Down arrow key does not work in bootcamp

Try booting into the recovery mode (Hold CMD + R at boot) and test wether it works there, if it does then is a software issues and a full bootcamp reinstall may be required if it doesn't then its likely a hardware issue in which case a repair would be your best bet. Also the absence of BootCamp Control Panel points to it being a software issue/driver, attempt the above and if it works try a reinstall following Apples tutorial to the letter! Good luck


Redirect all logs to a network share - local HDD "disappears"

I don't believe to you can tell OS X to write the logs to a different location BUT you can move the location to which it writes!

Not sure what logs you are interested in, but lets say it's /var/log.

1 Copy the /var/log directory to your remote share.

2 Rename original /var/log to something else

3 Create a symbolic link from /var/log to the remote share.

Now when the system tries to write to /var/log it will really be writing to /yourshare/whatever/var/log

Have not tried this myself but should work.

Some other ideas from the linux world, here:

https://serverfault.com/questions/55984/how-can-i-move-var-log-directory


OS X Mavericks Maps: can't send direction to iPhone


Create a shortcut in topbar for accessing folder quickly

There's a freeware app that allows you to do this:
• XMenu
And likely many others too.


When I put events on my MobileMe calendar, syncing causes numerous duplicates to appear

For each of the devices remove the MobileMe account and opt to delete all the data when asked (it usually asks if you would like to remove the data associated with that account). Then add back again and see if it continues.


xcode 4 download not completing properly

It sounds like the server timed out. Just try downloading it again. If you got it through the Mac App Store you can see it and all your purchases under the Purchases tab at the top next to Updates.


How to export/backup Notes in macOS in one go

I copied the three files NoteStore.sqlite, NoteStore.sqlite-shm, and NoteStore.sqlite-wal from ~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes of one Mac to another and my notes appear there now. All my notes were there, albeit half a day out of sync.


Apple script to lock computer using knock

I sent a question to the support personel at knock, and they informed me that a script has already been written. The creator blogged about this just hours before this question was opened.

http://blog.ambroselittle.com/lock-mac-with-keyboard-shortcut-and-knock/

There is both an alfred workflow and an apple script to do this.


/etc/hosts can't be used for that:

/etc/hosts cannot be used (by itself) to produce hostname "aliases".
The hosts file produces the internal equivalent of A and PTR records from the DNS, i.e. mapping of hostname to IP address and vice-versa.
It cannot be used to produce the same effect as a CNAME record.

You can make ssh alias equivalent to ssh host.no-ip.biz or ssh username@host.no-ip.biz by adding lines like this to ~/.ssh/config:
Host alias
HostName host.no-ip.biz
# User username


Does the Macbook Pro (Late 2011) lack any air vents?

Four vents exist on the retina Macbook Pro 15".
Two vents exist on the non-retina Macbook Pro 15", 17" models.
One vent only on the Macbook Air 11" & 13" and non-retina Macbook Pro 13".

The outflow vents are located right 'between' the display and keyboard on the vertical rear face of the unibody frame. Shine a light on the display hinge from above and below and you can see the little holes best when looking down along the display from a very steep angle.

While the non-retina MBP take all of the inflowing air from the remaining space next to the outflow vents of the display hinge - the retina Macbook Pro has an additional two vents for air intake on the side where external ports are located.

Apple has done an amazing job at the dB noise they make when idle (~2000rpm).

When the fans kick in because of heavy CPU/GPU usage you'll definitely hear them. They will go up to ~6000rpm. Tracking fan RPM with software will be your best method to know if the case you have is insulating the frame. Increased idle fan speed will compensate for a case that insulates the frame and traps heat from below. The unibody frame in in close thermal contact with the CPU/GPU so a good proportion of the idle heat actually escapes through the keyboard and topcase.

You might also be interested in Apple's advice for Mac care.

[picture from ifixit]


I resolved this by updating to latest version of IOS on iPad.


Per Turning Off Auto Saving In TextEdit And Other Mac Apps on the "Mac Tricks and Tips" website:

Open System Preferences
Go to "General"
Enable "Ask to keep changes when closing documents"


Facebook messages causing the Facebook app on my iPad to crash

It's not clear if this is a bug that needs to be fixed with a new release of e program, but you could follow this path and try reinstalling the older version of the app from a computer and or computer backup.

What can we do now that Facebook iPad app crashes on launch after update?


How do I send text messages to non-iPhone owners using the iMessage app on a Mac or the Messages app on an iPad?

On your iPhone, I'd try going into Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding and then uncheck the switches by whatever is not receiving SMS messages and then check and then re-authenticate them individually, it should only take a couple of minutes.


How do you navigate to safari extensions from App Store?

Oddly enough if you open the App store app on your Mac and then type "Safari Extensions" in the search field, you will find a listing of all of the Safari extensions available from Apple on their app store.

I have never seen a built-in category for just Safari Extensions but this seems to work.


How to disable swipe down for Notification Center in apps on iOS?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3419084 has a person saying

  For apps which are running in full-screen (includes games, but also built in apps such as YouTube and Photos when they are in full-screen mode), the gesture which normally brings down the full notification center just brings down a little gray tab at the top middle of the screen. You can then slide that tab down, if you really want the notification center.

iOS 7 Make Control Center hard to open like fullscreen mode while still showing status bar

shows an example of control centre pullup gesture where a small arrow appears which forces us to swipe twice to get control centre in full screen apps. An answer says that

  The system will only show this tab when the status bar is hidden.

So most likely it is upto the developer to make appropriate changes to use this feature, instead of covering the screen in one go.


Laptop turning off due to positioning relative to another one

Magnets.

Sensors in the body of the awake MBP are detecting magnets in the lid of the closed MBP.  It thinks you've closed the lid, so it goes to sleep.


What eventually ended up solving the problem was removing my email account from the phone, then re-adding it.

The steps to doing this are:

Quit Mail (Double-click Home button, swipe up)
Open Settings
Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Select your account, then hit Remove / Delete
Add it back by going back to Mail, Contacts, Calendars, selecting Add Account, and re-entering your information.


The IP you're seeing (73.170.168.215) is the address your router is exposing to the outside world.  The router is masking you're real address to keep you safe.

Any device that uses that router to connect to the outside world will be 'seen' as having that same IP.  This is why your Mac and your iPhone appear to have the identical IP's when viewed from outside your network.  The public IP  is the address of that router (I'm trying to keep this simple because networking can get really complicated fast).

Your router is responsible for taking the individual device traffic and routing them to the correct device within your "private" network.

To use BlockheadsServer correctly with your Mac, it's best if you contact their support to determine the best way to configure it.  You don't want to misconfigure a router because you might accidentally open-up your network to malicious activity.


I would check to make sure you don't have any extensions installed that might be causing issues. Also, you can try "Reset Safari..." and "Empty Cache...", both under the application menu. If neither of these work, you can download a new copy of Safari and replace the one currently in your /Applications folder.
After that, make a reservation at your closest Apple Retail Store and see what a Genius says.


How fast should my MBP internal drive be?

Yep. That's not a disk issue. My suggestions / theories:

FileVault could be a reason for slowdown, and a pretty big one if your disk is very cluttered. Even with FileVault off, disk clutter can slow down your computer if it's excessive, specially on startup (though not when you're typing). I consider "disk clutter" to be about 80-90% of your disk space used.

RAM could be a factor too, especially if you're running memory intensive apps. Your manual should have some more info on how much RAM your MacBook can have: up to what you can expand it (perhaps 8 GB). When your RAM gets full (you can see how full it is in Activity Monitor), it starts transferring memory pages from RAM to your HDD, which is considerably slower than the lightning fast RAM. Perhaps this could be an issue, because when your apps need that cache, it needs to load it from a slower source.

And last, but probably the biggest: your apps. Check if any apps are eating your CPU in the background using Activity Monitor (Applications > Utilities > Activity Monitor). Also, check on System Preferences for any apps loading when you login (Accounts > Login Items tab). Try to get rid of some background apps you might not need. Flash is a CPU hog, and it has happened to me that it slows my whole web browser down to the point where even typing is slow.


Can applications compiled with an old version of Xcode run on newer iOS?

If You're not using removed API it should run OK. However some methods behave differently. You can have problems with UI (for example Alerts and Actionsheets now uses different API). If You targeted iOS < 7 then UI will definitely be messed up.

You can check API differences on Apple Developer site (it's iOS 7.1 - 8.0 diff, check the earlier diffs to be sure).

To sum up: if You've been following Apple recomendations while writting code in earlier Xcode for earlier iOS there should not be many problems. But You'll never know until You run and test it.


How can I remove an autocomplete suggestion from Safari's address bar?

Open Safari.
From the “History” menu, choose “Show All History”.

keyboard shortcut: ⌘ Y

In the Search field in the top right corner, enter the web site you want to remove.
In the list of search results, click on the web site you want to remove.

To select multiple sites, hold the command ⌘ key while clicking on the sites you want to delete.  Or, to select a range, hold the shift key, click the first item to delete, then click the last item to delete.

Press the Delete key on your keyboard.


Wirelessly play audio from an iPad to a Mac

The AirServer application may offer the functionality that you're looking for. According to this 2011 review, the app can:

  AirPlay is what lets you throw content from an iPad or iPhone
  wirelessly to speakers or your TV. To do this, you need to have an
  AirPort Express next to your speakers, or an Apple TV hooked up to
  your TV. Bluetooth speakers show up in the list, too. What you can’t
  do is beam movies from your iOS device direct to your big-screen iMac.

  AirServer is a $3 app that adds in this last piece of the puzzle. With
  it running on your Mac, a new entry will show up in the AirPlay
  popover of any iOS device on the same network, as you’d expect.

  Music just appears magically from your Mac’s speakers, or whatever
  speakers are hooked up to it. Movies open after a second in the
  Quicktime player, and it’s on-screen controls let you play, pause,
  scrub and change volume on the Mac itself.

According to the link on the AirServer website, the price for the current version (AirServer 4.0) is $14.99.

Another application with similar functionality is Banana TV. However, it doesn't support iOS 5, as this note on the app homepage states:

  Banana TV has moved to free. We will not be supporting iOS5, although
  the latest build DOES support Lion. You need an iPhone or iPad running
  greater than or equal to iOS 4.2 and less than iOS 5.0. We apologize,
  but keeping up with Apple's continual change of the undocumented,
  private AirPlay interfaces just isn't something we can continue!

Both applications allow for media to be played from an iOS device to a networked Mac.

EDIT: Add current price of AirServer application.


Late 2013 Macbook Retina Windows 7 x64 Bootcamp "No device drivers found"

The (fixed) Pre-Installation Environment (boot.wim) of your Windows_7.iso doesn't contain the necessary drivers to use the USB3-interface of your Late 2013 Macbook Retina. So a "non-standard Windows7.iso" including "additional  drivers" without injecting/implementing them into the boot.wim won't help much either.
Btw BOOT (X:) is not your install drive but the mounted boot.wim.

To circumvent limitations (new drivers, new hardware) Microsoft uses the $WinPEDriver$-feature to provide drivers at installation time.

Apple Boot Camp uses this method to provide the necessary drivers with the boot medium - your external USB drive.

Please check if you meet the following requirements:

Backup of your entire hard disc
Windows 7.iso Home Premium x64, Professional x64, or Ultimate x64
(these three are us-en digitalriver isos and here is a full list of all images available there). Please use Microsoft Software Recovery to download the proper Winodws 7 release.
Formatting of the USB-device (according to Apple):

If the size of the disk is 32 GB or less it should be MS-DOS (FAT).

If the size of the disk is over 32 GB it should be ExFAT.

Try to use an USB thumb drive (size 8 GB or bigger). If you don't have a thumb drive, try to use an USB hard drive smaller than 2 TB. ExFAT formatting with  Apple disk utility.app often doesn't work (means: formatting ends in FAT32 instead of ExFAT) and according to different sources a volume size limit of 2TB exists for MS-DOS (FAT) (=FAT32).
Boot Camp Support Software version: 5.1.5640

download link: Latest Boot Camp Support Software
File/Folder structure of the root of your boot device (your external USB-drive):

If your boot device doesn't contain $WinPEDriver$, AutoUnattend.xml and BootCamp please download and extract BootCamp5.1.5640.zip and copy the contents of the resulting BootCamp folder to the root level of your install drive.
If your install drive already contains those files and folders then check if the USB drivers are present.
(Paths: /$WinPEDriver$/IntelxHCISetup/Drivers/HCSwitch/Win7/x64/ and /$WinPEDriver$/IntelxHCISetup/Drivers/xHCI/Win7/x64/).
If they aren't present the wrong Boot Camp Support Software package has been chosen. Delete $WinPEDriver$, AutoUnattend.xml and BootCamp and continue with step 6.

Now the installation should work.

If the installation still doesn't work a more time consuming way has to be chosen (modifying the boot.vim) and i will write a second answer.

P.S. Did you already check this apple.stackexchange question/solution? Especially the comment of user funkylaundry May 18 at 16:38to the 1st answer:
"the key was to entirely remove the bootcamp partition and then add it again"


How do I power off my Mac with the Mavericks OS?

From Apple's support page, hold the power button for 1.5 seconds and let go to get the power dialog. Don't hold it too long though, as it only takes 5 seconds to turn off the system without a proper shutdown.

You can also get the dialog immediately by holding control and pressing either the eject key or power button, or use the Apple menu to access the three options directly.


You have to do some basic trouble shooting.  You have two components to check:

The 12v power port in your car
The charger

Plug your charger into the power port of a different car with a power port you know to be good.  If your charger works, then the problem is related to your car.  If it dosen't work, then your charger is at fault.

Alternatively, you can plug a known working charger into your car.  If it works there as well, it's your charger.  If it doesn't, it's your car.


Change OS X server website default location

This has to do with removing a configuration file, that is used by the server, for wiki and Xcode.  All that's in the file is a bit saying YES service is active, you could probably just change that to NO, but deleting the file works for starters.  And as long as you don't restart the Xcode service the file won't get recreated!

See this thread: Cannot change default webpage

  It appears to be a bug.  The short answer is to remove/rename this file:

  /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/other/COM.APPLE.WEBAPP.WIKI.conf

  Note, that you can turn the Wiki service on and then remove/rename this file and the Wiki and Web service will work fine (and with the correct index order).  However, turning the Wiki service off and back on will recreate the file and thus cause the issue to reappear.  To address that issue I wrote a simple BASH script to check if the file exists and if so, delete it.  I then made a LaunchDaemon to run the script every 15 seconds.

and:

  But as an added bonus, my problem wasn't wiki, it was Xcode, and the same goes >for removing:

  /Library/Server/Web/Config/apache2/other/COM.APPLE.WEBAPP.XCODE.conf

  I am thinking about changing the YES to NO in the file tho to see if that keeps >things on lockdown incase of restarts...


Increasing write speed to MicroSD on MacbookPro

Indicated write/read speeds are always higher than what you should expect from a card.

Usually, the filesystem doesn't make a difference to the RW speeds.

Do also remember that copying many small files is significantly slower than copying one big file due to the entries required to the FS.

If you'd like to test your write speeds with the filesystem, try

dd if=/dev/zero | pv -betrP -s 100M -S | dd of=/path/to/your/device/temporaryfile

The above command will dd 100 mebibytes of zeros into a file into your microSD card, and will return a speed in MiB/s.


2015 Macbook Pro won't wake up in clamshell mode in morning only

Per our conversation in comments, the problem seems to be that your computer is going into hibernation (aka Safe Sleep) overnight, and that hibernation is interfering with waking the machine up while it's in clamshell mode. It's possible that the machine would eventually wake up, even in clamshell — waking up from hibernation can take significantly longer than waking up from sleep, and I don't know whether you've tested for that — but in any case, hibernation is a setting that can be adjusted or turned off.

When the computer goes into hibernation, it writes the entire contents of RAM to disk and then turns off power to the RAM chips, sending the machine into a low power-use state. When the machine wakes up, the RAM is turned back on and the hibernation file is read back into it, effectively returning the machine to the exact state it was in before hibernation. This was originally intended for Mac portables with swappable batteries to prevent data loss. In other words, if you were (say) on a plane doing spreadsheets or watching a movie (or whatever) and ran out of battery power, the machine would shut itself off, you could swap in a fresh battery, and the machine would restart exactly where you left off. You could also set the machine to only use hibernate mode, giving a bit extra battery life by bypassing sleep mode (which wastes power keeping RAM active while your machine is asleep). That effectively trades slower wake-ups and power-downs for better batter life. In modern machines with fixed batteries, hibernate acts as a failsafe: e.g., if the power goes out and your battery runs down, hibernate will ensure that you don't lose whatever you were working on.

Turning hibernate off mostly means you need to take responsibility for ensuring your work is saved. It has no effect aside from saving power and preventing data loss.

You control the hibernate function through the unix pmset (power management settings) utility. See: man pmset. To turn hibernate mode off completely when the machine is in charging mode (i.e., connected to a power cord), open Terminal and run the following command:

sudo pmset -c hibernatemode 0

This will turn off hibernate mode when your machine is plugged in, but keep it active when your computer is running on battery power. If you prefer to turn it off entirely in all modes, omit the -c option.

The hibernatemode setting takes three values:

hibernatemode 0: turns off hibernate for the specified power configuration
hibernatemode 3: turns on hibernate for the specified power configuration
hibernatemode 25: turns on hibernate for the specified power configuration, and sets it as the default mode, bypassing normal sleep.

It is also possible to change the way hibernate operates using the pmset settings:

standby (0/1): 'standby' tells the machine to hibernate after a set
time in sleep, saving power.
standbydelayhigh, standbydelaylow, highstandbythreshold: the first two specify a time in seconds for when to send the machine into hibernation; the last specifies a batter percentage. The threshold is usually set at 50 (half power), and longer hibernate delays are set when the battery has more power
autopoweroff, autopoweroffdelay: European-complaince equivalents ofstandby and the two 'standbydelay' settings.

You could monkey with those to fine-tune the machine's behavior, if you're so inclined.


Terminal command `screen` will not split windows vertically

I think what you want is to ctrla,shifts (split first), and then ctrla,tab to switch to the new region.  Now you can ctrla,c to create a new shell in that new region.

If you want vertical split, be sure to check the version of screen that you're running.  According to this Unix SE answer, vertical split is NOT a default feature and needs to be patched in.

The TL;DR of it is: you'll need to download and compile a new screen command with the appropriate patch (or at least a newer version if the patch has been merged into the main project).


I had a similar issue for a few weeks.  I found that the problem was with my firewall.  Even though I had told the firewall to allow all traffic to and from my ipod, it still didn't work because the firewall slowed down the internet tremendously.


You won't be abble to use the iMac as a screen.

The Target Display Mode is only supported by iMacs since the late 2009 models.


Cannot see my network on Windows 7 running under Parallels 10

Probably the virtual network interface of your Windows 7 VM uses "Shared Network". Reconfigure the NIC to bridged network and choose Ethernet or Wi-Fi (like indicated in the screenshot below) depending on your network configuration:

if your iMac is connected to the Linksys XAC 1900 via Ethernet choose "Ethernet"
if your iMac is connected to the Linksys XAC 1900 via Wi-Fi choose "Wi-Fi"

You might want to check the Firewall configuration in your Windows 7 VM as well. If the settings are to restrictive the network devices won't be visible.


erased HD, did clean install, no iLife -- can I get iLife off from MacBook DVD?

For pre-mid-2011 machines, yes, the recovery DVD is the way to reinstall iLife. For machines that ship with Lion, your account at the App Store should be credited with the iLife programs in the Purchased tab; go there, sign in, and you can redownload them.


Take webcam picture and screenshot at the same time

Something to try, add an ampersand to the end of your commands.
imagesnap -t 300&

The idea here is that the ampersand will cause the command to run in the background allowing the loop to continue to the next step.
As an example, if you were to run the following in Terminal you'll see that the second sleep reports out before the first one.
sleep 10&; sleep 5&;

I hope this helps


The iPhone does not have any support for Quicktime VR files.


Old Clash of Clans account transfered - how to create a new village?

Solution found: download CofC on another device using the same GameCenter account (my iPhone), create a village on that device, go back to the iPad and CofC offered to load my newly created village. Problem solved.


Stop Photos.app from opening when any device is connected

Simplest might be to use RCDefaultApp - old but still works on Yosemite & is free.

It installs as a Control Panel, called Default Apps.

Set Media > Camera to 'Ignore'

I actually set everything to Ignore, I prefer to do these things manually.


Apple software upgrade crashes (heap corruption in msiexec.exe) on windows 10 bootcamp

You can download straight on your internal disk. In Bootcamp assistant choose Action, then Download Windows Support Software.


Lowering volume on iphone 4 when button is broken

Double-click the home button (to show recently used applications) and swipe the bottom toolbar to the right twice. The first swipe will show you playback controls, the second one volume controls.


/bin/ls is ALWAYS showing hidden files. it should not

fd0 is correct.  I was running as root.  Though I have to say that I'm completely baffled as to why this should be the case.  Well, whatever, nobody cares about my bafflement.  Sorry for the wasted bandwidth.
i can't figure out how to give fd0 credit.


Copy and Paste files into the same directory using Terminal

So, does it matter if the file is the same file?

ie: Let say there is a picture google.png

and you want it to copied into the same dir 4 times.

as an in that directory you would have
google.png google 2.png google 3.png google 4.png?

If thats what you want:

for i in {1..4}
  do
     cp google.png "google$i.png"
  done

But if you want the "images" files to be different, and they are going to be gibrish files, but 10m in size exactly

you wanna do something like

for i in {1..5}
   do
      dd if=/dev/random of="yourfilename$i.test" bs=12428800 count=1
   done

This will make four files that are 10m in size filled with bunch of random characters.

Comment and let me know what you really want and I can go back and redo this.

It would help if you posted your script that fails so I can see what youre trying to do.

EDIT:

Changed the in device from /dev/zero to /dev/random to generate random file content.


MacBook Pro Retina takes a few seconds to power on display after sleep

Maybe the excerpt below can explain.

The full article can be found on OS X Daily, Is Your Mac Slow to Wake from Sleep? Try this pmset Workaround:

  If your MacBook Pro or MacBook Air feels slow to wake from sleep after it’s been sleeping for a while, there may be a fairly simple cause: standby mode. Standby mode allows a Mac to potentially have up to 30 days of ‘standby’ time, meaning it can sit in a prolonged sleep state for that long before draining the battery. Basically, standby (and sleep) works by dumping everything out of active RAM into a sleep image file on the hard drive, and then when the Mac wakes from sleep that sleep image file is copied back from the hard drive to RAM. You may have guessed this already, but the reason some Macs take a long time to wake from sleep is that process of copying contents of sleepimage back into memory, and typically the more RAM you have in a Mac the slower the process can be. As you can imagine, it can take a while to copy 8GB or 16GB of data anywhere, even when a Mac has a super fast SSD drive it’s reading from.


You can authorize up to five computers to use your iTunes account. If you have not used all five computers and you trust these friends, you could authorize their computer on your account, watch your movie, and then de-authorize the computer.


It uses port 443.

It is the default port for HTTPS, though, so it will affect a lot of other applications and services other than PhotoStream.


Does iTunes have a limit on the number of movies it can list?

Be careful about creating a new library - make sure you have a backup first of the Library files first!

I've "lost" things in iTunes too.  Try creating a new playlist, and drag one of the missing movie files from the Finder right into the new playlist.  Even if it's already in iTunes, this will add it to the playlist.  If it's not in iTunes, this will add it to the Library and the playlist.

If it shows up in the playlist, but it's still not in the Movies section, check the "Media Kind" value on the Get Info -> Options tab.  Make sure it's set to "Movie", not "Home Video" or something else.

If it can't be added to the playlist at all (and really isn't somewhere else in iTunes already), it's probably in a format that iTunes doesn't support.  I know you said most of the HB-encoded movies are there, but that doesn't mean that some of them aren't somehow encoded (or maybe tagged) differently, and iTunes is choking on that.  Check the encoding settings carefully in QuickTime and VLC, and the tags in MetaX or the equivalent.


You can use ⌥ + ↓/↑ or ⌥ + ←/→ to navigate pages without the sliding effect.


Configuring a Mac to use Oxford spelling

LibreOffice's British English dictionary has support for Oxford English. You can download the .dic and .aff files from https://github.com/ropensci/hunspell/tree/master/inst/dict and place the files in ~/Library/Spelling – either manually, or using the terminal:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ropensci/hunspell/master/inst/dict/en_GB.aff -O ~/Library/Spelling/en_GB.aff
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ropensci/hunspell/master/inst/dict/en_GB.dic -O ~/Library/Spelling/en_GB.dic

Then log out and log in again, or restart your machine.

You should now be able to go to your keyboard preferences (Apple menu → System Preferences…), choose the Text tab and enable the new dictionary under Spelling. It should be called “British English (Library)”:

Here's a screenshot of a Safari text field spell checked with this dictionary:

P.S: If you choose to enable auto-detection of the language used for spell checking, it doesn't seem to use these “Library” dictionaries, so you might need to right click in text fields, open Spelling and grammar and explicitly set the language to British English (Library) to get it to work.


Your question is not very clear, but the problem is most likely to do with Partition Map Scheme :  Master Boot Record - this should be Partition Scheme: GUID Partition Table for a bootable OS X disk for a Mac with an Intel processor (the ones that have been sold by Apple for the last 6+ years).

The Partition Map Scheme :  Master Boot Record scheme is popular on Microsoft operating systems and can be used for disks that are not bootable on OS X and are required to just store data.


macOS 10.14.3 runs incredibly slow on my iMac

As on now, macOS Mojave 10.14.4 is the latest stable release. Consider updating your iMac and see if that fixes the performance issues.

What you are observing may be due to performance optimization related issues.


By default Photos copies everything into its own library on import. You can disable this in Preferences->General

Pictures which are not kept within the library itself won't be available in iCloud though (which may or may not be a problem for you).

If you want to use iCloud (e.g. for sharing of pictures between iPhone and Mac) you can keep the option selected and import the pictures into the library in batches. You could then also decide to keep the originals in the iCloud library only, and just have Photos automatically download hires pictures on demand. Settings for this are in the iCloud tab of Photos' preferences.


Remove all external disks (just for safety reasons). If possible also remove all internal disks except the boot disk or "refresh" your backups.

The proposed command (dd) used improperly can be deadly for your data.

Open Terminal.app and get the disk identifier of the disk containing the DVD partition:

diskutil list

Unmount the disk:

#replace diskX by the disk identifier of the "DVD disk" you found previously
diskutil umountDisk /dev/diskX

Overwrite the first sectors of the disk with

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/diskX bs=4096 count=8

This will zero the first 8 physical blocks (or 8 4k/64 512b logical blocks) of the partition and should remove any "DVD hints".

Open Disk Utility and try to erase/repartition the disk again.


How do I delete Time Machine backups of my Trash?

Time Machine shouldn't be backing up the trash folder(s) under normal circumstances.

In any case, you might want to use Terminal command tmutil delete command to delete the offending files.

tmutil delete /Volumes/DISK/Backups.backupdb/HOST/DATE/Macintosh HD/.Trashes


preinstalled iOS apps in other languages

You could go here

https://support.apple.com/kb/SP692?locale=en_US

And switch the language to spanish


How can I navigate backward and forward using a Rapoo Optical Mouse?

The solution is to use USB Overdrive. I could remap Button 4 and Button 5. Make sure you use Keyboard Shortcut and select Back and Forward from Keyboard shortcut to type.


Why is parallels giving me the error "there is no disk in the drive"?

I got this exact same problem. Windows 7 on Parallels installed via ISO DVD running VS 2010 MVC 4. I can't answer why this happens, but just keep clicking 'Continue', it'll load your site eventually. If you look in the Output window you can see it's making progress.

This only appears to happen the first time you start your project.


What are locked files (already inside Trash)?

A locked file can be a lock placed on a file by a process to ensure that the file is available while the process is running. In a second form a lock file has a user defined lock in the file's inode metadata.


Confusion about installing ESXi on Apple hardware

I don't believe that Apple has any goal of supporting ESXi natively. Officially Apple supports installation of macOS and Windows via bootcamp on certain Apple hardware, afiak.
I believe the ball is in VMware's court: if VMware wants to include support for Apple hardware configurations they're free to do so. They even might get lucky and an Apple product matches a hardware configuration that they already support. I'm not aware of Apple contributing to the VMware code, and from what I understand Apple is not likely to design a hardware configuration specifically around the ability to support existing ESXi code.
If you want to run VMWare guest operating systems on Apple hardware that isn't explicitly supported by VMWare for ESXi you might want to investigate if VMWare Fusion meets your requirements.


Does Yosemite's Continuity use WiFi or Bluetooth to carry Voice?

From ArsTechnica:

  Unlike Handoff, the feature [phone calls] doesn’t appear to use Bluetooth at all, and unlike AirDrop, it doesn’t require your device to support peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections. Unlike so many of the other Continuity features, this one looks like it should work fine even if you’re using an iPhone 4S with an iMac or MacBook Pro from 2007.

  Given what we know about how it works and about other features being added to iOS 8, the ability to take and make phone calls from a Mac or iPad is likely an extension of the voice over IP (VoIP) capabilities that power FaceTime Audio in iOS 7 and OS X 10.9.2. Rather than sending voice over the Internet between two Apple devices, it appears to be communicating between two devices on your local network to deliver voice calls.


Outlook crashes after adding second account after upgrading to iOS 9 on iPhone 6

The only reliable way I had to resolve this issue was to delete the application and then reinstall it from the App store.

To do this, on the screen with the Outlook app, press and hold the icon until it starts shaking, then click the 'x' in the top left hand corner. Then go to the App Store and redownload the app.

You'll need to do the configuration of it again unfortunately, but it shouldn't take too long.


How to copy part of an image using Apple Pencil

Here's what I did.

With the Google search result image you want to use on screen, swipe diagonally up from the bottom left corner of the iPad screen. This will take a screenshot.
You have to use your fingers for this bit, but crop your screenshot to just the part of the image you want to copy.
In the top right corner use the share icon (arrow pointing up from a square).
Select "Copy"
Switch to OneNote
Paste!

You can also add OneNote to the share menu to share directly. In this little video I've already added it to mine.
https://imgur.com/a/RDKzUJC


At the bottom of every Automator action is an Options button. Click it and you'll reveal a panel that includes a checkbox for Ignore this action's input. Check that box on the first action of your second workflow and it won't use the first workflow's output.


What product is used in OSX to edit word or openoffice documents and also works with PDF?

Preserving the layout and appearance from text in a PDF when copying it to anther text processing tool is almost an impossible task, both on OSX and Windows.

I'd suggest two things:

Export to .rtf. In Windows using Acrobat Professional you can export as .rtf, which can be opened by Microsoft Word (among others) and is (sometimes) a close approximation of the layout and still allows for editing the text.
On OSX there appears to be tools that allows exporting to .rtf as well, like this one: File Juicer (never actually tried or used it). You can then open the .rtf file using Word, OpenOffice, etc.
screenshot - However, if post-editing text is not of your concerns, I'd go for a screenshot from the PDF that you paste into whatever editor you are using.


How do I know where is a specific contact stored by Apple Contacts.app?

The Contacts database is stored in a single SQLite3 database per source. You can find a list of databases by running the following command:

find ~/Library/Application\ Support/AddressBook/ -name "AddressBook-v22.abcddb"

These databases can be exported using

sqlite3 /path/to/AddressBook-v22.abcddb .dump > ~/Desktop/export

The export can be searched using a text editor or Numbers.

I wouldn't recommend editing the SQLite database directly though.


How do I create an easily accessible directory outside of /Users/?

I changed my Dropbox directory to /links/Dropbox with no problems the Dropbox app created a subdirectory Dropbox there. I created this directory with New Folder from the Finder

links mark$ ls -l
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 mark      admin  102 25 May 17:18 Dropbox
drwxrwxrwx   3 mark      admin  102 30 Nov 20:10 V
drwxr-xr-x   5 mark      admin  170 30 Nov 20:32 VirtualMachines

and

links mark$ ls -l Dropbox/
total 0
drwx------@ 24 mark  staff  816 25 May 17:18 Dropbox


How do I open folders in new windows/tabs by default in the Finder in 10.9?

The closest solution is to go to Finder Preferences > General, uncheck the "Open folders in tabs instead of new windows" option, and then use Cmd + double click to open in a new window.

Source: Apple Support Communities - Mavericks Finder - how default to "double click opens new window"?


Open Keychain Access.app in your Applications > Utilities folder.
Highlight the login keychain on the left sidebar.
Select one of the sites you see the popup from the list of credentials and double-click to get the info panel.
On that panel select "Access Control".
Below "Always allow access by these applications" click on +, and navigate to Safari in your Applications folder. Save changes.
Close Keychain Access and restart Safari.

(adapted from this answer. You may need to do steps 3-5 for each site for which that problem is occurring; I'm not certain.)


Command-line stop MacBook from sleeping when lid is closed?

Disable Sleeping when the lid is closed running on battery

sudo pmset -b sleep 0; sudo pmset -b disablesleep 1

Re-enable sleeping when the lid is closed running on battery

sudo pmset -b sleep 5; sudo pmset -b disablesleep 0

Remember to re-enable or manually sleep your machine before putting it into a bag.
It will get very hot very quickly in an enclosed space.


Advice on upgrading OS X 10.10.5 (Yosemite)

Welcome to the world of upgrading! These days, both Operating Systems and applications are regularly updated to keep pace with progress.
'Not upgrading' has the advantage that you reached a static point where everything works (or at least has fixed, known bugs). The problem comes, as you've found out, when you want something new, and it requires a newer OS than yours.
Upgrading 'one big jump' from very old software is more difficult than just 'the next version', because the change is so much larger. You will almost certainly have to update all your apps to match the OS, so you should check that there is a version compatible with the latest macOS (Catalina) for each one.
The good news is that any company still in business is likely to have current versions. Apple, as you would expect, has current versions of KeyNote, Pages and Numbers. Dropbox and other cloud services all have current versions.
The bad news is that some companies may require payment for newer versions.
There will always be unresolved bugs in any OS. But now is a good time in the 'annual cycle' to update, as Catalina is on its sixth and final release, so it's as good as it's going to get.
You should always download from Apple and nowhere else. Apple does make it difficult to obtain 'non-current' versions of the OS. This article provides links to some earlier versions on the Mac App Store.
https://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac-software/download-old-os-x-3629363/#toc-3629363-2
If you have any software that runs as 32-bit binaries, with no updates available to 64-bit versions, then you may prefer to run Mojave (10.14) instead of Catalina. Catalina can only run 64-bit executable code, and won't run older 32-bit code.
If you do have old apps that don't have upgrades available, then you have two options: either use a separate volume with the earlier OS and boot to that when you want to use those apps; or use Virtual Machine software, such as Parallels, VMWare or VirtualBox, to create an 'OS within an OS', where you can use the older software.
Generally, it's best to keep up (to some extent) with new versions regularly. You don't always have to be on the very latest: you can be '1 year behind', for instance. But keeping up ensures that you receive important security fixes, as well as bug fixes; and that you don't fall behind into the situation you are now in.
It can be a bit of a pain when every time you launch an app to do some work, there's an alert that a new version is available: do you want to install it now? But it's good to set a small amount of time to deal with 'software admin'. Some apps (and those from the Mac App Store) can be set to install silently in the background.
Relying on software that is not being maintained is not a great place to be. Old, unsupported software will require old hardware, which eventually break down and become hard to repair or replace.


Text substitution does not work with Slack on Yosemite

Even after following the instructions in the accepted answer, this still did not work for me until I followed these instructions. Basically, run the following in a terminal:

defaults write -g WebAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled -bool true

or to only change Slack's behavior (and not pollute your global domain):

defaults write com.tinyspeck.slackmacgap WebAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled -bool true


To use Target Display mode with a Thunderbolt equipped iMac you need another Thunderbolt equipped Mac and a Thunderbolt cable [emphasis is mine]:

  iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011) and iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011) support Target Display Mode via Thunderbolt to Thunderbolt cable (2 m) when the source is another Thunderbolt-equipped computer.

Source: iMac (Mid 2011): Target Display Mode does not work with Mini DisplayPort cable

If your MacBook Air has Mini DisplayPort then it will not work. More here about what options will work.


How can I bulk-edit Address Book, in particular to split the contents of First Name into First Name, Last Name?

If you are comfortable with AppleScript, you should be able to get it done using this web page as a starting point: http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20070813135408868

Otherwise, you can export one or more cards in the vCard format, open that up in a file editor and it looks like a properly separated name field looks like this: "N:Smith;Joe;;;" so if yours look like "N:Joe Smith;;;;" and you are comfortable with regular expressions you should be able to work out a search and replace that would look for 'N:(word1) (word2);' and replace it with 'N:(word2);(word1)'. I think that would give you the right number of ';'.


That is very simple using uname with the r option.

uname -r

and

sysctl -n kern.osrelease

would give you the same results.


Globally Disable Notifications on Lock Screen

A simple solution (to cancel one by one more complicated):

A new option "When the screen is locked" has been added under notifications -> do not disturb section in Catalina OS as below:


You can't. iPhone call history is limited to the last 100 entries. Older entries are hidden but they might be available through a 3rd-party app.


Applescript exits return loop before complete

I would have gone about this a bit differently.

First, I'd use Disk Arbitrator so the external disks would mount read-only and not preform any Spotlight indexing. There's no need to allow indexing if the target is just .qbb and .qbo files to be found using the find command.

Second, I'd use an Automator Folder Action with a Run Shell Script action, as IMO it's just much easier to code.

The following example bash code preforms these tasks:

Creates all destination directories as needed.
Handles disks with multiple volumes.
Finds the .qbb and .qbo files and copies them.
Ejects the target disk when finished copying.
Notifies the process has completed.

Also, as an Automator Folder Action there is a icon on the menu bar which aside from being a visual indicator a process is running, it also allows one to terminate the process if necessary.

Setup the Automator Folder Action as shown below:

        Hint: Open image in new tab to clearly see settings.

When the process is finished it displays the following notification and makes a sound, which can be omitted if not wanted.

Example bash code:

p="$HOME/00_QBB"

[ ! -d "${p}" ] && mkdir "${p}"

for d in "$@"; do
    n="$(basename "$d")"
    mkdir -p "${p}/${n}"
    find "$d" -type f \( -iname '*.qbb' -o -iname '*.qbo' \) -exec cp -an {} "${p}/${n}" \;
done

sleep 3
diskutil eject "$1"

osascript -e 'display notification "Insert another disk to start new search..." with title "QuickBooks File Recovery" subtitle "The find command has completed." sound name "Purr"

Obviously you might be inserting disks that you do not need to or want to search, so you can use Folder Action Setup to enable/disable this easily.

I use Spotlight to bring up Folder Action Setup and then check/uncheck the checkboxes as necessary.


Smartctl doesn't show SMART data for any of my NVMe drives

You can try using this command instead:
smartctl -a -T verypermissive disk18

This will ask smartctl to ignore even more quirks.
Note that this effectively just ignores the fact that the drive is not responding properly to SMART commands that it ought to handle. If you can retrieve some information from the drive using this option, you're lucky - but there's going to be stuff missing from the reports.
Note that it might well be that your drive supports these commands, but the USB-enclosure you're using does not support passing them through. It is always easier to work with something directly connected rather than having it go through a USB-bridge.
If you have a different enclosure, I would try that as a test first.


From command line open package installer

You can just use the open command:

open package.pkg


File upload dialog file picker groups files by sizes

The drop menu, top left, can set by several criteria, including by Size.

If you set that to None, then you can quickly sort by any column header by clicking it.


Stop iPhone from vibrating when recording a voice message in Signal or WhatsApp

This is a system setting and can be fixed in settings.

Go to Settings -> Sound and turn off "Vibrate on Ring".


I'm not sure about only the backlight, but it is possible to replace the entire display assembly. With this computer, it is however a very difficult replacement. Read this guide and follow it carefully, being sure to allot several hours for the replacement.

With that said, given the age of this MacBook, it may not be worth fixing it up depending how much it costs.


Change the order of email accounts in iOS

Since iOS 6, you can re-order mail accounts in the Mail app by pressing Edit at the Mailboxes screen, and dragging to rearrange.

They should have had this option from the start.


Is there the dark mode (inverted colors) in the 'Preview' Application for PDF reading?

I had the same problem so I wrote simple and free app for Mac to read PDFs in negative. App offers two negative modes (colour inversion and colour inversion with sepia).

It is called  Negative and it is free on the Mac App Store


Can Siri be used effectively by someone who stutters when they speak?

It’s hard to answer definitively, because it greatly varies depending on the degree to which the person stutters.

I have a stutter, though it’s fairly mild these days thanks to a few decades of working to correct it. I do make a conscious effort to form my thoughts completely before speaking to Siri, and I’ll still stutter on occasion. Sometimes the result is workable, because Siri doesn’t need to recognize exact sentences, but instead relies on general meaning and keywords; other times I just have to start over.

It happens infrequently enough that it doesn’t bother me. Now if you stutter a lot it might become frustrating, but that depends on your patience level, and once again on the extent to which you stutter. And even someone who stutters “a lot” may do so in a way that is easy for a machine to correct, if that makes any sense.

As an aside, I think most people have to form complete thoughts in their heads before speaking to an AI. The state of the technology doesn’t enable it to deal with what would be considered “normal” speech patterns anyway, with all its hesitations, self-corrections, etc.

From my limited knowledge of speech impediments, different people struggle with different phonemes, certain sounds in specific arrangements, etc. Myself, I struggle greatly with the “W” sound at the start of a sentence (among other things). This is highly workable with Siri, because if I can get past the very first letter of a question, then I’m usually good to go

For the most part, interactions with Siri are fairly short. “What time is it?” “Shuffle my Favorites playlist.” “Give me directions to Starbucks.” I’d say if you have reliable mechanisms/tricks for working around your hurdles in short bursts, you’ll find Siri pretty usable.

Sorry for all the “It depends,” but hopefully this helps at least a little. There is solace in that Apple has been focusing on Siri’s error rate, and accessibility is an area of importance to Apple.

And quite frankly, even native speakers with no speech impediment complain about Siri’s error rate all the time  I’m just trying to say there is going to be a baseline amount of frustration with the technology no matter what.

I would recommend relaying your experience with Siri to Apple. Also Tim Cook appears to read all emails he receives, though he may not always respond. He cares deeply about users with accessibility needs, as he has made evident on numerous occasions. I’m not going to post his email address here, but it’s easy to search for.


Extract /var/mobile/containers/data/application from an IPhone or backup

Apps can choose to not include data in their container from an iTunes backup, so the folder won't appear in a backup. Snapchat do this, which means the container isn't backed up when you do an iTunes backup and the data inside won't be able to be accessed.

You can't access other app's containers without jailbreaking. Unfortunately, this means that data isn't accessible.


Yes, you can unsubscribe from a PC:

Make sure iTunes is installed, then open it up. From the menu Account choose View Account and sign in with your Apple-ID.

Now select View Account again, and in the Settings section click “Manage” besides Subscriptions.

From the list of subscriptions, press Edit for the HBO subscription you want to cancel. Now select that you want to Cancel, and confirm your cancellation.

An alternative option is to call Apple and let them help you cancel the subscription.


How can I import a PGP public key into Keychain Access.app?

I think you're trying to mix two different encryption schemes here: S/MIME and PGP. Mail.app supports S/MIME by default, so I guess that's what you're currently using. PGP support can be added by installing the Mail plugin that is part of the GPG Suite. After you also generate a PGP key for yourself, you can use both S/MIME and PGP encryption. You can receive and decode both, and for each email you're sending, you can choose which one to use.

GPG Suite contains a separate GPG Keychain app for PGP keys.


Is there a way to recover missing or corrupt parts of a mov-file?

ffmpeg has -err_detect ignore_err which might find more of the video.
Install ffmpeg (install Homebrew then brew install ffmpeg), then transcode the video:
ffmpeg -err_detect ignore_err -i path/to/input.mov -c copy path/to/output.mov


OSX: How to compare and merge two folders and their subfolders and differing files of the same origin

The rsync command line tool is able to merge two folders.
You'll need to open a terminal window. Take a look at the manual pages

man rsync

There may be a one liner but the following steps are non-destructive since you won't change your source folders.

Create a new folder (dest)
Sync source1_path to dest
Sync source2_path to dest

Here the script - check the manual pages for additional options

rsync -rv source1_path/ dest
rsync -rv source2_path/ dest

The following commands also create copies for non-identical files which exist in both source directories (with a difference in size or timestamp for example)

rsync -rv --backup --suffix=_source1 source1_path/ dest
rsync -rv --backup --suffix=_source2 source2_path/ dest


So the bad news is that XCode is needed for its iOS Simulator as well as its Application Loader facility for actually uploading the programs to iOS devices for "real" testing. You'll need XCode for signing your apps before submitting to the App Store. Unfortunately, XCode is only available for OS X.

However, the good news is that you may be able to purchase OS X and run it in a virtual machine such as VMWare Workstation. I don't know how straightforward this is, as it is rather difficult to get OS X to run on non-Apple hardware, but a quick Google search shows that it is possible. This method would (likely) be cheaper than purchasing a new Mac, although the Mac Mini retails in the US for only $599. Some posts I've seen indicate that this may or may not be legal, others say you need OS X Server for virtualization. I'll leave the research up to you.

There are also services such as MacInCloud that allow you to rent a Mac server that you can access from Windows via remote desktop, or through your browser. Unfortunately, I don't think you'd be able to use Application Loader, as you have to physically connect the device to your computer, but it would work for development and simulation, at least.

Good luck!


The Dock was moved to the right side of the screen but still auto displays when cursor on bottom?

If you get unexpected behaviour after manually moving or adjusting the Dock, you can try restarting the Dock.

Open your Terminal (Applications > Other > Terminal or search for Terminal in Spotlight)

Type killall Dock after the prompt and enter.

Your Dock should restart with the expected behaviour.  You can verify your settings in the System Preferences > Dock

Edit: It May be necessary to reset the Dock to factory settings then customize as needed. Some have experienced various dock bugs in Sierra.

Open the Terminal
Type (or copy and paste) defaults delete com.apple.dock; killall Dock
Hit return


Xcode 6 and MacBookPro 2014 128 Gig with Yosemite - OVERHEATING and Long Load Time

If you have a Developer account you can download the DMG directly form here


Install El Capitan in Virtual Box for testing purposes

The instructions below, found in Creating a bootable El Capitan ISO image, worked for me after a download of OS X El Capitan from the App Store.

hdiutil attach "/Applications/Install OS X El Capitan.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg" -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/esd
hdiutil create -o ElCapitan3.cdr -size 7316m -layout SPUD -fs HFS+J
hdiutil attach ElCapitan3.cdr.dmg -noverify -nobrowse -mountpoint /Volumes/iso
asr restore -source /Volumes/esd/BaseSystem.dmg -target /Volumes/iso -noprompt -noverify -erase
rm /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation/Packages
cp -rp /Volumes/esd/Packages /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/System/Installation
cp -rp /Volumes/esd/BaseSystem.chunklist /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/
cp -rp /Volumes/esd/BaseSystem.dmg /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System/
hdiutil detach /Volumes/esd
hdiutil detach /Volumes/OS\ X\ Base\ System
hdiutil convert ElCapitan3.cdr.dmg -format UDTO -o ElCapitan3.iso
mv ElCapitan3.iso.cdr ElCapitan3.iso

Additionally for running within VirtualBox:

Create a new OS X El Capitan from Wizard.
Change "System->chipset" to PIIX3, mount created ISO and boot up.
If you only see a the CD/DVD as installation target within the installation program choose "Utilities > Disk Utility" and erase the VirtualBox disk, which will lead to an empty HFS+ Journaled disk, which now could be chosen as target.


Does FileVault encrypt my BootCamp partition?

No, Windows does not support FileVault (so it would not boot if it was encrypted thus!) The Windows option would be BitLocker.

(perhaps it is more correct to say FileVault does not support anything but Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions)

If you need a great, free, cross-platform, open-source, strong encryption tool check out VeraCrypt.

Can you use FileVault on your Mac OS X partition and BitLocker on your Boot Camp Windows partition at the same time?

Theoretically it should be fine but I don't think I would do it for two reasons.

There are quite a few mentions (if you google) of the Boot Camp partition failing to boot if FileVault isn't enabled in a very specific way. That could be from early FileVault and everything might be fine now but it makes me nervous enough. If you do it clone your drive first.
It's really useful to be able to share information between operating systems. If you have both encrypted using a method the other can't handle you lose that ability. However, if you use VeraCrypt, you can host a partition file on either OS and access it from both, and mount it as required - as well as back it up, archive it etc. If you're worried about encryption strength, VeraCrypt is also the better option as you can configure it for truly paranoid security. I also like the thought that crypto experts are able to look at the source and would have blown the whistle on it by now if it claimed to be something which it was not.


iPhone 5 slowly fails to connect to wifi

If re-setting your network connections didn't help, it could be a hardware problem.

Depending on when it was made, it could be that your WiFi chip inside the phone has pulled  (or, rather, is in the process of pulling) off of the circuit board. Late 4S models also had this problem, and here's how it manifests (progressively):

Very slow speeds / drops connection to the network intermittently
Stops seeing most (or all) networks, but the WiFi button still works, it's not grayed out
Can't turn WiFi on at all, the button is grayed out in the settings menu - but the WiFi button in the control center might appear to work.

If your phone is under warranty, then take it to an Apple store and have them replace it. Believe it or not, the repair is quite easy, so if it's out of warranty and you know of a place that fixes phones, they've probably got some spare chips and won't charge too much. Apparently, it's a manufacturing defect, so a repaired phone fixed by someone that knows their stuff could last quite some time.

This has only been a problem with certain 4S and 5 models, you'll see a bunch of people reporting it if you search for something like "iPhone in freezer" - because (believe it or not), putting your phone in a Ziplock and then freezing it for a few minutes has been known to fix the problem for a short time (though I don't recommend doing this).

AFAIK, this isn't an issue with 5C, 5S or recently (as in the last year) manufactured iPhone 5 units. Could be a good opportunity to upgrade, even if you manage to get it fixed.


-bash: export: `Drive/Courses/Programming/nand2tetris/tools': not a valid identifier

It sounds like either your $PATH has been changed.

Here is a link to reset your $PATH: https://superuser.com/questions/121870/how-do-i-reset-the-path-variable-on-mac-os-x


If my app *links* to pirated content, does my app "contain, display or access third-party content”?

Yes, it is highly likely your app will be deemed to "contain, display, or access third-party content".

Apple considers links to content the application developer's responsibility. You must prove to Apple you have permission to use the content being linked to or included.

If your application is judged, by Apple, to break laws or promote the breaking of laws, the application will be rejected. These may be the laws of judicial zones other than your own.


How can I move my signature from one Mac Mail account to another?

It seems like you are trying to do two different things a) attach an image to a signature; b) assign a signature to an account.

To attach an image to your signature.

After you open the Apple Mail preferences click on the Signature tab.
In the left column click on 'All Signatures'.
Either click on an existing signature, or click on the '+' button below the middle column. Then select your new signature.
In the right column, after editing your signature, place the cursor where you would like the image to appear.
Open Finder and navigate to the location of the image you would like to ado your signature.
Left-click and hold, then drag the image file to the signature panel. Then release the mouse button.

You should now see the image in your signature.

To assign a signature to an account.

After you open the Apple Mail preferences click on the Signature tab.
In the left column click on 'All Signatures'.
Click in the middle column.
Left-click and hold on the signature you want to associate with the new account.
Drag the signature to the new account and release the mouse button.

FYI, if you have multiple signature assigned to an account, you can change the order in which the signatures automatically appear by drawing them in said order. Then from the “Choose Signature” pop-up menu, below the signatures panel, select “In Sequential Order”.


I've been able to solve this as follows:

use iTunes to sync from iOS to Mac to create unencrypted iPhone backup
obtain and start iPhone Backup Extractor for OS X
select latest backup, then Expert Mode, then Application Domains, then com.elgato.eve, Documents, Elgato Systems##EveWeather##*sql (* stands for what looks like a device serial number) and extract SQL file to ~/Desktop/
sqlite3 ~/Desktop/Application\ Domains/com.elgato.eve/Documents/Elgato Systems##EveWeather##*sql reveals that the database contains 3 tables, one for humidity, temperature, and air pressure each
export tables e.g. to CSV files, then import e.g. into Excel


Have you checked your contacts groups? If you click the groups button on the top left you can check which contact groups you want to see (such as google or iCloud contacts). You may have accidentally disabled some.


Internet won't work but still receive iMessage.

There are two things that you need to pay attention:

First: Having Cellular Data ON allows a user to select apps that can access the internet via a cellular connection.
So first check whether the app with which you are trying to access the internet is allowed to use Cellular Data or not. The list of apps can be found here:
Settings > Mobile Data > Use Mobile Data For:

Second: iMessage sends messages via Cellular Network when Cellular Data or Wifi is not available. So maybe you are getting your messages via cellular network and you are not connected to the internet even though your Cellular Data is ON.


After searching for weeks, and getting nowhere, and then finally posting to stackexchange a friend of mine has told me what the solution is! The OS X app store has an "OpenGL Extensions Viewer" published by "Developer Tools, and it is free.

Install it and click the OpenGL tab and it shows you the versions of OpenGL and the compliancy. Right now (July 26, Mountain Lion) 3.2 is 70% supported on my Mac Mini Server with Intel HD Graphics 3000 card.


Sound output source changes based on the kind of sound?

Make sure You have the right output set in Preferences -> Sound -> Sound Effects


Creating A Stack That Shows Recently Used Applications etc In The Dock?

Yes, it is possible using the following Terminal command:

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }' && killall -HUP Dock

This adds a stack to the right end of the Dock (before the Trash) that lists your recently-used apps.

Upon right-clicking on the stack, you can choose from multiple recents lists, and change the style of the list, as well as remove it from the Dock. Running the above command multiple times will add multiple stacks to the Dock, which you can customise individually.


How can I sync my google calendar with my work exchange calendar with my iphone calendar?

The only way I've been able to do this (given that my employer will not allow my iPhone, etc. to connect to Exchange) is to have my primary calendar on my Google Calendar account be my work calendar, use the Google Calendar Sync application on my workstation at the office (always running) to sync from Outlook to Google (it supports only one calendar on Google's side, so whatever it chooses to sync with is your "primary" calendar and, thus, your work calendar), and sync my iPhone with my Google Calendars (see here).

It's not the most elegant solution, so I really hope someone posts something better that I can implement.  But so far it's working just fine syncing meetings from work to my phone (one way, I believe... never tried to schedule a meeting from the phone).


TextEdit - quickly switch between colors

There are two ways that I can think of:

One involves running an apple script and mapping keys, which is difficult depending on your skill level, it is described in this post:

http://macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=19711

The script requires that you have support for assistive services enabled, which I had to do.  This can be found at: /Applications/System Preferences/Accessibility/

I've extracted the script here.

All you need to do is save the three files changing one line:
activate application "TextEdit"
tell application "System Events" to tell text area 1 of scroll area 1 of window 1 of process "TextEdit" to if exists then
    set {x, y} to value of attribute "AXSelectedTextRange"
    if x ≤ y then tell application "TextEdit" to set color of document 1's characters x thru y to {0, 0, 0}
end if

All you need to do is copy the above text and then save it as a file called "black (or whatever you want).scpt"
For changes to Blue you need to change the second to last line to:

{0, 0, 65535}

For Red; and

{65535, 0, 0}

For Black just use the one I posted above.

Then you will need to assign the AppleScript files to a keyboard shortcut via Automator, although there are third party tools that make this easy.

The other uses the shortcut: Command + shift + T and having the three colours already defined in the boxes below. I assume you are already doing this? And it does not really qualify as keyboard shortcuts.


AppleScript error: “Finder got an error: Network file permission error.”

Upgrading to Catalina solved this problem, and the twin problem I had: App Store on Mojave: "We could not complete your purchase. cancelled".


Is it safe to let apps use Touch ID on an iOS device?

The application does not have access to the fingerprint data stored on the device. The API provided by Apple tells the app if the auth process was successful by a simple yes/no value. No hash is provided. Here's the documentation.

Also the fingerprint data is stored in the device's "Secure Enclave" and is not accessible.

  The Secure Enclave is part of the A7 and newer chips used for Touch ID. Within the Secure Enclave, the fingerprint data is stored in an encrypted form which - according to Apple - can only be decrypted by a key available by the Secure Enclave thus making fingerprint data walled off from the rest of the A7 Chip and the rest of iOS.

Source: The iPhone Wiki


How can I get DNS resolution on-line and offline for virtual machine and local app using dnsmasq or similar

mDNSResponder and dnsmasq have to run both: dnsmasq is the lightweight DNS-server (and DHCP/Router) and mDNSResponder is responsible for all local queries.

To set up dnsmasq in OS X in your environment properly do the following:

Remove any DNS-server in the network preferences of the dnsmasq host (your MacBook Air) except 127.0.0.1.

Remove any DNS-server in the network preferences of the VMs in use and replace them by the IP-address of the VM-host (your MacBook Air).

Remove any file in /etc/resolver/. Usually they aren't necessary.
You may keep them but then they probably should have this form:

/etc/resolver/rab with the content

nameserver    127.0.0.1

/etc/resolver/tig with the content

nameserver    127.0.0.1

The logic behind this is mentioned in resolver(5):

  domain
           Domain name associated with this resolver configuration. This option is normally not     required by the Mac OS X DNS search system when the resolver configuration is read from a     file in the /etc/resolver
       directory.  In that case the file name is used as the domain name.      However, domain must be provided
       when there are multiple resolver clients for the same     domain name, since multiple files may not exist
       having the same name.  See the SEARCH     STRATEGY section for more details.

Then edit /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf and add/modify

server=/rab/192.168.0.2 #your main IP-address or 127.0.0.1
server=/tig/192.168.0.2 #your main IP-address or 127.0.0.1
server=8.8.8.8 #forwarder
addn-hosts=/usr/local/etc/hosts/hosts.conf

Now add the hosts.conf file in /usr/local/etc/hosts/ with the content:

127.0.0.1   localhost
192.168.56.1    abc.rab
192.168.56.2    abc.tig

Then restart dnsmasq with launchctl to load the new conf files.

Since your Windows VM already is in the bridged Wi-Fi network you can completely dump the host-only network and modify /usr/local/etc/hosts/hosts.conf:

127.0.0.1   localhost
192.168.0.2 abc.rab #IP-address of the MacBook Air Wi-Fi interface
192.168.0.3 abc.tig #IP-address of the Windows bridge interface


What does "[Update Needed]" mean when attempting to boot from an encrypted backup?

Try this: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3321886?start=0&tstart=0

To begin, make a backup.
Disable FileVault.
Check for updates again.
Apply update if possible.
Boot into recovery mode by holding Command ⌘->kbd>R at startup.
Run Repair Disk Permissions in Disk Utility.
Enable FileVault again.


Preventing iCloud from syncing internet accounts in OS X Mavericks

iCloud syncs Internet Accounts through the Keychain. You can disable Internet Accounts syncing by disabling the Keychain service in System Preferences → iCloud.


Is it my imagination or do iPods charge faster using a car charger?

The answer to this question is that "it depends" and it is actually quite possible that your car charger is charging your devices faster than the AC charger you use at home. In both cases, there is significant power available at the source to do the charging relative to the number of watts being used to charge the device. That is, both the AC wall outlet and the cigarette lighter socket are both going to have "hundreds" of WATTS available if not more whereas the device being charged is only going to be consuming maybe "tens" of WATTs at the most during peak charging rates.

Therefore what makes the difference is the amount of power being OUTPUT by the particular charger itself....you just need to check the ratings of the charger and see how much power than can each OUTPUT. The output power is simply VOLTS times AMPS for the DC power that your device is likely to be using.

Some wall chargers that are very inexpensive have very small power supplies in them and only put out a limited amount of charging current at the rated charging voltage for your device. Others may be quite a bit beefier and will be output up to or above the maximum the device will take. Similarly for the car adapter.

Given that the DC source from the car is directly available and a very low cost regulator can be used to generate a regulated charging voltage without having to convert using a switching power supply from an AC line, it seems more than likely that you have a car charger that charges quicker than your home unit. Also, it is possible that the device accepts a variable input DC voltage and can take the 9V to 12V range from the car directly. In this case, it is quite possible that the car charger will end up delivering significantly more charging power than the AC charger.


How to stop bluetooth from activating every time Mac wakes up?

It's probably because it's been paired with the mac. Unpair the device.

  Remove a Bluetooth device from your Mac
  If you want to remove (unpair) a Bluetooth device from your Mac's device list, follow these steps:
  Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Bluetooth.
  Hover the pointer over the device you want to remove, then click the button Cancel button that appears next to the device's name.

After you remove a Bluetooth device, you'll have to repeat the pairing process if you want to use it again.


How can I change the scrolling direction of the mouse, independently of the trackpad?

Have a look at Scroll Reverser, as it appears to do as you've asked.


pkgbuild created package does not install correctly

Moved Applications

The Installer is likely updating the first copy of the application it finds and not the application in the default install location.

This behaviour is deliberate and allows users to move applications, while retaining the ability to use Installer packages to apply updates.

As a developer you probably have numerous copies of the target application on your Mac. It is likely the last copy you – or Xcode – launched is the one being updated. This can include copies within hidden build folders.

Enforce the Location with BundleIsRelocatable

Setting BundleIsRelocatable flag to false forces Installer.app to use the exact path provided by the package.

Without this flag set, the Installer.app will search the target Mac for matching applications and write the new copy to the discovered location.

Try your installer with a clean Mac with a fresh copy of OS X.
Look closely at the log output from Installer.app or installer; you will see entries regarding the search and final location of the relocated application.

Report the Bug

That the Installer still created the parent company folder does feel like an error. Please report a bug with Apple.


How to configure browser used by web page Reminders?

My results from user edgarator’s solution: Successful for macOS Safari users

Summary

Chrome icon changed to Safari after CleanMyMac Chrome Uninstall
Chrome icon appears again after Chrome is reinstalled
Removing files individually still had the Chrome icon, resulting in “no effect”
Firefox will open Reminders URL’s if it is set as the default web browser.
Firefox can’t share websites to Reminders.
Firefox can’t use Siri to send websites to Reminders.

Software Versions

macOS Sierra:         10.12.6
Apple Reminders:      4.0 (441.11)
CleanMyMac:           1.10.4
Google Chrome:        61.0.3163.79 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Safari:               10.1.2 (12603.3.8)
Firefox:              55.0.3 (64-bit)

My Process

Safari’s has a share website to Reminders feature (Share-to-Reminders).  Details can be added to a website reminder that is being sent to Reminders without leaving the browser.

Now the problem: The shared links in Reminders uses Chrome icons which open Reminders items in Chrome, instead of Safari—or a designated browser.

I used CleanMyMac to uninstall Google Chrome, it's folders, and files.

After uninstalling Chrome, it's icon was replaced by Safari’s icon, pressing on the icon opened the link in Safari.

I then changed the default web browser to Firefox.

Clicking on the URL’s directly, or Control-clicking the URL’s in the Info Pane, opens the link in Firefox (default browser).

However, Firefox does not support Share-to-Reminders, so websites can’t be shared to Reminders from Firefox.  This also means that Siri does not execute the Share-to-Reminders command while using Firefox.


iTunes new song notifications: how to turn off when using miniplayer?

You can manually turn it on and off in the Notifications System preferences.

Update to this Answer:

This works on my Mac quite well. But it is not localised and is really a quick script put together as a proof of concept.. ( thats the disclaimer )

The idea is the place this script in to the Applescript menu and run it when you want to toggle the iTunes player from Main to mini player.

The script wil do the toggle for you, check which window is active and then open the system prefs try and find the iTunes notifications and switch to either "None" or "Banners" depending. I have completely ignored "Alerts" in this because I am sure most people would not have that selected!.

       property delayTimeMax : 2
property windowTitle : ""
set windowTitle to ""
property delayCounter : 0
set delayCounter to 0
property theList : ""
tell application "System Events"
    tell application "iTunes" to activate
    delay 1

    keystroke "m" using {command down, shift down} --//Toggle the itunes window

    my windowTheTitle() --//-- try and get the window title

end tell

tell application "System Events"
    if delayCounter > delayTimeMax then return --//-- too many trys, lets stop
    set delayCounter to 0

    my openSystemEvents() --//-- try and open the  system  prefs window

    if delayCounter > delayTimeMax then return --//-- too many trys, lets stop
    set delayCounter to 0

    tell application process "System Preferences"

        set this_item to ""
        my findTable() --//-- try and find the app list in the system  prefs window

        if delayCounter > delayTimeMax then return --//-- too many trys, lets stop
        set delayCounter to 0

        set counter to 0 --// the counter will increment for each row that represents an app

        --// find the correct one using it's static text which will be the app name
        repeat with i from 1 to number of items in theList
            set this_item to item i of theList
            set counter to counter + 1
            try
                set theValue to value of static text of this_item
            end try
            if item 1 of theValue is equal to "iTunes" then
                exit repeat --// found it exit repeat
            end if
        end repeat

        select row counter of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window "Notifications" --// select the app in the table

        set theRadiaGroup to radio group 1 of group 1 of window "Notifications" --// the Radio buttons for the Notification type
        if windowTitle is "MiniPlayer" then
            --// mini player is active
            set theVal to value of radio button "None" of radio group 1 of group 1 of window "Notifications"
            --// we do not want to click the button if it is already selected. Which may or may not deslect all of them. (poss bug)
            if theVal is 0 then
                --//select no alert
                click radio button "None" of radio group 1 of group 1 of window "Notifications"
            end if
        else
            --// MAIN window is active
            set theVal to value of radio button "Banners" of radio group 1 of group 1 of window "Notifications"
            if theVal is 0 then
                --// we do not want to click the button if it is already selected. Which may or may not deslect all of them. (poss bug)
                click radio button "Banners" of radio group 1 of group 1 of window "Notifications"
            end if
        end if
    end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit

on windowTheTitle()
    tell application "System Events"
        try

            tell application process "iTunes" to set windowTitle to get title of window 1 --//Get the window title : iTunes or MiniPlayer
        on error
            set delayCounter to delayCounter + 1
            if delayCounter > delayTimeMax then return --//-- too many trys, lets stop

            delay 1
            my windowTheTitle()
        end try
    end tell
end windowTheTitle
on openSystemEvents()
    tell application "System Events"
        try

            tell application "System Preferences"
                activate
                delay 1
                set the current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.notifications" --//  Open System Events at the notifications prefs

                if id of current pane is not "com.apple.preference.notifications" then
                    set delayCounter to delayCounter + 1
                    if delayCounter > delayTimeMax then return --//-- too many trys, lets stop

                    delay 1
                    my openSystemEvents()
                end if

            end tell
        on error
            set delayCounter to delayCounter + 1
            if delayCounter > delayTimeMax then return --//-- too many trys, lets stop

            delay 1
            my openSystemEvents()
        end try
    end tell
end openSystemEvents
on findTable()
    tell application "System Events"
        try

            tell application process "System Preferences"
                set theList to (get group 1 of UI element 1 of every row of table 1 of scroll area 1 of window "Notifications") -- get all the radio groups : the Apps grouped icon and text it the table
            end tell
        on error
            set delayCounter to delayCounter + 1
            if delayCounter > delayTimeMax then return --//-- too many trys, lets stop

            delay 1
            my findTable()
        end try
    end tell
end findTable

As I said proof of concept. You most likely can put it in an Automator Service and use a hot key with it.

Also note: depending on your system you may need to add more delays to wait for the user interface to catch up

Update 2

It works better actually as a Automator service with a Hotkey.

In Automator use a Run Applescript Action and replace it's template code with the above..

Set the input to non. and Any Application. Save it.

Open up the Shortcut prefs. Find your service under the Services and add a shortcut.

done.


Your linked example reveals that you would like to use a concept called Intents. Unfortunately, these are not available on iOS. As explained in the latter article, you could try to experiment with custom URL schemes on iOS (this may be pretty much what you want, but with a different scanning app) ... Experiment!


Macbook Pro vs. PC - Validation for VA Chap 31

I'm only guessing here, but would it be helpful if you told the program that you intend to study iOS (iPhone and iPad) development? Is there a class in iOS development offered at your school? You can only develop for iOS using Xcode on a Mac. That way you could make the case that you require a Mac and not a Windows PC to do your coursework.


Is it safe to use a device or disconnect it while syncing in iOS 5?

If you mean 'can I unplug my cable', then sure. It'll kill the process for that specific sync and you'll pick it back up next time. If you want to use your phone whilst syncing then you certainly can.

If you've gone wifi sync it'll just continue until either the network connection doesn't work, or the machine is stopped, or the sync finishes.


Mac Pro not detecting Windows install DVD

I figured out a workaround that is probably more unconventional and useless to most people.

The things I used:

Clean Lion installer
A random Windows 7 Pro x86 ISO found online and burned to DVD
Doner install machine (MacBook 7,1)
Target machine (MacPro1,1)
Empty 128GB SSD disk (any disk smaller than target will work)
HDD cloning machine

The steps:

Swap the disk with all my personal files out of the MacBook and install an empty disk (must be smaller than the target disk).
Made a clean installation of Lion on the disk.
Ran through bootcamp on the MacBook (the DVD I burned earlier worked perfectly which is further evidence of something really weird interfering with detection of the Windows install DVD on the Mac Pro). I reached the Windows 7 desktop. It's important to not install any drivers as this could make the installation useless when moving to the target machine. Windows will automatically install drivers for a few things which will later need to be disabled.
Removed the SSD disk and cloned it to the target 1TB 3.5" HDD with a cloning machine. Installed the 1TB HDD in the Mac Pro.
Booted Windows 7 Pro x86 (only worked in safe mode)
Disabled drivers for non-critical hardware and unplugged all peripheral devices except mouse and keyboard). This fixed the boot issues with normal Windows and now I could boot normally without needing to use safe mode.
I haven't done this yet but I need to resize the Windows and macOS partitions to use the entire disk (right now I have 2x64GB partitions). This is doable but a little harder since Disk Utility will not resize/interact with partitions with a Windows partition on the disk. This is probably because of the different file system. Then, I just run the bootcamp 4 support drivers and everything should be normal.

Hope this helps someone though I doubt it because most people don't have access to the equipment that I used. There are other methods involving what appears to be cloning virtual machine images to HDDs but I haven't attempted. This solution seemed easier to me.

The problem still puzzles me. The Mac Pro DVD drive works fine as it is able to play movies and install software. However, it just gives a finder popup for a "blank DVD" with the Windows install DVD inserted. On the other hand, my MacBook 7,1 recognizes the DVD perfectly. I didn't have a spare IDE DVD drive to try in the Mac Pro but I think the drive is fine. Generally, I've found the Mac Pro to be subject to more issues than other Apple products because of its ability to be customized. I suspect this is just another example. This Mac Pro should have been easily able to perform this bootcamp installation as it is officially supported to run bootcamp with Windows 7 x86.


Want scan-only virus removal, not real-time

Malwarebytes free version does on-demand only scanning.


Setting environment variable for sudo in Yosemite

Your first line of code is wrong. If you say sudo and with administrator privileges you are doing the same thing twice. If you use the terminal, as you can see, the following works:

$ sudo launchctl setenv TEST true
Password:<you have to insert your password here>
$ sudo launchctl getenv TEST
true

You could unset the variable with the command:

$ sudo launchctl unsetenv TEST

You don't need an applescript to do that.


Use F12 to open Developer Tools on Chrome

Open Keyboard Shortcuts Preferences
Click "Mission Control" from the list
Untick "Show Dashboard" (disable default beahviour of F12)
Click "Application Shortcuts" from the list
Click the "+" below the right-hand list
Select Google Chrome from the drop down list
In "Menu Title", type Developer Tools
Click in "Keyboard Shortcut", then press F12


Replace Messages app with something else and have it use my phone number?

According to a third party wanting the same, Apple doesn't allow this: https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007321171-Can-I-send-SMS-MMS-with-Signal-

There was once an app which synced your sms and allowed sending and receiving through an app: mysms. It would still work if you put the sim card into an android phone, but that doesn't seem to be what you want, as you'd now need another phone number for calls on your iphone...

The closest you can get on an iphone is probably through your provider's sms website offerings, like this one: https://n.vodafone.ie/business/products-and-solutions/mobile-communications/bulk-texts.html

Depending on your provider, you could probably put a shortcut somewhere on the iphone which opens a page where you can see your sms inbox and write new ones - with some business features on top.

Then you just need to deregister your phone number from imessage and make it work with your email address only. Anyone entering your phone number on imessage should then get to send the message in green.


Cloned disk from older MacBook not booting on new MacBook Pro

No Mac will boot to an OS older than itself, with the exception of models released right on the cusp of a new major OS version.

The drivers for the newer model didn't yet exist.


Accessing an Apache server installed in VirtualBox from Mac

Set up Host-Only, Internal or Bridged Networking. Whenever you change the virtual machine's network configuration you need to inform the operating system within that virtual machine of that change. The easiest way is to simply reboot the virtual machine.
Look up the virtual machine's IP-Adress using ip addr eth0.
Verify basic connectivity using ping <ip-address from previous step> from your mac's terminal.
Edit your mac's /etc/hosts using sudo vim /etc/hosts (or use an editor like text mate that can elevate privileges by itself). Add a line that looks like this: <ip-address as above> myvirtualbox anothername yetanothername

A more powerful approach, albeit maybe only for a more console-savvy audience is Vagrant.


Try moving the contents of /Library/Receipts somewhere else. I have seen some weird problems caused by corrupted files there a couple of times. Also make sure apps like Little Snitch do not intervene in the process.


Why automatically adjust brightness doesn't work after I change the brightness

Theoretically it should, but it is all relative. The ambient light sensor turns the display brighter when its bright outside and dim when it's dark inside. The thing is, the Mac is designed to cater to the user, because supposedly a human being knows what it wants better than a little $.005 photo sensor, so the buttons on the keyboard (F1 and F2) override the ambient light settings for a set period of time, and then still until the light conditions change drastically enough to cause the auto-adjust to kick in again. Going from dark screen to bright screen is almost immediate, but the Mac will take a while to go from bright screen to dark screen except on opening the clamshell or waking from sleep. This kind of makes sense when you think about the real world situations where this would happen.

So try this with auto-adjust ON and make sure "dim screen after inactivity" in Energy Saver prefs is off:

In a really dark room (no light except from computer), open the computer and manually raise the brightness to maximum, screen and keyboard backlight too if equipped.
Hold a small headed, bright flashlight (Mini Maglight or smaller) to the ALS, which is located to the left of the iSight camera on glass-paneled macs or in the speaker grille on older macs.
If the keyboard backlight goes off then the ALS IS WORKING
Lower DISPLAY backlight only to 1 above minimum level (minimum turns backlight completely off)
Put flashlight over ALS
You should see IMMEDIATE increase in backlight to full level.
Remove flashlight, display should readjust immediately to ambient level. Notice how after auto-adjusting the manual override is overridden so you can repeat steps 5 and 7 over and over again for entertainment ;)

If the steps above produce no results, restart computer and repeat tests. If still no results take to Apple certified repair center or Apple Store for repair which will likely be covered under warranty.


Why does my 10.8.5 OS X not recognize my iPod when I plug it in?

Did you tried Disk Utility->Repair Permissions ??

To remove iTunes and Apple Mobile Device Service(http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1747) in 10.8 and 10.9, Open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app) and run these commands (substitute <account name> with your mac login username - you need to be Admin user to run these commands; enter your login password when prompted):

$ sudo mv /Applications/iTunes.app /Users/<account name>/.Trash/

$ sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleMobileDevice.kext /Users/<account name>/.Trash/

$ sudo mv /Library/Receipts/AppleMobileDeviceSupport.pkg /Users/<account name>/.Trash/

You can then re-install iTunes and try.


More than likely, you hit Control⌘ Command and the ⦿ Power button .

That's the only keyboard combination that will force restart a Mac without asking you to save unsaved documents.  The only other way to shut down a Mac without it prompting you is to hold the ⦿ Button for 5 seconds.

  Question is there a way to require that the use respond to a confirmation dialog before shutting down / restarting their Mac?

There are key combinations that already exist with confirmations:

Control⌘ Command⏏ Media Eject - Quit all apps, then restart your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you'll be asked whether you want to save them. *
Control⌘ Command Option ⦿ Power Button or Control⌘ Command Option ⏏ Media Eject - Quit all apps, then shut down your Mac. If any open documents have unsaved changes, you'll be asked whether you want to save them.*

* Doesn't apply to keyboards that have a Touch Bar.

It's probably best that you familiarize yourself with the keyboard shortcuts that are set by default in macOS


Fill out the form to create an Apple ID using his information: https://appleid.apple.com/account
He will then start using his own ID and probably lose his old history, or you could get a new ID. Someone must start fresh I believe.


I am currently using Windows 10 TP (Technical Preview Build: 10240) on my MacBook Pro Late 2011. I am using Boot Camp with the drivers made for previous Windows versions. I haven't had any issues with using it but after upgrading to an newer build I was needing to reinstall the driver package again to get it to work properly.

Also, as Steve Chambers said in his answer, it won't physically break or damage your Mac. Only remember that if you are upgrading from a previous Windows version, make a backup in case you need to go back or do a clean install. In addition, it could be a good idea to have the Windows drivers ready on a USB flash drive just in case.

This is tested with the latest TP (Technical Preview) build of Windows 10 but could change in the final version (unlikely but could). If you are not in a hurry, wait a week and then do a Google search and see if anyone had any issues with using the released Windows 10 version on Boot Camp.


security command gives out passwords without prompting for the keychain password

I bumped into this same issue, and it seems its all about removing the default access when creating the new password, this is described on help of the command:

security add-generic-password -h

At the bottom you will see:

  By default, the application which creates an item is trusted to access its data without warning.
  You can remove this default access by explicitly specifying an empty app pathname: -T ""
  If no keychain is specified, the password is added to the default keychain.

So essentially you create the password with the -T "" setting:

security add-generic-password -a YOURUSER -s SERVICENAME -w YOURPASSWORD -T ""


Are devices supposed to automatically be removed from iCloud when all content and settings are erased?

In a word, no.

Simply erasing a phone does not remove it from your list of devices in iCloud, nor does removing it from "Find My."

You have to go into iCloud and purposefully remove it from the list of "my devices" to indicate that you no longer own this device.

Just because you erase a device does not mean you no longer own it. Especially as erasing a device is often a valid troubleshooting step in finding problems with an iOS device.


How can I use a detached keyboard with my iPad Pro so I can draw and use quick keys with it flat?

All you have to do is get a Bluetooth keyboard and set is close to your iPad. Then go to setting/Bluetooth and connect the keyboard. It should work fine. I got my keyboard from an online shopping service and I paid $19. it works fine.