Dell Color Laser 1320c with Mac OS 10.15 Catalina and Network printing

Unfortunately, you're out of luck.

The problem with these low cost, entry level printers is that they use the host (the computer driving the printer) to supply the engine for it.

According to the specs (available as a PDF), the Printer Language is "host based."  So, it's significantly more than a driver or a CUPS PPD file - it's actual software driving it.  Because this software is (most likely) 32bit, there's no chance it's going to run on Catalina.

So, your options are limited:

Set up a small, cheap computer (like a PC running Windows 7 or 10) or even a Mac mini running Mojave or earlier and share the printer over the network - basically make a home grown print server.
Downgrade to Mojave
Buy a new printer (if you go this route, don't get another host based (usually consumer grade) model.  Get one that a corporation would buy.  Yes they cost more, but you won't run into these issues (I've got a Lexmark that 15 years old still running with zero issues).


Totally bricked MacBook Pro 2011 A1286 - No recovery. What can I do?

The MacBook Pro in question is one of the infameous AMD Radeon 6750M GPU-equipped 2011 models. Apple set up a (free) repair program which ended in 2016.

Obviously the dGPU of this Mac died later and the dGPU/Mainboard weren't properly replaced. Instead an Apple certified? technician desoldered some resistors on the mainboard to disable the dGPU.

To get it working with the Intel-GPU nonetheless (= a monitor image) a special NVRAM parameter has to be set.

After resetting the NVRAM (and the SMC) this parameter was deleted which resulted in a black screen.

To get things working again the following was done:

Removing the partioned but empty HDD
Attaching the HDD to another Mac (external casing or USB-SATA cable). The 2nd Mac has to be capable of booting to a respective system (e.g. High Sierra, which is the last macOS for the early 2011 MBPs)
Install High Sierra on the external drive and boot to it
Configure ssh access (and Remote Desktop) in System Preferences > Sharing
Configure a network interface with an IP in the same IP-network as the working Mac
Detach the external drive and mount it in the MacBook Pro
Boot the MacBook Pro (and the working Mac) normally
ssh from the working Mac to the MacBook Pro
Enter: sudo nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00
Enter: sudo reboot or sudo shutdown -r now to reboot the MacBook Pro
Success!

If the HDD would have had a properly working system one could have omitted installing a new system.

These instructions helped a lot: Disable MacBook Pro Dedicated GPU

Installing and configuring MacBook Pro dGPU Disabler (as stated in the instructions) won't work, because the dedicated GPU wasn't recognized – as menitoned: the GPU was disabled in an incompetent manner previously.


Sourceforge is down, try later. I'm almost 100% positive that this is what is causing the problem.


How to determine if a MacOS program on Apple Silicon is emulated x86 or native ARM from the command line?

Run file on a binary:
krismatth@KristophersMBP3 ~$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: [x86_64:Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64] [arm64e:Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e]
/bin/bash (for architecture x86_64):    Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/bin/bash (for architecture arm64e):    Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64e

Activity Monitor shows the architecture of running programs:


How do I connect a 3rd 4K monitor to my 2013 Mac Pro?

The main article on 4k displays links to the below article on Mac Pro:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206587
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202801

The trick for the third display on Mac Pro is to use 2 Thunderbolt and one HDMI cable to connect each directly to the Mac Pro. Basically each bus can handle 2 normal displays or one 4K display each.

  Three 4K displays: two connected via Mini DisplayPort and one connected via HDMI

You are correct about bus 0 conflicting with the HDMI adapter as well.

If you're not on the 2013 Mac Pro - see this thread for options for "unsupported" adapters that might work for lower resolutions or lower refresh rates than the native ones.

How can I run 3 4K monitors on my 2015 MBP


How can I delete the "Recents" pictures when selecting a profile photo?

The process is a bit complicated.

To delete the Photos in recent, you need to first navigate over to:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ImageKit.RecentPictureService/Data/Library/Images/Recent Pictures

(Finder > Go > Go to Folder)

There you will find all your recent pictures. However, you can't just delete those pictures. You have to also delete it from the plist file available at:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ImageKit.RecentPictureService/Data/Library/Images/Recent Pictures/Recents.plist

Just open it in Xcode or any text editor, and delete the dictionaries under the array.

A picture in the plist will look something like this:

<dict>
    <key>cropInfo</key>
    <dict>
        <key>cropViewInfo</key>
        <dict>
            <key>PRS</key>
            <dict>
                <key>px</key>
                <real>0.0</real>
                <key>py</key>
                <real>0.0</real>
                <key>r</key>
                <real>0.0</real>
                <key>sh</key>
                <real>0.390625</real>
                <key>sw</key>
                <real>0.390625</real>
            </dict>
            <key>cropViewSize.height</key>
            <real>200</real>
            <key>cropViewSize.width</key>
            <real>200</real>
            <key>zoomValue</key>
            <real>0.0</real>
        </dict>
    </dict>
    <key>cropSize</key>
    <string>{200, 200}</string>
    <key>original</key>
    <string>68937D05-204D-4AD8-A98F-2DB8E9EF945F.png</string>
</dict>

You can delete each dictionary/picture manually by looking at the string parameter.


A few links for you (unfortunately, there aren't any free options out there)
The Missing Sync ($29.95)
By Mark/Space, this software allows you to do just what you described to manage your phone contacts (with Address Book), calendars, text messages, music, video, notes, etc.
But as far as their website goes, they don't support backups.

My Backup Pro ($4.99)
My Backup Pro is not a Mac application; it can be found on Google Play.  Quite simply, it is backup software that allows you to backup online or to your local SD Card.  Note that it looks like they have a free version for rooted devices.

Note that you can always try doing the tasks these paid applications do yourself by connecting your phone as a filesystem to Mac:

On the phone, go to Settings > Applications > Development > ...and check USB Debugging.
Connect your phone and tap USB Connected > USB Debugging Connected > Mount > ...and tap Mount as Disk Drive > Done


That's why they say not to install the Developers Preview on your daily machine (as only OS...)

Nevertheless, not having the a Lion disk isn't a obstacle. You should do fine with a decent backup and Lion Recovery Disk Assistance.
If you follow these 7 easy steps, your friend will have his Lion back in no-time.


Screen Sharing stopped working after Lion upgrade

Not at all - I have three classes of macs that all worked flawlessly with the upgrade to Lion. They all share their screens with the basic VNC technology:

basic OS X - turn on VNC or remote management - bonjour location is local
basic plus MobileMe back to my mac for locating the mac over the internet
basic plus Screens app from edovia to locate the mac over the internet

I haven't seen a good Apple writeup of the Lion changes - but when you log in with your OS account rather than with the VNC password - you get a distinct loginwindow process for that account whether or not that user is shown as logged in locally. This change could be causing you grief.

Put another way - screen sharing and log in is now a virtual concept - you are no longer limited to one mac log in session or tied tightly to the physical screen. User A can be using the mac and User B logs in remotely and gets their own workspace rather than seeing what A is doing or forcing A to log off.

The writeup inside the screens app is nice if you have purchased it.


Enter Responsive Design Mode Shortcut doesn't work

The shortcut in Safari for Responsive Design Mode is controlcommandR (not shift).
To activate this mode, you'll also need to make sure you have enabled the Develop menu. If you haven't, you can activate it by clicking on the Safari menu in the menu bar, then clicking Preferences, and under the Advanced tab enabling "Show Develop menu in menu bar."
Once the Develop menu is enabled, you'll see the Responsive Design Mode toggle (along with its associated keyboard shortcut) under the Develop menu in the menu bar, as pictured below:


How to delete synced photos and folder from iPhone?

Connect your device to iTunes, select it in the left navigation bar.
In the main screen, select the Photos tab.
Check "Sync Photos" and select only the albums you want to sync. It will remove any pics on your iPhone that are not in the folder(s) selected on your PC


In short, you can't accomplish what you're trying to do. In order to send/reply from a given address, you have to have that account set up and active in Mail.

Without the account being active, the address you wish to use is not available. And setting up an SMTP server entry for the other account(s) will not bypass the primary issue since you would only be using any alternate SMTP server as a relay for the account you're using to send the email - it will not rewrite the sending account address. For example, I have email forwarded from a generic "info@" account to a personal account on the same domain, but I can't reply with or send from the "info@" account address since I don't have that account set up in Mail.


Can I get the original Mac font Chicago on a Mountain Lion Mac?

The last version of the OS to use this font as default was System 7.

  For Mac OS 8, Apple decided to discard this wonderful part of their
  brand’s identity, and commissioned David Berlow of the Font Bureau to
  design Charcoal.

Apple actually released System 7 for free download here. Conceivably you could load up System 7 in an emulator like Sheepshaver and get the font out somehow. Or unpack the system images provided by Apple, though I don't know which software you would need for that.

Apple abandoned Chicago as of OSX, as evidenced by the outrage here. Locally, I can buy an original iMac running OS 9 for 50 EUR. So you could buy one of those and transfer the font :-)

UPDATE: extracting Chicago from System 7

Download the System 7 disk image from Apple for free here
Unpack System 7.0.1.smi.bin with "The Unarchiver.app" (free on the App Store here)
Convert System 7.0.1.smi to a dmg image using Disk Utility using the menu item 'Images > Convert'
Open the resulting System 7.0.1.smi.dmg and get the Fonts.image inside
Convert Fonts.image to a dmg using Disk Utility
Open the resulting Fonts.image.dmg
Enjoy your retro goodness.


Your speed issue isn't likely to be because the SSD has been used too much, as sectors would simply stop working and the space would start to decrease rather than slow down.

The issue is more likely to be caused by TRIM not being enabled in the OS, so the drive is doing it's garbage collection (sometimes referred to as GC) routines as and when you write information. This will cause a considerable slow down as with TRIM enabled it will happen as soon as space isn't required anymore.

If you're running Mountain Lion you can run this script to enable it.

There's an app called TRIM Enabler, but based on feedback across a wide variety of sources, I've always avoided it.

You can check whether TRIM is enabled by clicking on the Apple logo in the top left corner, About This Mac, More info, System Report, and then scroll down to Serial-ATA, and then look on the right pane for TRIM Support yes/no. If you're not patched, then it will say no.


You can edit any icon by right-clicking (control-clicking) the application, choosing Get Info, and dragging the replacement icon over the original icon at the top of the window that appears.

You can also copy and paste the image you'd like to use as an icon, as mentioned in Apple's documentation.

This works for files or folders you'd like to change the icon for.


Offline webpages reader/browser for iPad iPhone?

Offline Pages lets users save entire web pages for offline reading, including formatting and images; 4.99 USD on Apple App Store.

Open in App Store


How to Wipe Badly Imported Contacts from iCloud

Run a search for data that would show up in a corrupt vCard, but not a legitimate one. For example: "type=VOICE". You may have to do this several times with different strings. I would take the results and export them before selecting all (⌘ A) and deleting them. Make sure you can always undo, if needed.


Make iTunes playlist track changes in iPhone library?

Ensure you are removing the tracks from the playlist on iPhone and not deleting the actual music files from iPhone entirely. I can't tell from your description whether this is what you are doing.

Assuming you have iTunes set to only sync that playlist (or collection of playlists), by removing the tracks from the playlist on iPhone, next time you sync, the process should update the playlist in iTunes to reflect the changes made on iPhone, and remove the corresponding music files from iPhone.


How to sync one or two labels only, from Gmail to Mail.app?

You can specify the labels shown in your IMAP client in Google Mail settings via the checkbox on the right side.


Searching in Spotlight for an app will reveal its containing folder

Source


Cannot Update iMac, OS X, From 10.11.2 to 10.11.6

I'm not sure what's going on with the App Store update, but I have a guess about the downloaded update: did you get the "OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Update" (759.1 MB), or the OS X El Capitan 10.11.6 Combo Update (1.5GB)? If you downloaded the first one, it won't work because it's only capable of updating from 10.11.5 to 10.11.6; since you have 10.11.2, you need the "combo" version, which rolls in all of the earlier 10.11.x updates, and is therefore capable of updating from any earlier version of 10.11 to 10.11.6.

(BTW, this requirement is listed on the download pages for the two updates, but you have to click "System Requirements" to actually see it, and even then it's not very explicit. The first says it requires "OS X El Capitan 10.11.5", but the second just says "OS X El Capitan 10.11".)


Remove bucketing by date in Finder results

You should unselect "Use Groups" in Finder settings. Pls see the attached picture to see the exact setting.


Is there any app or anyway for mac to search within a video's texts/transcription

If the mp4 file has a subtitle track, you could extract the text to a .srt file using mp4box (more info can be found at How to extract subtitles from MP4 and MKV movies. Of course, you would need to do this for every file you have then search within those .srt files.


Is there any way to get BetterTouchTool to let me swipe between apps without cycling?

If you don't mind adding a modifier key to the gesture. Hold the key, say CMD, and swipe twice.


How can Mountain Lion be prevented from reorganizing app layout in Launch Pad?

While from my experience this bug seems to be resolved since OS X Mountain Lion, it might be that your Launch Pad database already was corrupted when upgrading, and upgrading does not necessarily repair it.

You could try rebuilding your database and see if that resolves your problem, but please note that this will remove your current ordering and grouping of apps in Launchpad completely.

To remove/rebuild the database, you can execute this command from the Terminal:

rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db; killall Dock


Do I need to allow free space as an over provision on MacBook Pro's built-in SSD?

No.
Over-provisioning is transparent to the user, and done at the factory. SSDs normally have more size than can actually be used. Over-provisioning is not something that the user needs to do.

Having said that, SSDs still need to maintain spare space within the volume, in order to have some space to accommodate working files. Between 10 and 15% is usually recommended. Some say as much as 25%.


How can one use /etc/paths.d to add a path with spaces in it to $PATH?

So I'll try and give this one the ol college attempt.  So after messing around with this for about an hour I came to the conclusion that path_helper - the native app that constructs a PATH environment variable from /etc/paths and /etc/paths.d doesn't play well with paths that have spaces in them, ie. thus why you're experiencing your current situation.

So my hacky solution to get this working, is to create a symlink from,

/Applications/VMware Fusion.app

to

/Applications/VMwareFusion.app

using the below command,

ln -sf /Applications/Vmware Fusion.app /Applications/VmwareFusion.app

Then edit /etc/paths.d/com.vmware.fusion.public and change the one line in that file to look like the below,

/Applications/VMwareFusion.app/Contents/Public/

Then obviously start a new shell session or reinit.

This solution works great for me using the fish shell.


Lion SSD and HDD symbolic links - user folder?

There is a Library folder but it is hidden on Lion by default when using Finder. You can see it in the terminal :

Macmini:tyr root# ls -ld Library
drwx------@ 36 tyr  staff  1224 Apr 10 01:42 Library

FWIW I have a SSD + HDD setup myself and I've left my homedir on the SSD so I will still be able to login if the HDD ever fails, but I've linked all dirs containing large file to the HDD :

Macmini:tyr root# ls -l
total 1552
drwxr-xr-x  17 tyr   admin     578 Mar 10 23:02 Applications
drwx------+  5 tyr   staff     170 Apr 13 02:15 Desktop
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      35 Dec 31 08:15 Documents -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/Documents
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      35 Dec 31 08:19 Downloads -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/Downloads
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      33 Mar 18 16:11 Dropbox -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/Dropbox
drwx------@ 55 tyr   staff    1870 Mar 16 23:06 Library
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      32 Dec 31 08:19 Movies -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/Movies
drwx------+  6 tyr   staff     204 Feb 19 04:35 Music
drwx------+ 24 tyr   staff     816 Apr  4 08:09 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x+ 88 tyr   staff    2992 Apr  8 11:17 Public
drwxr-xr-x+  3 tyr   staff     102 Dec 31 08:02 Sites
lrwxr-xr-x   1 root  staff      41 Dec 31 08:30 VirtualMachines -> /Volumes/MiniHD/Users/tyr/VirtualMachines

You'll notice Music isn't a link, that's because I've changed that setting in iTunes, so there's no need to replace it with a symbolic link.

Edit: creating symbolic links

(As always having a backup is essential.)

To create these kinds of symbolic links I recommend logging in as a second user then using root in the terminal. E.g. you want to create links for User1, then login as User2 and in the Terminal do :

$ sudo su -
Password:
Macmini:~ root# cd /Users/User1
Macmini:User1 root# mv Documents /Volumes/MyHDD/
Macmini:User1 root# ln -s /Volumes/MyHDD/Documents Documents

The above commands moved the "Documents" folder in the "User1" homedir to an external volume called "MyHDD", then created a link called "Documents" to the place where we moved it.


OS X Lion not able to login with regular open directory domain users

I'm guessing from your tags this is a 10.5 Server with 10.7 clients?

In your Open Directory user configuration/preferences are you using portable home folders? (With the user in question selected in Workgroup Manager, choose the Preferences button and check the "Mobility" section)

If so (and even if not!), check that your users have a Home path set in Workgroup Manager -> Accounts -> testuser -> Home tab. Usually the diradmin default home is set to /var but for other users I've seen it default to (None) which causes the login window to just shake and reject the user when trying to log in on a client system, probably because the system doesn't know where to create their home folder.

Try a test where you set testuser's Home location to /Users/testuser by clicking the + in the Home tab of WGM and entering /Users/testuser under the Full Path: field (I'm basing this wording off a 10.6 server but I recall 10.4 to 10.6 being all quite similar.)

Good luck!!


Does iMessage take up iCloud Storage Space?

No, iMessage and iCloud are (for all intents and purposes) unrelated services. Photos and videos sent or received through iMessage are only stored on Apple's servers long enough to deliver them to all devices you have registered, or seven days, whichever occurs first.


how to change "§" (section symbol) key to write "`" (back quote)

An easier way with Karabiner is to just add a new Simple Modification (the first tab in Karabiner):

From key: non_us_backslash
To key: grave_accent_and_tilde (`)

Here's a screenshot of that:

Why is that called non_us_backslash and not §?
The "non us backslash" is probably any key directly below the esc key (or the touchbar) (source: this issue).
On the English International, UK English, Dutch, Polish etc. keyboards, that's the key that produces the section symbol §.


Speeding up switching between multiple desktops (speed up or remove transition)

There's a solution here!  OS X Daily: Speed up Mission Control Animations

EDIT: For the lazy ;): defaults write com.apple.dock expose-animation-duration -float 0.1; killall Dock  Change 0.1 to 0 to remove the animation entirely.


Downloaded apps does not start, failed with error -10810

LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error ... is often an execute permissions error.
You can text the permissions of the overall app from terminal
ls -l path/to/app
but if that looks OK, you may need to test the executable within the app
ls -l path/to/app/Contents/MacOS/app
Simple example using Calculator…
$ ls -l /Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  143648  3 Dec 06:43
/Applications/Calculator.app/Contents/MacOS/Calculator

If you don't see the x execute permission, you can add it with
chmod +x path/to/app/Contents/MacOS/app
There's an alternative approach which may work.
On first run, rather than double-clicking, right-click & select Open from the drop menu. This will bypass Gatekeeper's quarantine & allow it to run. It should then remember this for subsequent launches.


Figuring out what Photo Stream is uploading exactly

If Aperture's activity window isn't showing you the file name of what is being uploaded then my suggestion is a bit terminal intensive (you've been warned).

$ sudo fs_usage | grep 'DSC_'

you can replace what's in the ' ' with the beginning of your image names or even the suffix of .jpeg or .nef or what have you. You should even be able to write 'Aperture' just make sure that Aperture isn't in the foreground because that will give you automatic outputs from window server displaying the application being drawn.

This will output a list updated every millisecond of what files are being touched. So close all other programs you don't need and let Aperture try to do it's thing and terminal print it out. Fingers crossed!


Recovering Notes from Water Damaged iPhone

Have a technician (not an apple one) carefully open up the iPhone (hopefully you dont have a warranty). Remove the SIM card and battery. Then lay the halves flat and then use a vacuum cleaner with a long nozzle to dry out the moisture. Make sure its on low and that its not close to the phone. If too close it will short circuit the phone, making the motherboard useless. Make sure that there is no heat.

I've heard silica gel works also if you find an iPhone water damage professional, they can fix the issue. Just make sure they offer you a warranty.

https://www.wikihow.com/Save-a-Wet-Cell-Phone


The following example works for me in a Run Shell Script action in Automator:

f="/Volumes/Canvio1TB/EyeTV Archive/sync.ffs_lock"

if [ -f "$f" ]; then
    echo "$f exists."
else
    echo "$f does not exist."
fi

Note: Shell is set to: /bin/bash

This also works:

f="/Volumes/Canvio1TB/EyeTV Archive/sync.ffs_lock"

[ -f "$f" ] && echo "$f exists." || echo "$f does not exist."

Here it is in AppleScript in a Run AppleScript action:

set f to "/Volumes/Canvio1TB/EyeTV Archive/sync.ffs_lock"

tell application "System Events"
    if exists file f then
        return f & " file exists." as string
    else
        return f & " file does not exist." as string
    end if
end tell


Numbers - date cell set to last day of the month

Might EOMONTH work for you?

The EOMONTH function returns a date that is the last day of the month some number of months before or after a given date.

Example: =EOMONTH("2/01/2015", 0) returns: Feb 28, 2015


How to connect to wireless TV satellite receiver from Mac OS X

The closest thing to what you want would probably be the SlingBox.

It's not possible to do this with just software, unfortunately. Satellite and cable boxes are pretty locked down, so you need a hybrid hardware/software solution like the SlingBox.


Forwarding a mail as a fax using Applescript and Mail

To answer your question, I don't think that there is a way to use AppleScript with the Mac fax function.  I am able to create a script which grabs attachments, but I can't find a way to hook into the fax function, without using a 3rd party faxing app.  Sorry, I thought there was a way.


High Sierra reboot loop after data migration

Try to install High Sierra again but change the format on you SSD drive to a HFS+ and run the Migration Assistant again.

I have the same issue when I boot. I think this is because we have a Mac from early 2015. I think the Mac will not boot a drive with APFS format yet. (Maybe a firmware update will fix this).


Mac OS X Lion - How do I turn a "regular" user account into a service account?

A simpler thing to do will be to hide the user from the Login Window. Apple provides a few options on this support article.


Open Disk Utility and see if your external drive appears. Find Disk Utility in Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility. If your drive shows up but is not mounted, select the mount option which should mount that disk. To verify, click on the Apple logo in your screen's top left corner and select About This Mac.


You can try copying all of the home folders located in /Users. After copying all the folders there to the external hard drive, you should check if all the data you want is there. After that, you can boot from macOS Recovery and erase the startup disk. After doing that, use a bootable macOS Mojave installer to reinstall macOS on the Startup Disk.

To do that, first read this on creating bootable macOS Installers: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372.

To boot from that drive, you need to shutdown or restart your computer with the macOS Installer plugged in. Then, hold "Option" while the Mac is starting to boot from the installer. Once you are in, click reinstall macOS and choose your startup disk.

After macOS Mojave is installed, boot from the internal startup disk. Finish setup and create a new user. Once you are in, copy all your home directories from the SSD to the /Users directory. Then go to System Preferences and create new users and set the home directories to the home folders that were copied and remove the user that was created at the setup of macOS Mojave. Reboot the machine and you technically have your data back.

NOTE: Some compatibility issues may occur with personal files when switching from macOS Catalina to macOS Mojave.


External Hard Drive Won't Mount on my 2018 MacBook Pro

Short Answer:
I removed the HDMI Cables from the Thunderbolt ports and connected the 8TB external HD in isolation and it was then recognized and worked correctly.
Longer Answer:
After doing some basic diagnostics failed to yield any clues, I had an epiphany: I was now using dual HDMI monitors connected to my Thunderbolt ports- (1) HDMI cable connected into a Thunderbolt port on each side of my 2018 MacBook. Generally, I don't use these.  Was it affecting the power is some undefined way?
So I unplugged the monitors and just plugged the 8 TB external hard drive into a Thunderbolt port by itself. Bingo: it was recognized and sprang to life. Of course you can plug the MacBook's power cable into any free Thunderbolt port while the External drive is connected as the power cable is definitely going to be power-in and not drawing power FROM the MacBook.
To validate my understanding, I used a USB-C pass-through power meter and plugged the external HD into it. The arrow in the below picture revealed that although the external HD had its' own external power supply/brick, unbeknownst to me it was nonetheless drawing power FROM the MacBook. So with the HDMI cable connected to the other Thunderbolt port on the same side of the case, it appears that affected the available power to the external hard drive.
Although this solution deals with an external hard drive, I'd suggest when troubleshooting any device connected to the Thunderbolt ports which is presenting with issues to connect the device in isolation- unplug all other devices- while testing it.
Hope I saved somebody else from needlessly buying a replacement external hard drive!


Try it with VLC player. The newest version supports the retina display


Disabling hardware acceleration for Night Shift

Since the artifacts disappear whenever an overlay appears, I solved the issue by creating an app that displays a persistent, invisible overlay:

Created a new macOS Cocoa App in Xcode.
Edited the window properties in MainMenu.xib, in the attributes inspector, and unchecked "Title Bar", "Shadow", "Close", "Minimize" and "Resize", then in the size inspector I set content size width and height to 1, and initial position x and y to 0.
Edited Info.plist and added a new property "Application is agent (UIElement)" set to YES.
Edited AppDelegate.swift and changed applicationDidFinishLaunching to:

window.isOpaque = false
window.alphaValue = 0
window.ignoresMouseEvents = true
window.level = .floating
window.collectionBehavior = [.canJoinAllSpaces, .transient]

Compiled the app for production with Product  Archive  Distribute App  Copy App.

Now, whenever I want to watch full-screen videos with Night Shift turned on, I can start the application and there won't be any further artifacts. I can then close it from Activity Monitor. Another option would be to have it run at startup (System Preferences  Users & Groups  Login Items).


iOS 10 remember to "not trust this computer"

Unfortunately, iOS 10 cannot remember untrusted computers.

From Apple support document HT202778:

  If you choose not to trust a computer, you block its access to content on your device. You'll see the trust alert every time that you connect your iOS device to that computer.

There is a way to avoid the dialog every time you connect — blocking the data connection while still allowing the USB power connection. You can do that with either (1) a so-called "USB condom" (SyncStop, Juice-Jack Defender, PortaPow) or (2) a "charge-only" Lightning cable.


How to increase the amount of time the wifi waits before timing out a connection?

I doubt there's anything you can do short of jailbreaking and re-flashing the code that drives the wireless chipset.

The things you can control are getting closer to the transmitter, potentiallly moving objects that could attenuate or reflect Wi-Fi signals or set up a repeater to sit within range of both the base station and the location where you wish to have network coverage.


Is there a Remote Desktop Connection manager for mac that will connect to Windows machines?

Microsoft Remote Desktop from the Mac App Store may work for you. Lots of VNC client/servers out there too. RealVNC for example. You can use Apple's built-in Screen Sharing app to connect to 3rd party VNC servers running on your Windows PC. Just do a Command-K to connect to server and enter vnc://address.


Macintosh Color Classic won't turn on and has weird boot chimes

Quite possibly the "chimes of death."

If you feel comfortable doing so, pull the motherborard, and try it with different RAM configurations. Look for capacitors with swollen tops (little cylinders) and possibly even replace the PRAM battery.

The board itself could be toast but that should get you started on what to try.


Is there a way to disable minimising windows with the yellow button in OS X?

You can disable ⌘M by running this and reopening applications:

defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents -dict-add Minimize '\0'

If the menu item was assigned to nil, pressing L would trigger it in some applications like Audacity.

If you remove Dock.app, the minimize buttons stop working. But it also disables full screen windows, Mission Control, the Notification Center sidebar, the application switcher, Launchpad, and Dashboard, and makes desktop backgrounds gray.

NuKit can change the zoom and close buttons, but I don't know any application for changing or disabling the minimize buttons. There is another question about it at Super User.

I didn't find any hidden preferences for it using strings or gdb.


MacOS & finder hang to beach ball after a couple of hard resets, won't go away

Run disk utility on your hard-drive.  Inspect the disk for problems, repair if necessary, and re-run a verify to make sure it passes.  It may give you a hint about needing to boot into single-user mode - if that's the case follow the instructions carefully.

Backup your data.


What do I type to produce the command symbol (⌘) in Mac OS X?

If you're just looking for the Unicode versions of Mac OS X keys, you can use this Apple support document to copy and paste them:

Mac keyboard shortcuts
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236

⌘ Command (or Cmd)
⇧ Shift
⌥ Option (or Alt)
⌃ Control (or Ctrl)

More generally, Mac OS X provides a pane to insert special characters. You'll find it under Edit -> Emoji and Symbols in any program that takes text input. The Command key symbol can be found by searching for it's name "place of interest". To insert the character, double click it.

If you're really hardcore and are looking for a way to type the character by entering the Unicode hex code, this is possible:

Go into System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Input Sources, click "+", scroll to "others", select "Unicode Hex Input" and click "Add"

From the input source selector in the menu bar, select "Unicode Hex Input"

To enter a Unicode character, hold down option and type the 4-digit hex code for the character and it will be inserted. In this case, it would be option+2318.


Download from iTunes to iPod without deleting songs already on iPod

You have two options.

One is to simply connect the iPod, choose not to sync, select the songs you want to transfer, and drag them to your iPod. That should copy them without syncing the whole library. You can also go into the iPod from within iTunes, and you can choose options in the various categories (like music, photos, movies) and choose not to sync them to be sure they won't be touched.

Your other option is to transfer everything from your iPod to iTunes and then sync. See this Apple support document for information on how to do that. Once everything has been transferred and is in your iTunes library (and be SURE that anything you want to be on your iPod is also in the iTunes library), then you can safely sync and ignore the warning about everything being deleted from your iPod (since it will be re-added during the sync).


Please help: Win7 on external FireWire drive results in "No bootable device - insert boot disk..." error

The answer is NO. I you are reading somewhere else that this is possible, then either you are being lied to or the instructions are for a different model Mac.

2009 Macs need to BIOS boot Windows. The Boot Camp Assistant assumes you will be installing Windows by using the optical drive. The 2009 model year Macs can not BIOS boot from an external drive.

You can try to EFI boot Windows 7, but I do not believe you can EFI boot Window 7 from an internal or external drive on a 2009 Mac.

Apple eliminated the optical drive in Macs starting with the 2012 model year. In order to be able to install a BIOS booting Windows 7, Apple modified the firmware on these models to allow for BIOS booting of Windows from the USB port. This allowed Windows installer flash drives to boot from the USB port. Eventually, this also allowed a BIOS booting Windows to be installed on USB HDD and SSD. (See this question for an example) However, this required installing without the aid of the Boot Camp Assistant.

Apple eliminated the BIOS software from firmware in Macs starting with the 2015 model year. This effectively ended the ability to install and run Windows 7. Current Mac models only UEFI boot Windows and do not even need a flash drive to install Windows. However, you can still use a flash drive if you wish to install without the aid of the Boot Camp Assistant.


Windows 10 Boot Camp shuts down and boots into macOS overnight

Is Windows set as the default boot source in macOS's System Prefs > Startup Disk?

If not, then Windows could be initiating the reboot for its own housekeeping purposes [which it tends to do a lot], but macOS is taking precedence at the actual reboot.


One wouldn't use DiskImageMounter to do this because, despite it giving the illusion that it's scriptable and loaded with commands in its AppleScript dictionary, it never returns a valid reference to any image that it opens; therefore AppleScript never gets informed it's done the job; and  DiskImageMounter sacks it off, quits, and invalidates the connection with AppleScript thus throwing an error.  And it does this every.  Single.  Time.  So, it is reliably balls.

The way to mount a disk image with AppleScript is to use an application I very rarely endorse using but for very few specific tasks, which is Finder.  DiskImageMounter is the only application less reliable than Finder, but Finder is a trier, and it does succeed with mounting volumes without causing too much of a stink:

set f to POSIX file "/path/to/diskimage.dmg" as alias
tell application id "com.apple.Finder" to open f

It, too, doesn't return a reference to the mounted volume, but you can get Finder to enumerate the disks already mounted beforehand, then enumerate them again afterwards, and the new one that appears will be your mounted volume:

set f to POSIX file "/path/to/diskImage.dmg" as alias
tell application id "com.apple.Finder"
    set ejectables to disks

    open f

    repeat until disks ≠ ejectables
        delay 1
    end repeat

    return the POSIX path of last item of (disks as alias list)
end tell

Finally...  The JXA:

Finder=Application('com.apple.Finder');
f=Path('/path/to/diskImage.dmg');
Finder.open(f);


How to launch system's "Network diagnostics" from the command line

High Sierra and newer OS have moved this to the Applications folder in CoreServices. On new OS - you can use this command.

open /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Network\ Utility.app/

If you need to script this for all OS - you'll need to check the version and check if Network Utility is in CoreServices or CoreServices/Applications folder/directory.

Most cases your launch services database is correct and can find the app - be sure you escape / quote the space when calling open -a

open -a "Network Utility"
open -a Network\ Utility
open -a Wireless\ Diagnostics

Same thing if you actually meant Wireless Diagnostics instead of Network Utility since there isn't a Network Diagnostics that ships with macOS.


For anyone in the future that might have this issue (who knows...) here is what I did to fix it:

Go into System Preferences and delete your old user account. Leave your home folder. DO NOT ERASE IT.
Recreate the user.
Right click on the user and select "Advanced Options"
If the home folder location is wrong (if you had it on a different hard drive) change it to the correct place.
Restart your computer.
Fixed!


Audio doesn't work in OSX but the start-up chime does

The red light in your audio out jack indicates that it is active. That is why you do not hear anything on the speakers.

Your analog/digital switch in the port is stuck -- the red light is the digital audio signal.

Try to plug the headphone in, this time wiggling it from side to side while it's plugged in.

Alternatively try cleaning the audio plug:

Try inserting a cocktail stirrer or a toothpick and jiggle it around in the audio output port and the internal speakers should come to life.

If you have a compressed air can use it. that seems to work best.

There is a switch inside that has to be tripped.


U need to see if the spctl is actually disabled though.
I noticed same wordy warnings when I tried same command. In my case it was disabled and the same warnings keep showing up no matter what spctl command is run for me.
To check results:
sudo spctl --master-disable
sudo spctl --status

Last line after the warnings should be:
assessments disabled

So, the command worked for me to disable and enable spctl.
Regarding those warnings stack overflow user bbum claims to wrote the error reporting code, but so far there is no explanation why the warnings are reporting on this command.
Good luck to u.


Make sure /Library/Keychains/System.keychain has correct permissions set.

Here is default permissions for /Library/Keychains folder on my Mac:

drwxr-xr-x    9 root  wheel   306 10 Jul 20:03 Keychains

and default permissions for /Library/Keychains/System.keychain

-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  124000  7 Jul 05:38 System.keychain

Also check permissions for your user keychain folder, mine are for the folder ~/Library/Keychains/:

drwxr-xr-x    9 username  staff    306 10 Jul 21:49 Keychains

and the user keychains itself:

drwx------  7 username  staff      238 25 Mar 13:36 A2676C22-A84E-5B3D-8711-0264BC3C8B96
-rw-r--r--  1 username  staff      277 21 Mar 07:28 E41FE5C0-3020-48C9-8829-344FF3E86407

Here is the default permission for /var on my Mac.

lrwxr-xr-x@   1 root  wheel    11 14 Jan 15:39 var -> private/var

Here are the default permissions for everything inside of my /var folder.

drwx------     2 root       wheel          68 24 Oct  2015 agentx
drwxr-xr-x     8 daemon     wheel         272 14 Jan 13:00 at
drwx------  7107 root       wheel      241638 10 Jul 20:03 audit
drwx------     2 root       wheel          68 16 Sep  2015 backups
drwxr-xr-x    77 root       wheel        2618 10 Jul 20:03 db
drwxr-x---     3 _dovecot   mail          102  9 Mar 12:12 dovecot
drwxr-xr-x     2 root       sys            68 16 Sep  2015 empty
drwxr-xr-x     7 root       wheel         238  4 Jun 10:47 folders
drwxr-x---     3 _jabber    _jabber       102  9 Mar 12:12 jabberd
drwxr-xr-x     3 root       wheel         102  1 Aug  2015 lib
drwxr-xr-x   106 root       wheel        3604 10 Jul 20:03 log
drwxrwxr-x     2 root       mail           68 16 Sep  2015 mail
drwxr-xr-x     3 root       wheel         102 16 Sep  2015 msgs
drwxr-xr-x     2 root       wheel          68 16 Sep  2015 netboot
drwxr-xr-x     5 _networkd  _networkd     170 25 Mar 18:36 networkd
drwxrwxr-x     2 _postgres  _postgres      68 27 May 09:22 pgsql_socket
drwxr-x---     6 root       wheel         204 27 May 09:22 root
drwxr-xr-x     4 root       wheel         136 24 Oct  2015 rpc
drwxrwxr-x    49 root       daemon       1666 10 Jul 21:29 run
drwxr-xr-x     2 daemon     wheel          68 16 Sep  2015 rwho
drwxr-xr-x    37 root       wheel        1258 10 Jul 21:29 servermgrd
drwxr-xr-x     7 root       wheel         238 14 Jan 13:01 spool
drwxrwxrwt    16 root       wheel         544 10 Jul 21:29 tmp
drwxr-xr-x     4 root       wheel         136 10 Jul 20:32 vm
drwxr-xr-x     3 root       wheel         102 16 Sep  2015 yp


How to Find What a Particular Keyboard Shortcut Does?

You can find the name of every shortcut in an app by using a free app called CheatSheet.


Unfortunately, I was unable to find a way to exactly imitate the desired behavior. You may have to simply create the outlined text in a different application and import it into Preview.

However, while it might not be exactly what you're looking for, you can create text with a background color. To do so, bring up the markup toolbar and create a new text box. Then, using the dropdown menu indicated in the below screenshot, select a background color.

The font, along with its color and size, can be modified by selecting the "A" icon to the right of the aforementioned menu. If you want a literal outline around the entire text box, that can be accomplished by selecting the dropdown to the left of the previously mentioned background color menu.


See when a macOS application accesses the clipboard?

There is no way to enable notification of clipboard access with macOS.  This is a system feature introduced for iOS 14. See this UIPasteboard documentation which includes a note about iOS 14 as well as the developer level API for using the clipboard.
If you would like this feature extended to macOS, give Apple some Feedback. I could imagine that Apple might be reluctant to add this feature to macOS because so many apps could be accessing the pasteboard that the number of notifications might be overwhelming.
I can't even see a way of using system logging (via for example the Console App) to detect clipboard reads.  If someone can point the way please add a comment.
Beyond that read @bmike's reply to this question How to secure macOS's clipboard?  Apart from the implementation of the iOS feature the only significant change in the intervening 4 years is the Universal Clipboard which shares the clipboard across your devices.


3G can be secure or insecure, it's really down to the particular implementation.  If you are worried about your data while tethering or using a 3G iPad/iPhone then look at it this way, it's more secure than using free/unsecured WiFi hotspots/networks.

Really the answer to your question is that 3G is pretty secure, but it has its flaws.

3G is encrypted, the most common encryption algorithms have been cracked, with the right equipment somebody could intercept your information wirelessly.  However, they would need some knowledge, some money and some motivation to do it.  Then in addition to that, they would need your device to send unencrypted data (non https) so it could be deciphered.  All in all it's pretty unlikely but certainly possible that your information could be intercepted.  However, this is a risk for anyone transmitting data anywhere and is not isolated to 3G/WiFi or other mobile device communication methods.

Try a google search on 3G security and you'll find plenty of information on the flaws and security holes and how they might be exploited.

Just as an example, here are a couple of presentations:

3G Security Overview

blackhat.com powerpoint


Preview.app Signatures - how to unencrypt without old keychain

Go to ~/Library/Keychains on your new Mac and make a copy/backup of your actual login.keychain with cmd D

Copy the old login.keychain in /Users/old_user_name/Library/Keychains from the backup to your desktop and rename it to loginold.keychain

Open Keychain Access.app and choose File -> 'Add Keychain...' in the menu, navigate to your desktop and select loginold.keychain

Now you have a new entry in Keychains named loginold. Choose loginold in Keychains and Passwords in Category

Select the object Preview Signature Privacy and drag it to the keychain login in Keychains. You will be asked for a password. Enter the password for the old keychain (probably your old user password) and choose Always Allow or Allow. Now the object will be moved to your login keychain.

Choose login in Keychains and Passwords in Category and check if the new object Preview Signature Privacy is present there.

If everything is ok right click loginold in Keychains and choose Delete keychain "loginold". If you choose Delete Files and References in the following dialog box the keychain loginold will be deleted from your desktop and in Keychains

Quit Keychain Access.app

Test everything with Preview.app

If everything went well go to ~/Library/Keychains and delete the file login copy.keychain built for safety reasons in step 1.

If something went wrong, you might revert to your previous keychain by deleting login.keychain in ~/Library/Keychains and renaming login copy.keychain to login.keychain. Then i usually log out and in again or restart my Mac to be save.

Slightly alternative way if the object Preview Signature Privacy is already present in your keychain login:
Perform the steps 1-4 from above
5. Locate the Preview Signature Privacy in loginold in Keychains and Passwords in Category and double click to edit.
6. Click the Show password checkbox and enter the old user password
7. Now the password used to encrypt the signature images is visible. Copy & paste it into a text editor and save the file or paste it directly into the password field of Preview Signature Privacy in your keychain login.
Any by Preview.app previously signed/protected object on your new Mac might be inaccessible then though.
Continue with the steps 7-11 from above


OneNote for OS X, How to type a dash then a space without turning it into a list

After it changes to a list, press ⌘+Z.

It's a common routine for things auto-corrected by apps if you don't want them to be auto-corrected, same with MS Office for Windows.


How to mount an external drive read only on the first try

I use a free app called Disk Arbitrator to ensure I mount any disk I want to mount as read-only.

It's a menubar app and has a Disks Window that you can also interface with.

Note that the Xcode Project files are available as well as precompiled binaries, if you do not have Xcode or want to compile it yourself.

Here are some screenshots:

The Disk Arbitrator icon is the one on the far left and is showing in red for when it's set as read-only.

Showing the Set Mode sub-menu for: Mount read-only

One of the Disks Window showing a thumb drive mounted as: Read-only

Note that I am not affiliated with the author of the Disk Arbitrator project and am just a user that's happy to have an app to handle this operation when needed/wanted.


Can't Boot from Snow Leopard anymore after having installed mavericks on an external HDD

This one is already answered in the other discussion forum:
Open SystemPreferences->StartupDisk  and choose the SnowLeopard Disk, then restart.
Lex


Bluetooth headphones are cutting out a lot

Actually, what helped me was this thread.
I have a USB hub connected to my Mac, after wrapping all the cables in the aluminum foil, the problem was solved!


Is this a feasible security measure for my retail iPod Touches?

You'd be better off looking for a sticker to put on top of your security sticker, and stick the sticker sandwich on the back of the device. Just use something that would be too time consuming to remove before trying to exit with the device, which would set off your alarm.  The theory being that by not hiding your effort to thwart a theft, you may deter the theft to begin with. Otherwise, it looks like a free iPod touch that nobody will notice is gone. I'd make it as obvious as possible that there's a thief detector installed on the device.

Also: read about Find My iPod Touch


How do I open the context menu from a Mac keyboard?

I always have the same question but I didn't find the answer yet.
In Windows, when we use the keyboard short-cuts we mostly use the Menu key in Windows keyboard:

When this Menu key is pressed, Windows will assume that you right-clicked the highlighted/active element > then it will show you the context menu even if the mouse pointer is not pointing to the highlighted element.
So this feature seems to be missing in Mac OS. And whatever suggested solutions, even Enable Mouse Key it always require you to point/move your mouse pointer to element first, which is meaningless. If I need to use the keyboard short-cut to open the context menu on the highlighted item, why do I need again to move the mouse pointer to it also. Somehow this is not a short-cut!!


Are there iOS/iPad apps that work well to edit XML?

Diet Coda, and Koder support XML syntax highlighting also. I use them both for editing XML, JSON, etc.


Install Homebrew packages on macOS Mojave Beta

Error: Your Xcode (9.4) is too outdated.
Please update to Xcode 10.0 (or delete it).
Xcode can be updated from
  https://developer.apple.com/download/more/

Error: Xcode alone is not sufficient on Mojave.
Install the Command Line Tools:
  xcode-select --install

This is a different error, however the solution is the same: install the Xcode 10 Beta and then run xcode-select --install.

The Command Line Developer Tools are now available!

First, agree to the invisible license agreement.

Wait for it to install...

Now, Brew works happily.


If you press that "Manage" button to the right in your first screenshot, do you see a Backups category in the left column?

I've seen some backups not show up on the iPhone/iPad, but show up on the Mac in this Manage pane. If the backups show up here, click on one and then click delete at the bottom of the list.


How do I create a symbolic link to a directory with a space in it?

The quote marks are preventing ~ from being expanded to your home folder, so you need to either quote just the part with the space in it:

ln -s ~/"Foo Bar/" Foo

Note: exactly how much is quoted doesn't matter, as long as the space is in the quoted portion and the ~/ isn't. ~/Foo" "Bar/, ~/"Foo Bar"/, ~/Fo"o B"ar/ etc are all equivalent. Also, single- and double-quotes have the same effect on spaces (although they differ on other characters), so ~/'Foo Bar/', ~/Foo' 'Bar/ etc would also work.

You could also use an escape to prevent the space from being treated as a separator:

ln -s ~/Foo\ Bar/ Foo


Can a MBP 15'' early 2011 run DDR3L ram?

Yes, you can. Please take a look at this link from Crucial, which states that the MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011) can run:

Memory Type: DDR3 PC3-10600, DDR3 (non-ECC)
Maximum Memory: 16GB
Slots: 2

The website even provides you with the recommended RAM for your computer. Look at the picture below.


How do I know the Apple ID associated with a particular device (Macbook Pro)?

System Preferences -> iCloud will tell you what Apple ID is currently being used on that computer and give you the option to sign out and change it if you wish.

I'm unsure about the matters of updating ML. I think it will still work, but I can't say for sure.


Sadly the solution you seek is to stop using Firefox. It drains your battery much faster than using Safari.

Close Firefox then use some Apple products and run them until your battery is very low. Then record that time. If that time is less than advertised then that is when you have a problem with the battery.

There is no issue with your computer if your battery is drained and you are using thrid party apps.


Building mysql with readline instead of editline

I know this question is super old, but if you use MariaDB instead it will be built with readline support. MariaDB is a fork of MySQL. brew update && brew install mariadb


Epubs from iBooks not showing up in iTunes on Mac OS X Sierra

OK, I’ve managed to solve this with the help of another guy from Apple Suport Forum.

Here’s what I did:

I Quit the iTunes
I opened iBooks
I backed up my books and PDF’s from iBooks by dragging and holding alt copying them to a backup folder
I deleted all of my books and PDF’s from iBooks
I quit the iBooks
I went to the Settings > iCloud > Options > iBooks and turned
the iCloud support for iBooks off
I went to the Library folder in Finder and located the nsurlsessiond folder via search
I copied the folder to the backup folder, just in case
I deleted the nsurlsessiond folder
I shut the OS X down
I turned the computer on
I opened iBooks I moved my books and PDF’s from the backup folder to iBooks
I turned the iCloud support for iBooks on (see the step 6)
I opened iTunes
Voilah! All of my books and PDF’s are there!
I synced the books successfully to both iPad 3 and iPhone 6
I checked the highlights, bookmarks, notes and the last page read and
everything was properly syncing

Here’s the original forum post.


How to make 64-bit guests available in a nested VirtualBox installation on iMac 5K 27-inch?

At the present time VirtualBox does not officially support nested virtualization, even thought one can nest a 32-bit Guest a 64-bit guest cannot be nested as VT-x is not passed through to the nested Guest and it's one of the requirements to run a 64-bit Guest, nested or not.

VMware Fusion does support some nested 64-bit Guests although off the top of my head I'd have to check the documentation to be more specific.  You can have a look Running Nested VMs at VMware's website.


WiFi connecting problem in 5GHz networks

Just to make sure... Is visibility for 5G Wi-Fi network turned on? I.e., network is visible in the list of available networks, when you want to connect from any other device?

Also, try this:

Turn WPA2 only in the router settings..
Remove saved 5G Wi-Fi network on MBP and register again.

Just in case, make sure your MacBook supports 5G connectivity by:

Go to Apple menu (click  icon in the top left corner (menu bar))
Open About This Mac
Click System Report button
Go to Network -> Wi-Fi section, find Supported PHY Modes and make sure that your adapter at a minimum supports 802.11g/n.

And finally, this article may be very useful for running diagnostics on Wi-Fi connections.

Hope this helps at least find the path to fix.


GarageBand sound holding/freezing when multiple notes are played on USB keyboard

Buy a new midi cord.
I'm not sure why the first one didn't work, but I eventually bought a new midi cord/cable(s) and now the above problem doesn't happen.


Wireshark's installer configures your system so that the user doing the installation can capture network traffic without the capturing program having to run as root.

The way it does this is to:

create an access_bpf group;
put the user into that group;
install a StartupItem (in older versions) or a launch daemon (in newer versions) that, when the system is booted, changes the permissions of the BPF devices to rw-rw--- and the group owner of the BPF devices to access_bpf;
arranges that the StartupItem/launch daemon run at that time.

Note, BTW, that this also allows you to capture traffic with Wireshark (or Wireshark's TShark or dumpcap programs) without having to run them as root, it also allows you to capture traffic with tcpdump without having to run it as root.


Not much you can do if they were exchange contacts. The messages will still be there because they were created before you removed the account that stored all your contacts. You could probably re-add the exchange account, and see if you can mass-move the contacts to your iCloud group in contacts - probably best to try this on a mac if you have one.


Why I cannot restore Apple TV from tvOS 10 preview?

It's a known bug. Download the IPSW manually from developer.apple.com/tvos/download, alt-click the Restore button and select your IPSW.


Applescript & Javascript to get number from chrome and give a total

In that absence of the actual URL and what appears to be incomplete output shows in the OP the following example AppleScript code defines r as a list and sums its numeric values.

set r to {"4,000.00	JPY	", "5,000.00	JPY	", "5,000.00	JPY	", "5,000.00	JPY	", "5,000.00	JPY	", "5,000.00	JPY	", "3,800.00	JPY	", "5,000.00	JPY	", "5,000.00	JPY	", missing value, missing value, missing value}

set theText to Unicode text
property leftEdge1 : ""
property rightEdge1 : "	"
set totalValue to 0

repeat with i from 1 to count r
    try
        set saveTID to text item delimiters
        set text item delimiters to leftEdge1
        set classValue to text item 2 of item i of r
        set text item delimiters to rightEdge1
        set singleValue to text item 1 of classValue
        set text item delimiters to saveTID
        set totalValue to totalValue + singleValue
    end try
end repeat

log totalValue

-- Result:
-- 42800

Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and does not employ any other error handling then what's shown and is meant only to show one of many ways to accomplish a task. The onus is always upon the User to add/use appropriate error handling as needed/wanted.


Mouse clicks not working on MacBook Pro, with both track pad and USB mouse

Here is what worked for me.

I am on a MBP Retina 13" Late 2013 and macOS Sierra. The pointer started to have erratic movements and generated automatic clicks. Then this stopped but the left click would not work at all, even with an external mouse (only the right click of the mouse worked).

I tried everything (NVRAM reset,...) but nothing worked.

Then I found a post (here) linking it to an issue with an external monitor - I plugged the HDMi of the external screen I use from time to time, turned the monitor on and voila !, the left click worked again !

The post is 3 years old but he bug seems to be surviving...


Can entry duplicates (or multiples) in etc/hosts do any damage?

No, having duplicates is not a problem. Since the file is read in order, the first matching result is read, and the rest of the file is ignored. Having exact duplicates has no effect.


I have to repair my external hard drive each time I plug it?

Try ejecting the external drive before you unplug it. You can either use the Eject icon or use Command + E when its selected int he Finder as mentioned by Tetsujin.


packages installed with Homebrew not found after restore

From your answer above, it looks like you want to relink all your kegs, which is already answered here:

Is there a quick way to relink my homebrew kegs?

In one line:

brew list -1 | while read line; do brew unlink $line; brew link $line; done


How to find a site whose name I do not remember in Chrome history?

Google Chrome stores its history in an SQLite database in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Profile 1 by default. You could run
cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Profile\ 1
sqlite3 History

to open it, and then use a query like
select title, url from urls where url not like '%youtube.com/%' and url not like '%google.com/%';

to list all URL not matching the pattern.
If there are a lot of lines to search through, you can also dump the content of that table into a CSV file.
sqlite3 -csv History "select title, url from urls where url not like '%youtube.com/%' and url not like '%google.com/%'" > ~/Desktop/URLs.csv

will create a CSV file containing page titles and URLs on your desktop from where you can open it in Numbers, LibreOffice or any text editor.


Which app will help me remove limitations on DVDs?

I have found MacDVDRipperPro to work very well for me. It also removes the protection on dvd's.


iOS Calendar application shows old home address as home address


Locating install printer PPD driver url script

You can get information about the installed printer driver with system_profiler:

pse@Mithos:~$ system_profiler SPPrintersSoftwareDataType
Printer Software:

    PPDs:

      PPDs:
          Path: /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/CanonIJMG7100series.ppd.gz
          Version: 11.7.1.0
          Path: /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/CanonIJMP520series.ppd.gz
          Version: 10.84.2.0
          Path: /Library/Printers/PPDs/Contents/Resources/CanonIJMP540series.ppd.gz
          Version: 10.84.2.0
...


Is a partial restore from an Address Book .abbu file possible?

You can

store the contents of your current Address Book in an archive (.abbu)
restore the contents of the old file.
purge the entries you don't want to keep
export the remaining ones
the current archive file (created in step 1)
import the file from step 4


A question about syncing the IPad with Win XP and Win 8.1

Are you using POP3 or IMAP for your email?

If your service is POP3, then each machine will download emails unread by that machine, up to the retention limit of the mail server.
This means that you will always have to manually delete each email from each machine.

There is the possibility that you can adjust the retention limit, to reduce the amount of backlog that is downloaded. The retention period usually starts after the first device has downloaded that particular message, so you don't lose any mail if no machine picks up messages for a few days etc. You would need to ask your Service Provider how to do that.

If you use IMAP, then the emails actually always live on the remote server, so any action you take will be reflected across any machine that accesses that remote data.

Which of those services you use is usually not choosable by the user, it's in the hands of your Service Provider.


No. Like all iOS applications coming pre-installed, Newsstand cannot be removed from an iOS device. See the Apple Support Forums for corroboration.


How to migrate an OS X guest VM to a physical machine?

Use SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable image
to an external or internal disk. SuperDuper can also be used for free.


Which OnyX setting resets my Chrome extensions?

This is the Web Browser Cache and History.  In the automated section, this setting clears for ALL web browsers and their cache.  Deselect the setting.  You can always delete your history and other browser specific caches manually thereafter.


Mail.app configured to access gmail, is there a way to sync "sent items"?

Select the Sent folder for Gmail in the Mail.app sidebar (might be under a [Gmail] heading in Mail depending on how you set it up) then go to the Mailbox menu in the menu bar and look down near the bottom for the Use This Mailbox For menu.

Choose Sent in there and that should make the Gmail-based Sent folder the default place for Mail.app to save outgoing mail. It will also appear to move that [Gmail]/Sent folder out of the Gmail section and up to the top-most Mailboxes section below Inbox, etc.

After you do this you may notice you now have a section in the Mail sidebar for On My Mac folders, and a Sent folder in there. This is the folder that previously was containing all messages sent via Gmail but stored locally. Feel free to copy all the messages out of there and into the new default Sent folder (which will copy them all up to the Gmail server).

PS - This process works for Trash as well, so you can map the Gmail Trash to be used by Mail.app. You can also do it for Drafts but I've seen some weird behaviour where Gmail/Mail.app doesn't delete drafts after sending a message and you get a ton of them stacking up in Drafts, which is why I usually leave Drafts as a local-only folder.


If you've already tried Command-dragging it out of the menu bar (although draggable menu itmes are a private API feature, as pointed out by comments below and usually only works with system icons like Time Machine, clock, battery, and volume), I'd recommend
Bartender (free in beta, $7 full version)
Bartender allows you full control of your menu bar by adding a second, hidden but easily accessible menu bar to organize all of your icons. Alternatively, you could request that Broomstick (free) be updated for Google Play.


iOS 9.3.2 - Siri Suggestions Shows Wrong Contacts

Finally figured it out!!! That person a long time ago had invited me to a Facebook event that last many many days in a row. I never declined or ignored the event and I also had my iOS calendar set to show Facebook events. I declined and ignored the event in Facebook, he still appeared, but I didn't wait long (maybe that takes a while to refresh). I was impatient so I just turned off showing my Facebook events in the calendar app all together. He finally disappeared.


I am unable to reproduce the problem.

Maybe this will work: System Preferences > Displays > Detect Displays


These are for source control. M stands for Modified. A stands for Added. This is so you know what files have changed since the last commit of your project.

It's all explained on this support page http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/ToolsLanguages/Conceptual/Xcode4UserGuide/SCM/SCM.html


Why not try iPhone's email address? As far as I know, iMessage is registered by e-mail, not phone number.


How to pass path of selected file from Finder to Automator Shell script

Add cd "$(dirname "$f")" before the unzip line.

for f in "$@"; do
    cd "$(dirname "$f")"
    unzip -o "$f"
done

or without changing to the directory, use the -d option

[-d exdir]
          An  optional  directory  to which to extract files.  By default, all files and subdirectories
          are recreated in the current directory; the -d  option  allows  extraction  in  an  arbitrary
          directory.....

for f in "$@"; do
    unzip "$f" -d "$(dirname "$f")"
done


In trying to understand you question it looks like you have 2 problems.

1--Your Yahoo email is not printing, since it does not know where to print it..so check the settings for Yahoo email

2--It is difficult to understand what you mean by

  When I print out of Photos, only the center one third of the page

Since you might have more the one print settings profiles set up (that is why Google email works) and others do not!

I would in any case check you print settings in the System Preferences and correct them.


With reference to the current version (iTunes 10):

Without adding third party software, you will need to actively select the currently playing song to view its lyrics.

⌘+I opens the Info window for the selected song
esc closes the Info window

If you open the Lyrics tab in the Info window, it will open in the same tab the next time you open it.

Visualizers

If you want to view the lyrics without interacting with your Mac, you might want to consider adding a third party visualizer. One such visualizer is Cover Version (freeware).

(NOTE: With OS 10.7.4 & iTunes 10.6.3, CoverVersion shows my lyrics with a upper case letter height of three pixels.  I opened the info window and changed the font from 12 pt. to 144 pt., but it didn't change the Viz.  But it's open source, so I could fix it if I were sufficiently ambitious.)

After you have installed the visualizer, you will need to select it in iTunes. For example:

View > Visualizer > Cover Version

Use ⌘+T to toggle the visualizer on/off
You can choose the menu item View > Visualizer > Options... to configure some visualizers  (For example, in Cover Version you can switch off the background graphics to make the lyrics easier to read)

Other Third Party Software

If you want to display lyrics while using your Mac for other tasks, you'll need to use a third party application.

Examples include:

Get Lyrical from Shullian Productions (Donation Ware)
LessLyrics from Ixhan (Freeware)


iPhone Remote App Is Very Latent In Controlling Large iTunes Library

Doesn't surprise me at all. An iPhone doesn't have anywhere near enough memory to work with that much data unless the developer puts a huge amount of effort into making it work, and I can't see Apple doing so when few people have a database that big.

Most likely it can only store info about a small subsection of your library on the phone, and whenever it needs to access data from a song it doesn't have, it has to go back to the server. I could see that maxing out a fibre channel network's bandwidth, let alone wireless.

About all you can do is send an email to apple's support team and ask them to fix it in some future update. If enough people complain, they will.

Have you tried working with playlists that only expose small sections of your library?


Facebook Page notifications in OSX 10.8.2 Notification Center

I would not use OS X Notifications, but would instead use Growl, and a management tool such as Babble, which supports both multiple Facebook accounts, and Growl notifications.


You will not be able to drive a Mac Mini to a monitor with a resolution of higher than  1920 x 1200 off of that HDMI port (different versions of HDMI have different capabilities vs. different versions of DP/mDP--the Mac version of HDMI is old). For 2560 resolution you must attempt to use the Thunderbolt ports to connect to the display mDP ports--in theory, although they are not identical, as the thunderbolt capabilities of data transfer are a superset of the mDP's, the thunderbolt port is backwards compatible with the mDP port and the Mac Mini will recognize the mDP monitors. Problems have been reported in practice in achieving full resolution for the mDP displays; there are also positive reports.

see: http://www.techadvisor.co.uk/feature/digital-home/displayport-vs-hdmi-3535257/
and:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204388


I deleted songs right off my iPod, why are they again in my iPod after syncing?

You need to tell iTunes not to sync those songs.

Uncheck the songs you do not want to sync in the iTunes "Music" list.
Check "Sync only checked songs and Videos" in the options for the device.


How can I identify the chipset of an (old) MacBook?

The first MacBook to fully support 4GB of RAM (with unofficial support for up to 6GB) was the MacBook (13-inch Late 2007). This was also the first MacBook to feature a 800MHz FSB and the GMA X3100 graphics chip.

I'd be interested to know where you're getting your system specs from, but I'd suspect that somewhere along the line the FSB and RAM speed are getting confused.

Check your system's specification from the System Profiler application found in /Applications/Utilities. Under the Hardware section look at the "Model Identifier".

If you get MacBook3,1 then you're in luck - that's the newer (Late 2007) model with greater RAM support and graphics. Anything prior to that (Macbook2,1 or MacBook1,1) and you're looking at (approx) 3GB limit or even 2GB (for the very first gen model).


Xcode install fails at 95% under OS X El Capitan

I had the same problem and I fixed it following the instructions of the first answer to a similar question:
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/97910/135650
You need to enable the debug menu for the App Store app and reset the application:

Open the terminal
Run the following command:
defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true
Relaunch the App Store app.
Choose the menu item Debug → Reset Application.

If you follow this instructions and still get any error I recommend you to check if you has at least 10GB of free space on disk before try again.

Optionally, you can always download manually this or any other update from the following link:

(you need to enter your Apple ID in order to be able to download)

https://developer.apple.com/downloads/

or even better with this directly link(Xcode version 7.3):

https://developer.apple.com/services-account/download?path=/Developer_Tools/Xcode_7.3/Xcode_7.3.dmg


Smooth scrolling not working with Magic Mouse and macOS Catalina 10.15.3

I fixed this by deleting the mouse from Bluetooth settings, and then pairing it again using a lightning cable.


It's very likely you don't actually have a DNS cache. If you do, dscacheutil -cachedump seems relevant here, probably sudo dscacheutil -cachedump. That said, I don't see any cache on any system I have, neither server-oriented systems nor end-user laptops.

See man dscacheutil for more.

Denis' answer via the comment will let you see lookups as they happen, but the DNS cache is very short lived if present at all.

Is there an actual problem at hand?


Can Safari (iPad iOS 12.4.2) be configured to utilize SSH-Tunnel / Port Forwarding?

I don’t recommend using software for ssh tunnels since it’s less efficient than a VPN connection, but here are a list of software and options:

Which options exist for SSH tunneling clients on iOS?

Apple doesn't enable an sshd process on iOS so you'll need to alter or add software to accomplish this if you can't just set up a web proxy in the cloud or on a more traditional server and point your iOS device to that web proxy or ssh tunnel on an OS that presumes wall power.


Is there a good reason for Photos to export TIFF?

HEIC and JPEG are both lossy formats. Which means, each time you change anything and save the file, the image looses in quality.

Photos and your iDevice usually avoid this by adding all edits as a separate file and leaving the original untouched. However, third party software would not understand this additional information (especially as it's an internal format and can change with any update of Photos or iOS). So Photos reverts to the old fashioned approach to avoid image quality losses with every edit: saving the file (with all the edits you did on the phone or in Photos) in a lossless format, TIFF. This can be edited as much as you like, and will not deteriorate each time you save it. At the cost of being more bulky.

Once you are finished editing, I suggest making a JPEG or HEIC copy and keeping the TIFF file only on your backup disk or such.


how to move iTunes files from external and internal drives to a single drive?

Turns out that somehow the internal iTunes got imported into the external one without changing the location of the files.  So I went to:

File > Library > Organize Library > Consolidate Files

which caused it to move the files into the external drive library.


Extremely poor bulk file copy speeds on AFP shares in Yosemite

Here's how I would attack the issue. It's not an answer, but hopefully we can crowd source ideas until you can report success or at least a way to measure things.

Set up a test case client with no third party apps running at log in. Reboot that client and mount the network share. Run sudo sysdiagnose Finder before you start a copy.
Start a tcp trace on the network adapter you will copy the file. If you aren't connecting over en0 - use System Information to see the BSD name of the network connection.
Once the trace is started, start the copy of the file in question.
After 3 minutes (or less if the transfer is done sooner), press Control+C to end the capture
Run a second sudo sysdiagnose Finder after the network capture

With this slow of a transfer speed, something seriously amiss is happening in the network stack, but without looking at the client logs, it's going to be hard to know for sure what's halting the operation. You might also run a sysdiagnose on the server side once at about the same time as you do on the client side to eliminate a slow server as the issue. It seems you have plenty of horsepower for the storage to move rapidly, but getting server side logs will help too:

sudo sysdiagnose
sudo /Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/sbin/serverdiagnose

The trace is:

sudo tcpdump -i en0 -s 0 -B 524288 -w ~/Desktop/AFPslow.pcap


Why do my most recent iTunes music purchases not sync to my iPhone?

I had this exact same problem and found the answer I was looking for within one of the Apple communities. Simply go into iTunes store and scroll right to the very bottom. There amongst the small print you'll see an option for purchased. Click on there and you will see a list of all songs/albums and you can choose to either download all or individual tracks. Once downloaded they appear in your library as normal. Don't ask me why they don't appear straight away, but this resolves the problem of those not transferring when syncing


How would I get Apple to list a calendar for people to subscribe at apple.com?

It appears that this functionality has been removed.

There used to be a sidebar box with the ability to contact Apple regarding adding your work to any of the download lists on Apple.com. However, this box no longer appears on the page.

Also, the linked page from the old submit link in the box above no longer appears to be functional:

https://adcweb.apple.com/downloads/

This seems to match the fact that no new calendars have been uploaded for years.


How can I sync notes in iPhone with macbook pro and vice versa by using either bluetooth or using USB cable?

You can use the following third party software:

iExplorer - http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/31722/iexplorer
iMazing - http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/27830/imazing
PhoneView - http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25347/phoneview

I believe you will have to copy/paste the information manually.


Will generic earphones allow basic inline remote / mic capability on my iPhone 6?

Yes, generic earphones/headphones/earpods will work fine with an iPhone.  I have several non-Apple headphones and earphones from various manufacturers and they've all worked, including the play/pause, ff/rw, volume buttons.

As long as you purchase from a reputable company and manufacturer, like you've indicated in your question, you'll be ok.


How to specify network interface for different protocols?


Is it safe to run a Mac Mini (i5) on its side?

Sure.  Just make sure it is in a secure position so it doesn't fall over.

Apple actually has a support page on this:  http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22804


Just enable "Automatic Downloads" in the iTunes preferences after having your computer authorized.

Ref : Apple Support : iTunes Store: How to enable Automatic Downloads


Problems getting macOS Sierra on a bootable hard drive

Assuming that you don't have an additional thumb drive (according to Apple with at least 12 GB - I got it to work with a 8 GB thumb drive) I recommend the following method:

erase and repartition your WD easystore to two Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partitions - a bigger one first with the name "Sierra" and the size (total_size_of_external_drive - 12 GB) and a much smaller second one with the name "Sierra_Installer" and a size of ~12 GB. The partition scheme has to be GUID! If your MacBook's main partition already has the name "Sierra"  choose another name for the first partition of the external drive. Below I assume the bigger volume on the external drive has the name "Sierra".

Example: if your external drive has a size of 1 TB, then the first partition "Sierra" should have a size of 988 GB and the second "Sierra_Installer" partition one of ~12 GB.
re-download the "macOS Sierra installer.app" on your MacBook
open Terminal.app in /Applications/Utilities
enter the command:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Sierra_Installer --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app

hit the Enter key, enter your password (which won't be visible because it's masked), hit the Enter key again and let do createinstallmedia its job.
Quit Terminal after the job is done and any other app.
Reboot to "Sierra_Installer" (e.g. by choosing it in System Preferences > Startup Disk or by hitting the alt-key while booting and choosing Sierra_Installer)
After a successful boot of the "Installer Boot Partition" install macOS Sierra to the volume "Sierra".
After a successful installation configure Sierra.
Finally remove the partition "Sierra_Installer" with Disk Utility and resize the volume "Sierra" to the full size of the disk.

The method proposed by user3439894 in a comment to your question is preferred though: create an Installer Thumb Drive, boot to it and install Sierra to a single-partitioned external drive.


How to Enlarge Disk Image in VirtualBox?

Your vdi path is wrong:

  VBoxManage: error: Could not find file for the medium

In your resize command either use the uuid of the vdi or a proper path (no backslashes!) :

VBoxManage modifyhd "/Users/masi/VirtualBox VMs/Ubuntu 14.04 64bit/Ubuntu 14.04 64bit.vdi" --resize 10000

or (with backslashes but no quotation marks)

VBoxManage modifyhd /Users/masi/VirtualBox\ VMs/Ubuntu\ 14.04\ 64bit/Ubuntu\ 14.04\ 64bit.vdi --resize 10000

or after entering VBoxManage list hdds:

#replace UUID and size below by the appropriate UUID and the required size
VBoxManage modifyhd UUID --resize size

If your PATH doesn't work properly you may have to prepend /usr/local/bin/


suddenly key 'p' is doing strange things

You have spilt some (lots) water on your keyboard. Or less likely, some connectors got broken and are touching each other. Take it to your Apple Store, they will (usually) fix it for free. Or if you’re adventurous, open the thing up and let it dry for a couple of days in the shade.


How can I reset Location Warnings in the iOS simulator on Lion?

Lion didn't change your Xcode or iPhone simulator.

Xcode 4.1 / iOS Simulator 4.3 has rolled that into the resetting the simulated device.


Are restrictions in iOS by device and not iCloud account?

Yes. Restrictions are limited in scope to the device on which they are configured. If more than one device is tied to the same Apple ID, restrictions will have to be set up separately.


Use find in Terminal to remove directories and files of same search parameter

You can provide multiple -type options with -o, such as -type f -o -type d in a single command.

find . -name "*Xilisoft*" -type f -o -name "*Xilisoft*" -type d

-o matches all parameters, so the -name is provided twice in the above command.
Note that find can delete the results using -delete rather than -exec rm -rf {}.


How can I add a custom context menu item on a text selection in the Terminal?

AFAIK no, but you can make an new Service with the Automator.app.

And the new service will appear in the "Services" submenu in the context menu.

Assuming than you're familiar with scripting and Automator - if not, enter more details what you want achieve with the URL... (for an example can check: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/63362/6838)


Consistently slow and unreliable Wi-Fi everywhere I go. 2012 MBP

Since I wrote this post my Internet problems seem to have gotten a lot better. As far as I can remember, I only made two more changes. I can't say for sure which one of these helped, or if either them helped at all and maybe there was some other factor I'm forgetting, but they may be worth a try:

I changed my DNS settings to use Google's Public DNS. I can't remember what they were previously, but I definitely remember playing around with my DNS settings a few months ago so this may have been the culprit.
I changed the automatic MU settings, following the instructions on this page.

Hopefully someone will find one or both of these to be helpful!


Unfortunately you cannot. iOS 14 (specifically iOS 14.1) is the current latest version of iOS available and it supports running on iPhone 7.
Apple has stopped signing iOS 13 and it’s not possible to install it over the air or via IPSW file.


Apple Server - how to exclude a subdomain?

I'm starting this answer to talk through possibilities and will edit along the way:

As of Snow Leopard 10.6 apples MTA is Postfix you can find their docs here:
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/MailServicesAdmin_v10.6.pdf

http://www.postfix.org/documentation.html

1) On the OS X server, at a terminal, dig mx test.example.com  What are the results? If it's the apple server, you need to change DNS records to point to gmail.  (possibly on this same os x server, as it may see itself as authoritative for this domain)


What does the "EU Internet" switch do on my iPhone 5s?

I believe it allows data roaming, but only within European Union countries. See http://www.cultofmac.com/288360/europeans-new-roaming-options/:

Inside cellular settings, Apple has added a dedicated “EU Internet” switch alongside the existing data roaming toggle. It gives users the ability to active Internet connectivity when they visit countries inside the European Union, while in other parts of the world in will remain inactive.
Presumably, this change follows new European legislation that says carriers can no longer charge customers for data roaming when they visit other EU countries. The rules don’t officially come into effect until 2015, but a number of carriers have already begun abolishing roaming fees.


Formatting HTML signature in Mail (Lion)

If your code is copied and pasted, the first thing I realize is the following:

  / Junior Software Engineer

which means, the end tag

is missing. This might be the problem due to different renderings between mail and Safari.
It's worth a try.


Where does macos store 'Others' keyboard layouts? How to delete them?

Try the procedure mentioned at the end of this thread in the Ukelele list:


Connect iPad/iPhone to WiFI, but not MBP?

Click the Apple on your MBP and select System Preferences... and then choose Network.

Click Advanced at the bottom and WiFi should be highlighted. In that is Preferred Networks. Select the work on and hit the - to remove it. Then connect to the MiFi and in that same area, click the +.

Should be all set then!


Preview: How to edit the color of only the selected area?

Open the original image in Preview and carefully select the required portion to change. (the sleeve?) Do COPY then close the image. in Preview do a NEW FROM CLIPBOARD. Make your changes on  this then  COPY.
 Open the original and PASTE the changed selection onto this. Adjust the position as required...hope this works for you. It does for me:


How does one get iPhone to recognize wifi network of choice, as first choice?

If you have iCloud Keychain enabled, the prioritized list of networks from your Mac will sync to your phone, including the order.

If you don't want to enable it, though, I do not know of any way to arrange networks on the phone by priority, except by forgetting them all and adding them in order of desire (the ones added earlier in the process will be preferred.)


Can I "Forget this Network" when the wifi network is not in range?

Seems like no way to do this at the moment. Workaround:

  The only solution seems to be to rename a spare access point to the SSID of the network you want to forget, connect to it with the iPhone, and choose the option to forget the network. This kludge seems like a lot of work and something that an average user probably doesn’t know how or want to do

via http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2010/07/08/forget-this-network-pretty-please/


The iPhone is synced with another iTunes library error Message

The fact is you are switching to manual syncing, thus everything will be removed and synced back on your device. You don't have to worry if everything is in your iTunes library.

Or you could leave it to the automatic version of sync and you don't get a warning like this.


emacs on console "can not load file, package

Neither package nor el-get are part of a standard OS X installation, they need to be installed manually.

But unless you are really keen on running emacs in terminal mode, I would recommend to install Aquamacs instead which provides a much better integration with OS X. Also, package is part of the standard installation.


How to disable the MacBook screen when connected to TV via HDMI

You can use your MacBook in clamshell mode, which disables the internal display, by closing the lid when your Mac is connected to the display (and AC power is connected). You can then use an external keyboard and mouse to use the computer.

Opening the lid restores the internal display, however you can set it so that the display stays disabled after opening using the following boot argument, then reboot once to enable the new setting:

sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"

Reset using sudo nvram -d boot-args or by resetting NVRAM by booting with ⌘⌥PR.


How can I keep iCal from stealing/short-circuiting email invitations?

Your hypothesis is very close to reality: it seems (based on ArsTechnica article) that the default settings in Apple's iCloud calendar service automatically push calendar alerts to Apple iOS and macOS users and bypass e-mail entirely.

The same article describes how to change the settings.

  Visit your iCloud account via a Web browser. Log in to iCloud and go to the Calendar Web app, click on the Settings gear icon in the bottom left corner of the Calendar view, and click Preferences. Click the "Advanced" button in the Preferences pop-up window. At the bottom of the window, change the Invitations setting for "Receive event invitations as:" from "In-app notifications" to "Email to [your iCloud account address]."


What are the 1st macbook models(year) that support booting from usb?

Short Answer

Any Intel Mac capable of running Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.5 is capable of booting from USB (so long as the version of Mac OS X on that USB is at least Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.5.

Since all MacBook models are Intel Macs, the model year is irrelevant aince all Intel Macs are capable of booting from USB so long as they're running Mac OS X 10.4.5 or later. For the record though, Apple started producing MacBooks in 2006 and the original MacBook Pro (January 2006) came pre-installed with Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.5.

You can read more about how to set up and use an external Mac startup disk.

Long Answer

In practice I've found that it's easier to boot from USB with MacBook models from late 2008 onwards, espececially if you want to boot from a USB flash drive. I cannot advise specifically why this has been the case in my personal experience (maybe I wasn't doing it right in those early years of Intel Macs), nor whether other people have had different levels of success. However, since your model MacBook Pro is a 2009 model (based on your comment) this will not be an issue for you. Just be sure to follow the how to set up and use an external Mac startup disk if you intend to do this.

Extra info

It may be of interest to some people that it was technically possible to boot from USB in the pre-Mac OS X era with the introduction of dual channel USB in 1999. Slot loading iMacs and a model of the AGP PowerMac G4 were able to boot from USB drives.

As an aside, you can't start a Mac in Target Disk Mode using a USB cable. To do this your Mac will need to have a FireWire port or a Thunderbolt 2 or 3 port or a USB-C port. See Share files between two computers with target disk mode for more info.


Websites stuck in infinite redirect loop after upgrading to iOS 5 (5.0.1)

To clear Safari's cache:

Go to Settings App > Safari then tap Clear History and Clear Cookies and Data.

Hopefully this will help you.


USB keyboard no longer works in one USB port on a MacBook

I have the same problem. Have you tried resetting SMC and NVRAM?

Sometimes a SMC and NVRAM reset might solve weird issues, but in my case they didn't fix the problem.


This isn't possible as far as I can see.

Spotlight does not keep track of your history(in a way that is user accessible anyway).

This might help.


Connect 3 monitors to Macbook Pro (2018) using one cable?

You can totally do this. Pick any AMD GPU that meets your needs - there are several that drive 3 to 6 displays in the $120 to $200 price point and put that in a thunderbolt 3 EGPU case.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0745GHN53/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_tai_DT.yFbXV1S9X3

Pretty much anything you can put in a PCI slot will work over thunderbolt and one cable. Basically you’re putting a GPU for the new Mac Pro like the Radeon Pro W5500X MPX Module in an external enclosure.

https://store.apple.com/xc/product/MXM52AM/A


Activating Show Desktop in Mission Control with a mouse button does not work

SOLVED IT! (At least for me...)

I'm using a Logitech Anywhere Mouse MX, and was having the EXACT same problem not being able to assign Show Desktop, Mission Control, etc., to the mouse buttons from the System Preferences-> Mission Control area as I had previously.
The reason is because I had installed Logitech's proprietary Control Center software which overrides selections in System Preferences -> Mission Control.

Simple Fix:
Go to System Preferences-> Logitech Control Center

From here click on the image of your mouse that appears on the screen, which will make available the "Configure..." button, upon which you should now click.

On the next page, this is where the magic happens! You see the available buttons on the left side of the screen, and the actions you are able to assign to those buttons on the right side of the screen (Assigned action). When you click on an action item in the right column, a drop down menu appears allowing you to choose which action or area of action you want assigned to the corresponding mouse button in the left column. Choose "Mission Control".

When you do this, the bottom half of the screen will give you radio button options to choose which specific action within "Mission Control" you want to assign to that mouse button, such as "Desktop".
In the attached picture on my next post, you will see that I have opted to assign to my "Thumb Back" button the "Mission Control" radio button.

And that's it!

While it was annoying at first not to be able to assign actions to my mouse buttons from the original Mission Control area in System Preferences, I have found I much prefer there Logitech Control Center as I don't have to guess which button corresponds with "Mouse Button 4" or "Mouse Button 6", etc. The actual button names, along with their representative icons are used in this new location, and, as before, the moment you assign an action to a button, it works. You don't need to close the window for your selections to take effect, which is as it was before, and quite wonderful.

Hope this helps!!


iPhone Email client includes wrong Original Message in body of reply

I had this same issue and it turned out to be related the the "threading" of conversations. Turns out it was grouping everything with the same subject and grabbing a random one to reply to. Turn off threading and conversation grouping in settings and this problem went away.


Unable to restore backup from iCloud in iPhone 12 pro max

Yes. You can erase your new phone and run the setup again. Apple cloud servers are seeing outages and general slowdowns around product launches this week so I would check them before trying a restore.

https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

You need these to be working for a restore: App Store, Apple ID, iCloud Account & Sign In, iCloud Backup, iOS Device Activation.
Others may be needed depending on your settings and expectations.  Your process is solid and there’s not much you can do - whatever is in iCloud is all you can get so hopefully it’s just slow internet and you don’t have to get Apple Engineering involved to look at your backup logs and perhaps fix or deliver news on what can be restored at this point.


Keeping photos between Lion and iOS synchronised

Simply, no. Pretty much the only thing the two apps share is a name right now. They're quite independent of each other.