clash of Clans use Game Center by default, the only way to force it to not use the Game Center account is to temporarily sign out of Game Center then start the app after a clean install. If your old account was not bound to either Facebook or Game Center, there is no definite way to recover it, but you can try by following these steps: http://clashofclans.wikia.com/wiki/Recovering_a_lost_village_that_wasn%27t_linked_to_GC_or_GPlus


Why does my Mac Pro boot to black screen with third-party video card when holding Option key?

I don't know the precise technical reason, but unless your NVidia is specifically flashed for Mac it doesn't load the drivers until you reach the desktop.

As you can see, this makes dealing with anything prior to that quite difficult.

For boot camp the simplest workaround is to define the startup disk before rebooting.

As you've noticed, keeping the old ATI for emergencies is a good idea.


How to find apps registered to a different iTunes account

You can go into iTunes on a computer and go into her account. From there you can look at all past purchases (also includes free apps) made with that account.

Find the apps that are on the device but not in her account. Those will be the apps from the previous owner.


Updating iTunes Says It Will Change My Hard Drive

This happens when a application (like iTunes) or other try to modify your hard drive and install files on it, but your settings are such to prevent that.

It is advisable to set that alert so to prevent applications installing without your explicit approval.

The settings are in the system preferences - Security & Privacy - general tab.

Here you can set your choice what happens when a new Application tries to Install it self.


How can I take a screenshot while holding down the control key?

Open Terminal and type the command below. From there you have 10 seconds before the screenshot is taken (you can do whatever you want or hold any keys you want in that time).

Afterwards, you can find the screenshot in the directory you executed the command.

screencapture -T 10 screenshot.jpg


How to batch download all files in a Volafile.io room?

You can paste this JavaScript in Chrome’s developer console:

// Get all download links
var fileArray = document.getElementsByClassName('file_left_part')
// Loop through all the file links and append a new link to the DOM
// with a download attribute
for (var i = 0; i < fileArray.length; i++) {
    var dlLink = document.createElement('a')
    dlLink.download = ''
    dlLink.href = fileArray[i].href
    dlLink.className = 'filetype_download'
    document.body.appendChild(dlLink)
}
// Select all the download links we just created
var dlLinkArray = document.getElementsByClassName('filetype_download')
// Create a function to click on each link in series with a delay
// of 2.5 seconds (volafile will rate limit you otherwise)
function clickIt(i) {
    setTimeout(function() { dlLinkArray[i].click() }, i * 2500)
}
// Run our click function on every download link
for (var i = 0; i < dlLinkArray.length; i++) {
    clickIt(i)
}


Can i set "accept incoming connection" option for Apple Remote Desktop (ARD)?

We set the user default on all machines and then automate changing it right before an IT / Admin connection needs to be made and then reset the default after the support engagement.

The command you need to craft is two versions of kickstart and then your admin can send the less restrictive command over ssh/ARD, then screen connect, then rest the default after using ssh/ARD remote command.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201710


What are all these partitions on my Mac?

Your internal disk is a Fusion Drive combining an SSD (disk0) and a HDD (disk1).
It uses a Core Storage partition scheme.

The superior "Macintosh HD" is the name of the Logical Volume Group build by the compound of the two Physical Volumes (disk0s2/disk1s2) of your Fusion Drive.
It's used instead of the name of the physical device in a non-Core Storage partition layout.

The first inferior "Macintosh HD" in black is the name of the Logical Volume (disk2) as well as the HFS volume.

The two inferior "Macintosh HD" in grey are the "names" of the single Physical Volumes (disk0s2/disk1s2) contributing to the Logical Volume Group.

To get the all necessary informations about your Core Storage Volume Group(s) just enter diskutil cs list in Terminal.app.

Example:

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 47F9D6B1-F8F2-4E64-8AD4-9F2E2BD78E29
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         3120722075648 B (3.1 TB)
    Free Space:   114688 B (114.7 KB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume ABF9D6B1-F8F2-4E64-8AD4-9F2E2BD78E29
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume DE0BE70D-F8F2-4E64-8AD4-994F887A7BC1
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    1
    |   Disk:     disk1s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     2999733223424 B (3.0 TB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family 63FFE3F6-F9FE-48A6-923A-994F887A7BC1
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume FC7B83AA-E787-4E65-8C7E-2A62CDBB948C
            ---------------------------------------------------
            Disk:                  disk2
            Status:                Online
            Size (Total):          3106191572992 B (3.1 TB)
            Conversion Progress:   -none-
            Revertible:            No
            LV Name:               Macintosh HD
            Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
            Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

The two EFI partitions on your two physical devices are necessary and may contain the boot loader programs for some installed operating systems (e.g. rEFInd). Additionally the EFI partition is used as a staging area for (Apple-) firmware updates.


How should I fix my Homebrew installation after upgrading OS X?

brew update

Updates the Homebrew installation. If there are any errors, they should be reported by brew doctor. Try fixing them else, you could use the uninstall script as follows:

#!/bin/sh
# Just copy and paste the lines below (all at once, it won't work line by line!)
# MAKE SURE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH WHAT IT DOES FIRST! THERE IS NO WARRANTY!

function abort {
  echo "$1"
  exit 1
}

set -e

/usr/bin/which -s git || abort "brew install git first!"
test -d /usr/local/.git || abort "brew update first!"

cd `brew --prefix`
git checkout master
git ls-files -z | pbcopy
rm -rf Cellar
bin/brew prune
pbpaste | xargs -0 rm
rm -r Library/Homebrew Library/Aliases Library/Formula Library/Contributions
test -d Library/LinkedKegs && rm -r Library/LinkedKegs
rmdir -p bin Library share/man/man1 2> /dev/null
rm -rf .git
rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Homebrew
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/Homebrew
rm -rf /Library/Caches/Homebrew

And install homebrew again. Am pretty sure all this is configurable using puppet.


Can the iPhone screen's digitizer be safely separated from the glass?

The digitiser is built into the glass with epoxy, so no, there is no way to separate it.

  We tried. If you look at the lower left corner of the LCD you can see the scarring of our attempts to seperate the LCD from the digitizer.

Source: iFixit: Can I separate the glass from the LCD screen?


Why do we install software via `.dmg` files?

DMGs have a few key features which make them superior to plain old zips

They’re a full file system (meaning they can store file permissions, have custom folder backgrounds, etc)
They support “mandatory” EULAs before mounting which is nice for legal stuff
Provide a more reliable execution environment. If you have to do absolute path stuff for installation (which tbh you shouldn’t) you can prepare the DMG, mark it as read-only and use that to install

Really the key feature is that they support the full HFS+ filesystem. Zip (commonly, Linux versions sometimes support permissions) is stupid and only supports bundling files and folders and nothing else. No metadata, just the files.


installing software on MacBook in /usr/bin

You cannot install to /usr/bin because that directory is protected by SIP

However, /usr/local/ is not covered and you can write to that directory.   Using /usr/local/bin is perfectly fine for what you're attempting to do as it's both writeable and in your PATH environment variable.


Installing applications from disk images - what about the resources?

What I do in these cases (which I seem to run into fairly often lately) is create a new folder in Applications, and then drag everything from the disk image into that folder. It's one extra level, but it works just fine for almost every application.


Tab key sometimes fails to autocomplete in Go To Folder… sheets in Mountain Lion

If the asynchronous progress indicator spins, in the sheet, immediately after you key Tab then something is ongoing and you can wait for the operating system to get what it needs from the file system.

For example, a wait of maybe seven seconds between the following screenshots:

If the problem is without a progress indicator, then see whether the
Console view of all messages presents anything of interest at the time of the problem.

If nothing of relevance is visible in Console, then you can run mddiagnose to gather information, some of which may help someone to diagnose.

mddiagnose(8) OS X Manual Page


How can I scroll using my fingers when my iPad is being used as Sidecar?

Scroll with two fingers on the iPad screen, like you do on a trackpad, with your fingers within the area to be scrolled.


Trying to hide a big scratch on iPhone 6S screen

Based on your included picture, I feel that it would be best to research whether T-Mobile accepts this type of return. On the other hand, I think that it would be better off if you just show it as it is, because if they find out that you have hidden a scratch, they might deduct cash. I think you should just trade it in as it is. Even so, http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-trade-in.html states that your device's trade amount will be determined inside the store. So, just leave it as it is.


I agree the new way of working isn't great, however the bad news is this is not configurable.

It's a core part of the operating system and the changes for better or worse are the way they are and it isn't a configuration setting sorry.

You could pass this feedback onto Apple here: https://feedback.apple.com


Can't partition startup disk in Mavericks for Boot Camp

This indicates that the partition map on the drive is corrupt and needs to be repaired.

Backup all your data (possibly with a disk image of your startup disk partition) and boot into a separate disk (not Recovery HD).
Select your drive in Disk Utility, and choose the Partition tab.

Change Partition Layout to 1 Partition or 2 Partitions. This will erase the entire disk, replacing the corrupt partition map with a new one.
Click Apply.


Notes app search is not finding some notes

Much quicker way of fixing this is just to make a new iCloud notes folder, move all your notes into that and back again. This seems to rebuild the index- you can then get rid of the new folder.
This is useful if like me you don't have a quick option to back up your notes separately.


How do I take screen shots on DVD movies and protected content?

This is deliberate from Apple and you will not be able to take screen shots using DVD player.

You can either use VLC and then a screen shot program (Cmd-3 and Cmd-4 works for me), or transcode your DVD to a QuickTime movie using Handbrake (which may take too long for you to find it interesting).  The latter will allow you to use QuickTime player which can do quite a bit.


If a downloaded package verifies, is it safe?

You don't know.

The finder just checks the disk image is a valid disk image.

To check that what you have downloaded matches what is on the server you need to do more checking. A common way is to calculate a hash on the downloaded data and compare with a hash published by the internet site.

Then how do you know that the app you have downloaded won't format your disk? Again you don't You have to use your judgement as to whether the publisher is trustworthy enough.

If you went to Oracle's page directly or via a link from a trustable source then ok but if from a link from a mail from someone who has never sent you a mail before then probably not a good idea.


I'm going to end up sounding like a one-man advertising campaign for this app [I have no affiliation, it's just darned useful]

Rogue Amoeba's Audio Hijack can do this type of routing easily. It unfortunately cannot route 'everything' to any given output in a single move, but you can make it route multiple apps & System audio through the same signal path.

You build by dragging & dropping elements from the right side-bar into the main window. Connections are built as you drag. Then you dial in your specifics by clicking at the bottom of each element & choosing its app, effect or device.
Effects are - some built-in or any AU effect plugins on your Mac.

It is ostensibly an audio recorder, but if you don't put a recorder element in the path, then it will just pass-through instead.

I built this in less than a minute to route system & 2 yet to be decided apps through a channel 'effect' set to mono, then out through my audio USB.

Caveats:
It must be set running to function, so it's not a complete 'set & forget' at system level.
It's expensive for a one-trick pony.
It will auto-launch all apps used in a 'Session' so you might not want to put them all in one setup but make different combinations, as needed.

See Split Input Channels Using SoundFlower and AULab and Nice Audio Mixer/Repeater for some other routing examples I've built.


Check out SwitchUp.

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/switchup/

It used to be called rooSwitch and it was awesome for managing app prefs and data files. Now it's better and more awesome.


Disable icloud permanently to prevent locked devices and lost data

This is really two questions, but let's get brief answers and then you can ask a follow on question if one topic needs more details.

MDM profile can only disable saving data from managed apps to iCloud. If your employee buys the app themselves and then adds company data to that app, you have no technological policy recourse and need to handle that with personnel policy, training and HR.
You can contact Apple and provide proof of purchase as the original purchaser to recover any locked device. Going forward, buy all devices from Apple directly as part of the DEP for Business or Education program. https://www.apple.com/business/dep/ That way you can unlock devices yourself and they automatically check in to your MDM. Again, write HR policy to let employees know they are responsible for the cost of the equipment they don't rerun and the cost of recovery efforts if they don't unlock the devices. Now IT has nothing to do other than fill out the paperwork and let HR and legal handle cases where theft and rage quit users don't follow the policies and procedures you educated them about while they were employees.

You can also disable iCloud altogether, but most deployments I've seen have decided to not do that except for pre-teen children and cart deployment use where each device is managed with Apple Configurator and wiped regularly.


Is Xcode installed in the normal location? (i.e. in /Applications?)

What do you get back from,

$ xcode-select --print-path

Can you see gcc at the following location,

$ ls -l /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/gcc
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  18560 16 Mar 00:31 /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/gcc

If the path from xcode-select is not pointing to /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer then try forcing to this location,

sudo xcode-select --switch /Applications/Xcode.app


LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed for the application /Applications/darktable.app with error -10810

I found the solution... Here is how I found it: I tried the temporary solution suggested in this post:
iTunes on iMac won't start up after upgrade (error -10699)
- execute the binary directly by running the binary in the terminal.

/Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable

That gave me this error:

[init] the database lock file contains a pid that seems to be alive in your system: 456
[init] database is locked, probably another process is already using it

As stated in http://redmine.darktable.org/issues/10164, there was a lock file left behind in  /Users/{HOME_USER}/.config/darktable/library.db.lock.

All I had to do was delete that file and up it was running again... Sometimes it's just a little too simple. :/


view tab in safari not allowing actual size choice

It’s only available if you’ve used the Zoom In or Zoom Out menu item.


If my iPhone is running iOS 10 and my home button breaks, do I lose the ability to make an emergency call?

You will need to turn on AssistiveTouch prior to needing to call Emergency.

Go to Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> AssistiveTouch and turn it On.  This will show a screen overlay of several options, including the home button.  (You can also just tell Siri to turn on AssistiveTouch)

Whenever you need to call Emergency, wake the iPhone the usual way and then tap the AssistiveTouch screen overlay and swipe to bring-up the ability to call Emergency.


Using one old fusion drive as two separate external drives

You can remove them without any fuss or erase. Fusion is a software layer, not something that changes on the hardware side.
You can remove and erase / format them in any order you like. If you haven’t formatted then yet, maybe try that unless you’re sure you want an SSD even if they work, but I’m guessing you know they still work since you plan on reusing them.


MBP refusing to boot from fileVault encrypted SSD after motherboard replacement

It's kind of a work around but why not try decrypting it with the MBA, then seeing if the MBP boots it. If it does, then re-encrypt it and see if that works.


Shell scripting: Select folder based on part of file name

How about using awk with the field separator option -F  and separate the field by the hyphen. Then get the third field.

UPDATE

I have updated the code to use the result returned from the awk to place the destination folder. This saves on a lot of code. And also used the separator " - " as Ian C pointed out in the comments.

#!/bin/bash

# Go to the Completed Projects folder.
cd /Volumes/communications/Projects/Completed\ Projects/

# Find a folder with a specified string (e.g. "Academics") in its name.
# Move (not copy) the folder to its corresponding sub-folder of the Archived Projects folder. (e.g. /Academics)

for folder in *; do
    if [[ -d "$folder" ]]; then
        thirdfield=`echo "$folder" | /usr/bin/awk -F ' - ' '{print $3}'`;
        echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → $thirdfield...";
        mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/"$thirdfield"/"$folder"
    fi
done

I have also added /"$folder" at the end of the move so the folder itself is moved. you can change this if thats not what you want by removing the "$folder" from the end of the mv command.

You can also cross check against an array of the 7 names so only those folders that correspond will be moved. ( you can insert an else statement where needed)

#!/bin/bash

# Go to the Completed Projects folder.
cd /Volumes/communications/Projects/Completed\ Projects/

# Find a folder with a specified string (e.g. "Academics") in its name.
# Move (not copy) the folder to its corresponding sub-folder of the Archived Projects folder. (e.g. /Academics)

# Array of names to check against
ArrayName=(Academics Admissions  Alumni Communications Development President Student)

for folder in *; do
    if [[ -d "$folder" ]]; then
        thirdfield=`echo "$folder" | /usr/bin/awk -F ' - ' '{print $3}'`;

        for var in "${ArrayName[@]}"; do
            # Only move the folder if its key name exists in the arrary
            if [ "${var}" = "$thirdfield" ]; then
                echo "Archiving $folder to Archived Projects → $thirdfield...";
                mv "$folder" /Volumes/communications/Projects/Archived\ Projects/"$thirdfield"/"$folder"
            fi
        done
    fi
done


iOS7 new/updated apps, NOT showing blue dot. Any one know why?

This isn't a particularly helpful answer but it seems from both internet chatter and anecdotal evidence (such as my own iPhone) that the whole update mechanism is a little inconsistent at present.

I have apps that have been updated and never opened that do have the dot, I have apps that have been updated and not opened since that do not have the blue dot.  Sometimes the number of apps shown needing an update is not in line with what the App Store says when you visit it.  Sometimes it says that all apps are up to date when you can easily find an update when you search manually on a title (for example Facebook and Twitter both showed as current even though I knew they have been updated to iOS7, hunting down the apps directly in the store and selecting Open kicked off an update instead).

I think that the best I can say is that there are issues, but they are hard to track down, are not the same for everyone, and are not even consistently the same across a specific unique device.  It's worth asking the question though, perhaps someone with more knowledge may be able to track down some formal bug report or similar that indicates that this is a wider issue that has been reported or is being looked at.  For now, it's a case of wait what is included in the next OS update.

(PS, whilst this does not answer your question, I feel it's worth putting up a little something to show it's had some attention to prevent me-too answers and duplicate questions - we can all revisit this one if further news becomes available)


Right click in Ubuntu Virtual Box guest VM is not working

When ever  I'm setting up a guest OS, I find it helpful to do two things.

Open up the OS X system preferences and review every setting on every tab of the mouse and trackpad, paying particular attention to multi button and multitouch gestures and shortcuts.
If you use a trackpad or touch device, connected multibutton mouse over USB to make sure that those settings are passed along to recognized

At that point, you will want to be sure any guest OS additions are loaded in the guest VM. That will make the guest most likely to receive the best input and have drivers on the ubuntu os configured to take advantage of the multi touch / right click events. You can always check the virtual box support forums once you have a specific set of OS versions - you might uncover a bug in the code or they decided to program things as they work intentionally.


Need to install new HDD in macbook pro, do not have installation disk, can this be done?

Follow this:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372

Install the new internal HD.

Connect the installer drive and boot. It should automatically boot from the installer drive if it doesn't find a bootable OS X on the internal drive. If it doesn't, hold the Option key when you boot. It will boot into the OS X installer. You will figure it our from there.


Fixing a couple of odd problems after I dropped my MacBook

It sounds like the CD drive is broken.
A sign of potential future HDD failure. Does the drive make any clicking noises or any strange sounds? I'd make a full backup and prepare for the worst, especially considering the age of the machine.


I have solved this indirectly in the past several times like this:

One Mac (the one that is supposed to never sleep) has a Energy Saver schedule to wake up or power on every morning at 2:55 AM. It's set to not sleep, but it also has launchd jobs (cron is fine too if you want to maintain that older scheduling method) that SSH in to the client Macs.

The client Macs are set to allow wake for remote access, allow Power Nap (if supported) and set to allow SSH.

We have several AirPort and AppleTV that will proxy the ssh requests and send a wake packet to the client macs if they happen to be sleeping.

The clients then can have their cron tasks scheduled for when they wake.

If you spend too much time making this work, you can instead put a backup hook into the periodic tasks or convert them to launchd and have them run opportunistically even when the ideal scheduled time has passed.


Connect a USB mouse and you should be able to get online and accept any updates.


iPhone messages to iPhone number to manage account

First thing to do, on your iPhone go to settings, then messages.
Look at the bottom where it says "send & receive" and select.
Now look to see which you have selected under the "you can be reached by iMessage at...does it show your phone number or an email address?
If it shows an email address, change it to your phone number.
Next, go back one screen (select messages, in top left corner).
Once there, look down to the middle where it says "Text Message Forwarding" and select.
Here you should see your iPad (and any other device you have attached on your Apple iCloud account) and turn the iPad on.
Close out of settings on your iPhone now.
Now go to your iPad settings and then Messages.
Check at the top to confirm that iMassage is turned on.
Next look halfway down where it says Send & Receive and select.
Now look to see what you have selected under the "you can be reached by iMessage at and make sure your phone number is selected.

That's it. If you don't see your iPad in step 7, then you haven't logged into it with your iCloud account (or at least not the same Apple ID as your iPhone)and will need to do so before proceeding.
Also, I have found it is easiest to use your iPhone phone number only and no email addresses, otherwise you can end up with two different conversations with the same person.


Can't restore latest WhatsApp Backup to new device

Resolution: Delete iCloud backup for my previous iPhone 11, then reset new iPhone 11 and restore from the iPhone 7 backup, which is now the only backup. This worked.


Getting "There was an error connecting to the Apple ID server" on an iPhone 6s

You may want to summarize the solutions you have tried so we don't duplicate something you have already tried.
First reset your network settings: Settings > General > Reset > Reset network settings. Your phone will reboot and you will have to re-enter your WiFi passwords. Try that first.

Failing that, I would try the old backup/recover/restore technique. With the recover step saved as an option if backup/restore does not work.

Essentially you need to back up your phone, backing up locally, to your computer, will be faster and use a password on the recovery so it saves your wifi and other passwords.

Once the phone is backed up wipe the phone: Settings > General > Reset > Erase all content and settings.

When the phone is finished erasing, plug it back into the computer and restore it from the backup you just made.

If that fails you want to put it into recovery mode, which is kind of like a clean install. That link leads to an Apple support article on how to put your phone into recovery mode.


How do I remove a Lightning cable that is stuck in a USB port?

I found a discussion on this topic on the Apple forums. I tested a few of the solutions, including using a plastic collar stay, but the suggestion that worked was using two thin cardboard strips to release the grip. What worked for me:

Find a thin, semi-glossy business card, or similar piece of cardboard and cut it into two strips about the width of the USB port. You can use an un-occupied port to make sure the strip is narrow enough to fit.
Insert the strips on the two wide sides of the USB port, between the outside of the cable's plug and the inside of the USB port. You may need to work the strips back and forth to get them in. I had to insert the strips to about 2/3 the depth of the port. If you have difficulty inserting the cardboard, you may need a thinner material.
Grasp the sandwich of the cardboard strips and the USB plug. Pull. The plug should come out as easily as a normal plug would.


While downloading the file through Finder, Open terminal:

%lsof | grep ipsw

This command will show you the open ipsw file (which is being downloaded).

The path to find the downloaded ipsw file is:

/Users/Username/Library/iTunes/iPhone Software Updates/


Your internal SSD is formatted to APFS. This means your SSD contains two partitions in the default partition scheme:

EFI
APFS container

The APFS container itself contains four logical drives (volumes) - some of them with a specific role:

Preboot
Macintosh HD (your main volume with the system files and your data/apps)
Recovery (recovery system)
VM (virtual memory)

In the default scheme the four volumes share the whole space of the container - the reason why all show 250.79 GB in your screenshot.

In fact each volume is smaller but may be expanded dynamically.

You can get their real sizes by entering diskutil ap list in Terminal.app.

At least three of the four volumes are required to boot/run your Mac. The Recovery volume isn't really needed if your main volume isn't encrypted - but it's recommended to keep it.

So don't delete them! Or only delete them if you have a known good backup of your Mac!


Sounds like a bad battery, to me. Over time, batteries just wear out to the point of not holding a charge or charging very slowly. An iPad is pretty tough to repair, so unless you have some experience in repairing them, I'd seek a pro to replace the battery for you.


Why is the MS To-Do App adding things to my reminders, and how do I stop it?

Your Microsoft account may be syncing with your iOS device. To disable this, go to Settings > Passwords & Accounts > (might be called Exchange or Outlook) > Disable Reminders. If you want to disable all syncing with the account, you can also remove the account entirely from your device.


The PID of a process will almost always change each time it's run, so '644' is useless to anyone but you. To find the process given a PID, use

ps -p <pid>

Example:

ps -p 1
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
    1 ??        11:09.23 /sbin/launchd

Given the name of the process, you can now close the relevant app correctly — for example, the following tells you that it's Safari, which means you can open Safari and quit it.

ps -p 46239
  PID TTY           TIME CMD
46239 ??        74:37.08 /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari


Apple Mail not showing mails in Smart Mailbox after upgrading to 10.15.2

Steps to solve it:

Goto to "Inbox" in mailboxes
Press "Cmd + A" to select all messages
Click Message > "Move to Google Again"

This rebuilds all the "Smart Mailboxes".


macOS Sierra Preview: Have the highlight colours for PDFs changed?

Yes, the colors have darker shades in macOS Sierra, compared to El Capitan. What you are seeing is not a bug.

This is true for all colors (yellow, blue, green, purple, and pink).


How can I make Safari stop webpages from overriding any shortcuts?

There are three ways to prevent this behavior on a web page.

Preferred method - Use the settings on the Web App to disable or change shortcut keybindings.
Use a third-party Safari extension that allows you to modify the keybindings for javascript.
Disable Javascript in Safari.


Incorrect free disk space on SSD after cloning Yosemite partition because of corrupt ".Trashes" folder

Ha, found it! It was a corrupted ".Trashes" folder in the root of the SSD. It occupied me than 100GB of data (see screenshot).

I managed to make these files visible by running GrandPerspective from the command line:

sudo GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective

That will show the files but still it is not possible to delete them.
Even

sudo rm -rf /.Trashes/*

did not work. It just returned immediately without any output.
The solution was to have Terminal run as root and then delete, so start Terminal and run:

sudo /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app/Contents/MacOS/Terminal

Then, in the "root" Terminal window:

rm -rf /.Trashes/*

Running GrandPerspective again afterwards shows only 16MB of miscellaneous space.


How to remove a file that 'ls' finds it but 'rm' does not?

Use ls -i On the entire directory. Then use the find command to pass the inode to rm.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/29618/5472


Try right clicking on it in Finder and then clicking "Open".


Are there any physical differences between regional versions of the iPhone 4s?

The iPhone 4S is the same in every country. The only notable change is the default language configured on the device. And firmware/software locks for carrier or country locked phones.

The important difference is that apparently the unlocked iPhone 4S in the US will not be supposed to work on CDMA networks (rumor) for undisclosed reasons. It is probably due to the primitive way CDMA phones are activated by CDMA carriers.

Obviously the packaging changes (depending on the region). Also the power brick is different depending on the country for example in Europe except British territories the power plug uses Type C plugs while UK uses Type B and the US have Type A plugs.

All the iPhone 4S will "supposedly" have she same internals and the same firmwares. There are no other differences while the iPhone 4 has different firmwares for CDMA and GSM as there have been no variants for the iPhone 3G or iPhone 3GS models which were the same across the globe.

BUT beware of the term unlocked. It doesn't mean the phone is not SIM-locked. In some countries (I have in mind the case of the iPhone 3G in Canada) unlocked can mean not locked for the country carriers. Which means it is regionally SIM-locked, if you try to use it with any of the countries' carriers it will work, but if you try to use it with a SIM from another country or an international SIM, it will be locked.


Answering my own question
The user did not have permission to delete original ~/Library/Caches folder therefore the MCX failed
Manually deleting the ~/Library/Caches folder on the server allowed MCX to generate the new symlink


What is filling up my hard drive so fast?

Here's the systematic way to find where the disk space went: Open a window in Terminal (you find this under Utilities), then type:

cd /
sudo du -sm *

This will give you the disk consumption, in megabytes, of every top level entry in the folder hierarchy.

You could then drill down further, but without a good idea of what things do, you might easily decide on a wrong culprit (in particular, don't go around deleting random files in /System; that is bound to end in tears).

However, since your system keeps filling up by itself, you can just let it sit for an hour, and then run the du command above again. The difference between the two sets of numbers will show you where the space went.

In particular, if logging is a problem, you might see the number for /private go up.


View number of items in a folder in Icon view

This option is called "Show item Info" and is toggled from the View menu rather from Preferences.

Select the finder window you want to apply this view to, even the desktop. And set it to icon view.
Go to the View menu and select "Show view options."
A window opens up (like below) check the Show Item Info checkbox.

Now folder icons will show the number of files in them for that window.


Start with the basics: PRAM reset and then check the drive/filesystem (below)

Boot your system while holding command-S.  Hopefully it will bring you to a command prompt.  You can then run these commands to check/repair the file system, and reboot

/sbin/fsck -fy
reboot

You may also want to run hardware diagnostics on your mac.


Send Docs to iPad via email address like Kindle?

Not directly to iBooks, no.  But you can email it to whatever email account you have set up on the iPad.  Then, using the Open With button you can send it to iBooks or any compatible app on your iPad.

I do this all the time with whitepapers I find on my work computer that I want to read on the train.  Alternatively, I send my self a link to the file if it's not behind a paywall or lead generation form.


Yes, if the mac sleeps, you can't run any processing. Apple have released as part of Mountain Lion a background system that can run while asleep (PowerNap), but that's not open to other apps, and also needs a laptop with a flash drive. Besides, torrents require a fair amount of processing of the data, lots of network traffic and HD activity.

Your best bet is to use the Energy Saver panel in System Preferences to get the screen and  computer to sleep after short period of time. You can also check the HD option.

Not sure about uTorrent but Transmission lets you prevent computer sleep when there are active transfers, and you can set limits on when to stop the transfer. So, you can have it set to seed a certain amount after it's finished downloading, then remove it automatically, and your computer will then sleep.

As for measuring power, something like this is what you need:

http://www.amazon.com/P3-International-P4400-Electricity-Monitor/dp/B00009MDBU

Plug the iMac into it and it'll tell you the actual power used. There are a bunch of similar devices, but the Kill-A-Watt ones are pretty well known and widely  used.


Time Capsule network, Windows machine on different subnet?

If your Dell running Windows 7 is connected via ethernet or WiFi directly to the Time Capsule, then it sure should be able to ping. Perhaps a firewall is blocking those packets? Also - you might want to manually assign a 172.16.x.x address to be sure it's not a routing issue.

Airport Utility uses IPv6 when it can as well as Bonjour (mdns) so it will find attached units more aggressively than ping. Also, I've connected to Time Capsule from PC across the internet, so it's not something that has to be on the same subnet - just that the networks have to be working correctly.

In your case, 255.255.252.0 isn't a wide enough netmask to unify 172.16.x.x with 192.168.x.x. However, shares work over the internet, so it's really a routing issue and not something necessarily wrong with a netmask. Can you at least get all the machines on the same subnet?

Mobile Me also solves this problem for mac users but I doubt that's something you can sign up for during the transition to iCloud (and it would merely work around your network issues, not solve them).


hyperlinked text in word cant be click once made into a pdf

Assuming you are opening your documents in Adobe reader (you did not specify) then you need to set the Adobe Reader.

Open Preferences in Adobe Reader and set it to

  Create links from URL's

.


Reinstalling a MacBook Pro w/Lion (10.7.2), when previous owner died, can it be done? What do I need?

It can only be done if the son's account has purchased a copy of Lion from the Mac App Store.  So either wait to get the password for the father's Apple ID or have the son drop $30 and purchase a new copy of Lion.


How to contact Apple for the Mac store billing support?

It's a three step process - with pictures below!

Click support in the Quick Links tab
on the right hand side of the App
Store app.
Click billing in the web page
that opened as a result of step 1.
Feed in all the information and wait
the 24 hours or so it takes to get
an initial response.

It is so worth it to ask for a refund or help (especially in your case where you didn't intend to buy yet) - everyone wins in the end as developers and Apple really don't want a sale that ends up with an unsatisfied customer.

The system is not perfect nor is it set up to allow previews of purchases, so no one should feel bad requesting a refund or two. Especially so if the program wasn't explained well or is seriously faulty. Would you want a $ and change if it made someone have a lasting bad impression of the work for which you get paid?

Do feel bad if you find yourself abusing the system or on your 10th refund request with no good reason and just not getting the picture.


How to Download m3u8 stream to local HD in OS X?

You can use FFmpeg for this.

For example:

$ ffmpeg -user_agent "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_5) AppleWebKit/601.7.8 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/9.1.3 Safari/537.86.7" -i http://185.38.12.60/sec/1503173737/363333397f6b65370bfc740ca4dea8c3f8dd2a93419f7748/ivs/12/b1/2ec5e15ba2a6/hls/tracks-4,5/index.m3u8 -c copy pd.mkv

User Agent is important key for many online cinema.


Yosemite - Pre-release: How do I opt out installing the beta seed?

It seems to be an App Store preference.

https://appleseed.apple.com/sp/betaprogram/unenroll


Have you put a passcode on your iPhone? If yes then, the chance for thief to use your iPhone is slim. But if the one who stole your iPhone knows something about getting into the phone system like jail breaking, then there's some possibilities that he can use it.


Apple Remote Desktop- How to send Terminal Command to Networked computers

Don't bother with Terminal; ARD can run shell commands directly on the computers. Just select the computers you want to run it on, click the UNIX button in the toolbar (or choose Manage menu > Send UNIX Command). A window will open that lets you paste in the command/script you want to run, and select what user to run it as.

But it's a little more complicated than that, because you're changing a per-user setting. If you run the command as root, it'll only take effect if someone logs in as root, which (hopefully) nobody ever does. If you select "Current console user on target computer", it'll run as whoever's logged in at the moment, if someone's logged in. Do you have multiple users using the same computer and/or logging out between usages? If so, it's going to get set for some users but not others.

I think this short script will work to set the setting for all current user accounts (everyone with a home directory in /Users) and also adjust the user templates so that new users will get this setting as well. Note that this script must be run as root, and won't take effect for current users until they log out & back in.

# Disable AirDrop for current users
for userdir in /Users/*; do
    if [ -d "$userdir/Library" ]; then # only do this for "real" users
        sudo -u "${userdir##*/}" defaults write com.apple.NetworkBrowser DisableAirDrop -bool YES
    fi
done

# Disable AirDrop in the user templates, so new user accounts come with it pre-disabled
for templatedir in "/System/Library/User Template"/*; do
    defaults write "$templatedir/Library/Preferences/com.apple.NetworkBrowser" DisableAirDrop -bool YES
done

WARNING: I have not tested this script. Try it out on one or a few computers that you can clean up or reimage easily if something goes wrong.


How can I mirror my iPad display wirelessly?

This is possible using iOS 5 and an Apple TV using AirPlay.

This only works with iPhone 4S and iPad 2 and all video and sound are mirrored wirelessly to any TV that is connected via HDMI downstream from the Apple TV. You do need a wireless network for the two devices to communicate.

  Just double-click the Home button, swipe all the way to the right, and
  select AirPlay Mirroring.

Reference: http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/airplay.html


Workaround for Mavericks Bluetooth/Wi-Fi interference?

After digging in the aforementioned Apple discussion, I discovered at one point that an Apple technician recommended to one of the participants that they should remove their com.apple.Bluetooth property list.  I did so:

$ sudo rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist

and rebooted.  When the reboot was complete, Wi-Fi was working flawlessly with Bluetooth on.  I lost pairings to all my Bluetooth devices except my Magic Trackpad.  I added back my speakers and all remains well 24+ hours later.

UPDATE: Adding my portable speaker seems to have been the straw that broke the camel's back.  Had to repeat these steps and then leave it unpaired to keep Wi-Fi working.


When is bluetooth tethering better than wifi tethering?

I would imagine that Bluetooth tethering over WiFi or USB would be a matter of convenience, or if a device doesn't have the appropriate ports for USB.  Another thought, MiWi OnDemand (jailbreak only), when being used between multiple iOS devices, will connect to a paired iPhone for internet connectivity over Bluetooth only when needed.  I suppose that Bluetooth is more on-demand whereas using your phone as a constant WiFi access point would drain the battery considerably faster.


Spotlight on Yosemite not launching Apps

It may be indexing or may have a corrupted index. Open Spotlight and check for an Indexing progress bar. If that is not present try going into the Spotlight PrefPane in System Preferences and forcing an index.


Where are good places to buy RAM (memory) for a Mac?

Macs and PCs use the same type of RAM just like they use the same type of Hard Drives, if you buy RAM directly from Apple it is definitely marked up.  I have personally had good experiences with Kingston. Other popular 3rd party suppliers are  New Egg, Tiger Direct, and Crucial.


The top case (or Upper Case Assembly) is essentially the case that contains the keyboard and trackpad. In some models, when replacing the battery, Apple will replace this as well.

In terms of other ways around your problem, you could try resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) to see if that has any impact. To give this a try, follow these steps:

Shut down your Mac
Unplug the power cable from your Mac
For 10 seconds, press and hold at the same time the shiftcontroloption keys (on the left side of the built-in keyboard) and the power button
After 10 seconds let go of all keys and the power button
Plug in the power cable
Turn your Mac back on with the power button.


It's certainly inside the MacBook Pro. You should check this out : https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2387469?start=15&tstart=0

This should fix it, helped a lot of people. Click Here

So it happens when you have to apply conductive grease. It's certainly a problem with the CPU I think. After following the steps, your machine shouldn't make any sound.


Can I stream from Safari silverlight to AppleTV?

AirPlay can mirror the display of your mac to the AppleTV. This only works with 2011 model macs and newer running Mac OS X 10.8

more details:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5404


Is it possible to have the iPhone automatically open iTunes/sync on one computer and not on others?

iTunes/iPhone syncing is done on a "per Mac" basis. In iTunes Preferences, go to Devices, and check the box for "Prevent iPods, iPhones, and iPads from syncing automatically". This will prevent iTunes from opening when a device is plugged in.

UPDATE: There used to be in previous versions of iTunes, in the old "Syncing" Preferences, a way to disable automatic syncing and that prevented iTunes from even opening. But it seems they have changed the behavior because searching for answers on other sites yield the same behavior but in previous versions of iTunes. I set this preference ages ago, so the preference must be holding over.

In response to your comments:

  iTunes still starts, still does some
  kind of mini-sync, but doesn't
  recognise the name of the phone or
  allow access to its contents.

Are you sure you are syncing with the iTunes install you originally started with? Syncing is strictly a one-to-one relationship for iPhones and iTunes. Once you sync an iPhone to an iTunes install and wish to sync with a different one (like on another Mac), you are then forced to clear the phone and start anew.

My iTunes behaves the way you are describing, but when I plug in my iPhone, I get the "mini-sync" you mention because that's the device registering with the OS and iTunes that it exists and iTunes puling needed info to interact with it. Can't really get around that one.

  it would prevent the machine being
  used at all for syncing, no?

No. You could still sync if you wanted, but that's if you are syncing with the iTunes install that recognizes the phone. Otherwise, see my comment above.

BTW, save the downvoting for the really egregious answers. Downvoting costs points. Otherwise, just leave it alone.


How to backup files from black screened iPhone

Check any computer you connect the phone to see if it has a backup. Then check in iCloud.com to see your last backup. If you have paired a bluetooth keyboard, use that to unlock the device. Also - the screen could be out but the digitizer might still work. Can you put another iPhone 6 next to yours and go through the motions to enter the PIN by tapping where you know the touch areas are on the screen?

At that point, you'll need to make a decision based on cost and time you can be without the phone while it's repaired or the data recovered.

The data on the iPhone is almost certainly encrypted so you'll need to pay someone to make a forensic-type repair on the phone to replace the screen without damaging the storage. That costs more than a repair where you don't need to keep the data intact. Also, you can't pair the phone to a new computer without pairing a bluetooth keyboard or repairing the digitizer / screen.

Once you have quotes, you can make a decision based on the availability of reliable service where you live. If you took your phone to a skilled technician at the Huaqiangbei electronics market in Shenzhen - you might pay $50 for the repair and have your pick of 100 technicians in a 4 block radius. Other places, you might have to pay $5000 and ship your phone.

Paying someone to decrypt the contents is probably a factor of 10 more expensive on both the low end and high end unless you could tell them your passcode.

So:

spend half an hour assessing the availability of backups (and maybe time to go visit computers you could have synced to)
make a buy a new phone decision if you are going to shop around or ship your phone for repair to the cheapest shop you trust to make a custom repair. (you can then sell either the repaired phone or the new phone based on whichever recoups your investment in spare hardware to allow a cheaper repair).


This may solve your issue.

Open Settings app.
Open Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Under the Accounts heading, open "Fetch New Data".
Be sure that Push is set to on.
Open Advanced at the bottom.
Under each individual account, make sure that it is set to Push.  If push is not an option, then your email provider does not support push.  The only ones that I am sure of are iCloud, Microsoft Exchange, and Gmail (if setup as an Exchange account).


A quick way to do it would be to go to the directory
/Users

And add the Date Created option via the View Options

This assumes that the home directory was created at the same time of account itself


Automatically move files into correct folder on server

Automator Droplet

You can do this with an Automator workflow and a script (I'm using Python, but it could be done with Bash, Applescript or anything else really).

Open up Automator, and choose Application type.
Add a Run Shell Script action to the workflow.
In the Run Shell Script action, set the Shell option to /usr/bin/python, and Pass input: to as arguments.
Set the script text to the script as shown below. Be sure to change the destination path to your desired destination.
Save the application to your desired location.

Script

import sys
import os
import subprocess

destinationPath = '/Users/rob/Desktop/test'

for f in sys.argv[1:]:
    name = os.path.basename(f)
    newdir = os.path.join(destinationPath, name[:1], name[:2], name[:3])
    print newdir

    if not os.path.exists(newdir):
        os.makedirs(newdir)

    subprocess.call(['mv', f, os.path.join(newdir,name)])
#eof

Important: Change the destinationPath = line to the path you want (i.e. the folder that contains your numbered folders). Make sure to retain the single quotes around the path.

Usage

Just drag and drop the files you want onto the application file you saved, and they'll be moved accordingly. If the proper folders don't exist already, they will be created.


Trying to securely erase hard drive, but Security Options not available (Mavericks)

Yes, it is possible to re-enable secure erase. All you need to do is to format the partition once again. Just make sure you select "Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted)", with any password that you will remember (just in case). Once formatted, the "Security Options" button will be available again, and you can securely wipe out the partition!


Can't open an app as root. Sudo command not found

You need to execute the unix executable, normally found in some.app/Contents/MacOS. To browse the app contents, right click on the app, and choose "Show package Contents".

You can simply drag and drop the executable in a Terminal window to get its path. Or you can right click, hold alt and choose "Copy as pathname".

Run the command below first, using sudo on any executable is not recommended.

/Volumes/Vuze\ Installer/Vuze\ Installer.app/Contents/MacOS/JavaApplicationStub

This of course assumes that you have already mounted the .dmg file downloaded from Vuze website.


Upgrade from Windows 7 to 10 using VMware fusion 8.0

The following article: Upgrading to Windows 10 using Software Update in Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 virtual machines fail with the error: Unsupported SVGA driver (2126929) at vmware.com should solve your problem.

To preserve readability I don't quote the article.

Details
Upgrading to Windows 10 using Software Update in Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 guests fails
You see the error:

Unsupported SVGA driver

Solution
This issue occurs because, in certain circumstances, the Microsoft validation tool used to assess a system’s readiness for Windows 10 misrepresents the capabilities of the VMware SVGA drivers, preventing the upgrade.

Note: The issue affects all virtualization platforms, including those not from VMware.

To resolve this issue, upgrade the virtual machine:

Note: VMware recommends to take a backup before upgrading the guest operating system in the virtual machine. For more information, see  Best Practices for virtual machine backup (programs and data) in VMware Fusion (1013628) and Best practices when backing up a VMware Workstation virtual machine (2006202).

Uninstall VMware tools from the virtual machine.

For Workstation, see the Uninstall VMware Tools section in the Creating Virtual Machines Guide.
For Fusion, see the Uninstall VMware Tools section in the VMware Fusion help Guide.

Shut down the virtual machine (not suspend).
Change the virtual machine's operating system type to Windows 10.

For Fusion: Click the Virtual Machine menu and click Settings > General. Change OS type to Windows 10 or Windows 10 x64
For Workstation: Click the VM menu and click Settings. Click the Options tab. Change the Guest operating system version to Windows 10 or Windows 10 x64

Note: If Windows 10 is not available in the list then ensure that you are running the latest builds for VMware Fusion/Workstation. You can download the latest versions from VMware Download Center. For more information, see Downloading and installing VMware Fusion (2014097) and Downloading and installing VMware Workstation (2057907).

Download the Media Creation tool available at the Microsoft Software Download Center. Ensure to select the appropriate version and edition (32 or 64 bit) while downloading.

Note: The preceding link was correct as of August 14, 2015. If you find the link is broken, provide a feedback and a VMware employee will update the link.
Run the Media Creation tool and select Upgrade this PC option.
Follow the Windows 10 installation prompts to complete the installation.
Install VMware Tools on the virtual machine after the installation is complete. For more information, see General VMware Tools installation instructions (1014294).

Additional Information:

If you are performing an upgrade using an .iso image and a valid Windows 10 license key, perform these steps:

Mount the Windows 10 .iso file in VMware Fusion/Workstation.

To mount the .iso file in Fusion:

Select Virtual Machine > Settings.
Click the CD/DVD drive.
Select Choose Disc or Disc Image and then select the .iso file you downloaded.

Note: The file name is similar to Win10_English_x64.iso.

To mount the .iso file in Workstation:

Select VM > Settings.
Click the CD/DVD drive.
Select the Use .iso image option.
Browse to the .iso file you downloaded.

The Autoplay process should now begin within Windows. If not, double-click CD-ROM from the This PC shortcut on the left side of the File Explorer window.

Follow the Windows 10 installation prompts to complete the installation.
Install VMware Tools on the virtual machine after the installation is complete. For more information, see General VMware Tools installation instructions (1014294).


You might be able to find the root cause of the freeze in the Console application. You can find it in /Applications/Utilities.
Take a look at the system.log on the left-hand side and scroll through the entries to a time when the freeze occurred.
Hopefully you find something that points you in the right direction.


You need to create a new partition using Disk Utility that you can use for installing macOS.

You'll need somewhere to store your system, and without a partition (besides the recovery partition), you'll have no such place. That's why you have no choices when you run the installer.


How to recover a deleted/replaced HFS+ partition from external drive?

[I'm answering for anybody ending up here, as the original OP most probably is no more interested. I still refer to his problem description.]

I tried using Testdisk 6.13 (latest stable release) and it worked like a breeze for both NTFS and HFS+. I had the luxury of an empty HFS+ partition, so I just removed it and recovered it using Testdisk - it was rather fast.

I followed the following tutorials:

http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-data-recovery.html
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk_Step_By_Step

If you indeed just removed one partition, it should be fast. Otherwise, it might take more time, but probably waiting is the most sensible option. But if you're really impatient (as I am) and you know very well what you're doing, you might want to read on.

A (dangerous) tip to speedup Testdisk from my own experience

If the partition entry is just removed, Testdisk will look for the start of the partition in sensible positions (by default, at the start of every cylinder, since partitions should usually be cylinder-aligned), ignoring the existing partition table. Once it thinks it found a partition and you confirm its guess, it will skip searching inside the partition.

If there is a lot of free space (without a filesystem) before the partition, this might be very slow. So I could speed up search a lot by creating a filesystem in an empty partition before the missing one, so that Testdisk would skip that space. However I knew perfectly where to create this filesystem, especially because it did not border with the lost partition. Otherwise, creating such a filesystem can easily destroy the wrong data - hence only attempt this if you know very well what you're doing.


How can I get my iTunes rented movie onto another computer?

I can confirm that the following works:

I downloaded a movie on my pc-laptop
I moved it via my network share, added it to the library on my macbook
It was visible as rented there but could not be watched (authorized to another computer)
Then I unauthorized the computer I downloaded it on and it worked on my macbook


Restore MacBook after Avast! install (stuck at apple logo)

Try this link:  https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=151393.15

part way down the first page of the thread, the poster Francisco Velasco had a solution that worked for me (his is reply #9 August 17, 2014). Good luck, and steer clear of Avast Antivirus - I'm going back to ClamX AV!!

Turn off your Mac, press Command + S, turn on, and don´t release Command + S until you see the Apple logo
When you are in the prompt (a black screen with white letters), type
/sbin/mount -uw / < ENTER >
Work through these commands, in sequence:
cd Library < ENTER >
cd Application\ Support < ENTER >
(as there is a space between "Application" & "Support", we use \ after Application then a space)
cd Avast < ENTER >
cd components < ENTER >
cd uninstall < ENTER >
cd com.avast.uninstall.app < ENTER >
cd Contents < ENTER >
cd MacOS < ENTER >
Now, in this last folder if you type
ls < ENTER >
You will see a file called uninstall.sh, and this is the one to run to remove
Avast, now to use it you must use the following instruction
sudo sh uninstall.sh < ENTER >
After this now you can reboot your Mac
reboot < ENTER >
If after this reboot you can´t login your Mac, turn off your mac, repeat step 1 and 2 and now go to the folder
cd private < ENTER >
cd etc < ENTER >
ls < ENTER >
and you see a file with the name launchd.conf, you need to delete this file, type the following
rm launchd.conf < ENTER >
Reboot your Mac with
reboot < ENTER >


How to keep mail messages on servers for Apple mail?

You can begin with Setting the Download Attachments to None in you Mac Mail.

That is the biggest part of mails anyway, the rest is just text.

If you are up to the task you can then export all attachments out of your Local storage.

They are located in ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/Mail Downloads/

You can also Export all of the mail box, to for example iCloud.
It just makes a copy of it, so you can now delete mails on your Mac, and get them again later.

To do so right click on the mailbox and use Export.

Did you know that for $1/Month you can upgrade your iCloud to 50GB.

Now if you want to automate that, like keep emails for a month then Export, you will need a Automator process for that.


Switching "primary" imac in Target Display Mode

The FAQ for target display mode is pretty clear on the requirements.

You get to bring in external video if it matches exactly the requirements. Display Port isn't the same as Thunderbolt, so perhaps that's the issue. You also need the master iMac to be able to drive all connected displays.

If you can't use the hardware directly, consider software to merge the screens such as AirDisplay or Screen Recycler.


Does Mail.app support Exchange "categories" on emails?

Mail.app has no categories, but the Outlook 2011 on Mac has.

Also making Mail communicate with Exchange server is tricky, however Outlook 2011 will do that.

So she can still use her mac with Outlook for work, and mail for all other emails.


How to add a directory to my path that includes a colon and a space?

It won't work. You have several options:

Create an alias for bash to run the command.
Create a symbolic link to the executable from a directory in your PATH. (I like to have a directory ~/bin at the front of my path for such things.)
Create a symbolic link to /Applications/MIT\:GNU\ Scheme.app/Contents/Resources somewhere and put the link in your PATH.
Rename the application.


Will I have to pay for photos sent if my friend has switched iMessage off?

Yes, I expect that you will.

If a message cannot be sent as an iMessage (blue) for any reason - e.g. the recipient does not have an iMessage capable device, they have turned iMessage off, or you do not have a data connection over which to send it, it will go as an SMS or MMS message instead (green).

If the message is entirely plain text it should be sent as SMS, which are cheap or free on most mobile (cellphone) plans. However if it contains a picture or other attachment, which SMS does not support, it will be sent as an MMS message and these are usually charged at a higher rate.

At least on iPhone with iOS 9.3.2, you can see from the grey text in the message field before you start typing whether the message will be sent as iMessage or SMS/MMS ('Text Message'). If the recipient should be able to receive iMessage but you can't send one, e.g. because you don't currently have a data connection, sending should fail and you should then be asked whether to send the message as a text message or MMS.


Credit to 9to5Mac

To check & update the AirPod firmware, do the following:

Have your AirPods nearby and open the case. The normal status/connectivity window will pop up, but you can swipe that away and look at the ‘About’ screen and scroll all the way the way down.
On the iPhone/iPad, go to Settings -> About.

Open the AirPods case and have them near your phone.
Tap the new AirPods section in the About menu.

From there, you’ll be able to see detailed information about your AirPods, including the model number, serial number, and hardware version. Your info should be similar to this:

Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
Model Number: A1523
Firmaware Version: 3.5.1
Hardware Version: 1.0.0

If the Firmware Version is not 3.5.1 then you'll need to update them.  Just keep them in their case, plug them in, and next to your iPhone.  The update should happen automatically.  It might take a few hours so it's best to leave them overnight so the update can take place.


I use Automatic (I use 1.x version, which was free, I see there’s version 2.x which is a paid update and I didn’t know about. My 1.x works ok), Transmission for the download (it monitors the files that Automatic downloads from a RSS feed I’ve created using ShowRSS (free).


What am I doing that causes zsh to silently change to vi mode?

Sigh. Exploring my own situation further, I think I was hitting escape. I think zsh was in vi mode all along, but more specifically, it was in vi's insert mode! If I go to a brand new editor and hit escape, I find myself in vi's command mode.

If that's the case, I'm still interested to know why set -o | egrep "on$" doesn't indicate that we're in vi mode.

EDIT: double-sigh. I originally wrote my question with all references to bash, having completely forgotten that years ago I changed my default shell to zsh, which is mostly the same. I went back and edited the question to be more clear, and then googled again, replacing bash with zsh. I quickly found this: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/197839/why-does-exporting-vim-as-editor-in-zsh-disable-keyboard-shortcuts

Lo and behold, my .profile has EDITOR=vi, which I put there about two weeks ago. I removed that line, and hitting escape no longer puts me in vi command mode.

Better yet, I followed the instructions given on that answer and was able to restore my EDITOR setting without borking up zsh. Yay! :)


I had this issue and found quite a few solutions, from adjusting the settings in the mail app, reviewing the server settings up to deleting the email account altogether from my iphone. I tried and reviewed all (except for the removing of the email account) and came to a solution which worked for me:

1 - went to the account settings that was giving me the issue and changed the "Sync" period to 1 day.
(Settings / Mail / Accounts / <email account> / Sync Mail)

2 - get our of the settings and open the mail app. Wait for it to sync, once the account is synced, the emails you wished to be removed will still be there, but just delete them (again).

3 - you will still receive the "message could not be moved to the trash" notification, however, the messages will not return to your inbox (as they did previously).

4 - wait a couple of days to go back to your settings and change the sync period to whatever you like.

This worked for me and I believe it should work for anybody which the previous solutions did not work with.

For me I believe it was an issue when I deleted the emails both from the server and the iphone mail client when it (the iphone) was not connected to the internet.

Anyway I hope this helps!


Strange characters in APPLE Software License Agreement

Try going to Applications > Font Book and doing File > Restore Standard Fonts and restarting.


How I fix the profile image not being displayed on start up screen?

Did you set an image at the settings > users and groups?

I'm posting this as an answer to add my example:

When I'm logged out, I see this image properly at MacOS.
You could try replacing the image with another image to test it.


How can I move my MS Office license to a new Mac?

I had installed office on a second mac, and when I accidentally opened the first copy while the second was open.

I got an error message: "this copy of office is open on a different computer on your network" a bit creepy, but that was my reminder to delete he first copy.

(Fortunately, Open Office has no such issue.)


How can I find out what is reading and writing so much data on my MacBook?

This happened to me once. I used Daisy Disk to figure out where the disk usage was coming from.

In my case, there was a problem with the coresymbolicationd cache, which was growing indefinitely, and continuing through reboots and reinstalls of the latest Combo Update.

After deleting /System/Library/Caches/com.apple.coresymbolicationd, everything returned to normal.

Next time this happens, I recommend taking a look with that utility.


Where does apple keeps a copy of files when I turned off iCloud drive?

Check your home folder for a folder called iCloud Drive (Archive).

Apple support document says the following:

  If you turn off iCloud Drive or sign out of iCloud, you have the
  option to keep a local copy of your files that are in iCloud Drive.
  Whether you decide to keep a local copy or not, a new Desktop and
  Documents folder is created in your home folder. If you choose to keep
  a local copy, your files in iCloud Drive are copied to a folder called
  iCloud Drive (Archive) in your home folder. Then you have the option
  to move any files that were in your iCloud Desktop and Documents, back
  to your new local Desktop and Documents.


Apple developer account and upgrading the OS

Q1: for iOS development that is the place to start.

Q2: No, you will be able to download the latest versions of iOS, including the current beta versions of it. For Mac OSX beta versions you need to register as a Mac Developer at http://developer.apple.com/programs/mac/. With this registration you'll not be able to submit iOS applications though.

Q3: Yes, you can register an account even from a Windows machine.

Q4: See Q2. I don't know if you'll be able to download non-betas with a Mac Developer Program Account. Apple's page only talks about Pre-release Software, not existing software (besides Xcode).

Lion at the moment is only available through the app store which is only available when you have the Snow Leopard installed. I'd suggest picking up a DVD of Snow Leopard and then update normally to Lion through the App Store.


I can no longer boot into macOS after resizing my bootcamp partition

Your second partition should have GUID (Type) of 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC. The third partition should have a GUID (Type) of 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC and an attribute (Attib) value of 0002000000000000. You will need to correct these values.

A good third party tool used to edit the GPT is gdisk.

Once downloaded, you invoke the command by entering the following in an Administrator Command Prompt window.

gdisk64 \\.\PhysicalDrive0

The command gdisk abbreviates the GUID values. Below are some of the abbreviations.

GUID                                  Abbreviation
------------------------------------  ------------
48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC     AF00
426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC     AB00
DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC     2700

  Note: If you make a mistake while using gdisk, you can enter a controlC to exit without saving your changes.

Below is an example of the commands to enter into gdisk. What you need to enter may vary slightly.

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): t
Partition number (1-3): 2
Current type is 'Windows RE'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 700): AF00
Changed type of partition to 'Apple HFS/HFS+'

Command (? for help): t
Partition number (1-3): 3
Current type is 'Windows RE'
Hex code or GUID (L to show codes, Enter = 700): AB00
Changed type of partition to 'Recovery HD'

Command (? for help): x

Expert command (? for help): a
Partition number (1-3): 3
Known attributes are:
0: system partition
1: hide from EFI
2: legacy BIOS bootable
60: read-only
62: hidden
63: do not automount

Attribute value is 0000000000000000. Set fields are:
  No fields set

Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit): 49
Have enabled the 'Undefined bit #49' attribute.
Attribute value is 0002000000000000. Set fields are:
49 (Undefined bit #49)

Toggle which attribute field (0-63, 64 or <Enter> to exit):

Expert command (? for help): w

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

Do you want to proceed? (Y/N): y
OK; writing new GUID partition table (GPT) to \\.\PhysicalDrive1.
Disk synchronization succeeded! The computer should now use the new
partition table.
The operation has completed successfully.

The Mac firmware and El Capitan OS X operation system both rely on the GUID values in the GUID Partition Table (GPT) to aid in determining the format of a volume stored in a partition. Since the GPT contains the wrong GUID value for both partitions 2 and 3, you can not boot your Mac from either of these partitions.

The Windows 10 operating system is a little less restrictive. Windows 10 will look at the contents of a partition and try to determine format of the volume. Windows may do this even if the partition has the wrong GUID value in the GPT. This is why windows detects the HFS formatted "Macintosh HD" and "Recovery HD" volumes while the firmware used to boot the Mac does not.

The GUID of DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC represents a Windows Recovery Environment partition. Evidently, you do not have such a partition. When I install Windows 10 on my 2013 iMac, a partition of this  type was created. It is about 450 MB in size and followed after the
Windows 10 partition. Other users have posted their installation of Windows 10 did not create this partition. So if you had this partition, it is possible EaseUS erased it. Anyway, you do not need a Windows Recovery Environment partition for normal use of Windows 10.


Mountain Lion Notification Center glitches

I'm having the same issue as Arnold. The problem might even be slighty worse for me; opun freezing, I can only use keyboard input; mouse clicks aren't registered anymore. I use QuickSilver to launch a terminal and running "killall -9 Dock" two times kills the dock and releases the mouse. After a couple of minutes the dock is relaunched. Also sending the HUP or INT to Dock will kill it. Sending the TERM signal doesn't though.

I found that the problem can be circumvented by rebooting the system and after reboot ensuring that the first thing you do is to open the notification center. I think that by sleeping your mac without having the notification center open before that is what makes it crash.

Sadly, I didn't find any way to check what's keeping the Dock process busy. It doesn't seem to be the notification centre itself that's crashing (it keeps responding to mouse clicks while nothing else does) but the Dock. So far the only thing I came up with is that this is a problem with launchd, but that doesn't help a lot because killing launchd will kill every application you have running.