Partition Map Failed Because No Slices Were Found

Ugh - the main thing with "your life's work of photos" is to slow down and don't panic. Don't try to fix things when you're desperate or rushed. Don't try something for the first time on that drive. The normal utilities exist to make the drive usable at the expense of losing your files. Or if the files are "lost" not, then at the expense of letting recovery software get some or all of them back.

Recover Deleted Files on Mac OSX [External NTFS]
I may have used Disk Utility to erase my drive - is there hope?
Recovering files from Time Machine backup disk after wrong dd
Accidently formated my external 1TB hard drive!

Instead, reach out to your network of friends to see if anyone has used a program like Data Rescue to repair/recover deleted files. Learn how to connect a drive in read-only mode (you might need to buy hardware or take the drive to someone that does this professionally or has at least gotten three successful recoveries under their belt before you entrust your only copy of your work with them).

You might have lost the photos, but I wouldn't recommend connecting the drive to either a PC or a Mac since both will try to run filesystem checks and if the part of the drive that tells either OS what is on the drive itself is corrupt or just not making sense, that computer could do more damage to your work trying to make the drive "usable" again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

The reason I recommend having a partner is that you will then work together, slow down and be intentional about what steps you take. Just explaining what you are about to do is valuable even if the partner isn't experienced in data recovery.


unallocated space on disk0 under Mavericks

Wasn't exactly feeling like modifying the GPT table via the terminal with all my data on the disk, so I just completely erase the disk after backing up my data and reinstall OS X booting on a USB stick with Mavericks on it :

Everything is back to normal :)


How to generate Templates with Apples Pages?

Are you asking how to turn an existing document into a template, or are you needing advise on how to make the document?

If it's the former, you just need to save your document as a template using quite simply File > Save as template.

If it's the latter, then judging by the link you mentioned, I would start with a blank document in page layout format.  Select View > Show Layout and Show Rulers.  Start with your page margins, and set them to that shown in your example.  Then add text boxes that you can size and align against the rulers to make sure that they are in the correct places for the addresses etc.  For the section under the address that is 5 columns, you could use a table, using the cell properties to ensure the middle column is the desired width.

I can't read German, so am unsure what a lot of the notes mean, but I hope this is a start for you.


sound quality difference between USB cables

The digital path, as long as it is good enough to work, will not make any difference.

A long or poorly shielded USB cable can cause noise problems on the power supply side of the attached device. I have seen this on electronic test equipment using long and very thin USB cables. This has manifested itself as a 50Hz buzz on the 5V line which is then picked up by the ADC in the device. I would imagine it would be the same for any sound card.

Most cables are however fine.

The particular articles linked to sound like the usual made up audiophile rubbish though.


As for what:

The message Kernel Assertions: 0x10c=USB,BT-HID,MAGICWAKE says it.

Also the ExternalMedia is set to wake it up over your USBbluetooth. connection.

So you have a device (BT keyboard) that does that.

As for why:

You BT track pad wakes up (do you have a Cat?) other BT devices interference, low battery... see this for more.

To test do "Allow Bluetooth devices to wake this computer" OFF.

If you have the Magicwake app installed, remove it.


Can I have an iTunes library on a hard drive connected only to my wi-fi router?

Yes, you can store your iTunes library on shared drive. Its not really any different than an external drive attached via USB or the like.

Apple KB: iTunes for Mac: Moving your iTunes Media folder

If you are looking to run home sharing, or stream to an AppleTV or the like you still need a computer to handle that.


How to use keyboard shortcut to copy formatting in Mac Word

If a shortcut doesn't work as expected (i.e. as mentioned in the help text/manual) check whether you configured the same shortcut as global shortcut in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts. If you set up a "concurrent" shortcut it may also occur in Services, Screenshot etc.

Also check the app's preferences whether you set up custom shortcuts which override the app's default shortcuts.

It's not necessary to set up a custom shortcut for Word's Paint Format tool double click.

The logic behind the Paint Format tool button compared to the default shortcuts works like this:

Choosing some formatted text and clicking Paint Format tool (1st click) equals cmdshiftC (copy format)
Choosing another part of the text ("2nd click") equals choosing some text and cmdshiftV (paste format) - the Paint Format tool button is resetted afterwards!
Choosing some formatted text and double-clicking Paint Format tool and formatting several other text parts afterwards equals cmdshiftC and several cmdshiftV.

If you copy a text format/style with cmdshiftC (or with the 1st click on Paint Format tool!) it will remain in the "format/style pasteboard" until you copy another text format/style or quit Word.

You can apply it with Paint Format tool only once (2nd click) but with the shortcut as often as required.


Probably your file is in use by some process, in this case it's normal. Try to close or kill apps or processes that used that file.


Which software to batch join videos AND add a chapter for each?

You can easily combine many files into one with free MPEG Streamclip's Batch mode — cmd+b. But it will not automatically add chapters at the start of every clip included.

Update: Just checked that you can add chapters manually with free tool Subler.

You may also add chapters with usually included with every Mac iMovie app. Here is how to do it with iMovie'09-11 but I believe the latter will re-compress the video degrading quality.


You can use very simple command line program mdf2iso for this.
it is available via MacPorts (for example).

PS: This utility can be also used in any Linux, *BSD and Windows systems


How to change a note background in the preview app from transparent to any other colour?

First click the note, then press the button shown in the picture and select a color.


Is there any way to make my iPhone sync calendars with iCloud periodically?

Navigate to: Settings > Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Fetch New Data

And set:

Push = ON
Fetch = (as often as you like)

Move to Advanced, and set iCloud to Push


What can a Mac do that a Windows machine can't?

A Mac is licensed to run some Apple software that is not licensed to run on non-Mac hardware.  Other than that, they are both Turing-complete computational engines that can emulate any other computational engine given enough time and memory.


Restore Macbook 2009 backup from Timemachine

Standard method for recovery from Time Machine

Power up your Mac and hold down the command and R keys to enter the Recovery Partition. Your Mac should boot to a screen that says OS X Utilities.
Select Restore from Time Machine Backup and click Continue.
Read the info on the Restore Your System page and click Continue.
Select your Time Machine backup and click Continue.
Select the most recent backup of your hard disk and click Continue. Your Mac will then restore the Time Machine backup; once it's done it will restart.

If you've had to replace your Mac's hard drive with a raw drive fresh out of the box, there's no recovery partition to restore from. But fear not, you can get the recovery rolling from the Time Machine backup disk itself. Just hold down the Option key when you start your Mac; you'll be able to select the Time Machine backup disk as your startup, instead.

Source : http://www.imore.com/how-set-and-restore-time-machine-backup


This is not possible.  You will have to offload the pictures using a PC or Mac and then copy those pictures to the hard drive.  FWIW, I don't think it's even possible to put pics back onto an SD card.


Weird null characters ^@ output on iTerm 2 / zsh when a command is running

Null characters are anti-idle feature to keep connection alive with old servers.

Go to iTerm2 -> Preferences -> Profiles -> [select your profile] -> Session tab -> uncheck "When idle, send ASCII code" checkbox.


Using bash/terminal to get number of battery recharge cycles

Something like
system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep "Cycle Count" | awk '{print $3}'

should do the job.
system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep "Condition" | awk '{print $2}'

will get you the battery condition, for example: Normal.
If you want more output, run:
system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep -A3 -B7 "Condition"

to get something similar to this:
      Charge Information:
          Charge Remaining (mAh): 2405
          Fully Charged: No
          Charging: No
          Full Charge Capacity (mAh): 3816
      Health Information:
          Cycle Count: 187
          Condition: Normal
      Battery Installed: Yes
      Amperage (mA): -2635
      Voltage (mV): 11212


Sure this problem applies for both your drives? Could be that one drive affect the other thru your USB controller. Try to disconnect one of them and see it it gets better. If it doesent, swap them to see. If it gets better while one of them is disconnected I would limit the problem to be a faulty drive.

You could also try to check if some processes are accessing your drive. Have you checked torrent or so aren't loading to the drive(s)?

Alternatively you could turn off the option for spinning down your hard drives when possible in your settings panel for power.


Turned off everything in folder /LaunchDeamons with launchctl; can’t boot now—how to recover?

You should be able to fix this in single-user mode. Restart the Mac while holding the Command and S keys; it'll start into a full-screen command-line environment, with none of the usual daemons even trying to run. As usual, the first two things to do in single-user more are to check/repair and mount the startup volume. To check/repair it, run the command /sbin/fsck -fy and wait for it to finish. If it prints " The volume was modified ", run it again and keep running it until it finishes with "** The volume  appears to be OK." Once the startup volume is OK, mount it with /sbin/mount -uw /

Once that's done, run the command:

rm /var/db/launchd.db/com.apple.launchd/overrides.plist

(Note: type this command very carefully. If you thought the damage from mistyping that launchctl command was bad, you haven't seen what a garbled version of this command could do!)

Finally, run the command reboot and the system should restart normally, with all of the system LaunchDaemons set back to their default states.


Why does iTunes play the whole album on shuffle?

It does this because of some broken code in the most recent releases of iTunes. They added a new feature to help those of us who want to properly group, and play in order, classical music. If the Work tag is populated then once itunes sees something in that tag it plays all of the items on the album with the same Work tag. Many have used the groupings field in the past and the latest version grabs the groupings info and stuffs it into the new Work field. So if perhaps you had something like SONY (an album label) in the groupings filed now iTunes thinks every track on the album is part of a classical Work called Sony and that you will want to hear the album in order as you would if it were movements of a classical work. Very frustrating and foolish error on their part. One hopes the can fix this in the next release as it makes shuffle play pretty much un-usable if one uses the grouping field as it was originally intended - to group songs in some way like as Jazz.Standards or World.Music, etc.


iPad can't seem to view sites / pages that include the port in the URL?

You might want to exclude 'www' if possible. This can cause the page not being available as www mainly is pointing to port 80. If that doesn't work it might not be an Apple issue, and SuperUser might be a better place to ask the question.

Or you could set a redirect on a url pointing it to the right location with matching portnumber.

I can run different sites with portnumbers in it, as stated in the comments above.
Example: Synology NAS port 5000, works on my iPad.


I want to disable automatic brightness adjusting, but where is the setting?

Have you tried doing an SMC Reset to see if the option appears in the Display preference pane?

Also, some information about what operating system and model you're using would be helpful.

Edit: After further research, it appears that the model in question does not have an Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) which is required for the automatic brightness adjustment feature.


I have also seen this happen on my system a few times. For me, it happens right when a Time Machine backup finishes (I am also backing up to an external USB HD). I am running macOS Mojave 10.14.3 (18D42).

It is very likely that Time Machine creates this file so that it can recover the OS in the case that the backup fails and screws up your system. It probably self-deletes this file if there are no issues at the conclusion of the backup.

In case Time Machine is not the only culprit, I recommend searching your system for the source(s) of the file. Open the application "Terminal", and run the following command:

sudo find / -name BaseSystem.dmg -type f 2>/dev/null

This will prompt you for your admin password because it will search all files on your system (even those owned by the root user). Depending on how big your hard drive is, this could take a very long time.

For me, the only file found was at /Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc/Recovery/BaseSystem.dmg. This is a directory used by Bombich Software's Carbon Copy Cloner application. I know this application archives the recovery partition for your OS (so you can reinstall macOS if needed), so I am assuming this DMG file is related to that.

I haven't tried it, but I assume that if I were to delete this CCC file, it would just get recreated by CCC later. As others have stated, this file does not seem to be malicious or harmful in any way, so keeping it around or deleting it probably doesn't matter too much and is really up to you.

If you really want to, you can delete all of these files with the following command:

sudo find / -name BaseSystem.dmg -type f -delete -print


Can I use two wireless keyboards with my iMac?

You can connect a wired and wireless keyboard at the same time.

I don't have a way to test two wireless right now, but how are you doing it?  Just turning on the second keyboard won't work. Your iMac won't bother because one is already connected. Have you tried connecting manually? In the Bluetooth preferences you can manually connect to other devices. Of course both keyboards have to be paired first. If you have the Bluetooth menu turned on in the preferences, you can try connecting from there as well.


What is the proper 3rd party cable type for fastest charging and data transfer with new MacBook Pro?

When it comes to USB-C cables it's fast, long, cheap, pick two.
Passive cables are going to be the least expensive.  By being passive they avoid expensive electronics but they also put limits on length and bandwidth.  The faster the cable the shorter it must be.  Unrelated to the length of the cable is it's capability to carry current.  There are two current ratings for USB-C cables, 3 amps and 5 amps.  All USB-C compliant cables must be able to carry 3 amps safely.  Those rated for 5 amps must be "tagged" electronically to tell the charger and device it is capable of carrying 5 amps.  Even though they will have a electronics in them to indicate this current carrying capability they can still be considered "passive" because they do not have any electronics on the data carrying conductors.
There is no easy way to tell a 3 amp cable from a 5 amp cable.  The difference in thickness of the conductors that carry the current is quite small and so it is easily disguised by the insulating jacket which can have considerable variance in thickness depending on the composition and quality.  Simply, a 5 amp cable is not necessarily thicker than a 3 amp cable.
What are commonly called "charge only" USB-C cables are in fact USB 2.0 cables.  These are often relatively inexpensive because they have no active circuitry except perhaps the 5 amp "tag".  There's three ways I am aware of for USB-PD devices to negotiate power delivery over a cable, and a USB-C charging cable will have to support all three to be considered USB-C and USB-PD compliant.  One is to negotiate power on the USB 2.0 data lines.  Another is to use the configuration channel pins to negotiate power.  The third means uses communications on the Vbus lines.  Because USB 2.0 communications is an option for USB-PD negotiation these cables can be used for connecting devices at 480 Mbps even though they are advertised as "charge only".  Also because they must adhere to the USB 2.0 specification for communications they cannot be longer than USB 2.0 allows.  This length limit for a passive USB 2.0 cable is 5 meters, but I have yet to actually see a passive USB-C cable that is this long, 2 or 3 meters will be far more common.  There are of course USB 2.0 cables longer than 5 meters but they do this with a data repeater in the middle, these are not passive cables and they are not cheap.
Passive USB-C cables for 5, 10, or 20 Gbps will be limited to 1 meter or less.  As a matter of keeping these inexpensive they will often also be limited to 3 amps so as to avoid having the electronic tag and heavier power conductors.  Passive 40 Gbps Thunderbolt and USB4 cables will be noticeably less than 1 meter, they will be advertised as 0.8, 0.7, 0.5, or something in length.  Passive cables by their nature of being just a bundle of wires will work just as well (or poorly) for Thunderbolt, USB, DisplayPort, HDMI, or any alternate mode as any other.
Active cables are not limited in length like passive cables.  Because they have active electronics in them they will have some limits on the protocols they support, and they will be much more expensive than a passive cable of the same length.
How can anyone tell these cables apart?  One way is by the markings on the ends of the cables.  It's not illegal to make a cable that does not comply with the USB-C spec.  It is illegal to make a non-compliant cable and put trademarked USB iconography on the cable.  The same goes for Thunderbolt.  The people behind USB and Thunderbolt will defend those symbols because their income depends on people trusting those symbols.
To know how much bandwidth a cable supports look for the icon.  The standard USB "trident" means it supports USB 2.0.  The USB trident with the stylized "SS" means it supports at least 5 Gbps, cables that support 10 Gbps will have a 10 next to the trident, and you can guess what it means if you see 20 or 40.  Thunderbolt cables will have the Thunderbolt icon, and those that support Thunderbolt 3 often have a little 3 next to the symbol.
You likely won't much care if you have an active or passive cable.  I went through that discussion so as to explain why you might see a 1 meter cable cost twice as much as a 0.8 meter cable, and a 2 meter cable only a few dollars more than a 1 meter cable.  It will also explain why one 2 meter cable will make your external drive work real fast and another will make it work real slow.
So far I've been able to keep my USB-C cables apart by buying only passive cables.  I know my 2 meter cables are 5 amp and 480 Mbps, and my 1 meter cables are 3 amp and 10 Gbps.  If I need an active cable in the future then I'll try to make it distinctive by getting it in a unique color or I'll have to pay closer attention to the markings on the cable ends.


The first thing is to get into the console app / system log and trace the shutdown cause and timing of the restarts. Then you would look to see if there are hangs or crashes in /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports prior to those events.

The reason for Previous shutdown cause: -128
Shutdown cause: -104

Depending on your interest in scripting shell to collect matches from log files, here’s an example of using those log files to find events like needles in a very large, long and confusing haystack.

Improvement to 'grep -h "BSD process name" /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/* | sort | uniq -c'

Most likely, you will see a pattern (or see there is no pattern once you get 25 restarts logged and cataloged) and can remove the hardware, software or look into what is the logged reason.


In Preview.app look for the installed font under Collection → All Fonts.


Developing accessory for iOS devices without MFi Program

Yes. You'll need to obtain an MFi Program license. The cost, viability and special API access (if any) can be determined only after contacting Apple.

To get more details, and to get in touch with an Apple correspondent, check out MFi Program homepage.


Dual Boot (Windows partition deleted) , but Still Appearing

The solution was follow:

Ghost partition, Windows BSOD

Open a Terminal window and enter the following command.

diskutil mount /dev/disk0s1

From a Finder window, open the EFI disk. Next open the EFI folder.
Remove the Boot and Microsoft folders.
When finished, enter the command below.

diskutil unmount /dev/disk0s1


Is fast user switching in Lion disabling the network connection for the accounts that aren't active?

Not really - Lion is now able to kill processes that appear to be idle and unused. Fast user switching adds more load on memory and processor (due to the simple fact that more is now running), increasing the chance this will trigger.

Also, the changes to allow multiple simultaneous logins may have changed the API which will need the VPN client to request to stay connected or otherwise start itself outside the user space to survive a switch in Lion.


Is it possible to clean install mac os and backup on the same drive in a different partition

Yes, it is possible, but I wouldn’t consider it safe. There are too many things that could go wrong.

When you erase the old system, you’ll need to be very careful to erase the old volume, not the entire drive. Exactly how you’d do that depends on how you’re doing the reinstallation.
If something goes wrong during the reinstall, it might get wiped out anyway.

So, if you don’t want to lose those files, you really should have them backed up (and verified) somewhere else. Actually, that’s true anyway, but it’s especially important when you’re doing something dangerous like a reinstallation.


How do I get find my iPhone off a iPhone I have bought second hand

The only way to achieve this is by contacting the person you bought the iphone from. They need to delete the iphone from their icloud's "find my iphone"


ipfw is like as ipfw on freebsd. :)

ipfw and pf are totally different packet filtering systems. ipfw is the old BSD (Internet Protocol Firewall), and pf (packet filter) comes from the OpenBSD.

pf is much much more powerful as ipfw. In fact, pf is much more powerful as anything other. Here is too much differences, but the main "philosophical one" is:

In IPFW, the first rule in a ruleset what matches a packet "wins" - and next rulesets are not evaluated
In the PF the packet is matched with all rules and the last rule that matches  the packet "wins".

You should consult books, manuals about the "ipfw", not pf.

Btw, here are two nice free applications: NoobProof and WaterRoof - both are helpers for the OSX's ipfw. http://www.hanynet.com/noobproof/


How to actually forget all past Wifi networks on iOS?

You might have iCloud keychain turned on. Keychain saves Wifi passwords.
Try looking for it in Keychain access or just turn off keychain to prevent automatically accessing it.


Unable to mount a SSD hard drive on macOS Catalina

Exactly my issue, but luckily, the solution was simple! Take a coffee and wait. Seems like Catalina does a thorough disk check whenever you try to mount some sort of disk. For example, my HDD had around 500GB of data and it took around 5 minutes before it was automatically mounted and working as expected. In the meantime, I was unable to mount and to eject the disk (the error was the same, the disk was in use by another process). Simply plug in the disk and let the OS do the check it needs (some other users might know more about what is going on in the background and feel free to edit my comment to extend the knowledge). Patience, it will mount itself automatically after it finished all the background checks :)


My phone won't give me Storage no matter what I do

In terms of the 700 photos you've deleted, have you also deleted them from the Recently Deleted album?

When you delete a photo/video in the iOS Photos app, it does not actually delete that photo immediately. Instead, deleted photos are placed into the Recently Deleted album. These photos will remain there for 30 days at which point they will be deleted by the system. This overall process is designed to give users the chance to recover their photos/videos in the event they change their mind, etc.

If you need to free up space immediately, you can manually go into the Recently Deleted album and select any/all items and delete them from there. This removes them from that point rather than waiting for 30 days to pass. Of course, doing this means that recovering them is almost impossible - so make sure you have a working backup of your photos/videos!


How can I shut off the confirmation prompt when I delete conversations in Messages in OS X?

This is more of a workaround. If you enable the "Save history when conversations are closed" option under Preferences->Messages, you won't be prompted when deleting conversations.


How do I change the e-mail address that receives Apple Pay notifications?

From the Apple Pay Support page:

Update your billing and contact information
Learn how to update your billing and shipping information for the cards that you use with Apple Pay.
iPhone or iPad

To change your billing information, go to Settings > Wallet & Apple
Pay, tap a card, then tap what you want to update.
To update your email address, phone number, and shipping address, go to Settings >
Wallet & Apple Pay, then choose what you want to update.


Running with the Apple Watch 3 non-cellular. Can I leave my phone behind?

Can I use the non-cellular version of the watch for tracking my runs
  while leaving my phone at home?

Yes.  The Apple Watch Series 2 doesn't need to be paired to an iPhone to utilize GPS tracking because it's built in.

From a MacWorld article on the AWS2 and the GPS functionality:

  ...loved how the Series 2 and iPhone intelligently passed off route
  tracking duties. “Apple Watch just seems to know when it’s out of
  communication distance from its paired iPhone, and it gets a GPS
  signal without you telling it to. And if I do have my phone with me,
  the Workout app will let the iPhone do the GPS because it’s the
  bigger-batteried device.”

And from Runners World on the GPS functionality and the accuracy:

  The biggest update for the Apple Watch 2 is a new focus on fitness and
  the integration of GPS into the watch itself. The first version
  off-loaded that work to your phone, but not all runners like to carry
  a phone when working out. Now they don’t have to. In our testing,
  we’ve found the GPS accuracy to be on par with our sport-specific
  watches


Yosemite on SSD boots from USB but not when the SSD is installed internally

Just because the hardware is set to remember where the last boot was from and will look back to it at the bext boot, I can recommend you to hold down the C button right after you start up the fully assembled system and then select the SSD again.

Also note that the cable that connects the internally placed SSD may be damaged/disconnected somehow or even the Motherboard could have a problematic/defected chip.


I Think these depend on you Gmail account or which account you used for Sync your passwords... so in chrome you just add you same Gmail or other account and you get your Sync password automatically.


How could I delete DCIM sub folders in iphone

You simply can't delete them.

Your only option is to delete the subfolders/the images themselves. They need to be there, iOS does not allow you to delete them, therefore Windows shows an error message.

Why would you want to delete the folders anyway? If they contain the images, go ahead and delete those, but deleting a simple folder gives you basically no further storage at all.

This has been discussed on the Apple Forum as well.


Where is the Autocorrect dictionary file for Outlook 2015 stored in OS X Yosemite?

I believe the autocorrect entries are shared by all Office applications.

Unlike Office 2011 which stores the user's autocorrect items in the ~/Library/Preferences/Microsoft/ folder, Office 2015 Preview seems to use a more obscure location:

~/Library/Group Containers/*.Office/Microsoft Office ACL [English]

Where the * represents a string of characters which may or may not be significant (so I've removed them).


How do I add space to my Bootcamp partition?

You could try this : with Disk Utility, restore you Mac volume to its original size (no free space left between the Mac volume and the Windows partition), then launch Boot Camp assistant from Mac OS (in /Applications/Utilities), and use the Boot Camp assistant for redistributing free space between Mac OS and Windows partitions.


How to restrict an iOS app to iPad Pro only?

Within Xcode you can specify that an app is iPad only under the "Deployment Info" section of the target's General settings.

Beyond that the way to limit an app to certain devices is by specifying features in the Info.plist under the UIRequiredDeviceCapabilities key. You can see the options listed on Apple's developer website here: iOS Device Compatibility Reference

Unfortunately there does not seem to be an option that limits an app to iPad Pro devices only. You can specify "arm64" which will limit your app to iPad mini second generation and above, iPad Airs and iPad Pro devices. But I can't see an option that says devices that support Apple Pencil only.


Extend Catalina's privacy protection to other folders

No.

The restricted file locations are detailed here PrivacyPreferencesPolicyControl.Services and you can't change them.

You would have to move ~/foo to Documents, Downloads, an external drive, or another restricted location.


Can I create a fusion drive with an HDD that already has a boot camp partition?

From my hands-on experience, I'd have to say, "negative".

I've created a couple of fusion drives on a 2008 Mac Pro from devices with preexisting partitions. Building the fusion in Core Storage destroyed all partitions on the media.


How can I map the "Archived" folder to "All Mail"?

For some reason stackexchange isn't letting me comment on the approved answer.

In any case, jtbandes' comment is incomplete, you have to set the custom app shortcut as:

"Message>Move To>All Mail"

Note the lack of spaces between the words. This is critical; it won't work otherwise. Simply typing "All Mail" will trigger multiple, redundantly named menu items with the keyboard shortcut.

I've assigned mine to Command-Y to approximate the Gmail shortcut.

I learned this from a comment by LaraCroft_NYC at https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2572960?start=0&tstart=0


Prevent others finding me in Game Center

While in Game Center open your Account and change how others can contact you (or not contact you).

See example


Can you get Apple Logo to glow upon new mail under Power Nap?


iOS 7 music app's volume slider is disabled for iPhone 4

It sounds like it is most likely stuck in DOCK mode; it thinks something is connected to the dock, and is passing all audio through dock connector which then also abdicated volume control to the accessory rather than on the phone/pod/pad.

This could be the software stuck if it corrects itself after a reboot and a connect to USB to a computer to alert the device that it's no longer supposed to send line-out level sound.

Basically, when you connect an iOS device to a car stereo or other dock, there is some intelligence to determine if the volume should work like headphones where the user can control things or in line mode where the iOS device should send a line-level signal and the car audio is responsible for amplification and volume control.

If reboots and restores do not fix this, you will need to get the hardware cleaned and/or repaired. It could be as simple as lint in connector making the pins not connect electrically (or even physically preventing proper insertion). It also could be an internal failure (corrosion due to liquid damage or just a fault in the circuitry without an external cause).  You can follow the examples given in this Q&A to troubleshoot dock connectivity issues


Time Machine ought, by default, to back up everything except locations it is specifically told not to, with the exception of itself & any NTFS volumes, which will be already in the exclusions list & greyed out.

System Prefs > Time Machine > Options…


system storage full after migrating to new iPhone, old phone has plenty of free storage

You most likely have selected keep originals in the photos settings.
Open the settings app and scroll down or search for photos. Then under the iCloud section there should be listed the following options:

Optimise iPhone storage
Download and keep originals

Select the first option and your iPhone will offload older photos and only store them in iCloud. Only new photos and often viewed ones will be stored locally, so you can save a lot of space on your phone. Alternatively you can select this option if you go into [your name] -> iCloud -> Photos as described on AppleSupport.


Are there any free and  lightweight spreadsheet programs for the Mac?

If Chrome isn't too heavy for you Google Docs has very capable spreadsheet facilities that improve all the time. You can even run it offline if you're going to be away from an internet connection.


Safari stops playing audio after user login

Nevermind, found out what the issue was. I have Loopback installed for capturing system audio for screen recordings and it is set to start automatically on login, muting the audio from Safari but it then doesn't pass the audio through to the system output.


Brew cask: I would like to check if the package/formula is already installed through brew or other means

I assume you know the name of the application. Then just test for existence of the application
if [[ ! -d "/Applications/APP-TO-CHECK.app" ]]; then
    # install APP-TO-CHECK
fi


Photos.app is not combining JPEG and RAW photos after small alteration

I recently looked at a set of JPEG + RAW pairs that Apple Photos failed to match up. The behavior I observed was:

The images were geotagged and had GPS timestamp: GMT time of the GPS fix used to tag the images.

On the JPEG, Photos looked at the photo time and GPS time and figured that the clock time was 1 hour apart. It concluded that the camera clock was set to GMT+1.

On the RAW, it seems that Photos ignored the GPS time. Instead it worked from my computer clock. This is at GMT+2. It loaded the RAW assuming that the camera clock was set to GMT+2.

In the Photos application, both JPEG and RAW were displayed with the same clock time: the one recorded by the camera. In the library however the images were stored with timestamps 1 hour apart. The only way to “see” this in the Photos application was to sort the images by date. Pairs were not be sorted next to each other.

One fix is to use ExifTool or HoudahGeo to write timestamps including time zone offsets to both JPEG and RAW files. Once the timestamps on the JPEG and RAW are an exact match, Photos should recognize the pair.

BTW: I do consider this to be a bug in Apple Photos. The assumption that camera and computer clock are set the same time zone is rather common, yet unfortunate. The fact that Photos makes different assumptions on the JPEG and the RAW surely is a bug.

Full disclosure: I am the developer behind HoudahGeo.


Yes it is.

You can download it once and then distribute it over an external Harddrive, an USB Flash Drive or your network. The package is called Install OS X Mavericks.app and you will find it in the directory /Applications.


This function is called sticky keys.
You can activate as follows on a Mac:

Open System Preferences.
Type in sticky in the search bar and hit enter.
Tick Enable sticky keys.

OR

Open System Preferences.
Go to Accessibility.
Go to Keyboard.
Tick Enable sticky keys.


Change space with mouse wheel + modifiers

If you use the Apple Magic Mouse you can change between spaces by "Swipe left or right with two fingers".

You should check if you have active this option on System Preferences → Mouse → More Gestures.

Additionally, if you want to change it with only one hand, you could change the shortcut for "Move left a space" and "Move right a space" under System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Mission Control to something easily usable with a single hand like ⇧+ctrl+z and ⇧+ctrl+x


Can the iCloud sync progress be observed?

There are no built-in OS X tools designed explicitly for showing you iCloud synchronise information.

As of OS X 10.8.2, Apple has not made this information public. Unless Apple publish OS X Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) to provide the information you seek, no third party will be able to accurately provide the synchronisation details.

Given this, please give Apple's iCloud team feedback; let Apple's engineers know what you want and why.

While you wait, you can track connections to Apple's iCloud servers, measure traffic flow, and disk access. These metrics will provide some insight but they will not provide expected durations or percentage complete measures.

To explore the data flow, explore the OS X's built-in tools like lsof and netstat.


Going back to snow leopard. How do I delete the Lion Mac OS X Install Image?

When booted from the Snow Leopard install drive, you should be able to create a new partition from the partition tab.


Should I have turned off Legacy FileVault before using FileVault 2 on Lion?

You are correct with your assumption that there is a "double-encryption" occurring. This of course has the result of causing a lot of drive thrashing to occur. Having previously had to fix numerous corrupt FileVaults, I would first back up the sparsebundle. Once that is complete, I would then disable Legacy FileVault.

Ultimately, the only real reason to maintain this setup is if there is reason to suspect there are others who possess login credentials (especially admin credentials) and are capable of mischievous behavior. Even under that scenario, my recommendation would be to encrypt the files which need to be kept secret using TrueCrypt and disable Legacy FileVault.


Is the Lion USB drive purchased from Apple bootable?

Yes. You can boot from the USB drive. This means you can avoid having to get 10.6.8 and the Mac App store to download the Lion installer but can instead boot from USB and erase the drive and perform a bare install.

Things to remember:

Lion does not ship with iLife so consider pricing that or checking if older versions of the suite will work as desired.
Lion may not import settings from older backups as well as it does in Snow Leopard, but it's easy to try and erase and start over if problems arise.
You can always hand copy files and folders or make a bootable clone of the old system just in case you will want to boot the mac in the old OS to export some data you didn't know needed moving (old tax programs, etc...)


Cannot start MySQL - server quit "w/o updating PID file" (PID file missing)

I solved it! When I finally got it to write an error log (needed to fix the permissions for that) and looked inside the error log, I saw it was missing the symbol _clock_gettime(). When I googled that, I discovered MacOS didn't add that symbol until OSX 10.12, and I'm running 10.11 (so as not to break Dreamweaver CS6).

I uninstalled MySQL 5.7.21 and looked for the latest version of MySQL that supported El Capitan (10.11), which turned out to be 5.7.16. I installed that, and now it's running fine.


Avoid computer to show automatically password wizard option after time out

Even if it is not mentioned in the release notes, it seems that migrating to macOS Catalina 10.15.4 fixed the issue.


iPod touch 4th Gen stopped working with iHome iP90

I stuck it in another older IP90 and it worked fine. So then I blew it and the IP90 out with compressed air and now it works. I'm not convinced it was the air though, we will see if it returns. Thanks.


My MacBook Pro Retina freezes after connecting third external monitor

I have the same problem when I connect only one external display, but perhaps that's because it is a 4K display. So far, the only thing I've found to work is to restart the computer with the display already connected. This allows me to use the display, but if I disconnect and try to reconnect the display, it will freeze up again.


Can I get windows 7 like window resizing on Mac OS X?

Shift It

If you read this Article I think you get what you want.


Full-screen games on a Retina Macbook Pro sometimes start strangely

Thanks @eternus for answering, but my issue was that for some reason, my computer doesn't always switch to the discrete card once I open a game. Restarting usually fixes the problem, but a more thorough way to solve it is to get this app called gfxCardStatus, which allows you to specify which card you'd like to use. You choose the "Discrete only" option before running a game, and it should work fine. Here's what it looks like running in your task bar:


Is it possible to disable spell check systemwide?

Renaming '/System/Library/Services/AppleSpell.service/Contents/Resources' did not work for me since that file doesn't seem to exist on this install (10.11). What did work was disabling it for the languages I usually write in, under System Preferences->Keyboard->Text->Spelling select menu. It's set to 'Automatic by Language' by default, choose 'Set up…' at the bottom and deselect your languages. Restart the applications that use the Spelling service.


Signing up for an Apple Developer Account under 18

Launch the app through your parent's name, you are still under 18 and this will ensure your legal obligations are met.

When you turn 18, you can create a new Apple Developer account in your name and transfer your apps from your parent's account to your new account.

I believe the transfer will include your statistics and other meta-data associated with each app.

This approach is common practice for consultants who develop and manage apps for clients, before handing them over when their role ends.

With regard to choosing the bank account, so long as your parents agree this should be fine.


How to set reply-to address in Apple Mail

Simple!

With a message composition window open in Apple Mail make the following menu selection:

View > Reply-To Address Field

That works for a message-by-message basis. If you want to apply all the time there's a hack you can do this via Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.mail UserHeaders '{"Reply-To" = "reply-to@address"; }'

More details can be found here.


Not a perfect solution but now I found a way to have the characters rendered in all programs.

From the comments to the original question I assume that an installed font is poisoned by wrong glyphs or defect in some other way. For a quick diagnosis I installed Ultra Character Map. It didn't help much to locate the defect font, but used the built in Google Noto Font to render characters.

Before diving deep into writing Perl scripts for font analysis, I installed all Google Noto Fonts into user fonts and everything works now, also Dhivehi.


My headphone jack and speakers sopped working

The solution is from here and it worked with me:

There seems to be a bug whereby if the headphones are plugged in when the MBP is put to sleep and are not present when it is rewakened, the headphones stop being recognized. The solution is to:

Unplug the headphones
Put the MBP back to sleep (close the lid; without an external display hooked up)
Plug the headphones back in
Wake the MBP by opening the lid.

This should fix the problem.


Use gzip to uncompress svgz file: unknown suffix

If you already can read the header of the file with head or cat, the file is not compressed at all.


How to print to a HP Photosmart C4599 printer from Sierra?

If the driver doesn't get installed automatically, it can be downloaded from HP's website -> HPPrinterDrivers5.1.dmg


Can I unload com.apple.mrt via launchd or otherwise remedy these errors?

If you want to rid yourself of com.apple.mrt, you can run a few Terminal commands to get it out of your hair.

First, open the Terminal app. You can find it in Launchpad or by using Spotlight. Next, stop the process using sudo launchctl stop com.apple.mrt.

Then, remove the components, using the following (or manually remove them in Finder):

sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.mrt.plist
sudo rm /System/Library/LaunchAgents/com.apple.mrt.uiagent.plist
sudo rm /System/Library/CoreServices/MRTAgent.app
sudo rm /usr/libexec/MRT

Finally, reboot your machine. com.apple.mrt should no longer launch on startup (or at all).

Notes:

You may need to enter an administrator's user and password.
Apple may release updates which re-add com.apple.mrt to your machine.


This is often caused (but by no means is this the only possible cause) by a badly fitting sim card, or sim tray.  That doesn't explain how a hard reset would make it work though.  I would see if you can borrow a friendly sim and tray from another iPhone 5 users, and see if you can get the same results, or improved results, by using different combinations of sim card and tray.  When you get one that works, run away and leave your friend with the duff bits ;)


When I update an app, it makes me put in my password then in says update again. It never updated, why does it do that?

Save your app settings, then try reinstalling it from the ground up.
Looks like an account misconfigure.


Apple Yosemite Server configure secure website

Check the DNS to make sure the server's DNS entry is set correctly.  Also check whether you are using NAT, i.e., whether you connect to the Internet via NAT (check whether your router is configured to use NAT).  If you are, you will either need to configure port forwarding in the router, or find hosting for your website that is externally accessible from the Internet.


Files missing when connecting iPad to Windows 10

Install iTunes on your PC and connect your iPad. When iTunes launches and sees the iPad, click on the iPad icon at the top of the window to the right of the "music, movies TV Shows" icons.

Click on "Summary" on the left and you can select the options you want (apps, music, movies, pictures) to sync your media and where you want them copied to. Note that you have to have the iPad connected and selected in iTunes to make these changes.

Apple has set up IOS devices so only a limited amount of data is exposed to Windows Explorer. Why you are only seeing some of them, I am not sure, but once you set up Sync iTunes will copy all new pictures and videos to your PC.


How to transfer applescript dictation commands to another mac

Custom user commands created for Enhanced Dictation, either directly in System Preferences > Accessibility > Dictation Commands or via Automator, are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.speech.recognition.AppleSpeechRecognition.CustomCommands.plist. If you haven't already custom commands on the new system, you can copy the entire file; otherwise, you'll need to manually move the entries by hand.


how to delete already imported pictures from iPhone in MacOS X Photos app?

Have you tried using Image Capture?

Plug in your phone.  Select it from Devices.  Select the photos, hit the little "no" icon (the circle with the line through it) near the bottom of the window, and delete the photo.  Also good to delete photos you don't even want in photos.


There's something like a 1:50k chance of someone having a fingerprint that can unlock your phone, according to Apple.

Those odds drop dramatically for a relative - though right now I cannot find a citation for that, I did read it on teh interwebz so it must be true ;-)
Googling finds a million scare stories but I can find no hard fact to support my claim.

I'd say you just have to keep watching her until she does it, see if her fingerprint can actually unlock your phone. [I'm not experienced enough at parenting to suggest you make her do it repeatedly to see if it works.]

The chances are very much against her guessing the passcode - it would be far more likely that she'd activate the timed lockout instead.


You can sync music, pictures and videos to your iPod touch by syncing it with iTunes on your Mac or PC.

You can get the music that you have in your iPhone music list, by syncing the iPod with the same iTunes library that you used to sync music onto your iPhone.


How to start auto start mysql? Getting "Path had bad ownership/permissions"

Looks like adding the path to to my .bashrc was probably the solution.

export PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/Cellar/mysql/5.6.27/bin/mysqld

I also need to exit a current mysql session that was open


Connect to Server as guest from command line

In order to mount as "guest", you need to use another command: mount_smbfs

mount_smbfs -N //guest@server/share /some/existing/path

The "-N" is "don't ask for password" (type man mount_smbfs for more info).

As for the second part of how to create it on the fly (the path), I believe that it's not possible. The mount command doesn't create it on the fly and even the man pages mention the "correct" way is to mkdir first then mount.

See the man page for mount_smbfs.


How to sign in to iCloud without verification code sent to other device?

I found a workaround using SMS. In a web browser, sign in to the Apple Store and when it asks for a verification code, click the "I didn't receive a verification code" link. Select to receive the code by SMS. Now, instead of using the code you receive by SMS to sign in on the Apple Store, you can use it to sign in on your Macbook.


Removing the taskbar transparency in uBar

The version 2.3.8 that came out the day after you asked this implemented a Custom theme in Preferences that allows you to have 100% opacity.


If you don't mind using the terminal you could try this:

find . -type f -exec ls -lth {} +

This will list files from current directory and all directories below, sorted by modified date. A variant not listing modification date would be:

find . -type f -exec ls -t {} +

But I believe that it would be better to just list the files that have changed the last 1440 minutes

find . -mmin -1440


Can't access apache-powered website at localhost

I had errors in my "private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf " file. To fix that I replaced the old file with a new file. To check if you have errors in httpd.conf file, write the following commands in terminal:

sudo apachectl start

to start apache server

sudo apachectl configtest

to run test if the file's syntax is alright. If get a return command saying syntax OK. Then file httpd.conf file is alright.

In my case sudo apachectl configtest output:

Abhimanyus-MacBook-Pro:apache2 abhimanyuaryan$ sudo apachectl configtest
AH00558: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using Abhimanyus-MacBook-Pro.local. Set the 'ServerName' directive globally to suppress this message
Syntax OK

Otherwise replace the old file with a new file that I provided above.

sudo mv ~/Downloads/httpd.conf  /private/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

i.e. sudo mv [target] [destination]. You can change the target location of you file. If the new file has not been downloaded to Download folder of Home Directory(~).

Once you are done that now follow the instruction written here by etresoft.

. Thanks.


For the OSX factory reset, backup all your data, then restart your Mac and hold down Command + R key. Use Disk Utility to erase the hard drive. Click on Disk Utility > Continue. Select the main volume and click Unmount then Erase. Quit Disk Utility. Click Reinstall OS X and Continue. Follow the instructions to reinstall Mac OS X.

For IOS, go to Settings/General/Reset and select Erase All Content and Settings


How to list files of any installed app in the MAC programmetically?

There are three ways to do this:

pay for or find people to install every possible app in a controlled environment and create a database of files and app versions
make code to patrol the file system and catalog changes and try to piece apart which changes resulted from which app install
pray all app developers use either the App Store distribution method or write an installation package receipt with a .bom file

Practically, none of these options is easy. The penalty of bad patrol code is worse than whatever problem you may be trusting to solve. The rest have miserable coverage or onerous errors and costs.


How can I format-erase my main disk through single user mode?

You can't realistically recover your OS to factory state from single user mode.  When you boot into single user mode (assuming you enter single user mode with the old style ⌘-S) you have no GUI and a very minimal set of terminal commands.

If you want to reinstall macOS you need to either boot from an external drive (so the internal disk is offline) or from recovery (which loads a minimal OS into RAM).

If you boot from an external disk could install whatever version of macOS you have - but you would need to download the installer from the app store first.

The version you install from recovery depends on the type of recovery to boot into - see How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery

    1. Start up from macOS Recovery

  To start up from macOS Recovery, turn on your Mac and immediately
  press and hold one of the following combinations on your keyboard.
  Command-R is generally recommended, especially if your Mac was never
  upgraded to macOS Sierra 10.12.4 or later.

  Command (⌘)-R Reinstall the latest macOS that was installed on your Mac (recommended).

  Option-⌘-R Upgrade to the latest macOS that is compatible with your Mac.

  Shift-Option-⌘-R Reinstall the macOS that came with your Mac, or the closest version still available.

The simplest would be to restart holding Option-⌘-R if you want Catalina


My Android no longer receives text messages from an iphone since signing in to imessages on my mac

Generally only an iPhone will register your cellular number with Messages, but you can check and deregister it here:

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

Once that’s clear, you have to be sure her app is sending to the phone number and not the email.


Macbook pro late 2011 cannot access windows based server through VPN

When you were at the office, did you use a different network like a AT&T/Verizon/Sprint hotspot?  Next time, try testing at a Starbucks or another public wifi first.

More than likely the VPN server dosen't allow loop backs (meaning you are in the network to start, go out, to come back in).  It probably just connected you.

What VPN (server) are you using?  What error message did you get?

In my past experiences, I have found that SSL VPNs are the way to go especially with Macs.


Why does the MacOS App Store ask for other users Apple ID password?

Software you buy through the App Store is registered to an Apple ID, not a computer. This gets confusing when multiple people use their Apple ID to install software on the same computer.

The installers for some applications, often ones that have processes running the the background all the time, are often smart enough to quit and restart as part of the install/update process.

Hope this helps!
Ric


Mail, Contacts & Calendars refuses to connect to Google

According to this Gmail help forum thread this is an issue that is fixed in Mac OS 10.10.3. There user jbrandtAUS writes on the 29th of May:

  From others I have talked to, starting yesterday, people have not been able to add their Gmail accounts to Mail or System Preferences > Internet Accounts if they have 10.10.1 or 10.10.2... if you update to 10.10.3 it will work

So the solution is to upgrade to anything above Mac OS 10.10.2.


Disk Utility can't find free space and Recovery Mode can't resize

Your EFI is missing in the partition table - the content should be still there though - and the Recovery HD's partition has the wrong type.

To salvage this you just have to rewrite the GUID partition table:

Boot to Internet Recovery Mode
Open Terminal in the menubar > Utilities > Terminal
Enter diskutil list and with the disk identifier of the internal disk found there: gpt -r show diskX. Usually it's disk0 - below I assume it's disk0. Use the disk identifier you have found in your environment in the commands below!
Unmount the internal disk:

diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk0

Remove all partitions:

gpt remove -i 1 /dev/disk0
gpt remove -i 2 /dev/disk0

Re-add all partitions:

gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B /dev/disk0
gpt add -b 391759648 -i 3 -s 1269536 -t 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk0
gpt add -b 409640 -i 2 -s 391350008 -t 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC /dev/disk0

Verify disk and main volume and repair it if necessary:

diskutil verifyDisk /dev/disk0
diskutil verifyVolume /dev/disk0s2

Resize the main volume:

diskutil resizeVolume /dev/disk0s2 100% #or 250g

Reboot to your main volume


How can I convince Safari to be responsible for ttp:// URLs as well as http:// URLs?

You can tell Safari to open ttp URLs by adding this to ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist and restarting (logging out and back in isn't enough).

<dict>
    <key>LSHandlerRoleAll</key>
    <string>com.apple.Safari</string>
    <key>LSHandlerURLScheme</key>
    <string>ttp</string>
</dict>

I don't know how to redirect them to http URLs though.


If it's greyed out then it means it's defined by the administrator (either MCX or profiles). Look in System Information under either Managed Client or Profiles to see where it's coming from.


What does "Effective UID is not root" mean for VirtualBox?

To resolve this on El Capitan when using Virtualbox versions lower than 6.x run the following from terminal:

for bin in VirtualBox VirtualBoxVM VBoxNetAdpCtl VBoxNetDHCP VBoxNetNAT VBoxHeadless; do
    sudo chmod u+s "/Applications/VirtualBox.app/Contents/MacOS/${bin}"
done

Source: VirtualBox does not start on Mac OS X - Super User


The size of the video in iTunes is very small and won't change sizes

Restarting the operating system fixed it. :P


You can edit ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist on Catalina) in a text editor after converting it to XML:
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist
# Catalina:
plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist -o output.xml

Then add entries like this to the LSHandlers array:
<dict>
  <key>LSHandlerContentType</key>
  <string>com.adobe.pdf</string>
  <key>LSHandlerRoleAll</key>
  <string>net.sourceforge.skim-app.skim</string>
</dict>
<dict>
  <key>LSHandlerContentTag</key>
  <string>mkv</string>
  <key>LSHandlerContentTagClass</key>
  <string>public.filename-extension</string>
  <key>LSHandlerRoleAll</key>
  <string>org.videolan.vlc</string>
</dict>

You can use mdls to see the UTIs of file types and something like osascript -e 'id of app "AppName"' to see the bundle identifiers of applications.
You can apply changes to com.apple.LaunchServices.plist by restarting. Logging out and back in isn't enough.

NOTE: duti is no longer in active development and has been labeled by its maintainers as "unsupported". The project hasn't seen any major progress since 2012 aside from configuration updates. It has moved from Sourceforge to Github. This answer has been updated to include the new links.

I also use duti though. I have saved a file like this (with about 100 lines) as ~/.duti:
org.gnu.Emacs public.plain-text all # .txt, .text, plain text files without an extension
org.gnu.Emacs public.unix-executable all # executable scripts
com.SequentialX.Sequential .jpg all
org.videolan.vlc .mkv all

I have a launchd agent that runs duti ~/.duti automatically when ~/.duti is changed.
You can normally use filename extensions (like .jpg) instead of a UTIs (like public.jpg) to specify file types. duti converts the extensions to UTIs that also apply to other extensions (like .jpeg). For some extensions like .mkv and .tex, the UTI depends on what application registered the extension first.
The latest version of duti only includes source code, but 1.5.0 also includes an installer.


Expanding OSX partition and deleting Windows paritition

Simply open Boot Camp Assistant again and it will ask you if you want to restore the drive to one partition. Therefore deleting the boot camp partition.


On iPad, how to organize Shows in a native Video player app

I figured out that I can't get the name of the show to come up in iPad's show list. The only way to differentiate is to get a readable album art with the show name and apply it to all seasons. This way I know what show I am clicking, as well as what season.


Gifting iPad Air + 3G: how to handle data?

All iPads that have cellular data are on a contract-free basis and you only pay for the capability to connect when you buy the iPad from Apple (and presumably all other sellers - even a wireless store).

There is no linking of the account that purchased to the SIM cards and you don't need any sort of credit check, subsidy or contract with the iPad Air.

The devices in the USA are tied to the carrier that you selected, so if you wanted to let your recipients pick the model they wanted, just buy them an Apple Store gift card (which is very different than an iTunes or App Store gift card) so that they can purchase the appropriate model. The only down side is they may choose to use the gift for other purposes so you might want to poll them to their preferred carrier or let them haggle a closed box return / exchange with Apple or someone on the street with cash seeking an iPad.


fn key + top row of function keys unresponsive

Have you tried toggling the "Use function keys as standard F1, F2, F3 keys" option in the keyboard pane of System Preferences?
Or try the Windows route and restart...


Have to restart to switch external displays

I solved the problem in the past with two steps :

If you start your computer screen drop but the monitor connected, the display will default to the external and your notebook is turned off.
To change which is the main screen you must enter the "Alignment" tab and drag the menu bar to the screen you want to be the main screen.


How to Change USB Thumb icon using Terminal or Bash/other scripting language

You need to copy the .icns file to the root folder of the volume. The new file needs to be named .VolumeIcon.icns. For example, if you are using a Bash shell, have the file vol_external.icns and destination /Volumes/MyStick, then below would be the command.

cp  vol_external.icns  /Volumes/MyStick/.VolumeIcon.icns

  A word of warning: Once you assign an icon to a volume,  changing this icon is very difficult. I feel there must be a bug somewhere in OS X. However, deleting the icon does seem to work.

To get a directory listing for this copied file, you may need to include the -a option in the ls command line. For example, the command

ls  /Volumes/MyStick

will not display the file .VolumeIcon.icns, but the command

ls  -a  /Volumes/MyStick

will show the file.

  Note: Normally, files starting with a . do not appear in the Finder application.


How to reformat a USB to not be a bootable operating system

If you insert the USB drive, launch Disk utility and select the USB drive on the left side of the Disk Utility window you should now be able to operate on it.

Personally I would select Partition and then the number of partitions you want. Then apply it.

That should do it


Cmd+Tab does not work on hidden or minimized windows

This one is a bit tricky :

press ⌘ Cmd + ⇥ Tab to show your running apps. Keep holding ⌘ Cmd.

press ⇥ Tab until you've selected the app

press the ⌥ Option, and let go of the ⌘ Cmd.
( You must release ⌘ Cmd after pressing ⌥ Option ! )
( You must release ⌘ Cmd before release ⌥ Option ! )


Change Dock color on left/right site in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

You can set hide-mirror to true to remove the blur effect:

defaults write com.apple.dock hide-mirror -bool true;killall Dock

Before:
 After:

I don't know how to make the background dark though.


I'd take a closer look at the link you used to join the group just to see if it looks normal.

In the meantime I'd restart the iPad and then see if the apps work. If not you may have to backup and restore your iPad. I'm sure that (if necessary) should help clean up that issue. If not, you'll have to go back to factory settings.


Is it possible to time adjust push mail on iOS 5?

There is no simple app for this in the default Mail app as unfortunately there is no way for an app to change this setting. You either have to accept notifications all of the time, or manually turn them on/off in the Settings app every time you want to change them as @afragen said.

There may be other email apps that will provide this functionality, but I've not come across any.


Menubar turns solid white or transparent

I had this same issue. Using dark mode my screen would appear with the whiteout menu bar on my macbook pro when switched to working in my 2nd monitor. It appears there was a colour profile issue in Settings>Display>Colour Tab. I changed my colour profile to a generic colour on both displays then back to my chosen profile. So far this seems to have fixed the issue.


Make applications accessible to specific users?

I'm wondering whether you could just move/install the required applications to a ~/Applications directory (e.g. /Users/Artist/Applications), rather than /Applications. That way, particular applications in the local applications directory would only be available to that logged in user.

Alternatively, you could always enable Parental Controls on the "Artist" account, then restrict the set of apps that user could run. The caveat being, that user account could no longer be an administrator.


Open Image in New Window did not work at Safari's Web Inspector mode

Follow these steps to fix safari issue

Go to Develop --> User Agent --> Safari ...
Select it and do inspect then you can see the button on left side top corner.
Now set to default setting by redoing the first point.


Yes. From Apple's AirPort Time Capsule page:

  With AirPort Time Capsule, you get a super-fast Wi-Fi base station and an easy-to-use backup device all in one. And backing up your data couldn’t be simpler. Just set it up once and AirPort Time Capsule does the rest. It works with Time Machine in OS X to back up your Mac automatically and wirelessly, so you never have to worry about losing anything important again. Every photo. Every file. Every song. Even your apps and OS X settings are saved. AirPort Time Capsule stores it all — up to 2TB or 3TB of data.


putting windows 7 on a flash drive using bootcamp

As far as I know, Boot Camp doesn't support external drives (with a possible exception of some Thunderbolt devices and CD/DVD drives). The Mac's boot loader only supports booting via EFI on USB and Firewire, whereas Boot Camp is BIOS/MBR emulation.

Windows 7 x64 apparently has a UEFI mode. I don't know if this is compatible with the Mac implementation of EFI. It certainly requires a 64-bit EFI - so only Macs that are compatible with Mountain Lion are even candidates for this. In any case, I haven't managed to pull this off myself, and the information I've found on the web is conflicting. Even if you can get the Windows install DVD to boot in EFI mode (how?), Windows will probably refuse to install to a USB drive.

So in summary, there's certainly no straightforward way to do this. It might be possible with some effort, but I haven't seen any reliable reports of success. (and I haven't had the time to try it myself with Win7 - I tried and failed back in the Windows XP days)


Unicode character for Apple special keys?

See this page for a long list:
https://gist.github.com/Zenexer/c5243c4216f1f8cd2251#complete-list


Shared Google Calendars are not synced to iOS Calendars

I deselect shared calendars here https://calendar.google.com/calendar/syncselect and saved the settings. Then I select them and save it again and now it works.


iPods and iPhones are backed up using iTunes to a Mac or PC.

"On this iPhone" has options to backup either to iCloud or the device running iTunes.


USB Flash Drive as a main hard drive (Macbook Pro Retina 13" Mid-2014)

As you have 16GB of RAM your CPU will be mostly playing with it and very rarely access the USB drive, unless you constantly access stored information on the disk.

Common users do not do that.

So I have Firefox, Chrome, Skype, Mail, open and my access to the SSD is minimal.

see Data read/sec and Data written/sec.

As I constantly use all of those aps, there is no data exchange with my SSD.

However in your case the OS X engine also resides on the external disk, so I can not tell with certainty.


I've ran into this issue a couple of times now, this is what has resolved the issue each time. Step 5 sometimes returns a "file not found" error and step 6 doesn't always seem to be necessary but has been in some cases.  Regardless, having in their doesn't seem to have an negative effects.

Boot to single user mode (hold ⌘ S while powering on the Mac)
Type and hit return: /sbin/fsck -fy
Type and hit return: /sbin/mount -uw /
Type and hit return: rm /Library/Preferences/com.apple.loginwindow.plist
Type and hit return: rm /Library/Preferences/loginwindow.plist
Type and hit return: rm /private/var/db/.AppleUpgrade
Type and hit return: reboot

Assuming all instructions were followed the Mac should reboot and reach the login screen with no trouble.  The instructions above should be followed VERY carefully, with attention paid to spelling and spacing, as there aren't many safeguards in single user mode to prevent you from deleting otherwise necessary files.

If you have access to another Mac and a Firewire/Thunderbolt cable you could boot this Mac in Target Disk Mode ( T while powering on) and connect it to the spare Mac to remove the files from the GUI.  You would need to open the iMac's system volume (default is Macintosh HD) and remove or rename the two files mentioned above in Library/Preferences.

Hopefully that helps!


Who is supporting your network at your company? An "IT" department? You? An outside company/managed service provider (MSP)?

IT Dept - ask them if they can offer a VPN connection for remote access.

MSP - ask them if your firewall supports a VPN connection for remote access. If it does, ask them what is required to set it up (this may be billable).

You - you're probably in over your head. To start with, you need to know what kind of firewall you have.


How to restore apps with iPhone restore? (in year 2020)

The backup with Finder is the same as with iTunes, same is for restore. When you restore an iTunes backup, app data is restored from the backup and apps are downloaded from the AppStore. If you don't see any apps, make sure that you are logged in to your Apple ID and that you are connected to a good Wi-Fi.


How do I select the right iPhone carrier

I asked this question so I could answer it, as I said there are a lot of people asking me about this issue.

On this page of Apple's support website, you can find a list of worldwide carriers and the features they support on the iPhone.


Set Mac to use Wifi for Internet, Ethernet for local file transfer

There are tools like Marco Polo that can change such settings based on location, but you will need to actually change your location, or have some other automated way to trigger this change. While there are some sophisticated servers and network hardware that can access multiple TCP/IP connections, and route different classes of network traffic to different ports, your Mac isn't one of them. So, I really don't think there is anything in the software you can configure to have your Mac send some traffic over Ethernet and others over Wifi: its all or nothing.

I too prefer to use Ethernet for file transfers, whereas Wifi is fine for nearly all other uses. The easiest way to achieve what you want is to simply plug in the Ethernet cable when you want Ethernet, unplug when you do not.

For this to work properly, you simply need to inform your Mac to prefer Ethernet over Wifi. You do this by System Preferences> Network. Click the 'gear' icon at the bottom of the Network list, then choose "Set Service Order". You want to drag the Ethernet service to the TOP of the list, with Wifi below it. This way, the Mac will connect to Ethernet when it is available, even over an active Wifi connection.


Having trouble configuring homebrew to run pure-ftpd as a service

For anyone having this trouble or similar, use the command line plutil to get feedback on what the plist file problems are (e.g. line numbers). In my case the copy from the Confluence page I used to document the install guide inserted broken whitespace characters, invisible to the naked eye but affecting launchd.


How can I conveniently pause and play my iPhone audio with minimal touching of the phone?

The WATCH has been released since this question was posted. If you’re open to buying one, you can of course play and pause by speaking to it. “Hey Siri, Play/Pause.”

Even without an WATCH, starting with iOS 8 your iPhone can also respond to “Hey Siri.” The feature is enabled by going into Settings → Siri. Enable both Siri and Allow “Hey Siri”.

On the iPhone 6s and above (including iPhone SE), the low-power M9 motion coprocessor allows this feature to be invoked at any time (provided the phone is not face down on the table, or in your pocket).

Earlier models can activate the feature while plugged in to a power source.

“Hey Siri” will allow you to start playing music without touching your iPhone.

Stopping it is trickier, and requires the volume to be turned down very, very low. You have other options, of course, such as Control Center, Lock Screen Music Controls, Today Widgets (depending on the app) and manually invoking Siri by long-pressing the Home button.

It’s also worth mentioning that the built-in Music app prevents the screen from locking if music is playing while the iPhone is plugged in to a power source. The display will dim after a while, but a simple tap will light it back up without asking you to unlock it. Other apps may do the same.


For screen sharing via Ethernet cable read this

OS X Mavericks: Connect two computers using Ethernet

You can use an Ethernet cable to connect two Mac computers to share files or play network games.

Connect a standard Ethernet cable from the Ethernet port on one computer to the Ethernet port on the other. You don’t need to use an Ethernet crossover cable.

If your computer doesn’t have an Ethernet port, try using a USB-to-Ethernet adapter.

On each computer, open Sharing preferences and note the computer name for each computer.

In the Finder on one of the computers, choose Go > “Connect to Server,” or cmd + K then click Browse.

Double-click the other computer in the window, then enter your password, if necessary.


LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error 10810 in iTerm2 running tmux on Yosemite

The fix.

Install homebrew.

Install reattach-to-user-namespace:

 brew install reattach-to-user-namespace

Then create an alias which your shell can use:

 alias open='reattach-to-user-namespace open'


Congratulations, that is a nice price! Unfortunately the RAM is soldered to the logic board. So changing simple RAM DIMM's is not possible. The only way to upgrade your RAM is to swap the old logic board with a 8GB memory logic board. In most larger (official) Apple Stores there is the knowhow on how to swap logic boards. But I do not know the costs and I think it is not an economy wise decision.


How can I change a file or folder icon using the Terminal

You'll need the Developer Tools installed, and then the following might work. This takes the graphic in icon.png and applies it to file.ext.

# Take an image and make the image its own icon:
sips -i icon.png

# Extract the icon to its own resource file:
/Developer/Tools/DeRez -only icns icon.png > tmpicns.rsrc

# append this resource to the file you want to icon-ize.
/Developer/Tools/Rez -append tmpicns.rsrc -o file.ext

# Use the resource to set the icon.
/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a C file.ext

# clean up.
rm tmpicns.rsrc
# rm icon.png # probably want to keep this for re-use.


Yosemite keeps dropping WiFI connectivity

This isn't a solution, and it isn't a definitive answer, but WiFi/Bluetooth issues have been reported by many users (including yours truly) of OS X Yosemite. Apple is reportedly working on a fix, which may or may not help all of these users.


What are some undocumented iPhone features?

When using the keyboard, if you tap the 123 button, and slide your finger (without lifting it) to any number or punctuation symbol, when you lift your finger the keyboard will return to the alphabetic keyboard automatically. One less tap!


Is there a way to limit the size of the Trash?

The Trash is just a special folder (directory) that Apple creates and manages via the Finder so that you have some ability to easily "undelete" items (by removing them from the Trash) before you full-on delete (Empty Trash). Since this mechanism is just a directory on your startup disk, you technically have your entire startup disk's space to use up for Trash if you wanted to.

If you wanted some measure of "auto-magical" removal files older than 7 days, you can use a simple bash script:

find ~/.Trash -mtime +7 -exec /bin/rm -rf {} \;

Using your favorite text editor, paste the above line into a new file and then save the file as empty_trash_older_than_7_days.sh. In the terminal, be sure to use the chmod command to make it executable as such: chmod +x /path/to/empty_trash_older_than_7_days.sh

This command, when executed in the terminal, will find all the files in your Trash (files from your Startup volume only --more on this in a minute) that are older than 7 days (from the time you run this command) and pass each file to the rm -rf command. Since rm is a unix command and has no notion of the Trash, it just does a unix delete which for our purposes is real delete (like Emptying the Trash).

You could then use cron (if you are unfamiliar with Cron, check out the fine Cron entry on wikipedia) to setup a recurring execution of this script.

Personally, my vote is to just train yourself to use the Empty Trash menu item every few minutes, days, weeks?

P.S. if all this unix-ese is too frightening, I'd wager there are simple Mac Applications that people have written to do just this sort of thing. Hopefully someone with some knowledge of one ore more of these types of applications can offer up an answer or two as a counter balance.

Good luck!

P.S. I forgot to talk about the non-startup volume... If you delete a file from a volume OTHER than your startup volume, this file will go to the .Trash folder on that volume. For example, if you had a volume named Foo, there would be a .Trash folder at /Volumes/Foo/.Trash. What I have documented above will not delete those files. You'd have to setup something similar for each volume you have.


Can I replace optical drive with 2nd hard disk on MacBook?

I have heard good things about the Optibay kit. It provides a mounting bracket for whatever hard drive or SSD you want to put in there.

This video shows how to install it in a Mid-2010 MBP, which is close in design to the Unibody MacBook you have. Instructions according to the guy in the video:

Remove the bottom panel
Disconnect and remove the Wi-Fi/Bluetooth antenna.
Disconnect optical drive and put the connector onto the Optibay
Put your hard drive into the optibay
Follow the steps in reverse to reassemble your computer.

The dangerous parts are when you pop up the delicate connectors with, say, an iPod opening tool. So the Wi-Fi may not work afterwards, and you would be on your own since Apple doesn't support modifications. But overall, it isn't so bad. It looks like an easy fix.


You can't change the size of the keyboard itself, that's fixed.  What you can do is find 3rd-party keyboards on the App Store such as Thick Buttons or Minuum.


How do I edit the commands in full keyboard access on internal keyboard

As far as I know, there is no way the type the charcters you need to edit keyboard shortcuts from the iOS screen keyboard, so you must have a hardware keyboard connected to do that.


How do I find links for iTunes U Videos to download using the 'resume' feature in curl

It turned out to be pretty simple in the end. I just had to grab the source of the rss feed that instructed my browser to switch to iTunes. Once I download the rss feed using a tool like curl, this one for example, it's a matter of scraping the links to the mp4 files and downloading them with curl.


I've found this solution that has worked reliably several times already today.

The process that, in my case, was responsible for the failure of the ejection was:

SystemUIS (as seen in top in a terminal) which is in fact SystemUIServer.

Here is how to kill it without a terminal: run Activity Monitor, find SystemUIServer (type UI in the top right search field), and stop it with the top left button (stop button).


What is the purpose of /Users/Shared/adi?

Apparently, these files somehow belong to the Mac App Store and the iBooks app. "adi" might be referencing "Apple Distribution International". Removal from the excluded Time Machine items is not recommended, as this behaviour does seem to be expected from all macOS installs >= 10.8 Mountain Lion.

Full explanation here: http://galvanist.com/post/66313155502/userssharedadi


What software is available (preferably free) to edit PDF files on Mac OS X?

For simple tasks like fixing typos, OpenOffice or LibreOffice do the job


How do I upgrade my internal SSD using a third party if my current one is not recognized (failed)?

Even though it's a "vintage" Mac, it's worth taking it to an Apple Store, if there's one near you, and see if they will look at it and what they would charge. I've often been pleasantly surprised.

Alternatively, you can often find secondhand Apple SSDs for these Macs on sites like eBay.

FWIW, you should be able to install MacOS via target mode from another Mac: I've done so with a 2014 MBP, for instance. The fact that you can't might be a result of the hardware fault.


There is no ad blocker built into Safari. You most likely have a 3rd party ad-blocker extension installed.

To disable it temporarily, open Safari → Preferences, go to Extensions tab and remove the check in front of the ad-blocker extension. (You may have a different ad-blocker extension installed than shown.)


How can I use a Macbook Air to provide a TV with an internet connection?

You should be able to do this via Ethernet or wireless, depending on whether you want to buy a wireless dongle for your TV or whether you have the Ethernet adapter for your MacBook Air.
If you have the USB Ethernet adapter, you should be able to follow the instructions found here:

Set up the Sharing -The first step is to set up sharing on the host Mac. Head to System Preferences > Sharing
Set up the client - make sure your TV uses DHCP

General instructions from Apple support:

To set up Internet sharing:

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and
click Sharing.

Select Internet Sharing.

Choose the Internet connection you want to share from the “Share your
connection from” pop-up menu. For example, if you’re connected to the
Internet over Ethernet, choose Ethernet.

Select how you want to share your Internet connection in the “To
computers using” list. For example, if you want to share your Internet
connection over AirPort, select AirPort.

If you share your Internet connection using AirPort, click AirPort
Options and give your network a name and password.

Either approach should work - it's most likely a matter of the hardware that you have (or are willing to acquire). Getting the USB Ethernet adapter for your MacBook Air is likely to be cheaper (and of more use long-term) than a dongle for the TV.


Can I play chess on my Mac from the command line?

Yes! The OS X Chess app relies on the sjeng engine, which has a command line version. Type /Applications/Chess.app/Contents/Resources/sjeng.ChessEngine and press enter to play:

Make moves with the coordinates of the origin and destination you want: e1e4 moves the piece at e1 to e4.

Sjeng doesn't take any command line arguments, but you can edit the config file (stored in /Applications/Chess.app/Contents/Resources/sjeng.rc). This will probably mess with your settings in the GUI Chess app; make a backup before editing.


Is there a way to use fingerprint only for entering the iTunes & AppStore password?

You can only use Touch ID if you have a passcode set. Turning off passcode will disable all Touch ID features. (switching on just "Use Touch ID for iTunes & App Store" will enable the passcode globally).

Either you'll have to jailbreak your device and resort to tweaks such as CleverPin (disables passcode when connected to your home network), or use Touch ID/Passcode to unlock your phone.

If you would like to know more about jailbreaking, I suggest you check out this FAQ  (there are lots of misconceptions about jailbreaking) I will also gladly answer any questions you may have, and definitely head over to the /r/jailbreak subreddit for additional help and support. A lot of the tweak developers are active on the subreddit, it's also a good place to request certain tweaks.


If it is still signed into your Apple ID and has Find My Phone enabled, erase it via iCloud: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH2701


Turn On Air Play on iPad Without Double Tapping Home Button

If you have gestures enabled, you can swipe up using 4 fingers and then scroll to the left to access Air Play.

Not sure of any other ways.


Does the Mail app store the email on the storage drive?

Some of it will depend on the type of mail account (POP vs. IMAP) but yes, the Mail.app will store your emails from your accounts on the system drive. How much space it will consume depends on whether there were lots of large attachments to those emails. There is no way, though, to selectively on store emails from a limited timeframe - it's all-or-nothing.

As a point of reference, I have emails going back over eight years for 10 different accounts and the total size of the email and attachment storage is just over 9GB. I'm probably somewhat unusual in regard to how long I hold on to emails. But 9GB for that seems reasonable and I have no problem having those same accounts synched on my MacBook with a 250GB drive.


I need to delete apps that I have previously purchased and deleted from my account history

I doubt you can. Your account history is on Apple's servers, so you can only read it. I doubt they'd delete anything from there for you just in case you change your mind and want it back. There's certainly nothing on your computer or iOS device that you can tweak to change your history.


Is there a keyboard shortcut to queue a selected song so that iTunes will play it next?

optionenter (shiftenter on Windows) will add the selected song to the Up Next list (in iTunes 11.0, this does not work in album view, but does in all other views). However, iTunes will always ask you if you want to clear the previous songs from the list, so an extra keystroke is needed.

There are one or two drawbacks to this method, firstly: It defaults to clear the previous songs so a simple enter will not suffice and a P keystroke is needed to add the song while keeping the existing list. Secondly: In addition the added song will default to the top of the 'Up Next' playlist as oppose to when you click to add a song (in this instance the added song will default to the bottom of the list).

I'm only running Windows so I can't say the same (or similar) is true for Macs.


How to get my networked drives to also work on Mountain Lion?

If the VPN is working and the same as on the Windows side, you should be able to enter the server details in the Go > Connect to Server (⌘K) dialog in Finder. If it's a standard Windows file share, just enter in smb://server.local.blah and it should connect.

However if that doesn't work, you'll need to provide more details on how your VPN and servers are set up.


Changing iCloud accounts in order to sync Photostream pictures

Go to Settings.app > iCloud and Tap "Delete Account". When you do this it will give the option to keep iCloud contacts and calendars on your device. You will probably want to keep them on the iPhone. After deleting the account (this really only signs out of that iCloud account) sign back into your iCloud account.

From: this thread.

Keep in mind that the backups from her phone (if enabled) will now impact your storage amount.


How to find and unmount unresponsive NFS mounts?

The mount command on the command line should give a list of all mounts, along with the mount point and the used file system, so nfs mounts can be identified as such.


Camera shows ghost lighting or refrective image

This lens flare is due to the geometry of the camera and the physical aperture / focus ring and might be normal or might be signs that the internals have shifted or become damaged. A hard drop can knock the camera out of alignment and cause this. Also, there are lighting conditions that guarantee a properly assembled and working iPhone camera makes that flare.

Take controlled photos with other devices if you wish to rule out that it's just the natural result of that light bouncing off the camera. Get a lens hood or change the exposure is how photographers manage this (this problem is just one of optics and sensors) if it turns out your device is working like others.
Take the phone (camera) in for service if you believe it's not working as designed and you can't see any signs of physical damage or a drop. If the phone isn't up to spec - Apple or their service team will offer a repair under warranty assuming you're covered. The only thing I would expect to pay is if I damaged it (warranty doesn't cover drops or breaks).


Showing Windows apps in Parallels Coherence with mac-style title bar with red/yellow/green dots on left?

I always found changing between Mac and Windows extremely annoying for that reason as well, and was totally excited to find out that you can close any Windows window that has an X, by simply double-clicking the far upper-left-hand corner.

I cannot say about Win10 specifically, since I don't have that installed anywhere, but I know it worked from XP, all the way through Win8.


How to restore default sharing extension under Yosemite


Try the following:

Turn off computer
Reboot Mac into Recovery (press and hold Command+R when you hear the chimes until a screen loads)
Select "Disk Utility"

Select your "Macintosh HD" volume on the left and press "Repair Disk Permissions"

Once that has finished, reboot your computer

If this doesn't work, call Apple Support


How to disable SpeedStep/XCPM on Macbook Pro 11,1 OSX 10.10.2?

So, after researching more and trying other methods, what can I say:

How to disable the SpeedStep when using MacBook Pro without a battery? and it's answer pointing to “Fixing” kernel_task CPU Problems in MacOS 10.7/10.8 will help you with problems where processes take a lot of percentage from the processing time. Doing the trick will turn your macbook useable, but the Ghz will stay at minimum.
The new kernel power management works only from Ivy Bridge forward, so Macs equiped with Sandy Bridge or older processors still using the old power management and therefore the kernel patch won't work.
Removing AppleIntelPowerManagement kexts won't help, and NullCPUPowerManagement won't help too… I still get the same 0.8Ghz.
Using apps like SMCFanControl will help with controlling the fans, so any reply that helps getting the original clock are welcome as the chance of burning the processor due to heat are diminished.

So for now I think that will be all. If I get any solution to work, I will report it here!


How can i change and customize the special characters on my keyboard?

Is there a way to do this without creating a new keyboard layout?

You can do it by defining Service:

Run Automator
Choose a type for your document: Service
Check Text from Library on the left
Double click Get Specified Text
On the right check Output replaces selected text
Paste your character into text editor window of "Get Specified Text"
Run System Preferences and choose Keyboard -> Keyboard Shortcuts
Choose Services
Find your brand new service and assign it a shortcut

Or with key bindings.


How can I upload high-res photos to Facebook from my iPad

Probably the best way is to do it through Safari. As far as I know Safari doesn't change the size or quality of uploaded images.

Keep in mind that max size in pixels of an image on Facebook currently is limited to 2048x2048px. If you try to upload a bigger image Facebook will resize and reencode it automatically and the result will not be optimal.


How to display artist's Alphabetic scroller in Music from iOS 8.4

You can still use the alphabetic scroller! Simply go in Music screen, select artist

then scroll down to make "Most Recent" disappear and the scroller will appear again!


export PATH="/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"

in .bashrc or .bash_profile file (cd ~/.bash_profile)

This will tell your terminal where to find mysql command.


Window opens but immediately disappears. This happens with multiple apps

If you once had them in full screen mode, by pressing the green plus sign(+) in the top-left corner, it may be reopening them into new full-screen views, which is called Mission Control.

To check, do any of the following:

On a trackpad, swipe left or right with three or four fingers. On a Magic Mouse, swipe with two fingers.
Press the Control key and the Right or Left arrow key.
Enter Mission Control, move the pointer to the top edge of the screen to show the Spaces bar, then click a space.

Let me know if that resolves it!


Connected Bluetooth Device Not Recognized as Audio Device

Resolution:

I installed Yosemite on an external drive so that I could find all the system files related to audio (using EasyFind, a great search utility for Mac), compare them to my existing system for any file size mismatches, and then replace the offending file(s).

The offending file was found in /Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/HAL and was most likely "BluetoothAudioPlugin.driver" (duh), though I replaced all the files in this folder with the system defaults, so I don't know that it was solely caused by this one alone.


Hosting a remote Aperture image library on a Mac mini server

The approach we have used is a simple shared folder containing an Aperture library. I can report that this solution is ok but fragile -- permissions on the shared folder need to be fixed every so often.

Dropbox would certainly work in your case, but I suspect that you'll need substantial storage space, which would be rather expensive. If cost weren't critical, though, Dropbox offers a very reliable way of replicating an Aperture library file locally while keeping the copies synced smoothly. Your solution of a GIT repository may be a labor-intensive way of re-creating what Dropbox is already offering.


No.  There is no way to do this through the standard user interface.  Sorry.  I can understand why you might want to do this, but the reality is that -- for pragmatic reasons -- software designers often need to keep it simple and avoid features that only a tiny fraction of their user base will use.


Setting Option+[WIFI ICON MENUBAR CLICK] as default action when clicking the wifi icon in the menu bar

Until now I've only found a workaround:

Install BetterTouchTool and create a special trackpad gesture or mouse gesture to invoke an option+click. In the example below I use the trackpad and a 3 finger double-tap in Global to do that:

From now on a 3 finger double-tap on the Wi-Fi menulet (and other menulets) will reveal the advanced or detailed view.


Some program windows in Windows 8 on macbook pro has small text size

Basically it is happening when program is not adapted to run in high DPI screens.

High DPI explained:

Windows 8.1 - High DPI
Resolution explained (pixels, DPI, inches)
High DPI Settings in Windows


How can I connect two DVI-D monitors to my Macbook Pro (latest model)?

There's things like this - http://www.sonnettech.com/product/thunderbolt/index.html.
It's a Thunderbolt expansion chasis; you can put a video card in there. Don't know how it goes for drivers and they are fairly expensive. There's some others around.


Remove "AM" and "PM" Suffix on screenshots

Open your System Preferences

Language & Region
Check the 24 hr box


In Activity Monitor, how can Swap Used be more than Page Outs?

My understanding is this:

Program needs access to some data.  Attempts to do so, and fails, due to lack of RAM.
OS takes control.  There is a page-out operation, where physical RAM is copied to swap.
There is a page-in operation, where the required data is copied to RAM.
OS gives control back to program.
Program tries again, finds its data.

OS's are getting smart about how they choose what and when to to page in/out.  So the operation counts may not be the same, and the swap space may perhaps be in use without there being page outs.

Unless of course I'm backwards on what a page-in/page-out operation is.  In which case your question makes perfect sense.


Change Siri's default search engine on macOS

At this time, there's no way to change the default macOS Siri search engine.

I would recommend letting Apple know you'd like the ability to change the search engine using the macOS Feedback page.