How to reformat a HDD to show the proper size?

The easiest way to fix this is to boot using your bootable USB, go into terminal and enter the following command to (re)partition your drive

diskutil partitionDisk /dev/diskX 1 GPT HFS+ MacintoshHD 100%

Where X is the number of the drive that corresponds to your HDD.  Issue the command diskutil list to get a listing of the disk identifiers.

Verify that your drive is showing up correctly by issuing the command

diskutil info diskX

Then proceed with your installation of macOS


How to offload already downloaded photos to iCloud?

Seems that it just took some time to take effect, ran the disk util again and free space went back to normal.


How can I see Windows PCs on a Mac and vice versa on a home network?

You need to specifically enable Windows File Sharing on the Mac.
By default just checking 'File Sharing' will enable [I think, it's been a long time since I set up a raw machine] SMB & AFP, but not specifically Windows.

System Prefs > Sharing > Options…

If you need to specify a Workgroup, that's done from Network > Advanced… > WINS

One thing to be aware of is that if one of your non-Mac machines isn't set to be Master Browser, then the Mac can often force an election & win, even if it wasn't supposed to.
Depending on which machine is most likely to be on at all times, you may need to force that to be the Local Master.

This is a good article on how to set it on multiple platforms - http://petestechblog.com/archives/847 - there's a bit much to précis here.


How to move a Time Machine sparsebundle on a networked machine

I was able to solve this by following Pondini (http://www.baligu.com/pondini/TM/18.html#id18) with a slight modification.  Instead of copying the Backups.backupdb folder from the top level of my source partition I copied it from within the original sparsebundle (what I called TM.sparsebundle above). This worked flawlessly.

It would be nice if there was a faster way to accomplish this - essentially some way to tell TM that a particular sparsebundle was to be used by TM.  But at least this heavy-handed method works.


2 Months old MacBook Pro (Mid 2020) battery only last for 4 hours

You’re using Chrome. That is a known energy hog on macOS. You can observe this yourself by keeping Activity Monitor (/Applications/Utilities) open to the Energy tab while you’re working.
Long battery life on modern computing platforms is the result of massive, massive amounts of engineering across all levels of the software stack. It requires adopting certain APIs and adhering to certain behaviors & best practices, and so it only works when all your software is well-written and well-behaved. Apple tries to make it straightforward for developers to adopt energy-saving practices, but that doesn’t mean that all software will. In particular, large and cross-platform apps (such as Chrome) will deviate from recommended design patterns for one reason or another, and this often causes all sorts of issues with energy usage (not to mention stability, performance, security, and privacy).
Short story: Switch to Safari. Try it for a week. See if your battery life doesn’t double.


MacBook Pro won't wake up when stacked on another sleeping MacBook Pro

It's the magnets, they aren't super strong, but strong enough to keep the lid close firmly. The magnet sensor is probably a little bit too sensitive. To confirm this hypothesis, you could turn one of the laptops around. So the magnet sensor of the top one is over the hinge of the bottom one.


These symptoms all point in the same direction, there are some hardware issues. Perhaps a loose contact somewhere, moisture on the main board or display controller, etc. The fact that they happen or increase when moving the screen further back, all just add weight to the above analysis.

Your best bet is to take your laptop to an Apple Store or Apple Service Provider and let them have a look.


Where is the Agenda view for Calendar in iOS 7?

The iOS 7 agenda hasn't been removed, but it's not as intuitively easy to find.

To see your agenda:

In the month view, tap on any date to bring it to hourly view, then tap the icon (bullets with lines next to the search icon) this will allow you to toggle back and forth between hourly and agenda list view.


What does "EFI system partition couldn't be created" mean?

Set your Disk utility in to Debug mode.

Now you should be able to "see" the hidden partitions like EFI and the Recovery HD.

To enable the Debug mode use your Terminal:

Enter the following command at the Terminal prompt:

defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled 1

Needless to say, there is a reason for those partitions to be hidden, so do not mess around with them on your start up disk.


How to remove a service from launchd added by mistake?

Immediately after removing the service you won't be able to find the service name in a distinctive and editable file. It's probably hidden in some cache.

After a reboot you should be able to remove its traces by performing these steps though:

Search for the name of the non-existent service to remove in the files of this directory: /var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd

sudo grep -rnw '/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/' -e "homebew"

Edit the file found by grep with nano (the string is probably found in disabled.plist)

sudo nano /var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/disabled.plist

Move the cursor to the two incriminating lines (service name e.g. <key>homebew.mxcl.cntlm</key> followed by its status e.g. <false/>) and remove each with ctrlK. Hit ctrlO, ⏎ and ctrlX, ⏎ to save the changes to disk and leave nano.
Reboot again and launchctl print-disabled system won't show the service anymore.

Due to an agressive caching mechanism or other opaque system procedures, removing the lines doesn't work reliably with vim or nano (on the OP's system it didn't work at all, in my Catalina VM 5 out of 6 attempts have been successful).

Then the file has to be cleaned in Recovery Mode:

Boot to Recovery Mode
In the menubar open Terminal
Edit the file with nano. The paths depend on your main volume name (e.g. Macintosh HD):

/Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/usr/bin/nano /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD//var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/disabled.plist

Enter reboot to boot normally.


Does Mac power adapter die if you leave it plugged in?

No.  You don't do any damage to a power adapter by leaving it in.

The fact of the matter is that power adapters die for one reason or another.

Personally, I have power adapters for products that have been in use for well over 15 years, being plugged in all day, every day.  I also have power adapters that barely last a year.  For the most part, my devices that have these types are power supplies are plugged into surge suppressors with most plugged into UPSs; so I couldn't protect them any more than they already are.

In your case, it appear that the power adapter was defective and Apple took care of it under warranty.  Just keep on keeping on; no need to worry about leaving it plugged in.


Check if iTunes account has credit card linked

The email is spam.

You can check if you have a credit card linked by opening iTunes and going to iTunes Store → Account (right sidebar), authenticating and looking at the payment method section.


OSX 10.5.8: spurious "cannot be copied because there is not enough free space"

It may sound strange, but this can be caused by incorrect date and time. I have had the same problem and after setting correct date and time, problem doesn't exist anymore.


You can always download the files from ipswdownloader.com.I agree it looks shady but I use it a lot for my development devices and i never have any problems with it.You can also find the ipsw files on your computer as described in this article, you might want to copy the files to another folder though because itunes will remove them automatically.


10.13 to Big Sur - HDD APFS System volume and HFS+ User Space

No, what you describe is not at all workable by my definition. I think you can go all in with APFS and use an attached external HDD and Time Machine to limit your performance impact. If at such time you eventually have a slow system, you can reset that fragmentation by an erase install. This assumes no utility will get upgraded to help you with optimization, you’ll still have an out with Apple only tools.

Big Sur makes design assumptions that the user data is on APFS so you may regret forcing it to accommodate HFS+ storage both in the steps needed to set it up and the performance of the system in the end.
If you don’t trust APFS, don’t run Big Sur except for in virtualization as a guest OS is my recommendation - stick with older OS and tools you trust.
Detailing all the “bugs” and debunking them would make a wonderful masters thesis to set this up and document how it performs, but even as a hobby, I couldn’t imagine learning enough from this to make it worth the hassle. But, that’s just my take - I might be totally wrong on your skill level and benefits from attempting this. There are wizards here that do things with partitions and non-standards setups / hard partitions that make my hair stand on end with delight and awe. You might be one of those awesome people or connect with them here.
TLDR; what you propose is technically possible - go forth and do it and report back. The definition of “workable” is flexible enough for experiments like this to be worth doing if you are motivated enough.
All pigs can fly, most people are unwilling to supply enough thrust.


If you want to check if find my iPhone is turned on on a device, you can check the activation lock on icloud.com using this link: icloud.com/activationlock

You will need to have the IMEI or serial number of the device. Both can be find in the the settings app on the device, or at the back of the box that came along with the iPhone.


By default the contents of the /private/var/log directory is excluded from Time Machine backups.  This can be changed to include the contents however because this is a system file it is probably more prudent to backup the excluded files you would like to have backed up by copying the files to a location that is included in Time Machine backups.  That said however, I disagree with cppl's statement "Given that changing core files is always a bad idea" because when done properly and with the knowledge and understanding of what one is doing it's just not an issue!

If you really want to include /private/var/log directory in your Time Machine backups then here is what you can do. To make this easier and more safe I'd recommend using this tested script.  It first backs up the bundle and plist and only removes /private/var/log if it in its default location within the .plist file. Note: This script must be run using sudo or as root.

In a Terminal:

touch modtm
open modtm

In the opened modtm document:

Copy and paste the code shown below into the document and save it, then close it.

Back in the the Terminal, make the script executable:

chmod u+x modtm

Now with the script ready to execute, in the Terminal:

sudo ./modtm

Enter your password, which will not show as you type it, and then press Enter.

If defaults were in play then /private/var/log should have been safely removed, by virtue of first backing up, from the StdExclusions.plist file.

Code:

#!/bin/bash

set -ex

    # Make sure script was run using 'sudo' or by 'root'.

if [[ $(id -u) != 0 ]]; then
   echo "This script must be run as root." 1>&2
   exit 1
 else
        # Set variables.

    b="/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle"
    f="/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist"
    e="/private/var/log"

        # Backup, by copy, both the bundle and plist.

    [[ ! -d ${b%%.*}.ORI.${b##*.} ]] && cp -aR "$b" "${b%%.*}.ORI.${b##*.}"
    [[ ! -f $f.ORI ]] && cp -a "$f" "$f.ORI"

        # Get the value of the first element of the 'FileContentsExcluded' array.

    v="$(/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :FileContentsExcluded:0" "$f")"

    if [[ $v == $e ]]; then
            # Target value matched, delete it from .plist file.
        /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Delete :FileContentsExcluded:0"  "$f"
        echo "$e removed from $f"
    else
        echo "$e not found where expected!"
        exit 1
    fi
    exit 0
fi

Image showing syntactical highlighting:

Note: This script cannot be run in OS X 10.11 unless SIP is temporarily disabled.


How do I build FFMpeg with non-default libraries when using Homebrew

I don't consider this the answer, but I ended up just uninstalling FFMPEG and re-installing using brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx


Is it possible to order a new Mac mini with an Nvidia graphics card?

No you can't order the current generation Mac Mini Mid-2011 with anything other than what Apple will offer to you as a build to order option for graphcis.

Currently the only options for graphics on the Mac Mini are:

Intel HD Graphics 3000
AMD Radeon HD 6630M

Recall from iFixit's Mac Mini tear down that the Mac Mini is a highly integrated machine, and there really is no such thing as a "graphics card" in it, its a graphics chip set on the motherboard as pictured below from iFixit, what Apple puts on it is what you have to choose from.

However, with the Availability of Thunderbolt there is opportunity for expensive external graphics options on Mac Mini's with Thunderbolt. Products such as the Sonnet Echo Express offer external PCI express x4 speed slots, but as of yet there are not listed graphics card that are compatible.


When trying to update existing free apps or install new ones, I get into a payment "Verification Required" loop

In the past, I had set my payment method to be a pre-paid Visa gift card, which I used to download several paid apps. That card no longer has a balance at this point. This seems to be what was causing my problem.

I was able to fix this in the Payment Method screen by adding a new credit card (I used my real one) and hitting "Done". At this point my apps started updating and I wasn't prompted to enter my Apple ID password again.

After I entered the valid credit card information, I went back in to the Payment Method screen and set it back to "None", which worked. I can now install and update free apps.


Due to the fact that Apple provides upgrades and fresh installations of their operating systems for free, they would (in most cases) only provide support for the latest operating system and (in many cases) the one before it (in today's case (as of the time of this answer), OS X Yosemite and OS X Mavericks respectfully). If there is something wrong with iTunes, Apple would usually recommend that you upgrade to the latest version of OS X.

In your case, iTunes requires OS X 10.7.5 (Lion) or later, but Apple Music requires OS X 10.9.5 (Mavericks) or later (source: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/; under "Software"; look at the screenshot below) also, look at the ), so chances are it will not work unless you upgrade to at least OS X Mavericks.


How to increase size of the Spotlight search results window?

Have you looked at using 'Alfred' as search tool - It's free on the App Store and very flexible, and has a wider results view. If you try it, take a little time to get familiar with the options - I find it a fantastic time saver.


How to hide running app from Dock in Yosemite?

The plist edit should work with Signed Apps, you just might need to force a resign. Try the command sudo codesign -f -s - /path_to_app/appname.app, replacing appname with the name of the app you are looking to hide from the dock.

Note that this will also disable menu bar actions, but all keyboard shortcuts should still work.


Deleting Photos: How do I delete across devices and cloud?

You didn't say what version of iOS or macOS you're using nor did you mention if you used iCloud or not.  This answer applies to the latest versions of all those.

If you are currently using iCloud to sync your photos across devices, once you delete a photo on any of those devices, it will also delete on iCloud.  Here is an Apple site about iCloud and how to use it.

iCloud is a syncing system designed to give you access to all your content regardless of what device you're using.

If you want to delete the photo from your device but keep it in a cloud solution, you need to use a 3rd-party cloud service.  Services such as Dropbox or Onebox can be used as a backup/storage solution.


Safari beach-balling on some websites like Github.com

Release 26 of Safari TP contains many changes to the rendering engine. This causes problems with many websites, especially where image sprites are used extensively.

This will likely be fixed in the next release, but until then, you can just use the standard install of Safari, or downgrade to the previous version of Safari TP if you still have the installer. You can also try running with Disable Caches selected in the Develop menu.


The default shell on OSX is bash. So you can set your path in .bash_profile or .bashrc file in your home directory.


Is there a TODO list app for mac you can change Font Size?

With OmniFocus you can change the font and display styles with a ton of options.


The Apple Watch doesn't currently have built-in sleep tracking functionality. However, there are some excellent third-party apps that can track your sleep. Sleep++ is one of the more popular options, and it's free. However, Sleep++ doesn't track heart rate itself, instead leaving you to use the Apple Health app's built-in heart rate tracker. Another great choice is Sleep Diary, which does track heart rate, and seems to have a wealth of features.

This is just from some quick research - I don't personally do any sleep tracking with my Apple Watch, as I charge it overnight.


Screen Sharing not working for non-admin local accounts on Yosemite Server

Be sure to add the non-admin user/group (depending on if multiple users) to the Remote Management section of Sharing in System Preferences to allow access.

(Thanks Guy!)


How to make MacVim remember its zoom level

To make the settings permanent try adding something like the following lines to your .vimrc file. Those lines below will tell MacVim to set the font and the fontsize you would like to use by default. For more information do :help guifont from within a normal mode buffer in MacVim.

"Set the guifont
:set guifont=Menlo:h12


If your Mac mini has a Thunderbolt port (which the mid-2011 models do), you should be able to add an external graphics card when those become available. Until then, there are no external graphics adapters for Macs except the DisplayLink USB adapters that @bmike mentioned, but those won't work for gaming.

An external graphics card is usually PCI-Express x16 and Thunderbolt only carries an x4 signal, so you won't get full speed out of that, but it's better than integrated (or maybe even just old) graphics. (Heck, many, if not most, PC motherboards only run x8 signals to attached x16 graphics cards, so they're not using the full bandwidth anyway.)


Error: "The operation can’t be completed because one or more required items can’t be found. (Error code -43)"

You can search Force Quit & submit it. Then choose Finder and Relauch it. Finally move to trash item 's icon which you want remove


How to unsync an iCloud folder without losing the original source

Source:

iCloud is a syncing solution, unlike Dropbox which is more for backup/storage.  This is why it's different than you'd expect to turn this off.  Follow all the steps you've already taken until you get that warning message you indicated in your question.

On that message box, click Turn Off.  All your documents will still be available in iCloud but they will be removed from your Mac.

Getting All Files from iCloud Desktop & Documents Back from iCloud to the Local Mac

Open the Finder in MacOS and go to “iCloud Drive” (navigate via Finder or select “iCloud Drive” from the ‘Go’ menu)
Locate the “Documents” folder in iCloud Drive
Open another new Finder window and navigate to the local “Documents” folder
Select every file from the iCloud Drive Documents folder and manually transfer it to your Mac local Documents folder with drag & drop
Repeat the same process with “Desktop” on iCloud to get all contents from “Desktop” on iCloud to “Desktop” on the local Mac

You can either copy or just move the files from iCloud Drive, that is up to you.


The proper rule is:

block in quick inet proto { tcp, udp } from any to any port 63342

Some parts may be omitted (e.g. inet or from any) with a slightly different meaning.


You could make a different account on the Mac Mini, and if you right-click on the account you created in System Preferences you get an advanced settings pane and could set the home directory to be whatever you want - ie. it could just pick up the one on the USB drive. You'd then be using your old account just like it was before, running from the external enclosure. Be warned - if that enclosed is missing when you log in macOS will create a new one in /Users on your internal drive.

However, in general, all the users settings you care about are in Library in your user's home. So, if you created a new account, and just copied Library over, you'd get the settings you care about. Then could use the docs/data on the remove drive. It wouldn't need your full drive structure - could move those docs to wherever you wanted.


Insert key in mac book pro 2011 with windows 10 with bootcamp

For me to get insert to work on iMac with Linux and a Mac keyboard I had to use FnCommandReturn


To prevent future problems, disable the current set up (where you have second device under Apple ID, but it is actually your daughter).

Just change the password on your Apple ID so she can not log in to that.

Then set her up as Family sharing, where you have some control over her account.

Follow Apple Instructions on how to.


An easy fix is to power off the macOS and then hold option / alt when you power on and choose Windows.
Once you’re back in your preferred OS you can fix the boot order from the control panel.
Apple has details on most recent macOS versions here: https://support.apple.com/guide/bootcamp-control-panel/start-up-your-mac-in-windows-or-macos-bcmp29b8ac66/mac


I'm wondering if my 13 inch MacBook Air is having battery issues?

I would recommend using coconutBattery to monitor your battery life and record degradation statistics. For example, my MacbookPro is 21 months old, 142 cycles and has 94% of original capacity (6519 out of 6900). But Pro batteries are different from Airs, they degrade slower.

Here you can see how Air battery degrades over a year (recorded daily). Yours does not look different.


First of all it's probably a good idea to stop using that memory cleaner app. They aren't necessary these days; if they ever were. The memory systems on modern operating systems are perfectly capable of maintaining themselves. The way these memory cleaner application work is by claiming a huge chunk of RAM, thereby forcing everything not critical out of RAM, and then releasing the RAM they've requested. Your swapping something that has been fine tuned over years by a lot of very smart people, with some guy wielding a mallet.

This could actually be the reason you are seeing your free RAM drop to zero. It could be the memory cleaner app itself.

The idea that you need to have a large amount of RAM sitting "free" is just wrong. When you close applications the RAM isn't necessarily immediately freed. All modern operating systems keep recently used files cached in RAM so that if you (or the system) decide to reopen something recently closed the files open quicker.

If you do have a performance problem with Gmail in Chrome the problem is likely elsewhere. I highly doubt it has anything to do with the amount of free RAM on your Mac.


How to nuke everything from imac and start it at the beginning from scratch like i first bought it

The easiest way is as follows:

You will need the original (or a newer) Mac OS X install disk for the computer. Do not use and older version than originally came with the Mac, and do not use the install disk from any other model of Mac.

Insert the disk and restart the computer pressing the Option key as it restarts. After about a minute when it loads, click the arrow under your installer DVD to boot from it.

When it starts, click continue on English. In the menu bar, select Utilities and select Disk Utility. Disk Utility may be under a different menu on some install disks.

Select your disk in the left column (select the disk, not the partition (select the one labeled something weird, not "Macintosh HD")) and follow the instructions to erase the disk. For best results choose the option to "securely erase" the disk, or to overwrite the data with 0's rather than just mark as free space. It will take longer but is more secure (if your data was valuable) and cleans the disk better. Then close Disk Utility and install the operating system on the newly erased disk.

Viola! Brand new Mac OS X. Enjoy the startup video ;)


I'm recommend you, please back up your data & Restore your iPhone. iTunes will automatically download and install latest iOS stable release.


Extract links from email based on the anchor text, not the href

Automatically execute html in an email.

I'm not familiar with Smart Mailbox and what language it uses but below is a VBA script for Outlook that searches for the text "Click" which is a href to a URL, extracts the URL and executes it in Internet Explorer as a weblink.

The code is very messy with very little documentation but it uses the Split Array functionality of VBA to break out the lines of the email message and then extract the correct string after double quotes ""(Chr(34)) using array positioning ie. array urltag(1) - first element in array urltag.

Hope this helps someone.

LaunchURL(itm As MailItem)

Dim bodyString As String
Dim bodyStringSplitLine
Dim bodyStringSplitWord
Dim targetline
Dim urltag
Dim splitLine
Dim splitWord
Dim intCount As Integer
Dim Fail As Integer
Dim Beforecurrent As Integer
Dim Aftercurrent As Integer
Dim Found As Integer

Fail = 0
Found = 0

bodyString = itm.HTMLBody ' Mailitem.body vs Mailitem.HTMLBody  - oMailitem.body
bodyStringSplitLine = Split(bodyString, vbCrLf) 'vbCrLf has no meaning in HTML?

For Each splitLine In bodyStringSplitLine
    bodyStringSplitWord = Split(splitLine, " ")

    For intCount = LBound(bodyStringSplitWord) To UBound(bodyStringSplitWord)
    'For Each splitWord In bodyStringSplitWord ie find out how many iterations to do.

    If intCount > 2 Then
    Beforecurrent = intCount - 1
    Aftercurrent = intCount + 2
    Else
    Beforecurrent = 1
    End If

        If bodyStringSplitWord(intCount) = "click" Then

            targetline = bodyStringSplitWord(Aftercurrent)
            urltag = Split(targetline, Chr(34))
           'i = MsgBox(urltag(1), vbOKOny) test box remove apostrophe to uncomment

            Shell ("C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE" & " " & urltag(1))
           'Shell ("cmd" & " " & "/k" & " " & "echo" & " " & bodyStringSplitWord(Aftercurrent) & " " & Fail & " " & Beforecurrent)   test box remove apostrophe to uncomment

        Found = 1

        Exit Sub
        Else:

        Fail = Fail + 1

        'Shell ("cmd" & " " & "/c" & " " & "echo boo hoo") Test box remove apostrophe to uncomment

        End If
    Next

Next

Set itm = Nothing

End Sub


How to add FaceID for family members to iPhones

The iPhone X currently does not support multi-face authentication. You can only add one face now. It may be or may not be added in the future updates. As per a mail sent by Apple VP Craig Federighi, it's unlikely that Apple will add this in future. You can read the mail from him in below link at MacRumors.

Mail from Craig Federighi


Album added to iTunes library but not listed in Albums and Songs section

Try pressing command+ L while the song is playing, this will take you to the song/album in your library.
Then right click and choose "Get Info" to verify the metadata for the song & album.

It may not be displaying as expected if the metadata for the song doesn't match the filenames.


If you get the 64 GB option, then this would be four 16 GB units. Basically, Apple is going to ship the computer with the four memory slots balanced with the same memory size. So when you upgrade later, some (if not all) of the memory you paid extra for will be replaced.


Backup external hard drive to the cloud via Time Capsule

Yes - but the flow of the data isn't linked directly.

The external drive can be opted in to back up to any Time Machine destination as long as there's enough space on the destination drive.
You can configure CrashPlan to back up files from the external drive - directly to the cloud.

Note: These are independent - you could enable 1 and not 2 or 2 and not 1 or both 1 and 2 as you wish. Getting Crash Plan to see files from within the protected Time Machine storage isn't something I would recommend.


In Mountain Lion, at least, there's a Opening for the first time entry in the PDF pane in Preferences, where you can select Single Page. This sets the default view mode for all PDF files.

If you for some reason can't get it to work, you could try this Terminal command (don't know if it will work in Lion) and restart Preview:

defaults write -app preview kPVPDFDefaultPageViewModeOption -int 1

(in ML, the value of kPVPDFDefaultPageViewModeOption changes to 1 in Preview's plist, when selecting Single Page)


How to use find and replace to replace a character with new line

You can click on the magnifying glass icon and choose Insert Pattern or press ⌃ CTRL+⌥ ALT+⌘ CMD+P

Then pick Line Break


Open a new project , make your audio changes, share into mov and move the new clip into your events to make your project. This isn't really the answer buta way around it tip some one hasan answer.


After migration of a user to another Mac (Catalina to Big Sur, Intel to Apple Silicon) via Time Machine backup, user is stuck on login screen

Login with the original admin account.
Delete the migrated user (say, "Joe User") with the Users & Groups control panel. Choose the option to keep the user folder as it is. It will get renamed from joeuser to joeuser (deleted).
Go to the Users folder on your hard disk and re-rename joeuser (deleted) again to joeuser.
Add "Joe User" again with Users & Groups control panel. Make sure it gets the same user folder name (joeuser) and select the option to use the existing folder when you create it.


"Hold for Authentication" when printing through LP / LPR

I've seen this before. Try the following to resolve it:

Send something to print so that you get the Hold for authentication error
In Terminal enter lpstat -s
From the output identify the printer name - it should be preceded by device for and followed by a colon : and a printer address. For example, if your output looked like:

device for Brother_MFC_9335CDW: dnssd://Brother%20MFC-9335CDW._ipp._tcp.local.

Then your printer name would be Brother_MFC_9335CDW

Now enter the following command:

sudo lpadmin -p PrinterName -o auth-info-required=username,password

NOTE: Replace the PrinterName with your printer's name from Step 3

You should be prompted for your Mac user password - enter this and press return
Now try printing again as a test.

If it doesn't work, let me know and we'll troubleshoot further.

Since the above didn't work we'll repeat the process with some minor adjustments. More specifically, after Step 1 but before Step 2, do the following:

Open the Printer queue
Click on the 'Refresh' icon (it's the circular one with an arrow)
You should now get prompted for your credentials (i.e. username and password)

Now proceed with Step 2 from above.


iOS whatsapp offline pending messages not supported

Here in iOS that's not currently possible, in fact when you've no connection and try to send a message, the Send button will be disabled, and even though you could successfully tap it before the connection goes off, the message wouldn't get sent and a red icon would appear on its right side, to alert you it was not sent and it won't until you don't get connection back.

Summary

So the only messages which will be sent when you get the connection back will be those who were sent when you had actually a connection, but got lost during the process of sending the message.

Instead you won't be able to do that when you have no connection at all.

Though, developers love to hear their customers feedback, so I highly suggest you to give it a try and contact WhatsApp support (support@whatsapp.com) for iOS and let them know your idea, who knows it may be added in the next update hopefully!

Hope this helped you out!


How do I generate a random even number with Applescript?

You can just multiply by 2:

(random number from 5 to 49) * 2


copy simulator from one mac to another mac osx

As @patrix told me to tried on my own self, I've do so, I got the simulator from here,

  /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs

and copy the simulator sdk you want to add in your xcode, and paste it on the same path as above in your mac. That's it.


Can I access the images from my iCloud account from my Asp.Net website

You could access the public link of your shared photostream, parse the HTML, and get the pictures from the iCloud server. You would need to save this files to your server or database (as stream or blob datatype).


This little ditty might help...

for ff in '/Network /Volumes /bin /cores  /etc
  /mach /mach_kernel /private /sbin /tmp /usr /var '
do
   sudo chflags hidden $ff
done

You'll want to add in /opt if you added that and any other non-standard directories in / you wish to hide from the GUI.

As to why - you might need to track that down using fs_usage, but typically it's an installer that brute forces permissions or otherwise removed the metadata flags from those files.


How do I search for a mouse that uses Mac's built-in bluetooth?

These search terms: bluetooth mouse, os x

Most Bluetooth mice work well with OS X.


The current version of Time Machine keeps two types of backups.  There are backups that are stored on your computer as well as network backups that are stored on your networked storage (time-capsule, NAS, etc).  You can see these by entering Time Machine and looking at the timeline ticks to the right.  The pink/purple ticks are network copies and the white ticks are the ones on your local computer.  The local backups occur when your network storage is not available, also they may occur more often than the 1hr snapshots set for network backups.  As your hard drive fills up, OS X will start to cut back the amount of space it uses for local backups.  If you want to disable this feature and recover your local disk space, then open a terminal (Applications -> Utilities -> Terminal) and enter the following command followed by your password.

sudo tmutil disablelocal

This should turn off the feature and free up the space.  You can turn it back on with

sudo tmutil enablelocal


Show window preview when switching windows of the SAME app

F11  will show all current application windows. left/right arrows will step through them. Enter will select.
This is a subset of Shortcut for toggling between different windows of same app? which you can invoke similarly from the  Cmd ⌘   Tab ⇥   app switcher, except in that case you use the down arrow to switch you into this mode.
If you'd find  Cmd ⌘   ↓   better all round, you can change that in System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control - though you can't do the inverse & make both  F11
If your habit is to always go right for  Cmd ⌘   Tab ⇥   every time, then you can quickly do left, down to flip through windows in the existing app.
You call as to which you might prefer.


Bought new iPhone 6s. Asking for different apple id. Why?

It sounds like he has encountered Activation Lock. He can check that theory here:

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

The information provided would seem to indicate the device has been used before.


iPhone open YouTube video in YouTube App

It would appear to be dependent on how the website has embedded the video. In the example you give there is the option to tap the youtube icon in the bottom right which launches the youtube app. Some videos which play in the native video player unfortunately have no workaround to view in the youtube app.


Versions.app: How to select Kaleidoscope.app as diff tool?

From the Kaleidoscope app go to Kaleidoscope menu > Integration...

Install the ksdiff tool

Quit and relaunch Versions and Kaleidoscope should be selectable.

If that doesn't work, check with Black Pixel's amazing support team after being sure you have build 104 of Kaleidoscope 2.0


Configure Native Notes.app to Use Monospaced by Default

It’s currently not possible to set new notes to default to monospaced.
I’m not able to reproduce your issue though; if I choose monospaced from the format dropdown then return will keep the monospaced formatting until I manually choose Body formatting again. Check your OS is up to date (I’m on Big Sur 11.3 and iOS 14.5 and don’t have a non-beta install to test).


How can i diagnose a failed Install of Snow Leopard?

This has happened to me in the past. The solution that worked for me was making sure that the disc surface is clean and scratch free, and I mean very clean. Using normal CD wipes is good to get dirt off, but if it is scratched more than slightly, then you may have problems.

Or the disc may be defective from the factory, it does happen and they do exist.

Try talking to your local Apple Store about a possible replacement, or if worst comes to the worst, you can order one here (Apple still stocks them).

Hope this helps!


App store is completely blank on MacOS catalina

If you open the utilities folder, open terminal.
Type AssetCacheLocatorUtil and look over the output. There will be a lot. Check the IP address and for any errors.
Then, you might make a brand new user account and check that.
Lastly, the machine needs to be on a network with time server to set the clock and access Apple servers. If you have firewall, slow network, blocked network, this program can get stuck and unable to render any information.


You are right with "Once upon the Time", that feature does not work on Lion. There is currently no known work around.


iOS app store falsely claims I have no payment method while gifting app

I called Apple Support and apparently prepaid codes (store credit) can't be used to buy gifts, although this restriction isn't documented anywhere. Posting this answer for everyone to know.

To gift apps without a real debit or credit card: most convenience stores and malls offer special prepaid cards that behave like debit or credit cards. You can buy one of these, plug them into your account as a "debit" or "credit" card, and use that instead.


Do the Magic Mouse or Magic Trackpad support “middle click”?

Our friends over at SuperUser have an answer for us:

Here are two utilities that will allow you to customize gestures on the Magic Mouse, including adding middle click:

MagicPrefs
Better Touch Tool


How do I determine and shut off an alarm that goes off?

My apologies to the community for the long delay in responding to this question. I finally figured out that it was the Reminders app that was going off each morning at 8:00am. Even though no reminders were showing up on the lock screen of my iPhone, the alarm went off dutifully.

The solution: turn off notification for Reminders in the Notification Center.


Clash of Clans Difficult village transfer

Clash of Clans is designed so that a user can have only one CoC account associated with an Apple ID.

There are multiple ways to start over in the game. You can delete the app and restall and then not continue the game when prompted or you can create a new Apple ID and start a new account on it.

If you deleted the app and started over, you shouldn't be able to transfer the account to a new device. If you used a different Apple ID then just login with it.

If this doesn't help you you can send Supercell a support ticket or an email and they will help you.


Can I use an iTunes gift card to pay for something I bought yesterday and avoid a credit card charge?

The TL;DR is your gift card can't be used this way.

Your account is charged before the purchase is complete. If there is store credit available on your account, your credit card will not be charged. With no available credit on your account, your credit card will be charged.


I've solved installing the manual updates for Mountain Lion from here, and then it began to work normally!


Spotlight search shortcuts to launch apps

Navigate to the app then in the "Get Info" window, add your desired term to the "Comments" box. Spotlight will then return that app when you type that term.

For example, 99% of the time if I start typing "Photos..", I want Photoshop and not the Photos app. So I've added "phos" to the Photoshop comments for that purpose.

It's a bit awkward, but it works.


Call (or visit) AppleCare (a genius bar) for a replacement disc to be mailed. If another identical model's media is available, that would work, but the restore media are narrowly made to just work for one or a few models in general.


How do I get rid of the Appstore's update notification?

You can disable the automatic check for updates in System Preferences → App Store.

When it does not check for updates, it won't make notifications. :)


Mac office 2011 keep asking me to save doc that I didn't make change

This is in fact not supposed to happen if you haven't changed a thing in the  document. I have experienced this myself some time ago, if I remember correctly.

To troubleshoot this, I recommend deleting the Word preference file and, of course, to install the current Office 2011 update. 14.0.0 is the 'virgin' first release. Those are usually laden with bugs, quirks, and vulnerabilities which only get corrected with subsequent updates – the current update version is 14.2.3!

Quit all Office applications.
In the Finder, go to the top menu bar and choose Go > Go to Folder (or press Cmd-Shift-G.) Then type or copy-paste following exact folder path into the input field:

~/Library/Preferences
Drag the files com.microsoft.Word.plist and com.microsoft.Word.plist.lockfile into the trash. Then launch Word again to check if the problem is gone.

To update Office: Open Word, go into the Help menu and chose 'Check for Updates'. You can also download update packages and install them manually –  download from http://www.microsoft.com/mac/download


freeing up storage space on Iphone 6plus

Welcome to the community Joel. Unfortunately your question really hasn't provided much detail, so this answer may go into more detail than you wanted.

POP v IMAP

First of all I am guessing that you're using what's called a POP email account and that you've probably set your email clients up to not delete emails from the server. This is only a guess because your question provides little detail.

Both POP (Post Office Protocol) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) allow users to download their email from an email server. However, POP simply downloads email to your computer, and usually (but not always) deletes the email from the remote server. This is the way email accounts were always set up originally, but problems arise when you have more than one device (desktop, laptop, tablet or phone) you want to access your mail from. This means you have to delete or file or mark as read, etc etc the same email on every device.

IMAP, on the other hand allows you to keep your email on a remote server. This two-way protocol also allows you to synchronise your email among multiple devices, especially useful since most people have at least two devices - their laptop and smartphone. Basically, if you're using IMAP and mark an email as read, it gets marked as read in your web based inbox or other email clients too (because the changes are happening on the server, not just locally). However, this won’t be the case if you are using POP, because your emails are downloaded to your PC and the changes won’t reflect on the server.

However, there are reasons why you may prefer POP. For example, depending on the email server, storage space for your messages may be limited. Also, reading messages while offline requires use of your e-mail program's Offline mode (assuming it has one). And, in some cases, accessing and working with emails can be slower when using IMAP.

In summary, both protocols offer their advantages and disadvantages. Today many will argue that POP is deprecated and IMAP is the only way forward, but in reality there are still very good arguments for using POP over IMAP. In the end, it gets down to what you value personally.

Your situation

Now you should be able to see why I said I'm guessing that you're using a POP email account. Basically, if you were using an IMAP account you would have seen the emails you deleted on your desktop also disappear from your iPhone.

Now, I'm not saying you should change from POP to IMAP, I'm just explaining what has happened in your case and why.

So, if your goal was to free up space on your iPhone, then you need to do it directly on your iPhone, rather than on your desktop. However, if your goal was to reduce space on both, then you will need to do it separately on both, or consider changing your setup to use IMAP instead.

If you'd like to change your setup and need help in doing so, it'd be best to post another question providing more details of your situation and asking for advice on that.

Steve Chamber's suggestion may work

Just a quick word on Steve's comment re your question:

  The easy way would be to delete the account from the phone. That will
  remove all the data. then re-add the account and any deleted data
  won't be there.

Steve's suggestion may also help you achieve what you want if you haven't got a lot of emails still on your server. For example, if you've set up your email clients so that emails remain on the server for only a day or week after being downloaded, then Steve's suggestion may be a quick fix because your iPhone will only re-download a smaller number of emails. However, if your email clients are not deleting emails from the server, or leaving them on the server for a long time before deleting, then Steve's suggestion won't be very helpful.


How to prevent OSX from allocating as much virtual memory as there is space available on the hard drive?

I can propose you one way to do that, although it is not complete.

You can set memory limit per process using launchctl limit (see the man page). However this is per process not system wide.

In real life, few processes are consuming vast amount of memory. Therefore, I would advise you to look at Activity Monitor output and see which are the process consuming the most. Count the ones that are using more than 20% of your RAM. How many such processes do you have? Let's assume n and assume that you have m GB of RAM. How much maximum swap space do you want to use? Let's assume s GB of swap.

I would do the following calculation: (m + s - 1) / n = <max memory per process in GB>

Convert the GB into B: <max memory per process in GB> * 1024 * 1024 * 1024 = <max mem per proc in B>

Now try this limit and see if it works (note, this setting will be lost after a reboot, so it is "safe" to perform):

sudo launchctl limit rss <max mem per proc in B> <max mem per proc in B + 1073741824>

If you are happy with this choice, then you can save them, so they are permanent. Edit the file /etc/launchd.conf and add:

limit rss <max mem per proc in B> <max mem per proc in B + 1073741824>


Safe to upgrade to Windows 8 on Bootcamp?

Its perfectly safe. You might run into problems with the trackpad driver (i did) but a quick search here was all i needed to fix it.


Mid 2009 MacBook pro cannot download osx

As you have the Snow Leopard disk, you can use another mac with an optical drive to create a bootable USB installer by following the answer to this question How to create a bootable OS X Snow Leopard USB drive? and using the Snow Leopard install disc instead of the iso file that is mentioned in the answer.
If you don't have another mac with an optical drive, you can either use the Snow Leopard install disc in a PC with optical drive to create an iso image, or download an existing iso image by following this answer: macOS won't boot into Recovery mode, need to reset admin password, and use it in the process outlined in the answer linked in the first paragraph to create a bootable USB installer.
Plug the bootable USB media into the 2009 Mac, reboot it while holding down the option key and select the USB device.


Starting with OS X 10.9 it appears that OS X relies heavily on one having an SSD.  Since apps, which have been run once after startup, when relaunching them, they are mainly started off inactive memory/cache and therefore are faster the second time you start them.  This is in line with your statement that once they are loaded, they work fine.

As a comparison, in my Mac Pro (Early 2008), I used conventional HDDs for a very long time as well.  The computer originally came with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, which purred on this machine.  All following big cats also purred away without a problem at all.

However, with the naming convention change of OS X 10.9 Mavericks, loading something from the HDD became cumbersome along with it (tested with System Preferences which took 30(!) seconds to show up after the system was started).  Once started and closed, it re-opened fast (due to it still being in inactive memory or cache).

The same could be seen later with "Star Wars: The Old Republic" under Windows on the very same computer.  Using the HDD it took some time to load the game and/or planets.

While you can try things like clearing caches (which you can find at ~/Library/Caches), or back up all your data (e.g. using Time Machine) and reinstall OS X entirely (to verify that upgrading to newer OSs did not leave undesired settings), for the long haul I guess that you will not get around spending a bit more and get an SDD.  I did so myself eventually.

While dissatisfied to spend money as well, I am very satisfied with the results.

IMPORTANT: If you buy a non-Apple SSD drive, you want to check about trim to optimize it.  Otherwise you may wear it down too fast and spend even more money in buying a new one earlier.


Is it possible to make the pointer "stick" to one display when using multiple displays?

Try EdgeCase for US$14.99 from the MAS.  It has 4.5/5.0 stars with 53 reviews.  It should 'lock' your mouse to 1 display.  It might not be an exact duplicate of the one you found for Windows, though.
The application description states:

The app prevents you from ever accidentally losing your cursor into a rarely-used secondary display, or from overshooting as you flick to an OS X hotcorner or the menu bar.  EdgeCase prevents your mouse from moving between multiple monitors by putting a temporary barrier between the edges of your screens.
When you do want to switch to another screen, EdgeCase provides several shortcuts that allow you to cross screen edges manually. Simply perform a 'bounce' gesture, wait for ½ second, or hold a hotkey. Your cursor will then move into the next screen freely.


Why do some of my contacts not sync with Google?

Based on your description and follow-up comment it sounds like those few contacts got added to the On my phone group. You can check this by tapping the Groups button within Contacts (first screenshot below for reference) and then unchecking Gmail, which should leave just On my phone selected. If that shows the troublesome contacts, you have your answer.

Unfortunately there's no easy way to move contacts between accounts from Contacts. You have two options:

Copy each one manually.
You could tap Share Contact, Save to Files, delete the person from Contacts, then open in Files, open the Share Sheet, and tap Copy to Contacts. That should import it to your default account of Gmail. Second and third screenshots below for reference.


How to securely wipe all data from iOS device prior to sale

Settings > General > Erase All Content and Settings is the Apple method for preparing your iDevice for sale or giveaway.

Steps below lifted entirely from the Apple support page linked above.

What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

If you paired an Apple Watch with your iPhone, unpair your Apple Watch.
Back up your device.
Sign out of iCloud and the iTunes & App Store.

If you're using iOS 10.3 or later, tap Settings > [your name]. Scroll down and tap Sign Out. Enter your Apple ID password and tap Turn Off.
If you're using iOS 10.2 or earlier, tap Settings > iCloud > Sign Out. Tap Sign Out again, then tap Delete from My [device] and enter your Apple ID password. Then go to Settings > iTunes & App Store > Apple ID > Sign Out.

Go back to Settings and tap General > Reset > Erase All Content and Settings. If you turned on Find My iPhone, you might need to enter your Apple ID and password.
If asked for your device passcode or Restrictions passcode, enter it. Then tap Erase [device].
If you're switching to a non-Apple phone, deregister iMessage.
Contact your carrier for help transferring service to a new owner. If you aren't using a SIM card with your device, you can contact them to get help transferring service to the new owner.


Mounting an ext3/4 Linux external hard drive to OS X

You can mount ext2/3/4-Volumes using MacFUSE with the fuse-ext2 Driver.


Should I register my new Apple products with Apple?

Once you've completed the registration, all the information you've filled up, will be sent to Apple with your iDevice / Computer's Serial Number.

Having an Apple Id associated to a Device is necessary for the AppleCare Protection Plan, but, if you purchased the AppleCare at the same time as your Device / Computer, the Protection Plan will be automatically registered, being unnecessary for you to do so.

The information you fulfill and submit is useful in other ways, using Autofill in Safari, for instance, or enable the possibilty of using the Remind me of-doing-something when I get Home of the iPhone 4S.

Therefore, if you want to sell your Mac or iDevice, you could just make a clean install to get rid of all that info. Not deleting it will just cause privacy / security issues.


In researching this there does not appear to be any logs or details within iTunes that will show a list of devices that have been connected to iTunes. You can view the list of devices associated with the AppleID account and the list of devices associated with iTunes and that's about it.

Guidances from Apple on this:

  You can have ten devices (no more than five of them computers)
  associated with your Apple ID and iTunes at one time.

And this:

  The list of associated devices that you can view in iTunes is not
  the same as the list of devices that you're currently signed in to
  with your Apple ID. You can check your Apple ID device list to see
  where you're signed in on your Apple ID account page.

  You don't need to associate your devices to buy content or download
  new purchases. You can remove an associated device if:

  You reach your limit of associations and want to add a new one.
  You can't download past purchases from the iTunes Store.
  You want to sell or give away an associated device.

References

View and remove your associated devices in iTunes


How to open an app on login on secondary screen?

Assign to Space

Go to the space you want the app to open in (in your case the second space)
Right click your application's dock icon
Move your cursor to "Options" Under "Assign to" select "This Desktop"

Window position and size control

I Googled and found a solution for the resizing issue. (Source)

Make your application launch via an Apple Script!

Make a script similar to this:

tell application "YOUR APPLICATION NAME"
    launch
end tell
tell application "YOUR APPLICATION NAME"
    set the bounds of the front window to {0, 22, 800, 1024}
end tell

Save it as "Application"
Put the saved application in your Launch Items instead of the program itself
Additionally you may undock it with Dock Dodger to make this script run silently.


Is it safe to eject an SSD running your OS while the computer is asleep?

I decided to TOFTT and put things to the test. I closed all applications running and clicked the apple icon and set the MBP to sleep. Once the screen turned black I closed the lid. I waited approximately 4-5 seconds and then unplugged the SSD (via USB) and re-connected on another USB port. When I opened the lid, it woke right away (As in it didn't go into the login screen). The OS was frozen. I couldn't click on anything. I just saw the desktop. I had to force shut down the MBP. So I am guessing what I am trying to accomplish is not possible. My only other thought is that maybe I didn't let the computer sleep long enough and I opened it right away which caused that error.


What are the different types of System Services using Location in iOS 5?

Cell network search: when in presence of two or more network antennae, probably it register which one is better where (so it has to know where), in order to automatically connect to it the next time you''ll be in the same place.
Diagnostics & Usage: possibly related to the one above, about battery life draining with different antennae
Traffic: I guess this one is to collect data for a yet to be announced product (see the Apple Q&A regarding this.


How to install OS X 10.9 on a new Mac mini loaded with OS X 10.11

You probably can not do this. The older versions of the Apple OS X operating systems are not capable of running on hardware yet to be designed. For this to work, Apple would have to have released an updated version of OS X 10.9, which they have not done. Therefore, OS X 10.9 will not be able to recognize your newer machine's hardware.

PS: Apple has a support article for this as well, see Use the version of OS X that came with your Mac, or a compatible newer version.


how do i use 2 whatsapp accounts in my iphone?

Unfortunately without jailbreaking the phone or using untrusted sources there are no methods to use two different whatsapp account on the iphone


MacBook Pro 16" battery drains overnight

Try to drop powernap first, sounds like a culprit to me. I mean try to cycle it off/on and rebooting if you really use it otherwise make sure it's off


Can you recommend an editor for both iOS and Mac OS X designed for writers?

iA Writer for OSX and iA Writer for iOS
Only 0.7 MB in size. (Mac version) The iOS version is iPad only.

Fullscreen
Autosave
Reading time, word and character counter
sync via Dropbox or iCloud
supports TextExpander Touch


How does iBooks determine the category of an EPUB?

You can set the category in iTunes, using the info window (Cmd - i). No need to use Calibre.


Adding social media icons to email signature apple mail with url or SVG, not by attachment

So, to my knowledge SVG isn't possible in HTML email. As I understand it you have to create a placeholder signature and then find the .mailsignature file in your system. This will be in the iCloud folder on more recent systems and in the Library folder on older systems. From there you should be able to replace the <body></body> tags in the signature file leave the header as is. The process is a little more complex, as you'll have to make sure your signatures aren't using the default font and that you configure your text editor to open as unformatted HTML. There's nuances to the process, but there should be no reason you couldn't use an URL for an image. They will get treated as attachments unfortunately regardless of how you add it I believe, and you can't really do much about how the signature looks past the first time it is delivered. Good luck and I hope this helps.


I have a 4 yr old MacBook  and screen that has started to "bleed" into the viewing area

Apple will not generally pay for any repairs at the 4 year point in a product, but taking it in and asking is the only way to know.

You would be out some time, but have a quote for a paid repair as well as an explanation on exactly what is happening to the screen and whether it is something one time damaging or something that you can expect to get worse. You also have the option of taking it to a nearby computer repair man, just phone them fist to see if they can repair Apple products.

If you are broke you can try to do it your self using an online how to, I will not link to one as I do not reccomend this as you can end up doing even more damage.


Would it be possible to modify the iPhone in such a way that the hardware switch (ring/silent) also switches on/off camera, mic and GPS hardware?

Is it possible and has anyone ever done it?

Technically, it's possible.  The better question and resulting answer would be:  "Is it feasible."  That would be a definitive no.

The switch isn't directly connected to to the speaker circuitry. It's connected to a chip that's "watches" for input on some particular pins to go high (positive voltage detected) or low (no/negative voltage). The firmware detects this and "interfaces" with the software (iOS) to do something like disable the speakers.

So, could the software do something else like turn it into Airplane mode?  Sure.  You'd have to jailbreak the phone to do so.

  ...could also switch on and off (by physical disconnection) the cameras, microphones and GPS radio

Again yes, but it's not entirely feasible.  This would be more difficult because you'd have to "create" the electrical pathways (traces) by which the main chip could tell another chip or a relay or whatever to engage a transistor (an electrical switch) to (dis)connect the connection to the peripheral.   Plus, you'd have to modify the software as described above.

Has anyone done it?

My cursory search of the Internet says no. Possibly because of the obstacles involved.  If someone has done it, it's likely in a "bodged" together state not ready for general consumption.

  It would be a huge security enhancement for the iPhone!

You're probably right.  The best thing to do is to let Apple know at https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html


Install older OSX a dual boot on a computer with OSX High sierra

Note: The OP has reported that this procedure initially failed to work on a 2015 MacBook Pro. However, if you read the comments, the OP eventually successed. The procedure does work on my 2013 iMac.

I am not sure I understand exactly how VirtualBox works, but I have always assumed the hardware was virtual. Therefore, if a particular operating system would run on one machine, then it should run on any machine where VirtualBox is installed. I suppose there are certain obvious limitations due to machine hardware, such as:

The amount of physical memory.
The physical number of cores.
The speed of the USB ports.
Whether the processor is 32 bit or 64 bit.
The amount of drive space available.
The speed of processor, memory and logic (mother) board).

The reason I bring up this issue is that I have a 2013 iMac that can run Yosemite, but I would prefer to run High Sierra. Unfortunately, I also have software (such as Adobe CS5) that does not work well with High Sierra. I have found it to be relatively trivial to install Yosemite as a guest in VirtualBox. The instructions are based on website OS X on OS X. These instructions also state that newer Macs have to fake the processor in order to run Yosemite. Since I do not have a newer Mac, I can not test to see if this is true. So, you will have to try the instructions for yourself.

  Before anyone complains, according to the SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT FOR OS X YOSEMITE this is legal to do.

To be complete, I have repeated the instructions below. Just so you know, the file Yosemite.dmg, that is created below, should be inserted into the virtual optical drive.

Requirement

Install OS X.app purchased in Mac App Store
iESD

VirtualBox Settings

‑ Operating System Version: Mac OS X (64 bit)

‑ Base Memory: 2048 MB (larger is better)

‑ Enable EFI

In the lastest VirtualBox, all the default settings work well.

  Some people encountered black screen upon booting the virtual machine. They reported that changing the default chipset ICH9 to PIIX3 fixes this issue.

Prepare Install Disk

gem install iesd

  iESD requires ruby-1.9.2 or later.

Yosemite & Mavericks

The new InstallESD.dmg is not bootable. Therefore, we need to create a bootable install disk with BaseSystem.dmg.

iesd -i /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app -o Yosemite.dmg -t BaseSystem

All Macs using Intel Haswell CPU (Macs after 2013) need to fake their CPU as Ivy Bridge in order to boot the virtual machine. Thank @danmccombs for this tip.

VBoxManage modifyvm <vmname> --cpuidset 00000001 000306a9 00020800 80000201 178bfbff

On Mac Pro Early 2009 and other Macs that have ECC memory, AppleTyMCEDriver.kext will cause a kernel panic during the boot. Thus we need to remove it.

iesd -i /Applications/Install\ OS\ X\ Yosemite.app -o Yosemite.dmg -t BaseSystem --uninstall-extension AppleTyMCEDriver.kext

Finally, I have included instructions for setting the screen resolution. You can only change the resolution while the virtual machine is powered off. To set the horizontal and vertical (HxV) resolution for virtual machine named VM name, enter the commands given below.

VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" "CustomVideoMode1" "HxVx32"
VBoxManage setextradata "VM name" VBoxInternal2/EfiGraphicsResolution HxV

For example, to set the horizontal and vertical resolution to 1824x1026 for the virtual machine named Yosemite hosted by an iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), you would need to enter the commands given below.

VBoxManage setextradata "Yosemite" "CustomVideoMode1" "1824x1026x32"
VBoxManage setextradata "Yosemite" VBoxInternal2/EfiGraphicsResolution 1824x1026

  Note: The main display of an iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013) has a maximum resolution of 1920x1080.


How can I make sure my iPhone uses UK spelling and keyboard?

You need to set your device language to English (U.K.), not just the keyboard. To do this:

Open Settings
Tap "General"
Tap "Language & Region"
Tap "iPhone Language"
Select "English (U.K.)"

Your iPhone should reboot and your dictionary should be set to British English. If it doesn't, you may need to reset your dictionary by:

Open Settings
Tap "General"
Scroll to the bottom and tap "Reset"
Tap "Reset Keyboard Dictionary"

You can verify that you are running your iPhone with British English as your preferred language as in the main Settings menu you will see an option labelled "Mobile" (it is labelled "Cellular" in US English).


Add specific services to network location with terminal

networksetup uses a somehow hierarchical name system for the subcommands. location subcommands are used to manage locations itself only: you can either list, get (the current), create, delete or switch between locations.

Modifying the network services of a location is done in the networkservice "name space".

To manage the network services in one location you can either use  "blacklisting" or a "whitelisting":

If you execute networksetup -createlocation <location name> with populate and remove unwanted network services it's blacklisting, without populate you have to add all required network services and it's rather whitelisting.

To remove a network service in case of blacklisting use:

... -removenetworkservice <networkservice>

To add a network service in case of whitelisting use:

...  -createnetworkservice <networkservice>


iPhone 7 not turning on automatically while charging

When it comes to physical problems you might have to go to an Apple Store. Be sure to book in advance to make your meeting as quick as possible!

In cases like this, it could be due to a hardware issue and you might be eligible for a free replacement if your device is defective.


My app is not in ranking in App Store for added keywords

App Store rankings for apps under various categories is based on algorithms employed in the Apple's servers. How the ranking process works is not public knowledge.

So, there is no definitive answer as to why your app is not there in the ranking (maybe there's a minimum threshold to compete for ranking).

Additionally, why or how Apple does something doesn't fall under the purview of what's discussed on this site. It is generally considered off-topic. Please have a look at these links:

http://meta.apple.stackexchange.com/questions/2508/why-were-not-customer-support-for-company-x-or-product-y
https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/on-topic
https://apple.stackexchange.com/help/dont-ask


Software or method for moving between Thunderbolt display and laptop resolution

Have a look at Stay or Moom.

Stay is specifically designed to combat this problem. It remembers window positions for a given display configuration, then switches between them as you switch displays. So when you disconnect your Thunderbolt display, your windows will resize to your settings for internal only.

Moom is a bit more of a general purpose window manager, it has a lot of different ways to reposition windows, but it also allows you to save sets of window positions, and you can set it to load one of those when the display arrangement matches certain rules.


Show hidden files files in Finder except .DS_Store

One way to achieve your desired results is to upgrade to Sierra.

macOS 10.12 shows all hidden files via your command
defaults write com.apple.Finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool YES
 – but Finder has been taught a 'new trick': it will never show you .DS_Store files regardless of your wishes or instructions.

This has the side effect that your Trash will be almost always be displayed as full, even when it is 'empty' as per Finder inspection. Because the .DS_Store file for Trash will trigger the 'full' Trash icon.


Surprisingly, I just figured it out!  I am using iPhone X 13.1.3 however, I think this would work on all iPhones and ios versions.
~ Go to settings
~Scroll down to Accessibility
~Scroll down to Voice Control and change it to OFF

I also had a microphone showing on my lock screen in the top left hand corner and this went away, as well as the duplicates when talking to text.  I tested it by switching it on and off to see if it fixed the problem and it did. Woohoo!  It was quite annoying.  I hope this helps :)


Pausing Calendar notifications during presentations

You can enable Do Not Disturb from the top of Notification Center. Open Notification Center using the button on the menu bar or swiping in from the right side of the trackpad with two fingers, then scroll up and turn the switch on.

You can also ⌥-click on the Notification Center menu bar item to quickly toggle Do Not Disturb. The icon will turn grey to indicate the change in state.


What can a 1st gen Apple TV do than a new Apple TV cannot?

The only super major differences the 1st Gen Apple TV's has from the new ones is the ability to store Movies, Music, Content, etc because they have a physical hard drive in them for doing those things.  The other things is that they can connect to TV's through Red, Blue, Green Component Cables.  They also do not support Airplay with out a hack or a software fix. Also, the newest Apple TV, the 3rd Gen, allows for 1080p HD playback, where the older ones only support 720p HD playback.

There are also a few other minor differences in size, power consumption, software options/OS and so on.

The new Apple TV's do not have hard drives or Component Cable outputs and support Airplay out of the box. Airplay is probably the biggest feature that makes people who don't want to hack to jump ship to the newer box.  It is pretty cool. The 1080 HD playback is nice, but depending on your TV, may or may not be noticeable/important.

Some people like the older ones also because they can be hacked and used as linux computers (link) with actual storage and since they can also store things on them, you can take it with you and have videos/music on it and not require internet for streaming your content.

Though the biggest reason is most likely the hack-ability of them, they are tiny computers with a decent amount of power. And since they aren't sold any more and are still sought after, that would explain their above average price.

The new Apple TV's require internet of some kind or at least a local network for stream video and movies and data from a computer or the internet.

They are also significantly smaller too, the older Apple TVs are much larger.

You can see all the differences on their wiki page, it lays out the differences in features between the devices and even talks about most of the hacks that are available. Very informative.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_TV

I hope that this answer helps you out.


Adding hosts entry to iOS in absence of DNS

You can edit the hosts file on the iOS device if the device is jailbroken.

The hosts file can be found in the same place as on OS X: /etc/hosts. It works exactly the same as the hosts file on OS X.

Set the hostname of your OS X machine using:

sudo scutil --set HostName your-hostname


macOS Mojave: Command + Shift + 4, screenshot not getting saved anymore

Use the keyboard shortcut Command + Shift + 5 to invoke the screen capture app. Click on Options and check if the Save to location is set correctly.


[Perhaps this should be a comment rather than an answer, but I don’t have quite enough reputation points yet to comment. Sigh.]

I wonder whether the log is showing cause or effect here. It looks like you have an external drive attached. Since the problem happens at the one-hour mark, and since there are drive-related errors immediately pre-freeze, perhaps the problem is caused by the external drive responding incorrectly when being put to sleep by the system.

Could you try bringing up the “Energy Saver” System Preference panel and unchecking “Put hard disks to sleep when possible” — does the iMac still freeze?


Lock screen on mac? w/o enabling "require password after sleep"

You can do this with Keychain Access, if you enable its menu bar icon. Directions here.
I'm not aware of a keyboard shortcut, sorry.


Disk problems and reinstalling Mavericks!

So what I want to do is remake my partition map, like the
  manufacterer's default.

Based on your comments, you've managed to reclaim the space from the orphaned bootcamp partition and merge it into your boot volume. Assuming disk0s2 is now ~30 GB larger, the partition map listed for your internal boot drive /dev/disk0 is the default partition scheme.

  Is there a way I can reinstall Mac OS X Mavericks without external media? Is Internet Recovery built into the rMBP Late 2013 13"?

Yes. As you mention, using Internet Recovery. Hold down Option+Command+R at the boot chime to enter Internet Recovery. You'll be greeted with a spinning globe. Once loaded, from the main pane select "Reinstall OSX" and then select your internal drive as the destination.

  If so, can I use it, delete all of my partitions, and reinstall Mac OS
  X mavericks and will that installation also make a Recovery HD
  partition?

Yes, if you wish, however you will lose all data on the internal drive during a clean wipe (reformat) and reinstallation. The reformat will wipe the drive. The reinstallation will reinstall OSX onto the boot volume, as well as recreating both the default EFI and Recovery partitions. To do so:

Enter Internet Recovery as mentioned above
Open "Disk Utility" from the main pane.
select the whole boot Drive [IE 120 GB Apple SSD] > Erase tab > Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled) > click "Erase..."
The drive is now reformatted and completely blank.
Exit "Disk Utility" and Open "Reinstall OSX"
Select the Internal drive and let OS X install. Upon completion, the machine will reboot normally and you will be greeted with the Setup Assistant process.


How to use Macbook pro in clamshell mode with lid open on macos mojave?

You can fool the Mac into thinking that the lid is closed by placing a very weak magnet on the sensor that is normally triggered when you close the lid.

The exact position of that sensor varies, but it should be somewhere at the very edge of the laptop, just behind the trackpad.

Of course you must be extremely careful bringing magnets near computers, but if you use one that is weak enough and small enough, you should be able to reproduce the effect of the magnet that is in the display portion of your laptop.


Application file on Macbook will not show up in Finder and is not able to be deleted from computer

The general method of properly uninstalling games downloaded via steam:

Go to your games Library on the Steam app. Next, use the sidebar to select the game that you want to uninstall. Click on the gear-shaped settings button > manage > uninstall.

Refer to the attached screenshot for a detailed view:


You'll probably need to recreate the group staff via the command line.
It should be in /etc/group.

You can check if it exists:

cat /etc/group | grep -i staff

I have staff as the following:

staff:*:20:root

You can create the group again and add root to that group, put it in the sameGroupID etc although I'm not sure if that will do the trick. I never had to do this before so I would recommend before you do anything to connect your Mac via FireWire to another Mac.

Restart your laptop while holding T so it acts like a FireWire drive (no files in use by the system) so you can copy the complete disk...

Easy way to clone would be something like Carbon Copy Cloner.
Other possibility is using the asr command in the Terminal.

The recreation of groups and adding users etc. can be done via the command dscl

There is someone else who had this kind of issue so you could also have a look here:
https://superuser.com/questions/477572/mac-osx-repair-staff-group


Why does iOS 13 not trust my own Root CA?

iOS 13 have increased the security regarding these root certificates. It is thus not a bug, but rather that you have to meet higher requirements in order to get this working.

First of all the process for manually trusted the root certificate has been made slightly more complicated to ensure that users do not unwittingly do this. Before you could import a profile and be done with it, but now you have to also open up Settings > General > About > Certificate Trust Settings, and then toggle "Enable Full Trust for Root Certificates" on for the certificate.

In addition to the above mentioned process change, the requirements for the actual certificate have changed as well:

If you're using RSA, the key size must be at least 2048 bites.
The hash algorithm must be SHA-2, and not SHA-1.

You can read Apple's explanation of these new requirements here. Note that most of the requirements are only for "server certificates" - you only need to comply with the new requirements for "issuing CAs".

As per your comments, it seemed that your question title was really incorrect and it wasn't the "root CA" trust you had problems with - it was the server certificate that wasn't trusted. In this case, remember that the server certificate should follow all the new requirements listed in the above mentioned link.

These new requirements are, for all server certificates:

When used for TLS (as you do in Safari), the DNS name of the server must be in the Subject Alternative Name field

Note that this requirement also means that if you're requesting your web page using an IP-address instead of a name, then the IP address (without port number) should be listed in the SAN field.

And for server certificates issued after the 1st of July 2019, also the following two requirements:

When used for TLS, the certificate must contain an ExtendedKeyUsage field with the id-kp-serverAuth OID (i.e. don't use a certificate listed as a client certificate, code signing certificate, email or VPN certificate, etc)
When used for TLS, the certificate must be valid for 825 days or fewer

As it turned out your problem was with the validity period of the certificate being more than 825 days. You'll have to reissue the certificate with a shorter validity period.

The reason for the new validity period requirement is that the global CA/B forum (regulates the industry for digital certificates) set new guidelines where CAs must not issue server certificates with a validity period of more than 825 days after the 1st of March 2018. For more information on who was behind the new rule, you can find the voting information here.


How can unauthorized movie purchases be made on my 1st generation Apple TV?

I know this is a month old, but check your ir remote. My Fios remote is programmed to control my Apple TV. If the Apple TV is on, the remote may be triggering the purchases when you use the up, down and menu keys on it. Since you are watching another show through a different input, you won't even notice it until you get the bill.
Reprogram the universal remote or tuck the Apple TV where the IR signal can't SE it.


Can’t change phone time - set automatic time grayed out

There are a few reasons as to why this might be disabled.

Do you have an Exchange account connected to the phone? There might be a policy connected to it, disabling the option to change the timezone.
If you look in Settings > Privacy > Location Services > System Services (in the bottom), is the option "Setting Time Zone" disabled?
If you have Screen Time enabled with a pass code, that might also disable the option to change time zone. Try to disable Screen Time, restart, and then try again.

Hope that solves it for you.


Bootcamp choose Windows ISO opens ISO instead of selecting ISO

You appear to have created USB flash drive Windows 10 installers by using both rufus and and the Microsoft media creation tool. Both of these methods bypass the use of the Boot Camp Assistant. You are suppose to use the Boot Camp Assistant to copy the files to the USB flash drive.

You should go to this website from Microsoft and download Window 10. The last time I checked, the October 2018 update (1809) will not work with BootCamp. This only applies to older Macs that use a flash drive to install Windows. This includes your Mac. So you will probably want to download the April 2018 update (1803).

If you have High Sierra or Mojave installed on your Mac, then you can also create the USB flash drive installer without using the Boot Camp Assistant. The instructions are given here.


How do I make OS X say something when it finds the word "burning" in Console?

Use the following command:

syslog -w|while read l;do [[ $l = *'burning'* ]]&&say the bush is on fire but was not consumed by the flames;done

syslog -w is a shorter alternative to tail -f /var/log/system.log. If you need another log use tail -f /path/to/logfile instead.


No. In fact, Xcode requires a (rather large and separate) download from the App Store. You're safe in upgrading.

Note that some command line utilities (development stuff) or package managers like Homebrew or MacPorts may behave strangely if you run an old Xcode on a new OS.


Notes Application terminating on every startup

Ok, I found a solution: I had two Exchange Accounts connected and synchronised the notes from them. After removing them through the settings Notes is working again :)


Where is the MAC address of my Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter?

The MAC Address is unique and a property of the actual network hardware (although it can be spoofed). So your adapter has its own MAC address, as does the the network interface in a Thunderbolt display, and the Wi-Fi in your MacBook Air.

Different Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapters will have different MAC addresses, but moving one between different ports won't change it.

You can view the MAC address of any network interface attached to your Mac by using Network Utility, which you'll find in the Utilities folder within your Applications folder. It calls it a Hardware Address, but it's the same thing.


Change skip-locking to skip-external-locking in /etc/my.cnf.  This problem can happen if you had a different MySQL installed previously.  I experienced this problem when I moved to MAMP.


MacBook Pro El-Capitan erase / format CD-RW

Answering my own question: I couldn't find a way to do it in the GUI but used the command line:

drutil bulkerase quick

I would welcome a way to do this via the GUI though.


GFortran compiler error on Mac OS Big Sur

I have been able to fix the issue with the help of the following two posts:

https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/666700
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27314733/make-usr-local-lib-a-default-library-search-path-for-ld-on-mac-os-x

The problem is that after the update the System library is no longer in the search paths of the gcc. I solved this by adding it manually to the zprofile, so that anytime I run the Terminal, variable $LIBRARY_PATH is set.
To fix this issue
Edit file /private/etc/zprofile
Add this to the end of the file:
if [ -z "${LIBRARY_PATH}" ]; then
    export LIBRARY_PATH="/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib"
else
    export LIBRARY_PATH="$LIBRARY_PATH:/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/usr/lib"
fi

Restart Terminal


Is it possible to use a Mac mini as a docking station for a MacBook Pro?

The concept is nice.  But you can't connect a Mac mini to the MacBook Pro and have the mini act like a docking station.
Nevertheless you can enable file sharing on the Mac mini and all directly connected storage devices (USB, Firewire, SD) become available to the MacBook Pro via SMB networking.
Other devices can't be accessed as if the Mac mini were a docking station.  That would include the audio port, non-storage USB/Firewire devices and HDMI.  I don't know of any software solutions which enable this.
Other things you might consider:
Screensharing allows you to show the desktop (and use the mouse and keyboard) from one computer to the other.  And there are better performing products (e.g. Jump Desktop) than the inbuilt screen sharing.
You can find software that will enable the mini's screen to act as an extension to the MacBook Pro's screen.  My limited experience with this has not been very successful.


How to copy pages/sections from one Pages document to another?

I think this used to be an option in the old version of pages - where you could just highlight a page copy it and past it over to a new doc.

Now you would need to select all content on a page copy that and past it over to a new already existing page on a new document.

To select content: if you open the pages window up (larger than the white page) you can drag a selection box over the content you want, starting from off the page.


How to get all my apps and data off iPhone 4s to new 5s

Yes, you can. As long as your iPhone 4S and iPhone 5S are using the same version of iOS. So first thing to do: Make sure your iPhone 4S has the same iOS version installed as your iPhone 5S. I would recommend upgrading both of them to iOS 8.

When that is done, backup your iPhone 4S to your iTunes.  After you do that, then connect your iPhone 5S and choose to restore it from a backup. And that backup being the iPhone 4S backup you just made.

The other alternative if you do not have a lot of data is to backup your iPhone via iCloud and restore your iPhone 5S similarly.


Why when I increase SSL certificate security on my mac am I unable to use the app store (preflight error)?

This is a known bug in the App Store. Apple needs to fix it.

  The only problem with forcing a check of revoked certificates is that
  Apple has a flaw in how it validates Mac App Store updates. With the
  option selected as shown in the figure below, you may be unable to
  perform updates through the App Store program. To fix that, launch
  Keychain Access, change the preferences to Best Attempt, update your
  apps, and then reset to the stricter setting. This is something Apple
  should clearly fix, since all the components of this situation are
  under its control.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1162472/keep_your_mac_safe_from_web_security_flaws.html


Can I use a lightning to USB cable to charge an iPhone through an iPad (iPadOS, Pro 9.7)?

Yes, you can use an iPad Pro to charge other devices, including an iPhone.

According to Apple:

  To charge your iPhone or earlier-model iPad that has a Lightning port,
  connect it to iPad Pro using the Apple USB-C to Lightning Cable. If
  you have a Lightning to USB cable, you can combine it with the Apple
  USB-C to USB Adapter, then connect the adapter to iPad Pro.

Source: Charge and connect with the USB-C port on the new iPad Pro, Apple, [Bold emphasis mine].


Terminal command "open" to launch an app in a specific monitor screen

I'm using an eGPU with a dummy plug/headless adapter, and for the eGPU to work, the dummy display must be set to primary.  I have two active displays - my MBP internal display, and my Cinema Display.  The eGPU is working.

However, all of my applications - including system preferences and finder windows open on my dummy display.

I purchased Moom, and sent a ticket with my issue, but he said it's a visual app, and if I can't see the window, I can't use Moom with it.  So Moom was a waste of $10.

I downloaded Alfred, but when I double-click the DMG file, it goes over to the dummy display as well.

Any idea of how I might open or move windows to either display 2 or 3?

So far I am not finding any solution.


Doing a clean install of Lion on a system purchased with Snow Leopard results in iPhoto lost. How to recover?

You shouldnt need to buy it as it is included as part of the iLife suite which comes with all Macs.

From: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2604

Insert the Applications installation disc and double-click the Install Bundled Software icon.
If your computer came with an iLife installation disc, or you purchased a newer version of iLife, insert that disc instead.
Follow the onscreen instructions. Then, in the Installation Type pane, click Customize.
Click the disclosure triangle next to Bundled Applications, select the checkbox next to the application you want to install, then click Install.


The setting that you are looking for is buried in advanced mail settings.

Open Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calenders > (Choose the IMAP account in question) > (choose it again) > Advanced

This screen will have a section titled "Deleted Messages", Set "Remove" to an option other than "never".

For what it's worth, it's the mail client, not the mail server, that is responsible for cleaning up the trash folder.  The client is the program or app that you use to read email, in this case your iPhone.  Many people have problems with this setting when using multiple clients, such as an iPhone, iPad, and Mac or PC at the same time.  In that case if the clients don't all have the same thing for this setting, whichever has the shortest time period is the device that will prevail.

Note: changing the setting should fix your issue, although it might not be an instant fix. I'm not positive how it will behave with 80,000 trash emails to cleanup.

Alternate: A more immediate method appears to be, open mail which will open your inbox, back up one screen by clicking whatever is the the top left (likely the account name, it will vary depending on how your phones is setup), then in the Accounts section choose your "Account" (not your Inbox for that account), from there select the trash folder, click "Edit" on the top right, and then "delete all" in the bottom right,  and "delete all" again to confirm.  Also be sure to adjust the advanced setting above so that in the future your trash folder will be maintained automatically for you.


In iMovie, is there any way to apply a PIP dissolve at the end but not at the beginning?

Yes. On iMovie 10.1.2 for macOS, all you need to do is hold the option key while dragging one of the picture-in-picture fade markers. Here's a video demo:

(Note: Press image for full size.)


Generally speaking it is not possible to un-install a Mac O/S update. Actually there is nothing general about it at all, it's just not possible. Apple does not offer an uninstall option for O/S updates and patches. Or anything else for that matter.

Which means that any time you update your system you run the risk of obsoleting some software on your Mac.

There are a couple of ways to proceed, none of them are particularly good. You can contact the developer and see if there is an update on the way, or you can back-up your system, wipe the drive and re-install the operating system to the previous revision assuming you have the relevant installers and updaters. If you clone your drive all you have to do is re-install the O/S, the migration assistant will then copy your files and Apps from the clone.

Personally I recommend anyone wait before applying any O/S update to verify their critical apps work with it. There is no real benefit to being the first to apply an update. Conversely there are multiple benefits to waiting. Not the least of which is letting everyone else be your beta testers.

I also recommend you use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or Super Duper to clone the entire HD **before* any O/S upgrades. Yeah it's a PITA but allows you to "revert" an upgrade if it breaks something.


I was also scratching my head just to share my one iPhone internet to tether via my iMac. It was so silly what solved the problem.

Uncheck the internet sharing checkbox in sharing system preferences.

After unchecking the internet fields were enabled.


When does iCloud suggest a file can be stored cloud-only? Can I force iCloud to not keep the downloaded copy of a file?

macOS and iOS make the decision for you. The OSes use a combination of factors such as file size, how recently used files are, and quantity of free space on your device's storage in order to determine which files become cloud-only. Here's the description from Apple's support page on the topic:

If you need more space on your device, iCloud Drive can help. On your Mac, go to Apple menu → System Preferences → iCloud. Next to iCloud Drive, click Options and turn on Optimize Mac Storage. Then your Mac keeps all of your recent files on your computer, but keeps your older ones only in iCloud, ready for you to download when you need them again. If you want to free up more space on your Mac, follow these steps. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you can search and browse files from all of your devices and download them only as you need them.

There's no way to explicitly tell iCloud Drive which files should have local copies and which should be cloud-only.
:: Update 2020.12.09 ::
I've run across an app named Bailiff that purports to provide the requested functionality: it can evict specific iCloud files from local storage and make them become cloud-only. More info is available at the developer's website:
https://eclecticlight.co/cirrus-bailiff/
(Note: I have no relationship with Eclectic Light Co., the developer of Bailiff. Nor do I have direct experience with this product.)


I ran into a similar issue a while back.  You will need to diagnose the video card with a diagnostic utility

1)  Download, burn, and boot Ultimate Boot CD.  There are a number of video utilities you can run that will test out your video card for you.  Since you are no longer booting OS X when you boot this CD, you are bypassing any software issues you may be experiencing from Apple and OS X.

There is a USB Flash Boot Drive option instead of a CD (I personally use this).

This will tell you if your video chip is good or bad.  If it fails at any point, then it is a safe bet that you have a hardware issue.  If everything passes, it's on to step 2.

2) Install a pervious version of OS X; Mavericks or Mountain Lion will do.  The best way is to boot from a USB drive (don't overwrite the HDD in your MBP).  A small USB drive is fine 10/20 GB is more than enough.  This is just to install OS X 10.9.x or 10.8.x so you can do some diagnostics.

Do a Time Machine Backup First!  Just in case you accidentally select the internal drive when doing this procedure.

Do a fresh install of ML or Mavericks on the USB HDD.  Let it wipe and partition the drive.

3)  Boot from the USB HDD (hold down the option key before the boot chime to select boot device).  Install Chrome and watch videos as you normally would.  If everything works properly, you have narrowed down the problem to Yosemite.    Which means you will probably have to wait for a fix from the folks at Apple.

At that point, you have really only two options:  downgrade to Mountain Lion or Mavericks or wait for an update to Yosemite.


AirDrop Not Working When Signed Into iCloud

I finally found a solution that worked for me. This seems unrelated but it definitely was my issue. It also fixed my issue with Apple Watch not being able to unlock my Mac. Below is what worked for me.

On your Mac:

Open up Messages App
Go to Messages > Preferences
Select Accounts Tab
Select Blocked Tab
Locate and delete any instances of your own phone number and/or email addresses
Close and wait ~5 minutes for iCloud to sync the changes across all your devices

On IOS:

Go to Settings -> Messages -> Blocked
Same as step 5 and 6 above

After performing those steps Airdrop worked perfectly across all devices and, as a bonus, I was able to unlock my Mac with my Apple Watch again (I was previously getting "your mac was unable to communicate with your apple watch" error / "IDS device not cloud paired").

Hope this helps others!


macOS Internet Recovery is a NetBoot-like service. Basically, a bootable image is downloaded via HTTP (from an Apple or an Akamai server) into RAM and your Mac boots to it afterwards.

So yes, you can run First Aid on the OS X Base System volume and it will not erase, restore or alter partition layout because it's not a writable volume.

Since it has to be assumed that the image was verifed already after the download has finished and the boot process was successful, why do you want to verify the OS X Base System again?


Put entire OS X home folder into Google Drive

Yes. OS X sees the Google Drive folder as any other folder, so there is no problem putting your home folder there, providing you don't asynchronously write to core Library files, using Drive is fine.


I deleted .bash_history, now history isn't saved anymore (although I re-created it)

I encountered the same problem after willingly deleting the .bash_history file.

The simple solution is to not only touch the file but also add some text - one or several line feeds are not sufficient:

echo "exit" >> ~/.bash_history

Then completely quit Terminal and reopen it. If you've saved all your work in all terminal sessions, you can also just

killall Terminal

Update:

I tried to replicate your environment in a 10.11 VM and it's indeed a problem with RVM: commenting out all rvm related lines in .profile and .bash_profile re-enables updates of the .bash_history file.

The .bash_logout file method (with the content shell_session_update) seems to work reliably here though. Just remember to always enter exit before closing a Terminal window or quitting Terminal. Without entering exit the history won't be updated.