iPhone photos phantom storage (13 photos take up 13 gb)

You should go to settings on your iPhone. From settings go to general and then go to iPhone storage. Underneath the total memory statement is a colored scale showing what apps and others are being used.  If you scroll down even further it gives you the amount of memory used by each app. You can check the size of Whatsapp on your phone.


Is spam filtering on-device possible on the new iPad?

Unfortunately, no. The filtering happens on your mail server, if the one that you are using supports spam filter (like Gmail).


If the Windows Support Software from the Boot Camp Assistant is not downloading and/or returns an error, you can download the software manually for the machine depending on the year/make of your Macbook, iMac, or Mac Pro.

This list can be found on the Apple KBase.

Based on you having a Mid-2012 13" MacBook, you would be looking for one of the following downloads:

Windows 7/8 64-bit (BC Support Software v5)
Windows 7 32-bit (BC Support Software v4)

Follow the instructions on the KBase article for installing the support software, and build your Win7 disk with the Support Software box unchecked in BCA.


First, try and login to icloud.com and verify that you have your contacts and all the information you need there.

If you dont remember your password but still have access to your email you can try by using Apples iforgot page:
https://iforgot.apple.com/password/verify/appleid

You can try several different emails until you know your login, if you still have access to your email that is.

If you dont have access to your email, Apple can change that when giving their support a call, be prepared to answer a lot of questions amongst your security questions and for the last digits in your credit card number.


Does Whatsapp Save Incoming Media feature create duplicates?

Yes, it does duplicate media in the sense you describe. With that switch activated, all incoming images will have 2 copies: one on the app and one on the Camera Roll.


MacOS 10.13.5 - Updated yesterday, getting spammed with System Extension Blocked

I had the same problem. This answer on a different copy of this question is a solution with a tradeoff: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/327816/292890

Summary is: cmd-R on boot to get Recovery Mode, then open Terminal by clicking on Utilities > Terminal. Once open, enter the following command:

spctl kext-consent disable

It disables kernel extension security confirmations altogether, which of course hurts your security, but it does prevent all the confirmation popups. That's also less drastic I think than disabling SIP entirely.


iMac Pro running 2 LG Ultrafine 5k, blurry

Most likely, you are plugging the displays into the same Thunderbolt controller (ports adjacent to each other).  To ensure you're using the other controller, use the ports on the "opposite side" of the bus

According to Apple:

  Note: The Thunderbolt 3 ports on your iMac Pro are managed by two
  controllers, one for the two left ports, the other for the two right
  ports. Each controller can support two 4K displays or one 5K display.
  So you can connect up to four 4K displays or two 5K displays to your
  iMac Pro. To connect two 5K external displays, for example, connect
  the first 5K display to either of the first two Thunderbolt 3 ports,
  and the second 5K display to either of the last two Thunderbolt 3
  ports.


Mac App Store updates keep repeating; won't clear

LMAO, I finally figured out the problem! I had completely reinstalled Snow Leopard from scratch and used SuperDuper to make a backup clone of my hard drive beforehand (which I had always been doing for backup). Then before putting anything else on, I had visited the Mac App Store to reinstall some software when I noticed it said I had all my apps already installed. It didn't take long to figure out that the Mac App Store reads any cloned hard drives you have attached and interprets them as installed apps as well. This would certainly explain why it thought I still had the older versions still installed. Huge bug.


Finder Preferences: Unable to hide items on desktop

Your description is consistent with your IT department having deployed a configuration profile to your computer that controls your Finder preferences.    If you go into System Preferences and open the "Profiles" preferences you may see the configuration profiles installed on your computer.  I would expect to see one called "MDM Profile" and one or more that configure other aspects of your computer, such as the Finder.


Add the following to your ~/.vimrc:

filetype plugin indent on
set term=builtin_ansi
syntax on

If you’re using iTerm, use this instead of line 2:

set term=xterm-256color


iOS prompting for AT&T employees credentials on setup

This sounds like Activation Lock (Find My iPhone). That's a bummer, they shouldn't have signed in like that. If this is a new device I'd take it back and get another one, personally. Don't have them setup your phone afterwards.

If you don't want to return it, you'll need that Apple ID account name and password in order to complete setting it up and then signing out of iCloud to turn off Find My iPhone.


Is there any utility or program that will let me assign keyboard shortcuts inside of apps?

Usually Command + P is the keyboard shortcut to print. If it's not, you can add your own keyboard shortcut. You shouldn't need any additional apps to do this. It's built right into the Mac.

Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard. Select Keyboard Shortcuts. At the bottom, click the + button to add a new keyboard shortcut. To add a keyboard shortcut to a specific application, select it from the Application dropdown menu. Enter the name of the command exactly as it appears in the menu (In this case it may simply be "print").

Additional cool trick

If you don't always feel like setting a keyboard shortcut: You can use Command + ? to bring up the Search menu from within the application itself. Start typing in the name of the command you'd like to select. Once you have enough characters, the menu item should be highlighted. Hit Return and it will select that menu item. Instant keyboard shortcut!

**EDIT**

Since you specified that this issue is about Komodo Edit there's some good news and bad news:

The bad news:
Komodo Edit, like Firefox, is built using XUL. Many XUL applications have an ongoing bug when it comes to respecting keyboard shortcuts set from System Preferences on the Mac. Namely, they don't. (If anyone has any solutions or comments about this please let me know)

The good news:
Komodo Edit lets you set your own keyboard shortcuts from within the application! Go to Preferences -> Editor -> Key Bindings, search "Commands" for "Print", select it, and assign whatever keyboard shortcut you like.


MS Word for Mac: How to make all equations aligned to the left of the document and NON italic by default

On the menubar,you can find Format - Equation options.
There are a lot of options to adjust, but there is no italic option.

If you equations are similar or  have something in common.
You can make a template with non italic and centered to the left(e.g just a =).
Then save it as a new equation,you can insert your template each time.


Aperture: Import content of smart folder

Is there any way to import the content of Smart Folder into Aperture library?

The only way I found is to select all content of Smart Folder in Finder and drag it into Aperture project.


Dell D3818DW: How to connect KVM between PC and Macbook pro mid-2012?

No, that product cannot be used for this purpose as it does not transfer the actual display signal (i.e. what would be called Alternate Mode in USB-C), nor is it for connecting newer TB3/USB-C devices to an older computer - it is actually for connecting old TB/TB2-devices to a new TB3 computer.


git auto-complete for *branches* at the command line?

ok, so I needed the git autocompletion script.

I got that from this url:

curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/git/git/master/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash -o ~/.git-completion.bash

No need to worry about what directory you're in when you run this as your home directory(~) is used with the target.

Then I added to my ~/.bash_profile file the following 'execute if it exists' code:

if [ -f ~/.git-completion.bash ]; then
  . ~/.git-completion.bash
fi

Update: I'm making these bits of code more concise to shrink down my .bashrc file, in this case I now use:

test -f ~/.git-completion.bash && . $_

Note: $_ means the last argument to the previous command. so . $_ means run it - "it" being .git-completion.bash in this case

This still works on both Ubuntu and OSX and on machines without the script .git-completion.bash script.

Now git Tab (actually it's git TabTab ) works like a charm!

p.s.: If this doesn't work off the bat, you may need to run chmod u+x ~/.git-completion.bash to grant yourself the necessary permission:

chmod is the command that modifies file permissions
u means the user that owns the file, by default its creator, i.e. you
+ means set/activate/add a permission
x means execute permission, i.e. the ability to run the script


Can I use my MacBook Air to sync with two different iTunes accounts?

Yes - make one user account for your iTunes library and a second user account for your wife.

As far as I see, this is no problem at all having two independent user accounts on one system, each using a separate Apple ID to login to the Cloud and iTunes. I tested it on my Mac (10.8) just now using my work Apple ID under a freshly created separate user account and found it to work.

This method has worked since OS X was first developed and it's unlikely to change anytime soon. You can search here for other questions that cover how to share some or all of the songs between separate accounts, but it's always easy to combine things later than it is to start mixed and separate things later.


Alternative to musikcube on Mac OS X Lion


How to best move / import my previously received email from Outlook Express into Mail.app?

On the Windows

Download Eudora for Windows and install it if it's not already on your computer. Eudora can be used for free in sponsored or light mode.

If you see the New Account Wizard when you open Eudora, click Cancel. Go to the File menu and choose Import. It should automatically detect any Outlook or Outlook Express accounts.

Check the box next to the account(s) you wish to import.
If present, check the boxes next to Import Mail and Import Address Book Entries.
Click OK.

Your Outlook or Outlook Express mailboxes should now appear in Eudora's mailbox list. Close Eudora. If prompted to save changes to the Address Book, click Yes.

Locate the newly created Eudora mailboxes and address book so they can be transferred to the Macintosh.

Use the Search or Find option in the Start menu to locate "Outlook Express.fol" or "Microsoft Outlook.fol" (depending on which program you are importing from). You may need select Search hidden files and folders under More advanced options.
Right-click the .fol folder in the search results and choose Open Containing Folder.
Transfer the .fol folder and the folders called "attach", "Embedded", and "Nickname" (all in the same location) to the Mac (e.g., via recordable CD, USB flash memory drive).

On the Mac

Download Eudora Mailbox Cleaner.

To properly import all messages, attachments, and address book entries, the files copied from the Windows computer must be arranged in a specific manner.
Create a new folder and call it "Eudora Folder". The Desktop is a good place to create the folder.
Inside this folder, create three more folders named "Mail Folder", "Attachments Folder", and "Parts Folder".
Move the "Microsoft Outlook.fol" or "Outlook Express.fol" folder into the "Mail Folder".
Move the contents of the "attach" folder into "Attachments Folder".
Move the contents of the "Embedded" folder into "Parts Folder".
Move the "Nickname" folder into "Eudora Folder".
Make sure Mail.app is not running, then drag the "Eudora Folder" and drop it on the Eudora Mailbox Cleaner icon.
Leave all the boxes checked and click OK. (Filters will not be imported because Eudora cannot import the original filters from Outlook or Outlook Express.)

Eudora Mailbox Cleaner will display the results of the import. If the import was successful, the number of imported messages, recovered attachments, and imported nicknames should all be greater than zero.

Your messages should now appear in Mail.app in a folder called Import. Address book entries should appear in the OS X Address Book application.

NOTE: If you are unable to open the imported files, you may need to rebuild them. Select each folder, then go to Mailbox > Rebuild.


Find the path to my USB webcam on OS X Mavericks

You should try the VLC player.

It has multitude of options for setting of the Capture and Streaming.

I am not showing your set up since I do not have external webcam, but it should show in the drop down menu for you.


Open Terminal
cd ~/Desktop
echo '#!/bin/sh' > run-my-app
echo 'cd ~/Desktop/Electron/charityapp' >> run-my-app
echo 'npm start' >> run-my-app
chmod +x run-my-app

Then just double-click on the icon on the Desktop


When does software take over firmware during boot in Macs?

The answer to this depends on what exactly you mean by "controlled by".

In particular it doesn't make sense to say that it is either controlled by "firmware" or "software" - as firmware is also software.

You can define "controlled by" in two interesting ways in this context: Either (a) when is the first software to be run loaded in from disk (i.e. non-firmware), or (b) when does control of the computer (i.e. primarily interrupts) transfer from the firmware to the operating system.

In either case it works the same way on a Mac as it does on a EFI PC (all modern PCs).

If you take definition (a) the change of control happens when the boot.efi file is loaded in from disk. That file is stored on disk in various places depending on your configuration:

HFS+ disk: /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
HFS+ and FileVault 2: On a seperate non-encrypted partition
APFS (encrypted or not): //System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi or /usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi. on a seperate preboot volume

If you have a Mac with a T2-chip, additional validation can take place of the boot.efi before it is run, but essentially it is the same process.

In terms of what you see on the monitor during the boot process, the change of control has taken place (a) shortly before you see the FileVault login screen for encrypted HFS+ disks or (b) slightly after you see the white Apple logo on a black background on other systems.

If you instead take definition (b) the change of control happens when the operating system kernel is loaded in and executed. The operating system kernel is located in /System/Library/Kernels/kernel on the actual root volume. At this point the kernel installs a new interrupt table, and control of the CPUs and peripherals is now in the hands of the kernel.

This is in contrast to how it worked on older PCs (i.e. not Macs) with BIOS. In that case the BIOS was kept in place after the operating system was booted, and systems such as DOS used the BIOS to interface with the hardware.

In terms of what you see on the monitor during the boot process, the change of control has taken place shortly before you see the white progress bar or spinner indicating that the system is loading up.


Is RAM upgrade worth it if I have an SSD already?

RAM still is a lot faster than any SSD which you use in your Mac. RAM has a shorter access times and much higher transfer rates:

[table]

The SATA interface by which the hard disk is connected limits the throughput to a theoretical maximum of 6Gbit/s (600MB/s) for SATA3.

You can determine how much the page outs are written to the disk by taking a look at the Activity Monitor. I try to keep the ratio at a maximum of 10/1 (page in/page out). The more page outs you have, the more like a RAM upgrade will benefit you.


How can I make VLC output its sound through USB headphones?

VLC can't switch audio interfaces on-the-fly. You either have to stop playing media entirely, and go into the preferences and change it, then start playing your media again; or, the slightly easier way:

Kill VLC
Plug in headphones (and ensure they become the primary output sound device, hold option and click the sound icon in your menu bar, select usb headphones if necessary)
Start VLC

Assuming VLCs preferences are still set to use the Default Audio Device for output, then it'll use them when you start playing content again.


How to resolve "No 3D support is available from the host" error in VMware Fusion 11

Revert to VMware Fusion 10.x, and open that app.  It may prompt you to allow something in System Preferences and such; do so.
Start up every VM that is not in a fully shut-down state (anything you can "Resume").  Shut each down entirely.
Upgrade again to VMware Fusion 11.
For each VM in which you need 3D stuff, go into its Settings and pick the Compatibility tab, then Advanced Options drop-down, then select Use Hardware Version: 16.
Then in the Display tab, turn on Accelerate 3D Graphics (if it's not on already), and set the Shared Graphics Memory you need.
Shut down VMware Fusion.
Edit your main VMware Fusion preferences file. This should be "~/Library/Preferences/VMware Fusion/preferences". Add the following lines (or edit any that are present to make them conform), then save the file:

mks.enableMTLRenderer = "0"
mks.enableGLRenderer = "1"
mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"

If you have a 2013 or later Mac, and a recent version of macOS, and are running the Metal 2 3D graphics library, you can try setting the first of those (the MTL one) to "1", and could try setting the one below it (GL) to "0", but I have not tested this personally.
If it still doesn't work, shut down the VM, and VMware Fusion, then go find your VM in the macOS filesystem, right-click or ctrl-click it, and pick "Show package contents". Open its [whatever].vmx file, and add the mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE" line to that file as well. Save the file.
Under no circumstances should you fire up the VM entirely (i.e., past the point where you get a login screen and can pick the option to shut the VM down) until this "No 3D support" problem is fixed. That is apt to really booger something up.
If you just cannot get it to work at all, set the VM's Hardware Level back to 14, and its VRAM (Display > Shared Graphics Memory) back to no more than 2048 (the max in VMware 10), then downgrade the VMware app back to VMware Fusion 10.x.  In that, see if there's an option to go to Hardware Level 15; if not, leave it at 14.  Your VMs should now work properly again. If not, undo the two changes made to the config files (preferences and *.vmx).
If it did work in VMware Fusion 11, then after restarting your VM fully, re-install VMware Tools from within the VM. This will upgrade the video drivers, etc., to VMware Fusion 11 versions.

What seems to have happened was that either Hardware Version 14 did support DirectX and this support was removed, or there was a Version 15 that did and that entire version was removed. Either way, any VMs under VMware Fusion 10.x that supported DirectX, under the highest Hardware Version then available, suddenly lost that ability in VMware Fusion 11.x, until upgraded to Hardware Version 16.  And on top of this, VMware silently assumed everyone was using Metal 2 and had abandoned OpenGL, which of course isn't true.

On the up side, you now get up to 3GB shared VRAM instead of 2GB, so you'll be able to play some less-ancient games and use slightly more modern 3D-rendering apps. However, VMware is still lagging badly on 3D support (DirectX 10 has been obsolete since 2008, so VMware's a decade behind user needs – it's still stuck at DirectX 10.1).

Credits:

Charles Green and Amandeep Dhindsa in this Ubuntu VMware Workstation thread at Stack Exchange: https://askubuntu.com/questions/537787/enable-3d-hw-acceleration-on-vmware-workstation-10-on-ubuntu-14-04/1095171#1095171
Mikero in this Macs and VMware Fusion thread at VMTN: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/597366


It's solved already.

The problem is my internet connection not stable at that moment.
when I had a stable connection it worked flawlessy!


How to add additional "contact me" information to an apple-id

Try add an Apple ID using these steps:

To add an additional email address, follow these steps:

Sign in to your Apple ID account page.
Click Edit in the Account section.
Under Reachable at, select Add More.
Enter your additional email address and we'll send a verification to that address. Enter the verification code and click Verify.

If you didn’t get an email:

  Make sure that you enter an email address that you're not already using as an Apple ID. If you want to delete one of your additional email addresses, click  x next to the address.

If the error keeps showing people who have experienced it:

  They had to transfer me to a Senior Advisor who after listening to my explanation concluded that this had to be forwarded to the Engineering Department and for this he had to create a ticket and do some folllow-up.


How to replace an MP3 or M4A in iTunes with a higher quality file, without having to re-do playlists containing the track?

You can just replace the file in the filesystem.

Unfortunately, iTunes is too clever for it's own boots and registers for Finder events. So renaming a file in Finder will update it's location in iTunes if iTunes is open!

So here's one way I've tried that works.

Quit iTunes (actually quit, not just close window);
Locate the file in Finder:

This could be done in iTunes (before quitting) by right-clicking and choosing Show in Finder;

Replace the file in Finder with one with the exact same filename;
Open iTunes

iTunes will then use this file when you attempt to play it. Note: if any of the ID3 tags differ they will be updated in iTunes too (which is probably what you want). This means if you replace it with a file with the same file name but with less information in the metadata, you'll have less information in the iTunes browser.


Can Super Duper perform "smart update" from SSD to HDD?

SuperDuper can do this. I've done it with a MacBook before. As far as SuperDuper is concerned, it's just two drives.


Keyboard shortcut to move tabs left or right?

Here are two AppleScripts for moving tabs one position right or left. The AppleScript gets the current tab index, checks if it can be moved, then moves it and ensures it's still active. This does refresh the page though but this appears to be a limitation of the AppleScript since it uses the Standard Suite's move.

Move tab one to the right

tell application "Safari" to tell front window
    set currentindex to index of current tab
    if currentindex is equal to number of tabs then return
    move tab currentindex to after tab (currentindex + 1)
    set current tab to tab (currentindex + 1)
end tell

Move tab one to the left

tell application "Safari Technology Preview" to tell front window
    set currentindex to index of current tab
    if currentindex is 1 then return
    move tab currentindex to before tab (currentindex - 1)
    set current tab to tab (currentindex - 1)
end tell

You can assign keyboard shortcuts to these by creating a service to run these scripts and assigning a shortcut to the service, or with a third-party app.


How do I see everything ever installed on my Mac in one place?

I'm not sure you'll get everything in one place across so many different installation methods, especially things like Homebrew, Macports and Ruby gems...

But for the 'standard' installations, you could check out CleanApp (or various alternatives). It tends to work best if you install it early on, since it monitors installations, but it can also detect, to some extent, what is already installed.

Another option would be AppFresh (or various alternatives), though AppFresh has gone commercial now, so no longer free.

Some of those (or the alternatives linked) should show you a good selection of App Store, manually installed Applications (DMG/PKG/zip) and the like, but I don't think any will go as far as Homebrew, Macports or Ruby.


does a 4K GoPro video airdropped into an iOS device take up space?

In the Settings, go to General -> Usage -> Manage Storage in order to see how much space every app is using. If you can't find the twenty gb there, it might be in a temporary file that should disappear if the power is turned off and the phone is rebooted.


What do the checkboxes that appear when editing the card for "Me" do?

It's for selective sharing of details when exporting a contact card, as this Finer Things in Mac post suggests. It allows you to keep the unchecked items more private by omitting them from the sharing aspect of Address Book (soon to be Contacts) on OS X.

  Lion’s Address Book allows you to select which details to share with others when exporting your contact card. As long as you have told Address Book which card is yours using the Card > Make This My Card option, editing your card will display a checkbox to the right of each detail you’ve entered. Deselect a checkbox, and that detail will be excluded when you drag your card out of Address Book or click the Share button at the bottom.


Gatekeeper preventing from opening files from Finder (launching apps is fine)

Just experienced a similar issue on a 10.13 system after having migrated it from a 10.12 system -- turns out /var/db/gkopaque.bundle wasn't valid, so I copied that from a good 10.13 system (by making a tarball as root on the good system, extracting it as root on the destination system), restarting (the system or killing syspolicyd), and that fixed the issue.


Log into the iOS YouTube app (iOS 4.2.1) OR Export favorites some other way?

open youtube on computer log in copy link and mail to a friend  open mail on iphone  go to sent open the one you mailed open link. then on bottom of screen hit foward button then save to screen   new app my youtube


I think I've found the problem. The weather in the Today widget is only correct if Location Services is able to determine the location, which only happens if I enable WiFi. I normally have WiFi disabled because I use an Ethernet connection to my router.

Temporarily turning WiFi on fixes the weather in the Today widget. The Weather widget doesn't require this because you configure the city explicitly.


Restoring from TM backup causes Mail to import and eat up HD space on Mac Air

I would try in ~/Library/Mail. You can delete the contents in this folder, then go into mail and rebuilt your inbox to make sure everything syncs.

Note: it's called the MacBook Air


Can I run a script in the background? (Apple script editor)

No, System Events can only send keystrokes to the frontmost window and is not capable of sending keystrokes to a window  that's in the background.


WindowServer is eating lots of CPU, can't work out why

I have DELL UP3216Q external monitor. I had the same problem with "surface is not detached, CoreDisplay is detached" errors being spammed when I run log stream --predicate '(process == "WindowServer")' --debug. I'm using the external monitor with the Mac lid closed.

The errors stopped when I changed System Preferences >  Displays > Display scaling settings so that scaling is not maximum on the external monitor. If I change the scaling back to maximum (more space) the errors start again on logging mode.

WindowServer CPU use was reduced slightly, but it is still around 30 %. Atleast the fan stopped spinning so fast.


As claimed by this issue, text substitution appears to have been disabled due to a bug:

  Text replacement was originally disabled due to http://crbug.com/173405 but Apple has since fixed the root cause of the issue.

Another issue is open to track progress on the feature.


Macbook's with USB-C ports do not support Thunderbolt 3 and therefore the Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter can not be used for Target Display Mode. See Use your iMac as a display with target display mode and About the Apple Thunderbolt 3 (USB-C) to Thunderbolt 2 Adapter
However, if your new MacBook really is a 2020 MacBook Pro, then your question is a duplicate of Target Display Mode not working on MacBook Pro 13" 2020. According to IW1234's answer, Apple Support stated they do not have this feature in newer devices.
I should also mention the 2014 iMac is not suppose to be running a macOS newer that High Sierra. However, I have a 2013 iMac with High Sierra and Catalina installed. When running Catalina, Target Display Mode works for video, but not for sound.


How can I reinstall OS X without a valid App Store connection?

use Cmd + Option + R to go into internet recovery then follow these steps https://support.apple.com/en-nz/HT201314


How to create ~/.bash_profile and ~/.profile

You can use the touch command.

For instance,

cd ~

to go to the home directory.

Now we will create a file called .bash_profile (the dot means that it will be hidden).

Then use nano or vi in the Terminal. Unless you know what vi is, just use nano. To open up these files, you would use:

sudo nano .bash_profile

sudo makes sure that you will be able to save these files. Here, you can add aliases. nano or vi will automatically create a new file if it does not exist in your current directory in Terminal.

After you are finished, press Ctrl + O, Enter, and Ctrl + X to save and quit. Finally, use

source ~/.bash_profile

to reload the Terminal and it will read what you put in those files.

Of course, you can alias that too if you want. :)

To answer your final question,
these files will automatically be read every time you open the Terminal. However, if there is an error (For instance, don't put spaces between aliases), it will tell you.

More Information

As George pointed out, .bash_profile will run only on login shells. For non-login shells, you would need to create a .bashrc file with:

    sudo nano .bashrc

Links

.bash_profile vs .bashrc

Importance of .bashrc


How to re-enable sounds for calendar notifications?

I've been dealing with Exchange/mail.app on iOS issues at my company for years and the only reliable way to deal with this problem is one of two ways.

Delete the Exchange account from your iOS device and re-add it. Since everything on Exchange is kept on the server you will lose nothing but the time it takes to do this.
Move your Exchange-based email account(s) to (the free) MS Outlook app for iOS.

Both of these seem like unfortunate choices, but both work. The Outlook email client is actually pretty good and (for me) allows me to keep my work and personal emails completely separate.

The issue with Exchange and mail.app not syncing up properly from time to time (and other, ahem..., issues) is an ongoing issue that (I have heard but cant find the source to cite) MS Blames on Apple and vice-versa. So there is no actual fix for the problem. Deleting the Exchange account for mail.app forces it to re-sync everything and (9 times out of 10) will fix the issue. Until it happens again, which is one of the reasons I migrated my work email to the outlook.app from MS.

If someone has discovered a permanent fix for this I would love to hear about it as it would save me that in-person interaction with (yet another) user and a lot of wasted time fiddling with it. So far it still exists on iOS 13.


Wiped my version 1 IPad and it won't load Facebook now

iOS will let you download the last compatible version if you already have the app in your purchase history.

You can add the app to your purchase history using iTunes on your computer, since iTunes is version-agnostic. Once you've downloaded the app on iTunes, it will be in your purchase history and attempting to download it again on your device should prompt you to accept an older version of the app.


Connecting to SSH server slow since macOS upgrade

I tracked down my slow SSH logins to IPv6 timeouts. This was from a Sierra client to a Sierra server. After adding the following to my client ~/.ssh/config it is now near instantaneous.

# Default is 'any' which includes inet6
AddressFamily inet


Looking for a lightweight MP3 player for OS X

If you prefer a dedicated app rather than use Quick Look, check Vox, the lightweight music app for Mac OS X.
It's free but you can donate.


Can I use Steam in macOS Catalina or am I stuffed?

Steam will run fine in macOS Catalina.

However, what you may find is that it doesn’t launch initially. If this is the case, totally remove it from your system and then reinstall it from Steam’s website after you’re on macOS Catalina. This will ensure that the correct (i.e. 64-bit) version of Steam is installed for macOS.

IMPORTANT

The fact that Steam itself runs fine does not guarantee that all of the games in your library will run fine. So you will need to do your own due diligence to ensure your favourite games are compatible (i.e. they will need to be 64-bit versions to run on MacOS Catalina).


The application "Terminal" can be found under /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.

You can also easily find and open files and applications using Spotlight:

Command + Space Bar (to open Spotlight search)
Start typing "Terminal"
Hit Enter when terminal is found

That is a really handy move I use to open almost everything.

Update:

Helpful links for Shell/Bash beginners can be found here.


Invalid Password El Capitan with Filevault encryption

I found that the problem was faulty ram after doing hardware diagnostic tests.  In order to do this you might need to boot from the Apple "ASD" images.  To find the correct one for your machine this website has a list of which ASD relates to each Mac product. http://www.dannydullin.com/apple-service-diagnostic-asd-reference-list/

After you know the "ASD 3S***" number you can then search Google to download the image files and write them to bootable storage as explained in the documentation stored inside the images.

ASD 3S108
iMac (Early 2006 17-inch)
iMac (Early 2006 20-inch)
MacBook Pro (17-inch)
Mac mini (Early 2006)
MacBook (13-inch)
iMac (Mid 2006 17-inch)
iMac (17-inch Late 2006)
iMac (17-inch Late 2006 CD)
iMac (20-inch Late 2006)
iMac (24-inch)

ASD 3S116
MacBook (13-inch Mid 2007)
MacBook Pro (15-inch Core 2 Duo)
MacBook Pro (17-inch Core 2 Duo)
MacBook (Late 2006)
MacBook Pro (15-inch 2.4/2.2GHz)
MacBook Pro (17-inch 2.4GHz)
iMac (24-inch Mid 2007)
iMac (20-inch Mid 2007)
Mac mini (Mid 2007)

ASD 3S123
iMac (20-inch Early 2008)
iMac (24-inch Early 2008)
MacBook (13-inch Early 2008)
MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2008)
MacBook Pro (17-inch Early 2008)
Mac Pro (Early 2008)
MacBook (13-inch Late 2007)

ASD 3S132
MacBook Air (Late 2008)
MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2008)
MacBook (13-inch, Early 2009)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2009)
iMac (20-inch, Early 2009)
iMac (24-inch, Early 2009)
Mac Mini (Early 2009)
Mac Pro (Early 2009)
iMac (20-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Air (Mid 2009)
MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2009)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2.5.3GHz, Mid 2009)

ASD 3S138
MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2010)
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009)
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2009)
iMac (27-inch, Quad Core, Late 2009)
Mac mini (Late 2009)

ASD 3S139
Mac mini (Mid 2010)

ASD 3S140
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2010)
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)

ASD 3S142
MacBook Air (13-inch, Late 2010)
MacBook Air (11-inch, Late 2010)

ASD 3S143
Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

ASD 3S144
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Early 2011)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Early 2011)

ASD 3S145
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2011)
iMac (21.5-inch, Mid 2011)

ASD 3S146
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2011)
MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2011)
Mac mini (Mid 2011)

ASD 3S147
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2011)

ASD 3S148
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Late 2011)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Late 2011)
MacBook Pro (17-inch, Late 2011)

ASD 3S150
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012)

ASD 3S152
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012)
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012)
Mac mini (Late 2012)
Mac mini Server (Late 2012)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2012)

ASD 3S155
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2013)
iMac (21.5-inch, Early 2013)
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro (15-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)
MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2012)
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2012)

ASD 3S156
MacBook Air (11-inch, Mid 2013)
MacBook Air (13-inch, Mid 2013)

ASD 3S159
Mac Pro (Late 2013)

ASD 3S162
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Late 2013)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014)
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014)


Embedding code snippets in iBooks Author

There is a way more simple way to do this... I'm using iBooks Author 2.0 it has a "Paste and Retain Styles" option that works like a charm.

I edit the code snippets in Xcode then select and copy the section I want:

Then control click where I want to paste it into my book:

Done! The snippet is included with syntax highlighting:

Pro Tip 1:
Take time to set up Xcode to use the font you want so you don't have to fiddle with it once the code is pasted into iBooks Author:

Pro Tip 2:
Here are some other useful settings for your code snippet paragraphs, keep the lines together and disable auto-hyphenation.


Is it possible to adjust Lightroom settings with scroll wheel

I don't think it is easily possible to use your scroll wheel to adjust. The only way I can think of is writing a script that translates your scroll wheel action to a up and down arrow key action. but that would prevent you from using your wheel for other actions.

Possible alternative options are:

Clicking on the number besides the slider and by holding your (left) mouse button and moving your mouse you can now adjust the slider.
Click on the number then change the number with your keyboard arrow(up/down) keys. This works best for fine adjustments.
Click on the slider then change the slider with tour keyboard arrow(up/down) keys. This works best for making somewhat bigger adjustments.


Host name change notification from System Administrator root@server.com

I was having the same problem & found this thread on Apple Support Communities.

The short of it is that unless the name change is done through the command line with sudo changeip, it will forever complain about the change. The command goes like this:

sudo changeip OLDIPADDRESS NEWIPADDRESS OLDNAME NEWNAME

Use the same IP address and name in both spots and it's happy.


Open the memory and tap on the existing title. The video will start playing. Tap again anywhere on the screen, then tap  and set the name as the title.


How to change power savings settings on iPad 2, iOS 4.3.3

Go to settings>general>auto lock>never .

or

If you have the smartcover you can also set that as the on/off trigger.


Can I configure the relative brightness level that auto-adjust will set?

You can use Shady.
The way it works is that it...

...pull(s) a virtual shade over your screen ... dimming the display to a more comfortable level.
Shady will save your shade level and restore it next time you launch the app.

As it's just a virtual (but effective) dimming method, I doubt that this saves much energy, but I cannot confirm this as LED displays should consume less power if displaying darker colors.


Transfer OS X Dashboard Widgets Between Computers

Widgets are saved at /Library/Widgets/ and /Users/[user]/Library/Widgets/

If you copy /Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/com.apple.dashboard.plist that will copy your Dashboard configuration.

Each widget will have it's own configuration file in /Users/[user]/Library/Preferences/, for example widget-com.apple.widget.weather.plist


Is there a dashboard widget that has extended Unicode characters?

I couldn't find one, unfortunately. If you know the codes (which you can easily find from the web) you can enable the Unicode Hex input from System Preferences>Language and Text>Input Sources (it's near the bottom). That way, when you hold ALT, you can enter a Unicode symbol number for that symbol to appear.

Example: ALT+270E enters a ✎ pencil.


How can I use more than one connected drive for Network Time Machine backups on Lion Server?

My headhurts from fixing this.
I found this discussion thread which allowed me to enable Time Machine Sharing for more than one volume. It's not as tricky as it sounds, but you do need to go step by step.

The only things I had to do that weren't in this discussion thread were:

I had to log in as root. Root was disabled in my server, so I had to enable it.
I couldn't be bothered downloading xCode, so I used pListEditPro to edit the pLists.
If you use Server.app's Time Machine service as suggested by the discussion it renames the Time Machine Share to "Backups" which is annoying if you're upgrading from a previous set up.

  I have figured out a way to enable multiple backup targets.
  However, it's one of these things I wouldn't want to describe to anyone except true programmer types, because everyone else has a 90%+ chance of messing up their system if they do something wrong.
   It involves turning off file sharing, and then editing the plist files in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/sharepoints/

  The gist of it is this:

  a) first create all the share points you later want to use for TimeMachine, and set them up for afp-only file sharing, also create one TM target, which you can either use later, or have there so the system has one entry it knows how to handle. I just made a bogus one that I'm not actively using.

  b) turn off file sharing in Server.app

  c) turn off TimeMachine in Server.app

  d) now you can edit the files, the easiest is with Xcode, so you may want to install that first

  e) for each sharpoint you made in a) there will be a corresponding .plist file in the location indicated, these are the files that need to be edited.

  f) for each of these files
       1) the item0 string property in the timeMachineBackup array must be switched from 0 to 1
       2) a new key of type array with the name timeMachineBackupUUID must be created
       3) in the newly created array an item of type string must be placed with the value of a UUID, which can be created with the shell command uuidgen

  g) make sure all the edited plist files are saved

  h) turn on TimeMachine in the Server.app again

Big thanks to Ronald C.F. Antony who found this fix on Apple's Discussions.


I'm running 10.12.6, too, and it works the same way for me.

If I follow the exact same steps as you described, I get the same results that you get.  I'm assuming this is normal behavior.


Does TRIM have my pictures in memory somehow?

Regrettably TRIM is unlikely to be relevant to recovering your lost photos.

  A trim command (known as TRIM in the ATA command set, and UNMAP in the SCSI command set) allows an operating system to inform a solid-state drive (SSD) which blocks of data are no longer considered in use and can be wiped internally.

However, a data recovery organisation may still be able to extract photos from your iPhone's storage. Much depends on if the location on the storage has been erased or if the original files are encrypted.

The technical details of how your photos could be recovered is better left unknown; it is unlikely to directly help you. Contact a couple of reputable data recovery organisations and ask them for quotes.

This is a horrible situation to be in. I hope you are able to recover the photos. Good luck!


Does it look something like this? http://www.iqtan.com/_/rsrc/1349108748767/ios-6/9-iphone-messages/iphone-sending-and-receiving-messages/exclamation%20mark.png

This just means that the message wasn't sent, most likely because you are in an area with bad reception or Apple's iMessaging services are temporarily overwhelmed.

If not, please post a picture so we can better identify this.


Will iPhone SE connect to a 802.11b/g router?

Absolutely.

Almost all wifi products are backwards compatible (I can't think of any that aren't). Specifically regarding the iPhone SE, the site GSM Arena lists the full specs for the iPhone SE's wifi modem: Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac, hotspot.


Migration Assistant between two Macs: Yosemite and El Capitan

Yes. Quite possible.

The only difficulty would be if one of the users on each machine is 'the same person'.
It will not merge accounts, it will make new accounts for each migrated user.


-What happens if you take the memory out and replace it with the original RAM?  Does it work?

-Have you tried re-seating the RAM? (e.g. take it out and put it in again, making sure it's fitting in the slots properly, and also making sure there's no dust on the RAM or in the slots...)

-Is the RAM PC5300 DDR2 ECC?

-Have you tried resetting the SMU?  http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Give those things a go and see what happens.


Shift + T not working on Apple Wireless Keyboard

I did that once by accidentally setting an application hot key to be Shift-(and some letter key). Did you recently change hot key settings? If not, did you install something recently that may have had hot keys. If all else fails, try rebooting in Safe Boot Mode (hold down the Shift key on startup until the gear starts spinning), log in and see if you can type. When you are done in Safe Boot, restart w/o any keys.


Is there a way to use my iPhone 5's unlimited data on my iPad mini Wi-Fi without the expensive hotspot option?

There have been hacks in the past to enable tethering, but in almost all cases, the carrier can tell what you are doing. I have even heard that people that tethered were individually contacted by AT&T to let them know that the tethering fee would be added if they wished to continue tethering and asked the customers to come in to chat if there were perhaps a misunderstanding.

You'll want to look for an unofficial AirPlay receiver app on the jailbreak side of things since Apple isn't even allowing these for solid commercial sound apps - let alone video apps.

Long term - let's hope enough people push for network neutrality in the US cellular space so that there is one tariff for data based on volume - not how you intend to use that data.


I have a similar problem with my iMac 2017 and a 128 GB SD card (SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC UHS-1).

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/250474343?answerId=250905207022#250905207022

My iMac (OS 10.14.6) refuse to mount the 128 GB card.

It's a brand new card and I use it in my digital camera. The card works as it should in my camera and I'm also able to mount the card on my Macbook Pro (2009) OS 10.11.6.

I have other SD cards (32 GB) that I can mount on my iMac, so I know that there is no hardware problem with my iMac's card reader.

It's weird that the 128 GB card works on an older Macbook Pro which is running an older version of Mac OS. But it doesn't work on a newer model (iMac 2017) which is running the latest Mac OS version.

I think it is a software bug that Apple needs to fix. Although I have a feeling that Apple does not prioritize it. So the best thing is to use another computer than Apple and their latest OS, or to not use 128 GB cards with your Apple computer.


iTunes hangs at "Step 6 of 7. Importing photos"

Quit iTunes
Delete ~/Pictures/iPod Photo Cache (may or may not exist)
Go to `~/Pictures/iPhoto Library
CTRL+click > Show Package Contents
Delete iPod Photo Cache inside the library
Try syncing again.

Worked for me.


How do I turn off email alerts for find my iPhone

Update Nov 2015 - El Capitan, iOS 9.1
This no longer appears to happen on each Find my iPhone access - just tested with both my own & my partner's phones - no email.

It's not possible. there have been a lot of queries on this recently

See  Find My iPhone Email Notification for more info


Applescript: Automatically check and remount server volume stopped working

I managed to solve this problem by 'borrowing' some code from a blog I found.

on idle
    set intnt to do shell script "ping -c 1 192.168.0.10; echo -n"
    set paras to number of paragraphs in intnt
    if paras < 5 then
    else
        set serverIP to "smb://192.168.0.10/Plex"
        set UserAccount to "[USERNAME]"
        set ServerPassword to "[PASSWORD]"
        set serverVolume to UserAccount
        tell application "Finder"
            try
                if disk serverVolume exists then
                else
                    mount volume serverIP as user name UserAccount with password ServerPassword
                end if
            end try
        end tell
    end if
    return 5
end idle

I also found that if you add this code to the end of an app's info.plist file, its icon doesn't appear on the Dock.

Just copy-and-paste these lines before the final /dict entry.

Downside is I have to use Activity Manager or Terminal to kill the app, but it makes for a tidier Dock.

<key>LSUIElement</key>
<true/>


How do I silence the "itunes needs to check for an update to the carrier settings for your iPad" message?

To silence this message follow its instructions:

  Go to the Advanced pane of iTunes preferences and turn on “Check for new software updates automatically”.


Mac Mini: No sound except for startup chime

Try this
https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/54800/210364

I had the same problem, and these steps helped:

Reboot your mac holding Command + Option + P + R until you hear at least two startup chimes.


iBook on iPad: turn pages with voice command

No - without some external hardware that would somehow touch the screen for you, voice input is for Siri / VoiceOver and not general accessibility controls.

You might look to a program like Instapaper where you can scroll the view by tilting the device but iBooks doesn't have any accelerometer based controls or voice controls at present. It's not that it couldn't be added, just that it hasn't.


Maybe that's helpful.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnhFxY40C_w


How do I get Messages to appear in the Notification Center?

This appears to have been a (temporary) bug that sometimes happened shortly after an app is first configured for Notification Center. The settings indicated in the original question should be sufficient to get messages to appear in Notification Center.


Most people start at https://iforgot.apple.com and work through apple support. Same as if you forgot your bank password or email - you go through the support organization and get your account returned to you. You would need to do that or go though support to reset the Activation lock presuming you can prove you're the original purchaser of the equipment.

See:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201441
How can I bypass Activation Lock?


GateKeeper allows me to install anything, no checks are done

Downloading a file over SMB will not trigger quarantining, and since the app is not quarantined the gatekeeper policy never gets checked. I'm not sure why it's being marked as quarantined on your other computers...

To check for quarantining at any point, use the ls -ld@ command to look for the com.apple.quarantine attribute:

$ ls -ld@ /Applications/TextWrangler.app
drwxrwxr-x@ 3 gordon  staff  102 Apr 30  2012 /Applications/TextWrangler.app
    com.apple.FinderInfo     32
    com.apple.quarantine     57

If that quarantine attribute is attached to the app, the gatekeeper policy will be checked; if not, it won't. The interesting question is why it got quarantined on your other computers, and if you use this command to check the application at various points as you distribute it, you can figure out when the attribute is getting attached (and therefore why it's getting attached).

EDIT: There's a note relating to this in the "Click here for more details" section of Apple's KB article #HT5290:

  Important: Developer ID signature applies to apps downloaded from the Internet. Apps from other sources, such as file servers, external drives, or optical discs are exempt, unless the apps were originally downloaded from the Internet.


Cron job running (?) and output file is being logged every night at 1:35am, but there is nothing listed in crontab -l

This must have been a bug. As soon as I opened crontab -e when I was initially trying to work on this, it stopped logging. Not sure how or why my initial crontab jobs were erased, but I simply recreated them and everything is fine now.


Is there a maximum number of AirPlay receivers that I can output to at the same time?

The maximum number of Airplay receivers are 3 to 6 as noted in iTunes: About playing music with AirPlay

  The maximum number of outputs are three to six in typical conditions. The number that works for you will depend on your environmental conditions (such as building composition and local radio interference), distance to the outputs, and available network capacity relative to your other usage.


How to make command-key shortcuts work again?

This may not help directly but have you tried creating another account on the system to see if you experience the same issues?
If a new account does work then I am willing to bet a plist file in ~/Library/Preferences/ got messed up or not upgraded to the new 10.6 format. I recall a similar key mapping issue when I went from 10.4 to 10.5.


What is the difference between the sudo and su command?

OS X handles sudo and su identically to Linux.

sudo is a command that, without any additional options, will run a command as root. For example:

% touch /newfile
touch: /newfile: Permission denied
% ls -l /newfile
ls: /newfile: No such file or directory
% sudo touch /newfile
% ls -l /newfile
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  0 Apr 27 11:45 /newfile

su on the other hand, will switch the current user to root (again without any extra commands). In the example below, I have to run sudo su, since I don't know the root password for my system:

% whoami
alake
% sudo su
$ whoami
root

The key difference between sudo and su is sudo runs a command as root, whereas su makes you root. Much like other command line utilities there are a number of alternative ways to use both sudo and su, if you're interested you can always run man <command> eg. man sudo to get more information.


I look at this issue the other way (which may not help you at all as you mention video driver issues and you want full linux access to the GPU).

My take is "Which virtualization environment works best with the linux distributions I want to use?"

For me the answer is VMware Fusion, then VirtualBox and lastly Parallels. And I really haven't heard any significant issues with all three of these in the last several months.

The reason is that my time is so much more precious than whatever marginal increase in speed I would have gotten installing linux natively. If and when I need huge performance I deploy to co-located linux service where you can easily pick your optimal price / performance / service level.


i have a macbook - 2012 and the ssd is full - only 32mb free - i cannot boot up . need to delete files but how?

yes, space is certainly an issue.

can you put this into target disk mode with a fireire or thunderbolt connection to another mac?  this is relatively user friendly if you have another mac around and a connection between them.

do you have a recovery partition on this machine?  is that how you got to disk utility without being able to boot?

you could boot into this and use terminal to remove some unneeded files to make it bootable/repairable.


I had a similar problem after installing Windows 10 IoT for raspberry pi on an sd card and it managed to make the card and file have no +w on directory/file. This was mistake number one as it turns out me managing to write this to a card on a Mac was never going to work on the pi. So the problem remained of how to reformat, as erase in disk utility would not work and no use of chmod would change the bits. Tried to change on an ubuntu box with the same problem "Read-only file system".

The only (hacky) way I managed to do reformat the card was to put it in a camera and reformat there - and bingo - done.

I'm sure there is a legit way to do this (maybe on windoze but I don't have one of them), but the camera trick worked like a charm. It was a fujifilm x100s in case not all cameras can manage it.


iPad app for collecting door-to-door survey information?

You could use Bento for iPad. It allows you to create custom databases with great looking entry screens. It will also store information on the device until you sync it again.


Finally recovered the Apple ID by going to iForgot.Apple.com and then resetting e-mail password to reuse our e-mail which is linked to Apple ID. After that we reset Apple ID password and now we can use the device.


Help Unmouting disk if UUID is mounted until a Specific Time

There is no shell script needed if you use two launch agents.

You need the UUID of your Time Machine backup drive:

diskutil info $VolumeName | grep "Disk / Partition UUID:"

Replace $VolumeName by the actual volume name of your TM drive. If the name contains spaces use double quotes (e.g. "Time Machine backup drive".

Create two files usr.tmvolume.unmount.plist and usr.tmvolume.mount.plist in ~/Library/LaunchAgents/:

nano ~/Library/LaunchAgents/usr.tmvolume.mount.plist

with the content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>usr.tmvolume.mount</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/sbin/diskutil</string>
        <string>mount</string>
        <string>$UUID</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>15</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>15</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

and

nano ~/Library/LaunchAgents/usr.tmvolume.unmount.plist

with the content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>usr.tmvolume.unmount</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>/usr/sbin/diskutil</string>
        <string>unmount</string>
        <string>$UUID</string>
    </array>
    <key>StartCalendarInterval</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>8</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>30</integer>
        </dict>
        <dict>
            <key>Hour</key>
            <integer>15</integer>
            <key>Minute</key>
            <integer>45</integer>
        </dict>
    </array>
</dict>
</plist>

Replace $UUID in both plists by the UUID of your Time Machine volume found previously.

Load both plists with:

launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/usr.tmvolume.*

Now the TM backup  drive will be unmounted at 8:30am, mounted at 3:15pm and unmounted again at 3:45pm. Adjust the dates as needed.


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

Apple exposes the hardware size of the drive in several places.

About this Mac in the Apple Menu - click storage tab
System Information app (click System Report... in About this Mac - overview section)

there's a storage general category
there's specific storage details (firmware / bus position / bus speed) for the SATA / AHCI / NVMe section based on how your storage is physically connected to the hardware

Disk Utility (in /Applications/Utilities)

The undo is either finesse the partition table (there are hundreds of questions here on how to change gpt and diskutil or to backup your files, and erase install a new OS which basically boots to another recovery OS and runs Disk Utility to repartition / erase the drive.

Good luck with your choice of path to get the storage back and set.


Mac Air -first no sound, now it won't charge

Figured it out.  Opened up the laptop, and a wire was lose right by the fan. That seemed to be the charging issue.  Another wire was lose on the other side, may have been audio.  Everything works great now!

Prob bumped the air a little too harshly.


Uninstalling Java 6 to replace with Java 8

If you want to remove Java 6... From How to properly uninstall Java 6 on OSX?, do the following:

  Remove the "system" JVM installed and maintained by Software Update

% sudo rm -rf /System/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0.jdk

  Remove any Java Developer Previews

% sudo rm -rf /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/1.6.0*.jdk

  Do NOT remove any content in the JavaVM.framework. Those items are
  required by Java 7, 8, 9+ as well as Java SE 6. No modern version of
  OS X has a Java JDK inside there anyway.

Then to have Java 8 run from the Terminal when using java -version you need to install the JDK not JRE.

Note: I've tested the instructions here under OS X 10,10.3 and it works however maybe you had installed Java 6 for use by some application that needed it, as an example I installed Apples Java 6 to run muCommander however it will run under Java 8 too.


Available colors in iTerm / terminal.app

By writing :help cterm-colors in Vim, then I got the left side of the following table. By trial-and-error, I tried out different colors from iTerm and figured out the following (ready to be copied into a .vim-colorscheme to help remember what is what:

" AVAILABLE ANSI COLORS IN iTerm
"
" 0 =     Black                     - iTerm-ref: Black, normal
" 1 =     DarkBlue                  - iTerm-ref: Blue, normal
" 2 =     DarkGreen                 - iTerm-ref: Green, normal
" 3 =     DarkCyan                  - iTerm-ref: Cyan, normal
" 4 =     DarkRed                   - iTerm-ref: Red, normal
" 5 =     DarkMagenta               - iTerm-ref: Magenta, normal
" 6 =     Brown, DarkYellow         - iTerm-ref: ??
" 7 =     Grey                      - iTerm-ref: ??
" 8 =     DarkGrey                  - iTerm-ref: ??
" 9 =     Blue, LightBlue           - iTerm-ref: Blue, bright
" 10 =    Green, LightGreen         - iTerm-ref: Green, bright
" 11 =    Cyan, LightCyan           - iTerm-ref: Cyan, bright
" 12 =    Red, LightRed             - iTerm-ref: Red, bright
" 13 =    Magenta, LightMagenta     - iTerm-ref: Magenta, bright
" 14 =    Yellow, LightYellow       - iTerm-ref: Yellow, bright
" 15 =    White                     - iTerm-ref: White, bright

The colors with question-marks are unable to be changed (unless I'm blind or something).


What in the world is happening on Handbrake on my Mac?

Did you remove the VLC player ?

Because HandBrake no longer includes the libraries needed to decrypt commercial DVDs, you’ll also need to install the VLC media player.

To get the 64-bit benefits from HandBrake, you’ll need to have a 64-bit version of VLC as well.

The standard download is a Universal Binary and contains both 32- and 64-bit code for Intel Macs—if you want to save some disk space, you can download the VLC specific version here.


Reinstall MacOS on a Macbook that doesn't have MacOS anymore?

You can obtain the latest Build of El Capitan (10.11.x) directly from Apple via this link.

As for creating a bootable USB installer, I would recommend converting the dmg to an iso via AcetoneISO.

It'll convert the DMG to an ISO for you. After that, create the bootable USB  with your new yourmacos.iso using DD.

dd if=/path/to/yourmacos.iso of=/dev/sdX && sync

I don't know if you are familiar with this but dd does byte by byte copying and
sync ensures that all data has been written to your USB (so you can savely unplug/eject it afterwards).


How to keep a MS Word installation working after exchanging HDD without license key at hand?

You need to copy

/Library/Preferences/com.microsoft.office.licensing.plist

from the old machine to the new one.  Make sure you put it into the exact same location.


No apple news app after the mojave upgrade

You will want to delete the pirate copies of the installer and re-try a clean erase install from an image you get from Apple directly.

Once that's done, consider that once the app is installed, it may be blocked or not work in most regions.

  The News app is available in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

https://support.apple.com/kb/HT202329

Make sure you're in a region where the app is available, or have the region of macOS set to one of these regions.


Cannot resize APFS container even though there is a free space directly after it - diskutil error: -69743

Apparently a partition map needed repairing. It is worth noting, that this worked, while running First Aid from Disk Utility didn't help.
sudo diskutil repairdisk disk0

It warned about possibly destroying an EFI partition, so I backed up its contents:
Repairing the partition map might erase disk0s1, proceed? (y/N) y
Started partition map repair on disk0
Checking prerequisites
Checking the partition list
Adjusting partition map to fit whole disk as required
Checking for an EFI system partition
Checking the EFI system partition's size
Checking the EFI system partition's file system
Checking the EFI system partition's folder content
Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces
Checking booter partitions
Reviewing boot support loaders
Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions
The partition map appears to be OK
Finished partition map repair on disk0

... but the EFI partition survived, and then the resize worked:
diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0


You may want to try to use the Tab key, and the Ctrl+F5, Ctrl+` etc., as advertised here:


Does restoring an iPhone from backup remove existing data from the iPhone?

Restoring an iPhone from backup will wipe all its contents, then replace everything with what’s in the backup.

Whatever data is on your iPhone now, but not in the backup, will be GONE after the restoration process.


"Missing Quartz Composition" displayed on TotalTerminal

In Mavericks, transitions can be found under

/Applications/Quartz\ Composer.app/Contents/Resources/Examples/Graphic\ Transitions/


Setup a password. But now when entering the password it says wrong password

Have you tried just pressing the return key when asked for a password? If there is no password set, OS X will still ask for a password to do some things, but still let you progress by pressing the return key without typing in the password.


How many times can i charge iPad2 Battery?

Apple has a great page on batteries and it does say that they are designed to still have 80% of their capacity remaining after 1000 charge cycles.

Not all batteries are perfect, so you could have problems even on the second charge. Heat, always having it charged and deep discharge can also cause them to fail or wear out before you get to 1000 charges.

Don't confuse an isolated failure or anecdotal evidence for the overall statistics for a million devices seen as a group. Also, damage like wetness or other failures of the electronics can bring down a perfect battery so it's hard to know what might cause a specific failure without taking it apart.


Opened a zip file in a spam email which created a folder in the /net folder

This sounds like someone's trying to use the same security bypass as OSX/Linker (Intego, ZDNet). It's a bug in Gatekeeper originally discovered by Filippo Cavallarin. The way it works is that if you access /net/<someservername>/<somepath>, macOS will automatically mount that server via NFS and give you direct access to files stored there. Unlike most forms of network download, any files you get this way are not considered quarantined, and thus don't have the usual security checks macOS applies to downloaded files.

First step: delete the zip file and whatever it expanded into.

Second step: unmount the remote volume with sudo umount /net/us.e-fax.org/nfs/Documents. It sounds like you've already unmounted the entire /net` directory though, which should take care of this (and shouldn't cause any other trouble).

Third step: I checked Archived.app, and it's currently just an empty shell. But its modification time is just a couple of hours ago, so it could easily have had malicious contents earlier, and the trickery the zip file used to mount it might also have been used to launch it. So... we have no idea what (if anything) it might've done to your computer.

So, you need to scan your Mac for any malware it might've installed. You can get Intego VirusBarrier Scanner from the Mac App Store, and Malwarebytes scanner here. Since I have no idea what (if anything) it did, I can't make specific recommendations.

Fourth step (optional, see the "Potential mitigations" part of the Intego article): you can disable the automount mechanism that made this bypass possible by editing the file /etc/auto_master in a text editor (I recommend BBEdit -- it's great for this sort of thing even in free/demo mode), and adding "#" at the beginning of the line that starts with "/net". You can do this from Terminal with the command:

sudo sed -i.orig 's@^/net@#/net@' /etc/auto_master

Be sure to copy this command exactly; any typos (including even just the wrong kind of quotation marks) could cause trouble. Note that it'll prompt you for your admin password, but the password will not show as you type it.


OS X 10.6.8 direct IP translation and DNS issues

Arpanet: At Work Since 1969 - editing your own hosts file is the method of choice.

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1   localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost

->

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting.  Do not change this entry.
##
127.0.0.1       localhost
192.168.10.100  someweirdname.com www.someweirdname.com
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0     localhost

You might have to flush the DNS cache using sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder and sudo dscacheutil -flushcache.


If I turn off Photo stream will I lose photos?

Short answer: No, you won't lose your photos.

Solution: For free and complete syncing, the only way to go is to turn off iCloud Photo Library and My Photo Stream and stick with manual wired or WiFi syncing. It's very important to remember to turn off My Photo Stream as well if you're choosing this option. Otherwise your photos will duplicate.

Details:
Turning off photo stream will not make you lose your photos. It will only disable the Photo Stream function, which is mostly comprised of the following:

It sends optimized (device specific) versions of the photos you take to every Photo Stream enabled device.
It includes the last 1000 photos you've taken, or the last 30 days of photos, which ever is greater.
Data from Photo Stream is a one time push only, meaning it won't push again if you delete a photo from your Photo Stream.
It does not take up iCloud photo space (contrary to most people's opinion). It is a separate and completely free service within the iOS/Mac ecosystem.

When you say iPhone 7, I'm assuming you're talking about iOS 7. In iOS 8.3 and above, iCloud Photo Library (if turned on) replaces the need for Photo Stream, although Photo Stream is still available.

Using iCloud Photo Library is great if you have tons of space in the cloud, since it syncs your albums, edits, share activity... pretty much everything. SERIOUSLY, it's sweet as sugar. BUT, realistically, you will only have that kind of storage space if you pay for it; most likely, you'll run out of your free 5GB allotment since it backs everything up.

If you don't mind paying, it's a great solution. But you want to go completely free, stay away from it like the plague.

Here's a great article that explains iCloud Photo Library in excellent and digestible detail: https://tidbits.com/article/15584


you can get a recovery iOS on the development page:

https://developer.apple.com/download/

just sign in with your appleID download the recovery image and follow this introductions:

https://wccftech.com/downgrade-ios-114-to-ios-113/

the tutorial is for iOS 11 but it's the same for iOS 12.

Please make a backup before doing this!

Edit:

at https://developer.apple.com/download/ please log in with your appleID. after that you'll see a download list:

click on see all at the entry iOS Restore Images.
You'll see another list:

Download the restore Image for your iPhone.


Some iPhone 5 are eligible for a free battery replacement. Maybe that is related to your issue?

  Apple has determined that a very small percentage of iPhone 5 devices
  may suddenly experience shorter battery life or need to be charged
  more frequently. The affected iPhone 5 devices were sold between
  September 2012 and January 2013 and fall within a limited serial
  number range.

You can test if your phone is eligible, on this website.


can i print from an apple computer to a Dell printer

Yes.

Macs have built-in drivers that allow you to print to just about any USB printer.

And if the computer doesn't already have drivers (although, just about every consumer printer does), Dell supplies drivers for Mac.
You may also need to install the custom drivers if you want more advanced functionality (e.g, some brands require you to install their drivers to enable networked print).

You can easily add printers using the the Print & Scan pane of System Preferences: Just click the plus button.


External Drive With Every Version of OS X/macOS

No. Newer os want GUID partition scheme. Others want apple partition map.

You can surely put all the images on one drive, just the bootable aspect is problematic.


Preview virtual spaces in menu bar (like ubuntu)

Googling I was able to find this commercial app that looks like it does what you want. It's called TotalSpaces2 and looks to cost ~$12 US.

There a overview video that highlights all of its features. You can see an overview of all the apps on your various spaces as shown below:

From the look of the docs & features I think what you're looking for is the Overview Grid. That's shown above in a larger spread of spaces and below with a smaller spread.


Can the content of an iPhone backup be extracted?

There are several apps for extracting backups.
The one I have used is Iphone/Ipod Touch Backup Extractor, it's been around for a while now and it is freeware, just make a donation if you find it useful to help the developer keep it updated.

You simply select from which backup you want to restore by pressing the button "Read Backups", then select from the list of application settings that can be restored.
There is a detailed step by step guide here


how to change "kind" of files in OSX mavericks?

File type associations are cached by LaunchServices and can become corrupt.

Try opening /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app and entering this command:

 /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user

After the command finishes, log out of your user account, and log back in

srt files, which are SubRip Text (SRT) files, are actually plain text files. You can use the file command in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app to see that this is so:

      chillin@stack:~$
      chillin@stack:~$
      chillin@stack:~$ curl -O http://www.sub-titles.net/static/podnapisi/a/6/d/a6d482118f7790cad9926336c3f667e87618040e.zip
      chillin@stack:~$ unzip a6d482118f7790cad9926336c3f667e87618040e.zip
      Archive:  a6d482118f7790cad9926336c3f667e87618040e.zip
      inflating: Snowpiercer.2013.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-PublicHD.srt
      chillin@stack:~$ file Snowpiercer.2013.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-PublicHD.srt
      Snowpiercer.2013.720p.BluRay.DTS.x264-PublicHD.srt: ASCII English text, with CRLF line terminators
      chillin@stack:~$
      chillin@stack:~$ echo; echo '     Stack Exchange RULES!'; echo

           Stack Exchange RULES!

      chillin@stack:~$
      chillin@stack:~$

Show and hide filename extensions

Two ways to do it

How to clear custom application associations in OS X


What could be causing this screen problem?

I would think that the graphics driver power management somehow failed. If you used a less sophisticated Operating System you would see this way more often. (Especially on Linux I saw patterns like that all the time the driver crashed or before the framebuffer got initialised). If your computer would have been manufactured earlier there was some problem with nvidia chips, however your computer should not be affected.


How to turn a keyboard key to power on/off button

Bad news is that there is no way of doing this. The power button is a completely different circuit and separate cable from the top case to the MLB. (That is with the model information you have provided). You can use CTRL + Eject to bring up the sleep, shutdown, restart dialog box but there is nothing else for starting the computer up unless you set up a energy saver setting which boots the computer up at a set time.

If the button is damaged in such a way, please recommend your friend either contact AppleCare or an AASP and get his top case replaced. It may seem like a pain but really is the best option.


.pkg files are so called packages, which can be installed by Installer.app, so try right-clicking the .pkg file and hit Open with -> Installer


MacBook Pro will only charge if using a 3rd party adapter after battery replacement

If you have two genuine Apple MagSafe chargers and neither with charge/power you MacBook Pro, but a knockoff charger will, there’s an issue with your MacBook.  More than likely, it’s the DC-In board.
How it works.
In the genuine charger, there’s a chip in the MagSafe connector (not the “brick” but the magnetic part with the green/amber LED) that identifies the charger to your Mac.  If the wattage advertised is greater than or equal to what’s required, it’ll charge.  If not, it won’t and if your computer is on, will even notify you that the wrong charger is attatched.
The way it charges is that the circuitry in the DC-In board detects power from the adapter from the presence of current on the one wire charging circuit.
So, if it’s charging with the knock-offs but not the OEMs, it’s bypassing the wattage check and just “dumping” power into the DC-In board.  You don’t want this, because this is how things get fried.  Why aren’t the knock offs using the identifying chip?  Most likely cost.
The fix is simple: you need a new DC-In board.  See this related answer for more details.  It’s also called an I/O board because some models have I/O ports on it; this one doesn’t. Note: it’s possible that there may be damage to the charging circuitry on the logic board, but without putting hands on, it’s impossible to know.
A few clarifications

The 2012 13” MacBook Pro models require the 60W power adapter
Keep/use the 85W charger as it’s perfectly safe to use a charger with a higher wattage rating than what’s required
Your battery is not really related to charger wattage.  The only thing that will happen is your charging speeds will differ.  The wattage requirement is based on both charging and compute requirements (what it takes to drive the computer).
Only use genuine Apple chargers with your Mac.  Cheap knock offs can end up costing you more!
The last Mac with the MagSafe adapter was the 2017 MacBook Air which was discontinued in 2019.  The chargers will be around for a while longer.  See Apple’s Vintage and obsolete product page for a list of currently supported products.


Did you reinstall Xcode or is this the remnant installation from before? The installation process is what adds it to the system path. This is necessary for 'port' to find the toolchain.


Where can I find of Apple TV apps that can be installed in France?

Without changing your store country, you can search the App Store in any country using the marketing tools site, previously known as Link Maker.
https://tools.applemediaservices.com/app-store
Enter a search term and on the next page choose a store country and platform.


This is easy and commonly done in Quicksilver.

Make sure you have the newest Web Search plug-in from qsapp.com.

There are some predefined searches you can use, or you can add your own. Look around page 90 of the manual. You might also want to see this post.


Right-click an element, then choose Inspect Element. This opens the developer tools and selects the element in the DOM. This can be scripted with Automator/Keyboard Maestro/etc for activation with a keyboard shortcut if you wish.


One thing you can try is to hold Alt while selecting Scaled in the Display pane of the Displays view in System Preferences. On my Mac, that increases the selection of resolutions (and the effect of that is sticky; if I hold Alt and click again after reverting to Default for display, the list shrinks back to what it was initially, but clicking back and forth without Alt shows me the same list of resolutions each time). It's possible that won't help, if your monitor simply doesn't offer up intermediate resolutions, but that might not matter if it's the GPU that does the scaling rather than the monitor.

I tend to prefer to choose a mode which uses the native resolution of the display, because it maximizes the crispness. It's possible your 1080P is actually 2160P, but described by System Preferences as Looks like 1920 x 1080; that uses four times as many pixels per character in the font selection, compared to a true 1080P. Depending on whether your monitor is treated as equivalent to a Retina display when connected to your Mac, what it's calling 1080P could be either (a true scaled 1080P, or just a better choice of fonts). If the applications you commonly use are sufficiently capable of changing font size, you can increase the font size (if you're using 2160P) or decrease the font size (if your 1080P is like a Retina 1080P). Then again, if the pixels are small enough, an intermediate scaled resolution (if System Preferences offers that with help from the Alt key) might look OK (for me the pixels on a 28" UHD display are big enough that they don't look good to me scaled, but then again the display on my 27" Retina iMac has completely spoiled me).

One problem with relying on applications to scale fonts is that it doesn't change the menu bar and dock, but that does allow you to adjust the content you probably spend the most time looking at.

In any case, it's probably worth your while to try the Alt trick to see if that changes the list of resolutions.


Wrong indentation and spacing for manual pages in terminal

Right-clicking a command and choosing open man page in the Terminal window uses the "Man Page" profile in the new Terminal window. In your current white-on-black profile you've set bolded text to black instead of white or another color. Therefore the bold text isn't visible on the black background.

Choosing yellow instead of black as color for bolded text in the Man Page theme would result in a similar crappy display of the grep man page:


Exporting MobileMe Contacts into Outlook

Do you have access to an Exchange server?  Is your Client using Outlook 2011 for Mac in an Exchange Environment?

If so, it is super simple to get your data into Outlook.

Connect the Mac to Exchange (Address Book settings)
Move all address book cards from "On My Mac" to the Exchange Account
Open Outlook and...   Bang! there they all are.

Well... the "bang!" was a little dramatic... really you will need to wait a bit while the address sync over..

I have done it a million times.


iTunes pauses and does random things when my headphones move

This problem is related to the microswitch located at the very bottom inside the speaker jack. Whenever you get this problem, make sure your speaker cable is fully inserted into the speaker jack. Even the slightest depress on the microswitch can create interference, causing itunes to start and random songs to start playing. I also recommend bringing your computer to an apple store and getting the speaker jack cleaned, since dust or other contaminants can cause this issue. They can also make sure that nothing is wrong with your microswitch. A friend of mine had to have his motherboard replaced due to a faulty microswitch. This is covered by warrantee as long as your mac isn't too old to be covered.

link: https://discussions.apple.com/message/15803561#15803561


Difference in disk usage MS DOS vs Extended Journaled

FAT32 on a large drive has a larger block size that HFS+. This means that the small amount of "wasted" space per file is larger and therefore the same files will take up more space. It's because FAT32 only uses 28 bits for it's cluster index while HFS+ can use it's entire 32 bits.

One of the marvelous things about Steve Wozniak is that he designed a disk system for the Apple ][ that was both efficient, extensible and easily implemented and the original Macintosh File System (MFS) was built on top of his work after Wendell Sanders created a single chip implementation of Woz's drive controller the IWM chip. It was replaced by the Hierarchical File System (HFS) and then HFS+, otherwise known as Macintosh Extended.


Is there a way to save your custom keyboard shortcuts in a config file?

I use a shell script like this:

defaults write -g NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Show in Finder"="$@r";
"Reveal"="$@r";
"Use Selection for Find"="@e";
"Find and Replace..."="~@f";
"Find Next"="@g";
"Find Previous"="$@g";
"Line Spacing..."="~@l";
"Zoom Reset"="@0";
"Original Size"="@0";
"Actual Size"="@0";
"Automatically Resize"="@9";
"Automatic Fit"="@9";
"Zoom to Fit"="@9";
"Enter Full Screen"="^@f";
"Exit Full Screen"="^@f";
"Enter Full Screen Mode"="^@f";
"Exit Full Screen Mode"="^@f";
"Toggle Full Screen"="^@f";
"Full Screen"="^@f";
"Fullscreen"="^@f";
"Normal Screen"="^@f";
"Remove Full Screen"="^@f";
"Select Previous Tab"="~@\UF702";
"Previous Tab"="~@\UF702";
"Show Previous Tab"="~@\UF702";
"Previous Workspace"="~@\UF702";
"Select Previous Tab View"="~@\UF702";
"Select Next Tab"="~@\UF703";
"Next Tab"="~@\UF703";
"Show Next Tab"="~@\UF703";
"Next Workspace"="~@\UF703";
"Select Next Tab View"="~@\UF703";
"Shift Left"="^\UF702";
"Decrease Indent Level"="^\UF702";
"Decrease Paragraph Indent"="^\UF702";
"Decrease Level"="^\UF702";
"Shift Right"="^\UF703";
"Increase Indent Level"="^\UF703";
"Increase Paragraph Indent"="^\UF703";
"Increase Level"="^\UF703";
"Shift Up"="^\UF700";
"Move Line Up"="^\UF700";
"Shift Down"="^\UF701";
"Move Line Down"="^\UF701";
"Minimize"="\U200B";
"Minimize All"="\U200B";
}'

defaults write com.apple.finder NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Show Package Contents"="@\r";
}'

defaults write -app iTerm NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Select Pane Above"="@\UF700";
"Select Pane Below"="@\UF701";
"Previous Pane"="@\UF702";
"Next Pane"="@\UF703";
"Open Autocomplete..."="@;";
}'

defaults write -app Safari NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Reopen Last Closed Window"="~@r";
"Reopen All Windows from Last Session"="~$@r";
"Mail Contents of This Page"="\U200B";
}'

defaults write -app Sequential NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Move to Trash"="\b";
}'

defaults write -app Skim NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Single Page Continuous"="$@0";
"Single Page"="$@1";
"Two Pages"="$@2";
"Crop"="@k";
}'

defaults write -app Transmit NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Show Invisible Files"="$@.";
"Hide Invisible Files"="$@.";
"Synchronize..."="$@y";
}'

defaults write -app WriteRoom NSUserKeyEquivalents '{
"Column 40"="$@1";
"Column 50"="$@2";
"Column 60"="$@3";
"Column 66"="$@4";
"Column 80"="$@5";
"Column 90"="$@6";
"Column 120"="$@7";
"Column 200"="$@8";
"Column Window Width"="$@0";
"Enter Full Screen Single"="^@f";
"Exit Full Screen Single"="^@f";
"Enter Full Screen"="$@f";
"Exit Full Screen"="$@f";
}'

The shortcut strings use the same format as in DefaultKeyBinding.dict, but delete is \U0008 (\b) and forward delete is \U007F.

You can disable a shortcut by assigning the menu item to something like \U200B (ZERO-WIDTH SPACE). nil would be triggered when you type n in some applications like Audacity. \0 would be triggered when you press any key in Safari in 10.9. \1 would be triggered when you press the home key.

defaults -app doesn't work with some applications like Finder or Notes.

defaults find NSUserKeyEquivalents shows current settings.


Is there a way to disable Contacts > Groups button?

Unfortunately, no.  You cannot disable the Groups button on Contacts.
However, there’s a few “operational” things I can think of that might solve the problem.

Why is he spending so much time in “Contacts” to begin with?  Find out what he’s actually trying to accomplish and go from there.  For instance, is it just looking up contact info to make a call/send a message?
If so, then “hide” the Contacts App in a folder.  It can be launched from within those Apps themselves.  This might reduce his temptation to keep going in there.  In fact, the only time I go in there is if I have mass edits to make - I hardly ever use the Contacts App itself anymore.

Create a list of Favorites (Phone App).  This can be used for both calls and messaging; you can have independent  entries for calls and text messages for the same contact.  This will limit the exposure to the Contacts App altogether.  This way, the contacts show up, but you never see the “Groups” button.

The Groups button is actually “far away” from everything else in the Contacts App screen.  Is this a accessibility issue where there’s a physical/medical condition that’s causing inadvertent taps on Groups (yes/no answer - no need for details).  If this is the case, we can look at different input methods. For the screen to change, it more than just Groups.  It’s Group -> Something Else.
What you can do here is take an image (even print it out) of what the Groups Box should look like, point to where “Done” is so he can exit.  Before panicking...just have him compare the image to what he sees on the screen.

Until screen sharing on iOS/iPadOS becomes a thing you can create short video clips (store on OneDrive or DropBox for easy sharing) of how to enter/exit the places he get’s stuck.  I’m sure you’re finding that you’re repeating yourself very often.  If this is the case, a short video of how to get unstuck might work wonders.

You can use video chat to “show” him how to fix his issue.  It’s not limited to FaceTime.  Use Skype if he has a PC.  It’s free and not a data harvester like WhatsApp or similar.  He can easily hold the phone to the webcam (if he doesn’t have one, get one - that might be the best $40-$50USD you spend this year).

Show him how to take a screen shot and kill an app.  If he gets stuck somewhere, he can take a picture of where he is then use messaging or email to mail you a picture of his “location.” At least from there, you can guide him (you can include these instructions with the picture of Groups settings I mentioned earlier.


Where is the forward delete button in iPhone’s keyboard?

There is no "forward delete" key (as it's often called) on the iPhone. The same is true on the Mac.

On the Mac you can hold down the Fn (Function) key and press the Delete key to get forward deletion, but there's nothing on the iPhone.


Start with log files.  You have a program in your Applications > Utilities folder called Console; Fire that up, and it will show you a collection of log files - you should inspect these to see if there is anything obvious showing up at the time of your crashes.  Once you have discovered something that looks odd, or consistent across your crashes, you can google it or ask again here.


Log for the root directory of an external HDD

Nope, there is no log of such.

The data, such a spotlight DB, is stored on the drive itself.


BetterTouchTool supports remapping Apple's remote controllers and you can run a shell script (like open -a Preview;open -a TextEdit) to open multiple applications.


Back up both phones in iTunes. You can do this on separate computers to avoid confusion.
Factory reset both iPhones.
Insert the new SIMs in the phones.
Restore the phones from the backups you made in step 1. Specifically, restore the 4S from the 4's backup and the 4 from the 3G's backup.

If it doesn't work out you can just restore your phone from the latest backup.


Is it possible to use an 8 pin accessory on an iphone 4?

You can read about the differences here

About the adapter You gave in the link, a reviewer wrote:

  If you're looking for an adapter to charge your 30 pin device* with a
  lightning cable, then you will not be disappointed. If you wishing to
  connect your 30 pin device* for sync to your computer*, then you will
  also not be disappointed for at least some 30 pin devices*.

Also many complain that the device they got does not work, so You should look for a more reliable one.

There is a post about this that the adapter stopped working after a new software version: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5780896?start=15&tstart=0

You should consider buying an USB to 30 pin or a more reliable 8 to 30 pin adapter like this (note that this only allows you to charge the phone. No data transfer)


To solve this extra window bug in Yosemite?

I filled a bug report to Apple to solve this buffer corruption problem, made here. The only workaround is to log out of the Mac and then log back in. That typically clears the graphics frame buffers. If not, a reboot will recover from the failure, but not prevent it from happening again.


Word prediction / typing suggestions not available in Macbook Pro Touch Bar while working with MS Word

Touch bar functionality is app specific and I don't currently see a way to customize the touch bar on Microsoft Word (it would be somewhere in the menu bar).


in my website data for my iphone & ipad are those websites that only i have looked at?

If you share an iCloud account with someone, or someone is signed into you iCloud account on another device, the history may sync to your personal devices.


Configuring iPad Mail app & Gmail app with different accounts?

I have figured out a way to do this that will work for me.

I already had my Gmail account added in Mail, calendar & contacts settings but with mail turned off. Once I turned mail on and did a test of sharing a page from Safari, I noticed that I now had access to the From header; the default was my work address but I could change it to my personal one. Checked settings again and found a Default Account setting; changed it to my personal account and now it's using that as the default for sharing via email. I can still use the Gmail app to work with my personal mail, while the Mail app has access to both accounts.


I have many devices that sync with my Mac and carry no apps on iTunes, so it's possible. I don't back any of them up to iTunes though and use iCloud for that.

Make a back up of your Mac/PC in case the iTunes changes need to be reversed.
Uncheck the box in iTunes that says "install new Apps automatically".
Choose to back the phone up to iCloud rather than to the computer
Delete all apps from iTunes so your Library looks like this when you view apps (you can move them to trash now or leave them in the library folder as you choose)

Test a sync of the phone to see if the apps transfer back

Going forward, purchased apps will not transfer back to iTunes from the device. Backups only back up user data and not apps - independent of whether apps themselves sync.

Once you've turned off syncing of apps for all iOS devices, you can empty the trash and rejoice that iTunes doesn't get apps unless you download them explicitly. Also, if you didn't move the apps to the trash, you can go in and delete or file them elsewhere since iTunes isn't tracking those files as part of your library now.


"brew install rtorrent" now failing to build

Oh, I did manage to get this working. Thought I'd answer my own question. The key was to create a symlink for the missing libisl.10.dylib so that gcc 4.9.2 runs correctly, then recompile libtorrent, then reinstall rtorrent.

Step 1: Downgrade gcc to 4.9.2.

brew switch gcc 4.9.2

Step 2: Ensure the symbolic link for libisl.10.dylib exists.

cd /usr/local/lib
ln -s libisl.dylib libisl.10.dylib

Step 3: Uninstall and reinstall libtorrent.

brew uninstall libtorrent
brew install libtorrent

Step 4: Reinstall rtorrent.

brew install rtorrent

Step 5: To be safe, switch gcc back to the latest version.

brew switch gcc 5.1.0


Restoring an 10.9 TM backup onto an iMac running 10.6.8

Can't give  you exact, as you haven't said how you connected to your Time Machine disk.

I am going to assume it's USB, and recommend simply holding down the Alt key at boot time, slecting your Time Machine drive, and following prompts...


You will not be able to install Windows 7 on a 2008 Mac by using a USB flash drive containing files from the ISO.

The solution would be to burn the ISO file to a DVD, then install using the DVD.

If you do not have a working optical (DVD) drive, the you can use the solution given here.


Keyboard Issues: Can’t sign in or access system preferences

The easiest way is to use an external keyboard, connect it and then get in and reconfigure in-built keyboard in System Preferences.


iTerm2 & Terminal show my Mac serial code

You want to modify something called the prompt or PS1.  You can see the current value by typing echo $PS1 To get rid of the first part you don't like and leave only the user name type export PS1="\u"  If you want to persist the next time you open the terminal, you would write that line in ~/.bashrc   A detailed walk through is here http://osxdaily.com/2006/12/11/how-to-customize-your-terminal-prompt/


How can I force my laptop to shut down when I close the lid?

Though it's less and less true thanks to auto save, a shutdown in general may require user action (e.g., from an application that doesn't use the auto save model, or from an application that is frozen or becomes frozen when the OS tries to quit it). Therefore, any solution would not always work, because if the shutdown requires user interaction to complete, it will not finish (unless you want to do a forced-shutdown, which is a bad idea).

Also I should point out that this will do the exact opposite of saving energy, since booting the computer takes up a bit of CPU.  The boot time will also make this the exact opposite of convenient.  And due to what I said above, it won't be secure.

If you care about security, just enable a password when the computer is put to sleep. You can set the computer to shut down automatically at a set time every day in the energy saver preferences, and logout automatically after a given time of inactivity in the security presences (but the screensaver/sleep password is more secure, since logging out won't always work without user interaction either).


Can you add an accented characters to the querty keyboard on the iPad?

An even simpler way to access the most commonly accented characters is to hold down that letter and you are given options.

To see what I mean, just click and hold on the letter "o" and you'll be given a lot of choices.

The standard keyboard on a USA iPad will have accented characters for e, y, u, i, o, a, s, z, c and n.