Apache2 (Httpd) not working after update to High Sierra

In my opinion you hosed your various httpd launch daemons/start mechanisms by executing too many httpd related commands.

With homebrew and homebrew's apache-httpd installed and the default PATH you have six ways to start httpd.

Apple's Apache:

sudo launchctl load -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl start

Homebrew's Apache:

sudo apachectl start
apachectl start
sudo brew services start httpd
brew services start httpd

If you've copied the file homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist manually to either ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ or /Library/LaunchDaemons/ you have two more options to start it by loading them with (sudo) launchctl load ....

If you didn't modify the httpd config files or the apachectl scripts heavily the Apple branch will use Apple's httpd.conf file in /var and the DocumentRoot in the /Library folder.

The homebrew branch uses subfolders in /usr/local/.

Some launch methods won't work if you've bound the httpd ports to ports lower than 1024!

If you use (sudo) brew services ... to start httpd you have to use the proper (sudo) brew services list command to check the status:

If you start it as root then list it with root privs:

sudo brew services start httpd > sudo brew services list

or with user privs:

brew services start httpd > brew services list.

To solve your problem unload Apple's httpd:

sudo launchctl unload -w /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.apache.httpd.plist
remove any manually installed homebrew.mxcl.httpd.plist
stop any homebrew httpd service with (sudo) brew services stop httpd
stop any httpd started by apachectl:

apachectl stop
sudo apachectl stop
sudo /usr/sbin/apachectl stop

Open Activity Monitor and check that no httpd process is running.
Reboot

Now - assuming you want to use homebrew's httpd on privileged ports - enter:

sudo brew services start httpd

Check the successful start with sudo brew services list.


Where is the Tilde Symbol on Swiss Mac Layout (Home Folder Symbol)?

The tilde symbol ~ is used for representing your home folder on your machine. On a Mac keyboard from Switzerland it can be generated with the following shortcut:

alt+n


Xcode odd behaiviour and bad rendering code

Turn off the Show live issues checkbox in Xcode > Preferences > General (found near the top of the panel).

I was experiencing the same issue. I found this answer through Editor glitch when editing near end of long file in Apple's Developer Forums.

It worked for me running Xcode 7.3 with a 2706 line file. The glitch happened around line 2250.


Airport Express bringing down the entire network?

You might be having a situation in which you have a conflict because both devices are trying to act as DHCP servers, and perhaps serving addresses in the same range.

Make sure your new Airport Express is configured in "Bridge" mode before connecting it to your network. I don't have an Airport here, and don't remember exactly what Apple calls the WiFi Router modes.  You want a mode in which the new Airport Express does NOT do DHCP or NAT routing, and just passes packets to and from your main Airport router.

Get it configured in Airport Utility before trying to connect it to your network. You can temporarily connect it to your computer with an Ethernet cable. (Use the Airport's LAN port for this.)

Then, you should connect an Ethernet cable from a LAN port of your main Airport to the WAN port of your new Airport Express.


How to debug excessive iPhone data usage?

Some networks measure data use in different ways to others to get more profit out of it so maybe consider changing to a network that measures data as less?


You can do that using iCloud Drive or your PC or your mac. Below link has decribed simply how you can do that and which files support. If your file type is not listed in that list, then you have to convert it before importing.

https://support.apple.com/en-lk/HT205793

Thanks


mac wont boot anymore after running bootcamp

I wouldn’t panic, but I would think how recent your backups are.

The NVRAM stores where to boot so to bypass that, power off and hold the option key when you boot. If your Mac OS drive shows, select that and see how it boots.
Once you’re back in macOS - use system preferences to change the startup disk or consider resetting NVRAM with the Command - Option - P - R key commands.

If that doesn’t work, I would boot to recovery and see if you can get into Disk Utility and take a picture of how the drive is partitioned or better get some details from the Utilities / Terminal app.

How to know the hard disk capacity for sure and how to recover lost partitions?

The above question lines up the various Core Storage / APFS / plain disk formats for all MacOS versions since OS X.


No that is not changeable, I have seen no hacks that allow the changing of that graphic.


Does iTunes iPhone Restore wipe the encryption key and securely wipe your data?

Yes, as long as the iPhone is returned back to non-activated state, all contents are erased with no trace. The iPhone is returned back to non-activated state during both "Erase all Contents and Settings" and iTunes set up as new iPhone.


Is there a MacOS automation that can detect pixels on screen?

Consider using a visual scripting tool like Eggplant or SikuliX.
SikuliX
SikuliX is an open source scripting tool that detects images and performs actions:

SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition powered by OpenCV to identify GUI components and can act on them with mouse and keyboard actions. This is handy in cases when there is no easy access to a GUI's internals or the source code of the application or web page you want to act on.


Why do my iPhone playlists not show up under "My Device" on Mac computer?

You shouldn't click on My Device. Just plug in your iPhone, make sure you are syncing Music, then apply all settings, then click Sync.

After sync, go back to your Music, at the bottom you will see all your playlists. I just made a playlist called Test for this answer, see below:

Update: New iTunes have iCloud Music Library, check if it works when you enable it:


How can I create a modifier shortcut to drag files into a new folder?

As of OS X 10.9 “Mavericks”, you can do this right from the Finder:

Select your files.
Drag ’n’ drop the files to their new destination.
Press ⌃⌘N to create a “New Folder with Selection”.
Optionally, type a new name the folder and press return (otherwise, the file will be named “New Folder With Items”).

You bring up 3rd-party apps. I don’t see how Keyboard Maestro could help in this particular instance.  Hazel — or indeed Apple’s own folder actions — might, but only if your target was always the same folder or set of folders.

But you might want to look at some of LaunchBar’s less known capabilities: here’s a deep navigationless link to their keyboard-powered drag-and-drop instructions.


Dictated input in OSX is underlined with Blue dots

Often, dictation hears wrong, but then looks at the context of the sentence and “changes its mind” by changing certain words. Those words get underlined in blue. So basically, words underlined in blue are the words that dictation decided to change based on the context of the sentence. Usually, they’re good changes. Hope that answers your question.


Will this brand of third-party RAM work in my Mid 2010 iMac?

The iMac Mid-2010 supports DDR3 10666 (from the Apple support site)

The first link is to the correct RAM for that Front Side Bus (FSB) speed
The second link is to a slightly quicker set of RAM, but runs on a lower FSB.

The differences between the two are characterised by the two notes above, the FSB speed and the clock timings.

In the first, the FSB speed is higher, but the timings for the RAM are slower.  In the second, the slower FSB allows the RAM to work at slightly faster timings.

If you want to know about timings, a search for RAS CAS delay is a good starting point.


Calendar keeps losing custom event to launch a program. Is this a bug?

You are using a calendar that is connected to iCloud. Since iCloud calendars do not support file opening events, it cannot save to iCloud and then it cancels. Make a new LOCAL calendar that is not on iCloud but based on your own computer, then you can do a file based event on the computer based calendar.


iPhone Configuration Profiles - Creating / Modifying

The configuration profiles are normal XML files, you can modify them with any text editor. Also, there is an iPhone Configuration Utility to create new profiles. On the iPhone Support Enterprise site you can get more information about it. Just e-mail the modified config file to your device and install it.

I checked the mobileconfig from my last University and there seems to be no explicit setting to allow people to save their passwords, to I guess there is one to deny it.


Playing a 3 note chord on GarageBand performs an UNDO function

In iPadOS 13 undo and redo are three finger gestures. Undo is supposed to be a three finger swipe to the left and redo a three finger swipe to the right. The movement to or from a three finger chord certainly may be recognized as a quick swipe. Try disabling gestures in Settings. Because this is in beta the location of settings like this may change between releases. I'd look in Settings->General and disable gestures to start.


You could try manually adding to your LocalDictionary file, which is in ~/Library/Spelling/LocalDictionary
It's a plain text file, so TextEdit is fine to edit it.
I'm not certain the entries must be in alphabetical order, but it's probably wise to keep them that way.


SSH private key password never removed with Keychain/ssh-agent

Not sure if you have this settings.

Check the Keep login keychain unlocked to off, in keychain preferences - First Aid tab.


Does Windows, running on latest Apple computers, see boot disk partitioned as MBR or GPT?

If you install Windows with the Bootcamp Assistant from a standard Mac OS X system, Windows always will start from a PMBR/Hybrid MBR partition table embedded in the GUID partition table
(Legacy MBR). MBR takes precedence in hybrid configuration even if a EFI boot might be possible.

If you use a non-Bootcamp Assistant EFI install method for Windows (e.g outlined here) Windows will boot in UEFI-mode (compatibility Windows 32bit/64bit) and you will find a * in the Gpt column for disk0.


VMware fusion 4 won't launch due to out of date, running guests

You can try with this command from a Terminal:

VMware 3.x

/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun list

VMware 4.x

/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun list

to see if you have any VMs runnig - if you do, then run this command:

VMware 3.x

/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/vmrun -T fusion stop "/path/to/.vmx" hard

VMware 4.x

/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmrun -T fusion stop "/path/to/.vmx" hard

where you replace "/path/to/.vmx" with your path to the VM still running.


How can I migrate data when Migration Assistant doesn't recognize Time Machine external drive?

Have you tried right clicking on the time machine icon on your dock, and telling it to browse other time machine disks? See if Time Machine will recognize it as a backup, and see if it will restore any files that way.

When you select Restore From Time Machine backup it doesn't even see the external drive or list it/any backups?


Choppy Fullscreen Flash or HTML5 video playback in Chrome on Mac Pro

Try disabling Hardware Acceleration...

Control-click the Flash application or video during playback.
From the context menu, select Settings.
The Display panel is the first panel shown.
Deselect the Enable Hardware Acceleration option, and then click Close.


How to show hidden files on mac without Terminal

On MacOS Sierra you can use shift ⇧ + cmd ⌘ + . shortcut on keyboard to toggle between 2 states. No need for any plugin/app. It works out of the box.

You can see it here in action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdLjJU_kAT8&feature=youtu.be


Why does my Mac keeping connecting to Apple?

It could be the softwareupdated process which is looking to see if there are any available OSX / macOS patches or updates to other App Store applications.

You might see an improvement if you disable automatic software updates. This should be possible by going to System Preferences -> App Store and then unchecking the option for "Automatically Check for Updates".

Of course, this means that you won't get automatic updates anymore and you'll have to check manually from time-to-time.


This is a two part workaround:

an  applescript to click on the detect monitor
a bash script to run the script

I "saved" the applescript to $HOME/source/detectmonitor.scpt (see
Run AppleScript from bash script) how to work around the issue that you can not really start with a text file ...

Then I saved the bashscript to $HOME/dm

I created a symbolic link
ln -s $HOME/Desktop/detectMonitors $HOME/bin/dm

and set my Terminal preferences according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/8822669/1497139

now i can double click "detectMonitors" on my Desktop to work around the issue.

Applescript to click "detect monitor" in monitor system preferences

see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12640643/applescript-to-run-detect-displays

-- Script to click the "Detect Displays" button
-- 2015-12-22 WF
-- see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12640643/applescript-to-run-detect-displays
-- adopt to your language settings by setting the right button name below
-- currently this is german "Monitore erkennen"
-- to create and run this script you need a compiled scpt file to begin with see
-- https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/103621/run-applescript-from-bash-script
-- then you also need to set the security settings
tell application "System Preferences"
    activate
    reveal pane "com.apple.preference.displays"
end tell

delay 0.5

tell application "System Events"
    tell process "System Preferences"
        try --don't even consider not using a try block!
            key down option
            delay 0.5
            --click button "Detect Displays" of window 1
            click button "Monitore erkennen" of window 1
            delay 0.5
            key up option
            tell application "System Preferences"
                quit
            end tell
        on error errMsg --logging out is the only other way to clear these
            key up option
            display dialog "ERROR: " & errMsg
        end try
    end tell
end tell

Bash-Script to run the applescript

#!/bin/bash
# WF 2015-12-22
# run detect monitors
cd $HOME/source/applescript
osascript detectmonitor.scpt
# set Terminal settings
# according to https://stackoverflow.com/a/8822669/1497139
# to get this to close your terminal window
exit 0


How do I set a recognized Apache DocumentRoot under Lion?

Things do doublecheck:

1. File permissions

The specified path for the new document root should allow at least read access for the Apache user, which is _www by default. You probably want to chmod 755 /Users/jonathan/mirror if the file permissions are too restrictive. What are the actual file permissions on the directory and files?

2. Virtual hosts

When you enable name based virtual hosts, the document root in the main config is ignored. Instead the root for the matching hostname will be used, and if none match it will default to the first virtual host.


It looks like your MacBook Pro is registered to a organization and managed via a MDM Server. Thus you are not allowed to make adjustments to system preferences. Get in touch with your System Administrator.


If I purchase an album (or song, book, etc) on the Apple Music app for Android, can I download it on iTunes for Windows?

Apple Music is a online library of music for a monthly subscription fee. As long as you setup your Windows iTunes to have Apple Music all music will available. If you add an album to your Apple Music Library, it will appear on all of your devices Apple Music Library as added.

I do not believe there is a way to "Purchase" music in Apple Music, it is a subscription.


Why do fields turn black when using Preview to duplicate or print some pdfs?

This is workaround, but it does the trick.

Use the print function to "print" a new version of the completed pdf

This seems to restore the grey beneath the filled-in text, like so...


Skip first terminal beep and to display ambiguous filename expansions

You need to put this line inside ~/.inputrc file:

set show-all-if-ambiguous on

After this You'll get all posssibilities after first ⇥ TAB.


No, this is not possible. If an app requires a certain version of iOS, then you must meet that requirement, otherwise the app will not be able to be installed. You may be able to get hold of a version of the app that used to work on iOS 4.2, but it depends on the app.


If you're feeling creative, you can create your own ringtone using GarageBand.
When you're done simply tap the Share icon and then tap Ringtone.

Good luck! :)


If you're looking for hackerish screensavers, the old Xscreensaver bundle was converted to OSX a while ago.

Nicely hacker type examples would be Sonar, AppleII, and Phosphor. Possible GLMatrix too.

However, to answer your question: https://superuser.com/questions/420546/osx-run-bash-or-app-as-the-screensaver

Write an applescript to run Terminal, run Top, and fullscreen itself. Then put that script into the app.


How to fix 'ssh_exchange_identification: read: Connection reset by peer' on mac OS Mojave?

SSH debugging can be notoriously tricky. I'd start with adding additional -v's to your ssh command to get additional logging from your SSH client.

$ ssh -vv   ...
$ ssh -vvv  ...
$ ssh -vvvv ...

This will return more and more logging from ssh as you add them. The message you're receiving indicates that the server (the peer) is resetting the connection from your ssh client.

This can happen for a variety of reasons one of which is the host is unable to establish (fork) an SSH daemon for your client to connect to. I would suggest rebooting the RPi as a first level of debugging this.

Reference: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host (not using hosts.deny)

It's very likely that this won't be your issue. If it proves not to be there are additional levels of debugging that you can go through to continue to narrow what's causing your issue here.

msg - debug1: Connecting to localhost port 2222

The port you're using to connect is not a standard port, so you might want to investigate if that's intentional or accidental that you're connecting to the SSHD daemon on the RPi is configured to listen on port 2222 or if you're meaning to connect to the RPi via the default port of 22.

References

Chapter 10: Common error messages


Will I lose my messages if I downgrade my iPhone from iOS 5 to iOS 4?

Yes, without a doubt. Unlike with the new ability to update only changes to the OS with iOS 5 delta updates, downgrading your OS will require you to restore the phone. Which essentially reformats the drive.


Why do PDFs disappear from the Books app on iPadOS?

I doubt this is caused by the Box app;

This is highly unlikely. Once the PDF is copied into the Books app, it's not possible for the Box app to remove it from the Books app.

  could it be some property of the PDF that causes Books to remove it immediately on closing?

No.

You can additionally check if you have sufficient storage space available on your iPad. Also, to keep the PDFs into Books app across your devices or between reinstalls of Books app, make sure you have iCloud for Books enabled.


Boot Camp missing Coprocessor, SMBus Controller Drivers

You can resolve this issue by using the latest drivers from Apple. If not resolved using the latest update try installing the missing drivers manually and locate the folder where the Apple drivers are put. Hope it helps.

Cheers.


MySQL fails to start at restart after Yosemite update

MySQL by default tries to use StartupItems.  That won't work with Yosemite.

I made a launchd control that is still compatible with the MySQL preferencepane.

Details here -
https://github.com/MacMiniVault/Mac-Scripts/blob/master/mmvMySQL/mmvmysql-Yosemite.md


Apple Magic Keyboard on Windows 10 (fn key and layout)

Regarding 2., the mapping for the keys that create characters, you probably need a Windows software keyboard layout that matches Apple's unique "British" hardware keyboard.   See if this one works right for you.


I accidentally forgot to rename Xcode 4.0 and left it as Xcode.app in /Applications/Xcode Older Versions/ which is what I used to store Xcode 4 in case the old Xcode 5 developer previews had any issues. So that bundle was replaced, not 5.0.

The weird thing is that even when I was sure I had it 5.1 open SpriteKit Game didn't show up as an option. Rebooting fixed that.

Oops.


Hide/Fix Macbook Pro Retina Screen Scratch

Possible methods depending on the scratch depth.

1- Fill it - for deep scratches.

Fill it with toothpaste! or professional glass filler.

  Believe it or not, toothpaste can be used to patch some screen
  scratches. Actual toothpaste, not gel or paste-mouthwash hybrids, must
  be used. Users should gently massage the paste into the scratch with
  their fingers using a circular motion. If done properly, the paste
  should adhere to the scratch and polish it away. Then, use a soft
  cloth to remove excess paste from the screen. Finally, use glass
  cleaner or a special screen cleaner to remove any additional residue.

  Petroleum jelly can also be applied in a similar manner, although it
  may need to be reapplied if a user happens to rub his or her screen
  and removes it from the scratch. While toothpaste is an abrasive that
  pares down a scratch, petroleum jelly fills the scratch because it
  closely matches the optical density of the LCD display.

2- Polish- for shallow scratches

Get the glass polish in any computer or similar store.

Pro..works well on shallow scratches

Con.. you will create a larger portion on your screen with lower transparency due to polishing.


That's actually not a bug, but a feature: as the battery ages by charge cycles, your computer won't charge if it's almost full in order to extend the battery's life. By unplugging and replugging the power supply, you force a battery recharge until it's full.


I’m not sure what you mean by resetting but if you go to https://appleid.apple.com/ from a computer you can manage Apple ID’s.

Also here’s a link to an Apple discussion group with similar issue.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5362309?language=en

Hope this helped.


If you're in full screen mode, this behavior is normal (the hide toolbar option greyed out, not the lack of visible toolbar contents). If your not in full screen mode, then:

Go to View -> Customize Toolbar...
Then, perform the "...drag the default set into the toolbar" option.
Now, go to the View drop down again and the Hide/Show Toolbar option should be accessible.


Back up on mobile data: If you don’t want to wait for Wi-Fi to back up your photos, under “When to back up”, tap Use cellular data to back up photos or Use cellular data to back up videos. Charges from your service provider may apply if you upload using your mobile network.

from https://support.google.com/photos/answer/6193313?hl=en&ref_topic=6156061&co=GENIE.Platform%3DiOS&oco=1

Also, turn off low power mode for background backup

As OP puts it nicely:

  ...the key is: you have to allow iOS to allow mobile data, and allow the Google Photos apps to use mobile data, so there are 2 settings to be touched. [..] we can have on/on, off/off, on/off, and off/on, and only on/on allows using mobile data...

From: Can Google Photos on iOS use mobile data connection to back up?


New disk on MacBook, how can I install OS X

First get your hand on a USB drive 4Gb or more
Next download and install this program for windows : http://www.acutesystems.com/scrtm.htm (15 days trial), it will allow you to format and create a bootable usb installer for mac easily.
Open the program as an administrator, insert your usb drive, right click on the drive and choose Format the disk for mac, it will take a couple minutes to complete the process, and then right click again and Restore with Disk Image and choose a DMG file,you may get a warning just click YES.
Now Insert your usb into your mac and install the OS.

If you have trouble finding ta DMG of the OS X you prefer, you can download Yosemite from here : http://getintopc.com/softwares/operating-systems/mac-os-x-yosemite-free-download/

(This is not an official link, if you're not sure about the validity of this file and don't want to download this. I suggest finding another machine running OS X, or install it on your machine and from your new OS create another USB bootable device following this method https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372 and redo a fresh install)


17" Powerbook G4 must sit for hours to boot

If it chimes, but then takes a long time to boot, you might be able to figure out what it's doing by booting into "verbose mode":

Hit the power button to start it
Immediately hold down Command-V

This will change the boot screen to a text scroll from the kernel putting out messages as it boots. That might show you if it's getting stuck on something.

You might have to do it a few times to be sure. If the disk drive is going south, that might show up as drivers are whatnot having a hard time loading. If it seems to be a different driver each time, or a lot of them, it's probably the drive.


Can I prevent Chrome from storing passwords in Keychain, instead just save it to itself?

Open Chrome then on the right site click on

Click the Chrome menu Chrome menu on the browser toolbar.
Select Settings.
Click Show advanced settings.
Under the "Passwords and forms" section check the "Offer to save your web passwords" checkbox if you want Google Chrome to prompt you to save your password every time you sign in to a new website.

Open your KeyChain and find the Google/Chrome passwords that you do not want to share. Open and select Access control. Now use one of the available options to your desire (to share or not).


Will I need a Magic Trackpad to take advantage of OS X Lion?

The only thing you wont be able to use, are the Multi-Touch Gestures.


Resetting in-app purchase promo code limit

You can't manually reset the in-app purchase promo code limit. These reset twice a year.

You can provide up to 100 promo codes for each in-app purchase item, with a limit of 1,000 total in-app purchase codes per app every six months (resetting on January 1 and July 1).

Manage promo codes - App Store Connect Help


OSX 10.11 incorrectly sees application as powerPC

I reproduced this error on OS X El Capitan version 10.11.6 and found a workaround:

Error:

  You can't open the application "Open_todo_in_vim" because PowerPC applications are no longer supported

Picture:

How to Reproduce the error:

Full reproduction instructions found here:
https://mathiasbynens.be/notes/shell-script-mac-apps

Jist:

Save this as appify.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

APPNAME=${2:-$(basename "${1}" '.sh')};
DIR="${APPNAME}.app/Contents/MacOS";

if [ -a "${APPNAME}.app" ]; then
    echo "${PWD}/${APPNAME}.app already exists :(";
    exit 1;
fi;

mkdir -p "${DIR}";
cp "${1}" "${DIR}/${APPNAME}";
chmod +x "${DIR}/${APPNAME}";

echo "${PWD}/$APPNAME.app";

Save it as /usr/local/bin/appify.sh, which requires root privileges give it executable permissions and then run it like so:

$ appify your-shell-script.sh "Your App Name"

Double click on "Your App Name".

Observe the error shown above.

Why is this annoying error happening?

It's a combination of many reasons:

Safety: The developers over at Apple are fighting cybercrime with scripts in the background replacing your docked items.  Roadblocks make successful viruses of yesteryear hit a brick wall.  This is one of those walls.
Money: The developers over at Apple want you to use their applications, not the applications you found over the internet because every app you use is a potential attack vector from unscrupulous developers worldwide.
Protecting users from themselves: Apple developers only want power users to created docked items, you don't want novices figuring out "Hey!  Anyone can drag some_low_level_guts_script.sh to the OSX dock and it solves my problem!  Apple prevents this for the same reason parents keep bleach under the sink behind locked doors when toddlers are around.

Hacky Workaround so you can run your script without the PowerPC application error:

I found the answer that explains how to execute Shell Scripts from the OS X Dock here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/21048589/445131

Jist of Hacky workaround

Create your shell script whatever.sh
Make your shell script executable.
Rename your whatever.sh to have a .app suffix: whatever.sh.app
Drag whatever.sh.app to the OSX dock.
Rename your script back to whatever.sh.
Right-click the file in Finder, and click the "Get Info" option.
At the bottom of the window, set the shell script to open with the terminal.

And the error mentioned at top no longer occurs.  Double clicking the file on the OSX dock runs the shell script as expected without error.


Which US Apple stores accept iTunes Gift Cards?

You can use redeemed value from an iTunes gift card to buy from the following stores:

iTunes music, movie and TV stores for iOS, Windows and Mac
iBookstore on iOS
App Store on iOS
App Store on Mac OS

The only gift cards that are accepted at an Apple Retail Store are Apple gift cards. The Apple Retail Stores and the Apple Store online do not accept iTunes gift cards as forms of payment.

You can not use redeemed value from an iTunes gift card to buy an Apple gift card or anything else from the following stores:

Apple Retail Stores
Apple Store on the internet at http://store.apple.com
iCloud yearly storage space increases
iTunes Match service


DNS Zones not working after OS X 10.8.5 upgrade

Ah... I figured it out...

"named-checkconf -z" returns

zone localhost/IN: loaded serial 42
zone 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa/IN: loaded serial 1997022700
dns_rdata_fromtext: dev.zone:5: near '090712070736': out of range
zone dev/IN: loading from master file devcs1.zone failed: out of range
zone dev/IN: not loaded due to errors.
_default/dev/IN: out of range

Evidently my serial number is invalid... it should be YYYYMMDDNN (where NN is any number between 00 and 99). I changed the serial to "2013092001" and it's working fine.

Evidently the new version of Bind is more strict about serial numbers than the previous version.

You can use the following to tell what version of bind you're running:

nslookup -q=txt -class=CHAOS version.bind. 0

OS X 10.8.5 ships with Bind 9.8.5-P1.

OS X 10.8.4 shipped with 9.8.3-P1

Hopefully that helps someone else down the road.


How to make Windows 10 run GT120 and GTX 980ti

I have not used this tool for a while. When I did, the tool worked, but for me I found the tool badly designed and therefore difficult to use. Hopefully, Microsoft has improved this tool and you will have a better experience.

This tool will allow you to prevent an update from installing. See the Microsoft website: How to temporarily prevent a Windows Update from reinstalling in Windows 10. There will be a link to download the "Show or hide updates" troubleshooter package.


How do I save a contact to a specific iCloud account?

Short answer, you cannot change it on the fly on a per entry basis.  You have to set the default account in the preferences for contacts.app. However, when in Contacts, and you have a card open (perhaps the one you JUST made), pressing the OPTION key will highlight all the groups on the left side of the app that include this card.  When you have your list of cards showing on the right with the accounts or groups showing on the left, you can simply drag that entry to the group or account of your choosing. This is the only method I'm aware of.


Hold Shift to temporary change keyboard layout in Mac OS

In MacOS Sierra, you can switch to US and back via caps lock if your other keyboard is for a non-Latin script (with some exceptions like Greek and Cyrillic).

There are certain Apple input sources like Hebrew PC which switch to Latin Qwerty via the Shift key.


How should I start a new iTerm terminal with shortcut?

You can change the Action in your Automator-defined service to an AppleScript action:

Select Library/Run AppleScript in the Actions window
Add the following AppleScript in the created Action and save:

if application "iTerm" is not running then
    activate application "iTerm"
else
    tell application "iTerm"
        create window with default profile
        activate
    end tell
end if

This opens iTerm if it is not running, else it opens a new window. See iTerm documentation for more examples of AppleScript scripting for iTerm.


dns lookup specified in /etc/hosts and then dscacheutil != differ from dig, host, chrome

This command will tell you which process is making the changes to your hosts file:

sudo dtrace -qn 'syscall::open*:entry /arg1&3/ { printf("%d %s %s\n", pid, execname, copyinstr(arg0)); }' | grep hosts


Apple has a whole article what to do when a restart doesn’t work. Which of these steps fails you?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Once you start in safe mode, you’ll know if you need to reinstall or just make Some changes to the apps you start when the graphical boot portion is running.

Another tool would be to make a new user to test:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

You need a functioning admin account to follow Apple’s steps above and I’ll assume you can’t log in as another user. Here’s a “trick” or procedure to make a new admin account.

I don't have administrator account on my mac


Deleted Bootcamp partition and it just disappeared. Nothing to merge with OSX partition

You show in your posted image that the partition is encrypted. I was unaware a partition could be encrypted without using core storage. Anyway, I believe the correct command to fix your drive is given below.

sudo  diskutil  resizevolume  /dev/disk0s2  R

The command should move /dev/disk0s3 to the bottom of disk0 while resizing /dev/disk0s2 to maximum size. I am not sure if the sudo prefix is required.


Terminal commands for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop" in Mountain Lion

You can execute "Mission Control" with specific arguments to trigger the behavior that you desire:

Mission Control:

/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control

Show Desktop:

/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control 1

Application Windows:

/Applications/Mission\ Control.app/Contents/MacOS/Mission\ Control 2

Alternately, you could use osascript to execute the key code that you have setup for "Application Windows" and "Show Desktop". In the example below, I have "Desktop" mapped to the F8 key, and "Application Windows" setup to use F9. The key codes for these F keys can be found in various places.

osascript -e "tell applications \"System Events\"" -e "key code 100" -e "end tell"

osascript -e "tell applications \"System Events\"" -e "key code 101" -e "end tell"


External Hard Drive won't mount. How can I transfer the files?

There are two possibilities.

The disk itself has failed. You now need a high-powered recovery program like Data Rescue, or a service like DriveSavers. Cost is about $100 for the first and $1000 for the second.
The case has a problem. Given that it's a Buffalo case I think this is more likely (their products are rather low quality). Get a new case or a drive dock, open the old case, remove the drive and put it in the new case / dock.


Mac services are only enabled if some text is selected.

Selecting text in Google Docs in Firefox (DE 63) does not enable any whereas selecting text in other pages (including your example, about:services) does.

There may be something broken in how the current selection is communicated to the Services menu.


I had fan problems too on my macbook (Black 2006) and in fact I installed Fan Control too. I thought I would never have to see that app again! haha.

Ok. First things first. It is pretty normal that Flash makes your fan spin like crazy. It happens on my machine too, since it is really processor intensive.

Secondly, as far as I know Macbooks have just 1 fan, unlike iMacs for example, so if thats the case of your machine (which most likeley is, but jsut to make sure research) than you must not worry for the -1.

And finally: nope. Fan speeds should not affect the performance of your machine. I know because when I had problems with mine my macbook would just overheat/make noise but work as usual. The fan even died, and my macbook kept running (though it's dangerous to run a computer without a fan). I didn't notice this happened and it finally overheated to about 90-100 degrees Celsius which caused it to shutdown automatically for safety. My point? I didn't even notice, because my mac never slowed down.

So I'm guessing your issues are due to something else.

Firevalut could be a reason, and a pretty big one if your disk is very cluttered. Even with Firevalut off, disk clutter can slow down your computer if its excessive, specially on startup.

RAM could be, specially if your running memory intensive apps. Your macbook should be able to get an upgrade. Your manual should have some more info on that, like up to what you can expand it (perhaps 4 or 8 GB).

What OS do you have? If your'e still running leopard I recomend Snow Leopard: it frees up Disk Space and has some other optimizations.

And last, your apps. Check if any apps are eating your CPU in the background using Activity Monitor (Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor). Also, check on System Preferences for any apps loading when you loggin (Accounts > Login Items tab). Try to get rid of some background apps you might not need.

Hope it helps! Anything else you need just tell me.


--group-directories-first option for "ls" command

Install coreutils with Homebrew and alias ll to gls -Flh --group-directories-first instead.

brew install coreutils installs GNU Coreutils, in case it is not installed.
Use alias ll='gls -Flh --group-directories-first' in .bashrc.
(If you want to use the same .bashrc file in both operating systems, see below.)

In Ubuntu, ls is provided by GNU Coreutils, which Ubuntu always has. That's why ls supports --group-directories-first in Ubuntu. Probably you had been using the GNU Coreutils version of ls on macOS before, too, which Homebrew installs as gls but which can be made usable as ls in several ways.

ls is an external command, not a Bash builtin. Using a different version or build of Bash should not affect it. I'm not sure what happened when you upgraded Bash using Homebrew. Maybe more than Bash got upgraded too; maybe you had an ls shell function or alias defined in a global configuration file that was replaced; maybe you had a symbolic link ls that had pointed to gls and was overwritten; maybe you still have something like that but your $PATH has changed. Whatever happened, GNU Coreutils ls supports --group-directories-first, and switching to it (as I believe bmike is suggesting) should fix your problem.

If for some reason you want to use the exact same .bashrc file in both systems, there are a few possible approaches. You could create a symlink, wrapper script, shell function, or (because Bash alias expansion is nonrecursive) shell alias for gls in your Ubuntu system. But I suggest instead checking which OS is being used in .bashrc. Although you will get a different ll alias defined in each system, this approach has the benefit of being self-documenting. Your .bashrc will make sense to you in a year, or a month.

if [ "$OSTYPE" == linux-gnu ]; then  # Is this the Ubuntu system?
    alias ll='ls -Flh --group-directories-first'
else
    alias ll='gls -Flh --group-directories-first'
fi

Or if you find you usually prefer to run the Coreutils ls, even if you're not using the ll alias, you can make ls an alias to gls:

if [ "$OSTYPE" != linux-gnu ]; then  # Is this the macOS system?
    alias ls=gls
fi

alias ll='ls -Flh --group-directories-first'

(Thanks go to soroushjp for catching a mistake in an earlier version of that script.)


Converting a PDF for use with DVD Studio Pro

Sure. You need to convert the pages of the PDF into images and handle accordingly from there, much like a photo slide show. The primary concern I would have is whether the PDF is laid out so that it looks good on screen.

Acrobat (the full version, not Reader) can export all pages to a variety of formats. Acrobat costs good money, but Preview only exports the first page. Ghostscript via Terminal might have a free alternative, but the interface is the command line.


Mac mini hangs on Apple logo after Mojave 10.14.6 Update 2

Newer hardware can boot to internet recovery and attach an external drive to copy files off.

If you can boot to a recovery partition on that HDD - that would be the fastest method. Otherwise, you’d need to boot your Mini in target disk mode or bring an external bootable OS to it to copy files off before erasing it.


Can Automator pass multiple lines (e.g. from a shell script) to the New Mail Message action?

It looks like there may be a bug in New Mail Message action in Automator. If you are interested in an AppleScript workaround, where the output of the Run Shell Script action is formed into the content of the new mail message using AppleScript code to create a new mail message, here's an example workaround.

In place of the New Mail Message action use a Run AppleScript action, after the Run Shell Script action, with the following example AppleScript code:

on run {input, parameters}
    set theMessageContent to ""
    repeat with i from 1 to (count of input)
        set theMessageContent to theMessageContent & item i of input & linefeed
    end repeat
    tell application "Mail"
        activate
        set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, content:theMessageContent}
    end tell
end run

This creates a new message that looks like the following example image.

If you need too, you can add additional properties, as in this example AppleScript code:

on run {input, parameters}
    set theMessageContent to ""
    repeat with i from 1 to (count of input)
        set theMessageContent to theMessageContent & item i of input & linefeed
    end repeat
    tell application "Mail"
        activate
        set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:"Hello World", content:theMessageContent}
        tell theMessage
            make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:"John Doe", address:"johndoe@domain.com"}
        end tell
    end tell
end run

Obviously, you'll need to change the value of the additional properties, and or add more properties then shown, to fit your needs. You can look in Mail's AppleScript Dictionary in Script Editor for additional applicable properties.

This creates a new message that looks like the following example image.


Just a thought but maybe its signed in already on another account and needs to be signed out first. On the Store menu make sure that you aren't already signed into an account and if so sign out and try signing back in. It may work then again it may not. Just something you could try.


iPhone 6S - Not getting Push Notification and Badge icon related to OS Updates

The problem with this type of question is that it can only be verified as resolved under the right circumstances.

Although you say you have reset the iPhone three times, and once at an Apple service centre, it's not clear what type of reset was done. My advice is to follow these steps to try and resolve your issue.

Connect your iPhone to your computer and launch iTunes (if it isn't already open). Note: You may need to enter a passcode or trust this computer.
Select your iPhone when it appears in iTunes. (Note: If you're prompted to update iOS do not download/install the update.
Manually do a full backup of your iPhone to your computer (i.e. not just to iCloud). You can do this by clicking on the Back Up Now button. This may take some time depending on how much data you have.
Once your backup is complete, disconnect the iPhone from your computer.
On the iPhone go to Settings > General
Swipe up and tap on the Reset option at the bottom
Tap on Erase all Content and Settings
Follow the prompts to erase/reset your iPhone
Once you've reset your iPhone, reconnect it to your Mac or PC and launch iTunes (if it isn't already open). Note: You may need to enter a passcode or trust this computer.
Select your iPhone when it appears in iTunes
When prompted, choose to Restore your iPhone from the backup you made at Step 3
Follow the prompts to restore your iPhone

Once these steps are complete you will have hopefully resolved your issue.

At the time of writing this, iOS 10.2.1 was just released (hence why at Step 2 I didn't want you downloading/installing the update if prompted).

If you haven't already installed this update, then you should get your notification soon. On the other hand, if iOS 10.2.1 was already installed then you won't know if these steps have resolved your issue until Apple releases the next update.

EDIT re: Timing

I just wanted to add a bit of info on the timing of notifications relating to iOS updates.

Typically, after an iOS update is release, users should get a badge notification with a '1' that sometime in the first 48hrs - 72hrs. However, an actual push notification may not come until quite some time after and only if your device hasn't been updated yet.

Using myself as an example, I have an iPhone 6s which I've had since September 2015 (it's now Feb 2017). In that whole time I've never had a push notification about an iOS update because I always update my iPhone fairly quickly. However, my wife who also got an iPhone 6s at the same time as I did, did get a push notification for iOS 10 at some point (weeks after iOS 10 launched) because she was still on iOS 9.3.5 and was in no hurry to update (I'm usually her guinea pig with these things). However, she did eventually update from iOS 9.3.5 to iOS 10 because the notification was relentless annoying her (and because iOS 10 was working well for me).

In summary, what I am saying is that a badge icon should appear within 72hrs of the official release, but that a push notification message may take weeks and only if arrive if you haven't updated.


How can I switch to/from dark mode depending on "darkness" instead of sunset?

Basically you (and third party developers) don’t get to automate this since it’s a private API. This article explains the situation in great detail and offers three tools to get you close to customizing it.

https://setapp.com/how-to/use-night-shift-for-mac

First, turn the night shift off under “Schedule” in the night shift menu. This disables it schedule from activating, but doesn’t disable the feature.

I wonder if your setup is the ambient light sensor changing and not the schedule, though.

It will activate when it notices your environment is darker than normal, and disable itself when you’re back to daylight or bright environments.

Keep in mind this option will trigger automatically, which can be frustrating if you’re in a spot where the light fluctuates.

Short of using an automation tool to define your own preferred schedule or just automate toggling this manually, you can use Apple’s implementation or just take breaks and manage your lighting external to the display.
Some excellent automation tools include

https://www.obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html
https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/


What is the best way to set up Google mail, contacts and calendar? (consolidated)

The Verge gave a good writeup recommending the Gmail App + CalDAV + CardDAV: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/5/3732364/best-way-gmail-google-calendar-iphone-how-to

The Gmail app solves both downsides you mention above. For CardDAV, it does a 15 min fetch, which is plenty good enough for me, so I don't see lack of push as being a real problem.


How to fix Dictionary look up text color in Dark mode?

After searching the Internet and experimenting I was able to produce a solution. You have to create a DefaultStyle.css file and put it in Contents subdirectory for each dictionary you want to fix. The dictionaries are located at ~/Library/Dictionaries or at /System/Library/Assets/com_apple_MobileAsset_DictionaryServices_dictionaryOSX/ folders. You can easily open them in Finder by pressing Cmd+Shift+G and pasting the folder path. Here's the DefaultStyle.css contents:

@charset "UTF-8";
@namespace d url(http://www.apple.com/DTDs/DictionaryService-1.0.rng);

@media (prefers-dark-interface)
{

    html {
        -apple-color-filter: apple-invert-lightness();
    }

    a {
        -apple-color-filter: none;
        color: -webkit-link;
    }

    img {
        filter: invert(100%);
    }

    html.apple_client-panel body div {
        color: text;
    }

    html.apple_client-panel body div.L1 {
        color: -apple-system-label;
    }

}

It uses @media (prefers-dark-interface) selector to apply this CSS only in dark mode. The html.apple_client-panel is the selector for a popup window that appears when you use the Define/Look Up feature. After applying the fix the Dictionary looks good and is readable again:


That's the "new email" sound for Spark, Readdle's Mac mail client. A rather unique characteristic of Spark is that it will continue to send you notifications—audio and all—even when the app is not open. Even if you haven't seen any visible notifications, it's entirely possible that you've configured your Notifications preferences to hide them, but still play the sounds (check System Preferences > Notifications > Spark)—an example of such a configuration is shown below:

As Spark is exclusively a Mac App Store app, you can easily uninstall it from Launchpad (open Launchpad, click and hold on Spark, then click the x button that appears on Spark's icon). Once the app is uninstalled, it can no longer send you notifications.


Your question does miss some key details, so this answer makes the following assumptions:

You've correctly identified your current Boot ROM version
Your MBP still has the original Apple SSD installed
You've already tried (directly or indirectly) resetting the NVRAM
You've never installed macOS High Sierra on your MacBook Pro

Essentially, some years back Apple started automatically including firmware updates (if/when required) within macOS updates/upgrades. And, with the move to the APFS file system, firmware updates were required on pre-existing Macs with SSD drives to support macOS High Sierra (and above) as they required APFS to be installed. So, cutting a long story short, you're most likely missing this firmware update.

Since you've already gone through quite a bit of frustration, your best bet is to go through a total reinstall process. My recommendation would be to do as follows:

Make a full backup of your data using Time Machine (or your preferred backup solution)
Shut down your MBP
Switch on your MBP and immediately press and hold the OptionCommand ⌘R keys *
Let go of the keys once you see either the Apple logo, a spinning globe or a firmware password prompt
When the macOS Utilities window appears select the Disk Utility option
Proceed to erase your internal drive
Quit Disk Utility
The macOS Utilities window should reappear
Now select the Reinstall macOS option
Proceed to install macOS
Once the installation is complete, migrate your data across

* This specific key combination will install the latest version of macOS compatible with your model Mac, which presently is macOS Mojave.


How to add a Japanese name that does not appear in the Kotoeri registry? (OS X 10.11)

Edit and use your user dictionaries (For OS X 10.11 El Capitan (and 10.10?))

  While using a Japanese input mode, choose Edit Text Substitutions from the Input menu in the menu bar.
  In the Text pane of Keyboard preferences, click the Add button .
  In the Replace field, type the hiragana reading of the word (up to 32 characters).

  If you add an adjective, enter the reading in its dictionary form. The ending must be 〜い (~i). For example, あたらしい (atarashii) or たかい (takai).
  If you add an adverb, don’t include inflective endings, such as 〜な (-na) or 〜だ (-da).

  Click the With column, then type the replacement word (up to 64 characters).

See the question mentioned as duplicate for methods for older versions of OS X.


How can I map a Service's Keyboard Shortcut on the Command Line?

The service shortcuts are stored in pbs.plist and can be modified like this:

/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c 'Delete NSServicesStatus:"(null) - \
  servicename - runWorkflowAsService"' ~/Library/Preferences/pbs.plist 2>/dev/null
defaults write pbs NSServicesStatus -dict-add '"(null) - \
  servicename - runWorkflowAsService"' \
  '{key_equivalent = "^~@1";}'

Source: https://apple.stackexchange.com/users/3936/

^ = control, ~ = alt, @ = command; replace servicename with the name of the service


For OS X system files you cant not determine the end since it keeps working, but if you have start up apps you can do it for those.

For the OS X you could use the first phase of boot process.

it is indicated in the Console as bootlog[0]: BOOT_TIME 1428512373 0

After that the OSX is running mostly customization, like finding and connecting to your network ect..

Or you could move to next stage in the process and monitor the WiFi connection...and so on.

You could use something like this to Monitor Console automatically in Terminal and make sound if certain message comes.

syslog -w|while read l;do [[ $l = *'message text'* ]]&&afplay /System/Library/Sounds/Blow.aiff;done

Replace "message text" with what you want from the Console log as your trigger.


Remove Chrome Policy. Error: Domain (com.google.Chrome) not found

MDM management is tricky to remove since many times, the business will force several mechanisms to prevent easy removal.

Make a full backup, seriously - Time Machine to a local disk is my recommendation in addition to however you typically back up.
Look in system preferences for a Profiles pane. It will not be visible if you are not MDM managed.
Contact the old business - ask them to send clear written instructions on their removal process. Get it in writing. Prepare an invoice if they say it needs time or to be sent to them (many won’t divulge how to remove which isn’t fair if they’re not paying you to undo what they did to you)
Proceed and if all goes wrong, you can always erase the Mac and restore from backup.

You will need to explain in much more detail what Apple signed tool you are using, but first thing is to be sure MDM isn’t foiling your attempts to manage chrome.


Applescript for moving recently added files (not created or modified) to another folder?

The answer depends on what version of OSX you are running.

Snow Leopard doesn't appear to store Date Added or Creation Date of files.

$ stat -x testfile
  File: "testfile"
  Size: 7            FileType: Regular File
  Mode: (0644/-rw-r--r--)         Uid: (  501/ vic)  Gid: (   20/   staff)
Device: 14,2   Inode: 12130091    Links: 1
Access: Mon May  5 21:49:18 2014
Modify: Mon May  5 21:49:15 2014
Change: Mon May  5 21:49:15 2014

For Lion and later, there are a couple of ways that Google revealed:

Try the following code  taken from

https://discussions.apple.com/message/23974953#23974953

tell application "Finder"
    set latestFile to item 1 of (sort (get files of (path to downloads folder)) by creation date) as alias
    set fileName to latestFile's name
    log "Created/Added Date: " & (get creation date of latestFile)
end tell

Alternatively have a look at the code that uses the mdls command line tool as shown here

https://secure.macscripter.net/viewtopic.php?id=37910

Unfortunately I am running Snow Leopard and cannot test the above.


how can I convert the values of a table into percentage values rather than absolute values?

If I'm not mistaken you could do that more or less easily:

Say for example column comedy.

The total is 534 (sum).

132 (1st row) is the 24.71% (132 x 100 / 534).
3 (2nd Row) is the 0.56%…
1 is the 0.18%
398 is the 74.53%.

The sum of 24.71+0.56+0.18+74.53 == 100% (minus rounding, add more decimals for more precision).

So if you add a final ROW with the SUM  (below technology for example) you can cause each cell to perform a Cell * 100 / TOTAL_OF_COLUMN and get your %.

What am I missing?


Ensure MacBook Pro is fully asleep when travelling

Some people mention to make sure sleep light begins to pulse. I have no idea what this means. I don't know what is the sleep light and I don't see any lights pulsing.

The pulsing sleep indicator reference that you appear to be encountering in Web searches is a feature present in non-retina unibody MacBook Pro's (last released in Mid 2012) and looks like this:

Image credit: https://www.nix.ru/art/pic/web_news/2010/jul/pb1279346977.jpg

This indicator is not present in retina MacBook Pro, MacBook Air and retina MacBook.

Closing the lid indeed puts your MacBook Pro (and any other MacBook) to sleep mode. This is the default behaviour. The only cases when a MacBook Pro doesn't enter sleep mode when shutting the lid are:

It is connected to an external display. In this case, it works in so called clamshell mode.
You are using a 3rd party utility program to force MacBook to remain in awake state despite closing the lid.
When connected to a power source, the MacBook technically remains in sleep mode but can perform certain activities if Power Nap is enabled.

Even if you are not putting your MacBook Pro to sleep mode explicitly by using  → Sleep command, closing the lid puts it in sleep mode by default. It is quite common practise among MacBook users and some folks (including yours truly) seldom shut down their MacBook Pro.

There should generally be no risk in carrying it in your backpack. However, it would be advisable to watch (hear) for any fan noises and look (feel) for any heat to die down before tucking it in.


I won't be possible if your iPad is carrier locked.

If it isn't,  it will work.


Trying to turn on localhost on Sierra made my Mac unable to connect to internet

it works fine now! but the worst part is that I'm not sure why or what fixed it. For reference here is the last two things i did:

I deselected whatever was selected under the proxies tab in network settings
I replaced the contents of my /etc/apache2/httpd.conf with /etc/apache2/httpd.conf.sierra, which for reference can be found here


How many External Hard Drives can I plug to Airport Extreme?

The constraint is be the number of ports available on your USB hub.

Any connected hard drives should appear in Mac OS X.
Use a self-powered usb hub and connect hard drives your hub. Only then will multiple external drives have enough power to run.

Also see store.apple.com for related questions.


iPad iOS 7 bug? Three-liner text in push notifications overlap the pull-down indicator

This bug also occurs on my iPhone 4 running iOS 7.1.2. I think it's a common bug.

I speculate in iOS 7, developers weren't able to send more than 2-line push notifications but in iOS 8 the feature was added iOS 7 devices also got these bigger notifications, resulting in unexpectedly large pushes (Apple stopped development of iOS 7 several years ago).


I think the answer is no, as the Desktop (with multiple windows, Dock, menu bar, etc.) is not a resizable window and so can't be split in the same way as other windows.

The best you can do is show the Desktop folder as a folder which can participate in the Split View.


Use an email template

Open Outlook
Create a new message (⌘ CommandN)
Immediately "Save as Template" to the Desktop (File -> Save As Template)
Shortcut will be created on your Desktop with the name <no subject.emltpl> rename it if you like.

Just double-click that template file every time you want to open a new email.


Unverified app user cap
  To protect users and Google systems from abuse, apps that use OAuth and Cloud Identity have certain quota restrictions based on the risk level of the OAuth scopes an app uses.

  [Sign in with Google temporarily disabled window]

  To remove these screens from your app, or to prevent your app from being marked as risky, you need to go through the verification process.

and

  When your app is successfully verified, the unverified app screen is removed from your client.

... talk to developers and expect them to take action.

  If you were using an app and you were redirected here from an error page, wait one day before you try to use the app again. This should allow the app total new user cap to refresh. If you continue to get an error, the owner of the app might need to take action before you and other new users can access it.

https://support.google.com/cloud/answer/7454865


Trouble downloading apps from the app store

Something is wonky with your iPad.

First try rebooting the iPad.
Hold down the power button until you see the spinning cog wheel and your iPad shuts down. Then hold the power button again until it reboots.

If that doesn't work, then try syncing your iPad to iTunes. If the apps don't appear in iTunes, and on your iPad, then use iTunes to download them, and then sync them over.

If that doesn't work, then place your iPad in restore mode by holding down the home button while then plugging into cable attached to your computer and restore your iPad with iTunes. If after iTunes reinstalls the system and syncs your apps, these apps do not appear, then...

try restoring your iPad without restoring the last backup. If after restoring and syncing, these apps don't appear, then...

seek Apple Genius at Genius Bar at nearest Apple Store.


How can I get calendar events to consistently sync across all my devices?

The Calendar app on your Mac by default will have two calendars listed as "On My Mac" ("Home" & "Work" are the calendar names). Be careful because any events added here will not sync to any other devices. I recommend deleting these calendars entirely. If you have many events on these calendars, you can drag & drop each event to the correct iCloud calendar. Or you can select each of the "On My Mac" calendars and go to File > Export > Export to save them to a file. Those exported files can then be imported back into the appropriate iCloud calendar.

By default all events on iPhone & iPad should sync to iCloud. Check that you don't have another calendar setup (possibly through Gmail, etc.). You can check this on your iOS device by opening Settings.app, and selecting Mail, Contacts, and Calendars. Under each account, you will see a list of services that account is providing - for example, it might say just "Mail", or "Mail, Calendars, Notes". You can select the account and switch off extraneous calendars to prevent events from being created there. Also, scroll down on that page, and you can change the Default Calendar.

You can also login to iCloud.com and view the calendar as it exists on the actual iCloud servers. This should help you to deduce which devices are providing the most trouble.


Is there a procedure to report a buggy iOS app in the app store?

The programmatic and direct feedback channels to Apple and the developer are as follows:

Report a problem from the purchase summary in iTunes on a computer. This also is useful if you wish to ask for a refund in the case where the app was paid and doesn't function in your judgement.
There is a general problem link in the store as well as a link to developer support. These are best for technical or minor bugs that don't ruin the app experience or if you expect it to get fixed and continue to use the app.
You can write a formal review that Apple may eventually publish detailing why you feel the app is buggy or non-confomant with design guidelines or rules.
You can rate the app in stars

Those three procedures are standard ways to provide feedback about buggy apps or problematic purchases. Deleting the app sends less formal feedback as your devices stop asking for updates to that title.


Can iOS apps read the location metadata when allowing access to Photos?

Yes, the app will have access to the full image data including the EXIF metadata that could contain for example GPS location amongst other things.

On the contrary if you're using a web app and uploading photos to it, the EXIF metadata will automatically be stripped by Safari before giving it to the web app.


Image dimensions not showing in item info on second drive

As with thumbnails for movies, dimensions of images lots of times don't load until they are either opened, or left highlighted for a bit. I went through my images and found many didn't have dimensions either. After highlighting them for a minute or opening them with preview however, the dimensions showed. So chances are Finder doesn't open the file to find the dimensions until it needs to.


Is there a way to enforce straight mouse movement(horizontal, vertical, diagonal) in macos?

You can, in fact, make specific dedicated underlines.
In the top bar, the pencil tool, there are options for Underline & strikethrough.
Both will track any text you select, letter, word or paragraph…

Giving this [the blue highlight is the selection, the red line is the added underline]

Instructions from my beer-making xmas prezzie ;)


High Sierra upgrade does nothing at all when opened

Depending on when you downloaded the installer precisely, this answer may provide a clearer reason for the issue.

I have noticed that their have been one or two system updates for macOS High Sierra in the past weeks. The fact that you are encountering this issue is most likely due to the fact that your version is older than the currently available and up-to-date one in the Mac App Store today.
Please try downloading the latest version.

Then let me know how you get on with the install. This would be the only logical reason for it not working on a supported / compatible system.


'Matrix Mode' for surround sound output?

Unfortunately, Mac OS X has fairly limited multi-channel audio support.  It can stream already-encoded Dolby Digital or DTS audio from a DVD (and programs like VLC can do this from other file formats) but it doesn't provide a means of expanding stereo sound to more channels.  Futhermore, Toslink only has enough bandwidth for uncompressed stereo or Dolby/DTS-encoded multi-channel, so you'd need to encode the audio to one of these formats on-the-fly -- this is another feature Mac OS X lacks.

It's generally up to your audio receiver to provide a means of expanding stereo sound to utilize multiple speakers.  Does your digital surround system have an option for Dolby Pro Logic or DTS Neo?  These are other popular algorithms for expanding two-channel sound to multiple speakers.


Can I play audio from computer through VOIP connection?

I am open to other thoughts, but did find this:

http://support.citrixonline.com/en_US/Meeting/knowledge_articles/000187248?title=Attendees+Unable+to+Hear+Audio+When+Playing+a+Video+(Mac+Presenter)


What side effects, if any, are there from issuing scutil --set HostName 'Fred'?

If you haven't already set the HostName yourself using scutil, /bin/hostname is probably reporting the result of a reverse DNS lookup on your computer's IP address. Both the IP address and the result of the reverse DNS lookup will likely differ based on the network you're connected to, and can easily change over time on the same network, too.

scutil --set HostName foo is a persistent setting, and unlike LocalHostName and ComputerName, HostName cannot be set in the GUI. For that reason, some advise against setting HostName. In my opinion, as long as you don't get confused if you try to make changes through the GUI later, setting your HostName is unlikely to cause any negative side effects for you. However, if you do run into issues, it's easy to undo with scutil --set HostName ''.


Disabling lots and lots of NFS mounts based on location

Try ControlPlane. It can perform all sorts of different actions, including mounting/unmounting network drives based on various triggers, including which WiFi network you're connected to.


How do I, after opening the iOS 5 built-in dictionary, look up the definition of a word that appears in a dictionary definition?

Nope, there is no way to do it. I think that’s really stupid. Though I remember being able to do that in iBooks when it was first released, before iOS had a built in dictionary.


My iphone 4s turns on while charging, but once on it turns off

Sounds like a bad battery to me. You can get a new battery and everything you need to change it at a website called iFixit for like $30 shipped, (don't worry, for a 4S, a battery replacement is super easy, it's just 4 screws and pulling the battery connector off of the logic board).


MacBook Pro 15" Retina mid 2014 random shutdowns

https://outluch.wixsite.com/rmbp-crash

Disable SIP (csrutil disable from Recovery)
Move AppleThunderboltNHI.kext

sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/AppleThunderboltNHI.kext \
/System/Library/Extensions/AppleThunderboltNHI.kext.BAK

Reenable SIP (csrutil enable from Recovery)


Installing ML 10.8 Using Internet Recovery freezes during install process

This thread looks like it has instructions on how to make a bootable OS X drive from Windows. If you have an 8GB USB drive that you're willing to part with, you can do this and then use the bootable drive to install OS X on your new hard drive.


Can I use the battery from an early 2014 MacBook Air in a mid 2012 Air?

Yes. According to iFixit, all 2010 through 2017 MacBook Air's use the same battery:

https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Air-13-Inch-Late-2010-to-2017-Replacement-Battery/IF188-113-2

That's assuming we are talking about the 13". If you are talking about an 11", that changes things.


App to convert .h264 video on ipad to watch in "Photos" app?

Uploading the video to your iPad will place the video in the app called "videos". I believe you don't have to convert the file because iOS supports .h264


How to activate my iPhone with a broken home button


Just loaded Hazel v3 on my Snow Leopard (10.6.8) and I noticed that it does a poor job of detecting when a file is busy.

When I created a file like this...

$ cat > fileXX

In it's log it correctly says that file is busy but then gives up on it and moves it anyway....!?

2014-09-28 22:07:32.735 hazelworker[11272] Processing folder Test
2014-09-28 22:07:34.740 hazelworker[11272] File fileXX is busy. Skipping for now.
2014-09-28 22:07:36.751 hazelworker[11272] File fileXX is busy. Skipping for now.
2014-09-28 22:07:38.756 hazelworker[11272] fileXX: Rule Newly Added Files matched.
2014-09-28 22:07:38.871 hazelworker[11272] [File Event] File moved: fileXX moved from folder Test to folder Test2.

Multiple files are processed as they appear. I even tried adding a delay on the fist file, via applescript, to confuse it but all that did was delay the first file, all other files got processed, one at a time.

On the opposite side, creating a bunch of files in a burst, didn't affect it. Even tried creating and importing into iTunes in a burst - no problems.

So, I'd recommend

Check your Hazel log file for issues.
Possibly change your rule to process files with Date Added is not in the last x minutes
Check whether your iTunes is the root cause. First processing may be slow since iTunes takes a while to launch, affecting subsequent files...

If all else fails, try contacting the developer... :(


Custom keyboard shortcuts not working for Excel contextual menu item

Check your System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts.

It may be that those keystrokes are already bound to a System function.


What does the search domain in the network preferences do?

This has actually been answered in quite a bit of detail over on sister-site superuser.com, here.


Does disabling "System Integrity Protection" in El Cap cause shutdown/restart/logout issues?

This was a software issue, after all. Once I upgraded to macOS High Sierra I was once again able to reboot normally, regardless of SIP status.


Is it possible to turn down the brightness of an external monitor via controls on mu Mac?

You could use the free app MonitorControl to change the brightness on an external monitor with the brightness keys.


How to blur the background in photo booth?

Photo Booth in macOS Catalina no longer has the option for custom backgrounds. If you have an older version of macOS, you can add your own background, which you can blur.

Take a picture using Photo Booth without you in it, such that it captures the background.
Blur the image using a photo editing application, such as Photoshop or one from Tool to quickly hide/blur/redact text in screenshot?.
In Photo Booth effects, on the last page for custom backgrounds, drag your image in.


Installer constantly runs on MacBook Pro

You must have a unfinished Installer job.

Find out who and stop it there.

In Activity Monitor click to highlight (select) on the in your case Installer file.

The Run the Sample Process for it found here:

In there you will see more information about the process.


How to find the corresponding configuration files of php?

Run the following command from the Terminal:

/usr/bin/php -i |grep 'Configuration File'

This will tell you the path where it looks after php.ini, and the name of the loaded configuration file (if no php.ini exists where it looks for it, none might be loaded).

Change the path /usr/bin/php to the php you want to check when you have multiple versions of PHP installed.


Apple TV 3 drops ethernet connection on 2 seconds

I had problems with my ATV3 similar to yours. Went away after I've setup the ATV to take a manually assigned IP, and reserved that IP on the router (Time Capsule) for this ATV (by Mac address).
Problem gone ever since.


Can I unplug my Mac mini from power once it's in hibernate mode?

You shouldn't unplug your Mac unless it's shut off; however you can do it using hibernate mode. The closest to hibernate is in this answer, How can I manually put a Macbook Pro to hibernate without going to sleep mode first?, it outlines how to enable hibernate on your Mac, which it actually copies the memory to the disk, and if you loose power, it restores the memory. It's made for MacBooks, but will work fine for any Mac.

The Reopen Windows feature should work, but I don't like using at, as it can significantly slow down startup (and login) speed.


This looks as if the pdf file did not use unicode but embedded a special font with ASCII bindings for Devanagari characters.
There probably won’t be an automatic way to transform this into unicode characters.

As an alternative, you could try to find the original font and use that. (Maybe start with this font.) Of course this will not solve the problem for any other users of the document.


According the Apple support doc for iTunes Radio:

  There may be some DJ-curated stations that you may not be able to
  modify. You can't like or play more tracks like this while listening
  to some DJ-curated stations. You can however, start new stations based
  on the current track or artist of a featured station or add tracks to
  your iTunes Wishlist from the Star (✭) menu.


Prevent iCloud Drive from removing specific folders

As of macOS Sierra 10.12.4, it is not possible to flag individual folders to stay on your local drive at all times. This is an all-or-nothing toggle.

You may access it under  → System Preferences → iCloud → iCloud Drive Options… There, uncheck Optimize Mac Storage.

This will prevent your files/folders backed by iCloud from being purged automatically from the local storage.


You should bring it to Best Buy, or version wireless, they can take it and fix it it might take a day or two depending on how bad it is and it will cost money but not a lot, when I broke my phone I brought it to Verizon wireless and they fixed it it was cheap and quick


Does Family Sharing allow others to see the free Apps that you've downloaded?

Yes, but not without looking.

More specifically to your iPhone scenario, to see what has been downloaded by a family member, you would need to follow the steps outlined below.

App Store

Go into the App Store app
tap on Updates at bottom right
tap on Purchased at top of screen
a list of family members will appear
tap on the family member to view their purchases

Note that by purchases we mean all downloads, as free apps are effectively treated as though they were purchased for $0.00.

iTunes

A similar process is required to view their music, movie and other iTunes purchases:

Go into the iTunes app
Tap on the More icon at bottom right
Tap on Purchased
a list of family members will appear
tap on the family member to view their purchases

Once again, by purchases we mean all downloads.

iBooks

And, with iBooks:

Go into the iBooks app
Tap on the Purchased icon at bottom right
a list of family members will appear
tap on the family member to view their purchases

Once again, by purchases we mean all downloads.


My MBP will no longer shut down or restart

It sounds like your Mavericks installation is messed up.

If you still have the original Mavericks Install package you can check it with Terminal.

Type MD5

(with space) and now drag the Mavericks installer to the terminal window.

The result should be 7c2152a1afac38d2d06651add2d24968

I would recommend following steps:

Try to restore it using the cmd-r.

Following this, try to log in as different user to eliminate user profile problems.

As next step start in Safe mode to eliminate some of the 3d party apps problems.

Resetting the PRAM/NVRAN (EFI) and the SMC would be good as well.

Finally run the Apple Hardware test to check for hardware problems.


How do I enable cover flow in iTunes 11?

It's gone. You could perhaps look for a different program to browse your library or revert to iTunes 10.


When I try to sync my iPad, I get an "Unknown Error (-39)"

Try turning off photo sync completely, syncing, and then turning it back on.


How could I check the number of files in a folder without counting them?

Set Finder to show icons
Access view options with Cmd-J
Enable "Show item info" option (where it says "Objektinfo einblenden" in the screenshot below)


I don't think there is a shortcut to see what Undo would do; if there is one I don't know about it.

The workaround I'd suggest would be fn+ctrl+f2 (focuses the menu bar), then e (selects the Edit menu) and then ↓ (opens the menu).


Is it possible to hide an app from App Store search results?

This is not possible with the App Store as apps released there are available for everyone.

You can use Apple's TestFlight beta distribution with the  TestFlight app to distribute a version of your app to invited people.


Sublime Text like fuzzy filesystem search for Mac OS X

Alfred ships with an example workflow called Dynamic File Search that does something similar to fuzzy searching:
https://www.alfredapp.com/blog/tips-and-tricks/how-to-get-the-results-you-want-in-alfred-every-time/
https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/11981-searching-in-files-in-a-specific-location/?do=findComment&comment=62957
Alfred searching through directories and filenames at the same time

To add it, click the [+] at the bottom of the Workflows preferences, and choose Examples > Dynamic File Search.

Type "ff" in Alfred to first select a search scope
Then type the name of the file you're searching for within that folder

More documentation on Alfred's file filter feature can be found here https://www.alfredapp.com/help/workflows/inputs/file-filter/


Did you sync your iPod Touch with iTunes recently? An iOS device won't download newer versions of an app if they can no longer run on your current iOS version, but iTunes doesn't stick to that rule. So if the Facebook app was updated in iTunes, and then you synced with your iPod Touch, it may have been updated to a version that it can't run, hence the immediate quitting.

You can verify this by going to Settings → General → Usage and tap on the app under the storage setting. You'll see a version number, and you can Google that to see if you have a version that supports old iOS or not.


How to disable the power management of the CPU on a MacBook Pro?

Searching the man page for pmset (man pmset)  on macOS 10.11 - El Capitan for anything related to reducing CPU speed yielded no results; though I was able to find an Apple discussion thread dating back to 2008.

I suspect that the user ability to regulate CPU speed was removed at some point.

That said, the issue is that you have a failing/failed battery and it needs to be replaced.  Your CPU is throttling itself down becuase it has detected low reserves in your battery and is close to shutting down; this is by design.

You didn't mention which specific model you had, but generically speaking, you will have to get the top case replaced.

However, iFixit has some instructions on how to replace the battery without replacing the entire top case.  Warning:  It's difficult and involves at lot of work to release the adhesive holding the battery in place.


Apple Magic Keyboard on Windows 10 not a Bootcamp!

Have you looked at this: https://github.com/gered/AppleWirelessKeyboard/releases the project has been abandoned but it might work.

This might also work... https://uxsoft.cz/Projects/AppleWirelessKeyboard


iOS and OS X Photos.app - duplicate photos

If you have activated Photostream, why do you use photo sync by iTunes? Just turn it off. And check setting about HDR version of your shots. May be you just see original and HDR version of shot?


How to make ⌘N open a new window in Safari?

In System Preferences > Dock if Prefer tabs when opening documents: is set to Always that will cause a tab to open instead of a new window.
Changing it to Manually will allow ⌘N to open in a new window.
 There is also an In Full Screen Only option.


Which Mac OS X versions support lsof command?

lsof has been available since OS X 10.5. From the manual page :

   Lsof  revision 4.87 lists on its standard output file information about
   files opened by processes for the following UNIX dialects:

        Apple Darwin 9 and Mac OS X 10.[567]


Mac OS X - network interface preference defined by host domain

As has been pointed out in the comments, using DNS names for traffic distribution isn't possible (in your scenario). You need to provide local routing as desired and this needs to use IP addresses or subnets.

What you can do is set up the default gateway on the wi-fi NIC or lower the metric for wi-fi - if you want to stick to the all-DHCP setup you'll need to change this on the DHCP server. This takes care of using wi-fi as default network connection.

Then, you set up specific, local routes for the "Ethernet services'" IP addresses that have lower metrics for the Ethernet NIC with route add.


How to create an index.html page with a web address

If you are determined to use an HTML file, you can create one with a text editor (e.g. the built-in TextEdit; make sure you use the Plain Text view rather than the Rich Text which is the default).

Your HTML file should contain a so-called meta-refresh tag for this:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=http://www.example.com/" />

The page will automatically redirect upon loading.

Alternatively, because this sounds like an XY-problem: create a shortcut to the page on your Desktop, as described by Joonas.


Extracted from [Mountain Lion's Features][1] page:

  Send large attachments: Send high-quality photos, full HD video, or documents. iMessage allows attachments of up to 100MB.

The max file attachment size for the iMessage and Business Chat services is 100 MB.  Platform (iOS, macOS) doesn't matter in this case.  Both channels are IP-based, not carrier-based, so it's just WiFi or cellular data.


Resetting Mountain Lion iCloud login request

If all you want to do is add some files to the user's desktop or documents folder, you can create the account in system preferences, then add these files to the relevant directories by navigating to the user's home folder in Finder ( /Users//Desktop ) without logging in at all. The user will then be prompted to setup iCloud the first time they log in.


Why does the iMac charge my iPhone faster than the wall charger?

If you have the USB 3 SuperSpeed (on your Mac) it can deliver up to 100 Watts.

For iPhone it will deliver 10 Watts (5 Volt x 2 Amps) which is more than your charger.


Macbook (2,1) boots into blue screen and hangs

If I remember correctly, holding down the button on the trackpad while booting will force-eject your optical drive. Have you tried that?


Freehand drawings on PDF with Preview not showing up

This happened to me too, so I ended up exporting the document as PNG or jpg to preserve the annotation--obviously not a feasible solution if your document is more than a couple of pages long.


Does privacy policy need to be in all languages an app supports when uploading to app store?

It is not mandatory to provide privacy policy translations for all the languages your app supports.

Additionally, as I can infer from your post, since your app's primary language is English, privacy policy text in English should suffice.

If you still have concerns or have specific questions, as a paid developer program member, you can seek help from Apple Developer Support and get answers for specific queries.


Wine emulates the registry so this might be more about putty being amenable to this alternate SDK.

https://wiki.winehq.org/Regedit
https://wiki.winehq.org/Winelib

wine regedit

If the second link saying putty is ported is wrong, hopefully you don’t have to dump the registry and translate them to a terminal setup. ssh (as are the other tools) is native on macOS, so functionally you could ditch putty. You’d lose the graphical accordances and specific shortcuts and settings portability of course, which is what I’m guessing you want to avoid reimplementing.


Changing icon of app using CandyBar failing on OS X 10.4.11 Tiger

Version 2.6.1 unfortunately didn't have Pixadex built in, and those image wells only supported the actual Icon of whatever it is that gets dropped in them. For example, the .png files you dropped in currently have the icon of:

and that's exactly what it's giving you. So essentially what gets dropped in those image wells needs to be represented (having the icon) with what you drop in there. If you try dragging anything that already has a custom icon associated with it into the image well you'll quickly understand how it works.

I found the best way to manage icons before CandyBar 3 was to use Pixadex in addition to CandyBar 2, since it allows drag and drop between the two apps. It's precisely why they eventually merged the two, because they really did belong together.

• Pixadex 2.0.2 download (works with 10.2+) and other older icon related things.


How to prevent apps from showing previews on lock screen in iOS?

It looks like every app determines what to show on its notifications; I don't see a global switch.

You can, however, turn the lock screen notification off.

Find it on Settings > Notifications > [App], look for "Show on lock screen" and turn it off to disallow the app to show its notifications when the phone is locked.

Skype does not have the "Show Previews" switch available at the Notifications settings for Messages –and I can't find anything about that subject on the support site, but plenty of people asking the same with no response– so it appears that each app controls what it's shown on the notification.


Mail keeps a lot of metadata in a SQLite database stored in ~/Library/Mail/V6/MailData/Envelope Index (the V6 changes from time to time with major macOS releases). It's not officially documented and a quick web search didn't yield a lot of results (https://javarants.com/build-your-own-mail-analyzer-for-mac-mail-app-747143e94ccc, https://labs.wordtothewise.com/mailapp/). But you should be able to reverse-engineer the schema using either sqlite3 or any of the GUI-based SQLite tools (just make sure to use a copy of the database to play with).


Aperture library won't sync through iPhoto to an iPad

There are many facets to your question and I will try to answer all of them.

If the error you are getting is an iTunes library issue, then you should reboot itunes holding down the option key, and browse to the existing library file in /Users/username/Music/iTunes/ this reloads your proper library.
iPhoto can open your aperture library, however it's usage of RAW files etc, it limited.   this link has some more info about using Aperture library in iPhoto. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5260
As the file extension on the library should be .aplibrary you will need to choose aperture from the drop down under Photos in iTunes.  iPhoto is only acting as a viewer for this library, and is not "holding" these files.
You should be able to choose "import to library..." in iPhoto and choose the .aplibrary file and it will import these photos into an iPhoto library.  However, in case you decide to begin using Aperture again, save the aplibrary file. Note:  you may lose some, if not most of the edits made in Aperture.

Question:  Why would you want to revert back to iPhoto?  If you have a coveted aperture license, why not use it?  On the Retina MBP this program works even better, and looks amazing.


FaceID and TouchID are stored locally only on the device in a Security Enclave and never sent across the network.

As Justin Pot writes in "What Is Apple’s “Secure Enclave”, And How Does It Protect My iPhone or Mac?" on How-To Geek:

  The Secure Enclave boots separately from the rest of your device. It runs its own microkernel, which is not directly accessible by your operating system or any programs running on your device. There’s 4MB of flashable storage, which is used exclusively to store 256-bit elliptic curve private keys. These keys are unique to your device, and are never synced to the cloud or even directly seen by your device’s primary operating system. Instead, the system asks the Secure Enclave to decrypt information using the keys.

So, your FaceID (or TouchID for that matter) is tied to a specific device and can not be restored on a different device from a backup.

You can read more about it in the Wikipedia article on FaceID.


Map any string to your Mac Keyboard (globally)

This is more than possible with paid apps like TextExpander and Keyboard Maestro (which are two excellent apps that are great times savers beyond what you're looking for).

Another free option: set up a keyboard shortcut in the preferences pane such as ggh --> mypassword and then you save a few keystrokes.

And another free option which does exactly what you're looking for can be found as the first answer for this SuperUser question.

Note that storing passwords like this is considered insecure.


How will the new Touch Bar & Touch ID work with Windows/Boot Camp

I actually had the same question as I want to use Boot Camp and the function buttons are now virtual and their answer was that yes Apple will provide a setting in Boot Camp to have the function buttons appear in the Touch Bar.
I'll provide the exact text from my chat:

  David:
  Hey there, my name is David. Welcome to the Apple Online Store. I would be very happy to help you with your questions about the new MacBook Pro.

  David:
  This product will definitely be capable of running in Boot Camp mode. May I ask, are you already using a device in this way now?

  Me:
  I'm currently using a MacBook Pro for late 2010 and am running Windows 7 on it

  Me:
  The reason of my questioning is due to the Touch Bar which makes the Function keys a virtual thing

  David:
  Yes, they will be virtual, but there is a setting that allows you to show the function keys.

  David:
  When in boot camp mode, you’d want to switch the touch bar to this setting, and they should function like normal.


A couple of things to try:

Go to System Preferences > Internet Accounts > Turn off any email accounts, and try launching Mail again.

Open Terminal.app, and paste or type:     ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Data/Library/

Find the Saved Application State folder, drag it to Trash, and try opening Mail. Finder will re-create the folder, and this should clear out anything that may have been corrupted when you updated OS X.


I'm going to assume you are using Mail 8.2.

Have you checked the permissions on the SmartMailBoxesLocalProperties.plist in ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData? For reference my plist -rw-r--r@.

When you state new smart mailboxes are working, does this mean they aren't being saved also? The fact that new mailboxes aren't working either seems to point to a permissions problem, as seen in this previous question.


I am not sure if you have a 2014 or 2015 iMac, but this does not matter since the answer is the same. Both models have USB 3.0 which is 5 Gb/s. However, the jacks are Type A and you want Type C. The Type A and Type C plugs have different geometry, but electrically they are the same. See this answer for illustrations. Since Type C is reversible, there has to be a chip in the adaptor to properly transfer the signals.

For example, you can use this adaptor from Electop. You should look for adaptors where the tip is blue, otherwise you may end up limited to USB 2.0 speeds (480 Mb/s).

If you do not want the adaptor hanging on the back of your iMac, you could add an extension cable. They come as short as 6 inches.


Are you able to boot into Safe Boot? You can find the instructions for that here: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1455

Also, I would note the time you are shutting the computer down and then check Console and see what is logged at the time, perhaps that would give us some hints as to what is preventing your computer from shutting down.


Uninstall "Logitech app for bluetooth keyboard" completely on Macbook

There are a few things you can try:

Open Finder > Applications > Double check that the app is not on the list, if it is, delete it.
Press Cmd + Alt + Esc > Check if you find any suspect Logitech process running and kill it, then restart the computer
Reinstall the software and uninstall it again
Reinstall the software and uninstall it with AppZapper (appzapper.com)

Let me know if any of these works.


Yes, you can, since your computer has a Thunderbolt port (http://support.apple.com/kb/sp620). According to Apple, you can daisy-chain additional monitors using the Thunderbolt port:

  To make a desktop workstation out of your MacBook Pro, just daisy-chain additional Thunderbolt devices, including high-performance storage and video and audio capture devices, through the display. (http://www.apple.com/displays/, section "Expand the capabilities of your Mac")

Two monitors connected to one MacbookPro:


Macbook Air El Capitan constant message about iCloud

PIA vpn blocked the connection to the Apple servers. I disconnected from the VPN and it worked


Upgrading 16 GB to a 4 GB iMac i5 2011 doesn't work with all modules loaded [SOLVED]

I can't find an exact diagram for the iMac, but assuming the mapping is anything like my Mac Pro - which really surprised me when I first tried it, the top & bottom slots may not be as you expect.

I would certainly experiment with identical RAM first in top or bottom, but I would also try matching them top to bottom row

ie…

2  2        8  8
8  8   or   2  2

but also

2  8        8  2
2  8   or   8  2

I would also reset the SMC between each test.

Shut down the computer.
Unplug the computer's power cord.
Wait fifteen seconds.
Attach the computer's power cord.
Wait five seconds, then press the power button to turn on the computer.

This is the odd layout for mine - yours will not be the same, of course, as it has fewer slots, but might follow a pattern…
see how the config changes between 2 & 4 DIMMs, contra to what 'common sense' might make you think

Two DIMMs      One on the top memory card and one on the bottom card
Four DIMMs     One pair on the top memory card and one pair on the bottom card
Six DIMMs      Two pairs on the top memory card and one pair on the bottom card
Eight DIMMs    Two pairs on the top memory card and two pairs on the bottom card


How to remove the animation when closing an app

Please note: I tested this with an iPhone 5s running iOS 10.2.1. It should work with the iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus as well, but not with newer devices (iPhone SE/6s/6s Plus/7/7 Plus). Also, the animations will be back as soon as you reboot your device.

Part 1/2: Prepare

Open this picture in Safari.
Press the "Share" button on the bottom and tap "Save Image".
Go to Settings > Wallpaper > Choose a New Wallpaper > All Photos.
Select the new image (black pixel).
Tap "Set" > "Set Both".
Tap "Choose" > "Wallpaper" to go back.

Part 2/2: Crash

Now you need to crash the process that's responsible for the smooth animations. You need to repeat the process below about 10-14 times.

Tap on the lock screen preview (on the left).
Tap "Set"
Tap on the home screen preview (on the right).
Tap "Set".

You can verify that animations were disabled by pressing the home button. There will be no animation at all.

If you still the usual animation, go back to the wallpaper settings and repeat part 2 a few more times.

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Please let me know if this works for your iPhone 5s or iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus.


Keyboard / Trackpad not working in Mac OS, but works on boot screen and in Windows

So my final answer is that this is probably a firmware problem and you need to re-flash it, unfortunately Apple doesn't allows users to do this on Macbook Airs. You'll need to take it to your local Apple Store for the genius to do it. If it is indeed an hardware problem, Apple Stores have access to a more detailed system diagnosis, which will almost certainly tell you what the problem is if it isn't firmware.

Sorry for the long time and hope you can solve it.

Tiferrei


How to install Livestreamer --- super n00b terminal question

The # is usually used in shell command samples to show the shell prompt and should not be entered. As it is also the comment indicator, the command you've entered just does nothing.

Make sure you are logged into an account with Administrator privileges to run the command. Then run

easy_install -U livestreamer

or (only if the above gives you "access denied" errors)

sudo easy_install -U livestreamer


What can I do when iTunes multiplies albums?

I often have this issue, and I can fix it by selecting all of the offending tracks (e.g. the entire album) using Option + click, right clicking and changing the "Album Artist" to something random (I usually use "asdf") and then doing to same thing to change it to the correct Album Artist. Doing this forces iTunes to re-index the album and put the parts together.

If this does not fix it, then look for any other data that should match between all the tracks but doesn't. iTunes is splitting the album because of one of the tags, and by setting the offending tag to the same on all of the songs it forces iTunes to put it together.