Safe and Sure Way to Install Sierra / Ongoing Regressions in OS X

This is an overview. I'm going to assume you know your way around a Mac enough to fill in the blanks.

You should be able to download Sierra from the App store. (or here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202) Note that if you are getting an error message about a damaged installer it may be that the installer is old and the certificate in it is expired. I have heard that setting the clock back a number of years will also fix this issue.

Then using the command Apple recommends using (at least 8GB) flash drive create your bootable installer.

sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/Untitled --applicationpath /Applications/Install\ macOS\ Sierra.app

Or you could use something like DiskmakerX you can create a bootable macOS Sierra install disk a different way. I use this method as I like me some GUI apps.

Once the bootable installer has been created on the flash drive and with the flash drive plugged into your Mac (and a backup of your Mac somewhere safe and disconnected). Boot the Mac holding the ⌥ Option key.

When you get to the Startup Manager screen select the Sierra installer and let it boot. It may take a while.

Eventually you will be asked to select a language and be given a window with several options.

Instead go to the Utilities menu > disk Utility and reformat the internal drive. This will, of course, remove everything from the drive so do be very sure about your backup.

When that is done quit disk utility and select the option to install Mac OS Sierra on the drive you just formatted.

Now, all of this assumes that macOS updates that you have previously installed have not updated the firmware on your Mac to the point that macOS Sierra won't work. That is possible but I don't know how likely it is. So proceed at your own risk, and have a macOS Catalina bootable installer standing by, just in case.


Is there a way to get past versions of an app in App Store?

It's not an option as far as I know. If it's an app that you purchased previously, you should be able to roll back using Time Machine (you're using Time Machine, right?). You might also have to roll back the settings files in your Library folder if you want your old settings back.

But if you are looking to purchase a new app you are stuck with the most recently available one.

The good news is that apart from Apple's own software, most developers choose to offer their software directly as well.


What should I do after my iPhone was stolen?

Sorry to hear that, but if you have your iPhone setup with iCloud then most likely you have Find my iPhone setup and by following these instructions you'll be able to place your phone in Lost Mode and that person won't be able to view any of your content and if you have iOS version 7.0 (which you do, as the iPhone 5s shipped with iOS 7) or later then the phone will have an Activation Lock meaning that this person could never activate this iPhone even if they place the device into DFU mode.


Connect to remote Server with macOS Sierra through sftp

It seems that this is not possible with MacOS Sierra standard tools (sftp via Finder); Macfusion is also no more compatible with Sierra.

As costly alternative you could use Commander Pro, Panic Transmit 4 or Mountain Duck (35-40$).
As less costly alternative you could use Flow from the App Store (~5$).
As a free alternative you could use webdav with Finder (http://...).

What I did was installing winebottler (comes packed together with wine in one .dmg) and then install WinSCP via it. It was quick and worked, but is indeed rather a weird solution... ;-)


Can't update Xcode even with 19gb free space

You might be close, but I downloaded from the developer website and I had  freed ~22 GB.

Try freeing up some more, like cache or movies you have watched, or software you don't use.

How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space?
Reduce size of the Xcode application
Gigabytes of disk space shown as hidden space in DaisyDisk


Is there an OS X 'tail' tool that can monitor remote log files?

You may try to use a combination of multitail and ssh.

https://serverfault.com/questions/53976/use-local-tools-to-monitor-remote-logs
https://superuser.com/questions/320575/mac-os-x-logfile-viewer


Brightness up/F2 button stopped working on my 2014 rMBP

Are you 100% certain that this is a hardware fault?

The best way to verify this is to find an application that allows you to set a keyboard shortcut and try pressing the fn + F1 key if this works then try setting it again with the broken key fn + F2.

If this doesn't work it strongly suggests your keyboard button is actually broken, in which case you would need to take it in to a repair center for diagnosis.

Could you tell us more about the exact model you have so we could advise if there are any open repair programs, all MacBooks with the new style butterfly keyboard are under a keyboard repair programme, if you have one of these it might be a free repair.


Transferring an old iPhone after I upgrade?

I just did this myself - I upgraded to an iPhone 4 and gave my sister my iPhone 3G. I put her AT&T SIM inside and she was instantly able to send & receive calls and texts. Since she doesn't want to pay for data (yet), she used the new iOS 4 network setting to turn off cellular data. I have heard that AT&T scans their network and automatically adds data plans to 'smartphones', but so far this hasn't been the case.

If she does want to use data, have her call up AT&T and let them know about the phone switch on the plan and they can sign her up for the iPhone data plan - it's $15/month for 200MB and $25/month for 2GB. You may be able to do this yourself online - I haven't tried - but contacting AT&T is quick and relatively painless and is guaranteed to work.

One other thing - if her SIM is ancient (pre-3G), then you may need to get a new one that supports 3G from an AT&T retailer or call AT&T and they can ship you a new one. They may charge a nominal fee (~$10) for this service.


Invisible region on screen is blocking mouse cursor

I had this same problem and it has been driving me crazy. While I still don’t fully understand the cause of the bug I finally found a way to fix it.
First a note, I think this problem only happens when the zoom accessibility mode is enabled, though it occurs even when not zoomed in. And further, it might be related exclusively to full screen zoom.
I have a keyboard shortcut that turns full screen zoom on and off (⌘⌥8 by default), configured in accessibility settings. Whenever a region of one of my displays becomes inaccessible, I just zoom in and right back out and the inaccessible regions are gone.
I hope this helps.


ssh: wrong culprit

I have this loss of focus on a variable frequency on XQuartz
without any ssh command.

On the other hand I found a heavy relationship between this XQuartz loss of focus and the launch of:

Google Software Update (com.google.Keystone.Agent)

Analysis of this bug

2 tools help during this investigation:

watch activations Python script →

[...]
2014-07-22 17:06:04.622 Python[95279:1307] activated Google Software Update (com.google.Keystone.Agent)
2014-07-22 17:06:08.410 Python[95279:1307] activated loginwindow (com.apple.loginwindow)
[...]

lastcomm | head -10 immediatly after the event →

[...]
diskmanage -S      root     __         0.00 secs Tue Jul 22 17:06 (0:00:18.03)
GoogleSoft -S      root     __         0.11 secs Tue Jul 22 17:06 (0:00:30.03)
[...]


Is it possible to backup an iOS 7.1.2 device on OSX 10.12, 10.13, or 10.15?

Unfortunately, any iPhone with an iOS lower than 13 cannot back up their photos onto a Mac through a USB connection. However, you could try using Google Drive and then accessing your drive on your laptop (although, I am not sure if google drive works for iOS 7).


In some versions of Mac OS X it is possible to detach widgets from the Dashboard and leave them on the desktop.

Enable Dashboard Development Mode

Launch Utilities > Terminal.app
Issue the command defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES
Issue the command killall Dock
Quit Terminal.app
Display the Dashboard; using the F12 key
Click and hold on a widget
Hide the Dashboard; using the F12 key
In development mode, the widget remains visible and can now be positioned on the Desktop

These steps were originally for Mac OS X 10.4 but this technique is reported to still work with 10.8, Mountain Lion.


How to upload my iMovie project to iCloud drive?

Find the project file, then copy it and paste it into iCloud Drive in finder.

Hope this helps.


Mac Keynote: How do I add another bend point to a curved connector line (arc)?

The tool to use for this is the Draw with the pen tool.

This tool is found at the top right of the shape picker window.

To add a new point, drag a midpoint to divide a line and add a new point.  See the illustration below.


anything better than dd to copy disk images to SD card in OS X?

I use Balana Etcher for my Raspberry Pi SD cards. It's free, fast and even verifies. It's also cross platform.


How Can I Copy a Video to iPhone and Send It Over iMessage?

Because the video was only 22MB I was able to use Gmail to send it to myself (where it strangely became 30MB).

After opening the attachment from the email app, it began to play, but I noticed it had the sharing icon so I was able to send it over iMessage from there.

However, I would still like a general solution for larger files.


Disable iSight Indicator LED on El Capitan

I would use a small piece of black tape. If you get the right kind it will be hard to spot and since its always there it won't give you away.

Not the modern software approach but it works.


Big Sur Beta repeatedly will not install

This issue can still occur with the public release of Big Sur, 11.0.1.
In one case, this is network related. I don’t have the specifics but check to see if a simple restart of your modem solves the issue. If you are tech savvy enough to make sure you have obtained a new public IP, ensure that you do.


Sharing internet connection from ethernet to wifi NOT using apple sharing

i've personally never seen any 3rd party apps.

If you really want a stable connection i'd recommend buying a cheap router. I don't think the wifi module in mac's are good enough to share a connection reliably.


MacOS wont boot after partitioning my SSD

The answer below was developed based on your question and the image you posted. A cropped version of this image is posted below.

Enter the following from linux.

  Note: I can tell you have taken steps that have not been posted to your question. Therefore, even if the procedure below repairs the partition tables, there may be damage to the APFS container from these steps that are unknown to me.

sudo gdisk /dev/sda
p
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m
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409640
1561962535
AF0A
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Explanation

Execute gdisk on the internal drive as root user.

sudo gdisk /dev/sda

Print out the GUID Partition Table (GPT) and the Master Boot Record (MBR) partition table.

p
x
o

Change the MBR partition table from hybrid to protective

n

Change the kali volume partition type from Microsoft to linux.

m
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Add back in the APFS partition.

n
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409640
1561962535
AF0A

Sort the partitions in ascending order.

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Print the resulting GPT.

p

Write the result back to the internal drive and exit gdisk.

w
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How can I change the default width of Finder columns?

In column view in the Finder, you can resize columns by positioning the mouse pointer over over the thin line that separates column panes, and dragging it to the left to make it narrower or to the right to make it wider.

To make the Finder remember the new width, hold down the option key(⌥) while dragging the pane separator to the desired width.

The best documentation I can find on this from Apple alludes to the fact that holding down option resizes "all columns at once" but does not explicitly say that this makes the change persistent.


Keyboard shortcut to select the address bar for the current page in Safari?

Command + L is the keyboard shortcut you are looking for.

This shortcut is corresponding to Open Location... command which can be found under File → Open Location... in Safari Menu bar.


5 Vertical pink lines - Imac 2011 - Won't boot up

Safe mode and recovery mode tend to not load specific graphic drivers or acceleration, so the clear signal there tends to reinforce the hardware trace and LCD are still fine and the visual artifacts are GPU failures.
Your research is likely right that reflowing the solder might help remedy this or it will point to a more embedded failure. Either way, kudos for trying to reuse this. Next would be repair or recycle or sell for parts. People will want the power supply and lcd and other parts.


Deleting iTunes App Store purchases from my account

Sorry but there is no way, at this time, to remove purchased (include free) apps on iTunes AppStore. Same problem with the Mac AppStore.

I've already asked for this feature at iTunes Feedbacks, and you can do the same to make Apple understand what we want.

The ability to hide purchases from the iOS app store should cover most real-life situations where you would normally delete a past purchase. It also protects those who have lost control of their accounts and someone maliciously deletes past purchases. The idea that the past is unchangeable, but we wish to hide some items from prominence works for many.


PDF magazine to Newsstand solution on low budget?

Newsstand requires building an actual iOS application, albeit a simple one. I'm not sure an English major could manage that (he says, who was once a professional computer programmer and English major).

You might be better to consider iBooks. Check out https://developer.apple.com/ibooks/

You can download iBooks Author for free in the Mac App store to build extremely nice iBooks and they can then be put into the bookstore if you have a developer account. You might then email all your subscribers with a link to grab the new issue. iBooks Author is almost as much fun to use a InDesign and certainly more fun than Pages.

If you are convinced to go the Newsstand route then I suggest you find an iOS programmer who can assist you. You will need a good understanding of the iOS WebKit framework (as the most likey way to handle your content), the Newsstand framework and the push framework at an absolute minimum. Once you have the app coded and running then the difficulty of creating an issue depends on exactly how you decide to handle it in your app. The app gets passed the issue as a bundle and how it deals with it is entirely up to your app.


Where is macOS's incompatible apps blacklist stored?

On Catalina, the incompatible apps are likely determined programmatically when they reference any 32 bit libraries, so that’s an easy check. During installation and migration, the package that contains the blacklist is downloaded:

When I upgrade from 10.12 to 10.13 High Sierra - where do incompatible items go?

I’m not finding any remnants of that file left around - com.apple.pkg.CompatibilityUpdate but you can see things that are moved to the Incompatible Software folder at the root.

Also, for Catalina, there are efforts to package just enough libraries to run old favorite apps even though Apple isn’t shipping the libraries needed.

https://tidbits.com/2019/09/18/moving-to-catalina-keep-your-32-bit-mac-apps-running-with-parallels/
https://www.parallels.com/blogs/catalina-32-bit-apps/
https://www.dpreview.com/news/1439854984/this-app-can-modify-aperture-and-iphoto-so-they-will-continue-to-work-with-macos-catalina
https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

Since Retrocative is open source, there’s hope interested people can log apps they want, contribute or fund people that are able to generate the code needed for preserving vintage bits on more modern OS.


This can be changed in Settings -> Maps -> Preferred Transport Type.

Change it to walking or your choice of transport.

When you set your mode of transport it will automatically give directions for that transport type:

The type can still be changed manually if you are using another mode of transport but it will be set to your choice by default.


How to copy URL with page title from Safari to Pages

The ideal solution, with the current tab of the front window of Safari set to the desired address, one would then in Pages press a keyboard shortcut to, at the cursors present location, create a website link matching the documents style (font size, etc,) having the Title and URL of the Safari target pasted into the Pages document.

Off the top of my head, if that's even doable, it would probably require using AppleScriptObjC, which unfortunately is not something I know how to do, rather than using plain vanilla basic AppleScript.

That said, let me offer an example that works for me in macOS High Sierra and Pages 7.1.

Using an Automator service1 with a Run AppleScript action, set for Pages, and assigning it a keyboard shortcut in System Preference > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services, the example AppleScript code, shown further below, creates a website link on its own line directly after the line the cursor is on when the keyboard shortcut is pressed.

With this particular code, it needs to be done in this manner; however, one can then cut and paste it where desired in the document and remove the extra line added to the document. It's not the ideal solution, but it does get the job done with the least amount of hassle while using this particular method.

In Automator, create a new Service1, setting: Service receives [no input] in [Pages]

1 In macOS Mojave, an Automator service is now called a Quick Action.

Add a Run AppleScript action, replacing the default code with the example AppleScript code, shown further below.
Save the Automator service as, e.g.,: Add Safari Weblink to Pages
In System Preference > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services > e.g. Add Safari Weblink to Pages, assign it a keyboard shortcut, e.g.,: ^⌘L (Control-Command-L)

Note: I wanted the least number of keys to press and something close to the default ⌘K, and ^⌘L was it. It also does not step on any other default keys in Pages.

In Pages, with a document opened, press ^⌘L to create the website link of the current tab of the frontmost Safari window.

With a little practice, the following steps will become second nature:

Select the target webpage in Safari, letting it be the frontmost Safari window.
In Pages, with a document opened, press:

^⌘L, and wait until Add Link pop-up dialog disappears.
⌘X
delete (Removes the added line.)
Set the cursor to where you want the website link inserted.
⌘C

This should only take but a few seconds total.

Example AppleScript code:

if not running of application "Safari" then return

tell application "Safari" to set |Title & URL| to {name, URL} of current tab of front window
delay 0.1

set the clipboard to first item of |Title & URL| -- Title of front Safari document.
delay 0.1

tell application "Pages"
    activate
    delay 0.1
    if name of front window is in {"Choose a Template", ""} then return
end tell

tell application "System Events"
    key code 124 using {command down} -- Right Arrow Key - Send cursor to end of line.
    delay 0.1
    key code 36 -- Enter Key - Send cursor to beginning of new line.
    delay 0.1
    keystroke "v" using {option down, shift down, command down} -- Paste and Match Style. (Title of front Safari document.)
    delay 0.1
    key code 123 using {shift down, command down} -- Left Arrow Key - Highlight pasted Title.
    delay 0.1
    tell current application to set the clipboard to second item of |Title & URL| -- URL of front Safari document.
    delay 0.1
    keystroke "k" using {command down} -- Pages > Format > Add Link > Webpage -- (When some text is highlighted.)
    delay 0.1
    keystroke "v" using {command down} -- Paste (URL of front Safari document.)
    delay 0.1
    key code 36 -- Enter Key - Needed to set pasted URL, otherwise it stays as the default URL.
    delay 0.1
    key code 53 -- Escape Key - Dismiss the Add Link pop up dialog box.
end tell

set the clipboard to ""

Note: The example AppleScript code makes use of the Clipboard in order to use Paste and Match Style in the Pages document, and then clears the Clipboard. Keep this in mind so as not to loose something that's there and nowhere else if applicable. Additionally, if the length of Title exceeds the length of the line it's pasted to, only the last line of the pasted Title will be highlighted when the website link is created. This is one of the drawbacks of using just plain vanilla basic AppleScript verses AppleScriptObjC.

Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and sans, if not running of application "Safari" then return and if name of front window is in {"Choose a Template", ""} then return, it does not contain any additional 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.

You might also find that the value of the delay command, in some instances, may need to be adjusted for use on your system, adjust as/if necessary.


Where would I find where an .htaccess file is located and being used on a Mac OS X Lion server that sets Basic Auth on an Apache server?

You might try looking in /etc/apache2/sites/
That was the directory in 10.6; in 10.5, it was /etc/httpd/sites

On 10.5 and 10.6 server, the server app can be used to set access restrictions, and that is the location where the config files are written.

If your web setup is not complicated, the filename may be similar to 0000_any_8080_(HOST).conf


Safari, iTunes, Chrome etc. won't recognize root certificates after recent update to Safari 7.1.5 (Mavericks)

Were able to solve the issue myself. For some reason, there were a few root certificates in my login Keychain, which have been revoked and replaced with newer certs in the System Roots keychain. Deleted those certs from my login keychain and everything works fine again.


To add the dots to your table of contents, select the table, choose the Text inspector, then select the leader as dots.

If you don't have a table of contents, place the cursor where you wish to insert the table of contents, then Insert → Table of Contents and choose the scope.


How to read data from an unreadable drive formatted by a GoPro?

The solution was to use a Windows computer with an SD card socket to read the card and transfer the files.

Before that, I tried the following methods mentioned in the answers and the comments. The YUTU PRO smartphone application could transfer small files and not large ones (more details below). The retailer had no idea about the problem or solutions. I did not try @BaconDuctTape's MiniTool recommendation as Windows had solved the problem.

For the future, I will format any card with MS-DOS (FAT).

more details on YUTU PRO app

I followed the directions on the user manual. I was lucky that one file was small enough
  for the phone's available space; unlucky that the second transferred but
  failed to show and lingered somewhere (a common ghost file problem). The app showed two videos with duration 00:00 when they have
  06:49. The app alone was taking 3.3 GB and has no menu option to delete its data. Rebooting the phone clears the
YUTUPRO ghost data (hint from here).

Then I deleted all photos from the
phone, downloaded small files (around 3 minutes of footage) one by one from the app to the phone, transferred to the computer,
deleted the file on the Photos app, went to Albums > Recently deleted to delete
permanently, and started again.

For files at the maximum of 6:46, which showed as 0:00, the app was able to play them by streaming, but not
to transfer them. The app showed "Downloading, Please Waiting ..." (sic, see below) for several hours. So I went for the Windows solution.


iCloud Notes on Macbook not synchronising with iPad/iPhone IOS 9.0.2

It may be dependent on whether this button still exists in the Notes app on your iPhone, & whether your Mac has been updated to El Capitan or not...

If you have upgraded Notes on the iPhone on iOS 9, then you must be on El Capitan for them to be compatible.


IOS 12.1.1 won't sync contacts to google

Did you check in the settings of the Contacts app that the default account is set to your Gmail account? I suspect that the presumably missing contacts ended up in iCloud instead of Gmail. If you set the Default Account to Gmail new contacts created on your iPhone will automatically sync with Goolge Contacts.

Regarding your existing Contacts in iCloud:

The easiest way to move your contacts from iCloud to your Gmail Account is to use the Contacts app on your Mac. Add the same Gmail Account to your Mac and drag’n’drop the contacts from iCloud to your Gmail Account. I don’t think a way exists to do the same directly on an iPhone.


You don't need to specify any host info for your local Mac.

Open a terminal in a folder of choice, and then execute the SCP command - then the Remote files will be copied to this local folder.

See more here: http://www.folkstalk.com/2012/07/scp-command-examples-linux-unix.html

3. Copy files from remote host to local server.

This operation is used when taking backup of the files in remote server.

scp user@remotehost:/usr/backup/oracle_backup.dat .


OS X: How to lock down these frivolous protocols!

You can find more details about these services in SpeedGuide's Port Database or the IANA Service Port Registry:

ndl-aas/3128
dec_dlm/625

AFAIK neither port is used by OS X out of the box, so you probably have installed some additional stuff on your own (3128 is also used by squid for instance).

To check for processes actively listening on these ports, you can use lsof -i :3128 and lsof -i :625.


iPhone Medical app that retains information through an upgrade

Most iOS apps will transfer data to a new iOS device if the old device with the app data is Sync'd and backed-up to iTunes on a Mac or PC, and the new device is then restored from the backup of that old device on the same Mac or PC.

You might want to make a backup of your iTunes backups to be more safe.

If you don't want to restore from backup, but set up a device as new (blank), the you may need to find a medical web app where your info is stored online somewhere.

In the future, there may be some iCloud enabled apps (assuming they can somehow meet HIPPA requirements with your private medical info).


How to tell if your key hinge (retainer clip) is broken?

In researching your question, I discovered that you can purchase individual replacement MacBook Air keyboard keys, specified as manufactured by Apple.
Hope this helps.

But to answer your question, I would acquire a known good key hinge to examine and compare to the key hinge in question. This should allow you to determine if your key hinge is broken.


I ended up contacting Nike and they were able to add the basic details to their site. It didn't have all the details, but the overall time and distance were added. I would guess that there isn't a way to resend a workout if it doesn't upload right.


Why did my Time Capsule disappear, while continuing to work as wireless router?

The same thing happened to me yesterday; I don't know if this will work for you.

What fixed it is as you said go to "Configure Other", then disable Back to my Mac by clicking on the - sign on your email adress. It will reset and then I could see the HDD.

That fixed it for me. Hope it helps!


How do I use my external keyboard for typing in a foreign language?

Go to System Preferences and to Keyboard. When that pane comes up, select the Input Sources tab. This is where you choose a foreign keyboard. See figure below.

You can see in the figure what the keyboard looks like for the Russian language. By clicking the 'Show Input menu in menu bar' you'll have a menu item to view the foreign keyboard whenever you want.


Yeah, I think you may have missed your window.
It seems that a 5.1.1 jailbreak is not too far away (if the jailbreak rumour mill is to be believed), so you might just have to wait it out for that.


I'm struggling a bit with your wording so lets run through a couple standard tasks and you can let me know if I've answered your question or am way off the mark.

--Situation 1.) You have macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) installed on your MacBook's internal HDD. You want to upgrade with an SSD.

Attach the SSD using the USB cable.
Hold "Option" at boot and choose the internal HDD with macOS 10.11
Install CCC (https://bombich.com/software/download_ccc.php) and use it to clone the internal HDD to the external SSD. (No need to purchase unless you want to continue using as your backup software)
Restart.
Hold "Option" at boot and choose the external ssd with macOS 10.11 now on it.
If everything works, shutdown and replace the HDD with the SSD (Search youtube for a walkthrough for your specific model)
Hold "Option" at boot and choose the now internal ssd with macOS 10.11.
OPTIONAL: If step 2, 5, or 6 failed, Hold "CMD + Option + R" at boot to enter internet recovery. Choose disk utility. Run "First Aid" on SSD. If failed a reinstall of macOS is required. (See Additional Task below)

--Situation 2.) You have macOS 10.11 (El Capitan) installed on your External SSD. You want to upgrade the internal HDD with the SSD. I'll assume that there is nothing important on the internal HDD, but if that is incorrect, please be sure to backup your data first.

Attach the SSD using the USB cable.
Hold "Option" at boot and choose the external SSD with macOS 10.11 on it
If everything works, shutdown and replace the HDD with the SSD (Search youtube for a walkthrough for your specific model)
Hold "Option" at boot and choose the now internal ssd with macOS 10.11.
OPTIONAL: If step 3 or 4 failed, Hold "CMD + Option + R" at boot to enter internet recovery. Choose disk utility. Run "First Aid" on SSD. If failed a reinstall of macOS is required. (See Additional Task below)

-- Additional Task: Reinstall macOS (10.13 High Sierra will be installed)

Hold "CMD + Option + R" at boot to enter internet recovery.
Choose disk utility.
Ensure desired disk/volume is selected on left side.
Click Erase.
If HDD choose HFS+ / OSX Extended(Journaled) and name it "Macintosh HD"
If SSD choose APFS and name it "Macintosh HD"
Quit disk utility
Select Install macOS High Sierra
Follow the steps provided to reinstall. Note that it may take far longer than stated if your internet connection is below average.


Why doesn’t the fourth generation iPod touch have a wireless window?

As I'm not part of the engineering team I can't tell you why they've resited it, but in the iPod Touch 4 they'd moved the antenna toward the front of the display, rather than toward the back as they had with the previous generations. I'd imagine they've tried it in both locations but due to the way they've slimmed it and moved other components around they probably found that it was a better trade off to have the window back in place.

Step 19 shows how it'd been moved for the iPod Touch 4. I imagine as soon as iFixit has the new one we'll see some more information about why the window is back in relation to the other components.


Keynote version 8.3 how to alter image opacity.. only shows gallery/arrange and not style tab?

To fade an image in Keynote, use the Dissolve animation.

Steps:

Select the desired image
Go to Animations
Select Build Out
Choose the Dissolve animation
Set the desired timing and whether to animate on click or with another action

For more information on animations, check out the Animate Objects in the Help menu.


Broadcast http on mDNS Bonjour in Catalina?

You’ve got several choices here of existing libraries of open source code with quite good documentation. In essence, your server needs to know an IP address and then drop the service advertisement.
Here’s JavaScript code to add http listener advertisement from one node.js based implementation:
var browser = mdns.createBrowser(mdns.tcp('http'), {resolverSequence: sequence});

Since you mentioned Tornado - you might be interested in a python zeroconf library that does the same and also lists Avahi compatibility in addition to Zeroconf.
The example code to advertise a fake HTTP server is a bit longer than the node call above, but the code is all open source. Making a real HTTPS server isn’t much more code, so you might be close to your solution here.

https://github.com/jstasiak/python-zeroconf/blob/master/examples/registration.py

The core is what you’d expect - list the details and then advertise...
info = ServiceInfo(
    "_http._tcp.local.",
    "Paul's Test Web Site._http._tcp.local.",
    addresses=[socket.inet_aton("127.0.0.1")],
    port=80,
    properties=desc,
    server="ash-2.local.",
)

zeroconf = Zeroconf(ip_version=ip_version)
print("Registration of a service, press Ctrl-C to exit...")
zeroconf.register_service(info)


You can use the command below to edit the com.apple.finder preference.

defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitEject true

that will set it for the current user, to set it system wide use

sudo defaults write com.apple.finder ProhibitEject true

The eject button will still show in finder but will not do anything when pressed.


El Capitan: will System Integrity Protection defence stop sandbox program from accessing System.log?

Will my program (running in the sandbox) be able to access the file /var/log/system.log with the 'System Integrity Protection' system running?

Yes, a sandboxed application will be able to access /var/log/system.log on OS X with System Integrity Protection (SIP) enabled.

/var is Not Protected

The /var folder is not protected by SIP. As of OS X 10.11, only the following locations are protected:

  Paths and applications protected by System Integrity Protection include:

  /System
  /usr
  /bin
  /sbin
  Apps that are pre-installed with OS X

  Paths and applications that third-party apps and installers can write to include:

  /Applications
  /Library
  /usr/local

See Apple's developer documentation on System Integrity Protection for more details.


Apple TV stops playing the video from movies at 10 minutes

Try restarting your Apple TV.

Hold down the Home and Play buttons on the Siri remote, or hold down the 'down' button and the menu buttons.

Images below

The light will flash quickly, then let go of the buttons.
You will see the apple logo.

Try watching your movies now!

I hope this works for you!


retry 'message send failure' with editing

The following is only a little less work than simply copying and pasting the original into a new message, but I believe it meets your requirements:

Tap Edit in the upper-right corner of the message list
Tap your message to mark it
Tap the Forward button at the bottom of the list

This will bring up a sheet that allows you to enter new recipients, with the previously-composed message already in place.


which apps comes free with yosemite macbook pro?

See this list on apple.com for the applications which are included with a new MacBook Pro. If you are missing additional applications after a reinstall, you can either re-download them from the Mac App Store or from the website of the vendor (in case the software wasn't purchased through the App Store).


Replaced hard drive - trying to do a clean install of OS-X on 2011 Macbook Pro

Well if you have no other Mac, nor access to another Mac that you can download Mavericks with then you'll have to use internet recovery.

Boot the Mac holding down COMMAND-R (on a PC keyboard that would be WINDOWS-R) And if there is no recovery partition you go into internet recovery and get the OS your Mac shipped with (Possibly Mountain Lion).

Probably best to use a wired connection otherwise it will take hours.

I gather it's not difficult to do, but Apple has a knowledge base article here with the details.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

Once you get Mountain Lion installed you can use the App Store to download Mavericks.

And if you just have to start with Mavericks, you'll have to find a friend with a Mac that can download that installer for you...


macOS System Integrity Protection Configuration

It is possible to add your own protected directory to SIP:

Boot to Recovery Mode and disable SIP
Reboot and create a directory structure.
Flag the whole folder or single files or folders:

sudo chflags restricted /example
sudo chflags restricted /example/example.app
sudo chflags restricted /example/subdir/file

or a folder hierarchy:

sudo chflags -R restricted /example

If you want to exclude a subdir after using the -R option you have to remove the restricted flag there:

sudo chflags norestricted /example/subdir

Boot to Recovery Mode and enable SIP

Now the folders example, example.app and the file /example/subdir/file are protected. You still can add or remove files to/from /example/subdir.

The restricted flag has no effect if SIP is disabled - the usual POSIX/ACLs permissions apply. With SIP enabled the files/folders are protected.

It is also possible to add, remove or change SIP-protected files and directories via an installer package which is signed by Apple’s own certificate authority. Since a normal user /customer usually doesn't have access to this certificate authority, this possibility is eliminated.

An earlier version of this answer asserted that it is required to modify the file /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf and add something like:

                                /example
                                /example/example.app
*                               /example/subdir
                                /example/subdir/file

This is wrong! Simply flagging a file or folder as restricted is sufficient to protect it.


Stylus for Multitouch (Laptop) Trackpad?

Take a look at the oStylus Capacitive Drawing Stylus:

http://ostylus.com/

Engadget's review specifically mentions and shows the stylus being used with Apple's Magic Trackpad.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/10/01/ostylus-capacitive-pen-review/


How do I mirror/copy/save a harddrive from an old macbook that has an account in a logged-in state?

The real problem here is macOS isn’t designed to save run state to the hard drive in a persistent state. Hibernate mode doesn’t expect to be relocated on a different memory and does expect to power down completely and add RAM when the os is not suspended or hibernating.

What you ask is trivially possible if you were running in a hypervisor such as VMWare fusion and could suspend and change the hardware from under the os due to a layer of abstraction. You’ll need an admin password to move forward, so that’s well documented.

Make a new admin or follow the password reset procedure. Deal with lost keychain and make sure FileVault isn’t enabled before you decide to reset the password and move on is my advice. The OS isn’t designed to support what you contemplate.


Can I show a 24-Hour clock on my Mac's Lock Screen?

Since at the login window (and the lock screen) your user is not logged in, you´ll have to edit the global preferences:

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLocale en_GB

and:

sudo defaults write /var/root/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences AppleLocale en_GB

and then do a reboot. This fixed it for me (and I hope, Apple fixes that sooner or later). :-)


Do MP3's encoded by iTunes contain my email address, and how can I remove it?

I've seen reference to various iTunes Data Anonymizer applications. This should be a reasonably comprehensive list of where you should and shouldn't be worried.

DRM Encumbered Files (protected AAC media) do not carry direct personal information such as your name. They do of course have personal information to the extent necessary to examine and validate your license, but this is information that should only be able to be understood by Apple.
So called "iTunes Plus" unprotected MP3 files do contain your personal information. A cursory search led me to Privatunes. Note that I am not vouching for this software. Your mileage may vary. Make a backup of any files you have before running them through this, or any other modification software.
Files encoded via the CD Ripper does not tag data into the encoded files, no matter what format or quality you choose. Nor will arbitrary media files you choose to import into iTunes.

Did I miss a means in which data may become "available" into iTunes?


How do I get image "FILES" off my iPhone with Photos?

I found that Image Capture is still available and I can set it to be the default to launch when I plugin in my iphone as well.

To do that run Image Capture (click the search icon in the top right of the menu bar and type Image Capture.

Then in the bottom left there is the option for what should happen when your phone is connected.


Can I connect 3 display to a mid 2012 MBP retina?

Yes, the your MacBook Pro is able to handle three externals displays as you require. You'll need to connect one via the HDMI port, and the two others via the Thunderbolt (mini DisplayPort) ports.


On iPad's iBooks, how to make highlighting show up for PDF files?

iBooks for iPad currently doesn't support highlighting in PDFs. However, there are many 3rd party apps like iAnnotate PDF, GoodReader, or PDFpen that support PDF highlighting and annotating. I use GoodReader and I can personally verify that PDF highlights that were made on Mac's Preview do show up on the GoodReader iPad app.

I also tested the DropBox iPad app and PDF highlights do not show up.

Hopefully, Apple will add PDF highlighting to a future version of iBooks. If enough people request this feature at the Apple feedback site, maybe they will add it in the near future.


Almost all vpn clients and servers support split tunneling. This is nearly always something you need to set up server side and not client side.

If you control the server side see Mac Pro: Splitting network traffic based on destination

If not, see Routing all traffic except a few IP-ranges though default gateway in Mountain Lion


Shortcut for toggling between different windows of same app?

UK Keyboard
[see below for other languages]

 Cmd ⌘   `

 Cmd ⌘   Shift ⇧    `  to go the other way.

Left of z on a UK keyboard [non-shifted ~ ]

Note: This only works if all windows are in the same Space, not if they are spread over multiple Spaces, which includes fullscreen. To overcome this, use Cmd ⌘Tab as usual and on the icon of the application you want to switch windows in press the down arrow key (with Cmd ⌘ still pressed). Then use left/right keys to navigate to the desired window across spaces and desktops.

You can also achieve this by clicking the app's icon in the Dock - this method will also switch to fullscreen windows, which the other methods will not..

From comments - You can check which key command it is for your language by switching to Finder, then look at the Window menu for 'Cycle through windows'...

BTW, specifically in Chrome, Safari & Firefox, but no other app I know of on Mac,  Cmd ⌘   (number)  will select individual tabs on the frontmost window.

It also would appear that  Cmd ⌘   `   is yet another of those language-specific shortcuts; so if anyone finds any more variants, please specify for which language & keyboard type.

If anybody finds new combos for different languages, please check Keyboard layout here - Apple KB: How to identify keyboard localizations - & add that as well as which Input Source you use in System Prefs > Keyboard > Input Sources.
Add a keyboard picture from the KB page too, if that would help.
That will make it easier for future Googlers.

Further info:
You can change the keys in System Prefs > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Keyboard...
though it doesn't list the reverse direction, it does still work when you add shift to that new combo. I tested by moving mine from  `   (and  ~ ) to  §  (and  ± )

You can use the alternative of  Ctrl ⌃   F4  [visible in the prefs window above] but that almost indiscriminately marches through every single open window on all Spaces, without switching to the correct Space each time. It's really not too useful unless you use a single Space, just included here for completeness.


Why can't I type lower case 'a' in Safari when entering text in a field?

I had exactly the same problem, and after disabling extensions and restarting Safari it went away.  I then looked more closely and found that I had set the letter lowercase-a as the keyboard shortcut to allow flash in ClickToFlash.  Apparently this made it not work as a character in any text boxes in Safari!  I now have all the extensions back on but without that key shortcut, and everything is working fine!

BTW, this is clearly a bug in ClickToFlash, since the default key to make flash full-screen is lowercase-f, but I can type that fine in any text box.


This issue has plagued aircraft pilots for the last few months but there is a resolution on the horizon. Though there is no simple way to repair the connection for most programs, according to this blog:
http://blog.foreflight.com/2015/06/02/ios-8-4-to-resolve-gps-accessory-compatibility-issue/
It should be fixed soon.


Where do you see this error? In the logs or does it show a dialog once you're logged in?

Either way, I'd probably start with booting from the recovery partition and running Disk Utility. If it still can't repair it then you might need to try another disk repair utility or just backup and erase to see if you can get rid of these errors.


Time Machine backing up more data than I can physically have

I'd say that the Info Window on your Hard Drive that you posted in the comments is completely correct. It uses the new base 10 system for calculating your Hard Drive space.

I guess Time Machine is misreporting the amount of data backed up. This might be due to either Time Machine still using the old base 2 method for calculating HD space, or by Time Machine getting confused by the use of symlinks and adding up the size of some files multiple times.

It also could be that somehow the backed up data is bigger than the original data. This could be due to metadata, error recovery, or other factors. But I don't think this is the case, because the difference that you report is quite big.


Restoring apps and preferences to a clean install

Is there a way to do a clean install but keep all of my apps, preferences, etc.? Could I just make a Time Machine backup and restore from it?

Short Answer : Yes you can. OS X has an App called "Migration Assistant" that is located in "/Applications/Utilities/Migration Assistant.app", which can easily restore user-chosen stuff from a backup or an external HDD or external Server Partition or a Thumb drive if you wish to do so.

The Long Answer :
As a clean install is always helpful, don't try to simply run away from your problems. OS X can be a very sensitive System and Mavericks has its problems.
(And thank god there is Stackexchange for every Problem that might occur)

I would consider using certain tools to clean your mac and make sure it is checked carefully. Some common Apps are OnyX or CleanMyMac.

Also try creating a whole new user and compare the performance with your own account. Using this way you can find out if there is something in your account that makes your machine so slow or if it is the overall System.

Also try using the PRAM and SMC -reset, Boot your mac from a recovery partition or CD/DVD to repar the Disk if neccessary or to check if everything is ok.

If nothing changes during all your steps, a clean install is your last resort. If even this does not seem to fix the problem it won't be a software issue and you should take the Computer to an Apple Store for Hardware checks. (you can use the build-in hardware check first if you want to save some time)


Don’t use a cable like the one shown above! These do not contain the required licensed Thunderbolt chips (inside the connectors) to support Thunderbolt protocol. While they will work for a connection to a DisplayPort only monitor input, they will not support a Thunderbolt Display or iMac in Target Display Mode.
You need a cable that looks like the one below that shows a Thunderbolt Logo on each connector indicating it’s compatibility. I recommend the 2m cable, the 0.5 is too short unless you are comfortable leaving your MacBook closed under your iMac.

If your MacBook Pro only has USB type C ports you’ll need to check which of those ports support Thunderbolt 3 and use Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 converter from Apple with a Thunderbolt 2 male-to-male cable to connect it to your iMac.
Here's an picture of the Thunderbolt 2 converter from Apple that'll do the trick.

Also check your MacBook's specs, and be sure to use the Thunderbolt ports, some are only USB C and it can be hard to tell.


That's standard behaviour on all iPhones, I see the same border on my phone. It is not related to developer certificates/provisioning.


Microsoft Word Forcing "Spaces" Switching

Note: This is a blind answer attempt: I don't have Microsoft Office on any of my computers.

Could you try:

System Preferences
    Mission Control

to deactivate:

    ☐ Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use
    ☐ When switching to an application, switch to a space with open
               windows for the application

I deactivated both because they were always disturbing my working environment in a way I wasn't able to go ahead with what I was running in parallel on many spaces.
Since I made this setting I'm able to work with an environment not running under my feet.


Any way to update OSX 10.4's Bash version?

Do you have gcc and other tools installed?  You can check with which gcc and then gcc --version.  If you don't, you can install these from the Developers Tools DVD that came with the system, or you can download from Apple or gnu, but it might be tricky to get a version that will run.

Once you have gcc and the other command line tools installed, the next challenge is to obtain a bash source that will successfully compile and build on an old OS.  I'm going to try this myself for 10.5 and 10.6.

Note that you don't need to worry about having a vulnerable Bash if the machine doesn't run a web server and isn't running services exposed to anyone but you.  If you're the only user, and you don't run web sharing or other external services, you don't need to both.


Copying Files From Windows Share To OSX Share Results In Access Denied

Just open the shared folder in Finder where you want to copy. And open its info tab. In that you will find the permission section at the bottom. In that change the permission to read & write to everybody. I encountered the same problem and I solved it this way. To edit permission you will need super user access.


New iPhone, took a few nice pictures, then restored with the data of old iPhone. Pictures gone - help!

When you restored the phone, you have changed the encryption keys on the iPhone and the old keys are gone. Unfortunately, the chances of recovering those pictures are almost 0%. It is not simply not worth trying.

The apps are there because when you've downloaded them, you have been logged in to the App Store with your account, so the information about your download/purchase was stored on Apple's server. After you have restored your phone, you have logged in again with the same account, and thus it is possible for the phone to restore your purchases/downloads.


Link gcc using Homebrew on Mojave operating system

The owner of the /usr/local/include/c++ seems to be changed, which indicates you may used sudo with command brew. Never use sudo brew.

Firstly, fix the ownership recursively.

sudo chown -R "$USER":admin /usr/local/*

Secondly, relink the package gcc.

brew unlink gcc
brew link --overwrite gcc

References

How to fix homebrew permissions?


Is JMicronATA.kext part of Yosemite? And others

It's the kernel extension for JMicron SATA controllers, and yes it's official, as are the others. It's up to you if you want to delete them, I wouldn't bother as they take up minimal space. Check System Profiler before doing anything silly just to make sure your iMac doesn't require any of the listed extensions.

Example:

  JMicronATA:

  Version:    1.1.6

  Last Modified:  5/22/12, 8:19 AM

  Loaded: No

  Get Info String:    1.1.6, Copyright JMicron Technology Corporation

  Obtained from:  Not Signed

  Kind:   Intel

  Architectures:  x86_64

  64-Bit (Intel): Yes

  Location:   /System/Library/Extensions/JMicronATA.kext

  Kext Version:   1.1.6

  Valid:  Yes

  Authentic:  Yes

  Dependencies:   Satisfied

  Signed by:  Not Signed


Install an older OS X version on an external volume

The (or at least a) solution is embarrassingly simple: Do not start the installer from a running system, but make a bootable install medium from the disk image included in the install program package and use that.

Quick instructions (more detailed ones can easily be found on the net, but I have not read any thoroughly enough to be able to endorse them):

Take for example USB drive or SD card, partition it in Disk Utility, make one partition and make sure to select GUID partition scheme so that the medium will be bootable.
In Disk Utility use "Restore" to copy the Installer to the boot medium: As destination use the newly created partition, for the source use the Finder to show the package contents (right click) of "Install Mac OS X Lion", there locate InstallESD.dmg and drag it to the source field.
After copying, reboot holding the option key, select the install medium you just created and happily install Lion to a destination of your choice.

An 8GB medium will be fine for the installer (it's 4.7GB), and a 32GB partition for the installed system (this will leave you with more than 7GB of free space).


Time capsule backups previous versions of AppStore apps?

It's strange, I always backup all the entire hard disk even if they are AppStore apps.
So I am able to restore previous apps version.

Check if you have excluded some apps from backup.


Check the date for the file:
com.apple.screensaver.50A10F0D-581E-5D09-8966-646EE8532C5B.plist in Libary

after you made the time change, it should show the latest date/time.

If not, delete the file.


Spotlight Search on Yosemite indexes and shows iTunesLibrary.h and other files with ".h" extension

Did you have Xcode installed at some point? Generally those files (which are related to software development) are only indexed if Xcode is installed and the corresponding "Developer" item in Spotlight preferences is enabled.

In any event, since Developer does not appear in your Spotlight preferences, you can try doing it the manual way, based on steps found here:

Open Terminal (Applications/Utilities folder)
Enter the following command and press Return. You will be prompted for an administrator password. Enter the password and press Return.

sudo plutil -convert xml1 ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spotlight.plist -o ~/Desktop/com.apple.Spotlight.plist

Open TextEdit.
Press Command-, to open the Preferences window.
At the top, under "Format", select "Plain text".
Drag com.apple.Spotlight.plist from your desktop onto the TextEdit icon on your Dock.
Press Command-F to search and type in SOURCE (in all uppercase like that). Press Return to search.
If it finds something that looks like this:

        <dict>
            <key>enabled</key>
            <true/>
            <key>name</key>
            <string>SOURCE</string>
        </dict>

Then change <true/> to <false/>. Save and close the document, quit TextEdit and skip to step 12.
If it did not find anything like that, copy that whole block (from <dict> to </dict>).
Search the document again for <key>orderedItems</key>. On the next line after that, it should say <array>. Scroll down until you find </array>.
Click to place your cursor at the beginning of that line and paste. If it now looks like </dict>   </array>, click to place your cursor right after </dict> and press Return to put </array> on its own line. Save and close the document and quit TextEdit.
Back in Terminal, enter the following command and press Return. You may be prompted for an administrator password. If so, enter the password and press Return.

sudo plutil -convert binary1 ~/Desktop/com.apple.Spotlight.plist -o ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Spotlight.plist

Press and hold Option-Command and right-click on the Finder icon on your Dock. Select Relaunch from the menu.


There is a much more powerful command on the shell to kill processes. Have a look at the "pkill" command syntax:

    PKILL(1)                  BSD General Commands Manual                 PKILL(1)

NAME
     pgrep, pkill -- find or signal processes by name

SYNOPSIS
     pgrep [-Lafilnoqvx] [-F pidfile] [-G gid] [-P ppid] [-U uid] [-d delim] [-g pgrp] [-t tty]
           [-u euid] pattern ...
     pkill [-signal] [-ILafilnovx] [-F pidfile] [-G gid] [-P ppid] [-U uid] [-g pgrp] [-t tty] [-u euid]
           pattern ...

My personal favourite for killing specific processes is

pkill -9 -u <user> -f <Match against full argument lists.>

So if I want to kill all processes from the Razer Synapse software, because the update agent sometimes has hung up and the Razer Synapse Tool does not start, I type

Tatooine-2257:~ mallert$ ps -eaf | grep Razer
  503 87700     1   0 12:46pm ??        15:46.40 /Library/Application Support/Razer/RzUpdater.app/Contents/MacOS/RzUpdater
  503 87749     1   0 12:46pm ??        30:42.02 /Library/Application Support/Razer/RzDeviceEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/RzDeviceEngine
  503 92697     1   0  2:04pm ??         0:13.17 /Applications/Razer Synapse.app/Contents/MacOS/Razer Synapse
  503 42720  1007   0 10:02pm ttys006    0:00.00 grep Razer
Tatooine-2257:~ mallert$ pkill -9 -f Razer


When renaming files, how do I use keyboard to rename the next file?

EnterDownEnter will work and the file will retain its position, if the Finder / View / Arrange By is set to None.


I suspect this is malware. How do I remove it?

Turn off the Mac, then power it up holding down the shift key. depending on what has infected you that may either disable it or reduce its effect on the system.

Download Malwarebytes (or another) virus scanning app for the mac and run it. Hopefully it will be found and removed. If not perhaps someone here recognizes it and knows how to remove it manually.

Alternatively if you have another Mac and the right cables to connect them together you could boot the affected Mac into target disk mode, and plug it into your other Mac that you have installed AV software on and scan the infected drive from there.

Note that these are preliminary steps. other people may have more and/or better suggestions. Proceed with caution and, if possible, turn off the network on the infected Mac.


LSCOLORS and CLICOLOR active by default and unset

The manual page for ls(1) documents the defaults:

  The default is "exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad", i.e. blue foreground and default background for regular directories, black foreground and red background for setuid executables, etc.

Those defaults are compiled into the ls binary - you can confirm this by browsing the source code. Note this definition in print.c:

static const char *defcolors = "exfxcxdxbxegedabagacad";


How can I get my iPhone to sync with a new computer without being erased?

The first thing to be aware of is that iTunes uses a unique "Library Persistent ID" to identify the pairing of an iDevice to an installation of iTunes. This 16-digit hexadecimal id is stored on both the device and the computer it is paired with. iTunes generates a new id when it is installed (or more accurately, when it builds its library). If you plug in an iPhone that has a different persistent id than the copy of iTunes installed on that computer, you will get the warning dialog shown above.

The only thing standing in your way, however, is that darn persistent id. To get things working smoothly, we need to hack the installation of iTunes so that it thinks its id is the same as the one on our iPhone.

To do that, we first need to figure out what our phone's persistent id is. There are a couple options here, depending on whether or not you have the original synced copy of iTunes still available.

Step 1: Getting the Persistent ID

If you still have the original installation of iTunes that your iDevice is synced with, you can grab the persistent id from the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file in your iTunes directory. Just search for the "Library Persistent ID" tag.

If you no longer have access to that previous installation (as was my case), you need to get the id from your iPhone itself. Luckily there is a sneaky way to do this without having to jailbreak your phone. [If your phone is already jailbroken, you can read it from one of the .plist files in your iTunes directory on the phone, I believe.]

The trick is that you need to do a backup of your phone using iTunes and then dig into the backup files to find the persistent id. Fortunately iTunes lets you perform backups without being synced, so you can backup an iPhone on any copy of iTunes.

Unfortunately, the id is not plainly visible in the backup files. You will need to use a free web script to determine your persistent id from an Info.plist file you upload.

Full instructions are on this page.

Now that you have your library persistent id, you need to trick your installations of iTunes into thinking that that id is actually the id it has.

Step 2: Changing iTunes' Persistent ID

iTunes stores the persistent id in two places, just to make it trickier for us to change: once in the "iTunes Music Library.xml" file already mentioned, and once more in the "iTunes Library.itl" file, which is a binary file and much trickier to edit.

Although it is (or at least was) supposedly possible to edit the binary file and get it to accept the change, I have not been able to get this to work, so I don't recommend bothering since there is an easier way that doesn't require it.

First, backup the two aforementioned files. Next, open the xml file and paste in your library persistent id obtained from step 1 over the existing id in the <Library Persistent ID> tag and save.

Now create an empty file and name it "iTunes Library.itl". It won't work if you just delete or rename the file. iTunes needs to think it's become corrupt, not just disappeared.

Now when you start iTunes, it will see the "corrupt" library file and will rebuild it for you, from the xml file which contains your new persistent id.

If all goes well, after a few minutes of rebuilding your library file (it can take quite a while if you have a large library, mind you), you should be able to plug in your iPhone and sync as if nothing were wrong in the world!

For more details (including how to find the iTunes directory on your computer), read this page.

Good luck!


Why do my iPad and iPhone send *two* notifications for every gmail I receive?

You get the notification sound with each push event that results in a new message to any mailbox.

Google likes to send mail to All Mail as well as Inbox, so that is the likely cause of the two push events. You could make a temporary rule to skip the inbox for all messages and test to confirm this is the root cause.  The phone sees them as two messages, because they are in reality two messages arriving at different times to different mailboxes. I don't know a way to mark the All Mail always read, but perhaps the google filters are powerful enough to make this happen on your account.

Until (or if) google changes things to push them all at once, you can enable control over folders/tags in the labels settings. By controlling the Show in IMAP... status,  you should be able to avoid the second ding.

You could also try setting up rules to avoid any one message from hitting more than one folder as an unread message. iOS doesn't ding on sync of read messages, just syncs that change the unread count on a folder.

Lastly, iOS has changed behavior of the mobile mail app in the past to work better with Google mail. It's a common complaint, and could also be fixed with a change to mail on iOS.


Non-official usb-c dock station detects 2 external monitors are a single one

The setup you with that hardware is not going to work - and cannot be made to work.

The USB-C dock station you've got works as a MST (Multi-Stream Transport) hub. MST is a part of the DisplayPort 1.2 standard, which makes it possible for monitors and computers to support "daisy-chaining".

Daisy-chaining is most often seen where the monitor has both an input and output DisplayPort adapter, allowing you to connect the first monitor to the computer, and the second monitor to the first monitor. If both monitor and computer support MST daisy-chaining the two displays will act as seperate displays, exactly like if they had been plugged in directly to the computer.

In this case MST daisy-chaining is used within the dock to allow dual monitor outputs. Note that because the monitors share bandwidth, it is not possible to connect them at the same resolutions and refresh rates as possible when using seperate cables connected to the computer. With your monitors it shouldn't be a problem though (they're relatively low res).

The problem for you is that macOS does not support MST daisy-chaining. This is a software limitation and not a hardware limitation. Instead macOS supports daisy-chaining Thunderbolt monitors (such as with the Apple Thunderbolt Monitor).

You've got it working on your ArchLinux laptop because Linux supports MST. In fact you should be able to run Linux on your MacBook Pro and drive both displays via MST that way.

To get a setup like this working with  macOS, you'll need a Thunderbolt 3 dock instead of a USB-C dock. Or you could individually connect the displays to the MacBook Pro. For example one display connected to the dock, and the other connected via a USB-C to DisplayPort cable.


Before deciding to split the database / identity, have you tried just rebuilding it?

I believe Outlook never really deletes things, just marks them as deleted until you run maintenance on the database files that outlook uses inside your identity folder.

Fire up the Microsoft Database Utility (search using spotlight or find it in the Office folder), select the identity and press the rebuild button.


Finder doesn't find duplicates with (1), (2), …, (n) in filename

EasyFind (freeware) will often find things Spotlight won't - including such as (1)

No affiliation.


Can I easily view all songs that iTunes can't locate in Finder?

Two approaches: First, take a look at Doug's AppleScripts for iTunes - dougscripts.com.  He has a ton of useful scripts, including Super Remove Dead Tracks, which you might be able to modify to just list them if you want.

Or, if all you want to do is create a playlist of songs which have no native file, there is a very simple way to do that (which I found repeated by so many people that I don't know who to attribute it to):

Create a regular playlist, not a smart playlist. For this example, call the playlist "Alive".
Select all tracks in your main library and drag them into "Alive". Note that "dead" tracks with no native file will not appear in this playlist.
Create a smart playlist defined as: Playlist -- Is Not -- Alive. Call this playlist "Dead".

You now have a list of "!" songs which are missing their native files.  You could then go ahead and delete the dead ones if you wish.

Deleting is not allowed from a smart playlist. So, select all songs from the new "Dead" playlist by clicking Ctrl A. Right-Click and select Dislike. Now they can be seen and deleted in the main library; sort using Love/Dislike column. Tested in current Windows version.


Preventing applications from creating folders in your documents folder

I understand your frustration, but I suggest you just hide the offending folders from Finder, you can easily do that with the following terminal command:

chflags hidden ~/Documents/HideMe

Preventing those folders to be created is likely going to cause problems running those applications.


Finally, I gave it to the Apple authorised repair centre. They told me IO chip and wire had to be replaced. Since it was in warranty it got it repaired for free.


Hard Drive not showing up in Disk Utility

I think it's time to start thinking about data recovery at this point. Half-performing Time-Machine can mess things up pretty badly (you don't need to be being told this, you're living it).

This is most easily done (read: Unless you want to open it, which isn't terrible, but definitely not for a novice) by holding the "T" button on the keyboard while powering up. This basically is like opening up your Mac, removing the internal drive, placing it in an enclosure, and then connecting it to another Mac. But it does all of that without any disassembly.

Before entering Target Disk Mode, you’ll need a few things:

Two Macs: Target Disk Mode works with Macs, so you’ll need two Macs for this. Each Mac needs either a Thunderbolt port or a Firewire port. [You might need to borrow a friends' if you don't have one]
A Firewire or Thunderbolt Cable: You’ll need either a Firewire cable
or a Thunderbolt cable for this. You can’t do this via a USB cable.
If one Mac has a Thunderbolt port and the other Mac has a Firewire
port, you’ll need a Thunderbolt-to-Firewire adapter cable.
FileVault Disabled: Macs now enable FileVault encryption by default,
which will prevent you from accessing FileVault-encrypted home
directories over Target Disk Mode. Before using Target Disk Mode, you
can boot the Mac normally, open the System Preferences window, select
Security & Privacy, select FileVault, and temporarily turn it off.
You can turn it on again after using Target Disk Mode. [You can't do this step, so we'll just hope it was off...]
No Firmware Password: If you’ve set a firmware password in the
recovery environment, you’ll need to disable that first. [If this makes no sense, you probably don't have one]

With Target Disk Mode, you can treat a Mac’s internal drive as an external drive and boot from it, just as you’d boot from a typical external drive. This actually lets you boot the OS X system from one Mac on another Mac.

You can also simply plug it into another Mac, and download your important files. Once this is done, we will want to reinstall Mac OSX onto the iMac.

To Re-install OSX once your files are safe and sound:

Immediately after hearing the Mac boot chime, hold down Command+Option+R – if you see the Apple logo you waited too long and need to reboot and try again*
OPTIONAL: You may or may not see an option to join a wi-fi network, this depends on whether the Mac can access any saved networks from OS X or not When you see a spinning globe icon, Internet Recovery mode has been entered with a message saying it can take a while, a progress bar appears as the recovery functions are downloaded Starting OS X Internet Recovery Mode on a Mac to reinstall system software.

When finished downloading, you’ll see the familiar “OS X Utilities” screen, choose “Reinstall OS X” to begin the re-installation process of the Mac operating system Install OS X from Internet Recovery.

Select the destination and complete the re-installation (or installation) of OS X as usual.

Sources [First Half, Second Half].


Find out which certificate authorities do not come with the system

You could use the reverse engineering method.

Here is the list of all aps that come with Mac.

So any CA you find in key chain that are not those are the one you are looking for.


Why is Google Backup and Sync exchanging files bidirectionally instead of unidirectionally?

I wound up deleting my computer and all documents from the "Computer" tab in Google Drive, and backing up everything again. So far so good.


How to disable Wi-Fi and bluetooth using Apple Configurator?

Currently there is no way to disable either Wifi or Bluetooth using Apple Configurator profiles. Configurator has gotten much better over the past few years limiting various activities in academic environments, but it does not allow restrictions on a number of things that they deem important, like network & device connectivity.

Other activities, like installed new iOS updates, are also cannot be locked down. This bit us hard when 8.1 was introduced, as a number of our 1:1 students with managed iPads updated to 8.1 Several of the apps they need for their schoolwork needed updates as well and crashed, but because we restrict the App Store, we had to do a mass update with Configurator over the course of a day.


How can I connect an Apple TV to an older television?

You're having a hard time determining it cause those "yellow / white" cables are called "RCA" ports, created by one of the first TV makers and ironically mostly sold off to Japanese companies.

Searching for "RCA to HDMI converter" yields a wealth of converters and opinions about the best devices based on the model of TV

such as this article:

http://techchannel.radioshack.com/convert-hdmi-rca-1778.html


Wrong focus when CMD+Tab with multiscreen

I don't think there's a solution besides turning off "Displays have separate spaces".

For more detail - I think if you start on one display and alt-tab to a different program, it'll focus on a window for that program on that same display if one exists; it'll focus on a window on a different display only if one doesn't exist on the starting display.


MacOS High Sierra - How to format readonly pendirve?

sudo diskutil unmountdisk force disk2

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk2 bs=1024 count=1024

link:-

  https://superuser.com/questions/1019759/how-can-i-force-format-read-only-usb-drive-in-osx-el-capitan


iOS 11.1.1 lock screen always shows iTunes controls. How do I disable this bug / feature?

Rebooting the iPhone resolved this issue, and it has yet to re-appear.

This appears to be a temporary manifestation of a bug, one which I was unable to find any references to online.


Will apple accept a javascript app that usees Google Maps API?

No, there shouldn't be any problems. My app was essentially just a web frame, which loaded a HTML page which used Javascript and Google Maps API. Apple accepted this fine. My current app uses Google Maps API and displays this on an Apple Map, and again, this was accepted.


If you have a Mac, and you are using iCloud, I would recommend that you use the bookmark manager in macOS Safari to delete these. You should be able to select a vast amount of bookmarks using a shift + click.


Permission Denied for a small set of photos when adding to macOS Mojave Photos

I'm not sure what caused the problem. I went to iCloud.com, opened Photos and was able to upload several of the bad photos without an issue.

I shut down macOS Photos and re-launched it after it had completed syncing the batch of files it was syncing to iCloud. Reopening Photos had the bad photos I tested on iCloud.com sync down without issue. I then imported the rest of the bad photos and they were added successfully.

I assume something was messed up in Photos and a restart was needed.


How can you stop "Verification required" when installing free apps?

Generally verification comes up for one of two reasons:

Your previously-supplied payment information failed for your last purchase
You are using a device which has never purchased (or downloaded, for free apps) anything from the App Store with your account before.

Most likely it is the second one. Going through the payment verification process does not charge your payment method, it simply verifies it is valid. Once completed you can complete the download of your free app.


iPhone 5s goes to airplane mode by itself


I use both programs, and they are quite similar in spirit, but different in detail.  What I find works well for me in KeyRemap4MacBook is to turn on "normal mode" (I think that's what it is called).  I tap my Command key, then I can use vi-like keys, then I tap Command again (or use i).

Another useful thing is "simultaneous vi mode" (I think that's what it is called).  I press and hold s and d simultaneously, and while holding them I can use vi keys.  Quite similar to TouchCursor, except not with the space bar.

I wish there were programs that are more similar than these two, but I think this is currently where we are at.


On iOS and macOS birthdays are duplicated

Found a problem that my google calendar got contacts' birthdays as well as iCloud and that caused duplication.

Solved by simply unselecting google contacts calendar for contacts both on iPhone and MacBook in Calendar Preferences.


No - you would need Apple to start signing iOS 7 for that hardware. Since Apple is signing iOS 9 it's not signing 8 and lower anymore. Basically, upgrading to anything but the latest is essentially a downgrade and not supported unless you've already jailbroken or made arrangements to fake out the code signing needed for an iOS update.

Basically, you can stick with what you have or go all the way to 9 at this point.


I managed to find a solution:

Uninstalling and reinstalling the app and changing stores didn't work, but I followed the ""Account Not In This Store" error message with "Change Store” button" tip from https://mindnode.com/support/kb/payment-issues and managed to subscribe!


How can I prevent new iCal events from being all-day by default?

You can use iCal's new 'plain English" approach to specify a starting time.

Double-click to create the new event, and include "at 6pm" or whatever when you type in the description. When you hit Return, your event will show the required starting time and will default to a duration of one hour.


Drag & Drop: How to prevent folders in my Dock to pop up as windows?

In Finder preferences (⌘ cmd + , from Finder itself), unchecking "Spring-loaded folders and windows" will prevent a window from opening up when dragging files to a folder.


Why aren't pictures in imessages showing up on my macbook messages?

I had the same problem. It turned out that I had an empty file at /Users/name/Library/Messages/Attachments, even though that's supposed to be a folder where all of your images get stored. Once I deleted the blank file, photos started working. There's a related discussion here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6601288.


iPhone available space: significant difference between iTunes and iPhone

I had the same problem too. My iPhone 6 showed free memory at less than 200mb and iTunes showed more than 5.6GB.

To correct this problem: go to your device (iPhone) and go to settings, iTunes & App Store, click on your Apple ID and select Sign Out. Go back and Sign in again. This is a lot simpler than restoring your backup.


Preview in OSX El Capitan defaults to 100% scale

In the Preview Preferences, you can define the 100% scale.  In Preview press Cmd ,, then click on the Images tab.  You will get two options

1 image pixel equals 1 screen pixel
Size on screen equals size on printout

Select the second one.


These files are stored in /.MobileBackups/ and /.DocumentRevisions-V100/.

I am very surprised that your backup is so large - my Backups are only 300MB!

According to the Time Machine preference pane, TM will "keep local snapshots as space permits". Do you have a lot of spare disk space?

Since these folders are owned by root, to check the size of these folders you'll need to use sudo, or log in as root user. E.g. the command line commands:

sudo du -hs .DocumentRevisions-V100/
sudo du -hs .MobileBackups/


How can I stop my iPad from ringing when my iPhone rings?

Go to Settings > FaceTime and turn off "iPhone Cellular Calls" and your iPad won't ring any more.


Windows 8 Pro on MacBook Pro 15" early 2011. Multitouch and reversed scroll?

For the reverse scrolling I use "X-Mouse Button Control".

I'm also searching for a way to implement the other gestures, but have been unable to find anything satisfactory as of writing.


Did Apple remove their Export Compliance advice?

Apple undid this change, it would appear. There was no mention of the additional guidance being added and also no mention of it being removed, but it's definitely gone now.

I could speculate that due to the nature of changes to copy regarding legal features of iTunes Connect, that someone in the legal department decided that the change was unsuitable, but there's been no confirmation of anything to this effect.


After a Time Machine restore, now it won't do incremental back up

Four options are available for you - none of them is a clear winner that works in all cases:

Try to force the issue with the command line tmutil inheritbackup command
Ditch the backup history and start over (not good, but quick)
Use a tool like BackupLoupe and see if you can thin space on the drive to make enough room for the "estimated" amount of storage for the next backup.
Baby sit the backup, by excluding most of the drive and unexcluding it in less than 250 GB chunks.

This last option has gotten me over the hump several times when clients cannot afford to lose their backup. I image their backup drive before starting (just in case) and then use the Time Machine System Preference options to exclude most of the drive. The first option is the most precise if you are comfortable with the terminal application and command line tools.

By excluding everything except perhaps /Library and /System you should be between 10 and 30 GB for the estimated size of a Full Backup and Time Machine will let you make a new backup. Then the trick is to slowly remove items from the exclusion list in stages to not have the next backup estimate exceed the remaining free space on your backup volume.


iPhone 6 charges extremely slow after reaching around 70%

It should take 4 hours to charge iOS devices with the official supplied adapter when the device is idle or powered off. Healthy batteries should reach 80% in two hours. Then two more hours for the last 20%.

If yours plateaus sooner, it’s either due to power drain of things running while it charges or a sign that the charger or battery is out of specifications.


What is the Default Location of Photos in Photo application?

Right click the photo > Share > Mail

Alternatively, from within Mail itself
Window menu > Photo Browser


Hold alt during startup, you will then be able to boot from something called "recovery partition". When that is booted, in the menu select "disk utility" and try to repair disk and/or volume.


How can I find out which program is trying to restart my Mac?

If you have Xcode installed, you can use Accessibility Inspector (full path below) to find information on any user interface element. Click on the “crosshairs’ icon in the window's menu bar and watch the informative display as you mouse over various UI elements.

In your case, however, it will show what process displayed the dialog, which is not necessarily the process that is trying to restart your mac. But you won't know until you try.

/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Applications/Accessibility Inspector.app


Does the Preview app have a freehand pen/pencil tool?

Yes, Preview in OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) has a freehand tool.  Access it within Preview from the "Markup Toolbar" icon of the .JPG or .PDF file you have open.

When you click on that icon, the Markup toolbar appears, and the freehand "sketch" tool is the 3rd icon from the left, in blue in the image below.

and it offers a smoothing option as well as a freehand mode.


How to set a default Calendar in iCal 10.7.2

This is in iCal's preferences:

Preferences > General > Default Calendar.

This enables the default calendar to be set.


How do I get an AppleScript application to automatically run at login?

I use this ..

  Open System Preferences.
  Go to Users & Groups.
  Choose your nickname on the right.
  Choose Login items tab.
  Press +
  Check startup programs you want to add.


Missing emergency sos on iPhone 5 (iOS 10.2)

Was your phone manufactured in India, or manufactured elsewhere and brought in?  Not sure why it makes a difference, but I read somewhere that it is only available on iPhones made in India.


MS RDP client minimum iOS version on Apple iPad

I would trust the Apple reviewers that iOS 8.0 is the minimum required.

Also, I would also plan on not buying any hardware that is 32 bit since we’re so close to iOS 11 and no more 32 bit apps.

Microsoft’s support is actually pretty amazing for iOS - so you could ask them if they plan on leaving older versions of the app available. Developers don’t have to take down all downloads when they remove an app version from sale. So you could buy the app “for free” now and then ride an iOS 8 or iOS 6 device for years by backing up the older app version to iTunes and/or counting on it being available for “legacy download”.

There’s no guarantee they keep the old version up, so you should plan on iTunes and buying new hardware if you are riding the “about to be obsoleted” line for used / older iOS hardware and versions.


You have found what I consider to be a bug in the spotlight importer for several types of documents that Preview can use. I tested making an annotation with a slightly nonsensical word that spotlight had zero matches for on my Mac. (at least until this text gets indexed as a safari history item)

I tested a PDF and a PNG file with text annotations and none of the importers put that text into spotlight. I have filed a bug with Apple on that, but I would do so as well yourself. If the person screening the bug thinks it's a bug, usually one well document report gets things on the list to be fixed. If Apple considers this a feature, normally many reports asking for the same thing will be needed to change the minds that think not indexing annotations is actually beneficial to the system design.

On the outside, we don't know and can only file reports to change the things we want changed.

Here are the terminal commands I used to verify the bug in case someone has a workaround or knows of a better spotlight importer for PDF/PNG that would index the annotations.

mac:Desktop me$ mdfind ZZqwijibo
mac:Desktop me$ strings annontation.pdf |grep qwijibo
(ZZqwijibo) /AAPL:AKExtras 95 0 R /DA (/Helvetica 59 Tf 0.987 0.129 0.146 rg)
(ZZqwijibo) /DA (/Helvetica 59 Tf 0.987 0.129 0.146 rg) /F 4 /Q 1 /Subtype

The text is plainly stored on the filesystem, but the PDF importer is skipping the annotation text altogether like you report.


installed a new version of iTunes, 12.0.1.26 - albuns not colsolidated

Select a song from the album, then press Command+I to view/edit the song's metadata.

There is a field in there called "Album Artist". Edit all the songs so that they have the same album artist and they will show up as one album.


How to recover files from the home directory that malware removed on OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite?

After some deep investigations we come to the preliminary conclusion that the culprit wasn't any malware but an unhappy coincidence involving org.macosforge.xquartz.startx.plist, .bashrc and an xrd --merge ~/.Xdefaults command. Since all those files were deleted, we don't have hard evidence though.

Said .bashrc is derived from a (Linux-)precursor. It was heavily adapted to work with OS X.

The XQuartz service started to delete files with rm in the root folder after reading in the ~/.bashrc triggered by the xrd command. Most rms weren't successful because of missing user permissions. Most of the user data was deleted though.

After creating a recovery thumb drive with Data Rescue 4 (the Bootwell feature) a deep scan found a lot of deleted files. The most important files couldn't be recovered.


Should I buy Ram memory DDR3 1066MHz for Mac mini (Mid 2011)?

To be sure you are getting something that will work I suggest shopping with a specialist Mac dealer like OWC, where you will be asked what machine you have and then you can choose from the memory they offer that fits it. They ship to Australia so Spain should be no trouble. Sure you can work it out and get something cheaper but I don't have time for that generally, don't mind supporting a dealer who supports my machine better and if it goes wrong I can say "but you said it would work!" (haven't needed to yet)

Besides I like having as much memory as possible and they offer a 16GB kit. With Xcode, Safari and Pixelmator open I often see more than 8GB in use.

I have only once kept the memory in a Mac when upgrading and in a mini with two memory slots you almost certainly won't. You will want to have two identical memory modules. The nice thing about the mini is that upgrading is so easy, you can get to the memory as soon as you take the bottom cover off.

For your Mac they offer 1333Mhz memory. Looks like it is what it came with also. I would personally not buy 1066MHz because even if it works perfectly it is possibly going to cause the memory bus to run a little slower than it could. RAM is so cheap right now and the wrong RAM can be a really big frustration, why take a chance?


No, that is not possible: it would mean Apple allows developers access to deactivating data access. I guess you can understand the security problem that would mean: an app could decide on its own you don't have data access anymore.

The only way to do that is to regularly check your data usage in “Settings > General > Usage > Cell network usage” (menu names may not be the exact ones, my iPhone isn't in English, sorry). You can reinitialize these statistics each time your limit is reset.

If your limit is crossed, switch data off in “Settings > Network” (iOS 5 only).


External monitor stopped working after 10.9.2 update

I've just managed to workaround the problem by disabling DisplayPort 1.2 within the Dell OSD.

To do this, you might need to use a bit of a workaround, which is to get the monitor to bring up the input select and then hold down the green tick for ~8 seconds when the (mini-)DisplayPort option is selected. This will bring up a new menu that enables you to enable/disable DisplayPort 1.2 mode. (Green tick to enable/red to disable, etc.)

Whilst I suspect this is just a temporary fix, it at least means that I can use the monitor until Apple fix their seemingly problematic 10.9.2 release.

UPDATE

As an minor update, my bug report has been closed as a duplicate and due to the nature of Apple's "closed" bug tracking system I've no means of viewing the other ticket. However, at least this is a known issue that will presumably be addressed in a successive release.


AppleTV interrupting while playing movie

HDMI connection lost

Could mean that the HDMI cable is not having good contacts on the pins.

The only way to test that is to get different HDMI cable.

Apple also provides some instruction on how to fix it.


Can I transfer all Mail accounts to a new Mac?

You can transfer all accounts and passwords that are saved by transferring your Keychain from your old mac to your new mac.

Manually (long)

On your old mac

Go into your users Library folder which is /Library. By default, this folder is hidden. Open your finder and press, COMMAND+SHIFT+L. This should jump you to that location.

Finder the folder named, Keychain, and copy it to a USB drive or into iCloud.

If you use a USB drive, remove it from the mac now and go to your new mac.

On your new mac

Insert USB drive if thats what your using. Otherwise, go into your iCloud. Select the Keychain directory you saved there and copy it.

Go to your users Library by using the same method as before and paste the Keychain directory. If asked, merge the folders and authenticate. You may also replace the Keychain directory on the new mac with your old Keychain documents. This will replace any information such as logins you may have already saved on your new mac.

Easiest Method

Enable iCloud Keychain on your Apple ID.

Use the same Apple ID on both macs.

All login info will sync together like magic.


How to get into Windows 10 Safe Mode on 2016 MacBook Pro?

Microsoft changed how to get into Safe Mode on Windows 10. This assumes that Windows is your default startup disk. Basically hold the shift key while booting up or restarting. From Microsoft.com:

  Restart your PC. When you get to the sign-in screen, hold the Shift
  key down while you select Power Power icon

    Restart. After your PC restarts to the Choose an option screen, select Troubleshoot > Advanced options > Startup Settings > Restart.
    After your PC restarts, you'll see a list of options. Select 4 or F4
    to start your PC in Safe Mode. Or if you'll need to use the Internet,
    select 5 or F5 for Safe Mode with Networking.


Given that you want playback on your Mac and iOS devices, Handbrake is really the way to go. As you note in the comments, it's not lossless, but you should be able to get pretty good quality, and with a good reduction in file size.

If you find the quality of your first attempt unacceptable, you can adjust the settings to improve it (typically at the cost of file size).

A good starting point is the Universal or iPad preset in Handbrake. The RF slider adjusts how much compression is used (higher RF = more compression = less quality).

Try setting it around 19, maybe 18 (it's logarithmic, so small amounts make big differences) and do an encode, see how you feel about the quality. If it's still lacking, reduce the RF a bit more and try again. Perhaps just pick a chapter or two as a test encode until you figure out what settings you want.


Spotlight not searching Time Capsule drive, indexing enabled

(I have not enough reputation to comment your question, so I post a reply - my apologies to the admins.)
Have you tried by manually import this file you mention using the command mdimport?


No, this is not a problem with macOS Mojave. I've seen this before and it was caused by an app hiding within the Library folder.

Unfortunately I don't recall the app, but I do recall how we got to the bottom of it. In summary:

Install EasyFind (it's free from the Mac App Store)
Search for SystemExtr
Identify the file (app) responsible
Remove it

As mentioned, from memory it was sitting in the Library folder.

NOTE: I am in no way affiliated with EasyFind.


Can I use an unlocked AT&T iPhone 4 with european sim cards?

iPhone 4 supports four GSM frequencies (850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz). Phones like these are usually referred to as "quad-band" or "world-phones", because of these frequencies, most carriers around the world will support one or more of them.

Once unlocked, you should be able to use it pretty much anywhere that has a GSM network. You won't be able to use it on carriers that use CDMA networks as that's a different type of wireless radio entirely.

CDMA doesn't use SIM cards, so that's an easy way to tell them apart.

One other thing you should keep in mind is that iPhone 4 uses a micro-SIM. If your European provider doesn't provide micro-SIMs, you'll need to take a regular sized SIM and cut it to size.

Due to the popularity of the iPhone outside the US, even in countries where it's sold only on the gray market, it's pretty easy to find small cellphone vendors that can do this for you.


Intuos creative stylus for iPad use on a MacBook Pro?

Short answer:
Certainly not possible, and no such product exists. The MacBook screen is not a touch or pressure input device, unlike the iPad.
Long answer:
The iPad stylus uses touch events to communicate position and Bluetooth to communicate pressure. With the MacBook, no positional tracking device exists in the screen.
Getting around this limitation would involve adding a sensor layer to the glass. This would be a hardware modification and you'd end up writing a lot of software to support it, too.


As far as I am aware, invoking iCal's "refresh" function, under the Calendar menu should do all server side communication and updates.

Refresh will only update the calendar that hosts the event you currently have (or last had) selected. Refresh All will of course update all of your calendars. This should be a two-way process, and not just pulling down new changes, it should also send local changes back assuming it's not being done automatically.


Recycle Bin isn't working: all the files are deleted immediately and completely

In the terminal, enter the following:

ls ~/.Trash

If you get a response "No such file or directory", then just simply restart your Mac. If not, then type this to the terminal if you're an admin:

sudo rm -ri ~/.Trash

Follow the prompts, then restart your Mac.

Source: http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/trash.html#Anchor-Empty-49575


Can't find anything definitive from Apple, but the detailed testing done here by Princeton University indicates that it's NAT (and that it's inappropriate for use on their campus, so might well be for your scenario too).


You would normally need a nested menu command Show in Playlist->ListName but this doesn't seem to work in the instance. It shows the key command in the right place but doesn't act on it.

I thought at one point that if you could find the correct symbol for the gear icon  then it might work, but best I can find is ⚙ which doesn't seem to have any effect. The key command appears to be correctly registered without it anyway.


Can i change the App availability multiple times?

There doesn't seem to be a limit on how many times you can change an app's availability date. Note that there's a 24–48 hour delay for your change to the availability date to be reflected across every App Store.


Generally speaking, you cannot use memory in a system that is slower than the memory that the system is designed for. If you put faster memory into a slow memory slot, the memory is supposed to run a the slower speed (I have had mixed success with this), but putting slower memory into a fast memory slot will not work because the memory will not be able to get the information to the CPU as fast as it is expected.

In your particular case, the "old" machine uses DDR3-1333 memory and the "new" machine uses the faster, lower voltage DDR3L-1600 memory. A page at Dell explains that "DDR3L is a dual voltage capable memory SoDIMM, which supports operation at both 1.5V and 1.35V." So you could use DDR3L modules in places that ask for a DDR3 module, since it can operate at 1.5V, however "DDR3 is a single voltage capable memory SoDIMM, which supports 1.5V operation only."

http://www.dell.com/support/article/ca/en/cabsdt1/SLN153768/EN

The macmini5,1 machine uses an Intel Mobile Core i5 "Sandy Bridge" (I5-2415M) CPU and the macmini6,1 uses an Intel Mobile Core i5 "Ivy Bridge" (I5-3210M) processor

http://ark.intel.com/products/53449/Intel-Core-i5-2415M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-2_90-GHz

http://ark.intel.com/products/67355/Intel-Core-i5-3210M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz-rPGA

The Intel website does indicate that the newer 3210M CPU does have support for both DDR3 and DDR3L, but I cannot tell if Apple's other systems on the MacMini motherboard would support it.

A component designed for a higher voltage seems unlikely to cause any electrical damage if put into a lower voltage system (it will draw lower current at the lower voltage, which seems unlikely to cause any damage), but running it at the "wrong" voltagae, and at a higher speed than it is designed for, seems very unlikely to be workable.

If you do try it out, let us know how it works.