Name of file won't go away as file title in Finder

You can add any file or folder there by just dragging it from the Finder window below. Can be quite useful for quick access to specific folders or applications (if you really need them very often).

To remove just Command-drag the name from onto the desktop and release the mouse button to see it disappear in a cloud of smoke.


Does iMessage work on both Wi-Fi and 3G?

According to Apple, yes, iMessage works over either WiFi or 3G.


Is the macbook retina's soldered RAM in any way faster than typical RAM?

Not really. Access times might be faster by a handful of picoseconds, since the electrical impulses would travel a slightly shorter distance by taking away the circuitry in the socket. However that distance is dwarfed by the variance in placement of the RAM on the logic board — sometimes it's closer to the CPU, sometimes farther away.

The predominant factors for speed of RAM are the clock speed and bit width, not the physical layout.


Profile Manager: Mass Deploying Exchange Accounts

Let me answer this by myself. Try to create a profile configuration via Groups instead of Devices Groups. Here is what it looks like:


How do not lock/sleep MacBook when you close the laptop lid?

To enable laptop sleeping with closed lid:

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

To re-enable laptop sleeping:

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


You can use gdisk to edit the type of partition in the GUID partition table. It's installed with homebrew:

brew install gptfdisk

l will list out the types of partitions, then you can use t to change the partition type to the one you want, then write it to disk with w

sudo gdisk /dev/disk3
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.4

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their
partition table automatically reloaded!
Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.

Command (? for help): ?
b   back up GPT data to a file
c   change a partition's name
d   delete a partition
i   show detailed information on a partition
l   list known partition types
n   add a new partition
o   create a new empty GUID partition table (GPT)
p   print the partition table
q   quit without saving changes
r   recovery and transformation options (experts only)
s   sort partitions
t   change a partition's type code
v   verify disk
w   write table to disk and exit
x   extra functionality (experts only)
?   print this menu

Command (? for help): l
Type search string, or <Enter> to show all codes:
0700 Microsoft basic data  0c01 Microsoft reserved    2700 Windows RE
3000 ONIE boot             3001 ONIE config           3900 Plan 9
4100 PowerPC PReP boot     4200 Windows LDM data      4201 Windows LDM metadata
4202 Windows Storage Spac  7501 IBM GPFS              7f00 ChromeOS kernel
7f01 ChromeOS root         7f02 ChromeOS reserved     8200 Linux swap
8300 Linux filesystem      8301 Linux reserved        8302 Linux /home
8303 Linux x86 root (/)    8304 Linux x86-64 root (/  8305 Linux ARM64 root (/)
8306 Linux /srv            8307 Linux ARM32 root (/)  8308 Linux dm-crypt
8309 Linux LUKS            8400 Intel Rapid Start     8e00 Linux LVM
a000 Android bootloader    a001 Android bootloader 2  a002 Android boot 1
a003 Android recovery 1    a004 Android misc          a005 Android metadata
a006 Android system 1      a007 Android cache         a008 Android data
a009 Android persistent    a00a Android factory       a00b Android fastboot/ter
a00c Android OEM           a00d Android vendor        a00e Android config
a00f Android factory (alt  a010 Android meta          a011 Android EXT
a012 Android SBL1          a013 Android SBL2          a014 Android SBL3
a015 Android APPSBL        a016 Android QSEE/tz       a017 Android QHEE/hyp
a018 Android RPM           a019 Android WDOG debug/s  a01a Android DDR
a01b Android CDT           a01c Android RAM dump      a01d Android SEC
a01e Android PMIC          a01f Android misc 1        a020 Android misc 2
a021 Android device info   a022 Android APDP          a023 Android MSADP
Press the <Enter> key to see more codes:


Is there an Alfred Workflow to install and view Alfred workflows?

There are websites like http://alfredworkflow.com and Packal which have hundreds of available workflows which you can download for free.

There is Workflow Searcher Alfred Workflow which lets you find and install alfred workflows available on http://www.alfredworkflow.com/ from within Alfred itself. which you can download from here

There is also awm (Alfred Workflow Manager) which lets you find and install workflow found on Packal using the terminal. It requires you to have node and the node package manager npm installed.


A BSOD is the equivalent of kernel panic in unix and unix-like OSes. From the wiki article:

  In Unix-based operating systems, a similar term is kernel panic.

That said, I've seen the following image two times over the past 3-4 years. This is a kernel panic screen, as described in this support article.


What looks like a folder in /Volumes is not a real folder.  Everything inside /Volumes looks (at first glance) to be folders, but in reality are what are called mount points.  These are just places to join disks into the tree of folders starting from /Volumes.
When you mount a disk, macOS creates a mount point in /Volumes and connects the disk to that mount point.
When you cleanly dismount a disk the mount point is removed.
But sometimes the mount point gets left behind.  For example, following a physical disconnect without a preceding dismount.
The last few comments in this blog post show someone who has 3 such mount points left behind. Howard Oakley's blog
You have two choices:

Don't worry about it.  The mount point is not taking up space on your disk.

Attempt to remove the mount point.

Howard Oakley advises not to mess with it. The danger when tampering with /Volumes is that you will mess up your whole folder structure and end up with an unbootable system.


Is it possible to see a who has purchased an app in the iTunes Connect financial report?

No. The only way to get the name of someone who's purchased your app is to request it from the user when they open the app.


How can I check if an iPhone is new or refurbished based on its serial number?

I don't think you can do it with the serial number, but if you were given a replacement in a box that looked like the original packaging, then it's new. Else it is a refurb — at least, that has been my experience with Apple so far. This thread also supports that:

  If the replacement was from a black box (with the iPhone pictured on it), that's a new one. If you need to have your phone replaced in the first 14 days, it should be done as a retail swap. After that, for warranty replacements, you'll be given a refurb (assuming they are available, they take a while to get into the pipeline). Generally, replacement iPhones are packaged in plain white boxes with no accessories. New ones can be packaged like that too, for Genius Bar replacements, but after the phone has been out a while they will mostly be refurb units.

So in short, if you're looking at replacing an iPhone just a few weeks or a couple of months after release, then it's most probably a new stock. If it's been a while since the model released, then it's most probably a refurbished phone.


In terminal, running top, info extends past the view of the window

You can select the columns you want to display with -stats:

top -stats pid,cpu,command

See man top for a full list of available columns (listed under -o), the most interesting ones probably are

pid: Process ID
command: The name of the command
cpu: CPU usage
time: Execution time
vsize: Total memory size
state: Process state
uid: User ID (or user for user name)


Is there any way for apps to view your Itunes email address?

No.  Apple doesn't provide an API to developers to allow them to access your Apple ID.

The only way a developer/app can get your Apple ID is if you explicitly give it to them and they store the contents.

One way an app can uniquely identify you, other than you've already indicated, is by storing your IMEI number on their servers.  We just saw this happen with Uber.


Cannot upgrade VirtualBox installation of Mac OS 10.6.8 to Mavericks - supposedly a processor issue

Don't know if this is still valid, but for anyone having the same problem, just set the Machine version to "10.6 Snow Leopard" instead of the generic "Mac OS X":

That did the trick for me.


Last Import stuck in iPhoto Events folder after migrating to Photos app

I created a fresh new iPhoto library, populated it with some photos, and migrated that library to Photos, but I could not reproduce this problem. So it looks like another problem with my original iPhoto library. Great.

So I decided to look directly in the Photos library database to see what was going on. The Photos library database can be found in ~/Pictures/Photos Library.photoslibrary/Database/Library.apdb; this is an SQLite database that can be opened using the command-line sqlite3 tool, or any GUI you prefer.

If you're about to follow the steps in my answer past this point, remember to back up the library file before proceeding.

The schema for RKAlbum contains a folderUuid column that associates an album with a folder (in RKFolder). In the Photos library that was migrated from the fresh iPhoto library, the Last Import album looks like this:

sqlite> SELECT name, folderUuid FROM RKAlbum WHERE name = 'Last Import';
Last Import|LibraryFolder

But in the Photos library that was created from my original iPhoto library, the album looks like this:

sqlite> SELECT name, folderUuid FROM RKAlbum WHERE name = 'Last Import';
Last Import|cQeJj7YPRmSxHysWN+ql4w

Notice that folderUuid here is a generated string and not 'LibraryFolder'. Obviously, this is an arbitrary folder — specifically the iPhoto Events folder that is created as part of the migration process. And sure enough:

sqlite> SELECT uuid, name FROM RKFolder WHERE uuid = 'cQeJj7YPRmSxHysWN+ql4w';
cQeJj7YPRmSxHysWN+ql4w|iPhoto Events

As an immediate workaround, changing the column directly seems to work:

sqlite> UPDATE RKAlbum SET folderUuid = 'LibraryFolder' WHERE name = 'Last Import';

Now opening Photos and deleting the iPhoto Events folder leaves Last Import intact. Importing new photos doesn't cause any further problems; the Last Import folder behaves as it always did, and should.

Out of curiosity I decided to find out what was causing Photos to place Last Import in the iPhoto Events folder in the first place.

Turns out, in my original iPhoto library, the folderUuid of Last Import was not 'LibraryFolder', but 'AllProjectsItem' — the same as the original Events category:

sqlite> SELECT name, folderUuid FROM RKAlbum WHERE name = 'Last Import';
Last Import|AllProjectsItem
sqlite> SELECT name, folderUuid FROM RKAlbum WHERE folderUuid = 'AllProjectsItem';
Events|AllProjectsItem
Last Import|AllProjectsItem

This is not the case in the fresh iPhoto library:

sqlite> SELECT name, folderUuid FROM RKAlbum WHERE name = 'Last Import';
Last Import|LibraryFolder

Fixing the incorrect column in the original iPhoto library database (with the same UPDATE statement as above) seems to fix the Last Import folder when migrating to Photos as well. I think I'll go with this instead since it corrects both the old and new libraries.

Like in my previous question, I don't understand why or how my original iPhoto library reached that state in the first place, or why repairing/rebuilding the library didn't help at all. Was I bitten by a rare bug in iPhoto? Was I using iPhoto incorrectly? Either way, I'm lucky that I know a thing or two about SQLite and was therefore able to fix this on my own — if in the unlikely event someone has run into this very same issue, I hope this post will be helpful to them.

Once again, be sure to back up the entire library first.


No current model of MacBook or MacBook Pro has a logo that lights up. Apple had to give it up in order to make thinner screens. The 13” MacBook Air is the only one left that lights up.


Have you checked in Settings>General>About to verify your current OS version?

Sometimes if you check and then restart the device and then check again, that clears things.


On my system, there are four .plist files in ~/Library/Preferences/that get modified when those two checkboxes are checked/unchecked:

com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist
com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist
com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist
com.apple.universalaccess.plist

While one could take the steps to see which keys get added/modified/deleted and could write a script to using defaults1 to change the appropriate keys in these files nonetheless, it would just be easier to use AppleScript to do it in System Preferences, if automating it is what you want.

In Terminal, use the following compound command to create the file and open it:

touch togzoom; open togzoom

Copy and paste the example AppleScript code, shown further below, into the opened togzoom file.
Save and close the file.
Make the file executable:

chmod u+x togzoom

I used togzoom for: [tog]gle zoom

NOTE: This will also require giving Terminal accessibility privileges for this to work properly.

You can now use it from the directory it's in using ./togzoom otherwise /path/to/togzoom; however, it's best if you place in into a directory that's within your PATH statement. Then it can be used from anywhere by just togzoom, (or whatever you actually named the executable).

The following example AppleScript code was tested and works for me, as coded, on macOS High Sierra and macOS Mojave; however, a minor change is needed for macOS Mojave and is noted in the paragraph after the code.

Example AppleScript code:

#!/usr/bin/osascript

if running of application "System Preferences" then
    try
        quit application "System Preferences"
    on error
        do shell script "killall 'System Preferences'"
    end try
end if

repeat while running of application "System Preferences" is true
    delay 0.1
end repeat

tell application "System Preferences" to ¬
    reveal anchor "Seeing_Zoom" of ¬
        pane id "com.apple.preference.universalaccess"

tell application "System Events" to tell ¬
    application process "System Preferences" to tell ¬
    window "Accessibility"

    repeat until exists checkbox "Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom"
        delay 0.1
    end repeat

    set UKSTZ to (value of checkbox "Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom" as boolean)
    set USGWMKTZ to (value of checkbox "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom:" as boolean)

    if UKSTZ and USGWMKTZ then
        click checkbox "Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom"
        click checkbox "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom:"
        set theMessage to "   The target Zoom checkboxes are now not checked."
    else if not UKSTZ and not USGWMKTZ then
        click checkbox "Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom"
        click checkbox "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom:"
        set theMessage to "   The target Zoom checkboxes are now checked."
    else if UKSTZ and not USGWMKTZ then
        click checkbox "Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom"
        set theMessage to "   The target Zoom checkboxes were out of sync and are now not checked." & ¬
            linefeed & "   Run again to check the target Zoom checkboxes..."
    else if not UKSTZ and USGWMKTZ then
        click checkbox "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom:"
        set theMessage to "   The target Zoom checkboxes were out of sync and are now not checked." & ¬
            linefeed & "   Run again to check the target Zoom checkboxes..."
    end if

    delay 0.1

end tell

quit application "System Preferences"

return theMessage

To use the example AppleScript code in macOS Mojave, make the following change to the code shown above:

Change:

window "Accessibility"

To:

group 1 of window "Accessibility"

What this script does:

It toggles the state of the two target checkboxes.
If the target checkboxes are out of sync, it un-checks the one checked and returns a message.

The following shows the command run three times in Terminal to show its output. For demonstration purposes, in System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom, one of the target checkboxes is checked and the other is not checked.

$ ./togzoom
   The target Zoom checkboxes were out of sync and are now not checked.
   Run again to check the target Zoom checkboxes...
$ ./togzoom
   The target Zoom checkboxes are now checked.
$ ./togzoom
   The target Zoom checkboxes are now not checked.
$

Note: The example AppleScript code used herein is just that and does not contain any additional error handling as may be appropriate. The onus is upon the user to add any error handling as may be appropriate, needed or wanted. Have a look at the try statement and error statement in the AppleScript Language Guide. See also, Working with Errors.

1 While the defaults command can be used to modify .plist files nonetheless, in this particular case com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist can be difficult and getting the changes in this and aforementioned files requires programmatically killing the users cfprefsd daemon in an attempt to have the changes take effect. In some cases this process will fail and why scripting with AppleScript was chosen.


how to upgrade unlocked iphone 4s to iOS 7.0.4

How about using google or the official Apple support?


This will clear all the data on your drive!

You can erase the whole volume by clicking the View button and choosing Show All Devices. Then select the top-level entry and click Erase. Set it to APFS and GUID and click Erase. Name it Macintosh HD (or whatever you prefer if that's not your preference). Then run the installer on your new Macintosh HD and you'll get a clean install with no data.


How to toggle Target Display Mode on iMac using a non-mac wired keyboard?

To your 2nd question: I've not been able to toggle target display mode with a non-apple keyboard, however I was able to accomplish this using the app 1Keyboard. Basically I paired the computers via bluetooth, then used 1Keyboard to send command+F2. Sending command+F2 via Apple Remote Desktop did not work. I also tried sending command+F2 programmatically, but that didn't work either. Glad to have found a solution. Both computers were running Mavericks.


Disable user login MacBook Pro Yosemite 10.10.2

You can enable Automatic Login in System Preferences > Users & Groups > Login Options > Automatic login.

If the Automatic login function is disabled then according to this The WP Guru post there are two things to check:

FileVault is not enabled. If it is, you cannot use Automatic login. Check in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > FileVault
You are not using your iCloud password for your Mac account. If you are, change it to a separate password and you should be able to use Automatic login.


Alternate development environments to Xcode?

There is Jetbrain's AppCode but I think you still need Xcode for the GUI (i.e. Xib files). You can move projects from Xcode to AppCode and vice versa so if in a team it will not matter what IDE each member uses.
You can produce macOS apps without using Apple's GUI builder so might not be an issue in all cases. But there is always something I have to tweek in Xcode rather than use AppCode.
For more general comments see this SO answer but note that this predates AppCode which is why it is not mentioned there and so at that time Xcode was the only useful IDE.


Editing com.apple.atrun.plist on El Capitan

The file com.apple.atrun.plist is protected by System Integrity Protection.

So boot to the Recovery HD partition (hold down Command + R while restarting), disable SIP and modify the item:

In the menubar open Utilities->Terminal
Enter csrutil disable
Reboot to your main volume and edit the file
Reboot into the Recovery Partition again
Enable SIP again csrutil enable
Reboot to your main volume


Strange Issue with "Recent" Stacks in Mountain Lion

Issue solved:  After the update the Recent Items selection in System Preferences>General was set to 0.


From man bash:

  Command Substitution

  [...]

  Bash performs the expansion by executing command and replacing the command substitution with the standard output of the command, with any trailing newlines deleted.


maps.app on iOS "follow me" mode without a destination set

Make sure you have background app refresh turned on for Maps.

Go to Settings -> Maps and in the Allow Maps to Access section, turn on Background App Refresh and Cellular Data.

Also, be sure you allow Maps to use your location by tapping Location and selecting While Using the App.

This is what I have done and the app follows me when I move.  I'm not sure if this is the root answer to your issue but it's how I have it setup and it works for me.


I've also posted your question 1 here. If your disk is HFS formatted, here's a rumour here that you can just kill the process fsck_hfs and the disk reappears immediately (FSCK=file system consistency check). Next time I have a scan, I'll be looking for a fsck_exfat equivalent process to kill. Disabling the write cache would reduce risk, but not prevent the scan - it doesn't on Windows, and there's still the risk the disk was disconnected during a non-cached write.

For your question 2, leave the disk connected to your Mac for a while. OS X runs the same repair process, it just does it silently. (Someone answered my identical question here.)

In my experience disconnection almost never actually causes corruption (Windows tells you if it finds an error, and I've never, ever seen it find one) - but a flag File System State is set on the drive prompting the repair scan. On Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint, this can be disabled in /etc/default/rcS, on CentOS, /etc/sysconfig/autofsck - we need the OS X version..anyone?

Update: klanomath answered question two here - I'll report back once tested.


Can't use iTunes songs in iMovie 10? -"protected & unavailable"

Do you have itunes Radio? We had a similar problem that we had downloaded a song through iTunes radio. The song is on the computer, but since we didn't purchase it we can't use it in any other program other than iTunes. We had to delete the song, and then purchase it through the store.


How to completely disable auto-save and versions in Mac OS X Lion?

I intentionally was searcing for hidden defaults1 and fortuitously stumbled across a defaults setting that disables Auto Save, Versions and Resume, all at once.

If you have a tolerance for potentially breaking things (joke), try the following Terminal command (for Preview in this example):

defaults write -app 'preview' ApplePersistence -bool no

Replace preview with the name of whatever app you wish to perform this on.

Alternatively, you can configure this globally with this command (but beware that this causes slow logins, so not recommended):

defaults write -g ApplePersistence -bool no

I can confirm that this works for TextEdit, Preview, Automator and Safari (for disabling Resume), but it should also work for other Apple applications like iWork, Xcode, iPhoto etc. It also works for some, but not all, third party applications. My machine hasn't gone up in flames (joking again) but as long as you have a good backup system, these settings seem stable to change and test.

For TextEdit, you must additionally run the following command, in order to avoid sandbox errors:

defaults write -app textedit AutosavingDelay -int 0

[This effectively disables the old-style, pre-Lion autosaving completely, so the sandbox won't complain anymore about TextEdit trying to automatically save stuff without your "consent".]

Another option, is a TextEdit fork called "TextEdit+", that thankfully isn't sandboxed (surprisingly, TextEdit is actually open source). It can be downloaded here.

Disabling ApplePersistence also restores Save As in most apps, except in Preview, iWork and maybe some others. In those cases you can use the Export… menu item instead. This is almost identical to Save As, except that you have to manually open the document after saving it. Just assign Command-Shift-S to Export… in these applications, and you'll get something very similar to Save As there too.

To restore normal behaviour, run:

defaults delete -app 'preview' ApplePersistence

defaults delete -g ApplePersistence

defaults delete -app textedit AutosavingDelay

1 Thanks to Lri for his excellent one-liner for finding hidden defaults settings.


Is there a keyboard shortcut for switching between different desktops of the same application?

How can I easily switch between these desktops using only my keyboard?

Here is a screen shot of System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Mission Control for two Desktops.
As you can see, by default, you can use control-left-arrow or control-right-arrow
You can also check the checkboxes for additional options, e.g.:

Switch to Desktop 1
Switch to Desktop 2

Then you can use, e.g., ⌘1 or ⌘ and the Desktop number for whichever you want to move to.

Terminal also assigns a keyboard shortcut for up to nine windows, e.g. ⌥⌘1 etc. up to ⌥⌘9


Seamless Time Machine Wi-Fi backups now that Time Capsule is discontinued?

Yes, some NAS work as seamlessly as the Time Capsule. For example Synology DSM has great Time Machine support. There's no need need to manually mount/unmount the network share for each backup.

You can read Apple's list of other options here:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202784

It is essentially either a local drive connected to your Mac (via USB, Thunderbolt, Firewire, SATA, whatever) or a network volume using AFP (NAS, PC/Mac, Time Capsule or AirPort Extreme with external drive connected).


You can't have separate builds with the same BundleID shipped to the AppStore. If you really want to have "Something special" for devices that are ARKit capable - Use some kind of checks during the app launch. Here's the quote from Apple

  Important
  All ARKit configurations require an iOS device with an A9 or later processor. If your app otherwise supports other devices and offers augmented reality as a secondary feature, use this property to determine whether to offer AR-based features to the user.
  If your app requires ARKit for its core functionality, use the arkit key in the UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities section of your app's Info.plist to make your app available only on devices that support ARKit.

So you can use ARConfiguration.isSupported to check the device capabilities in the runtime. If It's not supported fallback to the "Old" implementation.

In order to compile the code for targets < 11 you can mark methods or even classes with @available(iOS 11.0, *) like so:

@available(iOS 11.0, *)
func doSomeARStuff() {
    if ARConfiguration.isSupported { print("Supported") }
}

In order to call those methods using your existing code do it like:

if #available(iOS 11.0, *) {
    doSomeARStuff()
} else {
    // Fallback on earlier versions
}


How do I notify a blocked caller that he has been blocked on my iPhone 5?

No, this is not possible. Blocking a user will still deliver the message to your account, it just won't be shown. You can't prevent a message from being sent to you, except by creating a new account.


How can I make reminders appear on my lock screen?

The Reminders widget only shows upcoming reminders. That is, those with a date/time set for them, and that date/time is still in the future. If you set reminders without a date/time, they will not show in the widget.


I just asked this question again, since there were no real answers here, and according to this answer all you need to do is run

defaults write -g AppleShowAllFiles -bool true

and restart whichever application(s) you're using, and you're all set. No restarting Finder or your computer. Brilliant!


Full screen ad on iPhone in place of lock screen

I get these messages when I connect to the China Unicom network. I think the "Cancel/Accept" dialog is hardcoded into iOS for the purpose of accepting the carrier's terms of use. These messages come from the sim card, and I think only the carrier can send them. It's sleazy for the carrier to use this functionality for advertising.


I don't have the apple ID on my iPod so I cannot delete iCloud?

Your device is most likely Activation Locked. In order to remove the previous owner's Apple ID, you should try to get in contact with them and arrange to have them remove their ID from the device.

Activation Lock is an anti-theft feature, so if you do a factory restore in iTunes, you will be prompted for the previous owners Apple ID password when the device activates during initial set up. At this point you won't be able to use the device anymore.

Here are some Apple knowledge base articles that explain Activation Lock in a little more detail:

iCloud: Activation Lock: http://support.apple.com/kb/PH13695

iCloud: Find My iPhone Activation Lock in iOS 7: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818


macOS Calendar app stopped syncing with Google Calendar

Deleting the Calendar cache and rebooting my Mac seemed to solve it, at least for now. I followed these instructions:

https://wilkinsit.ca/mac-osx/clear-calendar-cache-mac-os/

Backup Calendar from the File > Export > Calendar Archive… menu option.
Close Calendar.app
Navigate to Library > Calendar folder in Finder
Remove all files that start with Calendar Cache
Reboot
Open Calendar.app and watch as it initializes calendars


Why is my Safari unable to open links from Google under VPN?

Copy the URL that gives you trouble and paste it into the address bar. You said that pasting the URL directly works. Does it for that URL?

From there on you can try to reach that server by using the ping command in terminal. You can see if the DNS is properly resolved to an IP and also if any connections are blocked to that IP.

traceroute <host> might also give you a hint on what is going wrong.


Empty /home directory, and I can't delete it?

it is set up by the system for scenarios with network home directories, which are mounted at /home. we use network homes for a number of our Mac desktops, and, in our case, if a user has a home directory specified in Active Directory, and the AD plugin is set to use it, it will mount under /home.

my guess would be that the system doesn't allow it to be deleted because of that (at minimum).


You will need MAMP on every iMac.
You need an Apple Time Capsule Router/Network Storage Drive.
Tell MAMP to look for the Site Files on the Time Capsule.
Import the MySQL Database for Each Website into phpMyAdmin on MAMP.
Run MAMP on each iMac.
Go to localhost:8888 in your Browser.
Click on the Site you want to Edit.

NOTE: Name the Site Folder for Each Website.


Automator workflow / app to refresh a given tab in Safari (or even Crome)

Paste this script into script editor and save it as a service. Map the service to a keyboard shortcut.

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    tell current tab of window 1
        do JavaScript "location.reload();"
    end tell
end tell

EDIT

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    tell window 1

        --options
        set myTab to tab 1
        set myTab to first tab whose URL = "https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/224393/automator-workflow-app-to-refresh-a-given-tab-in-safari-or-even-crome/224431?noredirect=1#comment272178_224431"
        set myTab to first tab whose URL starts with "https://apple.stackexchange.com"

        if current tab is not myTab then set current tab to myTab
        tell myTab to do JavaScript "location.reload();"
    end tell
end tell

EDIT 2
Select your tab and run this script to get its name

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    tell window 1
        get name of current tab
    end tell
end tell

Populate the name in this script:

tell application "Safari"
    activate
    tell window 1
        set myTab to first tab whose name = "insert name here"
        if current tab is not myTab then set current tab to myTab
        tell myTab to do JavaScript "location.reload();"
    end tell
end tell


MBA camera or iPhone camera for analysing tennis shots in slow motion?

The MBA build in cameras wont do high rate frames per second needed for your purpose.

They are a web camera type and the CCD/CMOS chip is not of a kind that can do that, regardless of the software.

iSight is a webcam, with video capture at 30 frames per second in 24-bit color.

On the iPhone there is a chance since it has an improved camera:

The iPhone 5s has a 120-frames-per-second slow-motion video mode and precision autofocus matrix metering.

Sport events would use 300 FPS on a professional level with high resolution.


Whatsapp asks for too much free space during backup

It's a bug. I have the same issue:

Total Whatsapp data on my iPhone =  7GB

Free space on iPhone             = 38GB

Whatsapp complains that i have to free another 1,88GB to be able to make a backup of the chats to iCloud...


Cannot format newly installed HD in MacBook Pro mid 2012 13"

If you are in internet recovery you should be able to format the drive as it downloads a minimal system on a RAM disk (from what I have heard...) and boots from that.

That error needs some more diagnostic info in order to help. Do you still have the old drive you can put back in and boot from? Then an external case to put the new drive in? If so do that and see if you can format it that way. If not report back with some more details.


Delete cached (offline) email on hard drive in Mail program (El Capitan)

You can find Mail's cached mails in

~/Library/Mail

To see how much space this folder is using, either use Finder's Get Info or

du -hs ~/Library/Mail

To remove the folder and all its contents, either use Finder or

rm -rf ~/Library/Mail

AFAIK, I don't think you can stop Mail from caching received emails from your servers. There used to be an option in Mail preferences that would stop it from caching everything, but I think this was taken out in Mavericks.

With Mail's behavior as such, it is logical to assume that once these mails are deleted, Mail will re-sync with the necessary servers to cache these mails again.

You might be able to change some things in Mail's preferences, I'll check and edit appropriately.

There's a pretty good guide on Mail and its storage usage over at HowToGeek right here.


Can't install Flash - Installation failed

I had this problem on & off for years, it's something to do with my firewall, which I've never been prepared to fiddle with just so I can get an online installer to function properly.

The simplest workaround is to go get the full downloadable .dmg version instead of the online installer.

For the past few years, it's been located at http://www.adobe.com/uk/products/flashplayer/distribution3.html
or you can Google "adobe flash player offline installer download" which always finds it.

I did eventually find a solution to my Flash problems...
... I uninstalled Flash from every machine in the building ;-)


This is the kind of task I'd give to Onyx (freeware). Get the version appropriate to your system.

Run the entirety of the Maintenance tab - Structure [which it will ask to do on launch) then Permissions & Scripts. Be a little more circumspect with Rebuilding, but all options are 'safe' to run.
Reboot afterwards.

If it is still misbehaving, next check would be for rogue 3rd party kexts. How can I identify 3rd party kernel extensions in macOS? will help with that.


I have preview 11.0 and MacOS 10.15.6.  I see no such issues.  I would recommend upgrading.


Preview Cant Open Multiple PDF in same Window

You can open multiple PDFs in the same window, but the UI is different. Multiple PDFs will now open in separate tabs rather than the old way of segmenting them by scrolling.
Here is a link to the Apple support site if the following steps are not clear: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206998
To ensure all documents open in tabs follow these steps:
Big Sur
(Open) System Preferences > (Select) General > (Go down to 5th option) Prefer tabs: > (Select from option menu^) Always
Older versions of macOS
(Open) System Preferences > (Select) Dock > (Go down to 5th option) Prefer open tabs when opening documents: > (Select from option menu^) Always
Now, when you open multiple PDFs they will open within the same window, segmented by different tabs.
^From the option menu, you have the following options:

Always: When you open another window in your app, it automatically opens as a tab in your current window.
In Full Screen Only: When you open another window in your app, it opens as a tab only if you're using the app in full screen. Otherwise, it opens as a new window.
Manually: Manually choose when to use tabs, whether or not you're using the app in full screen.


How to remove aux jack from Macbook Pro?

If the port has super glue in it, there isn’t anything you can do to remove the broken piece other than take it in for service and have the port replaced.
The audio jack is somewhat hollow, but it does have a conductor in the center.  It may have been possible to push a “tinned” piece of wire into the jack and then heat The wire so the solder will weld the wire to the jack allowing you to pull it out.  You’ll need a soldering iron and some soldering skills to do this.
Alternately, you may be able to open the Mac, and from the back of the socket, use a stiff piece of wire to push it out of the jack.
However, most likely, the only solution would be unsolder the jack from the logic board and solder on a new one. You’ll have to take in in unless you have surface mount PCB rework skills and tools.    Now, that’s going to be expensive, so if you opt to not do this and go for a workaround, you”ll either need to use Bluetooth speakers or a USB DAC (Digital Audio Converter) to give you back physical input and output connections.


Airport Extreme and os x 10.6.8 compatibility

The first thing to confirm is whether your iMac originally shipped with OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard or whether you've already upgraded it from an earlier OS X version. If your iMac came directly from Apple with an OS X 10.6.x version preinstalled, then the good news is that your system is directly compatible with Mavericks. Mavericks is a free download from the App Store and your system already meets the minimum requirements.

That said, I would strongly suggest upgrading your memory to 8 GB or more RAM. Your system will perform much better than it will with 4 GB. This isn't absolutely mandatory, but the performance difference would be noticeable. To determine exactly what model you have and how much RAM it can support, I recommend downloading the free Mactracker app from the App Store. The DIY repair website, ifixit.com, has great written- and video tutorials on how to upgrade your memory.

The best/easiest way to upgrade … That's subjective. The easiest way is to download the Mavericks installer onto your Snow Leopard system and just run it. After making sure you have a Time Machine backup from which to restore in case anything goes wrong, of course. This is called an in-place upgrade and apart from the time spent downloading and installing, there is little for you to do. If everything goes smoothly, and it generally does, you'll have a running Mavericks system with all your apps and data intact. Note that if you're using any legacy PPC apps via Rosetta, they will no longer work and you'll need to find suitable replacements.

The best (again, subjective) way to upgrade would be more work, but would give you a pristine base installation, including the Recovery Partition on the drive, which enables you to command+r before the startup tone and enter a special startup mode that is similar to booting to an OS X Snow Leopard DVD. More information about Recovery can be found here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

The specific steps I list below assumes that you have a working Time Machine backup that is current.

Purchase an 8GB USB Flash memory stick.
Download DiskMaker X and install it: http://liondiskmaker.com
Download Mavericks from the App Store, but do not run the installer.
Use DiskMaker X to create a bootable Mavericks USB installer.
Backup your Snow Leopard-based system one last time to Time Machine.
Boot to the USB image by invoking the Startup Manager: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1310
Go into Disk Utility and format your Macintosh HD (or whatever your volume is called) - Erase - with (Mac os x Journaled).
Quit Disk Utility when it's finished erasing your Snow Leopard partition.
Select Install OS X from the OS X Utilities screen.
Go through the normal steps of installation.
During the install process, you will be offered the ability to either create a user account or to migrate a user account from backup; select the backup option and point it to the location of your Time Machine backup.
After profile-/apps migration has taken place, the system will log you in and you're done.

The latter is a lot more work, but rather than upgrading an existing system with its many years of possible dross, you get a pristine OS, replete with Recovery Partition, and all your migrated apps and data. This is my personal definition of best. Your mileage may vary.

If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them.


Takes a long time for my macbook pro to wake from sleep

The greyed out (and blurred) background with the progress bar indicates that your computer hibernated (as opposed to suspended) - meaning it dumps the memory state to disk, and when resuming needs to restore that memory state from disk to memory.

To check which sleep mode your computer is using run the following from a terminal:

pmset -g | grep hibernatemode

If it is 1, this would be the expected behavior. If it is 3, OS X is unable to resync the memory state from background tasks (such as time machine) and may fully restore the memory state from disk. If it is 0, the memory shouldn't have been dumped to disk during normal sleep which would indicate that it hibernated as a last resort before losing power.


OS X 10.11.1 with Safari 9.0.1 freezes on opening new tab or address bar selection

I can't reproduce this issue. I guess it's related to incompatible Safari Extensions. Try disable them one by one.

Moreover you should update Safari. Currently v9.0.2 is the latest Safari version. Open the AppStore > Updates > Update Safari


You can also restore the old arrow functionality

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows 1

I also suggest the following:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks 1

  This setting switches the default
  behaviour of the arrow links. By
  default (well, by default in iTunes
  10.0.0 and before) the arrows would send the user to the corresponding
  page in the iTunes Store, but you
  could also hold down Opt and click to
  be redirected to the corresponding
  list in your own library.

  Now, to reset it all to Apple's
  defaults... you can either do the same
  lines as above but replacing '1' with
  '0', or you can delete the settings by
  changing "write" to "delete" and
  removing the 1 from the end:

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes disablePingSidebar

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes hide-ping-dropdown

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes show-store-link-arrows

defaults delete com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks

restart when done.

I blogged about this when I read Tom Gidden's article


Sounds like this was due to them creating a new user (502) and naming it the same as the old user, and copying all your old files in.  The problem is that the new user account ID doesn't match the old user ID.  What needed to be done was a chown -R 502 on your whole user directory.  Too bad you started afresh.  Sidenote: Trying to restore in this fashion almost never works well.  Wipe the disk, re-install a good OS, and then restore from a TM or other backup if available.  I've never had a problem using that method, but I've definitely had problems using the method you describe.  Better luck next time.


A program called Everclipper Plus would appear to meet your requirements, however this is not a full featured Image Editor, just purely one that provides a set of correctional tools.

From the blurb

  Features

  Resizing. You can resize a photo on it's length scale of one to ten. You can see the result of resizing before save it.
  Customizable sets of resizing sizes. You can make presets of resizing sizes as you like.
  Cropping. You can crop a photo at any position and to any size.
  Customizable sets of cropping sizes. You can make presets of cropping sizes as you like.


Is it safe to wash your iPhone with soap and water?

No, water isn’t safe for any electronics. Neither are cleaning products, including soap.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207123

Avoid moisture and clean as lightly and dryly as possible is best for the hardware - especially hardware that’s been used and bumped and dropped. Small cracks will grab water and soap, a surfactant, causes capillary action to be amplified.

Even a new phone or waterproof one shouldn’t just be washed with excess water for no good reason. It really depends on the contaminant and ability to clean without a lot of water in the end. It also doesn’t mean a drop in a pool or sink will cause a phone to fail, especially the newer ones.

Now, when choosing between your health and the phone health, most people will occasionally use something other than water, but only knowing it damages the device in excess or in concentration based on the cleaning product you choose.


I found the problem and have a workaround until the developer publishes a fix.

In your Applications folder, right click on the app and choose Show Package Contents.
Navigate to the Contents/MacOS folder and open startkeepass.sh in TextEdit.

Change this line:

path="/Applications/KeePass2.16.app/Contents/MacOS"

to this:

path="/Applications/KeePass2.17.app/Contents/MacOS"

(Replace the 6 with a 7).
Save and close.

Now the application should start up.


Cisco AnyConnect Secure Mobility Client on OS X Yosemite - CSD library signature verification failed

I had the same problem as the OP with Cisco AnyConnect version 2.3.2016: installing OS X 10.10 Yosemite broke it. Scrounging up a copy of 3.1.05187 WORKS (kind of) on my Mac.

I said "scrounge" because I couldn't download the correct version from Cisco's web site, because I don't have a login there associated with our license, and I couldn't get our local tech folks to understand why I couldn't just install the "MSI" file on my Mac.

Anyway, searching the web for "anyconnect-macosx-i386-3.1.05187-k9.dmg" unearthed a copy from a university web site (not something I like to do, particularly with security software), and behold, it installed and runs!

One wrinkle: unlike the older version, the newer one didn't route DNS lookups through the VPN. When Cisco establishes a VPN connection, it seems they edit "/etc/resolv.conf" to add the VPN's DNS servers. That doesn't work, and there's a warning to that effect in the Apple-generated "resolv.conf" file.

My work-around is to consult what Cisco added and manually add those servers through the Mac OS X Network Preference Pane.


How do the sleep sensors in latest Mac laptops work?

Sleep sensors are typically Hall Effect sensors. You can consult this PDF that Apple produces for case manufacturers which illustrates where the sensors are located per device. The PDF is titled: Accessory Design
Guidelines for Apple Devices.

Make sure you're using the correct polarity when orienting the magnet(s) over the sensors, this is likely why they're not working as you're expecting.

References

Trick reveals all 102 hidden magnets in the 2018 iPad Pro


There's quite a few applications for iOS that support GPX track information, which you could probably use to sort of meet your needs. I won't list them all, as there's quite a few (free and paid), with various focuses on walking/riding/hiking or photography (for geotagging images).

I've used GeoTagr (formerly GeoLogTag) for quite a while for generating GPX files for geotagging photos. I believe you can copy GPX files in/out of it also, via iTunes (actually various methods to get the files out), but there are quite likely apps that make that process easier (try the ones designed for walking trails if you want easier import).

Again, there's many more, with many different features, so just do a search for GPX on the iTunes App Store and see what suits your needs (and let us know if any in particular suited your needs!).

Something like Trails Lite GPS Tracker or EasyTrails GPS Lite might be more appropriate as they're designed to import GPX track files also, to let you follow the trail. I see no iOS6 Apple Maps flyover screenshots, but that's pretty new so I'm not sure if it'll just come natively since they use the native iOS Maps API, or if they'd need to be modified to support such things.

Maps+ is another interesting one, which supports trails and bookmarking points (you'd probably need the paid version though). This one specifically uses the Google Maps data, apparently even with iOS 6. This includes elevation maps, which may be useful for tracks.

The caveat is most of these types of apps require you to use GPX files, which may or may not be a downside for you, depending on the current format of your data points. It's a reasonably common format though, and I'm pretty sure things like Google Earth can produce GPX files.

There's really quite a lot to choose from though, many with free "light" versions to test out...


Macbook Air mid 2013 with Mavericks stopped connecting to familiar wifi after 10.9.4 update

I would try to manually connect to network to see if that works.

Here are the steps how to do that using Terminal by copy/paste following:

Turn On

networksetup -setairportpower en0 on

Find

/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport scan

Connect

networksetup -setairportnetwork en0 WIFI_SSID_I_WANT_TO_JOIN WIFI_PASSWORD


Using an old iPhone 4s to connect to internet to develop apps

Is your iPhone 4s running (at least) iOS 7.1? If so, then I believe this support page from Apple should do the trick:

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/ts1559

If neither of Apple's instructions work, then one idea is to you back up your iPhone using iTunes and restore the device. I recommend making a clean restore. If the Wi-Fi works, then you can either leave it as it is or go ahead and restore again, but this time, using the backup that you made on iTunes.

If that still doesn't work, then... well, I don't usually recommend this, but you could jailbreak the iPhone and try a fix from there. I'm not entirely familiar with that process, but that's the only other thing that I can possibly suggest. Otherwise, you're out of luck (unless you want to try the Apple Store to get it fixed/replaced, but I think that it'd be a waste of your time).


View contents of a ICO container file on macOS

The built-in Preview.app can handle ICO files and show the contents of the container. It can also show the file metadata. To view file metadata, use the keyboard shortcut, Command + i.

Right click on one of the images, select Export As... and select the desired format.


name of my secondary iCloud email account

You should be able to change your name when you log in to 'manage my apple ID' and explore the options down the left hand side: https://appleid.apple.com


Make the Menu Bar never show while in Full Screen

Save the following AppleScript to a file named fullscreen.scpt:

use framework "AppKit"
use scripting additions

repeat with runningApp in current application's NSWorkspace's sharedWorkspace's runningApplications()
    if runningApp's isActive()
        set frontApp to (localizedName of runningApp) as text
        exit repeat
    end if
end repeat

tell application "System Events"
    tell process frontApp to set isFullScreen to value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of first window
    if frontApp = "Finder"
        tell process frontApp to set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of first window to not isFullScreen
    else if isFullScreen
        do shell script "lsappinfo setinfo -app " & quoted form of frontApp & " ApplicationType=Foreground"
        tell process frontApp to set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of first window to false

        (*fix to make sure the menu bar is not stuck*)
        delay 0.42
        tell application "Finder" to activate
        tell process frontApp to set frontmost to true
    else
        do shell script "lsappinfo setinfo -app " & quoted form of frontApp & " ApplicationType=UIElement"
        tell process frontApp to set value of attribute "AXFullScreen" of first window to true
    end if
end tell

From terminal, compile it to an application with the following command:

osacompile -o "/Applications/Full Screen.app" fullscreen.scpt

Open the Full Screen.app's Info.plist (e.g. vim '/Applications/Full Screen.app/Contents/Info.plist') and add the following to the dict:

    <key>NSUIElement</key>
    <true/>

Add Full Screen.app as an exception in System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility.
Launch Automator and create a new Service.
Change "Service receives" to "no input in any application".
Add a Library > Utilities > Launch Application action.
Configure the action to launch the previously created Full Screen application.
Save the service as Full Screen and close Automator.
On System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services, scroll down to the bottom of the list and the just created Full Screen service should be listed there. Associate an unique Command shortcut for it, like Shift+Command+\ or Command+F11 for example.

This creates a shortcut to cause an application to enter full screen while removing the menu bar, or to exit full screen bringing the menu bar back. It provides an alternative full screen shortcut!

For application-specific full screen launchers, check my other answer.

Caveats

There may be some disadvantages and/or misbehavior using this approach:

It works by setting ApplicationType=UIElement, which causes the application icon not be added/highlighted in the Dock and make the application inaccessible via Command+Tab. The Command+Tab issue was reported in comments, I didn't notice it since I mostly use the Mission Control overview to change between full screen applications.
It may not behave as expected for some specific applications, I've noticed issues with the Activity Monitor application (which is generally not used full screen anyway) and there's a report on Chrome, which I didn't try since I use Firefox and it works great.


Mail.app folders + iPhone/iPad = missing emails?

Be sure that you are making folders that are stored on gmail using IMAP.

It sounds like you are moving the messages to a local folder (on my mac) and the correct behavior in that case is to delete the message from all IMAP folders.

Mail keeps a local copy of all messages - so you still have offline access, time machine backups going back in time, and all the benefits of local storage when messages are "stored in a folder in gmail." Think of the location as the authoritative copy and not the only copy or even the most correct copy. When you make changes offline - those time stamps let the system sync your changes back to gmail once you reconnect and properly integrate changes with new mail that has arrived while offline.

Just to be totally clear - here are some pictures...

Try making a new IMAP folder like the picture below - you can rename it later if needed to see what creating a folder stored on Gmail looks like on your mail client.

You don't want it stored locally like this:

You can drag messages into the new folder or drag entire folder structures as long as you have time for the operation to sync / upload all the data to gmail servers. I have seen folders with 5,000 messages take two or three hours to upload even on normal internet with decent upload speeds so try first with smaller mailboxes to get the hang of things.


MacOS High Sierra: how can I merge 2 partitions into one?

Use the commands given below to preform the merge.

  Note: These commands will delete the noname volume, therefore you may want to backup this volume.

diskutil apfs deleteContainer disk0s3
diskutil eraseVolume free n disk0s3
diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0

If a command fails, try prepending a sudo.


Is there a security tools package for Mac OS X?

The closest thing I know of is HackPorts.

  HackPorts was developed as a penetration testing framework with
  accompanying tools and exploits that run natively on Mac platforms.
  HackPorts is a ‘super-project’ that leverages existing code porting
  efforts, security professionals can now use hundreds of penetration
  tools on Mac systems without the need for Virtual Machines.


Your best bet would be to go into Settings -> Store, log out of the account, and log into the account that you want to use to access the store. That should not affect your home sharing setup, and will allow you to use your account for the store.


How to set the color of terminal text in ssh session exact same as local session?

The main issue here is that the prompt command and colouring options are sourced from the computer you are logged into.  So when you ssh somewhere, you must change the colouring/prompts on that server as well.

There are a couple of options.

Depending on the OS of the server you are logging into you could reset the prompt colours in the login scripts there.  Or;
Add an exception in the preexec command you installed before so it doesn't change the foreground colour for ssh commands

Something like
    [ "$BASH_COMMAND" =~ "^ssh" ] && return
in the preexec_invoke_exec function.


Messages issued by syslog not showing up in system logs

Despite what you pass to setlogmask(), in its default configuration, OS X will only write messages to the system log that have a priority of LOG_NOTICE or higher.

Any of the following will solve your problem...

Enable lower-priority logging in /etc/syslog.conf -- kern.* is not enough, as log messages from Xcode are not coming from the kernel
Change the priority of your messages from LOG_DEBUG to LOG_NOTICE
Simply use the built-in Xcode console -- the output will always appear there regardless of your syslog.conf settings

Here's what it looks like in the built-in Xcode 4 console:

Also, if you're developing exclusively for OS X, you might want to look into ASL (Apple System Log), which was meant to replace syslog().


First open you About this Mac - more Info - System Information

then look under the

WiFi

Here is what it looks in my place in Spain.

The Ch 1..13 are on 2.4 GHz and the 36...140 are on 5GHz, if your router supports it switch to 5 GHz and you will be lonely there (almost)

If not possible to use 5GHz - (router limitation)

Take Note of

Locale and Country Code (those need to changed to see the Ch 13)

Next check your router settings for Location/Country Code.

The country code of your router is whichever one it was legally purchased for use in. See if it can be changed.


Attaching images into Notes for iCloud Web

As per the current implementation, it is not possible to attach images and any other file/media supported by Notes app on macOS/iOS via the iCloud Web client.

There is no control in the Notes Web app UI to attach images/supported files, neither does dragging and dropping image(s) work.

Although the lack of feature is not directly mentioned, the help document for Notes for iCloud Web (accessed by tapping the ? in the header area) makes a cursory remark about requiring macOS/iOS device for attaching items.


Can I watch a video on my Mac but have the audio go through my iPhone?

Yes, you can do it.

You need to be on the same WiFi network and use a pair of matched applications on your Mac and iPhone.

The best known of these are Airfoil (for the Mac) and Airfoil Speakers Touch on your iPhone. See this: http://rogueamoeba.com/airfoil/

Note that Airfoil Speakers Touch does not turn your iPhone into Airplay speakers so you can only stream to it from a computer running Airfoil and not, for example, your iPad.


Getting launchd to read program arguments correctly

The Program key specifies the file to execute, & the ProgramArguments key specifies the arguments which will be passed to the executing process. Strictly speaking you can pass whatever arguments you want to a process, but the convention is that the first one should be the name by which the process was invoked, so most programs ignore their first argument.‡ The file to execute is obviously necessary information, but if the  Program key is is missing, launchd pretends it has the same value as the first argument in ProgramArguments purely as a convenience.

Your first example starts boinccmd & gives it arguments that would be equivalent to the terminal command

--host\ localhost --passwd\ gobbledygook --project\ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/\ update

which tells boinccmd that you invoked it as "--host localhost" & only passed it two weird arguments.

Your second example separates the arguments correctly, but as Eddie Kelley suggested it needs one inserted at the front. It tells boinccmd that you invoked it as "--host", then passed another six arguments. boinccmd can recognise the last five as being two options, but has no idea what the "localhost" business is about. As far as boinccmd can tell, it was invoked from the terminal as

/Library/Application\ Support/BOINC\ Data/boinccmd localhost --passwd gobbledygook --project http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/ update

(note the missing "--host").

boinccmd is probably one of the great majority of programs that don't care what their first argument is, so you could probably actually just shove <string>HELLO</string> at the head of the ProgramArguments array, but it's probably cleaner to remove the Program key altogether & just use this:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/Library/Application Support/BOINC Data/boinccmd</string>
        <string>--host</string>
        <string>localhost</string>
        <string>--passwd</string>
        <string>gobbledygook</string>
        <string>--project</string>
        <string>http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/</string>
        <string>update</string>
    </array>

‡ It can seem like a meaningless redundancy, but some programs use this to good effect: bash et al. act as login shells if their first argument begins with -, & Vim enters various emulation modes if its first argument is ed or vi instead of vim.


Is there a safe way to shut down a Mac that doesn't have a keyboard or mouse?

There are two possible ways provided by OSX.

When you shutdown via menubar → shut down, you get a one minute counter till shut down. That's enough time to disconnect your devices.

System Preferences → Energy Saver → Schedule


drop of water on mousepad of macbook pro and now the mouse is being odd?

This sounds like you may have liquid damage to the system. If this is the case, the issues won't just go away. Water-based liquids are very corrosive to electronics and the damage cannot undo itself. However, you can certainly take it to the Genius Bar. However, I wouldn't mention the water droplets to them. If they can't visibly see the liquid damage and can confirm the issue (and provided you are under warranty), they may replace the trackpad piece free of charge.


Will iPhone remote earbuds work with 6th Gen iPod Nano?

Yes it does.  I just tried it the other day to see what it does.  The only thing that does not work is the mic.  It will control the play, pause, volume up and down.  Really sweet!


Deleting photos from Photos app once My Photo Stream is disabled

Once all iCloud photo sync features are disabled (iCloud Photo Library and photo stream) pictures will only be deleted locally. Generally, unless you have disabled this prompt, Photos will warn you if you are deleting a picture from a Cloud location.

Bonus tip:
If you want to view your photo library online, you can always go to http://icloud.com/#photos to view them.


Can I use my late 2013 MBP with Dell2515H?

You can use 4K displays and Ultra HD TVs with these Mac computers:

MacBook Pro (Retina, Late 2013 and later)
Mac Pro (Late 2013)
iMac (27-inch, Late 2013 and later)
Mac mini (Late 2014)
MacBook Air (Early 2015)
MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015)

So yes, your MacBook will support a 4K external monitor. You can decide how big you would like your interface/text etc. to appear in system preferences the same way you can on your internal monitor.

Source: Apple Support Documents


4.2.1 is officially the latest supported version for the iPhone 3G, but you can supposedly install iOS 5 on it with this method: http://osxdaily.com/2012/01/19/install-ios-5-on-iphone-3g-with-whited00r-5/

In the video, it shows the Messages app on the homescreen, so that ought to work for you.


Does Avast noticeably affect battery life?

I tried installing Avast and adding this to crontab:

* * * * * ps -o \%cpu= -p $(pgrep -i com.avast) | awk '{s+=$0}END{print s}' >> ~/Notes/avast.txt

The average CPU use (for one core) after about a day was about 1.5%, but I'll keep it running for a few more days or weeks.

iStat Menus displays CPU power consumption in Sensors > CPU Package Total. Approximate CPU use and power consumption on my iMac:

5%: 5W
100%: 13W
400%: 25W

So 1 percentage point increase in CPU use (for one core) from being near-idle might correspond to 1-2% increase in CPU power consumption. The ratio might be higher for laptops though. And the percentage change in total power consumption depends on the power consumption of displays and other components.

Idle power consumptions with display off or at maximum brightness:

11-inch MacBook Air: 4.7W, 9.0W
15-inch MacBook Pro with Retina Display: 5.3W, 17.6W
21.5-inch iMac: 14.1W, 41.8W


Restoring all contacts from Time Machine

You have a backup - that's good, and it's got valid data which is even better.

First, I suggest taking a quick backup of your contacts as they stand right now.  It might not be required, but in case you mess up the restore, or even if you subsequently realise you now have recent updates missing, it's wise to have a safe copy.

Firstly, take a fresh Time Machine backup, and then we will make a local extra backup archive just of your contacts:

Contacts Menu > File > Export > Export Contacts Archive - stick the backup file whateveryoucallit.abbu anywhere, like your desktop for now

Now you have multiple safe copies, you can go into Contacts, and just delete everyone.  All your groups, all your contacts.  You can get them all back from your export you just made.

To restore your contacts, you need to follow these steps:

1 Open Contacts
2 Enter Time Machine
3 Go back in time to find your good data

You've already got this far, now you need to actually perform the restore...  The remaining steps are:

4 Select what you want to restore, there are various ways to do this, one at a time (no thanks, or click on the top entry, then shift click on the bottom entry in a list to select the whole list etc.  Try it a group at a time perhaps, and then go back onto Contacts to show it has arrived.
5 Click the restore button


Sensitivity to gross noise on battery charging lines of Lightning connector

I'm not sure how well this answers your question, but it seems the whole basis for your post is an assumption you've made about the experience you had a long time ago with an iPod Touch:

  I am guessing that cranking the ghetto blaster caused damaging electrical noise to spike into the iPod Touch.

As you indicate, this is just a guess and there's no way to know what the actual cause of the iPod Touch battery no longer maintaining a charge was.

My experience

What I can tell you is that during the past 11 years:

I have personally owned 6 iPhones, 3 iPads, 1 iPod and 2 Apple Watches
My family has owned 17 iPhones, 7 iPads and 5 iPods
All of the above devices were charged on a regular basis using the 12v sockets of various motor vehicles, campers or caravans
We have used a range of 12v USB power adapters ranging from about $4 to $50 in cost
We have never come across any damage to any of our devices regardless of the vehicle, socket or adapter being used

In all of that experience, the only damage we've noticed is that cheaper adapters and cables end up failing sooner rather than later (i.e. sometimes they just don't work, or they blow a fuse in the vehicle). However, all iPhones, iPads, iPods and Apple Watches have survived without any damage whatsoever.

Finally, as all of these devices have internal batteries, they're less likely to suffer damage as a result of electrical noise or spikes.


Do I need to have system administrator permissions to install from the Mac App Store?

Yes.

Apps are installed to the usual /Applications folder. Non-admin users can browse the store, but they will need an admin username/password to install apps. Source: Help menu of App Store/Purchase Applications/Buy, download, and install applications/To buy, download, and install an application:/Step 4.


You don’t need to change it to AVI - just rename it back and then drag it into a player like VLC.

That software will look inside the file and try to read the header and tell you which encoding and packaging scheme is needed.

Once you know the files are correct and play or can get more details, perhaps a follow on question explaining why VLC won’t open it might make sense.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html

If you like VLC - then right click on one of the files and choose Open with... and reset all TLC files to open in VLC - you should be set.


In addition to what you've already done, temporarily move any system wide startup items from /MacintoshHD/Library/StartupItems using Finder.

If you have done this, and removed startup items from your own account, repaired the disk, then there is really nothing else that should be slowing down the startup.

If you cannot log in to your profile, you may need to start in safe mode (hold down shift whilst booting).


Can I add a mdimporter file to have new option search in spotlight?

Yes, you can create your own Spotlight importers.

You can find Apple's documentation here.

The importers don't need to sit in /System/Library/Spotlight that is intended solely for importers that come with the operating system. What usually happens is an application developer will create an importer to support their file formats and include the importer within the application bundle. So, for example, the importers for Pages file formats sit within the Pages app bundle. But you can also drop importers in ~/Library/Spotlight within your own user profile and OSX will find them there.


If you are able to mount the drive, you can use Copy Copy Cloner or even better (IMO) SuperDuper! from Shirt Pocket. SuperDuper! will not copy caches and unnecessary files that are re-created upon boot, saving space. These both give you clones of the drive, but not images. If you can restore the clone, then this might work.

If you're savvy with a Terminal, you can use the basic diskutil and dd commands to get a disk image - this is what Disk Utility is likely doing under the hood. Just be careful with the input/output parameters of the command, to ensure you don't overwrite something you're not supposed to.

For example, you can find a disk and the partition you want with:

diskutil list

Then, to unmount the disk:

diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk<n>

where the "<n>" is the disk number of the drive you want to image. Finally, create an image using some form of:

sudo dd if=/dev/disk<n>s<p> of=/path/to/image.img bs=1m

where the "<n>" is the disk number and "<p>" is the partition number you found above. Do not type any of the brackets (<>) as part of the command. There are other options you can add, and you can adjust the block size (bs) accordingly.

I just found more information at another post here: What is the best way to clone a disk between two Macs?


How do I get rid of the sub headings in finder with "arrange be date created" in Lion

There's a new toolbar button in Finder, called Arrange. If you choose to arrange by anything in that menu, you'll get the new headings that you've described. To disable this sorting and get the standard click-to-sort column headers back, click the Arrange button, and set it to "None."


Why does Aperture keep forgetting my preference to enable Photo Stream?

I think it's simply a bug; see, for instance: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3533813?start=15&tstart=0
for another frustrated user.

Roll on version 3.2.3!


Not able to Reinstall MacOS in Internet Recovery Mode

Do you have access to another Mac? If so, I'd download the OS installer to that machine, and use it to make a bootable USB stick via the createinstallmedia tool which is inside Contents/Resources in the installer's app bundle. Then, boot your Mac from that USB stick and all should be well.

Alternately, connect your Mac to another Mac via target disk mode and install it from a fully-booted macOS installation that way.


Safari won't load on my G5; how can I get my bookmarks?

The bookmarks are stored in ~/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.html

Triaging the crashing app might be as simple as moving the entire preference folder and plist file to the desktop or might take more work.


Unresponsive Keyboard and Trackpad after sleep

As for me, I, too, faced the same problem with my MacBookPro after upgrading to Yosemite: the keyboard and trackpad would freeze, especially after waking up from sleep. At first, I'd restart the device.
A few days ago, out of sheer frustration, as I clicked on random keys and rubbed the trackpad, the keyboard and simultaneously, the trackpad, became responsive, quite to my surprise. After several more tries, it now seems to me the key 'Q' was the key- pressing it several times, along with the 'esc'. I don't know how, but this works on my MBPro.
Of course I'm no techie, and have no explanation, but would request interested and affected users to try my approach.


Request for Sierra screenshot of 2 folders

This is from macOS Sierra 10.12, downloaded yesterday from the App Store.

$ ls -l /Library/Fonts
total 265360
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    124996 Jul 30 16:48 Al Nile.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     76572 Jul 30 16:48 Al Tarikh.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    178720 Jul 30 16:48 AlBayan.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2410616 Aug  6 22:48 AmericanTypewriter.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    109700 Aug  6 22:48 Andale Mono.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    335572 Aug  6 22:48 Apple Chancery.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  15292988 Nov 13  2014 AppleGothic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  18757920 Apr 21  2015 AppleMyungjo.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    122556 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Black.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    558672 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Bold Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    750984 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    553284 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    183932 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Narrow Bold Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    184420 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Narrow Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    184944 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Narrow Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    179492 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Narrow.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     49296 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Rounded Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  23278008 Aug  6 22:48 Arial Unicode.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    773236 Aug  6 22:48 Arial.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2310148 Aug  6 22:48 Athelas.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    304592 Jul 30 16:48 Ayuthaya.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    106220 Jul 30 16:48 Baghdad.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    429068 Jul 30 16:48 Bangla MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    365072 Jul 30 16:48 Bangla Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1330920 Aug  6 22:48 Baskerville.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     78976 Jul 30 16:48 Beirut.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    213512 Aug  6 22:48 BigCaslon.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    230216 Aug  6 22:48 Bodoni 72 OS.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     79956 Aug  6 22:48 Bodoni 72 Smallcaps Book.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    416692 Aug  6 22:48 Bodoni 72.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     72492 Aug  6 22:48 Bodoni Ornaments.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    592324 Aug  6 22:48 Bradley Hand Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    222640 Aug  6 22:48 Brush Script.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    166072 Aug  6 22:48 Chalkboard.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    519772 Aug  6 22:48 ChalkboardSE.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    483652 Aug  6 22:48 Chalkduster.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2097188 Aug  6 22:48 Charter.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1224236 Aug  6 22:48 Cochin.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    120120 Aug  6 22:48 Comic Sans MS Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    135484 Aug  6 22:48 Comic Sans MS.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1257000 Aug  6 22:48 Copperplate.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     71784 Jul 30 16:48 Corsiva.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    506640 Aug  6 22:48 Courier New Bold Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    691796 Aug  6 22:48 Courier New Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    589900 Aug  6 22:48 Courier New Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    684624 Aug  6 22:48 Courier New.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    147024 Aug  6 22:48 DIN Alternate Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     82260 Aug  6 22:48 DIN Condensed Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1973380 Jul 30 16:48 Damascus.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     94640 Jul 30 16:48 DecoTypeNaskh.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    414396 Jul 30 16:48 Devanagari Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    406212 Jul 30 16:48 DevanagariMT.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    712936 Aug  6 22:48 Didot.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     90540 Jul 30 16:48 Diwan Kufi.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1318280 Jul 30 16:48 Diwan Thuluth.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    550984 Jul 30 16:48 EuphemiaCAS.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     88452 Jul 30 16:48 Farah.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    279940 Jul 30 16:48 Farisi.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    502120 Aug  6 22:48 Futura.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    385768 Aug  6 22:48 Georgia Bold Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    363800 Aug  6 22:48 Georgia Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    400624 Aug  6 22:48 Georgia Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    379588 Aug  6 22:48 Georgia.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1220852 Aug  6 22:48 GillSans.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    222388 Jul 30 16:48 Gujarati Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    381112 Jul 30 16:48 GujaratiMT.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     87460 Jul 30 16:48 Gurmukhi MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     80636 Jul 30 16:48 Gurmukhi Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     63936 Jul 30 16:48 Gurmukhi.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    107692 Aug  6 22:48 Herculanum.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     41544 Aug  6 22:48 Hoefler Text Ornaments.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1632416 Aug  6 22:48 Hoefler Text.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    826144 Jul 30 16:48 ITFDevanagari.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    138488 Aug  6 22:48 Impact.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    260064 Jul 30 16:48 InaiMathi.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3356712 Aug  6 22:48 Iowan Old Style.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1175268 Jul 30 16:48 Kailasa.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    511428 Jul 30 16:48 Kannada MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    465676 Jul 30 16:48 Kannada Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    389880 Jul 30 16:48 Kefa.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    436596 Jul 30 16:48 Khmer MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    155560 Jul 30 16:48 Khmer Sangam MN.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    677004 Jul 30 16:48 Kokonor.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    186800 Jul 30 16:48 Krungthep.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     85588 Jul 30 16:48 KufiStandardGK.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     85352 Jul 30 16:48 Lao MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     38824 Jul 30 16:48 Lao Sangam MN.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    553520 Aug  6 22:48 Luminari.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    174380 Jul 30 16:48 Malayalam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    159240 Jul 30 16:48 Malayalam Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    915352 Aug  6 22:48 Marion.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    652248 Aug  6 22:48 Microsoft Sans Serif.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    658260 Jul 30 16:48 Mishafi Gold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1425292 Jul 30 16:48 Mishafi.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    169024 Jul 30 16:48 Mshtakan.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    197916 Jul 30 16:48 Muna.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    225784 Jul 30 16:48 Myanmar MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    162772 Jul 30 16:48 Myanmar Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   7108788 Jul 31 23:18 NISC18030.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     59452 Jul 30 16:48 Nadeem.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    148656 Jul 30 16:48 NewPeninimMT.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    251312 Jul 30 16:48 Oriya MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    215452 Jul 30 16:48 Oriya Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    309348 Aug  6 22:48 PTMono.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2767520 Jul 30 16:48 PTSans.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1151720 Aug  6 22:48 PTSerif.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    700100 Aug  6 22:48 PTSerifCaption.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1104648 Aug  6 22:48 Papyrus.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    223020 Aug  6 22:48 Phosphate.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     72052 Jul 30 16:48 PlantagenetCherokee.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     63248 Jul 30 16:48 Raanana.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    369156 May 11  2012 STIXGeneral.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    186612 May 11  2012 STIXGeneralBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    143764 May 11  2012 STIXGeneralBolIta.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    141844 May 11  2012 STIXGeneralItalic.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     16992 May 11  2012 STIXIntDBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     17500 May 11  2012 STIXIntDReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     16608 May 11  2012 STIXIntSmBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     17416 May 11  2012 STIXIntSmReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     16576 May 11  2012 STIXIntUpBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     16932 May 11  2012 STIXIntUpDBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     16964 May 11  2012 STIXIntUpDReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     16856 May 11  2012 STIXIntUpReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     16916 May 11  2012 STIXIntUpSmBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     17184 May 11  2012 STIXIntUpSmReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     54556 May 11  2012 STIXNonUni.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     25508 May 11  2012 STIXNonUniBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     41188 May 11  2012 STIXNonUniBolIta.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     46268 May 11  2012 STIXNonUniIta.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     13464 May 11  2012 STIXSizFiveSymReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     12628 May 11  2012 STIXSizFourSymBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     15656 May 11  2012 STIXSizFourSymReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     12924 May 11  2012 STIXSizOneSymBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     19004 May 11  2012 STIXSizOneSymReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     12636 May 11  2012 STIXSizThreeSymBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     15648 May 11  2012 STIXSizThreeSymReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     12576 May 11  2012 STIXSizTwoSymBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     15620 May 11  2012 STIXSizTwoSymReg.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     21776 May 11  2012 STIXVar.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     14808 May 11  2012 STIXVarBol.otf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     74936 Jul 30 16:48 Sana.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    414872 Jul 30 16:48 Sathu.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    101512 Aug  6 22:48 Savoye LET.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   4983524 Aug  6 22:48 Seravek.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    520156 Jul 30 16:48 Shree714.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    397316 Aug  6 22:48 SignPainter.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    288864 Jul 30 16:48 Silom.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    642736 Jul 30 16:48 Sinhala MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    328636 Jul 30 16:48 Sinhala Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    489424 Aug  6 22:48 Skia.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3587668 Aug  6 22:48 SnellRoundhand.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  66954320 Jul 31 23:18 Songti.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    626056 Jul 30 16:48 SukhumvitSet.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2681496 Aug  6 22:48 SuperClarendon.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    626928 Aug  6 22:48 Tahoma Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    681120 Aug  6 22:48 Tahoma.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    190204 Jul 30 16:48 Tamil MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    148524 Jul 30 16:48 Tamil Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    807688 Jul 30 16:48 Telugu MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    606924 Jul 30 16:48 Telugu Sangam MN.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    620008 Aug  6 22:48 Times New Roman Bold Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    842168 Aug  6 22:48 Times New Roman Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    660268 Aug  6 22:48 Times New Roman Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    834452 Aug  6 22:48 Times New Roman.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1160004 Aug  6 22:48 Trattatello.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    137008 Aug  6 22:48 Trebuchet MS Bold Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    129360 Aug  6 22:48 Trebuchet MS Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    144820 Aug  6 22:48 Trebuchet MS Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    138848 Aug  6 22:48 Trebuchet MS.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    173132 Aug  6 22:48 Verdana Bold Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    153260 Aug  6 22:48 Verdana Bold.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    174612 Aug  6 22:48 Verdana Italic.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    186188 Aug  6 22:48 Verdana.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    368184 Jul 30 16:48 Waseem.ttc
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    124308 Aug  6 22:48 Webdings.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     68768 Aug  6 22:48 Wingdings 2.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     38308 Aug  6 22:48 Wingdings 3.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     86384 Aug  6 22:48 Wingdings.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    406468 Aug  6 22:48 Zapfino.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  11409608 Oct  9  2015 ヒラギノ丸ゴ ProN W4.ttc
$

$ ls -l /System/Library/Fonts
total 785616
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    263912 Aug  6 22:48 Apple Braille Outline 6 Dot.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    280980 Aug  6 22:48 Apple Braille Outline 8 Dot.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    183080 Aug  6 22:48 Apple Braille Pinpoint 6 Dot.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    189668 Aug  6 22:48 Apple Braille Pinpoint 8 Dot.ttf
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    135960 Aug  6 22:48 Apple Braille.ttf
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