The error message you are seeing is very misleading. I believe what's actually happening is the system is preventing unprivileged accounts from reading the log contents. If you instead use sudo to execute the log show command as shown below, you'll get what you want.

Also, the log facility has a built-in method (via the --start and --end command-line switches) to limit the time range of log messages you want.

Give it a shot:

# log show --start "2018-08-01" --end "2018-08-31"

log: Could not open local log store: The log archive format is corrupt and cannot be read

# sudo log show --start "2018-08-01" --end "2018-08-31"

Skipping info and debug messages, pass --info and/or --debug to include.
Timestamp                       Thread     Type        Activity             PID    TTL
2018-08-01 00:00:00.093146-0700 0x2f722d   Default     0x0                  879    7    com.apple.dock.extra: (CalendarFoundation) [com.apple.calendar:calendar] [com.apple.calendar.foundation.docktile] [[CalDockTileController] dateDidChange: NSCalendarDayChangedNotification]
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How to change encoding in Mail in OS X Mavericks?

It seems you're not the only one with this problem.

I found a KB article on Apple's website that clearly specifies that Message > Text Encoding should be available in the Mavericks version of Mail:

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14955

It says "Mavericks" in the title and is current as of Nov 6, 2013.

I've filed a bug report letting the OS X team know.


Applescript to turn off Mission Control in OS X 10.7

This disables the main Mission Control screen (⌃↑), but not spaces or the application windows screen (⌃↓). It also makes switching to a space with windows for an application stop working.

defaults write com.apple.dock mcx-expose-disabled -bool true
killall Dock

You can disable Exposé and Spaces by removing or disabling Dock. But it also disables full screen windows, the Notification Center sidebar, the application switcher, Launchpad, and Dashboard, and makes the desktop backgrounds gray.


Magic Mouse Gesture not working OS X Mavericks

I solved the same problem by going to mouse in preference and unblocking the gesture the second and third gesture leaving only the "Swipe between pages" enabled.


Remote desktop apps for OS X Mavericks 10.9

In the past, I've used LogMeIn to remotely connect to a Windows 7 system from my Mac. It's perfectly compatible with OSX Mavericks, reputable, and secure. I highly recommend it.


Why do I have to format external disk twice? (First time will always fail)

The first time you try to format the disk it 'fails' to unmount the volume then unmounts it and returns an error. The second time the drive is already unmounted, so the erase usually succeeds. Since I've seen this on new macs and new installations, I think it is a Disk Utility bug.

An easy workaround is to unmount the volume you want to erase before erasing.

Using the diskutil command in terminal doesn't give the same error.


Using the Keyboard System Preference, in combination with the Greek keyboard, I was able to get this to work.

Open System Preferences > Keyboard

Select the Keyboard tab and check Show Keyboard & Character Viewers in menu bar. The flag of your default language should now appear to the right of the Date/Time menu item.

Select the Input Sources tab > Add Greek keyboard

Select the Text tab > select then add \lambda to the Replace field

From the Character Viewer menu bar item, choose the Greek keyboard > Select the With field and type the 'l' key. This should insert the λ character in this field.

From the Character ViewSwitch back to the default keyboard.

Now, whenever you type \lambda you will see this replacement pop-up:

Repeat with other characters.


Red dot showing in the software update icon but already updated

defaults delete com.apple.systempreferences AttentionPrefBundleIDs; killall Dock

This can get rid of it but it will return.


Looks like you're using com.apple.com rather than com.apple.mail in your defaults write or defaults delete commands.

defaults delete com.apple.mail AttachAtEnd should do the trick.


How to take pictures in the dark with an iPhone?

There are some apps that may help you with dark night photos (though I have no experience with these apps). Here you are:

NightCap: This app captures 15x more light to capture the best photos in low light situations. It also provides the best tools to help take the perfect shot day or night.
Camera Flash and Zoom: A full featured camera app with digital flash, 5x digital zoom, geotagging, preview before saving, quick and burst modes, and plenty more tools for night photography.
Night fast Snap!: Very suitable for night photography, you can take 30 clear photos in 2 seconds in the case of low light. The app only fires the shutter when it detects the iPhone is steady to ensure sharpness.


The Preboot volume is a new system partition that manages boot, the partition is created during the update to macOS High Sierra to support booting to an APFS volume(The one named Macintosh HD).
APFS is a new filesystem created by Apple, and it makes a lot of changes(link to Wikipedia article about APFS), and one of them is the addition of the Preboot volume, which is required to boot APFS, so if you delete it, you can't boot!


While my MacBook sleeps, the network drops off?

There are a couple of things that could be causing this:

Make sure "Wake for network access" is checked in Energy Saver.  This should work if Skype is sending data over Bonjour.
Your prior computer may only be turning off the display instead of sleeping the computer entirely.  In the Energy Saver control panel, try setting the computer sleep time to Never.  You can retain your display sleep time.

My understanding is that #2 is likely the solution as I don't believe the type of traffic on which Skype relies will trigger the Wake-On-LAN feature.


Clean install of Yosemite on 2008 MacBook Air

What you're encountering is not related to the pre-existing version, but likely that your MacBook Air is not supported for Yosemite at all.  Apple lists the Late 2008 model as the earliest MacBook Air which can run Yosemite.

(Source) http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6412


How do I copy my Mac library / iTunes / iPhoto to my Transcend Jet Drive

First things first:  As I understand it, you want to put all your iTunes music and your photos onto your new 128Gb JetDrive rather than store them on your computer.  Yes, you can do this, and it should work just fine.

To your computer, your JetDrive is simply an additional drive in addition to what is already inside your computer.  I suspect your JetDrive is either defective, or it wasn't formatted properly.

I suggest you begin by erasing/reformatting your JetDrive using Disk Utility.  (All the data on your JetDrive will be deleted, so plan accordingly.)  If you aren't familiar with Disk Utility, be extremely careful—you can easily do a whole lot of damage to the data on your computer using this utility.  I've never used a JetDrive myself, but it should have come with detailed instructions on how to do this.  If not, or if the instructions aren't clear to you, I recommend you get someone with OS X experience to personally help you do it step-by-step.

If after erasing your JetDrive, it still takes hours to transfer your data, you likely have a defective JetDrive.

As for how to get iTunes to use your new JetDrive after successfully copying the iTunes Media Folder to it, you set iTunes to use your new JetDrive & iTunes Media Folder Location instead of the one on your computer.  This option is located in Advanced Preferences of iTunes, in iTunes>Preferences...>Advanced.  There you will see the current iTunes Media Folder Location and a button to change it.

Your photos work in a manner similar to iTunes, but instead of using iTunes Media Folder for its data, Photos uses Photos Library.photoslibrary.  Unfortunately, getting Photos to use a new library isn't as straightforward as is iTunes. After copying Photos Library.photoslibrary to your new JetDrive, you must then either delete or rename the old library.  Doing so will cause Photos to prompt you for the name/location of the library when it starts (since the one it is supposed to use cannot be found because you deleted or renamed it.)

Lastly, after you have successfully put your music and photos on your new JetDrive, be sure Time Machine is set to back it up from there.  You do back up your data, right?


How to always reveal the Safari Downloads Folder despite it being on another desktop?

I just tried to recreate your issue, and with multiple desktops, some with already-open Finder windows, when I click Show in Finder on Safari, which is on a desktop without any Finder windows, I get the file location shown in a new Finder window on the same desktop as Safari. I tried to mess it up but I couldn't.

One thing you might want to try, is on the Dock, right click Finder, under Options choose "None" under Assign To. Both Safari and Finder had this option selected when I was retracing your steps.

Since this is a half-baked "answer", I wanted to make this into a comment however I currently lack the rep required.


"Verification Required" when installing free apps?

It is indeed possible to create an Apple ID without a credit card, see "Creating an iTunes Store, App Store, iBookstore, and Mac App Store account without a credit card" at http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2534.

If you entered credit card information in the past you can dissociate it from your Apple ID as follows.

On an iOS device

Open Settings.
Tap iTunes & App Stores:

Tap your account and select "View Apple ID".
Select Payment information:

Select None:

Confirm with Done.

On a Mac

Open App Store.app:

Select menu Store>View My Account.
In the Apple ID Summary section locate the Payment Information line and click Edit >:

Select None as payment method:

Click Done to confirm.

If you don't see a "none" option, you may need to disable family sharing and then try the above steps again.


Problem installing VirtualBox on MacOS High Sierra

Ok, so in desperation I left it overnight - and it did complete.  Looking at the logs, it took about 3 hours from that line to the next one in the log.  Very bizarre, but it's done.


Instead of disabling ntpd, you should download the source for version 4.2.8 of ntp and compile it yourself. All you need is Xcode for Lion/SnowLeo. It should work on 10.6.x and 10.7.x just fine.

I have updated my 10.10 install immediately after the CVE was made public and source code released and I didn't wait on Apple to release the update.

To compile ntpd, download the source from ntp.org and apply the patch for OS X/FreeBSD. After applying this patch, you will be able to just run "./configure && make." Then you can copy the binaries to appropriate directories (/usr/sbin/ and /usr/bin/).

For Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion):

mkdir ntpd-fix
cd ntpd-fix
curl http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~ntp/ntp_spool/ntp4/ntp-4.2/ntp-4.2.8.tar.gz | tar zxf -
cd ntp-4.2.8/ntpd
curl http://bugs.ntp.org/attachment.cgi?id=1165 | patch -p1
cd ..
./configure && make

Here's the list of files and folders to which they belong to that will be built from the source above. After compilation, all these files will be in various sub-folders.

/usr/bin/sntp
/usr/bin/ntp-keygen
/usr/bin/ntpq
/usr/sbin/ntpdc
/usr/sbin/ntpdate
/usr/sbin/ntpd

Rename old ones using something like:

sudo mv /usr/sbin/ntpd /usr/sbin/ntpd.old

and then move the new one in. Make sure to chown the files after moving them in place:

sudo chown root:wheel /usr/sbin/ntpd

Note: I did not use  sudo make install because I didn't trust the Makefile  (I wasn’t sure it would place files in the same folders that Apple has originally placed them in and wanted to be sure they're still in the same spot as old ones). Manually moving 6 files is not a big issue. Rest of the files (man pages, html pages, etc are the same so you don't have to bother moving those.)


is data stored in iphone encrypted by default?

Yes, the data is encrypted by default. However it is not "secure" in the sense that if you do not set up a sufficiently good pass code, it is easy to read the data if you have access to the phone.


iPhoto 9.5.1 deleting photos and library!

OK. Please follow those steps :
Open IPhoto 9.5.1 while pressing the "alt" key. Select "New". Name it Iphoto Library 2 for exemple. Press Enter, let IPhoto open.

Now, go into your Pictures folder. Find the IPhoto Library. Click right onto it, choose "Show packets".

Find the "Masters" Folder. Drag it with your mouse and drop it inside the IPhoto's window. The bloody app should now import all your photos.

Quit IPhoto. You can now delete the old IPhoto Library and rename your new IPhoto Library 2 into IPhoto Library.


how can I transfer empty space between partitions?

I haven’t tried any way of resizing the partitions through Disk Utility, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible. (Before I go on, consider this the ever-important reminder that when fiddling with disk partitions and stuff, have a good backup. And then some. And then another one).

So here are my two suggestions:

You could try backing up the Snow Leopard partition to two external drives (one for backup, one for the copy). Then delete the original partition, and put in a new one to fill the space. Finally, restore the copy back onto the new (larger) partition
iPartition from Coriolis Software sounds like it would be able to do what you’re doing. I haven’t used iPartition, but I have used their other product, iDefrag, and that worked fine for what I needed. It costs $46.95, but there’s a free demo that you can try. Not sure what the limitations are, but this seems like the safest option.


Are the little grey minimize header buttons gone?

You mean the Show/Hide toolbar button?
Yes, it's gone.

You can still access the function with the keystroke Cmd-Option-T.

Or by right-clicking the toolbar and clicking Show/Hide toolbar.


SSD lifetime, hibernation, and mobile TM

Since OS X has TRIM support, the wear from writing 8 GB of sleepimage data would be spread out evenly across the drive by the controller in the SSD. Assuming 10,000 write cycles per cell and your estimate of 25% of drive capacity per day, you will be fine for 40,000 days (110 years) if you don't do anything else with the SSD.

That number could be completely wrong due to write amplification, but if the data is actually being written sequentially it shouldn't be a problem.


My MacBook Pro sleeps when I turn off external display

Try putting the monitor to sleep by pressing control+shift+⏏. This will turn off your display and should leave the computer on.

Source: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343


Why won't my iPod Touch play in Bose SoundDock speakers anymore?

Since it’s practically impossible to diagnose a problem like this without physical access to the iPod and the SoundDock, I’m going to give you a few ideas of what I’d try to do:

If you have access to another iPod, try that of course, if that works, we’ve found a problem with your particular iPod.
If you have access to another SoundDock… well, put your iPod in those and see if the problem lies in your SoundDock.
Since the last two were two obvious (and you probably thought about them), let me tell you that you can go to an Apple Store with both devices and try the above combinations there. I’m sure that you will find another SoundDock in an Apple Store to try your iPod and that they also have iPods so you can try your Sound Dock. It doesn’t hurt to ask.
In any case, the remaining obvious alternative is to restore the iPod, either to factory settings (and later using a backup) or to restore a backup (so you don’t lose everything).
The final idea, is to try 4.2, but that should be the last step. You don’t want 4.2 to introduce new “undiscovered” problems on top of your old problem.

Sadly, there isn’t much else we can do from here. The can’t charge or incompatible device message is “ok” most of the time (I had that problem too with a car adapter), but it worked anyway.

I’m sorry I can’t come up with a better idea.

 Just had this same problem... I fixed it by spraying a Contact Cleaner on my Ipod/ITouch.. and it works after... sometimes, Dust or Dirt will cause bad connection between the Unit and the Sound Dock Port *


Do I need a newer Mac if I want to continue to use Xcode with my iPhone?

Your computer is too old to be officially supported on macOS Mojave, I'm afraid. Also it is not possible to downgrade an iPhone to an older iOS version, unless you have saved certain information before you did the upgrade (which you didn't do).

However there are two unsupported methods of running macOS Mojave anyways, which will enable you to install Xcode 10.2 and develop for iOS 12.

The first option is to use the Mojave Patcher third party utility found here:

http://dosdude1.com/mojave/

It essentially patches a Mojave installation package to be able to run on older, otherwise unsupported hardware.

The other option is to use a virtualisation system such as VMware Fusion or Parallels Desktop and run Mojave inside a virtual machine.


Can [Update Needed] be removed without disabling/enabling FileVault?

If the Mac in question is running OS X 10.8.x or later, you can remove users from the list of FileVault enabled accounts using the fdesetup remove command. To remove the account using the username, run the following command:

sudo fdesetup remove -user username

Successful removal of the account will not produce any additional output.

If the account being removed is not currently enabled for use with FileVault 2, an error message will be displayed.

Does the icon you're seeing look like this?

If it does, this isn't a user account. It's a password directly associated with the disk's encryption. You will need to decrypt in order to get rid of it.


Drivers and firmware get updated as part of OS installation and all OS installations now are archive and install which means the OS builds up a clean OS with all the drivers needed, patches firmware and then runs the migration script to move in any custom drivers you have.

That's a great first step if you ever feel your firmware or drivers are not up to snuff.

If you don't have a caching server locally - then download the OS installer from the Mac App Store then run the installer over lunch or when you're done for the evening. You can also boot to recovery or internet recovery on newer Macs and reinstall.

Caching server will cache the installer, so you might be done with the download at LAN speeds (6 minutes or less) and the install takes maybe 10 minutes for the part everyone has to run. Your migration could take 1 minute to 30 minutes based on how many software and extensions you have.


Why paste from screenshot into Mail will save as TIFF format?

It Has to do with the Clipboard; not Screen Capture
Screen capture can obviously support more than these two file formats; obviously it supports GIF and JPEG/JPG, but it also supports PDF.  However, the issue here isn't what Screen Capture is capable of handling, it what your clipboard is capable of. Why?  Well, you're going directly from your clipboard to pasting an inline image into a mail message.  Once Screen Capture "hands over" bitmap to the clipboard, it's work is done.
Now, your clipboard stores images as a RAW format so it can preserve every single detail.  How it gets saved (when Screen Capture writes it to disk), the clipboard simply doesn't care if you use a high quality format like PNG or TIFF or a lossy format like JPEG or PDF; basically, you chose it, you'll get it.
But why PNG or TIFF?
The very short answer is both are image formats that support lossless compression.  In other words, they can make the images much smaller than their RAW format without losing an ounce of quality.
Apple chose PNG as it's default and I can only speculate as to why...

PNG (Portable Network Graphic) was to be a replacement for the GIF format
It's web friendly
It was designed for transferring images over the network/Internet

TIFF on the other hand...

Acquired by Adobe in 1996 for desktop publishing
It was an attempt to standardize scanned (and faxed) documents into a single high quality file format
Built in support for meta data
Could hold multiple pages as a single document like a PDF

Why you get TIFF when pasting to your App
Coming out of the clipboard, you've got two ways to go - PNG or TIFF.  Since you specifically told screen capture you didn't want PNG, it went to the only other choice available - TIFF.

How can I save it as JPG format?

Don't use your clipboard.  Save to your Desktop (or other location) and just manually convert to JPEG.  Then drag your item over to the app you're using.  If you do this through the Preview App, you will have the opportunity to set the quality/size of your JPEG in case it's still too large for some receiving email systems.  (Preview) File → Export → Format

If this is something you do quite a bit, you can easily create an Automator action...but that's another question for another time.


Is it possible to program an OS X screen lock?

On a Macbook, pressing ctrl+shift+Eject will lock the screen instantly.  These keyboard shortcuts are configurable from System Preferences.


Is this normal: my direct Ethernet is 5x faster than the same Ethernet via Airport Express?

It is probably because you are connecting to a gigabit switch when referring to "direct Ethernet" and when you connect to your Airport Express via Ethernet, it is connected at 100Mb or "Fast Ethernet"

From Apple's website for the Airport Express:

I would check the switch you are using to connect "direct" and confirm that it is a gigabit switch.


iOS 11: Voice Control doesn't get turned off completely

Disable "Siri & Dictation" in restrictions.

Go to Settings > General > Restrictions.
Enable restrictions and set a passcode if you haven't already. Otherwise, enter your restrictions passcode.
Disable "Siri & Dictation".


iOS's file system: where are those files that are synced with the iPad via iTune? photos, videos, etc

Generally, the files are stored inside the application sandbox.
The application sandbox is a folder that stores the App and its associated files.
Every App has it's own application sandbox.
If you use file share in iTunes, the files are stored in a /Documents/ folder inside the application sandbox.
It is a bit tricky to access files that are stored outside the applications sandbox.
Apple has a good and short explanation about files in it's iOS Application Programming Guide.
If you want to access on images from the PhotoLibrary, have a look at UIImagePickerControler.


What is the quickest way to setup Instiki on Lion?

See here for proper instructions.

But, in brief,

ruby bundle
./instiki --daemon

I don't think there's anything quicker than that.


I wonder if the iPhone is somehow detecting a pair of headphones in the device only when the FaceTime is active for video calls?

Steps to take:

Reboot iPhone
Try in phone app
Try again with FaceTime

Possibly also try a device backup and then restore either using your computer or iCloud for the backup.

Edit:

When reading your comment, you reminded me that there are 2 separate mics on the iPhone 5S. Microphones on iPhones. I believe the mic on the back is used for FaceTime and the front mic is used for phone calls as well as FaceTime Audio. Here is an iFixit guide list for the iPhone 5S.


Safari 9 Top Sites shortcut key gone missing or changed?

Why not just add one yourself?

Open System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts and click add.
Select Safari, enter ‘Show Top Sites’ for the menu title and enter a keyboard shortcut.

This adds the shortcut to the menu option:


It does depends on what iOS device you are using but generally
The title above all the notes in that folder indicates the folder name, as shown in the picture.
If you are editing inside the note on an iPhone for instance, the back button is titled with the folder name.


Can I submit dictionary file to Mac App Store?

You can't upload 'plugins / extentions' to the Mac App Store. Only full 'apps' will be approved for the mac app store. To create a mac app, you need a developer license to be able to publish your app through the Mac App Store.


Pages 5 - Bullets and numbering are not being copied

This is currently not possible. You can notify Apple that you would like this feature implemented using their Pages feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/pages.html

By the way, in case you didn't know, copy-pasting to other iWork apps works fine - bullets and other formatting is preserved correctly.


Cannot open Parental Controls preference pane in Yosemite

Tetsujin said:

  I'd run Disk Utility, repair perms, check disk, then if no joy, run the latest combo updater from support.apple.com/kb/DL1820


You can turn off iCloud Photo Library on your Mac by following the steps in this Apple support doc: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204570.  I always backup my photos first, just in case I make a mistake.  If this is an option for you then I recommend doing the backup before you make any changes.

On your Mac, go to System Preferences > iCloud > Options next to Photos
Deselect iCloud Photo Library

This will stop photos from syncing to your Mac.  As you've seen, do not select Disable and Delete from this same menu as it will delete your photos from every device.


How do I take apart an Apple iPod Connector?

Joke: it's easy to take it apart. Do you need it to be usable afterwards?

Thomas' suggestion is a good bet, but the pliers will likely damage the connector (the gray plastic).

But if you only care about the connector and not the housing (the white plastic), then you could cut the housing open without touching the connector itself.

It depends on what you want to do after you've taken it apart, but you don't mention that.


Why is everything set to immutable and how do I reverse it?

The root user should always be able to change permissions on the filesystem. I believe things are made immutable by default to help avoid footguns by people who try to copy/paste things from the Internet. Requiring a root password may give people some pause, or at least give them the idea that changing files in /usr/local at random may not be a good idea.

Homebrew, the Mac package manager, makes /usr/local writable to be able to install packages from the web without needing to use the sudo command every time. It runs the following two commands to achieve that:

sudo chmod 775 /usr/local
sudo /usr/bin/chgrp "admin" /usr/local/<unwritable directories/files below this>


No audio when playing mp4 video from MacBook Pro to Apple TV

Have you tried adjusting the “Audio Mode" and the “Surround Sound" settings in Settings ➔ Audio and Video? It may be worth trying several combinations of these settings, although typically it is the “Surround Sound" setting that causes most problems for users.

Your TV may not support pass through or you may need to map the audio to the optical output.

If it still doesn't work you might try one of these.

HDMI to HDMI + Audio (Example Only - Not a recommendation or suggestion that this is suitable in your circumstances)


I recommend that you use a window manager. I use Divvy ($14), which lets me press a one keyboard shortcut to move a window to the other monitor and resize it to full-screen.


Each version of Safari is more secure than earlier versions. I would suggest you upgrade to at least version 13.1.2. You should be able to upgrade Safari by going to the AppStore. Go to the app store and see if you can download a newer version of Safari.
This link will take you to a page where it talks about upgrading Safari.


Go to Calendar → Preferences → General and set Show 24 hours at a time to 12.

Additionally you can set Day starts at to automatically scroll to given time.


The Bluetooth standard has two profiles for audio with computers, A2DP (Advanced Audio Distribution Profile) and HSP (Headset Profile). Your headphones show up as two devices because of this. HSP is monaural, but includes microphone input. A2DP is stereo, but doesn’t have microphone input. Ideally, on phones, when you’re listening to music and a call comes in, the headphones immediately stop playback and switch to HSP. When you hang up, the ‘phones switch to A2DP and continue music playback. You unfortunately can’t use both profiles at the same time, at least not without modifying the drivers.


Purge synced documents from iCloud Drive

It works as intended, I’m afraid. “Your Mac keeps all of your recent files on your computer, but keeps your older ones only in iCloud, ready for you to download when you need them again”, Apple says. So as long as you still have enough free space on your hard disk the files will stay there.

Please see Apple’s article Free up storage space on your Mac for tips on how to free up more space on the Mac using iCloud.


I'm not sure whether it's possible... but the workaround is so simple it's easier than reaching over to the Share button.

 Cmd ⌘   L  which moves focus to the address bar.
 Cmd ⌘   C  to copy the address.
Switch to Mail
 Cmd ⌘   N  for new mail.
fill in address & title
 Cmd ⌘   V  to paste the URL


Boot Camp Low Audio Level Through 3.5mm Audio Jack

I’ve tried reinstalling everything from the operating system to the audio driver. My current work around is to use a USB to audio output adapter.


Shell commands to determine if file is held on an APFS volume

I'd do the following:

Use a combination of basename (to get the full path of the file, if required) and df to determine which volume the file is on.
Use diskutil info to determine the filesystem type of the volume (you could also use mount).

There are perhaps better ways of doing it but that will certainly work.

The following one-liner was suggested by fd0 in a comment:

df -T apfs /absolute/path/to/file >/dev/null && Do Stuff

This executes "Do Stuff" only if the file is on an APFS filesystem. If Do Stuff is more than a few simple commands the same can be accomplished with

if df -T apfs /absolute/path/to/file >/dev/null; then
    do stuff
    do even more stuff
fi


OSX Lion isn't an app as such but a collection of additional services and applications running on your Mac. Accessibility from outside is the same as for a plain vanilla OSX installation.

Any port you open allows access from outside, but access is always (as long as there are no security bugs) restricted to the service provided. So if you enable Web Sharing, access to the local web server is possible (including ~user/Sites) but not (unless you reconfigured the web server in an insane way) to your whole filesystem.


macOS Catalina 10.15.1 suffers from extremely high application start up time

Your Late 2013 MacBook Pro does indeed have the integrated decryption functionality in hardware. It is not too old for that. It is integrated in your CPU.

So that solves the riddle of whether or not the slow app loading times are related to not having that - it isn't.

You can disable the encryption of the file system "without pains" by opening up System Preferences => Security & Privacy => FileVault and click "Turn Off FileVault..". I'm pretty sure it won't help your application loading times though.

Note that disabling FileVault takes a long time. It runs in the background so you can continue to use the Mac, but it will be slightly less performant during that time.


Use internal speakers with others plugged into headphones jack

Pretty sure it can't be done with the built-in headphone jack. What you could try is getting a USB soundcard (one example, but there are lots out there for $20 or so) to plug your headphones into. That should give you two options in the sound preferences.

PS, if you option-click the speaker icon in the menu bar, you get a quicker way to swap inputs/outputs than going to the sound preference pane every time.


Can Aperture auto-delete photos after import from an iPhone

Aperture does not seem to offer this functionality for the iPhone. So after importing it does not give you the option.

See picture here: Aperture Import finished

But after importing you can always use Image Capture to delete the photos in one go:

See picture here: Image Capture


I figured it out! Again, this is for a situation when you know the password.

Download an OS9 emulator. I used SheepShaver and found a perfect bundle with everything here.
If OS9 detects that the file is encrypted (i.e. the files appears with a little yellow key symbol in the corner of the icon), try double-clicking on it or opening it through "Apple File Security" under Applications > Security.
If you get the error, The "Apple File Security " could not be opened because "KeychainLib" could not be found,

Go to the Extensions Manager.
Under Control Panel, enable Keychain Access
Under Extensions, enable everything that starts with the word "Security".
Then restart.

If OS9 does not detect that the file is encrypted (i.e. no little lock symbol), you may have luck changing the file attributes as per the suggestion here (it goes without saying you should try this on a copy of your file first):

In your normal OSX terminal, use xattr -w -x 'com.apple.FinderInfo' '65 6E 63 32 63 72 70 32 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00' yourfile.ext
This should signal to OS9 the file is encrypted and you should then see the little lock symbol.

Try double-clicking the file. If you get the error, A file error has occurred. The file may be damaged, try dragging the file to the OS9 desktop (instead of trying to decrypt it within the directory shared between OS9 and OSX).
When prompted, say you want to decrypt the file and type the passcode.
Unstuff the file with Stuffit Expander (in OS9).
Presto! Now you can bring the files back to the present.


As per David solution here (although not the cause):

I used Directory Utility (/System/Library/Core Services/Directory Utility) to delete two extra Guest accounts ("Guest1" and "Guest2").
After deleting those two records I could open the Users & Groups System Preference Pane.

Source: I've got "Preference Error: Could not load Users


Can I make the caps-lock setting stick, for external USB keyboard in Mountain Lion?

It should stick even on Mountain Lion.

Two suggestions.

First, you might use Onyx to validate your preferences.

Second, try deleting ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist and logging out and logging in again.

In either case, the pref file might be messed up and that could prevent it from being saved.


Can I use Google CardDAV sync on my Mac?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems like CardDAV sync feature is only avaliable from iOS devices. I did however find an article showing how you can do so on your mac, it could be worth a try.

  After opening Contacts, go to the app’s preferences pane. Navigate to
  the “Accounts” section:
  http://ismh.s3.amazonaws.com/2012-12-16-google-contacts-1.png
  Hit the plus sign to add an account. Here are the required settings:
  Account type: CardDAV:
  Username: Your Gmail Account
  Your password
  Server address: google.com

  Hit the “Create” button:
  http://ismh.s3.amazonaws.com/2012-12-16-google-contacts-2.png
  Contacts.app will then ask if you want use these credentials for other
  types of information. Select what you wish and press the “Create”
  button again.

  Once the account is listed in Contact.app’s preferences, go to the
  “General” section and set your Google account to be the default
  account:
  http://ismh.s3.amazonaws.com/2012-12-16-google-contacts-3.png

  By default, the application defaults to saving vCards locally on the
  Mac, which means information added from other programs won’t end up in
  the Google cloud.


Is there an iOS lifecycle policy - i.e. which older devices a new iOS release supports?

I'm unaware of official policy but in my experience (opinion?) Apple supports older devices with new OSs as long as it is technically reasonable to do.

There are those that hold that Apple will use an OS or feature update to push the sale of new devices (i.e. Siri only available on iPhone 4S) but I have yet to see conclusive proof of this. Apple seems able to sell boatloads of phones (pads, pods and computers) without forcing the market and, in all cases that I've seen, there are equally plausible, and less "evil", explanations for Apple's decision.


Can I add existing photos in my camera roll to a new photo stream?

You can only manually add photos to photostream from iPhoto or Aperture not from the iOS device currently,

So you'd need to sync with iPhoto and manually add to photostream through that.


To fix that you will probably have to reinstall Mac OS X. To do that, hold the command key when you press the power button and when the system starts up, click the option to re install Mac OS X. Hope this helps.


iPhone 4 passcode lock disabled and no access to iTunes

You can quickly get going again by erasing the device and restoring from iTunes.

The backup doesn't need to be in iTunes, but if you don't have a backup, you may be starting over.

See http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT1212 for an up to date explanation from Apple as well as more details on the process for your computer or OS of choice.


So actually the problem has been solved by restarting my Mac with "resume" feature turned off.


How do I know which keyboard locale file I'm using for my keyboard layout?

It's determined by the list in the "Language & Text" preference pane's Language tab.

The plist file that is chosen is the one that matches with the language in the list that is highest to the top that has a match.

For example: if your list shows "Canadian English, UK English, Spanish, …", Keyboard-en_CA.plist will be chosen, as it best matches Canadian English. If the list is "Português, Suomi, English, …", Keyboard-en.plist will be chosen, as it best matches English, which is the language closest to the top that is available. (The last is assuming that Portuguese and Finnish plists aren't available.) If there are no languages in the list that have plists present, the Keyboard_default.plist would likely be chosen.


Better question: If the output from iCal was readable, would it be sufficient? The reason I ask, is because iCal word wraps within the two day columns, making the overlapping issue unusual. Perhaps the issue is with the iCal Application Support files or .plist


Thought I'd share because I went down the rabbit hole on this and it turned out pretty simple.

I was not able to turn on two factor authenication because I had a couple of old apple devices (an old iphone 4 i was using for music and a phone that hadn't been charged in 5 years) that DID NOT HAVE A PASSCODE ENABLED.

Apple wasn't able to turn on two factor unless every device on my appleid account had a password set.

I just deleted from my account and it worked.  This took a week of back and forth with (a very nice) apple rep.

Good luck!


Mavericks in Mac App Store shows install button without text and won't download

You can enable the Debug menu by typing the following into Terminal:

defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true

You can then clear the cookies using the Clear Cookies option in the Debug menu.

In addition, you can reset the application using the Reset Application option.

You can disable the Debug menu using the following:

defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool false


Following are the steps

Restart Machine and press CommandR while booting
It will take you to the Recovery Mode
From Utilities Menu open Terminal
In the Terminal Window enter csrutil disable
Then restart
Install regular EVO drivers that came with the dongle, you will be able to see the modem in Network Preferences and might have to do configuration manually like entering *99# as number etc.
Then restart in same mode as step 1
Open Terminal and enter csrutil enable

It will start working at step 6


How can I fix a broken MacBook Pro camera cable?

There is a wonderful site "ifixit" that has answers to that question.

  The camera cable socket is very fragile. Do not apply any upward force
  to this socket, as it may break off the logic board. Pull the camera
  cable parallel to the face of the logic board.

If you are lucky, you did not damaged the socket but just the cable.

Replace the cable to find out.


Is there a way to force iTunes 11 to update tags?

From the MusicBrainz iTunes Guide:

  Updating Library in iTunes

  Brute force method (full library re-scan)

  This method works best if
    - you've re-tagged a whole lot of your files and don't remember which files/albums
    - or there are far too many for the first approach
    - or you've moved/renamed files and iTunes has lost them

  Ready?

  Go to File > Add Folder to Library
  Point it at the top of your iTunes directory ("My Music\iTunes\iTunes Music\Music" on Windows, by default).
  iTunes will rescan your music, but recognize it's already imported, so you shouldn't end up with duplicate files (unless you have moved/renamed files)

You can also refresh a selection of songs by following the AppleScript based solution (on the same page linked above):

  Mac-only advanced method

  This method is a bit more complicated to set up, but easy to use.

  Fire up Script Editor (which is under Applications/AppleScript, but it will work with TextEdit). Paste the following code, then save as a Script called /Library/iTunes/Scripts/Refresh.scpt (create the Scripts directory if it doesn't already exist).

    tell application "iTunes"
     refresh selection
    end tell

  Now, inside iTunes, you should see a Scripts menu (an icon of a scroll, just left of Help). The "Refresh" item on that menu will force it to re-read the tags for all tracks that you have selected.


iPhone shuts off when battery is at about 20%

I attempted someone else's suggestion to let the battery naturally die off (let something running without actively using it), then charge it back until 100% without unplugging. The first time it did not work, but after I did that for the second time, my phone is back to normal. So... I just needed to be patient I guess.


Remove Default Application for File Extension in Catalina

A Catalina-compatible alternative to RCDefaults can be found here:

https://github.com/Lord-Kamina/SwiftDefaultApps

It provides a preference pane and a command line utility for setting the default app of any file type.


AppleScript or Automator workflow to clean orphaned files on Kindle

If the .mobi and .azw files are directly under the .sdr folders, try running a command like this in Terminal:

cd /containing/folder;for d in *.sdr;do ls "$d"|grep -Eq '\.(mobi|awz)$'||echo rm -r "$d";done

Remove echo to actually delete the folders.


Everytime I start my MacBook Air there is a blank interface window

I have solved the problem by reinstalling latest OS. Follow these steps to do it :

Shut down your Mac first
Restart and keep cmd+R buttons pressed until Apple Logo shown
Choose from the menu reinstall OS (in my case : Reinstall Sierra)
Follow on screen instructions.

Reinstalling latest OS doesn't change or delete your current settings or installed softwares.


How do I troubleshoot Airplay devices not showing up?

Turning Bluetooth on has fixed this.

Having Bluetooth on at home is never required. Apparently there is a Bluetooth discovery feature in AppleTV (I suspect they have recently been configured differently at work).


Is it normal for 1000 threads to launch on booting up MacBook Pro?

The number of processes doesn't really matter, as long as they don't consume CPU time. Rerun with top -o cpu to see the processes using most CPU at the top.

Having said that,

right now you have 302 active processes which looks okish for a freshly booted system
a load average of 1.58/1.58/1.52 is practically nothing, and the CPU is 84.9% idle.

So whatever slowness you experience does not come from anything CPU intensive.


How do I find out what frequencies an iPhone supports?

See iPhone 3GS - Technical Specifications:

Cellular and wireless

UMTS/HSDPA (850, 1900, 2100 MHz)
GSM/EDGE (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz)
802.11b/g Wi-Fi
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR wireless technology

From Wikipedia:

  In North America, GSM operates on the primary mobile communication bands 850 MHz and 1,900 MHz. In Canada, GSM-1900 is the primary band used in urban areas with 850 as a backup, and GSM-850 being the primary rural band. In the United States, regulatory requirements determine which area can use which band.


How to prevent holding fn key from downloading Enhanced Dictation?

Turn off Dictation in System Preferences or change shortcut key to something else.


Weird Password/iCloud stuff going on - baffled. "This is impossible."

This might just be a simple service outage or a migration to move iCloud data to a new container or migrate it to make it ready for the fall iOS and macOS releases and new features that ran into a glitch.

The same way thing has happened to me recently. Yesterday I had stuff in my iPhone analytics dating back to July,8th. I went to show them to a coworker today and 80% of them were gone. I don’t have any idea how, that coupled with some other stuff has me worried that’s it’s nefarious.

I also feel as though somebody has reported me to the police and that I am now listed as an aggressive or dangerous person. So it's not at all odd to feel what you're feeling so I wanted to post that you're not alone in this take.


Ctrl-Tab is the default key combo to switch the tab in Safari


How to map function key (F1-F12) to perform like they do with builtin keyboard on Macbook

I recommend using the free tool Karabiner-Elements to accomplish this. After you've installed it, go to the Function Keys tab and set each key's behavior as desired. Below is a replica of the default key behaviors on a 2014 MacBook Pro, for example. If you want to only remap the function keys on your external keyboard, then uncheck the internal keyboard in the Devices tab.


How to add music to ipad Music-app from iCloud-drive

You can't add music to the iOS Music app directly, you need to add it to iTunes an a Mac or PC and sync from there. Or look for an alternative Music player in the store which may allow such things.


Do you use any add-ons / controllers for iTunes, like Media Servers (eg. Plex, Front Row) or others for global hot-keys or song notifications? Sometimes these apps use applescript, which tends to launch applications if they´re not already running.


You can delete this folder.

This directory is a backup of shared caches (relevant to application launches) of the old system.

I saved ~ 600 MB from this.


For me it does show. I'm running iOS 10.2 on my iPhone 6s. I found it under 'Setttings > Music'.

After that open the Action sheet of a song. And there you find the 'Rate Song...' button. Pressing this button will show a pop up with 'Star Rating'.


This may seem obvious and standard computer practice, but restarting my computer worked - the most simple and easy solution that the Internet never recommends or even mentions.


Airdrop doesn't work between MBP mid-2012 and iPhone 6

Found a post which gives this advice:

  Turn off bluetooth on your mac, delete: /Library/Preferences/com.apple.Bluetooth.plist turn bluetooth back on

I tried this and can confirm that it fixed the problem for me.


"About this mac -> Storage" show different values than "Macintosh HD"

These show absolute TOTAL space, not usable space. For instance, you’ll have some space used for swapping. Clearly, swap is part of the total amount, but not available for use for general storage. Also, depending on how the disk is partitioned that will affect space. For a more practical display of space, try:

df -h

For instance, those tools show my disk space as 4GB in total, but that’s not all available for my use: df -h shows it as 3.6 GB.


Is there any way that we could load disk utility or any disk repair tool from a USB in mac?

A macOS installer environment includes Disk Utility. You can create an install USB using createinstallmedia and a downloaded copy of macOS. For example, for Catalina, you can run:

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Catalina.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume

How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support
n.b. Internet Recovery should work regardless of hard drive, even without one at all, since it is loaded into RAM from an internet connection.


Where are receipts for App Store purchases on OS X

You should get a receipt by Email a couple of hours up to days after you bought something on the App Store. There is no way to tell how long it will take though.


On your iOS 9 or iOS 8 device: Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage, then tap your iPhone listed under Backups to see the date and size of its latest backup. Go to Settings > General > Reset, then tap “Erase all content and settings.” In the Setup Assistant, proceed to “Set up your device,” tap Restore from a Backup, then sign in to iCloud. Proceed to “Choose backup,” then choose from a list of available backups in iCloud.

WARNING: Don't continue to the second, Reset, step if your iPhone does not show any available backup sets from which to restore. If you reset your phone and erase all settings without having a backup with which to work, you'll end up losing all your data rather than just bookmarks. If there is a backup set available, you should be okay to proceed with the restore.

More information here:

https://support.apple.com/kb/ph12521?locale=en_US


No - there isn’t another way to pair.

I would keep notes on what steps you see when you click Pair.

Does it ask for a passcode? If so, do you enter 0000 or something else?

Can you unpair other devices and re-pair them. Sometimes if there’s a lot of bluetooth devices or a microwave oven or lots of WiFi right where you are, you could get interference.

You can control for that by shutting off all other transmitters - all bluetooth, all WiFi including the router and access points and trying to pair just that mac and just that device. Then you restart both devices - full power down, wait 15 to 30 seconds and power up and repeat.

At that point, if the Mac can’t pair with anything - seek Apple service. If that device can’t pair and others can, seek vendor support.


How do I clean behind the trackpad on a late 2010 MacBook Pro?

The tolerances in the unibody macs are very, very tight and the area is located behind the battery, so Apple does not recommend users without training on servicing the delicate back sides of the battery clean it other than spraying air lightly from the outside. I've found setting it up vertically and open helps with gravity bringing the grit towards the most open side of the trackpad. (The part closest to you that swings free and presses on the physical spring.)

It's not hard to find the tools or the steps - iFixit.com has both, but I prefer to take it in to the genius bar for cleaning as long as it's a convenient trip. If you're careful, you should be able to get inside the mac and see how much debris is inside and whether it's worth a trip to the shop or to learn how to clean it better yourself. Getting the back off is all you need following the memory replacement instructions to have a peek.


iPhone restore error "This device isn't eligible for the requested build" - tried everything..?

Your problems are entirely on Apple's end. The message indicates that Apple no longer signing that version of software.

Yesterday, the code signing servers would sign the iOS 6 package you had downloaded on your Mac and let the device install that version of the OS.

Today, Apple is no longer signing that version of the software for that device.

I don't know how to say this other than Apple is forcing your hand to upgrade whether you are ready or not.

Had you used a jailbreaking tool to save the signature, you would have been able to replay that signing activity and possibly trick iTunes into restoring iOS 6. I wish I had better news, but you may have to jump to iOS 7 unless someone invents a new exploit to jailbreak iOS 6 in the absence of Apple's signing servers being cooperative with iOS 6.


Safari search google directly on right click highlighted link text

It's all about the definition of service, by the way also in the 'normal search' you can find 'Search with google' also under the services, is repeated


How to open Emacs like in Linux Terminal

If the emacs you are running in Linux creates a new window then you are running it as an X11 application (a GUI application).  Normally emacs on Linux and other systems just runs in the terminal you have open (as a console application).

The version of emacs that ships with OS X is compiled just to run in a terminal. To replicate running in a new window you need another version of emacs. I would use Aquamacs which is an emacs modified to act like a normal OSX Cocoa app. The standard GNU emacs has a Cocoa app version which defaults to be more similar to behaviour on other platforms and is available in a binary version here.

You can also get X11 versions as well.  Here is an exhaustive list of the available types of emacs for OS X.


How do you get a Cisco VPN connection to remember its password?

I guess you are using anyconnect to connect to the Cisco VPN server. AnyConnect can also be used from Terminal. This works on macOS Sierra and AnyConnect 3.1.14018. Create a bash script with the following command:

/opt/cisco/anyconnect/bin/vpn connect your-vpn.server.here -s <.credentials

And put the login details in the file .credentials with the following three lines:

0
your-username
your-password

Don't forget to put reasonable permissions on the files.


Took me a lot of time to discover you have an option in iPhone (iPad) Settings app, you scroll down until you find Skype, and there you have the option to go offline automatically. Make sure this is set appropriately (e.g. to Never).

I'm running last version available today, 23rd of may 2012, both IOS and Skype.
Solved my problem few weeks ago.


There are a couple methods to reset an admin password. Once you restart, Apple guides you to this when you fail to enter the password correctly.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202860

Also these questions cover the ground pretty thoroughly.

Lost access to admin user account in my mac book pro
How can I get admin access to a Mac without knowing the current password?
How to hack into a deceased person's Mac that is still running?


Can you install NPM and Git under a standard user account?

I have never had to invoke sudo when using git, besides during the install process.

For npm, you can configure it to install global packages in a directory your standard user has full access to using this guide.


Yes, there is a way.

Here's how on the iPhone (with pictures):

Download Pro Metronome by EUMLab
Use the large scroll wheel in the center to set the tempo to 60 BPM.
Press the button in the bottom left labelled "4/4"

From there, subtract the "beat" option until you see "1/4"
Tap the top area of the screen to go back to the main page.

Tap the pink rectangle in the top left until it is grayed out. This will prevent the phone from making a noise.
Tap the settings icon in the top left.

Enable the "Vibrate" option.
Go back to the main screen by tapping the right side of the screen.

Press the play button! The phone should vibrate every second until you close the app or the battery dies.


Share Desktop folders between admin and managed accounts?

From the either account but preferably the admin account ( I will assume you are in the Admin account) you can go to the users folders.

Part 1,

Select the the managed account home folder.
use cmd + i to get the info panel for the folder.

At the bottom you will see the allowed access to the folder.

This should show read & write for that user, and no access for everyone.

Click the padlock and enter your admin details.

Now click the + button and either choose your Admin account name.
The admin account should now be added to the list.

Now change its access to read & write.

You should now from the Admin account be able to open the managed user account's folder but not any folder inside.

You now have a choice.  Depending on what you want.

Part 2
If for example you want only to access the Documents folder and all the files and folders enclosed. Then repeat the process above Part 1 for the documents folder.

But this time, in the info panel for the documents folder, after you have completed the above Part 1 on it. You will see a action button (Cog) at the bottom of the panel below the list.
Click the button and then the Apply to enclosing items…

When you confirm, all the items in Documents folder will replicate the access given to the Documents folder.

Or you can do the above by drilling down to only the folders you are interested in using Part 1 and the final folder in that chainPart 1 & Part 2

Or of cause you can just do chainPart 1 & Part 2 on the home folder.

But I personally would just do the folders I need.


How can I get Outlook to stop asking for a Keychain login if I don't want to use keychain?

Keychain as you may be aware by now is the main system OSX uses to store your passwords. Anything you ask to be stored is sent to the keychain. Therefore if you choose not to save any passwords you will be asked to enter the password in every time it is required, which is what the keychain is designed to do.

If you do not want to save passwords to the keychain, then no you cannot get around the keychain pop up question.


And I just clicked "Older Comments" on Matt Gemmell's blog, and found the link. You have GOT to be kidding me.

http://spark.attrakt.se/


Bootcamp failing with "cannot create partion" and corrupting APFS container

My issue turned out to be Fusion drive issues that necessitated doing a diskutil resetFusion and blowing EVERYTHING away, recreate the APFS container, and reload. Painful, but I now have a Windows partition running. And yes, Bootcamp Assistant totally ignored everything but the APFS container.
Closest thing I could find to my issue: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207584


Can't find 68GB local backup folder (regular backups on an external hard drive)

It's likely your Local Time Machine Snapshots.

In Sierra, these are stored in /.MobileBackups/Computer, but it's not advisable to manipulate this folder directly. Either use the Time Machine application to delete individual snapshots, or disable local snapshots altogether by running the following Terminal command:

sudo tmutil disablelocal

I can't say why MacOS isn't cleaning them up after you've run an external Time Machine backup. EDIT: On my MacBook Pro, I also see some old backups that pre-date my last external backup.


Is there any way to find out my admin name?

If you end up needing to make a new admin account, there are several threads here covering that. I'd start with this one:

I don't have administrator account on my mac

You can open the system preferences and look over all the users and groups. That way you can determine if you have the ability to recover a current admin or need to start with another and just go forward.


Install Windows 10 on old Macbook Pro without optical drive

Try this method. If you have any problems or questions, post a comment below. BTW, this is not the only method that works. Other variations exist, so if this one does not work, I can suggest another.

Basically, you will be creating a virtual disk to replace the DVD or flash drive that you would normally use. You will be installing Windows to boot using the BIOS boot method. Good luck!


Installing Windows 10 from an ISO Image on my new 15 inch MacBook Pro 2016 with Touch bar

You don't need to do such sophisticated thing. All you need to do is:

After making a second partition for windows:

Provide an external super drive and insert the DVD of windows 10 inside it.
You will find out that your trackpad and keyboard are not functioning in the following steps of windows 10 installation.
Therefore you should use a mouse (I prefer wired mouse) and an external keyboard.
Finally when the installation finished, download bootcamp separately from apple and install it then you'll see that all of the features of you MacBook Pro are greatly working such as trackpad, keyboard, bluetooth, graphic and etc.


What is wrong with the content protection of AirPlay that some applications prevent its use?

Airplay isn't a protected transfer mechanism, in the same way that playing (for example) a Blu Ray disc over a HDMI connection that supports HDCP.

High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP; commonly, though incorrectly, referred to as High-Definition Copy(right) Protection) is a form of digital copy protection developed by Intel Corporation to prevent copying of digital audio and video content as it travels across connections. These connections include popular ones like DisplayPort (DP), Digital Visual Interface (DVI), and High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI)

The system is meant to stop HDCP-encrypted content from being played on devices that do not support HDCP or which have been modified to copy HDCP content. Before sending data, a transmitting device checks that the receiver is authorized to receive it. If so, the transmitter encrypts the data to prevent eavesdropping as it flows to the receiver.

That's pretty technical, but in short (and this is not particular a developer choice, but the content owners choice) if they cannot guarantee that the content is fully secure end to end, they will not allow it to be transmitted.  Airplay isn;t fully secure to the same degree as the above, and so many contents owners will not agree to it's use.


The way to determine what changed is to diff the current folder against a backup copy from when the code sign was valid.

Why could be as simple and harmless as bit rot or a filesystem error and it could be that some other tool injected code.

Unless you routinely list and checksum each file in /Applications/Safari.app and compare those results, your best bet might be to re-install the latest combo updater from http://apple.com/downloads and re-check that the binary is properly signed. If not, you might need to back up that machine and start with a clean erase and reinstall and watch to see what / when Safari gets modified going forward.


Boot Camp: "no bootable device found" when booting from DVD

Turns out when I connected the DVD drive directly to the Mac mini it could boot with no problems.

Apparently Thunderbolt cannot be used for booting, at least not for non-network booting.

Note that I also tried to let Boot Camp Assistant create a bootable USB stick which utterly failed and took hours to do so. Safest bet appears to be a bootable DVD and a DVD drive connected directly to the Mac.


I can no longer boot into macOS after resizing my bootcamp partition in EaseUS

In this case, the APFS partition type had been changed by EaseUS utility. That is why only Windows showed up on startup. I used gdisk to repair this and everything is on place, with no harm to the data.

How I repaired this?

I booted to Windows on bootcamp, downloaded gdisk for windows, opened cmd(terminal) as the administrator, opened the directory of downloaded gdisk and then the following list of commands inside of this program (each confirmed with enter key):

gdisk64 \\.\PhysicalDrive0 ->this opens the gdisk program
t
2 -> that is the number of your MacOS partition, in my case it is 2
af0a -> hex code for the GUID APFS format
w -> write
y -> confirm

I hope I was able to help someone else by posting this answer.


The only password that gets asked when updating directly on the phone is the password you need to unlock your phone (or need to enter after restarting your phone). If she doesn't remember any of them, you must fully restore the phone through iTunes.


Is there character spacing feature in PDFpen?

Yes, select the text, and choose Format -> Font -> Kern -> Loosen from the menu.

If you need to do this frequently, visit the Keyboard Shortcuts tab of the Keyboard system preferences, then select Application Shortcuts and add a shortcut for Loosen.

Like any customer of ours, you can also email support@smilesoftware.com


How do I migrate my Aperture library from my primary HDD to an external drive?

Yes you can, here are the steps:

Connect your external disk
Open Finder and go to <your home folder>/Pictures
move the Aperture Library.aplibrary file to a location on your new disk
Open Aperture and go to preferences ( from menu or by pressing ⌘+, )
On the General tab, change the location of the library to where you copied the Aperture Library.aplibrary file

That's it, the library is now on your external drive.


It sounds like the file system is damaged. Have you tried running Disk Utility, and selecting 'Repair Disk'?
Restoring from Time Machine will not repair the file system.


Getting [iMac.domain_not_set.invalid ~] in Terminal

Your hostname is not set correctly. This could be because of the information you set in Sharing in System Preferences, or because the DHCP server gave your system an incorrect hostname to use.

To fix this, change your hostname in Sharing, or in case of a DHCP issue, check the DHCP server configuration.


OS X Mavericks doesn't recognize my Nexus 5 when plugged in via USB

Not sure if you ever solved this as its 30 days old, but in OS X you need The Android File Transfer App running in the background in order to mount your Android shares. Hope this helps.


Does using a macbook with an external monitor damage the health of the battery?

While the external monitor itself is not the cause of the 'weakened' battery, leaving your MacBook Pro on AC power all of the time will definitely affect the battery's performance.  It is essentially under a constant state of charging, even though this is regulated by the charging circuit, which will eventually cause the battery's chemistry to begin to break down.

Current batteries will typically last the longest when used regularly, but not completely discharged with each use.


How to resolve the ambiguity of sending iMessages to a person with multiple addresses?

Tell your friend to go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive.

By turning on the setting to receive from all of the email addresses, it shouldn't matter which address you send to. Your friend can also choose the phone to be their "Caller-ID" so they are sending as a mobile and not an email/AppleID.

You can also be sure to delete any conversations that aren't to the phone number so you reuse a thread to the cell as opposed to the email.


Getting Mac to ask for disk encryption password

The proper tool to add or remove FileVault users is fdesetup.

Open Terminal and enter sudo fdesetup list -extended to get a synopsis.

To remove a user by UUID or user name use:

sudo fdesetup remove -uuid <UUID>
sudo fdesetup remove -user <username>

All users removed won't be able to log-in with their passwords at the first password prompt because they aren't listed anymore. The user still exists as OS user though. To login as such a user either has to use fast user switching or log out as FileVault enabled user and log in with the non-FileVault-enabled user.

To reenable FileVault disabled users either use sudo fdesetup add -usertoadd <username> or open System Preferences > Security > FileVault > hit the "Enable Users..." button and enable a listed user.


Changing Adaptive Undo Shortcut in System Preferences

Unfortunately the keyboard shortcuts definition doesn't support wildcards, so you'll need to bind every individual menu entry separately.

It might be easier though to switch the meaning of Cmd and Ctrl in System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Keyboard and leave the shortcuts themselves on Cmd.


If I've migrated from iPhoto to Photos, can I safely delete the migrated photo library?

If you have been using Photos only since migration you can safely delete it. The purpose of the migratedPhotoLibrary is so you still can use iPhoto with your old pictures (and perhaps import new ones to iPhoto only, if you have done this, then no, don't delete it.) After deleting it you can delete your iPhoto app as well.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204655


After Yosemite, can't print; CUPS error_log: "/bin/bash: gs: command not found"

If you look in your console, you'll probably see a message about sandboxd preventing gs from running. Just add this line to the end of /etc/cups/cups-files.conf:

  Sandboxing Relaxed

then type:

sudo launchctl stop org.cups.cupsd


If you disable showing images in the Settings app (Mail, Contacts, Calendars > Load Remote Images) then the sender will have no way to tell that you looked at the email.

So, make sure you turn that on, then open the email and forward it. You can turn the option back on again when you are finished.


Change Image thumb background : How to see white image in thumb?

I don't know of a way to fix this in the Finder.

The images your are looking at are most likely "web ready" meaning that they have been stripped of much meta data that takes up extra bytes which would slow the loading of the images into a browser. Without a pre-generated icon the Finder creates them on the fly and does not always create a meaningful icon.

The approach that I take is to use GraphicConverter's built in image browser which is highly configurable and -- if desired -- provides a huge amount of additional information.


How many TSIs are included with my Developer Program?

  iOS Developer Program, iOS Developer Enterprise Program, and Mac Developer Program Included with each enrollment are two (2) Technical
  Support Incidents per membership year. Additional TSIs are available
  for purchase.
  Safari Developer Program. TSIs are available for purchase in either a 2-Pack for $99 USD or
  5-Pack for $249 USD. Safari Developer Program members may purchase
  TSIs in Member Center under the Programs & Add-ons tab.
  MFi Program. Included with each enrollment are eight (8) Technical Support
  Incidents per membership year.

Source: Requesting Developer Technical Support (you need a developer account to access).


itunes seems to sync my wife's iphone with  all of MY apps

Anything removed from an iOS device is not removed form iTunes.
Secondly, iTunes sync's all apps that are specified to sync, no matter whose App it is.
iTunes determines the owner to be the Apple ID, which downloaded the App.

Here is an example o the app sync window:

Here you can choose the apps to sync. And remember it will upload apps belonging to either of you, but it won't change ownership of them.


You'll want sa and accton commands to dump accounting information to a file.

Here's an article that's a bit old. The perl script at the end works well - look out for * characters in the shell - those might need to get filtered or the input sanitized if the perl script doesn't show you totals.


Configure OS X to pass incoming traffic to another server?

An SSH tunnel will serve the purpose here, assuming that you configure a gazillion LocalForward ports.

Place these contents into your ~/.ssh/config file:

Host [hostname]
User [username]
Port [SSH port]              # (if using port 22, omit this line)
LocalForward 1 0.0.0.0:1     # Replace all these
LocalForward 2 0.0.0.0:2     # port numbers with
LocalForward 3 0.0.0.0:3     # the actual ports
LocalForward 4 0.0.0.0:4     # that you need.
LocalForward 5 0.0.0.0:5     #
LocalForward 6 0.0.0.0:6     # Format is like this:
LocalForward 7 0.0.0.0:7     # LocalForward [port] 0.0.0.0:[port]
LocalForward 8 0.0.0.0:8     #
LocalForward 9 0.0.0.0:9
LocalForward 10 0.0.0.0:10

... and so on for whatever ports you want.

This will set up listening ports on the Mac, and will forward the traffic on those ports to [hostname] over an SSH connection to [username] on port [SSH port] whenever you run this Terminal command:

ssh [hostname]

Keep in mind that [hostname] must be running an SSH server, and you will get a shell on the remote host in Terminal.  It's possible to configure a port-forward-only SSH server, but that is beyond the scope of this answer.  If you don't want a shell on the remote server, run this command instead:

ssh [hostname] sleep 3600

You will instead get a 1 hour connection, and no shell.  Don't close the Terminal window.  If you want, you can set it up such that you can close Terminal by running this:

nohup ssh [hostname] sleep 3600 &

Replace 3600 with the number of seconds you want the connection to last.


If the books don't show up when offline that means that they have not actually been downloaded to your iPad. You should see a little cloud icon in the corner of the book icon to say that it's on the cloud rather than the device.


Contacts deleted when setting up e-mail on iPhone 4S

If you have synced your iPhone with iTunes before, you can restore from backup.


Chrome will do this.

I know your question is about Safari but bear with me. Chrome works slightly differenty from most web browsers in that each tab is created as a separate process rather than just as separate threads. This means that if a tab starts misbehaving or crashes then it won't bring down the whole application

This also means that you can bring up the Chrome task manager and it will tell you about the CPU and memory usage for each time.

With Safari though.... I don't think this is possible.


Applescript: "can't get tab group 1 of window" (El Capitan)

In the first part of your script you load the Sound preference pane. It can happen that the pane isn't fully loaded before you send commands to it in the second part of the script. The error says that the tab group 1 (the one that contains the Output tab) doesn't exist at the moment you are trying to access it.

To make sure the tab group 1 exists, we can wait for it with these two lines:

repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Sound"
end repeat

The full script:

tell application "System Preferences"
    activate
    set current pane to pane "com.apple.preference.sound"
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    tell application process "System Preferences"
        repeat until exists tab group 1 of window "Sound"
        end repeat
        tell tab group 1 of window "Sound"
            click radio button "Output"
            if (selected of row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1) then
                set selected of row 1 of table 1 of scroll area 1 to true
                set deviceselected to "Headphones"
            else
                set selected of row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1 to true
                set deviceselected to "MX278"
            end if
        end tell
    end tell
end tell
tell application "System Preferences" to quit


Disable Specific USB Ports / Restrict Data Transfer from USB Ports

I think what you want to do is prevent the connection of USB Mass Storage Devices.

I found this answer which is untested by me and not terribly recent, but I can see that the referenced kext is still in the location described:

  a quote from the Leopard security configuration guide:

  48 Chapter 3 Protecting the System Through Hardware

  Removing USB Support Software

  Use the following instructions to remove USB mass storage device input/output support such as USB Flash drives and external USB hard drives.
  The removal of this kernel extension only affects USB mass storage devices. It does not
  affect other USB devices such as a USB printer, mouse, or keyboard. This task requires
  you to have administrator privileges.
  Important: Repeat these instructions every time a system update is installed.
  To remove kernel extensions for specific hardware:

  Open the /System/Library/Extensions folder.
  To remove support for USB mass storage devices, drag the following file to the Trash:
  IOUSBMassStorageClass.kext
  Open Terminal and enter the following command:
    $ sudo touch /System/Library/Extensions
  The touch command changes the modified date of the /System/Library/Extensions
  folder. When the folder has a new modified date, the Extension cache files
  (located in /System/Library/) are deleted and rebuilt by Mac OS X.
  Choose Finder > Secure Empty Trash to delete the file.
  Restart the system.

Source: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2105022?start=0&tstart=0


Does App Store Review Board allow Photoshopping a screenshot to show fake content?

Only the App Store review staff can provide an absolute answer.

However, many apps in the store show modified screenshots. Providing mock content is common place when advertising document based applications.

Submit your app for review. If the review is rejected, they will provide a reason and you will have the opportunity to resubmit.


I think your question is about retrieving the data on your iPhone. This will be kind of hard if you can't access your screen.

First, you will need to connect your iPhone to your Windows or Mac computer with iTunes installed on it. You will see a prompt on your iPhone to allow the computer to access data on the iPhone. Click allow and enter your passcode. Then, you will need to take a Full Backup in the General options shown. Make sure that you encrypt the backup if you want Health and HomeKit data.

Once the backup is complete, it will be stored locally on your laptop.

If you get a new iOS device, then you can choose to transfer the data directly from the iPhone or you can restore from a backup.

You can try connecting a Bluetooth or USB keyboard to enter your Passcode if your screen will not work.

Good luck!


I can only guess but I think it's an error in 10.10.3 which is solved in 10.10.5 (or maybe 10.10.4) because none of my 10.10.5 hosts show your 10.10.3 behavior.

So I recommend to update to 10.10.5/4.1.5.

BTW the integer in /var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/config/user.plist is calculated by converting the three binary "triplets" to a decimal number:

002 = 000 000 010 =   2
022 = 000 010 010 =  18
666 = 110 110 110 = 438


Is it possible to remember a wifi network in iOS 6 without automatically connecting to it?

As you can see from this screenshot, iOS will automatically join any available known network based on signal strength. As of right now, it is not possible to do what you are asking with iOS.


Activate older iPhone without proper SIM?

I'm going out on a limb a bit but I think this might work.  Notice all the disclaimers.

If you have a spare GSM phone, go to an AT&T store with it, buy a pre-paid SIM card, and have them activate it.  Go home and swap the card into your 3GS.  It should work immediately for voice and text.  Data requires some extra steps but it doesn't sound like you care about that.  My local store just gave me a SIM and activated it in my phone when I purchased a $10 credit.  YMMV.

That said, I have not taken the next step of moving my card into an iPhone.  I'm planning on buying an unlocked 4S but I'm working up the courage to pull the trigger on a big purchase that might not work out as expected.

Don't take your iPhone into the AT&T store as they don't support iPhones on prepay plans and "don't support" translates into they won't sell you the SIM.

If you don't have a spare GSM phone, you could buy a cheap, used one on eBay.  You could also try buying a cheap AT&T GoPhone ($10 at Best Buy) and using the SIM from it but I've heard that the SIM card gets locked to the phone for 90 days after it's activated.  I also hear that you can take the card out before turning the phone on, put it in your iPhone, and activiate it from the AT&T web site.

In theory, "don't support" could translate into actively blocking iPhones on the prepay plan at some point but no sign of it so far and once you get activated, you don't care anyway.

If you do this, let us know how it turns out.


How can I script the bootup disk in macOS Catalina without disabling SIP?

The designers macOS pick which commands that are constrained by SIP. To be more precise, certain commands are given the ability to bypass the constrains of SIP. The bless command is not one of the commands that is contained by SIP. To use the command to set the default to boot would require disabling at least part of SIP.
An alternative would be to use a boot manager which can be configured from a macOS script or application. An example of such a boot manager is rEFInd. If installed in a EFI partition, then a password would be required to first mount the partition. If installed to a FAT of ExFAT partition then no password would be required, but would be less secure. The default_selection token can be use to choose the default operating system to boot. Typically, this token and parameters are stored in a file of your choosing. The name of this file is then given as the parameter to the include token stored in the refind.conf file.


Bootcamp Assistant couldn’t roll back, How do I merge the volume back to Macintosh HD?

Basically, your question is a duplicate, which has be asked many times before. For example, see the question: The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. Windows 10 and Mojave

I repeated my answer below. The answer was edited to more closely fit your question.

This is a very common question. Again, here is the commands you need to enter in a Terminal application window.

sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk0s5
sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk0s4
sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk0s3
sudo diskutil apfs resizeContainer disk0s2 0

These commands will have removed the Windows partitions and expanded the macOS partition to recover the free space. However, there may still be Windows boot files stored in the hidden EFI partition (disk0s1). These files can be removed by entering the commands given below.

sudo diskutil mount disk0s1
cd /Volumes/EFI/EFI
rm -r Boot
rm -r Microsoft
cd ~
diskutil unmount disk0s1


Terminal "LoadModule" - command not found

LoadModule is for your Apache configuration file httpd.conf, not for being run in your shell.


How to start preview from command line and get back to the terminal when I press ESC?

You could use qlmanage  instead.

/usr/bin/qlmanage -p file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf

This will open the files in quicklook.

You can then use escape or the space bar which will close the quicklook previews and be back in terminal since it is the active app.


How to get 3 1900x1200 monitors working on a 2010 Mac Pro

According to Apple's specs listed under Tech Specs for the Mac Pro it should be able to handle 3 displays at up to 2560 by 1600 pixels over the digital connections. I think the trouble is coming from a little known about techology from AMD called Eyefinity. Which seems to require "Active" Adapters in order to run more than 2 displays at a time.
According to AMD who makes the ATI 5770 card.

What are the basic requirements for connecting multiple displays?
Connecting multiple monitors for AMD Eyefinity technology couldn’t be simpler. There are four easy rules to remember:

The first two monitors can connect to the graphics card with any display output on your product: HDMI, VGA, DVI or DisplayPort.

The third (or greater) display must be connected to the graphics card via DisplayPort.

If your monitor does not have a DisplayPort connection, you will need an inexpensive active DisplayPort adapter for it. DVI to DP adapters can be had for less than $30 USD.2

Every family of GPUs supports a different maximum number of displays.

It looks like you may have the passive  adapters for  the MiniDP to DVI adapters. and hence the trouble and why only 2 displays work when all DVI. Note that the MiniDP to VGA are active adapters.
With the 1920 X 1200 resoultion you will be fine with Single Link adapters, you just need active mini display port to DVI adapters. For some guidance on obtaining compatible adapters see AMD Eyefinity Validated Dongles
As noted in a similar question in the Apple Store:

Q:To use three monitors, does this work with the recently-available active single-link DP to DVI adapters (NOT the simple passive one that Apple [sold])?
Late last year, active single-link DVI adapters became available that function in the same way as the active dual-link adapter that Apple sells, but is intended for use with smaller, single-link monitors. These provide the same added intelligence that the dual-link adapters provide, but only support single-link resolutions. This makes them much cheaper (typically around $30) and they don't don't require the extra power of a USB port.
Can these adapters be used with this card in a mid-2010 (5,1) Mac Pro to drive the second and third monitors in a three-monitor setup?
Answer: To run 3 monitors with this card - 2 of them need to be "active" on the display port connections.
I run the card with 2 display port monitors (an HP and DELL) and 1 DVI monitor - (A 1080p projector with an hdmi/dvi passive adapter). I'm doing this in both a 2010 and 2008 mac pro.
I assume because of this, you can buy the active dual-link dvi/dp adapter and get the same results.
But I can confirm you can't do this with a passive adapter.


How do I recycle old MacBook Pro batteries?

The disposal and/or recycling of batteries will differ depending on your local jurisdiction, namely because of local laws.

In some jurisdictions you can take your old electronic equipment, including batteries, to any Apple Retail Store. The local store will ensure that it will be recycled in a responsible manner.

Based on your profile, I see you're based in Germany. Germany is one of those places where Apple will happily take your batteries.

For more info, see So einfach wie Apple Produkte sollte auch ihr Recycling sein1.

1 The UK english version of the above referenced page is: Recycling an Apple product is as easy as it is good for the planet.


Is it safe to wipe off iPhone screen with a wet wipe?

I would not use a wet one, but damp.

With wet you might crate drops that can sneek in in places they should not.


How can I force a folder and the contents to be downloaded locally and not uploaded to the iCloud?

I have tried including a folder in the same location as the videos with .nosync in the name, but the files still upload.

But have you tried changing the name of the folder that contains the files to end with .nosync? iCloud Drive ignores the contents of folders named with .nosync, not the files that are in the same directory as such a folder. So, in your example, you'd change the name of the folder Lecture Videos to Lecture Videos.nosync.
Also—perhaps a simpler solution—you could simply move your Lecture Videos folder somewhere on your disk that isn't a subdirectory of ~/Documents or ~/Desktop, which are the two folders automatically synced to iCloud. For instance, you could put your Lecture Videos folder in ~/Pictures or ~/Downloads.
And, lastly, before you leave for your trip, you could go to System Preferences > Apple ID > iCloud and disable Optimize Mac Storage, which—if your laptop has enough free space—will (usually) prevent files from being automatically removed from your local disk once they're uploaded.


Remove licenses from deleted user on OS X Server's VPP managed distribution

The license came back on its own. It's now two days later and I've just noticed.


Is it possible to record iMovie voice over with AirPods?

I found a way to trick iMovie into accepting my AirPods by creating a new Aggregate Device with the Audio Midi Setup Tool. First launch the Audio Midi Setup app, and click the + in the bottom left of the window. Select Create Aggregate Device

Next select your AirPods input device as the only device in the aggregate and name it something useful.

Finally, you'll be able to select your new Aggregate Device in the microphone selection dropdown in iMovie. Hope this helps somebody in my position in the future!


Is there a cheaper alternative to cinema displays?

How about Dell U2410. I use one at home and it is a great monitor.


Weird display issue on OS X Lion when switching external monitor

I am also experiencing the same problems and have posted a thread to the Macbook Pro Apple Forums. While there isn't any answer yet you might be interested in following along that thread.

So far the only reliable way to fix it would be to restart the machine. Or to log out and log back in. Neither method is satisfactory.


How to: Multiple iOS Enterprise Applications inhouse

Are you using two different bundle IDs in Xcode's project target?  That's the string that looks like this:

com.yourcompany.app1
com.yourcompany.app2

or

com.yourcompany.allapss.app1
com.yourcompany.allapss.app2

If I assume that you've done your provisioning profiles correctly, then the reason an app would replace another would be if they had identical bundle IDs.


Why do some contacts on the favorites screen on Phone.app show initials and others an icon?

The icon is displaying because that contact's "name" is entered as a business name, and their "First" and "Last" names are blank.


How do I eliminate SMTP servers in the settings that I no longer use?

From the same screen as your screenshot, click each of those smtp servers.  On the next screen at the bottom in red “delete server”.


How do I share my Internet connection with another MacBook via WLAN?

If you are using your WiFi to connect to the internet, you cannot use it to also create a local network for other computers. If you are networked via something not-Wifi (Ethernet, FireWire, USB, etc.) then you can share your connection via WiFi.

Go to System Prefs > Sharing.
Select your existing connection under Share your connection from:
Select Airport under To computers using:
Turn on Internet Sharing with the checkbox on the left.
The network name will be the name of your computer.


I have switched to Skim from Preview for presenting PDFs on a data projector. It has more & better presentation options and it’s free. Starting with Lion, Preview.app drove me crazy. Regarding screen ratio: If I see correctly, both Applications will not change the aspect ratio of the PDF when in presentation mode (e.g. for square PDFs)


Significance of IODisplayWrangler in power management assertions

It turns out this part of the OS is open source.  (Link is for macOS 10.12.6, but other versions are available.)

Reading the code reveals that the IODisplayWrangler is a class that interfaces with the power management system in order to manage display brightness.  It detects user activity and uses this to determine when to dim, turn on, or turn off displays.  When the display is on, the class sets a kernel assertion that prevents idle sleep.  So seeing IODisplayWrangler as an idle sleep preventer is normal when the display is on.

In the developers' own words:

/*
    This is the Power Management policy-maker for the displays.  It senses when
    the display is idle and lowers power accordingly.  It raises power back up
    when the display becomes un-idle.

    It senses idleness with a combination of an idle timer and the "activityTickle"
    method call.  "activityTickle" is called by objects which sense keyboard activity,
    mouse activity, or other button activity (display contrast, display brightness,
    PCMCIA eject).  The method sets a "displayInUse" flag.  When the timer expires,
    this flag is checked.  If it is on, the display is judged "in use".  The flag is
    cleared and the timer is restarted.

    If the flag is off when the timer expires, then there has been no user activity
    since the last timer expiration, and the display is judged idle and its power is
    lowered.

    [...]

    This driver calls the drivers for each display and has them move their display
    between various power states. When the display is idle, its power is dropped
    state by state until it is in the lowest state.  When it becomes un-idle it is
    powered back up to the state where it was last being used.

    [...]

    We register with Power Management only so that we can be informed of changes in
    the Power Management aggressiveness factor.  We don't really have a device with
    power states so we implement the absolute minimum. The display drivers themselves
    are part of the Power Management hierarchy under their respective frame buffers.
*/


iPhoto 8.1.2 grayed out in OS X 10.9.1 screensaver, both internal HD and external on iMac

Update iPhoto first. That might solve the problem. I am running the latest iPhoto and OS X and it allows me to select Photo Library-which then brings all iPhoto stuff (Events, Photos, Faces, Places, etc.)


try to change the download attachment setting to recent or none.
Mail -> preference -> account -> download attachment -> 'none'/'recent'


iMessages between two devices are received by the device sending the message

You are using the same Apple ID or the same cellphone number to receive iMessages on both iPhones' iMessage clients. Doing so will lead to you receiving your own sent message, like I am:

Here's a quick fix:

Open Settings>Messages.

Tap "Send & Receive".

Tap "Add another Email".
Type a diiferent email ID. It will now show a "Verifying..." status. Open that e-mail inbox and confirm verification.


How exclude a specific folder from spotlight search but not from search window?

From my experience excluding a folder from Spotlight indexing will exclude the files/folders from showing up when you do a search in Spotlight (command+space) but will still allow you to open that folder in finder and use the search bar in the top right of finder to search within that folder only. I imagine that the search of an un-indexed folder means the OSX will search in real time, or temporarily index the folder to allow you to do a folder search that has been excluded from the main Spotlight index and then erase it when you close the Finder window.

Just make sure once you've typed in your search word(s) in the search bar that you click the name of your folder/drive in the "Search" criteria in the grey bar that appears (as shown below).

To exclude a folder from appearing in the Spotlight search, and therefore from being indexed go to: System Preferences > Spotlight > Privacy tab, then click the + and select the folder you want to exclude:


I can't 2 finger scroll using trackpad in Word since I upgraded to Yosemite

You literally need to restart your computer, that should solve the problem. It did for me :)


How to ssh and remotely manage GUIs on my iMac with Remote Login/Management?

Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) has a Curtains mode that blocks the local user from seeing what's happening on the screen. It may meet your needs.https://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/remoteassistance.html


USB drive accessible from Ubuntu laptop but can't find on OSX using Disk Utility or `df``

Looks like it had something to do with the (older) enclosure. I tried a different enclosure and it's working fine now.

The enclosure the did not work was an "iMicro(tm) 3.5" SATA&IDE HDD Combo Enclosure"


I can't say that I love the tagging system, so I have very limited use of them: but I've used tags in two ways:

1. For final version documents
Since I often have several versions of the same file on storage, I have one tag named "final". So it facilitates spotlight searches like "quote client tag:final". This is the only use I've been able to stick to constantly, since I often find myself searching for the final version of a document.

2. For document types
Since I use my folder hierarchy to separate different projects, I use tags for document content types. For instance, named tags "Proposal", "Specs", "Guide", etc. This offered the small benefit of allowing shorter file names (intended to avoid names like Proposal_CustomerName_ProjectName.ext. I wasn't able to stick to this tagging style, since longer names seemed still seemed efficient, even if they're not pretty.

I rarely browse files in finder, mostly I search through spotlight. So the only real benefit I see in tags is being able to type "tag:abcdf" in spotlight. With this approach, since everyone organizes in a different way, I guess the key question is:

Is there a criteria that you often find yourself wishing you could use in searches, and which doesn't really fit in your file naming styles or folder hierarchy?


Connect computers via ethernet rather than wireless

When there are 2 routes available, I usually just temporarily Turn Airport Off in Network Preferences when I want to force a transfer (or other network connection) to start over the wired ethernet port.


Mac, dragging items into desktop folders keeps on opening a finder window immediately

This issue seems to correspond to the most recent update for Chrome. No fixes yet, but you may want to track the following discussion on the Chrome forum:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chrome/report-a-problem-and-get-troubleshooting-help/mac/ZO-96WmY6Co

Edit: Seems like there is a fix now: Uploading to Chrome Version 31.0.1650.8 beta makes this annoying behavior go away. You can upgrade to the beta version here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/beta.html


Move defunct gmail ActiveSync calendar entries (iOS) to gmail cal

The best method I found was to purchase and use iExplorer. I backed up the phone and then exported as vCards and calendar files to the attached computer. Then I imported them into google calendar and contacts for them (they were moving to Android).


Outlook for 2011 automatically moving messages to on my computer

I had a problem where Outlook 2011 was moving sent and inbox messages from the Exchange folders to the inbox under On My Computer. The solution was to go to Tools -> Mailing List Manager and turn off the rule that must have been set by accident.

If you simply open up the Mailing List Manager I noticed that it automatically creates a rule that matches your email address and then moves them to the Inbox On My Computer. I must have been going through the various menu options and hit return by mistake.


Migrate Mac to Mac with external iTunes & iPhoto

Yes, you just plugin your external hard drives and start iTunes and iPhoto with the option key hold to select your library


How do I activate middle-click to close browser tab?

This was due to using synergy - when I plug my mouse in directly, it works as expected.


Time Machine ridiculously slow after El Capitan upgrade

Part of the issue is that low priority input/output-operations (I/O) now seems to get throttled heavily. You can check it via Terminal (can be found via Spotlight (usually bound to ⌘Space) and entering terminal) then entering at the bash prompt:

fs_usage backupd

and look for the THROTTLED entries. If you see them, the backup is throttled.

So if you have a ton of files, just the time it takes to do the I/O takes forever, even if the files are small (because it performs a bunch more I/O operations around xattrs etc. than it used to).

Go to a Terminal and enter:

sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0

For me, this speed it up from 72 hours to ~4 hours on an filesystem with 2.5 million files.

It's also a good idea to re-enable the throttling after your backup finished successfully with the following command

sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=1