Remove a language from the "Preferred language order"

Tap on edit on the top right of the screen:

Then tap on the minus sign that will appear to the left of each language you want to remove

You can also rearrange the languages by dragging them; that will change the language in which apps and websites present themselves -as it says underneath:

  Apps and websites will use the first language in this list that they support.


Photos moved to trash still displayed in Photos App

If you're just right-clicking photos within Finder and selecting Move to Trash, this is only going to affect those particular files. For example, if you're doing that to JPEGs etc in your Pictures folder, you're only moving/trashing those files.

The Photos app (and iPhoto before it) store all imported pictures in a library. You can't delete these manually outside of the app (at least not without showing package contents and causing a whole heap of issues with metadata, etc). Instead you need to delete the photo(s) from within the Photos app.

To do this:

Within the Photos app select the photos you want to delete. (You can use Shift + click or Command + click to select multiple photos)
Right-click on any of the selected photos
You can choose to delete the photos (or even hide them if that's all you really want to do)

NOTE: When you delete a photo it actually places it in the Recently Deleted trash can (appears above your albums). The photos will remain there until you choose to recover them, or until they are automatically deleted after 30 days. You can, however, choose to go in and manually delete them from there anytime prior to the 30 day period.


What are some good ways to close an app without using your mouse/trackpad?

If the application is active You can press ⌘ CMD+Q to quit the app. If You want to force quit this app - press  ⌘ CMD+⇧ Shift+⌥ Option+⎋ Esc.

If the app is currently not active hold down ⌘ CMD and navigate to Your app with ⇥ TAB, then without releasing the ⌘ CMD press Q.


Use the Finder to act on a path, via JXA

It's quite odd that Finder would expose no method of converting a Path to a Finder file object, yet one doesn't appear to exist. Instead, it seems (per this question) that System Events' aliases property is the only way to convert a path string to a Finder object, like so:
file = Application('System Events').aliases['/some/file/path']
console.log(file.name()) // --> 'path'
file.name = 'newname'

Finder does allow you to manually drill down through the file hierarchy (see this answer), but it's a pain:
file = Application('Finder').startupDisk.folders['some'].folders['file'].documentFiles['path']
console.log(file.name()) // --> 'path'
file.name = 'newname'

However, only some of the attributes these objects are supposed to expose are actually working for me on Big Sur. (Reading and writing comments, for instance, does not seem to work.) If you need reliable and robust Finder scripting, JXA simply may not be the way to go.


Do I have to restart the Apple Store iOS app at 3:01 AM?

In 2016, I had to force-close and relaunch the Apple Store app for it to show the new contents. I know this because refreshing Safari showed me the updated Apple Store ordering pages, while the app was still showing, “We’ll be right back.” There is no way to force the app to refresh itself, so relaunching it is the only option if you’re in a hurry.

Maybe that’s been fixed since (I didn’t preorder right at midnight for iPhone 8/WATCH 3), but if in doubt, keep force-closing and relaunching (or refresh Safari until you know the Store is back up; however the web version of the site has occasionally come back up after the app version).

Do keep in mind that in 2016, the Apple Store came back online long (15 minutes?) after the carriers went live with preorders. In fact, AT&T (and possibly others) even started a first-come, first-served queue 5+ minutes before midnight.

Lastly, if the iPhone 8 and WATCH 3 launch is any indication, a number of phones will be reserved for local pickup. You should be able to verify that many models  that are on delivery-backorder are still available for local pickup on September 22nd. I’m guessing Apple did this to:

Draw larger launch-day crowds to the stores.
Mitigate the advantage of living farther west (and only needing to wait until midnight, as opposed to waking up at 3 a.m.).
Save on shipping?

It is already possible to select an iPhone X model and add it as a favorite in the app. If you want to maximize your chances I would advise you to do this, then set it as the item on display under Account → My Favorites. Come preorder time, tap on it, then go straight to confirm your order.


Macbook will say it's charging, but it's not

I finally fixed it today. It turns out the Magsafe DC-in board can be replaced. It's a little $25 part ($15 refurbished). I followed the instructions on iFixit.com; you have to take apart practically the whole laptop which includes a lot of tiny, tiny connectors, but it's doable with just a few screwdrivers and a spudger I made from a chopstick.

The battery now charges fine, and the laptop doesn't get nearly as hot (that could also be because I cleaned the heat sink).


Music player sometimes skips all songs and won't play

This appears to be a bug that was fixed in iOS 10.3. My Music app started behaving as expected after I updated my iPhone.


ChunkWM suggests cding into directory that does not exist ~/Library/LaunchAgents

From man launchd:

FILES
 ~/Library/LaunchAgents         Per-user agents provided by the user.
 /Library/LaunchAgents          Per-user agents provided by the adminis-
                                trator.
 /Library/LaunchDaemons         System-wide daemons provided by the admin-
                                istrator.
 /System/Library/LaunchAgents   Per-user agents provided by Mac OS X.
 /System/Library/LaunchDaemons  System-wide daemons provided by Mac OS X.

So user-specific agents should be in ~/Library/LaunchAgents. If the directory doesn't exist it can be created with mkdir ~/Library/LaunchAgents.


How can I open a hidden file in Text Wrangler?

You can use the terminal :

open ~/path/to/.YourHiddenFile -a /Application/YourApplication.app

The hidden file are hidden by adding a dot in the beginning of the file name.

Or with the good old GUI method :

Launch the application you wish to use to edit or view the hidden
file.
Select ‘Open’ from the application’s File menu.
An Open Dialog box will display.
With the dialog box as the front-most window (you can click once in
the dialog box to make sure it’s in front), press command + shift + .
The dialog box now will display any hidden files or folders within
its list items.
You can toggle between the hidden files and folders being displayed
by pressing command + shift + . again.


Assigning hotkeys (keyboard shortcuts) in Mac OS X 10.5.8 for audio playback

The function keys work because they are system-wide "media player control keys".  Keystrokes always go to the system, which usually passes them exclusively to the active application, but some have special handling.   There's a chance that you could reconfigure VLC so that the system-wide media key that means "rewind" does skip back instead.  Check that out.

Otherwise you're going to need some kind of additional keyboard shortcut app like QuicKeys.  (See also these suggestions).  Don't give up yet!  You almost certainly can cobble together a solution.


How to Spotlight index a folder under /private/var

As you know it is a Hidden Folder and therefore it is not indexed by Spotlight.

You could change the Flag for the folder from hidden to no hidden using the terminal command:

sudo chflags nohidden /private/var/directory

To test, using Finder navigate to the /private/var/directory with Go To.

Now right click and use Get Info. does it still show it as Hidden?

To make Spotlight re-index that folder:

From the Apple () menu, choose System Preferences.
Click Spotlight.
Click the Privacy tab.
Drag a folder or an entire volume (your hard drive) to the list.
If prompted for confirmation, click OK.
Remove the item or volume you just added to the list by clicking it and then clicking the minus ("-") button.
Close Spotlight preferences.

Spotlight will re-index the contents of the folder or volume.


I would seem to me that you are missing the obvious. If the Boot Camp Assistant configured your Mac to install Windows 10 to BIOS boot, then you should have not tried so hard to defeat this. Install Windows 10 to BIOS boot and if this works, then accept that your model is one of the last built before Apple converted over to UEFI booting Windows 10. From my understanding, the industry switched to UEFI booting Windows in 2011. Apple, which usually is forward thinking in technology, eventually lagged behind and did not convert until sometime in 2012 or perhaps 2013.
I do not understand how the Windows installer detected hybrid partitioning while gdisk did not. You may not have applied gdisk to the correct drive. Using the Disk Utility or diskutil command to remove and recreate the Windows partition would under Mojave eliminate any hybrid partitioning. This would then allow you to attempt to install an UEFI booting Windows 10. However, if Apple indented for you to install Windows to BIOS boot, then the Boot Camp drivers may only be designed for BIOS booting. This may account for your BSOD issues.
There was a previous version of Windows which caused the BSOD to occur due to the version of Boot Camp that was installed. This problem could be resolved by manually upgrading BootCamp or by installed an older release of Windows. Although you did not specify if your BSOD problem occurred before or after installing Boot Camp. Also, there does appear to be previous versions of the Windows Support Software for your Mac which can be downloaded.
Installing Windows 10 by BIOS Booting the Installer from an Internal Drive

Here, I assume the internal drive is hybrid partitioned. If not, then use gdisk to create hybrid partitioning. The gdisk commands are given below.
r
h
2 3
y
ff
n
07
y
n
w
y

Use the Finder application to rename the file AutoUnattend.xml in the root folder of the flash drive to NoAutoUnattend.xml.

If the volume label of the flash drive is not WINSTALL, then use either the Finder or Disk Utility application to rename the drive to  WINSTALL.

Restart the Mac and hold down the option key until the Mac Startup Manager icons appear. Select the external drive icon with the label EFI Boot to UEFI boot from the flash drive.

When the first window appears as shown below, press the shift+F10 key combination. A Command Prompt window will appear.

Enter the command given below to execute the disk partitioning application.
diskpart

The diskpart command is interactive. Enter the command below to list the current volumes.
list volume

Enter the next two commands to change the drive letter for  the WINSTALL volume. Replace # with the volume number for this volume.
select volume #
assign letter=p

Enter the next two commands to change the drive letter for  the BOOTCAMP volume. Replace # with the volume number for this volume.
select volume #
assign letter=w

ExFAT format the BOOTCAMP volume.
format fs=exfat label=BOOTCAMP quick

Make sure the the BOOTCAMP volume is the BIOS boot volume.
active

Exit the diskpart command.
exit

Copy the files from the flash drive WINSTALL volume to the internal BOOTCAMP volume.
xcopy p:\* w:\ /e /h

Prevent the internal BOOTCAMP volume from UEFI booting from the Mac Startup Manager.
ren w:\efi noefi

Install the BIOS boot code to the internal drive Master Boot Record (MBR) and the BOOTCAMP volume.
bootsect /nt60 w: /mbr

Close the command prompt window.
exit

Click on the red box with the X as shown below, then select the OK button in the popup window. When the Mac restarts, hold down the option key until the Mac Startup Manager icons appear. Hold down the control key and select the internal drive icon with the label Windows to BIOS boot from the internal drive.

Enter the following command to get the drive letter for the WINSTAll volume.
echo list volume | diskpart

Start the Windows GUI installer to install Windows from the flash drive. Windows will be installed to BIOS boot. If the drive letter for the WINSTAll volume is not E, then make the appropriate substitution when entering the following command.
setup  /unattend:E:\NoAutoUnattend.xml

When you reach the window shown below, highlight the partition with the BOOTCAMP label. Click on Format, then the OK button in the popup window. When finished formatting, click on the Next button.


Missing Night Shift after upgrading to 9.3

Night shift isn't supported on your hardware. See the footnote 1:

  Night Shift is available on iPhone 5s or later, iPad Pro, iPad Air or later, iPad mini 2 or later, and iPod touch (6th generation)

https://www.apple.com/ios/updates/


Reviewing this thread in Apple community discussions, it seems that:

a) incoming email font/color/size is determined by what the sender specified;

b) the receiver's message list display is determined by what's set in the receiver's Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors > Message List Font; and

c) the receiver's reply (or new message) font/color/size is determined by sender's settings in Mail > Preferences > Fonts & Colors > Message Font

What I'm looking for — that a received message be displayed in a font larger than what's specified by the sender — is apparently not available short of Applescript or add-on app.

Sigh.


How can I reset the firmware password on a MacBook Air?

To reset the firmware password it looks like you have to take it in for service at your  nearest Apple Support location as noted in the following Apple Support Article MacBook Air (Late 2010) and later, MacBook Pro (Early 2011) and later, iMac (Mid 2011) and later, Mac mini (Mid 2011): Recovering a lost firmware password

Symptoms
Learn what to do if you no longer remember the firmware password that you've set or if you see a password dialog when you try to select a startup volume on a MacBook Air (Late 2010) and later, MacBook Pro (Early 2011) and later, iMac (Mid 2011) and later, or Mac mini (Mid 2011) computer.
Resolution
Only Apple retail stores or Apple Authorized Service Providers can unlock these computers protected by a firmware password.
If you cannot remember the firmware password for your Mac, schedule a service appointment with either an Apple Retail Store or an Apple Authorized Service Provider.  If you plan to visit an Apple Retail store, please make a reservation at the Genius Bar using http://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/ (available in some countries only).

As a side note you will need the original proof of purchase.


I have this exact same monitor that acquired about a 18 months ago (or so).  That particular monitor requires a Dual Link DVI connection and most mDP to DVI aren't Dual Link.
The one product that I found that worked really well was Kanex iAdapt Mini DisplayPort / Thunderbolt to DVI Adapter + USB
I tested this on an iMac 27 (Catalina), a 2009 MacBook Pro (El Capitan), and a Surface Pro 3 (Windows 10).  All were able to display full resolution with no problem.  I'm now using it on a Dell workstation running FreeBSD 12.1-RELEASE and I've had zero issues with the adapter.


No - that won't be easy at all but it's exactly what Fusion Drive was engineered to do.

What would be easy is to make a backup of all the files you care about - preferably using Time Machine and a second clone copy if you're not sure Time Machine will work for all your files as a just in case.

Then delete about 30 GB of space so you have room to get a clean installer and make a bootable install drive with the OS of your choice.

When you boot from that installer - the trick will be wiping both the SSD and HDD entirely - then getting it back into Fusion Drive configuration.

Now that you have an OS and user data on Fusion arrangement - loading from your backup (either in the Migration Assistant portion of the new OS setup or running Migration Assistant) would get you the SSD boost without having to implement your own dual tier storage system.

Since most of these specific tasks are already asked / answered here and would be far too long for one answer - here's the outline and I'll try to link to detailed questions on each:

Backup via Time Machine
Optional backup using a clone (Disk Utility / Carbon Copy Cloner / Super duper)
Clear space so you have 30 GB free
Download the OS installer you want
Make a bootable USB installer drive
Boot from the installer (or Internet Recovery) and erase SSD and HDD entirely
Then form an SSD/HDD Fusion Drive before installing the OS
Install the OS on Fusion Drive
Restore files from the backup


How can I detect that sound is being generated

I don't know of any way to react to sound output in software, but:

This could be done as a stand-alone hardware device reasonably straightforward. I didn't find any ready-made products, but it wouldn't be too hard for any electronics hobbyist with some analog experience, I think (here's a design I found, for example; it could probably also be done with a single microcontroller, especially if the amplifier has an IR remote control). Let me know if you'd like me to expand on this possibility...


How force launchd not to look into subfolders with QueueDirectories parameter in launchd.plist

QueueDirectories won't work anyway, because it'd trigger on the subdirectories themselves whether or not they had any files in them. The mere existence of subdirectories in the watched directories will trigger the script.

Instead, you should use WatchPaths on the main directory itself -- whenever a new image file is added to the directory, the directory is modified, so WatchPaths will trigger your script to process the file. Moving the image file will modify the directory again, but since it happens while your script is running it won't trigger a rerun.


Choose Default Out CHANNEL for OS X Audio

I'm not 100% sure if this will work, but have you tried the Audio MIDI Setup? Its located in Applications > Utilities > Audio MIDI Setup.app Your USB audio device should be listed in the left hand pane and from there you may be able to route the audio as you wish


That is possible if you have them in another contacts list or location

Since they are still on your phone, when they show up using the dial pad please look what list/location is it.

Maybe you should follow the instructions when adding new contact.

Assuming you do not use any kind of synchronization. (iCloud ect..)

Make sure you are looking at all groups, and they are not is SIM only.


How can I achieve auto mounting AFP shared drives in OS X?

You can put aliases to the remote volumes in your Login Items folder.

A nice explanation of this feature is available from Apple on the web and the built-in help:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2602


Garageband additional software download status in Mac

GarageBand app does the download (spinning up a com.apple.MAContentInstallation helper process), so to stop it - save your work in any open app documents and quit the app.

You should have been notified of this like so:

The downloads go to your user library, but before trying to clean that out - what happens if you reopen the app and watch the dialogs and/or see the options in the GarageBand menu Sound Library sub menu?


Unable to customise Samba in macOS Big Sur

See the comments above from @nohillside and @Marc Wilson. Samba cannot be configured in OSX as you would do in Linux. Thanks @nohillside and @Marc Wilson.


It is not possible anymore in OSX 10.8 the only option I can think of is to disable your password from the lock screen manually in:

  System Prefs > Security > General > Require password

But you have to have fileVault disabled as well maybe below then does work for 10.8?

Edit: I've tested the code below in OSX 10.8 and below doesn't work for 10.8 :(

So make sure this runs before the rest ( and maybe even add a location check to disable authentication when you are at home or connected to your wifi network )

In applescript:

tell application "System Events"
    set require password to wake of security preferences to false
end tell

or

do shell script "defaults write com.apple.screensaver -int 0"

To enable the settings again use true or 1.


Unable to ping DNS any external IP address after reformat and fresh installation of macOS Catalina

I’ve been in your shoes and it’s so hard to go back to the basics.  If a computer can open the web page of the local router or another computer on the internal network - fix your router (after powering it down completely and all network gear to get a fresh start) or find a new network to test is my advice.

If you can ping a router but not past the router - that's a router problem.
If you can reach http on the router or locally but not past the router, that's a router problem.
Networking is fiddly and hard - try to use DHCP and flat settings and fix the network so client setup is automatic and easy.

But, since we love to test and fix - here's my playbook for working with cranky networks. (Or worse, machines all in odd states from people that were well intentioned, but ended up breaking the network settings or diverging from what is needed on a specific network).

Make a new admin account and delete everything network related. All interfaces, all adapters, all settings. Put nothing in the keychain of the new account and delete all other accounts on the Mac.
Set everything to DHCP or connect to a cell phone WiFi hotspot.
Open Safari and browse to captive.apple.com
Focus on http and not ping - ICMP traffic is heavily filtered and dropped from some networks.
Don’t try to overcome the first error you get, but learn why it failed. You shouldn't need to override DNS or bypass the router - the problem is your router, not the OS.

Pretty much the only thing I would do is issue a reachable command from the command line.
scutil -r www.apple.com
scutil -r www.google.com

If the web doesn't work to basic properties, get a network that is appropriate for testing - you wouldn't have to carry all that water you tried to debug a new OS setup - something is very off on the network to need all that.


How to switch off subpixel antialiasing in Safari?

Save this with a .css extension somewhere and select it as the custom stylesheet in Preferences > Advanced:

html {
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

defaults write com.apple.Safari AppleFontSmoothing -int 0 would also disable subpixel rendering in the UI.


There are two different "late 2008" MacBook Pros. There's the 17" which was the last of the old "AlBook" designs, and the 15" that was the first unibody MBP. The former will take up to 8GB, but can only address 6GB; the latter will take 8GB after downloading and applying the most recent EFI firmware update.


Is there a way to move files to multiple folders in single Folder Action?

You can use a shell script like this:

for f; do
  case $f in
    *.mp3|*.m4a) mv -n "$f" ~/Music;;
    *.jpg) mv -n "$f" ~/Pictures;;
    *) mv -n "$f" ~/Documents;;
  esac
done

mv -n skips a file when a file with the same name exists in the target.


Macbook hangs when when unplugging external Monitor

It appears a SMC reset will fix your issue. I just answered another question pertaining to display issues. I've included the same information directly from Apple as I did with the last question.

Have you tried resetting the SMC (System Management Controller)?

With charger plugged in, hold Shift-Control-Option on the left side of the keyboard, then press the Power.

  The LED on MagSafe power adapters might change states or temporarily turn off when you reset the SMC.

  Indicators that your SMC might need to be reset

  The computer fans run at high speed, though the computer is not experiencing heavy usage and is properly ventilated.
  The keyboard backlight behaves incorrectly on Mac computers that have this feature.
  The status indicator light (SIL) behaves incorrectly on Mac computers that have this feature.
  Battery indicator lights, if present, behave incorrectly on Mac notebooks that have a non-removable battery.
  The display backlight doesn't respond correctly to ambient light changes on Mac computers that have this feature.
  The computer doesn't respond to the power button when pressed.
  A Mac notebook computer doesn't respond properly when you close or open the lid.
  The computer sleeps or shuts down unexpectedly.
  The battery doesn't charge properly.
  The MagSafe power adapter LED doesn't indicate the correct activity.
  The computer is performing unusually slowly, though it isn't experiencing abnormally high CPU utilization.
  Application icons may bounce in the Dock for an extended amount of time when opened.
  Applications may not function correctly, or they may stop responding after being opened.
  A computer that supports target display mode does not switch into or out of target display mode as expected, or it switches into or out of target display mode at unexpected times.
  The illumination around the I/O ports on a Mac Pro (Late 2013) does not activate when you move the computer.

Source: https://support.apple.com/kb/HT201295


It doesn't seem to be possible to underscan an internal display on macOS, only over HDMI for external displays.

Underscan/Overscan is specifically an HDMI thing, as far as macOS is concerned.
I dug through the workings of the core frameworks responsible for display manipulation like two years ago and there was no way to accomplish what you're after. Like it's just not supported. You'd probably have to write your own graphics drivers to accomplish it, and I don't think that's terribly feasible. Sorry. :/

How do you Underscan/Overscan the internal display on a mac? - /r/osx


Webcam not working after MacOS update to version 11.2.1

The webcam is working fine now. So, I want to note down what I did (although, it isn't much, and I'm not sure how or what exactly fixed the issue).
I stumbled across this post, asking a similar question. And I decided to follow along with the only answer in it. So, I shut down my mac, held down the D key, and switched on the mac. I kept holding the D key, and it booted a second time and went into recovery mode or something - it asked me to select a WiFi access point and enter its password. I got scared and clicked on the power button and restarted the system.
And that's it; when I open FaceTime now, it works fine. So, yeah, not sure what happened, but the issue seems to have been fixed somehow.


Mission control font is aliased in OS X El Capitan

Comparing to my screenshot:

The font in my OS X 10.11 is all OK.

Maybe it means it is bold, why Apple changed the font style.  Maybe it
Maybe be a bug of OS X 10.11. Report it to Apple.


How to change the list of file types which Safari will open immediately after download?

One way is to use Hazel. I tried using it and it worked smoothly. However, Hazel isn't free ($25).

The second solution is to use Automator which is part of Mac OS X.

However, using Automator didn't quite work. Some of the mp4 files did open, but for unknown reason some didn't.

Also I'm not sure if Automator has to open the files as soon as they are downloaded, or there is a time frame which it could take to open them. Maybe some one more experiences with Automator could elaborate on this.

Here is a how to create and use an AppleScript to open .lyx files:

Open AppleScript file named addSafariSafeList.scpt:

property auto_open_extension_list : {"lyx"}

on adding folder items to thisFolder after receiving addedItems
    tell application "Finder"
        repeat with addedItem in addedItems
            if name extension of addedItem is in auto_open_extension_list then
                my openFile(addedItem)
            end if
        end repeat
    end tell
end adding folder items to

on openFile(f)
tell application "Finder"
        open f

    end tell
end openFile

copy the file to ~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts

Note: I didn't have this folder, so I created both ~/Library/Scripts and ~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts

Now, go to ~/ in Finder, right click on Downloads folder, click Folder Action Setup. . .

List should appear and contain addSafariSafeList.scpt

Now you're good to go - whenever you'll download lyx file it should open automatically when ever you download it.

NOTE: If you want to open another file type, simply change property auto_open_extension_list : {"FileExtensionHere"}

NOTE II: If you want several types use: auto_open_extension_list : {"FileExtension1Here", "FileExtension2Here"}

Enjoy!


Launchd network access control in Mac OS Lion

launchd doesn't use the libwrap, as shown by the command:

nm -a /sbin/launchd | grep hosts

The fact that this command doesn't output anything means that
launchd isn't using any entrypoint within the libwrap library
of TCP wrapper.

This answer was checked on Snow Leopard and Lion.

On lion for example, libwrap is used by sshd and not telnetd nor launchd:

% nm -a /usr/sbin/sshd | grep hosts
                 U _hosts_access
% nm -a /usr/libexec/telnetd | grep hosts
%

The libwrap library doesn't exist on Mountain lion.


How to turn off slide transition when switching between two full screen applications on OS X Mavericks?

In MacOS Sierra:

 - Go to System Preferences -> Accessibility -> Display
 - Check in the box "Reduce motion".

This new function will speed up the animation between various display motion techniques such as using the mission control, switching desktops etc.


New Macs keep asking about old discarded Mac credentials

Could it be that you forgot to sign out of iCloud on the 2019 MacBook Pro from your former job?
When setting up a new device, if iCloud Keychain is active, you will be asked to type the login password or passcode of another device that you are signed in to with your Apple ID, see Approve a device to use iCloud Keychain for details.
If you forgot to sign out of iCloud on one of your devices and have given the device away, it could happen that Apple asks you to type the password of that device. In this case, you will have to manually remove the device, as explained in this support article: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205064. For example, using the Apple ID website:

Sign in to your Apple ID account page (https://appleid.apple.com), then scroll to Devices.

Click the device to see its details, then click "Remove from account."

Review the message that appears.

Click again to confirm that you want to remove the device.

For more information on how Apple designs security, see the Apple Platform Security website.


Time Machine Could not complete the backup

I've had this issue before and when it occurred, the system logs of the affected Mac seemed to indicate that there were filesystem journal errors on the Time Machine drive.

My Time Machine drive is mounted remotely via an Airport Extreme to simulate a Time Capsule, and it is used by several Macs. All the other Macs were still backing up fine, so rather than connecting the drive directly to a Mac and doing a Disk Utility diagnosis and repair, I just mounted the Time Capsule drive from another Mac, deleted the backup sparse bundle from it and then removed the disk from the Time Machine preferences on the affected Mac.

I then added the drive back again and it all worked.


How do I know which App is sending Vibrate-only Notification?

Go into settings>notification center. Look for any apps that only have sounds, then disable it.


Is there a user-friendly app that can create an archive of system.log files and the like?

Could you use an AppleScript like this?

do shell script "tar --disable-copyfile -cf ${TMPDIR}logs.tar /var/log/{system,install}.log*" with administrator privileges

It requires entering the username and password of an admin user though.


How can I recover notes missing from the Notes app?

This is a little like what happened to me, I posted a question here relating to notes that had gone missing too.

It seems that if you take a note while offline, when you sync with icloud it will sometimes without warning delete notes it does not know about :( Luckily in my case since I had made the note on my mac it created a recovery folder for me.

Perhaps your phone may have done a similar thing? If you open notes and hit the 'accounts' button at the top, is there a 'recovered items' folder?


How to allow the user to choose from a pricing package yet be compatible with volume purchase and family sharing

You are correct that there are challenges with subscriptions and I would set aside VPP for now and focus on the tiers. Too many options will confuse everyone and complicate your efforts to track.

The Omni group does excellent work here - they offer a free app with read only functionality and a free trial subscription and two tiers. You could emulate their Mac App Store model quite immediately for either full purchase (and then annually release a new version)

https://support.omnigroup.com/omni-store-or-mas/

I would then look at VPP - you can push your app to specific clients at pricing points you agree upon, or let them know you'll refund / rebate / discount them post purchase if it's too much work to negotiate one off SKU in the B2B / VPP store.

The benefit of this approach is you still get your free/basic/pro functions through IAP and can toggle the family share feature with one build and one review. You can even roll in a discount for IAP based on previous purchases - so everything I can see you need has already been done (and works for years already).


Sending HTML mails (without a 3rd party app)

You can do this relatively simple from the command line. Save your HTML, but also include the necessary SMTP headers at the top in the source. For this example I'll save the source as example.html in my home directory.

~/example.html:

From: sender@example.com
To: recipient@example.com
Subject: Test email
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html

Hello world!

Now you can send this e-mail from Terminal.app by executing the following command:

cat ~/example.html | sendmail -t


brew cleanup: Warning: Skipping XXX: most recent version X not installed

Why my httping package is unlinked? No one knows, it's your machine. We don't know what you have done in the command line.

To fix the unlinked kegs error, run the following command to relink it manually,

brew unlink httping
brew link httping

# if it doesn't link, force link it
brew link --overwrite httping

Why a Homebrew package need to be linked?

Take httping for an example. httping is installed into /usr/local/Cellar/httping/2.5_2 with the suffix <package-name>/<version>.

tree -L 2 /usr/local/Cellar/httping/2.5_2
/usr/local/Cellar/httping/2.5_2
├── bin
│   └── httping
├── share
│   ├── doc
│   ├── locale
│   └── man
├── INSTALL_RECEIPT.json
├── license.txt
└── readme.txt

Homebrew contains the content of a package in one place, a folder named with pattern above.

But to expose them for global use, the pkg content needs to be linked under /usr/local, which is an acknowledge place for *nix software installation. So, bin/httping is linked as /usr/local/bin/httping. And other contents also need to be linked into corresponding folder, like /usr/local/share, /usr/local/sbin, etc.

Update

According to the additional info you provided. The installation location of httping should be /usr/local/Cellar/httping/2.5_1, but not /usr/local/Cellar/httping/2.5_1.reinstall. It indicates the reinstall process may be interrupted.

I reproduced the problem on my machine and fixed it by the following commands.

# don't use reinstall
brew uninstall -f httping

# remove possible broken symlinks
brew cleanup

# install httping again
brew install httping

# check the version
brew info httping


This content can't be played on this Apple TV

Just got off the phone with Apple support. Resolved by Settings>Apps>ITunes Movies and TV Shows>Quick Start and switched to off.


Yes, from my experience you can do that. I lived in the UK and currently use mine in the US. No special configuration required, just configure it to your new router.


Why is it that my MacBook Pro Retina's resolution is detected as different based on the application?

I am an iOS developer, so have a bit of an idea what is causing this.  Apple measure screen size in points rather than pixels, and depending on whether your screen is a retina display or not, will change the scaling factor between points and physical pixels.

In your case, because you have a high-resolution Retina display, OS X is applying a scale factor of 2.0.  This means that a webpage that has been designed with an element 500px across will still appear the right physical size (however it will in fact be 1000px across).

It's not a bug, it's a feature that means the retina display can still show the "old-fashioned" normal resolution content.


"Open in Low Resolution" - what does it actually do?

Say you have you're screen set to standard (using 15" as an example here), then "it looks like" 1440x900 but it is really 2880 x 1800. Making this example easy, say the app runs in fullscreen, then it would usually load with 2880x1800. If you check the "Open in Low Resolution" it will load in 1440x900, thus being less sharp but in some cases better performing or preventing bugs if the app is not optimized.


Safari 6/OS X doesn't support TLSv1.2. Sites only supporting the TLSv1.2 protocol like biblio.lu won't work in Safari 6.

You can cross-check/compare your browser's result at SSL Client Test
with the SSL Server Test (e.g. SSL Server Test testing biblio.lu).

No supported protocols overlap between Safari 6.1.6/Mac OS X 10.7.5:

and biblio.lu

so no https access! Google Chrome 49.0.2623.112 (64-bit) - the last Google Chrome version supporting 10.6/10.7/10.8 works though.


Use the command system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep "UPS Installed".

This will return something along the lines of UPS Installed: No


Haswell 15" MBP, Win7 x64, no trackpad or keyboard

After playing with this for a 8-10 hours, I found a solution:

You have to have Bootcamp Assistant create the USB key, and download the latest drivers (first and second checkboxes) to the key. There's apparently some startup information created that will let the keyboard and trackpad work with the installer.

Once that's done, boot into the Win7 installer. It still probably won't install. However, at some point you'll be presented with an option for "Load drivers," which appears in a few different places during the install.

When you get the opportunity,

Browse (on your installation media) to $WinPEDDriver$\IntelxHCISetup\Drivers\xHCI\Win7\x64\
Uncheck the box that says "hide drivers for unsupported hardware." (Yes, really.)
Select everything it finds.
Hit next. Wait for the drivers to load.
Exit out of the installer, closing everything until you get back to the "Install or Repair" screen (first thing you typically see when the Win7 installer boots. DO NOT REBOOT
Remove your USB key.
Wait for a moment.
Re-attach the USB key.

Proceed through the "Install Windows" wizard, select your target partition (probably have to reformat it as NTFS, depending on how you created it), and proceed as normal.

There appears to be an issue with the way that UEFI handles USB 3, so this may not be an issue with a USB 2 key.


Restore flashdrive to original state diskutility

The command to erase a drive to one (visible) partition is:

diskutil eraseDisk FileSystem newVolumeName PartitionScheme diskIdentifier

Valid file systems are e.g. JHFS+ or MS-DOS. To get an almost complete list of file systems enter: diskutil listFilesystems. If the volume name contains spaces use quotation marks. Some file systems don't accept volume names with spaces. Valid partition schemes are APM, MBR and GPT. Some file systems require a particular partition scheme (e.g. APFS doesn't work with APM or MBR) Use the proper disk identifier by checking the output of diskutil list.

So

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ "FLASH 8GB" GPT disk2

would be a working command.

Some partition schemes will create more than one slice even if you chose to create one main volume only:

GPT: invisible EFI partition with 100-300 MiB
APM: invisible Apple_partition_map with some KiB


Instead of typing:

datcom

You should instead type:

./datcom

This should run the program, if you have indeed followed the other steps of the instruction manual without error.


Is it normal for a MacBook Pro to run so hot?

See here for info on how to get the specifics for your processor.

150F is an OK temperature for the processor to be running at. Here's a nice guide on everything you need to know about intel temperatures.

System control for the fans generally tries to balance the need for the fans with the noise made by the machine, meaning the fans are left off for as long as possible. But the designers know the thermal limitations of the CPU and have measures in place in software to protect it against thermal damage, so you shouldn't be worried about it.


For the benefit of other readers, it's worth noting that Finder has builtin keyboard shortcuts that will allow you to:

⌃⌘⇧3: take a screenshot of a selection and save it to clipboard;
⌘⇧4: take a screenshot of a selection and save it to a file.

You can modify these shortcuts in System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Screen Shots.

I've put a suggestion in the comments about how to begin diagnosing the original script.  But, as I would have written the script slightly differently if I wanted (for some reason) to avoid using the builtin Finder keyboard shortcuts, I went ahead and wrote it:

    set screenshots to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.screencapture location"
    set timestamp to do shell script "date +'%Y-%m-%d at %H.%M.%S'"
    set type to "jpg" -- or "png"
    set filename to ["Screen Shot ", timestamp, ".", type] as text

    do shell script "SCREENCAPTURE -ioac -t " & type
    set [imgdata] to (the clipboard) as list

    tell application "Finder"
        set screenshot to (make new file ¬
            at POSIX file screenshots as alias ¬
            with properties {name:filename}) as alias

        write the imgdata as class of imgdata to the screenshot

        reveal the screenshot
    end tell

System info: AppleScript version: "2.7", system version: "10.13.4"

For one, the script is shorter, and shorter scripts provide fewer places where things can go wrong.  Currently, this script works fine on my system.  Therefore, you can try it on yours see if it works; if not, Script Editor will report where the errors are occurring and what they are, e.g. whether it is a file permissions error, etc.


USB thumb drives behave much like internal hard drives in terms of booting from it on a Mac.  Therefore, it depends on what you have on those drives.  If there is "just data" on the USB stick, it will, very much like "data" hard drives, not show up at the boot picker.

As a test, you can try to install a for your system supported version of Mac OS X onto the USB stick and then see whether it shows or not (I would understand that it will show thereafter as all Intel Macs can boot from USB).

NOTE: For obvious reasons, you should back up whatever you have on the USB stick before attempting this.


Do all Airport Express generations support client mode + Airplay?

Every express supports AirPlay. Some older hardware needs an older OS or utility to configure, so go for a newer model if you don't have an older PC or Mac (or VM) to run the old software to configure things.


I get "command not found" when running a new shell, (and none of my aliases, etc. are noticed). What's wrong with my .bash_profile?

You shouldn't be escaping the colons in your PATH variable:

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin


Documenting my own solution here, but would be happy to hear whether others have tried this in different ways. There are just a few steps to consider.

Create a dummy user with admin permissions with home directory on the built-in /Users disk
Name your external volume to something, e.g. Home - it would normally then be mounted on /Volumes/Home
Find the Volume UUID for your external disk using diskutil list /Volumes/Home, let's say the UUID is XYZ
Now comes the magic, use the sudo vifs command to add a line to your (by default empty) fstab file, the line should look like this:

UUID=XYZ /Users hfs rw 0 2

Finally, reboot your machine and you are good to go.

Caveat 1: if your external disk is missing or broken you will not have home directories, so do make a backup!

Caveat 2: if your external disk is missing and you do not have a dummy user (step 1 above) you will not be able to log in at all.

After this you may want to restore a time machine backup. However, Migration Assistant tries to outsmart you and checks the amount of available space for the root directory (which is small) rather than the externally mounted /Users directory. To circumvent this you have to use a two-step process:

Restore user details (accounts) but not their data by de-selecting all the data directories when restoring using Migration Assistant, after doing this you will have re-created users without most of their data files.
Using the command line tool tmutil you can restore without the check:

tmutil restore /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/PreviousMachine/PreviousDisk/Users/{joe,anne} /Users

(please run man tmutil before trying this and use the correct directory names).


Cannot select text in Safari address bar

Safari suggestions is broken today.

Go to Safari > Preferences > Search and disable Include search engine selections.


Can one restore a Time Machine backup to a new computer?

Yes that is exactly one of the reasons it's great to have a Time Machine backup.

With the new Mac, if you want to restore the data from the Time Machine backup, ensure it is connected to the new Mac. Then power on the new Mac and follow the setup instructions.

When you get to the question asking if you want to migrate data you would choose the option to do so from a Time Machine backup.

Choose the Time Machine drive (shows up as a green icon) and then click next.
Choose what data you want to restore and then click next again.

For clarification and further information have a look at, Move your content to a new Mac and How to transfer backups from Time Machine to a new Mac.


El Capitan system font blotchy on non-white background [Non-retina monitor]

I've found a solution for anyone who has this problem in future. Turns out this problem was hard to communicate as even the screenshots I posted appear fine for most people.

OSX machines were detecting this Samsung LCD monitor as a TV, therefore setting the color profile to YCbCr colour space instead of RGB. It turns out that this problem reared it's head a lot with Dell U2410 monitors in the form of blurry fonts.

The solution is to override the EDID (Extended Display Identification Data) for your monitor so that OSX outputs in RGB mode.

The solution for doing this is detailed at, but I will repeat here.
http://www.ireckon.net/2013/03/force-rgb-mode-in-mac-os-x-to-fix-the-picture-quality-of-an-external-monitor/

Disable System Integrity Protection

Restart Mac, as booting, trigger recovery mode with Cmd+R, then launch Terminal.
Enter csrutil disable and press return.
Restart Mac and login.

Generate Monitor Color profile override.

Download and save this ruby script https://gist.github.com/adaugherity/7435890
execute in terminal ruby saved_edid_script.rb
It will output a folder in your current directory.
Take this folder and place it in /System/Library/Displays/Contents/Resources/Overrides (El Capitan location, folder is a couple of levels up in older OSes, backup any folder with existing name)
Restart Mac

Re-enable SIP.

Same steps as "Disable SIP" but with csrutil enable


Airpods connected to iMac, but not in the audio output device menu

From this siteyou should do the following.

Make sure Bluetooth is on.
with both air pods in the charging case, open the lid and hold down the button on the back of the case.
The green light in the charging case turns white.
Go to the Bluetooth menu item and select air pods and hit connect.

Now air pods should show up in sound Systems Preference panel.


Fast note app for quick lookup & copy to clipboard for osx & ios?

Before searching for a 3rd party utility, I would recommend trying out Apple's built-in Notes app. It seems to satisfy your three requirements as you can copy/paste from the clipboard, view them on both macOS and iOS, and it syncs with iCloud across all your devices (plus iCloud website).

Checkout these links for a how-to guide on each of the listed platforms:

iOS: Use Notes on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
macOS: Notes for Mac: Notes overview
iCloud: iCloud: View notes on iCloud.com


You can use this app to test if your fan works.

but if the problem is not solved you can replace the thermal paste.


Are you using it wireless or plugged in?

If you are wireless, I'll bet they're low on charge. If you look where the cord connects, it's likely blinking or solid red (which means you need to charge them).

As for the adapter, you don't need to keep un-plugging to reset them. On the left ear, you press the button for a few seconds. This will re-sync the headset to your USB adapter. If it correctly sync'ed, the blinking blue light on the adapter will stop blinking on stay solid.


Disable screen lock when in certain location

How about something like ControlPlane?

  ControlPlane allows you to build configuration profiles, contexts in ControlPlane lingo, for your Mac based on where you are or what you are doing.  ControlPlane determines where you are or what you are doing based on a number of available evidence sources and then automatically reconfigures your Mac based on your preferences.  Evidence sources can include your current location, visible WiFi networks, attached USB devices, running applications and more.

You should be able to build an evidence source, such as being connected to the name (SSID) of your home router, then run an application (like Caffeine) or a script to prevent/turn off the screen lock.


Photos deleted before wifi still appear in photo stream

As ksh above said, its because the photo is going into your recently deleted album, you should delete the picture from this album too, that'll stop the problem.

Theres currently no feature that allows you to turn off the recently deleted folder.


I haven't found a way to share iCloud accounts for a different reason. Apple suggests keeping separate computer accounts to handle multiple users on a single computer and provides no support for your use case.

Each computer account can have it's own iCloud account associated without conflict. Using fast user switching to move between logins is the safest way. Using two different iCloud accounts with Messages (or any other service) at the same time on the same login is not supported. You can end up with undesirable behavior if you bounce between iCloud accounts as a single user.

iTunes store accounts seem more robust with respect to switching under a single login because Apple has been forced to deal with large number of users who use different accounts for the iTunes Music Store and iCloud and have purchases spanning both accounts and need to log in/log out to validate DRM.


AppleScript : do JS on different Safari windows

It's not the best (won't work if the same tab is open in different windows) but This seems to work

set searchpat to "My Tab"
tell application "Safari"
    set winlist to every window
    set winmatchlist to {}
    set tabmatchlist to {}
    set tabnamematchlist to {}
    repeat with win in winlist
        set ok to true
        try
            set tablist to every tab of win
        on error errmsg
            set ok to false
        end try
        if ok then
            repeat with t in tablist
                if searchpat is in (name of t as string) then
                    set end of winmatchlist to win
                    set end of tabmatchlist to t
                    set end of tabnamematchlist to (id of win as string) & "." & 1 & ".  " & (name of t as string)
                    set theWindowID to (id of win as string)
                    ##return (index of t as string)
                    --display dialog name of t as string
                end if
            end repeat
        end if
    end repeat

    set w to item 1 of winmatchlist
    set t to item 1 of tabmatchlist

    set current tab of w to t
    set index of w to 1

end tell

then I can refer the window using theWindowID

e.g:

tell application "Safari" to tell window id theWindowID to set current tab to tab 1

or

do JavaScript ResolutionPopUp in tab 1 of window id theWindowID

(I'm referring the tab manually)


What is Mobile Sync - Backup and why is it taking so much space?

It's the folder where iTunes saves the backUps of your iDevice. And it takes so much space because each time you sync a device, previous backUps are not deleted.

Deleting the folder will, then, mean losing those backUps. Doing this regularly is advised for saving HD space. Just make sure to make a new backUp afterwards, and that you won't need those backUps.

You can do that through iTunes too, by:

Opening iTunes / Preferences / Devices.
A list with all the Devices will be show. Select the one's backUps you want to delete and click Delete Backup.

Note that all of the backUps of that iDevice will be deleted.


You can use Window Groups. Start each group of terminals and save the group from Window -> Save Windows As Group...


Yosemite 10.10.3 - New Files and Directories Not Showing in Finder

I know this is not a proper fix but it might help with finding one! If you disable "Show icon preview" in View Options, the problem disappears. You have to click on any other folder and then again on the original one for it to update.


How do I make the mouse click at current location using AppleScript?

You can simulate a mouse click with AppleScript code like this:

tell application "System Events"
  click at {123,456}
end tell

This means to simulate a click of the mouse at coordinate (123,456).

To click at the current location you'll need to first find the current location of the mouse pointer, if you don't know it already. This is not easily done with AppleScript itself, so a neat way is to use the third party tool "MouseTools".

You can download it for free here.

On the download webpage you'll find an AppleScript example for getting the current mouse coordinates.


See private browsing history in High Sierra

The purpose of private browsing is to not store a persistent record of website data. It's not possible to find a history for a private browsing tab once you've closed the tab.


How to select calendar with "Quick Event" in 10.7 iCal?

You can enter events to specific calendars by holding down the + button

See here the entry from iCal help:

  Add events to a calendar

  You can add any kind of event to your iCal calendars. For example, you can add meetings, doctor appointments, and family activities.
  You can’t add events to a calendar you subscribed to.

  Open iCal
  Click Add (+) at the top of the iCal window or press Command (⌘)-N.
  Events are added automatically to your default calendar.
  If you want to choose a different calendar for the event, hold down the Add button (+), and then choose a calendar.
  To change your default calendar, choose iCal > Preferences, click General, and then select a calendar from the Default Calendar pop-up menu.


Converting Automator Action in applescript to bash script

I'm not sure I understand correctly - if in the third line of Your script You're checking whether ftp service is running You can use following script:

#!/bin/bash

launchctl list | grep ftpd

if [ $? != 0 ]; then
    IPADDR=$(ifconfig -a | perl -nle'/(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/ && print $1' | grep -v 127.0.0.1)
    launchctl load "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist"
    osascript -e "tell application \"Finder\" to display alert \"FTP Launched and ready for file-transfer\" & character id 8233 & character id 8233 & character id 8233 & \"Address: ftp://\" & \"$IPADDR\" & \":21\" & character id 8233 & \"User Name: \" & \"$USER\""
else
    launchctl unload -w "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist"
    osascript -e 'tell application "Finder" to display alert "FTP session closed"'
fi

Run this a sudo.
Explanation:

To check if job is running use launchctl list.
To get ip address quickly use my perl script (You may want to grep it differently in order to get rid of additional IP addresses.
The only problem now is that Finder app is not brought to front but this can be solved if needed.


On my iMac I have AppStore app in the dock. Whenever I have a software update, a number appears on the AppStore icon indicating how many updates I have. This applies to System Updates as well. I think that is the only way I'm notified.


I presume you are referring to Page Monitor, the Chrome extension that monitors sites for changes.

You can do this with Punchr. This will monitor parts of web pages and send you a push notification when the page changes.


As I understand it, it's a holdover from NextStep (which OS X is based on), and NextStep did it to support NetBooting.  The idea was that you could boot from a network-hosted volume (probably read-only, and certainly shared with other computers), and early in the boot process mount a local (writable) volume on /private; as g mentioned, this allowed runtime-modification of /var and /tmp, as well as per-computer settings in /etc.

This isn't needed anymore, as Apple's current NetBoot system uses a shadow disk image to store changes anywhere on the boot volume.  But some programs/docs/etc now assume the files live under /private, so it'd be too much trouble to switch them back...

Update: since I wrote this, Apple has stopped supporting NetBoot, so the original purpose of /private is even more obsolete. However, in macOS Catalina (version 10.15), they've added a new volume split. In this case it's for security rather than to support NetBoot, but it works in a fairly similar way.

Catalina's system volume is mounted read-only, with a read-write volume mounted at /System/Library/Data (analogous to the old system that mounted a RW volume at /private), and "firmlinks" making parts of the RW volume appear at their usual locations in the filesystem (again, analogous to the symbolic links that make parts of /private appear at their usual locations). For example, /Users is now a firmlink to /System/Library/Data/Users. The Eclectic Light Company has a good summary.

Catalina also still has the symbolic links to /private; thus, when you access /etc on Catalina, it follows the symlink to /private/etc, and then the firmlink to /System/Library/Data/private/etc


Can an Apple Time Capsule be used to store/watch movies on iPads in a car?

Theoretically, it should work. the Time capsule will just go into infrastructure mode, creating a self-made IP, and provide IP addresses to the iPads. So you will get your own little wifi bubble in the car, connected to nothing. But, the iPads will be connected to the time capsule.

However, you need more than that: iPads don't have a file browser to be able to find the movies on the time capsule hard drive. They really need iTunes running to serve up those movies.

So, now you need a laptop, plus the time capsule. (or now just wifi router, since you don't need the hard drive in a time capsule, you have a laptop)

You could do this with a DLNA server app, and a DLNA viewer app on the iPads as well, if you don't want iTunes, but you still need something to serve as the DLNA server. You could use a wifi router combined with say a WD My Cloud hard drive, or similar for example. This would eliminate the laptop, but you still need another device.


It turns out this is what happens when you have 2FA enabled.  The solution is to get a verification code from an iOS device.  Then use this 6-digit code together with your password on the AppleTV.  So if my password is mypassword then I would enter like mypassword123456.

Settings > Apple ID > Password & Security > Get Verification Code


How difficult is it to replace the keys on the Apple Wireless Keyboard?

That older model has key caps that are far easier to fix than the new low profile keyboards.

They are still not easy and by the time the keys wear out, the plastic scissors are likely equally worn or fragile. You’ll probably want half a dozen “donor” keyboards for parts if you decide to DIY repair these era of keyboards. But with a skilled technician, what you ask is doable without special tools and large stockpile of 100% new parts.


Why does my AirPlay stream distort at high volume?

Network issues only ever result in the audio cutting out, they can't really change the content.

Distortion means your speakers get overloaded. Turning down the volume is your only option.

The reason your speakers are fine on the Mac is that after the slider in iTunes the sound gets further attenuated by the system volume buttons on your keyboard. If you turn those up far enough you'll get distortion as well.


How to delete single songs in My Music without deleting them from playlists

Unfortunately you cannot accomplish what you are attempting, and here's why:

The "My Music" section is essentially the master collection of all your music. The Playlists you create are simply sub-sections of that master list.


I think not, because Apple, MS, and Google all use different incompatible formats for color emoji fonts.


Mac App Store keeps prompting me to upgrade iTunes

Are you certain that you in fact have iTunes 12.5.1 installed?

Have you manually checked the version?

Seriously, this may be a gift from heaven, if it is your phone. (Tagged as iOS and screenshot is MacOS so I will address both)

The problem is happening on mobile devices and Macs.

The MacOS fix is to manually download iTunes 12.5.1 package and install it that way.

If the link above to Apple's iTunes Download page does not load for you, here is the direct link to Apple's main iTunes page.

For iOS, there seems to be a big problem with people reporting bricked phones.

Go to systems-->notification find the app you do not want to see notifications from and choose "None" as the alert style. Or you can completely kick any app from the notification center.

You can disable most unwanted pop-ups by setting Software Update/ App Store to not automatically check for updates.


What can I do when my SSH session is stuck?

Type ~. (i.e. tilde, period) at the beginning of a line. In other words, press Enter, then ~, then .. (In some languages, you may need to press Shift or Alt to enter the ~ character.)

Generally speaking, the ~ character is an escape character in an SSH session when you type it at the beginning of a line. Type Enter then ~? to see the list of escape commands. The most common ones are

~. to terminate the connection
~^Z (press ~ then Ctrl+Z) to suspend the connection and type a command locally (run the command fg to return to the SSH session)

If you want a tilde at the beginning of a line, press ~ twice.


AppleScript: Find all instances of "Folder" and list the contents in a drop down box/list

set l to {}
tell application "Finder"
    repeat with f in (folders of entire contents of (POSIX file "/Users/username/" as alias) where name is "Folder") as alias list
        repeat with i in (get items of f)
            set end of l to POSIX path of (i as alias)
        end repeat
    end repeat
end tell
choose from list l

find ~ -name Folder -exec ls {} +

shopt -s globstar # bash 4.0 or later
printf %s\\n ~/**/Folder/*

mdfind 'kMDItemContentType==public.folder&&kMDItemFSName==Folder' -onlyin ~ |
while IFS= read -r l; do ls "$l"; done


How did my Apple Watch answer a phone call after my iPhone's battery died?

This is WiFi calling and iMessage in action.

iMessage is a messaging service that is brokered through Apple's iCloud servers and delivers point to point messages to multiple devices instead of needing SMS to deliver a message to a mobile phone. This allows messages on macOS, iPad, iPod touch and Apple Watch to send and receive messages "from" and "to" mobile numbers.

WiFi calling is even better - it links the carrier directly to your Apple devices that are not your iPhone. It is basically a VOIP bridge from the iCloud authenticated devices to a gateway server that bridges the call to the telephone network.

  Make and receive Wi-Fi calls from another device

  If your carrier supports Wi-Fi Calling on iCloud-connected devices,
  you can also make and receive Wi-Fi calls on other devices. You can
  use Wi-Fi Calling on these devices, even if your iPhone isn't on the
  same Wi-Fi Network or turned on:

  iPad or iPod touch with iOS 9 or later
  Apple Watch with watchOS 2 or later
  Mac (2012 or later model) with OS X El Capitan

  Wi-Fi Calling isn't available on Mac Pro (Mid 2012).

  Make sure that you're signed in to iCloud and FaceTime with the same
  Apple ID that you use on your iPhone. Also make sure that your devices
  have the latest software.

  Apple Support - Make a call with Wi-Fi Calling

Pretty amazing time to be alive — our phone calls, video conferences and messages are now bits to be sent and received as digital data streams.


Here's what I'm experiencing on El Capitán...

The key here is "document's input source" so when switching from Skype to Safari, if no document (web page in this case) has focus the input source will not change. If you then select, for example, a field on a page, the input source should change to whatever the last input source was when you were last in that document. So one application program can have multiple documents each with its own input source and the OS won't switch input sources until a specific document within the app has been selected.

If you open a new safari window or tab, the currently active input source will be used for that new "document."


MacBook Pro (Mid 2012) trackpad delay / failing

This could also be a setting in Trackpad settings within System Preferences. Look for 'Trackpad' in System Preferences (second row of icons, fifth from left). There is a checkbox for 'Silent Clicking'. Check to see if that has been checked on by accident.


What is the difference between `IO` and `Data` in the Activity Monitor?

Apple provides an explanation on their Support site:

  The Disk pane shows the amount of data that each process has read from
  your disk and written to your disk. It also shows "reads in" and
  "writes out" (IO), which is the number of times that your Mac accesses
  the disk to read and write data.

Disk I/O is the number of reads/writes that are done (how many)
Data is the aggregate amount of data transfered (how much)


Uploading from iPhone to iTunes Match Library

I know this is not exactly what you are looking for but in case you can't find an exact solution, here is an alternative:

Assuming you are getting the MP3s off of the internet, Safari should automatically save the MP3 file into the Downloads folder on iCloud. You can listen to the MP3 by tapping on it in the Downloads folder under iCloud Drive in the Files app. You can also move the MP3 to another folder under the iCloud Drive after selecting the MP3 if you want to keep the downloaded MP3s together in a separate folder. However, files downloaded as such will not be part of your iTunes / Apple Music library.


From Wikipedia:

  The Trojan [FlashBack] targets a Java vulnerability on Mac OS X. The system is
  infected after the user is redirected to a compromised bogus site,
  where JavaScript code causes an applet containing an exploit to load.
  An executable file is saved on the local machine, which is used to
  download and run malicious code from a remote location. The malware
  also switches between various servers for optimised load balancing.
  Each bot is given a unique ID that is sent to the control server.. The
  trojan, however, will only infect the user visiting the infected web
  page, meaning other users on the computer are not infected unless
  their user accounts have been infected separately, this is due to the
  UNIX security system.

For a lengthier, more technical description, read this F-Secure article.


How to reset the Finder to its default settings?

To restore the Finder to its original state, you should enter this command.
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder.plist; killall Finder


Re-Merge El Capitan Recovery with Original Mac OS

There is not a "safe" way to do this.  Creating or destroying a Fusion Drive is a destructive process.

Having the recovery partition is normally a desirable thing, was there a particular reason you did not want it?

If you do no want to create a Fusion Drive again you will need to ensure you have a full backup.  You will need to boot from a USB installer, see here on how to create one.

If you open Disk Utility when booted from the USB installer and it detects an SSD and HDD installed it may offer to create the Fusion Drive for you automatically.  If not there are instructions here on creating one manually.

Once the Fusion Drive has been created you can proceed with the normal installation.

Note that if using Boot Camp Windows will only reside on the mechanical drive not the SSD so will not enjoy of the benefits of a Fusion Drive.  It is specified in Apple's support article.


Unable to redirect SmartCard in Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac. Option greyed out

This was addressed in version 10.6.3 of the Microsoft Remote Desktop for Mac.


Macbook Update to High Sierra unbootable

Possible reason for the problem

I am not 100% sure but my guess on why all this happened is the special way I set up my disk encryption. (For detail: I used normal File Fault encryption but because my standard user has a weak password I removed this user from the users who are able to decrypt and instead added a root user with a strong password who was able to decrypt the drive.)

As my research provided the the update to High Sierra changes the file system format from HPFS+ to the new standard called APFS. With a different encryption as well. My guess is that during the upgrade either the special root user was removed or another error occurred in connection to this constellation.

How I finally dealt with it

As written above I was able to boot in the recovery mode of the TimeMachine disk. But I had to realise that this time machine was running OSX El Capitan (obviously the running system of my Mac when I created the first backup) and El Capitan was of course not able to either decrypt or even identify the new APFS file system on my internal drive (which explains the missing partition in my picture).

The next try was (don't know why I didn't try this earlier) to boot in normal recovery mode by holding down CMD+R while booting. This worked and I was able to use the disk utility to delete the Macintosh HD partition, create a new one instead (as APFS) and the reinstall macOS High Sierra from the recovery menu.

After the complete new installation finished I was asked if I want to move any data and I selected my Time Machine backup. It needed a few hours but after this my system is back on track. Everything seems and where I left it.

Notes

As general note for all of you who want to perform the upgrade: Back up your data immediately before doing it!
And after the update is done shut down the Mac once to check if everything is fine. (Don't wanna think about the scenario where I would have worked a few days without shutdown any new backup and then shut it down to end with this...)
After my described fix I had to set up the disk encryption again (now I only use my normal user and instead of any trick the account now has a strong password...)

Thanks for your help :)


Find out apple email id from iphone activation lock

How to find the AppleID

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5625

If you can't remember your Apple ID, follow these steps to look for it:

  Go to My Apple ID (appleid.apple.com) and click “Find your Apple ID”.

  Enter the first name, last name, current email address, and any prior
  email addresses that you might have used to create an Apple ID. Apple
  uses this information to search for Apple IDs.

  If no Apple IDs are found, follow the onscreen instructions to create
  an Apple ID.

  If one Apple ID is found, choose whether to receive an email from
  Apple or answer security questions. Both options will conclude by
  asking you to reset your Apple ID password. Follow the instructions
  provided.

  If multiple Apple IDs are found, select the one that matches your
  current email address. Then choose whether to receive an email from
  Apple or answer security questions. Both options will conclude by
  asking you to reset your Apple ID password. Follow the instructions
  provided.


Assign a different key combination to Terminal’s Split Pane menu item:

Quit Terminal
Open System Preferences
Select the panel Keyboard from the second row
Select the tab Shortcuts at top center
Select App Shortcuts from the bottom of the list on the left
Click the + button, bottom center and a smaller panel appears
In the dropdown menu Application:, select Terminal

if Terminal isn’t on the list, scroll all the way to the bottom and select Other… (otherwise, skip to step 8 below)
when a dialog window appears, go to the folder Utilities and select Terminal

In the Menu Title: field, enter the text “Split Pane” without quotation marks, but with capital letters “S” and “P”
In the Keyboard Shortcut: field, enter your custom key combinationPro tips:

for a feature you hate, select a key combination you’ll never enter on accident, such as command ⌘‑control ⌃‑option ⌥‑shift ⇧‑D
select and hold down the modifier keys (that is, command ⌘, control ⌃, option ⌥, and shift ⇧) before you select the letter key (in this example, D)

Click Add
Restart your Mac and fire up Terminal
Become less unhappy


With brew, how do I only list packages that were built from source (not poured from bottle)?

I believe that Cakebrew lets you do that, but I can't confirm this


Script that outputs number of emails in Mail.app inbox

If you want to get the number of messages in said inbox, the short form of the code is

tell application "Mail" to ¬
  get the count of messages of mailbox "INBOX" of account "Work"

If you want the global inbox, then you can use get the count of messages of inbox instead.  If you just want unread messages, then you can use get the unread count of mailbox "INBOX" of account "Work".

And if you want a more complete script, this will do the trick:

#!/usr/bin/osascript
property defaultAccount : "Work"
property defaultMailbox : "INBOX"

on run args
  set justUnread to false
  set theAccount to missing value
  set theMailbox to missing value

  if defaultAccount = missing value then set defaultAccount to "-g"
  if defaultMailbox = missing value then set defaultMailbox to "INBOX"

  set theCount to the count of args

  if theCount > 0 then
    if item 1 of args = "-u" then
      set justUnread to true
      set theCount to theCount - 1
      set args to the rest of args
    else if item 1 of args = "-ug" or item 1 of args = "-gu" then
      set justUnread to true
      set item 1 of args to "-g"
    else if theCount > 1 and ¬
            item 1 of args = "-g" and item 2 of args = "-u" then
      set justUnread to true
      set theCount to theCount - 1
      set args to the rest of args
      set item 1 of args to "-g"
    end if
  end if

  tell application "Mail"
    if theCount = 0 then
      set theAccount to defaultAccount
      set theMailbox to defaultMailbox
    else if theCount = 1 then
      set theAccount to item 1 of args
      set theMailbox to defaultMailbox
    else if theCount = 2 then
      set theAccount to item 1 of args
      set theMailbox to item 2 of args
    else
      error character id 10 ¬
          & "Usage: inbox-count [-u] [[account] mailbox]" & character id 10 ¬
          & "       inbox-count [-u] -g [mailbox]"
    end if

    set mailboxValue to missing value
    if theAccount = "-g" then
      if theMailbox = "INBOX" then
        set mailboxValue to inbox
      else
        set mailboxValue to mailbox theMailbox
      end if
    else
      set mailboxValue to mailbox theMailbox of account theAccount
    end if

    if justUnread then
      return the unread count of mailboxValue
    else
      return the count of messages of mailboxValue
    end if
  end tell
end run

Most of that is command-line parsing, because that's a pain to get right in AppleScript.  But the upshot is that with that script in your path as inbox-count, then the following commands work:

inbox-count to check the number of messages in the default mailbox/account pair.
inbox-count -g to check the number of messages in the global (combined) inbox.
inbox-count Play to check the number of messages in the default mailbox for the account "Play".
inbox-count -g Important to check the number of messages in the global mailbox "Important".
inbox-count Play Facebook to check the number of messages in the mailbox "Facebook" for the account "Play".

You can also prepend a -u to any of those commands (e.g., inbox-count -u, inbox-count -ug, inbox-count -u Play Facebook) to just get the unread count.  To change the default account and mailbox, change the lines property defaultAccount : "Work" and property defaultMailbox : "INBOX".  If defaultAccount is missing value or "-g", then the default will be to not use an account; if defaultMailbox is missing value or "INBOX", then the default will be to either use a mailbox named "INBOX" or, if the account is "-g", to use the global inbox.


Can iOS apps request updated permission to selected photos?

It looks like this is a limitation of the Twitter app, not the SDK:

3) Showing the selection UI again
the recommended way is to manually request to show the selection UI again. Apple explains that if you have an app that requires full access to the photo library (e.g. some app whose main purpose is to let you browse and organize the photo library), you should add some kind of button in your UI that triggers the selection screen again.

https://mackuba.eu/2020/07/07/photo-library-changes-ios-14/

As further evidence that this is a limitation of the app, Facebook provides a dialog that allows me to select additional photos:


SIGTERM

launchd's unload command sends a SIGTERM signal to the associated job's child processes.

Detached Processes

If a process launched by a launchd job has detached from it's parent process, then unload will not affect that process. This is often the case for daemonised processes.

Original Source Code

You can download and inspect the original launchd source code. launchd has since been rewritten and is proprietary to Apple but the original documents the intended behaviour on unload.


Remove A Scratch From The Lid Of A Unibody Macbook Pro

I use car wax on my MacBook lid/palm rest. It works great. It even leaves it super shiny and smooth. I do it every now and again. I do the same to my iPhone and MagicMouse. I'm a bit of a neat freak in that way, but I figure I spent a lot on these so I want to keep them in good shape.


How can I set notations for different instruments in Logic?

You will have better luck if you post your question at the Apple Support Communities discussion forum for Logic Studio.

https://discussions.apple.com/community/professional_applications/logic_studio

For instance, see this post: "How do you set up Logic Pro 9 for transposing instruments?"

I would also suggest that if you are serious about working with sheet music and arranging parts for orchestral ensembles, that you look into creating your scores in the Sibelius or Finale dedicated music notation programs. Logic's sheet music capabilities are quite limited by comparison. Sibelius and Finale both have excellent capabilities for playing back your sheet music score with virtual instrument libraries. After your score is complete, you can move to Logic for recording audio if that is required.


Microsoft Word notebook layout - insert equation?

One workaround is to assign a keyboard shortcut to inserting an equation.  This only gets you the ability to type an equation, not use the Equation Tools in the Ribbon.  You can also get the Equation Editor to open in a separate window via assigning a keyboard shortcut.  If this workaround is sufficient for you, it's fully documented here.

There is a third-party application called MathType for editing equations, and it works with many applications including Word:Mac.  If you know TeX/LaTeX, you can type that into MathType and it works magically.  However ... it doesn't work in the Notebook Layout View either.  I asked them about it via Twitter, and they said this:

  No, but only because of the types of items Word allows to be inserted
  in Notebook Layout View. No editable objects, only static.

Don't forget to tell Microsoft that you want the full power of the Equation Editor (or MathType) in Word:Mac.  In Word's Help menu, there's a "Send Feedback About Word" link.  Tell them what you're doing and why this matters to you.


Screen brightness automatically adjusting in OS X Mavericks

There is an automatic brightness adjustment setting, but it's not new to Mavericks.  In System Preferences, check Displays; the setting is called "Automatically adjust brightness".

It adjusts based on a light sensor near your MacBook's built-in camera.  I've found it to be fairly good, but occasionally tipping my MacBook Air's display back a little further back than usual will make the light sensor detect more light and brightens the display considerably.


It's not obvious to me why the killall Dock command would help with this, but since it does it may be worth you doing a reset and restart of the Dock.

Reset and restart the Dock

If you go ahead with resetting and restarting the Dock you will need to re-add any non-default icons to your Dock. (I usually find it's a good opportunity for people to start afresh and only add things as they actually use them).

To reset and restart the Dock follow these steps:

Go to Finder
Press and hold the option key down
Now go to the Go menu
Select the Library option to open the User's Library folder. You can let go of the option key now.
Go to the Preferences folder (i.e. within the Library folder)
Find and move the com.apple.dock.plist file to the Trash
Now open Terminal (usually located in Applications > Utilities)
Enter this command killall -KILL Dock
Press enter

Remember you'll need to re-add some apps back to the Dock.

If this doesn't resolve your issue, it'd be worth also testing what happens when you're booted into Safe Mode and afterwards again. See below.

Boot into Safe Mode

Follow these steps to boot your Mac into Safe Mode:

Fully shut down your Mac
Restart your Mac
Immediately press the Shift key and keep it down
Let go of the Shift key when you see the login window (NOTE: If you have FileVault enabled you may need to log in twice).
Take a note of what happens (i.e. switch desktops and take note of what happens with your Desktop Background)
Exit Safe Mode by restarting your Mac as normal
Switch desktops again and take note of what happens with your Desktop Background

Once you've booted into Safe Mode, let me know how you went.


Is it possible to only run one application as non-retina whereas everything else is retina?

Select Netbeans in Finder, right click and press "Get Info" (or press Cmd ⌘-I on the keyboard). In the window that pops up, check "Open in Low Resolution".


This problem may be the result of failing RAM or a failing disk drive or potentially some other hardware problem.

It should really not take more than 5 minutes to boot a mountain lion compatible Mac in the worst case.

Check how much RAM OS X thinks is in the computer Apple Menu > About This Mac. Make sure it is the amount your expecting, for example if your computer when you bought or upgraded it it said it had 4GB of ram make sure its not showing that there is some different smaller number.
Run a Apple Hardware Test for your Mac.
Try running a memory test program, something like memtest
Back up your important data
Try running a disk testing program, something like TechTool Pro

If all the above fails to uncover a cause try a clean install

Make sure you have a boot-able Mountain Lion Installer, etc or have an internet connection and a "OS X Internet Recovery" compatible Mac
Erase the disk drive, and re-install a clean copy of OS X.
Use the machine for a while, and see if the slow booting problem returns( if there is a problem with the disk the issue should return after indeterminable time). If the problem does not then this would fix it.
If the problem does return I would try a different internal drive to boot the machine with, in order to determine if the problem is with the drive or with the mac.
Repair / replace the failing hardware, note that parts may be covered under Apple's Warranty.


How to accept disabled software in System Information when button is not shown

The chances are that you cannot just 'allow' Intel drivers on an Apple Silicon ARM Mac. It just won't work.
the Intel emulation/translation does not cover things like system extensions and input/output components.
You will need to go back to the manufacturers (Pioneer) and ask them for updated drivers. If the device is no longer supported, then you won't be able to use it with this Mac.


I cannot sign in to App Store with my Apple ID

If you've created a new Apple ID, you need to have a valid OS X purchase  under this new Apple ID? Otherwise you might have to use—at least for the install—the Apple ID you used to buy OS X.


Apple Script - How do I check if the bounds of a window are equal to specific values?

The following example AppleScript code uses the value of the bounds for Note in your OP to check if the current bounds matches the given list:

tell application "Notes"
    if (bounds of front window) is not equal to {0, 0, 540, 300} then
        set bounds of front window to {0, 0, 540, 300}
    end if
end tell

It can also be written like:

tell application "Notes" to ¬
    if (bounds of front window) ¬
        is not equal to {0, 0, 540, 300} then ¬
        set bounds of front window to {0, 0, 540, 300}

Or using a variable assignment:

tell application "Notes"
    set checkBounds to bounds of front window
    if checkBounds is not equal to {0, 0, 540, 300} then
        set bounds of front window to {0, 0, 540, 300}
    end if
end tell

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


The iPod touch does not have a GPS. Finding your iPod Touch through MobileMe requires that your iPod Touch has Wi-Fi turned on and connected. It uses Wi-Fi triangulation to find it.

It is not as accurate as a GPS, but if your iPod touch is around many Wi-Fi access points accuracy will go up.


Open a picture with Photoshop or Preview based on file location

You could build a partial solution with using Hazel and Automator.

1st, create an Automator workflow that uses the "Set Application for Files" action on received files to Photoshop.

2nd, create a Hazel rule that runs that Automator script on any images dropped into a specific folder. You could skip Hazel and just create a folder action in Automator but that would fire on any file placed in that folder and that might not be what you want.

Files modified in such a way would still open in Photoshop once removed from that folder, which is why this is only a partial solution.


"unable to download application" when installing directly on iPhone

There are a lot of variables that could be the cause here (iOS 5 would be the problem if the app required it, but Apple has a different dialog box for that.)

Network time out (My firewall at work didn't like Apple's CDN until I manually approved  it)
Small hiccup (Has it happened multiple times? )
Hiccup on Apple's end (timeout?)

Next time it happens, I'd recommend either turning Airplane mode on and then back off and trying again (basically resetting all the network connections).  I've seen that happen before (especially with larger downloads).  The large download situation wouldn't apply here since you mentioned it did download over 3G


How can I set system audio + microphone as the audio input for video conference software?

Usually, whenever you need to stream the audio from your PC, you only need the audio from a single programme, because otherwise also the incoming audio from your conference members in MS Teams would be streamed back to them as well. When you start screen sharing, or sharing a particular programme, there should be an option to share audio as well, at least this is how MS Skype works so I think Teams will do it similarly. So in order to share for example the audio from a video file, you can open it with whatever software you want, and then just share this software with the screen sharing option. I tried this with many different programmes and different hardware devices, and it always worked quite well, even if the video is just a random video from YouTube that I stream down over the web to my browser.


How to stop syncing apps with iTunes without wiping them from my iPhone?

What worked for me was to setup my device for wifi sync first. Make sure under the edit menu and preferences / devices (this is important) that you have it set to prevent automatic sync. Right click on the device in the left pane of itunes and reset all warnings. Have the cable disconnected but the device still visible via wifi. Uncheck sync apps, then ok the warning about removing the apps from the device. Then click "summary" and uncheck sync over wifi then apply in the lower right.

Now reconnect via cable turn wifi sync back on and sync your device via wifi or cable doesn't matter which. Now disconnect the cable, goto apps in iTunes and delete all apps. Ok the warning about removing the apps from the device. Goto summary and uncheck sync via wifi and click apply in the lower right. Then you can reconnect with your usb cable and turn on sync via wifi again.

At this point a popup will tell you that there are apps that you need to transfer to iTunes or they will be removed from your device. Check don't show this again and then click don't transfer. Now you can go into edit and preferences under General and uncheck apps altogether if you want the iTunes apps folder to go away as well.

I did this with both my iPhone and iPad2 and I still have my apps on them.

Good Luck.


How can I wirelessly transfer video from iPhone to Mac?

I know you say you do not want to install. But you can get a free Dropbox account.

Install it on you Mac and iOS device.

Then in the iOS Dropbox.

Tap the 3 blue circles in the Menu bar.

Select the + Upload menu.

Allow Dropbox to see you Photos if Asked.

Navigate to the camera roll or Album that contains you video.

Tap it/them to select it/them

Tap The Upload menu to upload.

Once done they should be on you Mac.


How should I restore a backup of my user account from a .dmg?

Copy the user folder into /Users
Make a user with the same short name as the user that you copied in using the Users & Groups preference pane. This should prompt you to link the new user to the home folder that you copied in.

Note: Don't log in as that user yet.
Reset the new user's ACLs using the ACL tool on the Recovery HD.

Boot into the Recovery HD using ⌘R.
Run resetpassword in Terminal (available from Utilities → Terminal).
Select your account from the drop-down list.
Click the Reset button for Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs.


Terminal switch tabs not working Yosemite

You have to modify the menu title to enter the exact name of the menu command you want to add.


Mavericks' new memory management tool was designed to do exactly that, use AS MUCH RAM as possible. See, "free ram" doesn't actually do anything until it's used. It's just there idle, waiting to be allocated. Mavericks uses physical memory much more in order to speed up actions. For example, closed applications and file will be cached until memory is needed, at which point they can be overwritten.

For example, my 24GB machine currently has around 14GB of file caches (after around 5 weeks of uptime). In total, 18 GB of my 24 is used. This demonstrates Mavericks attempt to cache everything possible. If not for file caches, I'd only be using 4GB of my 24GB of RAM, basically rendering 20GB (~83%) of my system memory (costing well over $300) as completely unused.

I don't think your performance issues are a result of the new memory management. If anything, there should be decreased disk access, faster load times, etc. You can try troubleshooting by running sudo purge in terminal to force the deletion of file caches and inactive pages. (Note: Free RAM ≠ faster performance)


How exactly do you create a portable cross-platform USB stick with VeraCrypt?

From the VeraCrypt Supported Operating Systems page:

  MacOSX 10.6 and newer. OSXFuse must be installed.

If you want to use VeraCrypt, you will need to install OSXFUSE. They are telling you there is no way for it to operate without OSXFUSE installed, both on their website and in the error message you posted.


Transmission does not support AppleScript specifically, so there is no way to use AppleScript to check if downloads are still active or not.

There's a concurrent discussion of this idea going on at
https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/applescript-for-transmission-app/15789 but this is probably a better place for it, so I'll summarize my answer from there.

Install transmission-cli using brew: brew info transmission-cli
Enable the "Remote" feature of Transmission app:

You do not have to limit to 127.0.0.1 but unless you need to access from another computer, there's no harm in leaving that on.

Enable the feature to remove torrent from the Transmission list after seeding is done:

Now you can run this script periodically:

#!/usr/bin/env zsh -f

PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

    # the `pgrep` line says 'If Transmission is not running, exit immediately
    # just in case the script happens to be run when the app isn't even running
pgrep -qx Transmission || exit 0

`STATUS=$(transmission-remote --list | egrep -v '^(ID|Sum:) ')`

if [[ "$STATUS" == "" ]]
then
    osascript -e 'tell application "Transmission" to quit'
else
    echo "Transmission is still active:\n$STATUS"
fi

exit 0

If Transmission is running, but there are no items in the list, it will be quit.

There may be other ways of doing this, but I cannot think of any myself (other than just using Transmission's preference to run a script when a download is complete, and quitting the app then, but that will fail if there are multiple concurrent downloads active).


Is there an AppleScript or Automator action to quickly edit Info for Video in iTunes?

It's possible on iTunes, here's a example

tell application "iTunes"
    repeat with i in (get selection)
        tell i
            set episode number to 1
            set episode ID to "blah"
            set season number to 1
            set show to "blah"
        end tell
    end repeat
end tell


You should be able to turn off folder sharing between the VM and the Mac using Fusion's "sharing" settings and then shut down the VM.  After that, you should be able (from the Mac Finder) to move the shared folder to the Trash.  You may need to type an administrator password in the process, but that would be an administrator for the Mac host, which is presumably you.

If that doesn't work, please provide more details, such as where the files are as seen by the VM, where the files are as seen by the Mac, and what happens when you try to delete the files from the Mac.


Spontaneous and unwanted iTunes "reorganization"

For what you asked first, here is what you get first:
https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/35334/detune

DeTune is an App that helps you get Songs from your iPod.

For everything else regarding Organization:
Open iTunes and hit CMD+,

You should see the Settings, if not go to The Menu and click iTunes -> Preferences.

Here is all I know after I struggled with iTunes (a lot):

You can specify Import Settings on the first page of the iTunes Settings page.
At the Bottom you can also say that you want to download the names of the tracks.

Regarding the Organization :

iTunes handles the media the way you specify it in the Advanced Tab inside the preferences.

So you should check on that via going to preferences -> Advanced.

You should see the place where all the media is stored.
Also you should see checkboxes for the automatic management and the option to copy the media inside the iTunes Media Folder.

If you want make iTunes do the work, check both.

And well, that is basically all you can do to achieve what you want.

To better organize your media with iPhones/iPods there is no way around iTunes. It's simply the only App that can handle your device completely.

If you want to organize your media professionally, tag them manually or via great tools like Picard (from MusicBrainz), Metadatics, Tagger or something else. Organize it in Folder you like inside your Music Folder and don't let iTunes organize them. Then (if tagged correctly) drop them into iTunes.

To be sure you added the files, maybe add a Finder Tag to remember yourself in the future.


Can multiple accounts use same Dropbox, with access control

Since you came here to ask this, I'll volunteer that a Mac with OS X and Server configured would host files exactly as you wish. Some users could have read/write access and others read only. You could further restrict shares, folders or files with ACL so that arbitrary files are hidden from all but users that are supposed to see the files.

You might also be able to get dropbox group software or Microsoft skydive to do similar, but we're not the best place for that support or answer.


Applescript - Open password protected excel file

There is a way to open a Excel workbook (xlsx, in my example) which is protected either the workbook and/or the sheet. You can use the following script:

set passwd to "1234" -- whatever you want
set theWbpath to "/Users/xxxxx/Desktop/number1.xlsx" -- example path
set theWb to "number1.xlsx" -- example file
set theSheet to "sheet1" -- example name of sheet
tell application "Microsoft Excel"
    open theWbpath
    unprotect workbook theWb ¬ -->
        password passwd        --> workbook part, can be left out
    unprotect sheet theSheet ¬ -->
        password passwd        --> sheet part, can be left out
end tell