First, by "flash drive" we both understand external USB flash drive, right? :) If not, then get one :) Make sure it does not contain any important information.

Insert clean USB flash drive into your mac
Start standard Disk Utility
Select your USB flash drive on the left panel
Click 'Restore' button in Disk Utility window
In the dialog window click 'image' button and select your ISO image
From drop-down list in the same dialog window select your USB flash drive
Press 'Restore'

You should get properly prepared Windows 10 USB installation disk.

Hope this helps.


Alarm not based on neither sound nor vibration

Not part of the Apple eco-system but inexpensive at under 20 USD and fits your criteria…

  Shake-n-Wake

  Silent Vibrating Alarm Wrist Clock You will never oversleep again! Wear it on your wrist. Wake up without disturbing others. Silent vibrating alarm clock wont disturb others -Lightweight and Comfortable -Large LCD screen -One touch backlight allows for easy time telling -Vibrating or sound alarm selectable -Perfect for a reminder to take medication -Includes a wrist band or belt clip. -Runs on 1 AA battery - not included -Excellent clam shell package


Why is my CPU use up around 100% just running Chrome and Mail.app?

I had a similar problem with fans and battery death, and solved it by removing Gmail Offline from Chrome. It was going CRAZY whenever Chrome was running. You can remove it by opening Chrome Apps (the grid of 9 dots in the top left corner of Chrome), right click on the Gmail Offline icon, and Remove it. Much better


She probably needs to use her own iCloud account, not yours, to download the game.

You probably should also completely execute the Erase All Content and Settings command in Settings > General > Reset and start her off with a completely 'new' iPad and configure it for her use.

If you don't, she'll be using all your settings and data, which is why the game reverts to your level in the game.


How do I transfer a file from a guest account on a MacBook Air?

Every user account on OS X has a public drop box folder inside its Public folder (path is /Users/USERNAME/Public/Drop\ Box/). So what you can do is download the file into Guest's Download folder and then copy it (via Terminal or Finder) to /Users/ADMINNAME/Public/Drop\ Box/. You will get a warning about not being able to access the file after the copy, just click ok there.

Alternatively you could move the video to /tmp and then switch accounts. Files owned by guest are not deleted from /tmp if the Guest user logs out.


Very slow to start processes or open applications

First: Make sure you have an up-to-date backup.

Assuming no hard drive issues, this Sounds like Spotlight is having problems indexing. I have also seen slow app launching due to bad font caches.

I assume that you have let the system run for a while so that Spotlight can have a chance to update its databases. This can take a while, although on a relatively current Mac with an SSD drive, it should not take more than a few hours.

It is also possible that there are other cache's or background cleanup utilities that are not running properly.

You can try Onyx. Be sure to download the correct version of Oxny for your version of Mac OS X. Oxny is a GUI wrapper for a wide variety of command line tools to deal with these types of issues. After you run Oxny, you can expect the first startup time to be MUCH slower because various databases, caches and the like need to be rebuilt. There after, it should be back to full speed.


How can I delete the Time Machine backup files on a Netgear ReadyNAS?

In Finder, click Go => Connect To Server...
In the Server Address field, type "afp://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" (IP address) or "afp://your-ngnas-name.local"
Connect using the credentials you use to connect to the Time Machine service.
Finder will open a window in /Volumes/ReadyNAS. You should see a list Time Machine's .sparsebundle files.

At this point, you can delete a .sparsebundle. It's also possible to Ctrl+Click on a .sparsebundle and select "Show Package Contents" to browse inside.

UPDATE Sometimes files inside the sparsebundle package or the package itself will be locked, preventing deletion. To unlock: Get Info > General > Locked > uncheck.


Adding a desktop button to the Dock or Menu Bar

While you could create an AppleScript application that triggers Expose's reveal Desktop function, save it, and put it in the Dock, an easier solution would be to use Hot Corners. Then, when you put your mouse in a screen corner, it reveals the desktop.

If you wanted to go the AppleScript route, you'd create a script that said tell application "System Events" to key code 103, save it as an application, and put that application in the Dock.

To go the hot corners route, in Lion, the preferences is under Mission Control in System Preferences.

While it is certainly feasible to create a program that puts an icon in the menu bar to reveal the Desktop, it requires programming techniques beyond the scope of this site.


How to resolve app uninstall without adhoc

A few suggestions:

  Load a earlier Backup from the iCloud and "restore" it to this state
  Log Out of your Apple Account and reboot.
  Connect your iPhone via cable with your PC/Mac and sync your apps


Bootcamp "No Bootable device" but windows already installed

Turns out the partition MBR was wiped on the erase and the entire disk became a single GPT with a single hybrid MBR. I had for recreate the Hybrid MBR using FDISK.


MacPorts: Install non-dependencies past error

I suppose that you could do this-

sudo port -v upgrade outdated and not rdependentof:flower and not flower

Which says in english, upgrade outdated packages but not those dependent on flower and not flower

Of course you would do this after making a copy of the failed install log then cleaned the tmp location and tried to upgrade again,and if that failed then file a ticket.


'Build' is not displayed in iTunes Connect using Xcode 8

Please check your email inbox. This may be the issue:

  Dear developer,

  We have discovered one or more issues with your recent delivery for "App Name". To process your delivery, the following issues must be corrected:

  Missing required icon file - The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPad of exactly '76x76' pixels, in .png format for iOS versions >= 7.0.
  Missing required icon file - The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPad of exactly '167x167' pixels, in .png format for iOS versions supporting iPad Pro.
  Missing required icon file - The bundle does not contain an app icon for iPad of exactly '152x152' pixels, in .png format for iOS versions >= 7.0.

  Once these issues have been corrected, you can then redeliver the corrected binary.


How to click the OK button in Google Chrome alert, using AppleScript

You can use a function on window.alert to intercept any alert and to cancel this alert, use a variable to see if there was an alert attempt.

Like this :

tell application "Google Chrome"
    -- Go to the website with the javascript button
    set myurl to "http://t4t5.github.io/sweetalert/"
    open location myurl
    delay 1
    tell active tab of window 1
        -- Click the normal javascript button on the page
        set popupAlert to execute javascript "var isAlert=false; (function() {window.alert = function() {isAlert=true; return;};})(); document.getElementsByTagName('button')[1].click(); isAlert"
        if popupAlert = "true" then -- This page has attempted to display an alert.
            do shell script "echo 'Issue with github.io' > templog.txt"
        else -- no alert, continue
            -- This clicks the save button
        end if
    end tell
    -- Delete the tab when done
    delete (get active tab of window 1)
end tell


How to prevent change in network configuration?

Get the latest OS X Server.app. Enable all appropriate services. One important service is the Open Directory Service.

Then enable and configure the Profile Manager. With the Profile Manager you can set up OS X and iOS devices. Beyond a lot of other features you can also restrict access to all System Preferences items.

Completely explaining the set up and the configuration would be beyond the scope of an answer. Please check Apple documentation or a walk-through like this one.

With additional tools like ADmitMac and a Windows AD environment you can also use Windows GPOs.


Retrieving deleted text within a note on my iPhone

iPhones have an Undo function. By default, to trigger the undo option you need to give your phone a quick shake. In your case it may be too late to use it.

To find out, go into your note and then give the phone a quick shake. If it works you will get an option such as the one below:

Obviously, then you would tap on Undo to undo the last typing action.


Answering my own question: there's a new tab in Whatsapp called "Recent", which I hadn't paid attention to. It's the second one from the left, and it has the log of your recent Whatsapp voice calls.


How can I search folder names from Open/Save Dialog in El Capitan?

You can type kind:folder in search bar of your Open/Save Dialog to search only for folders. Alternatively, you can click on + next to Save if you are doing a Save As on the right side to select kind as folders from the dropdown.

PS: The search bar containing This Mac Active etc. only appears after you have typed something in the top search bar.


I had the same in Scrivener. Just don't use the 0.1 second. 0.2 and up solved my problem so far. I made the adjustments with TinkerTools
http://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html


Yah, that's the problem with O/S X there IS no way to roll back O/S upgrades. On Windows you can do it but not on O/S X.

I have said it before but it bears repeating: clone your HD before an O/S upgrade so if it goes bad you can revert from your clone.

Yeah, I know, not what you wanted or needed, but I am not aware of Apple offering old O/S versions for download (though some clever web surfer might have found such). You may have to resort to (ahem...) "alternate" means of downloading earlier versions.

I would go that route, but clone your drive first (and TEST the clone: boot from it!), make a bootable installer thumb drive, boot from it and wipe the drive. Install the O/S clean and then use the Migration Assistant to get your personal files and Apps from the clone of your drive.

Not a lot of fun but unless someone knows a legit source (apple.com) for previous installers (unlikely) you'll have to go to that other "bay" and I don't mean "e."


Is there way to custom program an F key?

I would use Spark to program the F15 key to do what you want. It is free (although donations are accepted). The website for Spark says "Mac OS 10.9" but I find it works with 10.11.4 here.

Here is what Spark looks like on my Mac. You create a new hotkey from the File menu. In your case, you'll be making a new "Keyboard" type of hotkey. I am including a picture that shows what the new key would look like if your email address were the same as mine. You get to pick your own hotkey-- I picked Control-F12 because I don't have an F15 on my keyboard.

There are plenty of commercial hotkey apps that do more than Spark but "free" is nice and your needs will be met with it. See the link at the end of this answer.

Note: I am not affiliated with Spark or its developers in any way. I have used the product on multiple machines for many years with great results so I am speaking first-hand about how it works.

Link to shadowlab.org, where you can download Spark


Unable to play a complete track in iPod nano

These are few things, which may be helped (they helped for me sometimes, because this problem is too sudden).

Reset your iPod (keep your music safe before this operation, of course);
Try deleting all staff off the iPod and re-syncing them;
Try both variants which are above together;
Maybe try to convert your track or find another same variant.

Also see this useful Apple's info.

Good luck and happy holidays!


Automate the repositioning and refreshing of menu bar icons?

I've found a way to directly write the Preferred Position values using the shell command defaults. I'll leave the automation part out since I don't know the specifics of your project (I assume you know how to automate shell commands as the current user.) This should allow you to change the preferred values but won't move the menu bar items without a restart.
Background

The Defaults system is used to store certain user preferences on macOS. This happens to include the Preferred Position for Menu Bar items. I'll let Apple explain the basics better:
From man defaults:

Defaults allows users to read, write, and delete Mac OS X user defaults from a command-line shell. Mac OS X applications and other programs use the defaults system to record user preferences and other information that must be maintained when the applications aren't running (such as default font for new documents, or the position of an Info panel). Much of this information is accessible through an application's Preferences panel, but some of it isn't, such as the position of the Info panel.

User defaults belong to domains, which typically correspond to individual applications. Each domain has a dictionary of keys and values representing its defaults; for example, "Default Font" = "Helvetica". Keys are always strings, but values can be complex data structures comprising arrays, dictionaries, strings, and binary data. These data structures are stored as XML Property Lists.

In short, Defaults are categorized under Domains (the app or service the setting belongs to), are identified using Keys (the name of the particular setting), and each *Key has a Value assigned to it.

The Preferred Position defaults we care about are not all under one domain, since individual apps can add new items to the Menu Bar. However, the keys all share this format:
NSStatusItem Preferred Position <menu-item-name>
where <menu-item-name> is the name of each item a particular app or service adds.
The values are all stored as float numbers, usually integers but some have a decimal point.
Here are the macOS built-in Menu Item Defaults on my machine as an example.
'com.apple.systemuiserver': {
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Item-0" = 23;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Siri" = 61;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.TimeMachine" = 548;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.airport" = 483;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.battery" = 179;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.bluetooth" = 513;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.textinput" = 127;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.volume" = 260;
}

com.apple.systemuiserver is a domain containing the key NSStatusItem Preferred Position Siri with value 61.
Listing All Current Preferred Position Defaults

In order to list all the domains, keys, and values for our Preferred Position Defaults, we can use the defaults find command to search for matches.
The command we need in this instance is defaults find "NSStatusItem Preferred Position".
$ defaults find "NSStatusItem Preferred Position"
Found 1 keys in domain 'com.coconut-flavour.coconutBattery-Menu': {
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Item-0" = "344.5";
}
Found 1 keys in domain 'com.lastpass.LastPass': {
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Item-0" = 795;
}
Found 8 keys in domain 'com.apple.systemuiserver': {
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Item-0" = 23;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Siri" = 61;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.TimeMachine" = 548;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.airport" = 483;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.battery" = 179;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.bluetooth" = 513;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.textinput" = 127;
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position com.apple.menuextra.volume" = 260;
}
Found 1 keys in domain 'org.pqrs.Karabiner-Menu': {
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Item-0" = 750;
}
Found 1 keys in domain 'com.google.GoogleDrive': {
    "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Item-0" = 607;
}
... and so on ...

Reading and Writing the Value of a Given Domain & Key

In order to read the value of a given domain and key, we need to use the defaults read command. To write, we use defaults write.
Here, I will read the value of the key NSStatusItem Preferred Position Siri at the com.apple.systemuiserver domain.
Note that the domain and key must be enclosed in double quotes.
$ defaults read "com.apple.systemuiserver" "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Siri"
61

Here, I will change the the key NSStatusItem Preferred Position Siri at the com.apple.systemuiserver domain to the value 42.7.
Note that the domain and key must be enclosed in double quotes, and the -float before the value
$ defaults write "com.apple.systemuiserver" "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Siri" -float 42.7
$ defaults read "com.apple.systemuiserver" "NSStatusItem Preferred Position Siri"
42.7

Again, I'll leave exactly how you automate this up to you, but this can all be easily integrated into your code.
If this doesn't work out for you, here are some links to the Apple Developer AppKit docs for adding items to the Menu Bar as well as for accessing the Defaults system using objective-c and swift. Not sure if they'll be any use to you but maybe they'll set you on the right track.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsstatusitem
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsstatusbar
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/foundation/userdefaults


Is MBP Pro 15'' Retina fan noise reduced noticeably?

I have one, and it make a big difference. It's also a less unpleasant sound. I have to get the machine running pretty hot before I notice the fans at all. On my last machine, I would hear the fans all the time (granted, mine was a 13'', but several of my coworkers have 15'' and I hear their fans more than mine).


Can an administrator access the iCloud Drive of another user on MacOS?

The administrator can change your Mac password, login as you and so gain access to your iCloud Drive.  And also gain access to everything controlled by your username - for example, your Keychain.
The only mitigation is that the administrator can't change the password back, so you might become suspicious when your login fails.
Also, an administrator is able (without your login details) to look at any file on the computer - that would include any iCloud Drive files cached on your computer.
I don't know the law in your country, but where I am an employer is entitled to access anything on a computer owned by the employer (subject to any other agreement between employee and employer).
Advice: Don't keep personal information on an employer provided and controlled computer.


Automatically Retrieving Album Names for Unknown Album Songs in iTunes

Tagalicious

Whilst it has been discontinued, Tagalicious has worked well for me for a long time, finding accurate results to missing info on music in my iTunes library.

MusicBrainz Picard

A cross-platform ID3 tag finder for songs. Despite the fact that it doesn't integrate with iTunes specifically, the ID3 tags can be read by iTunes.


It has nothing to do with your build in keyboard. What u have encounter is due to MacOs Catalina. I have same problem. It started from bottom row of alphabetic of your keyboard. You get multiple Z after pressing the Z button once until you have to press the return key to stop it. It sorts of like a virus escalated to the rest of your buttons on the keyboard. Slowly all your small caps alphabetic auto Caps Lock although you have not activated the Caps Lock and numerics auto change to symbols without pressing shift button. The WORST OF ALL COMMAND button + R button (have been remove from your drive) after the update to MacOs Catalina that does not allow u to access to internet recovery utilities. Further Damage done by Catalina is that many apps not be able to support. So congrates! All u could do is to restart your macbook pro whenever should these problem arise each time.


Way to Setup More than single "Last Import"

OK, I had a "duh" moment. As long as after each subsequent import, I select all within "Last Import" I can make a new album with that import's photos to organize at a later date.


/usr/bin Permission change OSX 10.9 Mavericks

/usr/bin/java is no valid folder in any installation or version of Java (I know of).

Instead the file /usr/bin/java is a symlink to /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/A/Commands/java installed by the default Apple Java installer (v1.6.x).

The Oracle Java installer (either JDK/SDK or JRE) is installed to /Library/Java.


Issue with broken display on MacBook Air while trying to reinstall OS X

Shut down the computer, plug in the external monitor and keyboard and turn on the computer holding down command+R for a while. Then, close the lid of the laptop and it should display on the external monitor.


The part numbers you refer to are not actual model numbers, but indicate which country the part would be sold through and hence the pricing and warranty country of origin.

MD531LL/A appears to be the original iPad mini (Late 2012) Model: A1432 WiFi only, white, 16 GB with resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels and an 2.4 GHz Apple A5 CPU. The MD528LL/A is the same but in black.


How do I remove a Wi-Fi sync with a laptop that I no longer have in my possession?

If you're only worried about losing items purchased through iTunes on the Apple ID you're currently using, like iBooks, then this will work:

Make sure you're logged into iTunes with your Apple ID. (The one you made all of your purchases with.)
Sync the iPad to your new computer. Yes, the existing content will be deleted.
From within iTunes, navigate to the iTunes Store. In a column to the right, you will see a link (under the heading, "Quick Links" that says, "Purchased." Click on that link.
The new store page that will be displayed is broken down into sections, which you'll see across the top (Music, Movies, TV Shows, Apps, Books). You should be able to re-download any content you previously purchased, including books. I just tested this by deleting a book I previously purchased, and I was able to re-download it this way.


You must have just missed it. Apple seems to sell a Thunderbolt to Firewire cable here. As always a bit pricy, but you could probably find other cheaper 3rd party ones.


display rotation: MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017) gpu/cpu usage and fan

I would suggest you download 'Temperature Gauge 4.1' to see if fans are running at high rpm or if they are just noisy. Noisy fans could be a sign of trouble. This app will also show you the temperature of various parts of your Mac. This app is not cheap at $18. And is available here


Device or computer could not be verified

Just had this problem. Not sure what exactly had helped, but I

Went to the Network Preferences and deleted whatever I could, all the locations except the one left and for this last deleted all the interfaces.
Rebooted
In the Network Preferences created a new location.

After that everything started to work again. Probably you could just delete and recreate your Ethernet interface.


iCal sending decline e-mails when it purges old calendar entries

I turned off my internet connection. Declined(works for Accept as well) the invites in iCal.

iCal sends the messages to your email client. I deleted them from the Mail/Outbox manually.

Then I turned the wifi card back on.

Done.


Where does Apple Appstore commission for inApp purchases apply?

Yes, Apple takes a cut of the price both purchasing an app itself - and for in-app purchases. If they didn't do this, I imagine all apps would be free, requiring an in-app purchases - effectively circumventing the whole system.
This is similar to how it works on Android phones, where Google Play Store takes a similar cut of both the initial app price and additional in-app purchases.
On both the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, the standard cut is 30% of the initial app price as well as for in-app purchases. However for subscription based in-app purchases, the cut is reduced to 15% after one year.
If the seller is a small business the fee is reduced to 15%. On the Apple Store that applies for companies selling less than $1 million worth of product on the App Store in a year. On the Google Play Store that applies for the first $1 million worth of product sold in a year.
Your question is then about shopping apps. The fees above apply to everything sold through in-app purchases. Items that you purchase by other means are not affected.
This means that for example physical goods and services, and person-to-person services (for example online fitness training, online tutoring services, medical consultations, etc.) are sold by other means, thus you're not paying Apple or Google anything in that case.
For some types of apps with digital content, Apple allows app sellers to let users access content they have purchased outside the app - for example from a PC. This is typically the so called "reader apps" (tv/movie streaming, magazines, newspapers, e-books, music streaming, etc).
Remember that when you purchase subscription from a vendor web site instead of through the App Store, you'll have the terms and conditions given by that web site. They might be worse than what you'll get from the App Store.


Thank you for the report

Please disable the all following (from auto starting when you log in)

  iTunesHelper Application
  (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)

uTorrent

  Application (/Applications/uTorrent.app)

AdobeResourceSynchronizer

  Application (/Applications/Adobe
  Reader.app/Contents/Support/AdobeResourceSynchronizer.app)

RealPlayer

  Downloader Agent Application (/Users/[redacted]/Library/Application
  Support/RealNetworks/RealPlayer Downloader Agent.app)

How to do that:

Go to system preferences- user& groups- you will see your log in profile. Click on the Log in items and disable anything using the (-) sign to remove.

Restart your system. If the MPlayer is still running STOP it. To do that press 3 keys all together [alt (option)+ cmd +esc]. A new widow will show where you can select the MPlayer and force quit it.

Finally lets repair your User profile.

Hold cmd+r during restarting of the computer

You will boot into the Repair Utilities screen.

On top, in the Menu Bar click the Utilities item then select Terminal.

New window - type resetpassword

You will not reset the password but:

Instead, click on the icon for your Mac’s hard drive at the top. From the drop-down below it, select the user account where you are having issues.

At the bottom of the window, you’ll see an area labeled ‘Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs’. Click the Reset button there.

The reset process takes a couple of minutes. When it’s done, quit the programs you’ve opened and restart your Mac.

If none of the above worked I am afraid you will need to restore your Mavericks first before Installing Yosemite. To that use the cmd+r again and follow the instructions how to restore. Normally you data will not be touched during this process, but if you have back up it is better.


According to a similar thread on Apple Discussions, yes, iPhoto does work on 10.8.
Try deleting the troublesome applications - and that way they should install.
What do you mean 'it won't let you install iPhoto'? How doesn't it let you install it?


Can I upgrade my 2008 Mac Pro completely?

Certain upgrades are possible, but it’s not that simple.

Accelerate your Mac is a nice source of information, you can find them here.
ANandtech did change the CPU of a Mac Pro.
OWC Mac Sales does have memory upgrades (there are others).
Video card: Unless you want to experiment with modified firmwares, your only choice in that model is the ATI 4870, which is considerably faster than the regular NVidia (it’s very noticeable in x-plane and 3d applications) but still lagging behind the “latest offerings”.

According to Wikipedia: "The Mac Pro, as with other Macintosh platforms, requires Mac OS X firmware. That is to say, a PCIe video card designed exclusively for other operating systems will not work properly under Mac OS X without appropriate drivers and/or firmware”

Sadly, no other video card has that, other than the Apple’s offerings. But If you google around there are some posts about people who managed to make other cards work.

Forget about upgrading your Motherboard, as it’s a custom design.
Hard drives/SuperDrives are generic and can be replaced, as you may have already guessed.
Any other component is probably “custom” designed for a Mac Pro (the power supply for example) and you won’t be able to get away with it…

Is it worth?

I have an early 2008 Mac Pro with 2x4 Intel XEON 2.8 and 10GB RAM. I’ve upgraded the RAM (from the lame 2GB to 10 @ OWC liked above), and I ordered the machine with the NVIDIA card (8800? I don’t remember), which was the only option other than the stock ATI2600 or something lame like that.

A couple of years later, the NVIDIA died (the Apple guy told me it had bugs and used to fail), so I got the new ATI 4780 512MB (it was 100€ less expensive than the out of warranty NVIDIA apple replacement). The difference was really noticeable in 3d apps.

I haven’t thought about upgrading the CPUs because getting faster XEONs (I wouldn’t be able to upgrade to Nehalem or anything new) won’t really make a big difference for me.

I use a SSD and 4 Hard Drives in the bays, if that counts as an upgrade (my original drive was 750gb, up from the stock 500).

I brought it with the Bluetooth/Wifi module (it was optional back then) and tho I haven’t used it a lot, it came in handy in a few occasions.

OS X Doesn’t support SLI/Crossfire for using more than 1 video card in parallel (you can install more than one, but it’s not the same thing), so forget about getting two super video cards for running crysis y super-top-ultra-maximum quality.

Conclusion

Yes, if you upgrade the RAM to something other than the 2GB and yes to the video card if you do 3d intensive stuff. Exposé will work fine on the NVIDIA8800 you have, but X-Plane (among other 3D things) will be noticeably faster with a new video card.


Can I remove or hide the VIP Folder in Mail on iOS 6?

There currently is no way to disable the VIP folder in Mail. The best you can do right now is to move within the Inboxes section of the Mailboxes screen on Mail.

All Inboxes appears pinned to the top position, but each Inbox and the VIP Folder can be arranged in whatever order you please (but not deleted)

To drag the folder

open Mail
go to the Mailbox view
tap on "Edit" and move the folder to where you want it to be among the other Inbox entries.

Perhaps if enough people give Apple feedback we will be able to suppress VIP entirely or at least move it to below the accounts section in the Mailbox view to bury it at the end of the line.


How to use HFS+ encrypted partition as Time Machine backup drive

This unbelievable problem has simple solution. Just leave the checkbox ticked and the encrypted partition will be used as is. No double encryption.

If you check the help ? there is written that the disk does not support encryption if the checkbox (Encrypt backups) is dimmed. Hence implying Time Machine is using disk encryption not another one on top of that.

So the checkbox is just for people who had not prepared the disk yet.


Quick way to exit terminal login attempt

Sometimes ^D can also exit terminal CLIs. I just tried it on my own computer, and ^D does exit this properly.


How can I copy/sync SMS messages between iPhones

No. The sandbox that contains app data prevents this as does the restore wiping instead of merging data functionality you are already aware of.

You can back one phone up and restore it to the other.
You can use iMessage to sync things in a forward direction ( new messages can sync well )
You can use a tool like Phoneview to export all the messages from multiple devices and collate / combine / preserve them on your Mac.

Some commercial transfer products and apps claim to do this, but I haven't seen anything consumer focused on the App Store to do this transfer or merge without jail breaking the device you want to do the "merge" - perhaps someone is more clever or informed and has a "yes" solution.


1)your friends itunes account was probably registered on your phone when you synced with the computer.

2) you can only be synced with one itunes account at a time. your problem might be that your synced with your friends account so any app that you download with your account wont be able to sync any apps unless you change it to sync with your account(which will delete all apps not purchased with your account.)


Yosemite not able to use external display at full resolution

Upgraded to Yosemite 2011 13" Macbook pro.  Display port to VGA is what I used with Mavericks.  As soon as I updated to Yosemite my macbook would not recognize my external display.  Applecare support were stumped.  Got a Display port to HDMI adapter 3rd party, and voila back in business.  Yosemite does not like display port to VGA adapters.  I tried apple branded VGA adapter and nothing.  As soon as I switched to HDMI all resolutions appeared.


Download Apple developer documentation as PDF files

Whatever be the reason, Apple has stopped providing PDF copies of most of it's Developer Documentation.

This won't work for all pages, but for your specific document, a PDF copy definitely used to exist (shown by this answer on SO).

The PDF itself is no longer available from Apple servers, but a quick Google search brought up this archived copy on CiteSeerX.

Whether you trust it is not modified or edited in any way is up to you (VirusTotal seems to say it's safe).


Is there a way to get Mavericks to mount AFP URLs the old way, by mounting the share point, and not the enclosing folder?

I haven't found a way to configure Finder to behave the old way, so I wrote an Apple Script to mimic the old behavior. The script handles AFP URLs (as well as FTP and CIFS/SMB if you like), mounts the server under the share name and opens a Finder window at the indicated location.

You can set your browser and maybe other programs to open AFP URLs with this script. I don't know if you can convince the Finder though.

Basically the script decomposes the URL into protocol, server name, share name, path and target. It does some basic checks on the URL, mounts the resource under the share name and shows it in Finder.

I bundled it as an application, called URL Handler. You can download and try it out, whether it works for you. The source is included in the disk image, if you want to have a closer look.


Can I add a room number to an event's location?

I guess you can't since Calendar always auto-completes to something without additional room/extra info. Alternatively put the room in the notes.


Font Awesome displayed as question marks ion macOS

The preview probably won't show anything because this font doesn't appear to have any normal Latin characters but consists of graphics located in the Private Use Area of Unicode.  See

http://fontawesome.io/cheatsheet/

You should certainly be able to install it.  To use it probably requires the Character Viewer. Others will never see it in your pages unless you set it up as a webfont which gets downloaded automatically when they view your page.


Is there a way to change which shares are shown on the bottom of the iOS 5 notifications screen?

The shares shown are the one you set up in the Stocks app.

Open *Stocks
Tap the i on the bottom right corner
Delete or add new shares

Those will be the ones shown in the notifications screen.


OSX: how to add a right click option to a folder which opens the folder with an app like VS Code?

You can do this with an Automator Service.

Create the Service:

Open Automator and select Service or File > New > Service If Automator is already open.
Set Service receives selected to files or folders and in to Finder.
Add a Run Shell Script Action, setting Shell: to /bin/bash and Pass input: to as arguments and add the following code:

for f in "$@"; do
    open -a 'Visual Studio Code' "$f"
done

Save the Service as Open in Visual Studio Code.

Close Automator.

You can now select Files and or Folders in Finder and then control-click (right-click) on them and select Open in Visual Studio Code from the Services Context Menu.

Note: I tested this with Visual Studio Code but not with Brackets as I don't have it installed. However you should be able to create one for it too in the same manner while substituting the application's name in the open command.


OS X computer name not matching what shows on terminal

It's perfectly normal for this to occur; when you login Terminal remotely bash does a reverse DNS lookup. It will only be the same if the hostname is not specified on the network you're connecting from and there is no reply from the DHCP server, or the reverse lookup against the remote DNS server fails to resolve.

You can easily over-ride the default setting by using this command in Terminal:

# sudo scutil --set HostName archos

You can check it by using:

# nslookup nn.nn.nn.nn
( or )
# host nn.nn.nn.nn

(where nn signifies your Mac's ip address)


MacBook Pro: OS battery indicator doesn't match hardware battery indicator

If your MacBook Pro has an internal battery - seek service as they are supposed to self-calibrate and not need any sort of maintenance.

For reference: Apple Portables: Calibrating your computer's battery for best performance

If your model has a removable battery, those are older and the Mac needs you to periodically run a calibration where you charge it to full and leave it connected to power for two or so hours. Then disconnect power and run it down over a day or two - never connecting to power. Eventually, it will go to sleep and then you leave it for 4-5 hours in sleep to finally reach the low voltage shut off.

This will recalibrate the sensor for full and empty and perhaps fix the OS reporting a different charge level than reality. As the battery ages, the "guess" to how much charge capacity is left at a certain voltage level changes. This calibration run should be done every 6 to 10 months if you care to have a more accurate OS battery estimate. Of course, if there is a failure in the battery or the hardware - that will prevent this from working and you will again be seeking service for a repair.

If you are not near a support center - you could try the discharge run on a newer Mac with the newer battery.


Syncing contacts from iCloud to Gmail not working

If you are on mac.

Sync your icloud contact with your mac. Then connect your gmail account to your mac (enable contact). Finally launch Contacts App then drag and drop contacts from iCloud group to Gmail group


brew list --versions | grep HEAD
$ brew list --versions | grep HEAD
libimobiledevice HEAD-bfaf1a1
libusbmuxd HEAD-73cb5c1


How To Convert a Terminal Command into an ".app" file?

These steps are suitable for my use case only. depending on what you wanna do, Changes should be made to the sh file that you're going to create

1) Download the Script called "appify" from Here

2) copy that file to /usr/local/bin, which requires root privileges

3) Fire up Terminal.app and enter

sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/appify

to make appify executable without root privileges.

3) make a chrome.sh file on desktop with content

#!/usr/bin/env bash
/Applications/"Google Chrome.app"/Contents/MacOS/"Google Chrome" --args --profile-directory="Guest Profile"&

4) make sure that the .sh files works by trying this command

sh chrome.sh

5) Run following Commands

cd desktop
appify chrome.sh "My Chrome"

Now this will Create a File called "My Chrome.app" which can be moved into the applications folder and can be used like a normal app.


I figured it out! One must click on an individual point on the graph or chart and then go to the Style tab under Fill and change that. It will change the color for all the data points in that column.

Not intuitive at first, but definitely easy once you know about it.


Is it possible to change the way Terminal displays files' permission?

To change the display of file permission to the octal system, you need to modify the ls command. There is a nice tutorial here: http://agileadam.com/2011/02/755-style-permissions-with-ls/

in short: edit the profile for your shell, f.e.

nano ~/.profile

and enter

alias lso="ls -alG | awk '{k=0;for(i=0;i<=8;i++)k+=((substr(\$1,i+2,1)~/[rwx]/)*2^(8-i));if(k)printf(\" %0o \",k);print}'"

reload the config file with

source ~/.profile

and you have the new display type with the command lso


Restore from iTunes does not restore app data?

Wallets and apps that store sensitive data usually store passwords/encryption keys in keychain. If the backup was not encrypted, unfortunately, only app developers may be able to help.

Also, some banking apps and wallets don't include this data in the backup and have another way of transferring accounts or passwords.

p.s. @Steve Chambers is right, you should always have an encrypted backup, even with an easy password like '12345', just to back up as mutch data as possible.


To install Brew's ImageMagick and fix its Symlink

A list of things to try, in order (I'm writing an answer instead of a comment for better formatting). Run hash -r after each step (assuming you're in bash; do rehash instead for zsh; or you can always open a new shell).

Run brew --prefix and see if the output is /usr/local. If not, your brew is not installed to /usr/local! Add $(brew --prefix)/bin to you $PATH.
Run brew info imagemagick and make sure it's actually installed; maybe you had an error during installation and it was simply not installed successfully.
Run brew link imagemagick to symlink to /usr/local/bin; maybe the executables weren't symlinked correctly (for some reason);
Run brew reinstall imagemagick to reinstall.
If it still doesn't work, show us the output of brew list imagemagick and we'll see what's wrong.


Is it worth getting a 4k monitor for a late-2012 13" MacBook Pro with Retina display?

What's officially "supported" and what's possible don't match. I managed to get 4K out of it at 30Hz.

I took a screenshot as proof:

Just a normal mini-displayport<->displayport cable was used.

More details in my answer here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/147765/39878

or on this blog post: http://www.mattburns.co.uk/blog/2014/09/30/running-the-4k-aoc-u2868pqu-and-intel-hd4000-graphics/

2560x1440 works ok but because it isn't HiDPI it still feels like a step backwards. I flip between running 1080p (HiDPI) and full 4k (with the text being tiny).


Free programming editor w/ syntax highlighting for iBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 (PowerPC)

TextWrangler will do. It's a freeware, but you probably need to search for an older version.


On OSX you'll have to add an extra "-"

echo "Masi,hello" | paste -sd, -


It is not possible to use one screen in full screen mode while having an different application on the second screen.
But it is also not true that the second screen isn't "usable". You can have different windows of the SAME application on the second display (e.g. the equalizer window in iTunes, or the fonts dialog in pages or whatever).

I would also prefer to have a second application on my second screen, but I mentioned the ability to have at least other windows of the same application just in case that someone didn't knew.


I found uninstallation instructions for MacFUSE in this blog post. They worked for me with a little tweaking.

First, find the uninstall script that comes with MacFUSE. For the blog post author, it was /Library/Filesystems/fuse.fs, and for me, it was /Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/uninstall-macfuse-core.sh.

If you try running the script, it will give the following error:

MacFUSE Uninstaller: Can not find the Archive.bom for MacFUSE Core package.

To fix this, you need to edit a case statement inside the script, so that it is able to match your version of OS X. Open the script with sudo nano uninstall-macfuse-core.sh. (I needed sudo to be able to save my changes to the file. And you can use vim instead of nano if you like.) Then search the code for uname to get to this section:

OS_RELEASE=`/usr/bin/uname -r`
case "$OS_RELEASE" in
  8*)
    log "Incorrect uninstall. Use the Tiger version please."
    exit 1
    ;;
  9*)
    PACKAGE_RECEIPT="$INSTALL_VOLUME/Library/Receipts/MacFUSE Core.pkg"
    OUTER_PACKAGE_RECEIPT="$INSTALL_VOLUME/Library/Receipts/MacFUSE.pkg"
    BOMFILE="$PACKAGE_RECEIPT/Contents/Archive.bom"
    ;;
  10*)
     PACKAGE_RECEIPT=""
     BOMFILE="$INSTALL_VOLUME/var/db/receipts/com.google.macfuse.core.bom"
     ;;
esac

The case that you want run is the one for 10*.

First, confirm that there is indeed a file at /var/db/receipts/com.google.macfuse.core.bom. The file was there for me, but for the blog post author it was in /Library/Receipts/boms/com.google.macfuse.core.bom instead – if this is the case, change the path in the script.

The reason the case currently isn’t running is because /usr/bin/uname -r doesn’t start with any of those numbers – it’s “13.4.0” for me. So change this line of the case statement:

  10*)

to this, which matches versions 10 through 19:

  1[0-9]*)

Save the file and exit your editor. Now run the uninstall script and it should work this time. It prints output along these lines:

MacFUSE Uninstaller: Sudoing...
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates/MacFUSE'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Info.plist'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Resources/English.lproj/InfoPlist.strings'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/version.plist'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/autoinstall-macfuse-core'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext/Contents/Info.plist'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/fusefs.kext/Contents/MacOS/fusefs'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/load_fusefs'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/mount_fusefs'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Support/uninstall-macfuse-core.sh'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework/Headers'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework/MacFUSE'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework/Resources'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing file: '//./Library/Frameworks/MacFUSE.framework/Versions/A/Headers/GMAppleDouble.h'
…
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing dir: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Resources/English.lproj'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing dir: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents/Resources'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing dir: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs/Contents'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Removing dir: '//./Library/Filesystems/fusefs.fs'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Filesystems'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode/Project Templates'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared/Xcode'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer/Shared'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support/Developer'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library/Application Support'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//./Library'
MacFUSE Uninstaller: Ignoring dir: '//.'

The last step is to remove the MacFUSE preference pane. Just launch System Preferences, right-click on the preference pane, and choose the menu item ‘Remove “MacFuse” Preference Pane’.


Is it possible revert iTunes backup from Time Machine?

The folder named with 40 random chars in Backup folder is your iOS backup (40 cahrs is the UDID of your device).

You will need to restore the "cd84f21616..." folder back to default iTunes backup folder: users/user/Library/ApplicationSupport/MobileSync/Backup.

After this, you should see your backup in iTunes and be able to restore it.


Weird files on my Desktop after installing programs

I assume you're new to Mac ;)
If you get an application from anywhere other than the App Store, it will come neatly wrapped inside a Disk Image file, .dmg.
You double-click it & it will mount just like a real disk or USB stick/SD card on your desktop. It won't show as present in your desktop folder as that's not really where it is. It is mounted at /Volumes in your OS, the same way all your other drives are mounted. Their appearance on the visible desktop is for convenience.
To all intents & purposes a mounted disk image behaves exactly like any other removable drive.
Normally, you open it [or it should open automatically] to show the contents.
Then there are two basic installation methods.
Simple drag & drop - there will be an app & an alias to your Applications folder. You drag the app to the alias & by the 'magic' of Mac aliases, that will copy it to your own Applications folder on your Mac.
Pic of a 'regular' app. Original .dmg file top left, mounted 'disk' right, then below a simple drag & drop installation.

Alternatively, a mounted disk image will contain an actual installer package you need to double-click & run. This is usually for more complex installations that need to ensure specific separate system components all go to the correct places. When you launch one of these you will be presented with an admin permissions dialog to allow the installer to do this.
Pic again with .dmg file to the left, mounted disk to the right & installation window below. Note: some of these more complex apps also need an uninstaller, conveniently packaged in the same .dmg. If an app doesn't have an installer, it shouldn't need an uninstaller.

With either type, once you have finished with it, you can then eject it, just like a real drive - either click in the window, then  Cmd ⌘   E  or right click & select "eject [name of 'disk']" or from any Finder window, sidebar etc where you can see the eject arrow ⏏
Once ejected, then you can either file it away for if you ever need it again, or throw it in the Trash. It's done with.
The app will now run from your regular Applications folder.
Note: Other than special circumstances, apps are not designed to actually run from the mounted disk image. Some will, some will complain, but generally you should avoid it. Run them from Applications after you have copied them over, or installed.


Don't forget about Nmap which is a must-have tool for any network admin or IT type - use the -sn flag for ping Scan, among many other options.


Is there an app that will track "Time since last full charge" on OS X?

Everything you need is provided with OS X.

For graphical details and an overview, open Activity Monitor and the energy tab lists the time you have been on your current power source:

In my case, it was showing 5 hours on AC power, so I disconnected the charger to show that the battery is just starting up. The graph on the right will give you a nice history if you go between multiple charge/drain events over the last 12 hours.

For details, use the pmset command in terminal app:

pmset -g log

Since that log is verbose, you might start with filtering the messages about Using

pmset -g log | grep Using


What is the fastest/most efficient way to transfer 50GB data folder from SSD to thumb drive?

Bluetooth, WiFi and your screen have absolutely nothing to do with the transfer speed of USB.  Tweaking these settings in the hopes of making USB transfers more efficient is like waxing your car to get better fuel efficiency.

  The thumb drive is a garden variety of 64GB Lexar™

Is it a USB 2.0 or 3.0 thumb drive?  You can tell if it has a blue tab in the USB connector. That'll be the kicker.  If it's a 2.0, the maximum throughput you're going to get is 480Mbps.  Going downhill. With a tailwind. On greased skis.

If it's USB 3, you'll get at most 5x the rate of 2.0, but more like only 3x.

As far as defragging your drive, that won't make any difference on an SSD with HFS+ format.  Plus PCIe drives run about 24Gb/s or 4x faster than SATA III at 6Gb/s


How to send S/MIME encrypted mails from iOS with attachment?

I can tell you why this happens but not give you a solution. To me this is a bug, when you 'mail' from within photos or whatever other app, using the modal compose window (the one that pops up from the bottom of the screen) you are using a MFMailComposeViewController class, this is effectively a baby version of mail that pops up and composes mail for you, then redirects this to the mail app.

Something is broken in between that's causing your issue.

Bottom line the MFMailComposeViewController (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MessageUI/Reference/MFMailComposeViewController_class/Reference/Reference.html) is not the full mail client and thus it's lacking the encryption piece.


auto mount HFS+ filesystem from disk image (.dmg file)

You can simply add the .dmg file to your Login Items in: System Preferences > Users & Groups > (you) > Login Items

The .dmg file will then automatically be mounted when you login.

Update to address comment: "Is there any API to add item to login items programmatically?"

One programatic way I know of, it can be done with AppleScript:

Example AppleScript code:

tell application "System Events" to ¬
    make new login item with properties ¬
        {name:"Mount DMG", path:"/path/to/filename.dmg", hidden:true}

Change "Mount DMG" and "/path/to/filename.dmg" as appropriate.

It can also be done from Terminal using, using the osascript command, with the same AppleScript command:

osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to make new login item with properties {name:"Mount DMG", path:"/path/to/filename.dmg", hidden:true}'

Change "Mount DMG" and "/path/to/filename.dmg" as appropriate.


iTunes is not recognising my iPhone after upgrading to Lion

Start by checking in the system profiler under USB to see if the Mac see's that the iPhone is connected.
.

Then remove the following to the Trash and RESTART the computer

/System/Library/Extensions and Locate the file AppleMobileDevice.kext


How can I kill a process using top on OS X?

# top

press shift + s. This will bring up:

signal [TERM]:

At this point you can just press return for a 'polite' process end request ("signal 15") that will let the process clean up files, release memory, etc.
For process that can't be killed this way, you can enter the word ‘kill’ which is signal "9" then press return.

Now top prompts for a pid (process id):

pid:

Enter the pid of the process you want to kill and that should take care of it.


Import new photos from iPhone into Windows XP

You can use dropbox to do this. Although dropbox is mainly a tool to administer files in the cloud, it recently obtained the option to automatically read and store in the cloud new photos from an attached camera/sd card/iPhone when it is connected to the PC. The data is stored in a special directory on your hard disk which is mirrored in the cloud.  When deciding to store photos in dropbox's cloud you get some GB (6?) of storage for free. Dropbox itself is free and you get the benefit of the cloud.


Create local backup of notes in Notes.app on macOS

You may have copied the wrong directory, depending on your operating system.

Newer operating systems (I believe El Capitan and above, but certainly Sierra and above) use this folder:

~/Library/Group Containers/group.com.apple.notes/

Without iCloud there should be no issue with disappearing notes, which you would have to work around, if you were signed into iCloud Notes.


No IP-address is visible/configured and the status of your en0 is inactive.

Adding a route to en0 is obviously possible though. It's still impossible to ping an inactive interface/unreachable network.

Configure an IP-address for en0 and attach it to a network and you should be done. If you have a second Mac configure the same multicast address and check the outgoing pings from the first Mac with sudo tcpdump -ni en0 host 228.0.0.4.


Macbook Pro 13-inch stuck at Gray screen with apple logo and wheel

Well, seeing as the laptop is at least attempting to boot from the hard drive, I'd say that your hard drive is fine.

My recommendation is that you reinstall Mac OS X. An early 2011 MacBook Pro would've come with Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, so you should have had some DVDs come with the MacBook Pro when you bought it. Use those to re-install Mac OS X 10.6.


GCC with-gxx-include-dir is set to iOS 11.4 simulator

I was seeing a similar issue.

$ gcc -v
    Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr --with-gxx-include-dir=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/iPhoneSimulator.platform/Developer/SDKs/iPhoneSimulator11.4.sdk/usr/include/c++/4.2.1

In my case, that configuration resulted in includes like #include <stdlib.h> referencing the iOS/iPhone simulator platform libraries rather than the macOS libraries. This resulted in my getting errors about the wrong architecture being used when compiling.

The only viable solution I found was to uninstall Xcode (deleting the app from /Applications) and uninstall the command line tools. That and a reboot seemed to resolve this issue in my case.


Changing the default iTunes download directory

You can move the Downloads folder in your ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Downloads directory to your external drive, and then create a symlink (symbolic link) to the new Downloads location, and place that symlink in the
~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Downloads directory.

Here it is in step form:

Quit iTunes.
Go to ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media, and move Downloads to your external drive. Ensure you move the folder, and you don't just make a copy.
Open Terminal (located in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app)
Enter ln -s "/Volumes/NAME_OF_YOUR_EXTERNAL_DRIVE/Downloads" ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Downloads

Substitute the NAME_OF_YOUR_EXTERNAL_DRIVE part with the name of your external drive that you placed Downloads on. Downloads needs to be in the root directory for that command to complete successfully.


Click the equation in the sidebar and press ⌫backspace.


Unable to determine the Mac OS X version on the targeted disk (-69831)

Make sure the Users & Groups > Advanced Options options for your moved user account is correct.

Launch System Preferences.app
Select Users & Groups
Unlock the panel
Control + Click on the moved account and select Advanced Options…*
Update Home directory: to the correct, full, path to your moved home folder.


Can I stream with Airplay from my iPhone to a compatible 3rd Party device?

Yep. Apple licenses the receiver portion of AirPlay to 3rd party manufacturers, so they can build compatible receivers meant to work with iOS and OS X devices.

As long as the device you're going to use is AirPlay compatible, it should work.


iPod Classic 160GB deletes all files and isn't recognized on PC

I think this is the only way to restore it, but that would involve connecting it to your computer. You might also be able to use another computer to do this: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1339

You could also see what the Genius Bar at the Apple Store says.


How do I repair permissions of a specific directory?

Repairing permissions only affects System files, and files installed from a package with the Installer, which give a BOM (Bill Of Materials, stored in the (~)/Receipts folder) that list the expected permissions. There is no meaning in repairing permissions for “a specific directory“, as an arbitrary directory has no expected permissions against which to compare, unless it is one listed in one of the said files.

(just for sourcing: Wikipedia agrees  ;)  )

If you want to change permissions of a lot of files at once, for example by having copied them from another drive with permissions, and you encounter problems with them, you could use a tool such as BatchMod  :)


Make iTunes stop prompting me for my username and password

All you need to do is Sign OUT of the itunes store!

If you are signed in, each time you fire up iTunes, it will try to login again and ask for your password. Sign out and it won't bother you!


Persistant phantom volume mount points, how to prevent?

If you removed Carbon Copy Cloner by dragging it to the trash, I'm guessing there may be remnants of CCC still on your system.

Check these locations and delete them these if they exist:

/Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.bombich.ccchelper.plist
/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.bombich.ccchelper
/Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/com.bombich.ccc


The only way I currently know how to do this is to change the icons so that they are bigger. You will not, however, get the files in two columns.

Press ⌘J
Set the "icon size"" setting to use large icons


Console.log filled with "stopping Handoff advertising"

Just to make sure do clear your browser's cookies and history.

But with your limited Console log it could be this.

  Yosemite is designed to handoff integrated app statuses to other Apple
  devices, the "advertising" may simply refer to the fact that my
  Yosemite Mac is advertising that there is stuff to handoff to an iOS 8
  device, but that functionality is not yet implemented


Twitter announced that the Twitter app is broken on 3.x.x and that a update fixing it is on its way. There's no way you can manually fix it; you just have to wait for the update. Usually a crashing issue is due to low RAM (which is fixed with a restart / reinstall) but this one is a firmware issue.


What is this grey bar underneath the home icon row?

Oddly enough I have been having an extremely similar problem. There was a small bar that showed up under the Dock on my desktop, about as long as the Dock is wide (my Dock is vertical) and with rounded corners. It was black, and the running application dots on my Dock are black as well (whereas yours is grey, and the bar is grey).

Upgrading from 10.10.1 to 10.10.2 caused it to disappear. Then it reappeared, along with a second one. It survived reboots. I didn't think it was actually part of the Dock, because it stayed in the same place when I moved the Dock from the right side of the screen to the bottom. Although, when the second one showed up, and I ran my cursor over the dock (triggering magnification of the icons), it stayed above the icons on the app side of the dock, and was below the icons on the Trash side of the dock.

I finally ran this terminal command to kill the Dock, and when it restarted itself, the bars were gone. It's been about a day and they haven't reappeared. Fingers crossed. I'm assuming this is a bug in Yosemite.

killall -KILL Dock


Can a projector be used as a good quality second screen?

The answer to this question is always going to be heavily based on opinion, so it is not really a good question for this site.
However, I think it is for good reasons that projectors are not really treated as "secondary screens" for computers - but more for specialized use cases such as movies, presentations, etc.
If you have ever attendeded any project-backed presentation, you would probably have encountered many of the problems that can occur with projectors: too much daylight to be able to see the image clearly, skewed/warped image, incorrect colors, fan noise, heat generation, noone can be in front of the project output, etc.
You could argue that you could solve most of these by buying a high end projector and setting it up properly. However those projectors are not cheap - and definitely if you compare it to what a budget 30" monitor or even a flat-screen TV costs.
As for getting the exact same colors on the projected image as on your laptop display - this not really possible. The colors are not going to be exactly the same, unless you buy a really, really high-end projector that you calibrate often.


Open System Preferences and click the Network icon.

Select your network in the list on the left, and make sure that it says "Using DHCP" in the drop-down list after "Configure IPv4:"

If you've made any changes, click the "Apply" button and then the "Show All" button to make sure everything is saved.


AppleTV 3rd Gen Displaying 'static' randomly

Generally speaking, static on the HDMI link can be as a result of too much noise (the signal to noise reason is to low). You say you have not changed the cable, that would be my first suspect.

Change that up and take it from there. Any breaks or wear on the cable and pins can introduce noise such that the signal effectively drops out.


You can try formula and get easily what you are looking for.
EDate, starting row and month =1 (which increase the month when you scroll it)

FINAL RESULT WILL BE:


Mac Pro keeps rebooting when installing Win7 on Mac Pro using EFI Boot/GPT drive

"Windows 7 x64 (64-bit) will NOT boot natively using UEFI on a Macintosh!"

See source with technical details here:
https://darobins.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/native-uefi-windows-7-boot-on-mac-mini/

PS
It would have been nice to not only copy and paste my installation guide in your question. That cost me some time to put online. A link or reference as source would have been nice. From the title of my post it could have come to your mind as well, that a WIN8 or WIN10 installation had been the goal, not WIN7...EFI Boot Windows 8.1 or 10 Install on MacPro4,1 / Mac Pro (Early 2009)


Is there an iPhone app that lets you post to Twitter and Facebook Pages as yourself?

I let Twitter do it automatically but I'm not sure it will carry your name but rather post as the page. You'll have to try it and see. It may be that it's functionality not included in Facebook itself.

Here is the instructions from Twitter gel pages:

To connect your Twitter account and your Facebook profile:
Log in to the Twitter account you want to associate with your Facebook profile.
Go to your Settings menu's Apps tab.
Click Connect to Facebook.
If you are not already logged in to Facebook, then you will be prompted to enter your Facebook login credentials. Enter your credentials and click Log in to sign in to Facebook.
You will then receive a prompt explaining that Twitter will receive certain information from your Facebook account. In order to continue, you must select “Okay.”
You will then be prompted to select the privacy settings for who will see your Tweets and Retweets posted to your Facebook wall. It is set to friends by default.
Click “Okay” to complete the process.
Your Tweets and Retweets will now post to your profile Facebook wall and your username will be displayed there as well. @Replies will not be posted.

Note: To link your Facebook updates to Twitter, use this application on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/twitter.

To connect your Twitter account to a Facebook page:
If you have a Facebook Fan Page, or are the admin of one, you can post Tweets and Retweets from your Twitter account to your Facebook Page.

Follow the steps above to connect to your Facebook profile.
If you have not already done so, visit your Apps settings and grant Twitter the “manage pages” permission for your Facebook profile.
In your Apps settings, Select the page you'd like to connect to.
When prompted, click to allow permission to post to the selected Facebook page.


Is it possible to read iBooks without an iOS device?

OS X 10.9 Mavericks includes an iBooks app that allows you to read any documents - including purchased books or your own pdfs - that you had in iBooks for iOS.

Mavericks is a free upgrade available for the following systems, and was released on 22 October, 2013 through the Mac App Store.

From OS X Mavericks : System Requirements

  To install Mavericks, you need one of these Macs:

  iMac (Mid-2007 or later) MacBook (13-inch Aluminum, Late 2008),
  (13-inch, Early 2009 or later) MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid-2009 or
  later), MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)
  MacBook Air (Late 2008 or later) Mac Mini (Early 2009 or later) Mac
  Pro (Early 2008 or later) Xserve (Early 2009)  Your Mac also needs:

  OS X Mountain Lion, Lion, or Snow Leopard v10.6.8 already installed 2
  GB or more of memory 8 GB or more of available space


After a period of troubleshooting, and with some nudges from Allan, I was able to figure out what was going on: my terminal was attempting to display a unicode lock.
Turns out, my font, Inconsolata for Powerline, didn't support this. I came to this conclusion after reverting to my default theme in iTerm2 WITHOUT Inconsolata enabled. The lock displayed correctly there!
After research, I found a Github repo (and its name is familiar... I feel like I used it on a previous install) of patched fonts that display most of the proper terminal unicode icons. Much thanks to ryanoasis on Github for this!
If you're having a similar problem like me, give it a try and see how it goes. Here's what the fixed terminal looks like:


As long as the iPad is not synced with other devices which might be adding those websites in history or website data again, these steps might help.

Tap on the "open-book" type icon in Safari to reveal bookmarks tap edit to remove them.

If you can delete your history, do it!

Go to Settings-> Safari-> Clear History and website data.

Make sure that the item is not in the Reading List either.


The tutorial has an error. It refers to the userboot.so file in the Homebrew source code cache, which may not be in the same place or existent on all systems with xhyve installed.

A recent pull request into homebrew-core fixed this issue; that file is now in $(brew --prefix xhyve)/share/xhyve/test/userboot.so.

You should do the tutorial as before, but with every line starting with USERBOOT=


Get per-core CPU usage in terminal in machine-readable format

There are ways to get this information from htop, but they basically involve screen scraping, as it is designed primarily for interactive use.
Instead, check out the glances command-line tool, which can do what you want.
It can be installed via homebrew:
brew install glances
Something like the following may work for you:
glances --stdout now,percpu --time 10


Can i have a state in OS X where there is no default browser

A number of apps will let you do approximately this, but as far as I'm aware only Choosy ($10) has the flexibility to decide which to use based on which browsers are open. (All of these apps are designed to let you pick a browser when you click a link, and some, Choosy included, also let you make rules based on the link URL or source app. If that's all you need, then you may find another option might serve you better.)

To make Choosy work in this way, simply install it, add your browsers to the "Browsers" tab in its settings, and then set the options in "Behaviour" how you want them. Based on what you said above, I expect you probably want to set the first option listed to "Use best running browser."


Lion upgrade from Mac App store seems to have frozen

Although it says Install the Mac App Store just downloads the Installer. Therefore, if you didn't run the Installer, the MBP froze while downloading, so it is safe to restart the computer and process with it.


According to this site, Apple didn't push out macOS 10.13.5 yet.  That's why I don't have the option in Messages.

I got a Mac update today and I thought it included iCloud Messages.  It turns out that it was just an iTunes update.

We'll have to wait a little long to get iCloud Messages on our Macs.


How do I virtually disconnect an external monitor?

There is no way to "virtually" disconnect a display on a Mac, like you can on Windows. The Mac needs to disconnect physically. The easiest way to do this is by purchasing an inexpensive KVM Switch, to physically switch between the Mac & PC.


Potential macbook convert - windows on mac?

I'm going to suggest that for development - as opposed to for gaming - you may want to consider setting up a Windows virtual machine using VMWare Fusion or Parallels Desktop.  Both of these will apparently let you run them from a Bootcamp Windows partition so that you can boot into Windows for gaming but use a VM for other tasks, all using the same Windows installation.  I have no personal experience with that, as I use a VM exclusively, mostly for Visual Studio as well.

The reason is that this will give you Visual Studio on your Mac desktop so that you can run Mac apps for everything else.

FAIR WARNING!  If you start using a Mac, you will find Windows increasingly limiting and badly designed compared to OS X.  I'm serious; I much prefer working in MacOS now, even though I spend most of my day in Win7.


Unlock iPhone 4 iOS 5.0.1 with baseband 4.11.08

You can't. Not only is there no way to unlock the new baseband, but there's also no way to downgrade it. You are out of luck.


Rather than tapping the title of the song, tap the album cover while the song is playing. There, the five dots to rate the song will appear.


Password no longer works on MacBook Air Yosemite 10.10.2 I need to reset the password, without logging in

Note: I'm not able to test this so I don't know if a backup will reintroduce the same problem. Also note that this is more of a blunt instrument approach

Firstly, I can't speak directly to the terminal logs. Someone may have a more sublime approach using that information.

If you have a Time Machine backup, you can reinstall OS X following these instructions (from this page). Once a clean Yosemite install is ready, you can migrate your user settings and data using Time Machine.

Clean Install OS X Yosemite

It’s time for a clean install. We’re going to show you how to do it without using a USB drive, which makes it much easier and less confusing. So to start, you should download OS X Yosemite from the Mac App Store. Once it’s finished downloading, it’ll immediately load up on your screen. Follow the instructions to install OS X Yosemite. Once it’s done, it’ll ask you to restart your Mac. Do it, and once it’s loaded up, we’ll start the clean install process:

We’re going to restart your Mac again. But this time, hold down Cmd+R. (Keep holding it down while it restarts, do not let go)
Now, your Mac should load a screen with a few options (you can let go of Cmd+R now).
Select the Disk Utility option.
In the window, at the top of the left bar, select your Mac’s Main Drive. It should be something like MainHD.
Now, select the Erase tab, located next to the First Aid button at the top-center.
Near the center of the window, select the Format drop-down list and select “Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)” as the type.
Click Erase (this will erase your main drive!) and allow some time for the drive to format.
When it’s finished, close out Disk Utility and select “ReInstall OS X” from the menu. It will ask for your Mac App Store password to redownload OS X Yosemite. Give it a minute to do so.
A new window should pop up and OS X Yosemite should begin to install. If it does not, press back and enter your password again.
Once again, follow the install instructions and enjoy your newly clean-installed OS X Yosemite.

At this point, you'd migrate your Time Machine backup, and fingers crossed, you will have cleared the password problem.


A script to automatically split an Aperture library

It doesn't seem possible through Automator, but it could be through a little complex Applescript…

My personal approach was first gather various projects by context in folders (e.g. abroad holidays) and then - for each of them - export its content as an external library every 5 years. Hope this can apply to you!

O.T.: I'd like to post this as a comment, but it seems that I don't have enough reputation…


It turns out that the Big Sur's XCode command-line tools aren't good enough for MacPorts. You need to manually download Command Line Tools for Xcode 12.2 from https://developer.apple.com/download/more/?=command%20line%20tools


Access iCloud emails on an Android without Mac or iPhone

You can try to request the desktop site of icloud.com within your Android browser (don‘t know too much about Android, but there should be an option for that). If this doesn‘t work, visit a friend with a PC/Mac/Linux machine, an Internet cafe, etc to log in to iCloud.com once and generate the password needed. Don‘t forget to do this in private mode so any login details get deleted afterwards.


Mail search not finding messages but Spotlight does

Rebuilding Mail.app's mailboxes fixed this for me. This ComputerWorld article is a great reference for rebuilding and reindexing your mailboxes:

Rebuild: Select a mailbox (or several by shift-clicking) and then use "Mailbox > Rebuild"
Reindex: Quit Mail, navigate to ~/Library/Mail/V2/MailData (on Mac OS 10.12 - Sierra, ~/Library/Mail/V4/MailData) and delete any files where the name begins with Envelope Index. Mail will rebuild the indexes on the next start (which may take a long time depending on the size of your mailboxes)


iPhone 5s battery draining when in Airplane AND Sleep AND Low-power modes together, as if I am using it

It's possible that the battery health has degraded over time. I would recommend you install Battery Life in your iPhone to check the battery health.
If the battery health is below 80%, then you should consider replacing the battery. I replaced my iPhone 5's battery after 3-4 years after it hit 65% battery health. You should do the same. I was able to find a 3rd party battery and replace it myself. The process took me 30-40 mins. Also, go to the Battery section in the Settings app and see which apps are the biggest battery users.


Any way to add 4K support to a late 2012 iMac?

Your model iMac offered three graphics card options:

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 675MX
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX

In terms of graphics memory these cards provided 512MB, 1GB and 2GB respectively.

Strictly speaking all these cards are capable of a maximum digital resolution of 4,096 x 2,160. However, your model iMac was only capable of 2,560 x 1,440 internal resolution, and up to 2,560 x 1,600 for external displays.

I'm not sure for the exact reason of the apparent discrepancy, so I can't guarantee there'd be absolutely no way to achieve what you want. However, I very much doubt it'd be economical to achieve.


The first thing I noticed in your debug output is that you are attempting a connection to a public IP rather than an internal IP address.

This raises the question of where that IP address hits before it gets to your Mac. Almost certainly you have a router that is getting in the way.

Try making the connection to the Mac's internal address from another machine sitting inside your net. This is much more likely to work. Go to the "Network" preference pane in System Preferences and this will tell you what the network address of your Mac actually is.


Prevent Network-Discovery on Infrastructure side

It's possible to block Bonjour traffic by configuring pf to disallow:

MAC addresses:
01:00:5E:00:00:FB – IPv4
33:33:00:00:00:FB – IPv6
IP addresses:
224.0.0.251 – multicast IPv4 address
FF02::FB – multicast IPv6 address
UDP port 5353

However, this will also impact your own regular and "desirable" hosts.

One possibility is to configure a VLAN and set it up as default network for your clients. A VLAN - properly set up - spans its own broadcast domain which can't be bypassed or bridged by Bonjour traffic.

You need appropriate devices in your network environment to be able to create VLANs.


iOS 8 AppleID/iCloud says pass/id incorrect, but definitely not

I believe it is safe to presume that the problem was the length of my passwords. When I reduced the length from 16 characters to something less everything started working peachy.


How much does replacing the screen of iPod touch 4th gen cost in India?

Try www.irepair.in also avl @ Hyderabad. Original screen replacement costs approx 5k. Apple will replace the product if it's out of warranty for 9.2k.


Can't boot into Mac OS after Windows install via Bootcamp

The small partition you've deleted is your on-board Recovery HD. But deleting it isn't the real reason why you can't boot. You hosed your GUID partition table by manipulating it from inside Windows 10.

The basic steps you have to execute are:

Preparation:

Detach any external drive (especially an external Time Machine backup drive).
Restart to Internet Recovery Mode by pressing alt cmd R at startup.
The prerequisites are the latest firmware update installed, either ethernet or WLAN (WPA/WPA2) and a router with DHCP activated.
On a 50 Mbps-line it takes about 4 min (presenting a small animated globe) to boot to a recovery netboot image which usually is loaded from an apple/akamai server.

I recommend ethernet because it's more reliable. If you are restricted to WIFI and the boot process fails, just restart your Mac until you succeed booting.

Alternatively you may start from a bootable installer thumb drive (Mavericks or Yosemite) or a thumb drive containing a full system (Mavericks or Yosemite).

Modify GUID partition table:

Open in the menubar Utilities/Terminal

First you should get an overview of your disks and the partition layout:

Enter diskutil list, diskutil cs list and gpt -r show /dev/disk0

diskutil list:

bash-3.2# diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME               SIZE      IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partItion_scheme                   *251.0 GB  disk0
   1:                        EFI EFI                209.7 MB  disk0s1
   2:          Apple_CoreStorage                    209.4 GB  disk0s2
   3:         Microsoft Reserved                     16.8 MB  disk0s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP            41.4 08  disk0s4
/dev/disk1
   #:                       TYPE NAME               SIZE      IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                     *1.3 GB  disk1
   1:        Apple_partition_map EFI                 30.7 KB  disk1s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS OS X Base System     1.3 GB  disk1s2
/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME               SIZE      IDENTIFIER
   0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD      *209.0 GB  disk2

/dev/disk3 - /dev/disk13 part of the Recovery System

diskutil cs list:

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 017D5AE8-30F7-45E1-879E-BB02C0EC3DC1
    =========================================================
    Name:         Macintosh HD
    Status:       Online
    Size:         209371209728 B (209.4 GB)
    Free Space:   35655680 B (35.7 MB)
    |
    +-< Physical Volume FB261C56-1F49-4690-9B15-8C4EAA4770B0
    |   ----------------------------------------------------
    |   Index:    0
    |   Disk:     disk0s2
    |   Status:   Online
    |   Size:     209371209728 B (209.4 GB)
    |
    +-> Logical Volume Family A62719EC-A4E5-4821-B7E0-831444CC3...
        ----------------------------------------------------------
        Encryption Status:       Unlocked
        Encryption Type:         None
        Conversion Status:       NoConversion
        Conversion Direction:    -none-
        Has Encrypted Extents:   No
        Fully Secure:            No
        Passphrase Required:     No
        |
        +-> Logical Volume D0DEC2A0-0E60-49B1-9758-40E7677A5346
             Disk:                  disk2
             Status:                Online
             Size (Total):          209000005632 B (209.0 GB)
             Conversion Progress:    -none-
             Revertible:            Yes (no decryption required)
             LV Name:               Macintosh HD
             Volume Name:           Macintosh HD
             Content Hint:          Apple_HFS

gpt -r show /dev/disk0:

bash-3.2# gpt -r show /dev/disk0
    start      size index contents
        0         1       PMBR
        1         1       Pri GPT header
        2        32       Pri GPT table
       34         6
       40    409600     1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
   409640 408928144     2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
409337784        72
409337856     32768     3 GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE
409370624  80863232     4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7
490233856       863
490234719        32       Sec GPT table
490234751         1       Sec GPT header

Unmount the CoreStorage volume first and then the main disk:

diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk2
diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk0

then delete the Windows partitions on your main disk with gpt:

gpt remove -i 4 /dev/disk0
gpt remove -i 3 /dev/disk0

If you get an error "gpt remove: unable to open device '/dev/disk0': Resource busy" trying to remove a second (or third) partiton just repeat

diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk2
diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk0

After deleting or adding a partition with gpt the system sometimes|often|always tries to immediately mount all remaining partitions. If you get an error similar to "disk2 is not mounted" trying to unmount disk2, just continue with diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk0.
delete the GUID partition table and force create a new one:

gpt destroy /dev/disk0
gpt create -f /dev/disk0

add the EFI-partition and the Macintosh HD Logical Volume Group with gpt

gpt add -b 40 -i 1 -s 409600 -t C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B disk0
gpt add -b 409640 -i 2 -s 408928144 -t 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC disk0

disk0 and the CoreStorage should be mounted automatically after adding the second volume. Please check this with diskutil list and df. Your CoreStorage volume may have different DiskIdentifier now. After entering diskutil list to get the DiskIdentifier of your CoreStorage volume enter df and check if the file system is mounted. The output is similar to that one:

User$ df
Filesystem     512-blocks       Used  Available Capacity   iused     ifree %iused  Mounted on
...
/dev/disk13     6066780416 5444610552  621657864    90% 680640317  77707233   90%  /Volumes/Macintosh HD
...

If the CoreStorage wasn't mounted earlier, you may mount it with diskutil mount /dev/disk13 (or whatever the DiskIdentifier of your CoreStorage Volume is).
open Disk Utility and verify/repair first the hard drive, then the CoreStorage volume. If the CoreStorage wasn't mounted earlier

Expand the CoreStorage volume:

expand the Macintosh HD Logical Volume Group to the full available size of your main disk:

diskutil cs resizeStack LVUUID size #LVUUID = Logical Volume UUID

In your case (just copy the UUID of the Logical Volume in the "diskutil cs listing" you got earlier and paste it here. The UUID below might be faulty because I OCRed your screenshot):

diskutil cs resizeStack D0DEC2A0-0E60-49B1-9758-40E7677A5346 0g

If you encounter an error like "Error: -69722: You can't perform this resize unless it has a booter (target partition is probably too small)" here, you have to revert your CoreStorage volume to a normal volume:

diskutil cs revert LVUUID

In your case:

diskutil cs revert D0DEC2A0-0E60-49B1-9758-40E7677A5346

Then quit Terminal by entering exit and open Disk Utility. Mount the volume Macintosh HD if unmounted and verify/repair it. Choose the hard disk and then the partition tab. Expand the volume with the slider to the full size of your hard disk.

Recreate Recovery HD

now try to boot to Macintosh HD
by reinstalling Lion with the latest Lion installer (10.7.5) your Recovery HD will be recreated. Your data and already installed applications shouldn't be affected by reinstalling Lion. If you had no CoreStorage volume, you may use Recovery Partition Creator 3.8 instead.

Reinstall Windows 10

Install Windows 10 with the Boot Camp Assistant

If you run into problems please add a comment with @klanomath


Why are there mainly entries of already uninstalled programs in the Console?

It's trying to start the nonexistent apps.

From the console entry com.apple.launchd.peruser.502 we know it's trying to start on behalf of user (instead of system or administrator) that has UID 502.

You can get particular user's account name with id -u -n 502.

I'd look at following places:

Login items

Go to System Preferences->Users & Groups. Choose appropriate user and select Login Items tab.

Look if you recognize uninstalled applications in the list and delete them. You have to select the app and press '-' beneath the list.

Launchd

Start the terminal. Enter launchctl list and see if you find uninstalled apps in there. False entries can be removed by launchctl remove label, for example launchctl remove de.novamedia.NML2NDeviceObserver.

Repeat the process, but this time prepend sudo to commands, like sudo launchctl list, to catch all the apps executed in system context.

You can find out more about launchd and launchctl by entering man launchd and man launchctl.

Launchd configurations

Look into following directories (from man launchctl):

~/Library/LaunchAgents - Per-user agents provided by the user
~/Library/LaunchAgents - Per-user agents provided by the administrator
/Library/LaunchDaemons - System wide daemons provided by the administrator.
/System/Library/LaunchAgents - OS X Per-user agents
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons - OS X System wide daemons

If you find a file referring to uninstalled app, remove it (you'll need to sudo rm for items in 3, 4 & 5).

More about those files in http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/MacOSX/Conceptual/BPSystemStartup/Chapters/CreatingLaunchdJobs.html especially 'The launchd Startup Process'.


You can run the Apple Hardware Test to confirm first.  Basically boot your Mac up and hold the D key and you will be prompted for some instructions.

To reinstall your Mac with new SSD you can try the Internet Recovery. For this one you boot up your Mac holding down the Command + R keys.  It will take a very long time to complete depending on the speed of your Internet connection.  According to Apple this only works if you had OS X Lion or later.  I have also had mixed success with the Internet Recovery.

Second option to reinstall your Mac is to get a friend with a Mac to create a bootable USB for you.  I won't go into the details on how to create a bootable Mac USB because there is tons of questions like this on Stack Exchange already.  This would be my preferred way of reinstalling.

Creating bootable USB Links

How do I make a bootable USB flash drive a Mac?


My ethernet is missing, how can i find it?

Click the + button on the bottom left, and select Ethernet from the menu to add it.


My solution for you:

brew install icu4c

Read the message after install (nothing is at this moment direct available ...):

  ==> Caveats,
  This formula is keg-only, which means it was not symlinked into /usr/local.

brew list icu4c | grep uconv

  /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/55.1/bin/uconv

  /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/55.1/share/man/man1/uconv.1

And after all, here my example for using this tool for normalization (NFC) utf8 text:

/usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/55.1/bin/uconv -f utf-8 -t utf-8 -x NFC ~/Desktop/ue.txt |  od -t x1


How do I run an app in Full Screen mode on OS X Lion on my second monitor?

This is an excerpt of Apple's AppKit Release Note for Lion regarding full screen apps & multiple desktops.

  Multiple Monitors and Full Screen (New since early 2011 seed)

  We have made some simplifying assumptions for Lion Full Screen
  behavior on multiple monitors. Multiple monitors are treated as a
  single unit by Spaces, and therefore are also treated as a single unit
  in Full Screen. This means that all monitors will be dedicated to
  windows belonging to the full screen application, and there can be
  only one primary full screen window visible at a time. A secondary
  monitor is useful for inspector windows.

  Secondly, because the menu bar is located on the main monitor, the
  primary full screen window will be located on the main monitor as
  well. This allows the menu bar, floating toolbar, and full screen
  window to maintain their interrelationship on the same monitor.

The full document can be found here:
https://developer.apple.com/library/content/releasenotes/AppKit/RN-AppKitOlderNotes/index.html#10_7FullScreen

According to this document, your full screen apps will always be shown on your primary monitor, and there is nothing that can be done about it.


How to open the wifi sign-in page when it doesn't pop up automatically

When the log in gets eaten by other software or times out, just open your chosen web browser and navigate to http://captive.apple.com

Some interesting tidbits:

How captive.apple.com is used by non-Apple devices?
How to disable captive.apple.com?
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Text Message showing up with wrong name on iPhone

Open settings, tap iMessage, then go to send and receive. From here, you may edit which messages are sent and received by her. See below for screenshots of the process.

Best of luck.


How to change the default dictionary on iPhone & Mac?

In order to change the priority on your Dictionary App, go do Dictionary > Preferences.

Choose the dictionaries you want to be activated — assuming you have them installed — and drag them to choose the priority, *from top (highest priority) to bottom.

Note that if you look for a word in a certain language, dictionaries that don't have that word won't appear in the search results.

Change localization on your Mac:

Go to System Preferences > International > Languages.
Click on "Edit list" to add/remove the dictionaries.
Drag the dictionaries in the list itself to sort the priority which works from top to bottom.


is it a problem to buy an iPhone in a different country?

There are two issues:

First, while Apple's warranty is international, Apple sometimes limits overseas service to the country where the device was purchased, or requires users to return the item to the US for service. This stackexchange answer has more information.

Second, she must be careful to purchase a model which will cover the phone bands she expects to use. iPhones sold in different countries sometimes have different coverage, and often multiple models (band coverage-wise, not "7" or "8" or "X" - wise) are offered. This Apple webpage, for example, lists the models that will provide LTE coverage as well as the bands covered. (I know it's bad form to refer to an external page, but the info is far too large to copy-and-paste into this answer.)


My iPhone 4 phone number is disconnected and I can't use FaceTime or iMessage

Do you have an Apple ID? Also, just to confirm, what version of iOS are you using?

To use FaceTime with your Apple ID, navigate to Settings → FaceTime and tap Use your Apple ID for FaceTime.

To use iMessage with your Apple ID, navigate to Settings → Messages → Receive At and tap Use your Apple ID for iMessage.

Other Troubleshooting Steps:

Note: After each of the listed steps, be sure to try the steps listed above

Update to the latest version of iOS.
Ensure that you have an active Internet connection. You can complete activation using Wi-Fi or a cellular data connection. Check your Wi-Fi network using standard Wi-Fi network troubleshooting.
If you receive an error when signing in to your Apple ID, visit myinfo.apple.com, sign in to your account, and ensure that the primary email address has been verified.
Ensure that FaceTime has not been restricted: Settings → General → Restrictions → FaceTime.
In Settings → General → Date & Time, ensure that Set Automatically is on. If Set Automatically is on, but the incorrect time zone is displayed, turn Set Automatically off and then choose the correct time zone, date, and time. Then turn Set Automatically on again.
Enable iMessage and FaceTime while connected to another Wi-Fi network in a different location.

You can check if Facetime / iMessage is activated with the following steps:

Settings → FaceTime → You can be reached by FaceTime at:
Settings → Messages → Send & Receive → You can be reached by iMessage at:

If you look above, you can see an example picture. Yours will not have a phone number, but instead your Apple ID.

See more steps and information in Apple Support article TS4268: Troubleshooting FaceTime and iMessage activation.


How can I import a .terminal file using the command line?

Use the open command, followed by the preference change:

open ~/MyTerminalSettings.terminal
defaults write com.apple.terminal "Default Window Settings" "MyTerminalSettings"

The open command will further open a new Terminal window, but the script will continue running in the original window, and you can close the new window when convenient.


Back up my Photos library from Recovery Mode in macOS Sierra

.photoslibrary is actually a package (i.e. a folder) which is why Dropbox has difficulty uploading it in one go. Instead, try zipping it first in Terminal using the following:

zip -r /path/to/zippedphotos.zip /path/to/yourlibrary.photoslibrary


What is the shortcut for fullscreen mode in Lion?

ctrl+⌘+F works for Safari and Chrome.

The ^ is old unix style for ctrl, which is why the option in the menu is:

Edit:

While the answer above only works for both Safari and Chrome, the following shortcut works only for Chrome and Firefox:

⇧+⌘+F


I've noticed the same thing. I have not come up with an elegant solution (and in fact, you sound better educated on the problem than I am).

This definitely falls under the category of "kludge" but it does work. Access the TV-connected Mac from another Mac on the same network using Screen Sharing (technically this would work under any VNC connection). Go into System Preferences: Displays and click the "Detect Displays" button. You could speed this up a little by adding a Displays menu to the menubar--"detect displays" is right there, and easier to get at.

This suggests that it should be possible to script the interaction so that with a combination of a programmable remote, Remote Buddy, and a suitable macro, you could force the Mac to re-recognize the screen. Still not ideal, but it should be workable.


If your Mac supports 10.7 or later, see the "Installing OS X on an external storage device" section in http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4718.

Open Disk Utility when started up normally. Select the SSD, open the Partition tab, set the partition layout to one partition, set the format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and press the Apply button.
Download an OS X installer from App Store and install it on the SSD.

You can copy the old files manually or by using Migration Assistant. If you can't download the installer from App Store, you can also download and install OS X from the recovery partition.

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