clipboard not working after Security Update

I had a similar situation, though it was caused by a sudden power-down in my case. Copy did not work in any of the apps I tried - viewing clipboard showed it to be empty. Restarting or logging out and logging in did not help. After several hours I stumbled onto an answer, which helped me.

In short, run in Terminal command, which rebuilds a cache of shared system services.

sudo update_dyld_shared_cache

Probably I restarted my Mac after that.


"Updates not installed" after updating all applications in app store

Somehow your installed copy of Safari became corrupted.

Delete Safari, then reinstall your current version of macOS.  That will reinstall a good copy of Safari, and then you should be able to install any updates.


Why automator's component "Get Selected Finder Items" duplicates path of selected file?

When run from the Automator app it needs the Get Selected Finder Items action, however when run as a Quick Action from Finder it isn't needed as the selected files in Finder are passed to the Quick Action.

You need to remove or disable the Get Selected Finder Items action to have the duplication stopped when run as a Quick Action.

To disable an action, check the [√] Ignore this action's input under the action's Options.


Screenshot paste only works in some apps, not in Google Chrome

I've seen this kind of behaviour with other functionality, try the following command in Terminal (may require sudo)

Change directory to "/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/"

cd /System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/

./lsregister -kill -seed

OR

/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -seed

This rebuilds the launch services database, sometimes corruption in this can cause weird behaviour

EDIT:
Since the above didn't help let's try something else.  When you use shift+control+command+4 to copy a section of the screen to the clipboard you can view the clipboard contents.
To do so, switch to Finder and click Edit > Show Clipboard to show the contents of the clipboard.  You should see something like this window pop up that says "Clipboard" at the top and has a description of the clipboard contents in the bottom-left corner.  Do you get the same thing?


How to get iOS 6 podcast app to resume the last played podcast

If you run enough other apps for Podcasts to be unloaded from memory, resuming from the lock screen will start playing the Music app.  There's no way around it.  The only thing you can do for now is to delete the Podcasts app so you can play from Music again (after quitting and restarting it), and join the thousands of other people giving it 1 star in iTunes.


Bluetooth connection instability with Magic Mouse on El Capitan

In System Preferences for Bluetooth you can check the box to "Show Bluetooth in menu bar." Then, hold down the option key and click the Bluetooth icon when paired with your device. You'll see a new option to "Create Diagnostics Report on the Desktop." This will give you more details to further debug or diagnose what's going on, particularly the files pmset_everything.txt, and com.apple.Bluetooth.plist in the section on BluetoothStats. My system displays 0 for all the stats except 1 for CommandTimeouts.


Completely uninstall iOS App and all associated data

Please try the following:

Go to Settings --> General --> (iPhone/iPad/iPod/ect.)Storage --> Select app and "Delete App"

Go to Settings --> Profiles & Device Management (Could also be called "Profiles", if you don't use this feature, it will not be there) and delete any app data.

Go to Settings --> [Your Name] (At the very top) --> iCloud --> Manage Storage --> Select the app and "Delete Data"

Delete and re-install the "Test Flight" app

Completely reset the device (Press and hold Home and Sleep until the Apple logo appears)

5a. If this device is only for testing, you can go to Settings --> General --> Reset --> Reset All Settings

Reinstall the app

Let me know if it works!


they should be in the

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.Notes/Data/Library/Notes/

suggested settings to keep a copy on your hard drive


Force quit Finder.app using this method:

Terminal: "killall Finder"

or

hold the Option key and right click on the Finder icon in the dock. Select "Relaunch"


Backup camcorder using Final Cut Pro or iMovie

Firstly, it's well worth upgrading your FCPX to the latest (2018: 10.4.3) it should remain compatible, costs you no extra, and is a massive improvement. Don't do this mid-project; allow yourself time to adjust.

1: Yes, FCP can archive a connected camera. It produces the .fcparch file (which is actually a bundle containing all the original video files on your camera). Basically, the .fcarch file is a clone of the video parts of the card from your camera, is roughly the same size, and the FCP X Import window can read it just like a connected camera. See "Create and Manage Camera Archives" in FCP X help.

2: If you want to backup your AVCHD camera to a NAS, just directly copy the PRIVATE folder you see at the root level of the camera card into its own folder on your NAS, which you could name after the card's number / reel number to distinguish it from all the other PRIVATE folders.


Quick Look Window - Pause video shortcut

Yes, you can simply press this key on keyboard. Press again and video will resume.


Keyboard shortcut to turn off automatic highlighting in preview?

To turn it off, you have to go back to "text selection mode" but unfortunately, there's no keyboard short cut.   From the Tools menu, you would click on Text Selection to get out of the automatic highlight/underline/strikeout mode.

However, we can create one!
In System Preferences → Keyboard → App Shortcuts create a new shortcut by clicking the "+".  Then, in the drop down, select "Preview" for the App, type the exact name of the menu title, in this case "Text Selection" and assign it a shortcut.  I used ⌘ Command^ ControlT to stay consistent with the other shortcuts.


How do I stop a 2012 iMac internal Fusion drive from powering up

I want to completely stop my internal fusion drive from powering up, since I no longer use it and it is very noisy.

You cannot prevent your mechanical drive from powering up.

It’s a standard 3.5” SATA hard drive with a power connector directly connected to the power supply.  There’s no switch or command you can issue that will cut off the power to the drive.  Repartitioning it and wiping it clean won’t prevent it from spinning up and doing its periodic reads.

The only solution is to disconnect it.

However, since you have to go through the trouble of cutting through the adhesive holding the glass, you might as well upgrade the drive to an SSD.  I’ve done this exact procedure - it’s not difficult, just time consuming.


Difference between auto-downloading "all" podcasts vs. "most recent"

From my experience, the Podcast.ipa will stop downloading podcasts if you haven't listened to several recent ones. It will update the list to say that they are there but it will not download them unless, I think, the most recent 3-5 episodes have been placed.

"Most Recent" in the context of Podcast.ipa means it will keep the 3 most recent episodes on your iOS device. It will still sync/save where you last listed to previous episodes but it removes it to conserve space. If you have all selected it will download the most current one and update in the future while retaining all episodes that it/you has/have downloaded until you "physically" delete it from the list/device.

But I too have noticed an issue with the last couple versions of the Podcast.ipa where it doesn't download even though I am subscribed and it is set to download "All" I think this is bug at this point in time and hope that they fix it soon. (http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html)


What folders can be safely excluded from Time Machine backup?

The simple answer is to exclude any files that you create or download that you won't need for a restore (this includes files that you're able to re-download or restore/rebuild from another source if necessary).

Time Machine does not actually backup everything. On the contrary, by default it is configured intelligently to exclude folders like ~/Library/Caches, ~/Library/Logs and many others that are temporary in nature, can be rebuilt from available data and are not required during a system restore. Adding these folders to your exclusion list is not necessary and is redundant.

The default list of files and folders that Time Machine excludes from its backup is listed in /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist. You can verify that the caches and logs folders are in this exclusion list.

For more information, see:

What should I exclude, and what should I not exclude?.
How can I find exactly what files are included in my last Time Machine backup?
On OS X, what files are excluded by rule from a Time Machine backup?

Personally, I exclude two kinds of folders:

Folders that contain temporarily used files that I can get from another source if I need them.
Folders containing large files that may change frequently. For example, large media files that I may add and delete often are excluded from Time Machine because they would fill up the backup disk very quickly. Those are, however, covered in a full disk clone (that I manage with a limited backup of older files).


First, make sure what you're seeing is actually Camera Roll and not Photo stream.

Tap Settings > General > Usage.
Wait for the "Storage" section at the top to populate (can take a
while).
Tap "Photos & Camera".
Tap "Camera Roll".

This will display the usage for each section. If it's Photo Stream then you have your answer. If it's actually the Camera Roll re-populating then you should check iTunes and make sure that "Sync Photos from" is unchecked.

If it was checked, uncheck it and do a sync again. That should clear it out.


Command + Option + [

or

Command + Option + ]

to navigate between open documents in the single window.


how do i access my @me.com email account

At iCloud.com you can see your mail, calendar, etc :)


Automator service to look up words works with Latin characters but not Chinese characters

The following example AppleScript code combines the three Automator actions shown in your OP into one Run AppleScript action.
Selecting the first Chinese character, from the link in your OP, and running the Automator Service/Quick Action it worked for me by opening a new tab to the target URL.

Note that as coded it assumes Google Chrome is already running with at least one window already opened and it further assumes you are selecting the text in the active tab of the front window, otherwise the coding of the tell block for Google Chrome needs to be modified.
The script uses AppleScript's text item delimiters to do the same thing as: .replace(/\s/g, '')

on run {input, parameters}

    set searchString to input as text

    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
    set searchString to text items of searchString
    set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
    set searchString to searchString as text

    tell application "Google Chrome"
        tell front window
            set curTabIndex to active tab index
            set URL of (make new tab) to ¬
                "http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/search/?searchtype=2&text=" & ¬
                searchString
            set active tab index to curTabIndex
        end tell
    end tell

end run

Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and does not contain any error handling as may be appropriate. The onus is upon the user to add any error handling as may be appropriate, needed or wanted.


What are the correct .Trashes Sharing & Permission settings?

Mine is at this:

d-wx-wx-wt    2 root  wheel       68 Jan 15 17:05 .Trashes/

Or, from the finder, all privileges are set to:

Write only (Drop Box)


No, this cannot be done as far as I am aware. It may be possible to hack together some way to fool it into working, but I would be willing to bet that it would eventually (and by 'eventually' I mean 'fairly soon' not 'some day before the sun goes out') fail.
Unless you have some specific reason to have to use Time Machine, I would recommend using CrashPlan instead of Time Machine. While there is a 'for pay' option with CrashPlan, you can use it completely free to back up to another computer anywhere. It doesn't matter if it's on the same network or across the Internet. You can set a very high encryption rate and customize the amount of CPU that the program uses. You also get much more control over the frequency of backups and how long information is retained. All in all it is a much better option than Time Machine or Time Capsule, in my opinion.

(I have no connection to the company except as a paying customer who is very satisfied with their service. I backup all of my laptops across the LAN to one 'retired' MacBook which has a very large external drive attached.)


This is a bug that occurs when the app in question is assigned to "All Desktops".

Here's a work-around: right click the App in the dock and select Options > Assign to > This Desktop or None.


Use Quicklook to see the Content of .JSON files?

also installable via

brew cask install qlstephen


Press and hold the C key on boot to attempt booting from the optical drive.

If that doesn't work I'd recommend trying the boot CD in another machine, and a different boot CD in the mac.


How do I use llvm-profdata in Mac OS X Yosemite?

You need to use the xcrun tool which will be in your path.

$ xcrun llvm-profdata <args>

The xcrun tool will execute the tool from the currently selected developer tools installation.

If you have Xcode installed you can select which developer tools are used with xcode-select. For example, if you have a beta version installed you can use that version of the command line tools with:

$ sudo xcode-select -s "/Applications/Xcode-beta.app"

and switch back with

$ sudo xcode-select -s "/Applications/Xcode.app"


There’s a lot to answer but here are my thinking:

Power off your Mac and reset the SMC one time - those blower speeds are non-sensical and look like an integer overflow.
Run software updates - apply EVERYTHING and consider downloading the OS installer and running it from Recovery HD - install right over your system as that won’t erase any accounts or settings and it will download EFI / firmware updates as needed - especially if you’re connected to a viable network when you reinstall.
A temperature of 100 C isn’t ridiculous - modern CPU run at the boiling point perfectly fine for extended periods - 43 C is a cool fall evening with a fresh breeze and nothing to worry about at all.
Don’t put much stock (if any) in the diagnostics - that’s designed to detect major component failures - not any sort of battery or fine grained test in my experience. Even the tests Apple runs at the Genius Bar while you wait are pretty trivial, basic tests.
Only 3 cycles on a battery makes me think you have a new Mac - be sure you contact iStat menus to be 100 % sure the software fully supports your specific model. I have seen new machines report nonsense until the vendor updates their software for new hardware and new sensors.


You could create an HTML page for this which refers to the icon.

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/custom_icon.png"/>

If you then open the web page and add the site to your home screen it will take custom_icon.png as your app icon.

For more detailed information have a look at Apple's developer page.


iMac connected to Wi-Fi but not to the Internet

Try to diagnose your internet connection:

System Preferences -> Network -> Assist me… -> Diagnostics…


You might use mkvextract to extract subtitles:

brew install mkvtoolnix;for f in *.mkv;do set $(mkvmerge -i "$f"|awk -F'[ :/)]' '/^Track ID [0-9]+: subtitles/{print $3,tolower($7);exit}');[[ $1 ]]&&mkvextract tracks "$f" "$1:${f%mkv}$2";done

Then use the external subtitles with the mp4 files.

The mp4 container doesn't support srt or ass subtitles, but it does support ttxt (MPEG-4 Part 17) and VobSub (sub and idx files). I couldn't get ffmpeg -i input.mkv -c copy -scodec mov_text output.mp4 to work though, or at least the subtitles weren't displayed by VLC or QuickTime Player.


is there a script to block outbound connection if vpn disconnects?

Some VPN providers have 'Internet kill switches' for their VPN that will cut your Internet connection in case of a disconnect so check yours.

There is a large number of 3d party applications that will disable the outbound traffic if VPN disconnect.

VPN watcher...and others.

I suggest you use one of those, since making a script would be like reinventing the wheel.

But if you have to here are the instructions how to.

Creating a kill switch for the OSX VPN client


Is my graphics card the bottleneck slowing down the pressure sensitivity on my graphics tablet?

OK, so after upgrading my Macbook to something with much more horsepower the problem still existed, but to a lesser degree. I also updated Illustrator, but unfortunately couldn't roll back to CS6.

The issue was lesser, but still a major problem. I just bought a similarly priced Wacom Intuos, and the experience is better in every way. No lag, perfect pressure sensitivity, and no sensation of long brush strokes becoming increasingly angular as they develop. Likely a poorly written driver from Huion - I would often find that pressure sensitivity would drop off the grid entirely until I restarted the driver process.

Moral of the story is not to buy Huion, unfortunately.


unable to install software update in macbook

Try to reset the PRAM before this update with CMD, OPT, P,R while the computer starting up. If the procedure done well the Mac will restart immediately.

If this doesn't work, I will try the update in Safe Boot (Boot while holding the SHIFT key, don't worry about the graphical artifacts).


Apps bought on iTunes not showing up on the iPhone 4

You need to enable automatic downloads.

In iTunes: iTunes > Preferences > click on the Store tab: there you can enable automatic downloads by separately checking the boxes next to 'Music', 'Apps' and 'Books'.

On your iOS device: Settings > Store: there you'll find switches to activate automatic downloads for 'Music', 'Apps' and 'Books'.

Note: If you only enable automatic downloads in iTunes music, apps and books downloaded on your iOS device will also download in iTunes on your computer. If you only enable automatic downloads on your iOS device the reverse is true. If you want it to work in both directions you need to enable it both in iTunes and on your iOS device.


Yes this can be done you can download iOS firmware from http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/

Once it is downloaded keep it on your desktop. Now put your device in DFU mode. (You can learn it from youtube if you dont know how to put your device in DFU mode.) iTunes will popup telling you it has discovered a device in recovery mode. Now press shift on your keyboard and click on restore. iTunes will start restoring your device.

NOTE: you might get few iTunes errors during the restore.


How practical is an iPad for "reading" programming books?

I use iBooks on the iPad to read all my development books, and if your doing iOS development you'll even find the Apple development books in eBook format. It's the main purpose I bought my iPad, and it definitely works for that purpose. Since iBooks can import PDF's even my older books I have scanned works.


Why is ~/Documents a symlink to itself, and how should this be fixed?

How is this possible?

It's easy to mess up when using ln on the command line. A symlink to self is legal (though nonsensical) so you wouldn't get an error when creating it.

  What can cause this configuration? Is there any legitimate reason it might be configured this way?

It's useless and should be removed. Once removed, they can create a new ~/Documents/ folder. If you're concerned about safety, keep in mind you can always drag things back from the trash.

  Is it safe to tell the user just to move all the contents somewhere safe, delete the folder, and then recreate it in the Finder?

If it's a symlink to self then it has no contents, because it's just a self-referential symlink. It's not a folder, it's just a recursive symlink. Finder is showing some folder that's named Documents but that doesn't mean it's showing ~/Documents/. You could create a folder with that name anywhere and add it to the Finder sidebar.

It would probably help to ask the user to cmd-click on the folder name at the top of the Finder window. That will show where it's located:


What makes a song 'explicit' in Apple's eyes....?

Looking up the iTunes User Guide, it defines "Explicit" as

A label—issued by media producers—that alerts consumers to content that might be inappropriate for children.

So, it appears that they are going off the RIAA's definition of "Clean/Explicit"
Additionally, I was able to find a  iTunes Users Guide for PC that goes into more detail:

The restrictions available depend on which store you use. In the U.S. iTunes Store, you can prevent anyone using your computer from previewing or buying:

Items with a Parental Advisory Label (from the Recording Industry Association of America website)

Movies that don’t have a specific rating (from the Motion Picture Association of America)

TV shows that don’t have a specific rating (from the TV Parental Guidelines Monitoring Board)


Can I keep the OS as-is, on swapping SSD on compatible Macbooks?

Yes, you can replace it without reinstalling the OS and keep the data.
The only issue you can face is a long time first boot.

But I recommend you to backup both disks to external drive like a Time Capsule or external hard drive before replacing.


Can I restore an application by application switching to it?

With the minimized application selected, start holding the ⌥ alt key before you release the ⌘ cmd key.


Apple support suggested the following:

Disable emergency alerts
Reboot the phone
Re-enable alerts.

This worked. I don't know why I wasn't getting them, but I get them now.


Coincidently the answer I got for another problem solved this one, too:

TotalSpaces2 displays the current space number in the menu bar.


macbook pro question mark on start up -no harddrive?

It looks like it's the SATA Flex cable used in the MacBook Pro that has died.  I have the same laptop and it's died as well.  You can either go to the Apple Store to have it replaced for a nominal fee, or do it yourself by ordering this part.


How to clear search history in Apple Maps

Looks like you have iCloud enabled, and it keeps putting the removed entries back

Settings app
Select your Apple ID
Tap iCloud
Scroll down to Maps
Toggle it off

Then go back to Maps and swipe to delete.


You cannot 'destroy' Apple IDs, they last forever.
You only need one ID. You can change the associated email address if needed.
The ID used to set up the phone or to download any software is the only one that can ever update or restore it.
Giving someone else your ID & password details is a security nightmare & foolish in the extreme - open to abuse at any time in the future.


Probably your pMBR/GPT got corrupted or the Base System is somehow mapped falsely. Usually the first partition (EFI) and the last partition (Recovery HD) aren't visible.
Additionally a freshly erased disk0s2 ususally contains ~200 MB and not 1.4 GB (which is "by accident" the uncompressed size of a Base System).

The best thing is to completly erase the internal disk by whether:

Booting to Internet Recovery Mode by hitting altcmdR immediately after the start chime, repartitionung the internal HDD to one partition and installing a new system.

or

Attaching a thumb drive and installing a fresh system there. After rebooting from the thumb drive, repartition the internal HDD and install a fresh system to the internal disk.

In both cases the invisible EFI partition will be build automatically as well as the Recovery HD while installing a new system.


Where to get iPhone app download statistics?

If it is the application you developed, you can access it from itunesconnect.apple.com which is called iTunes Connect, and that's how you should have uploaded your app to Apple in the first place.

You can also try a piece of software called AppFigures, which is essentially a portal to iTunes Connect, which I find easier to use and with more features.

Also: after not renewing your iPhone Developer licence, your apps will stay in iTunes Connect for some period of time, probably around a year before being deleted.


In terms of hardware, according to Mactracker, Mac Minis (and most other Macs) since early 2006 come with a 3.5-mm analog/optical combo jack and models since mid 2010 also come with an HDMI port, both of which should support multichannel audio if your source material provides it. You can find the specs for your own Mac by clicking the "This Mac" item in the left-hand pane.

Specs for the current (Mid 2011) Mac Mini say:

  HDMI port supports multichannel audio output

and for most of the other models, as an alternative to the 3.5-mm analog/optical combo jack, this Apple support page says that you can also use a mini Display port to HDMI adapter to receive multichannel audio and video (though I'm not sure what software support for this would be like):

  These computers supply multichannel audio (up to 8 channels) and video
  signals over Mini DisplayPort:

  MacBook (Mid 2010) and later

  MacBook Air (Late 2010) and later

  MacBook Pro (Mid 2010) and later

  Mac mini (Mid 2010) and later

  iMac (Late 2009) and later

  Mac Pro (Mid 2010)

  To connect your television or other
  HDMI devices to your Mac, use select third-party Mini DisplayPort to
  HDMI adapters that conform to the VESA v1.1a DisplayPort
  Interoperability Guidelines

Depending on the software player, it should be just a question of connecting the HDMI/optical output to your recevier and getting multichannel output. I use XBMC and get 5.1 surround sound output (AC3 or DTS) over HDMI, and I believe the latest "Eden" release supports 7.1. It also does blu-ray (rips only, I assume), DVD and has an excellent plug-in system which includes Netflix. Alternatively, Plex is an another alternative and will do much the same thing. Once you get your media set up, both will work pretty much out-of-the-box.

As for a TV tuner, Elgato's EyeTV looks very good.


Prevent saved home screen icons opening a browser without address bar?

The idea of "Add to Home screen" is to create an app-like experience for web apps, so this will not give a full browswer.

But there is an alternative: Use the Shortcuts app with an "Open URL" action and add the shortcut to your home screen.

Launch the Shortcuts app
Select "Create Shortcut"
Select "Add Action"
Select "Web", scroll down to the Safari section and select "Open URLs"
Tap on the "URL" placeholder and write your URL instead

Tap on the three dots on top right, assign a name and select "Add to Home Screen"


What is "routined" and why is it eating my CPU?

I wondered the same thing! It does have a small but somewhat helpful man page, which you can get via man routined in Terminal.

NAME
     routined -- A daemon that learns the historical location patterns of a user.

DESCRIPTION
     routined is a per-user daemon that learns historical location patterns of a user and predicts
     future visits to locations.

     There are no configurations to routined, and users should not run routined manually.

As to what it's doing? One way to find this out for (nearly) any process is to take a sample using Activity Monitor:

That will then produce a fairly verbose report that you can send to Apple using Feedback Assistant: https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/

In my sample, it appears to be training a machine learning model:

 +               1440 __44-[RTLearnedLocationEngine trainWithHandler:]_block_invoke  (in libcoreroutine.dylib) + 475  [0x7fff6ff29e85]
    +                 1440 -[RTLearnedLocationEngine _trainWithHandler:]  (in libcoreroutine.dylib) + 1041  [0x7fff6ff29612]
    +                   1440 -[RTLearnedLocationEngine _trainWithFromDate:ToDate:forLastLearnedVisit:handler:]  (in libcoreroutine.dylib) + 765  [0x7fff6ff2996a]
    +                     1440 -[RTLearnedLocationEngine _trainLocationsOfInterestModelWithError:]  (in libcoreroutine.dylib) + 121  [0x7fff6ff2a1f7]
    +                       1440 -[RTLearnedLocationEngine _relabelWithError:]  (in libcoreroutine.dylib) + 303  [0x7fff6ff2e58e]
    +                         1440 -[RTLearnedLocationEngine _relabelWithRelabeler:relabelerPersister:error:]  (in libcoreroutine.dylib) + 1619  [0x7fff6ff2ec22]
    +                           1440 -[RTLearnedLocationStore enumerateStoredLocationsOfInterestWithOptions:enumerationBlock:]  (in libcoreroutine.dylib)

I would expect such activity to eventually complete and stop chewing CPU, but you never know!


iTunes 12.3 doesn't recognize iPad 1 with iOS 5

Try using a different usb port and a different cable.
Failing that, go to settings and reset
Jo


How do I delete all of the music on my iPhone 5?

If all your music is deleted locally, then go to Settings => Music => Show All Music and uncheck the box. This will hide all music including the purchased one stored in the cloud.


I do not recall if gfxCardStatus allows you to adjust the usage of the card on different power systems or not but worth investigating.


You can also trim from the middle with QuickTime player, not just from the end. Position the marker at the start of your edit, and do commandY (Split Clip), Then move the red line to the end of the region you want to remove and split it again there. You can now select the mid portion of the video (it should get a yellow border) and delete it.

See below for the view when you have done both splits, but not yet deleted...


How to search PDFs and extract matching pages with Automator?

I realise this is a year after you asked the question but I liked the challenge. So, in summary this is how I would accomplish this...

For every PDF in folder, convert it to Text.
Use a perl command to search the text files for keyword and return the page number(s).
Use command line tool to extract page(s) from PDF.
Merge extracted pages.

You can do the first part easily enough with applescript/automator.

The perl command to get the page numbers is:

perl -ne 'print "$1$2" if /blah/ .. /--- Page (\d+) ---(\n)/'

The command tool to use to extract pages from PDF file can be found at
users.skynet.be/tools/

Finally to merge the single pages can be done with automator or the above tools as well.

Hope this helps.


How can I install Pages or iWork on a Mac running High Sierra 10.13.6?

From here I quote

Actually, if you have purchased/installed Pages, Keynote, or Numbers previously, if you sign-in with your AppleID and go to the Purchased section of the App Store, you will find the application install history.  When you click on the Install button there, it will ask you if you want to download the previous version of the app that will work on non 10.14 machines.


How to switch tabs with a German keyboard?

You should be able to switch tabs via the alternative shortcuts ⌃ control+tab and ⌃ control+⇧+tab.


This question was asked on Superuser.SE

The accepted solution is to use brew to install iproute2mac, which adds the ip command.


Why does my macbook pro displays random garbled blocks?

We had a lot of these problems in our store and in the most cases the graphic card was broken. You should run the Apple Hardware Test / Apple Diagnostics and look at the results.


Well, for one iPhoto doesn't have iCloud Photo Library implemented into it. There has been a new update to OS X that adds a new photos app, update your Mac using the Mac App Store ad then also update your iPhone to iOS 8.3 ad enable iCloud Photo Library. Everything will be synced: Edits,  deletes and additions.


Consider using AppleScript instead of, or in combination with, Automator. Automator does not easily fit into workflows that require conditional branches.

Conditional branches are steps within the workflow that perform an action depending on some state or situation. In this case, if the video file is present in the destination folder.

AppleScript can handle this type of task; as could a perl script or other scripting language.

See Can Automator branch based on the value of a variable or the result of a step? for a script based approach combined with Automator.

Scripted Approach

For tasks like this I prefer scripting languages like perl. Below is a script that should get you started - or that others can build on. It is untested, so treat with care:

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use File::Basename; # for fileparse

# WARNING: lack of error checking

# Use: ./move_srt.pl <path to source folder> <path to destination folder>

my $source_path = shift;
my $destination_path = shift;

# Get the video file names - without their 3 or 4 letter suffixes
my @destination_video_files = glob($source_path.'/*');
my %named_video_files = map { $_ => fileparse($_,qr/\..{3,4}/); } @destination_video_files;

# Get a list of srt files
my @source_srt_files = glob($source_path.'/*\.srt');

foreach my $source_srt_file (@source_srt_files) {
    print "[Encountered] $source_srt_file\n";

    # Strip suffix and check if video exists with same name
    my $named_srt_file = fileparse($source_srt_file,qr/\.srt/);
    if (exists($named_video_files{$named_srt_file})) {

        # Move the matching srt File
        system('/bin/mv '.$source_srt_file.' '.$destination_path);

        print "[Matched] $source_srt_file\n";
    } else {
        print "[Unmatched] $source_srt_file\n";
    }
}


AirPort Express - Create Network or Extend Network?

Choosing "Extend Network" will greatly reduce the bandwidth (read: download speeds) available to your devices connected via Wifi, since one router has to relay data to the next wirelessly.

Apple has a good support article on extending your network, the various choices and the impact it has. "In the case of a wirelessly extended network, throughput may be reduced to less than 60 percent of that of a single device.": https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202056

Since, as you say, you cannot interconnect your three Airports via Ethernet, the only choice is to extend. You can only "Create a New Network" if your Airport can reach your Internet router/modem via Ethernet.

If you have an ethernet connection to all three Airport routers, then creating a new network, even with the same name will give you better bandwidth, since the three routers should configure itself to be on different bands (or you could manually configure separate bands with the Airport utility as well).


OS X Server, from OS X Lion onwards, is just another app you buy from the Mac App Store and install. You do not need to do a fresh install of the OS. There are generally no special hardware requirements for OS X Server compared to the client edition either.

To move from OS X Mountain Lion client to OS X Mavericks server, you would first have to upgrade to OS X Mavericks client, then buy and install the Server App from the Mac App Store.

The General Requirements section on OS X Server Technical Specifications page currently states:

  Mac computer running Mountain Lion.
  2GB of memory.
  10GB of available disk space; some features require additional disk space.
  Some features require an Apple ID; terms apply.
  Some features require a compatible Internet service provider; fees may apply.
  Some features are not available in all countries.


Salt Water Damaged iPhone, Can I get the content off it?

What you described is called a boot loop.  It is caused by any number of things, but based on your description, it sounds like it was caused by physical damage.

Can this be recovered?

Yes, but there’s no software that gets around a physical problem.   For this type of issue, it’s possible that restoring your phone from a backup you may be able to “fix” the problem.  However, any data not backed up can and will be lost.

There are 3rd party services that offer recovery services - iPad Rehab is one such example.  They are a bit pricy, but on the flip side, they don’t charge you unless they’re successful. (I’m not affiliated, just very familiar with their offerings)


Visual Studios 2013 with VM on 12" mac1.3GHz Dual-Core Intel Core M

I guess you are talking about the latest MacBook and not Air or Pro?

VS will probably install and maybe even start, but the MacBook(without suffix) was never invented to be for developers, indeed it isn't even meant to complete any complicated tasks, but only Web and Office, which means that you won't be able to properly work with it.

I can only recommend buying a MacBook Pro which even starts cheaper at 1099$ with a 2.5 Ghz Dual-Core processor.


How to plot a histogram to show occurrence of a certain number using Numbers

Here is one way.
Step 1

Make a new sheet.
Make a table with one column and add your data to that column:

0.2
0.3
0.2
0.4

Make sure that this first table does not have a header column or a header row.

Step 2

In the same sheet as the first table, make a new table with two columns.
Give that table four rows (or more).
In the new table, make the first column a header column.
In that first column add in a list of values you want to 'count' on, e.g.:

0.1
0.2
0.3
0.4

In the second column, enter this formula in the first row =COUNTIF(Table 1 :: $A$1:A$4,A1) where 'Table 1 :: $A$1:A$4' is referring to the column of data in the first table, and 'A1' is referring to the cell in the first row of the first column in this second table.
Copy down the formula to the remaining rows in the second column of the second Table.

You should end up with the second table looking something like:

0.1    0
0.2    2
0.3    1
0.4    1

Step 3

Select the second table and click the Charts icon in the toolbar.
The first chart type (vertical bar chart) should be what you need. You can then use the Inspector to change the design of the chart.

Hope this helps. See the screen grab as that might help more.


How can I swap the contents of my two MacBooks?

You could use Migration Assistant to move from the old to the newer, although OS X seems to have its own ideas about which OS are acceptable. Time Machine is also a good way to transfer files to a new installation. If these work this is probably the easiest.

The ultimate tool is to use the command line tool rsync which can transfer files and also (optionally) delete unmatched files. I use this to copy my user files to an external HD, for transfer to other Macs. I use a simpler rsync command to restore selected data to other Macs - e.g. I can selectively copy email data between a portable and other Mac.

NOTE rsync does not need an external disk, but I prefer the security this offers.

The following script is used to copy my user data to a mounted disk.

#!/bin/bash
# 2015-03-31
BACKUP_MOUNTED=$(mount | awk '/\/Volumes\/volname / {print $3}')
if [ $BACKUP_MOUNTED ]; then
    echo $BACKUP_MOUNTED
    echo "Commencing Backup"
    rsync -a --delete-excluded --exclude=Library/Caches ~ /Volumes/volname
    echo "Finished Backup"
else
    echo "Backup drive not available"
fi


Keyboard shortcut to show Tags... dialog

This no longer seems possible with Mac OS 10.14. My workaround has been to use Keyboard Maestro, with the following macro:

For Each Item in the Collection Execute Actions
    For Each FilePath in the Finder selection
Execute the Following Actions:
    Get Tags to Variable ‘Tags’
    From file: %Variable%FilePath%

Prompt for User Input ‘Tags’
    Prompt: Enter tag to toggle
Input the following variables:
    Tags (default to ‘%Variable%Tags%’)
Finish with the following buttons:
    OK
    Cancel (cancel macro)

For Each Item in the Collection Execute Actions
    For Each FilePath in the Finder selection
Execute the Following Actions:
    Set Tags to ‘%Variable%Tags%’
    File: %Variable%FilePath%

If you select some Finder items and run this macro, it will prompt you to enter tags. You can enter multiple tags separated by commas. Pressing OK will apply those tags to the selected items. The prompt will be pre-filled with the tags of the last item in the selection (this part of the macro isn't ideal).


Can Messages display the timestamp of every incoming message?

iOS 7, which is now in the wild, can indeed show timestamps for every message. Just slide your finger right to left in a conversation.

Image: The Verge

(I literally yelled "finally!" while sitting at my desk when I read about this.)


It is possible to achieve this effect using Calendar and Automator:

Open Automator and create a Calendar Alarm.
Use the tasks “New mail message” and “Send Outgoing Messages”, customize them as required, and save (⌘S).
An event will be created in Calendar automatically. Move the event to when you want the message to be sent.


Is there anything stopping you from creating a separate user account for others to use in the office?

By explaining that the Mac might expose personal information due to the Apple ID on your user account, they should accept that there's a security risk to you if you allow everyone access on that account.

Alternatively, you could try to remember to sign out of iCloud each time you leave, however that wouldn't delete content stored locally already.


How can I tell whether my friend is using iMessage or Message to SMS me?

If the messages are grey then they are being received. The colour doesn't change on the type they use. However if you use iMessage then the message back will be iMessage unless it stats above it that it is a message, as both users need to have iMessage enabled at the same time to use the feature, otherwise an SMS message is sent.

If you scroll up in the message history you will see what the last type of message used was. There will be a line break with iMessage or Message written in it. All messages after that point are dove via this method, until a new break is made.


iTerm2 - Disable same commands across tabs

In the Menu: Shell > Broadcast Input > Send Input to Current Session Only


Scrolling of the terminal does not always stick to the bottom

Not related to the trackpad, but you can use your keyboard to scroll to the bottom of the document and be sure it sticks to it!

Press fn + RightArrow


I've not found anything that supports OS X as a the server, and Windows as the client.  The best solution I can suggest would be Belkins network USB hub or digi's AnyWhereUSB product.

http://www.belkin.com/networkusbhub/ - hardware share to win or os x
http://www.digi.com/products/usb/anywhereusb.jsp#overview - Hardware share to Win
http://www.virtualserialport.com/products/usb-over-network/ - Win/Linux - OS X coming soon
http://communities.vmware.com/thread/77230 - Reviews
http://www.intellidriver.com/products_1.16.html - Win
http://www.usb-over-network.com/usb-over-network.html - Win
http://www.fabulatech.com/ - Win/Linux
http://usbip.sourceforge.net/#about - Linux/Win


Although I do not know the problem, there are several solutions.

Reboot or Log out.
Kill the SystemUIServer process, either via Activity Monitor or via killall SystemUIServer. The UI server will restart and the problem will be gone. I've seen it happen that I needed to kill it twice to fully take effect.


How do I write to the device Console log from the command line?

Apple has a new logging system so the old tail and syslog commands are deprecated. To start down the new unified log path, open two windows the first will just stream the logs (and they will fly by quickly normally)

log stream

Then to emit a log:

logger -p user.error "my new alert"

More good links:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/os/logging
https://eclecticlight.co/2017/10/10/inside-the-macos-log-logd-and-the-files-that-it-manages/
http://krypted.com/mac-os-x/logs-logging-logger-oh/


I would advise against deleting the aliases since the design is to place them there. Since the entire cloud folder is synchronized you're fighting a losing battle when those aliases come back from the cloud or from the process that creates them. As a bonus, you already have one copy of those files stored elsewhere in iCloud drive, so perhaps you could make progress by moving the file so that it lives in preview rather than the other folder.

If you look in terminal - you will see that all the .alias files are hidden with a . to start the name and you could easily script deletion of these files with AppleScript, Automator, Hazel, cron with something as blunt as

rm ~/Library/Mobile\ Documents/com~apple~Preview/Documents/.[ABCDEF0123456789]*\.alias

I've tested that while looking at brctl log -w on OS X 10.11.1 (15B42) and the system seems to not misbehave and propagated the deletion up to the cloud properly, but I can't say I'd be comfortable with automating the deletion to run continuously or even regularly.


Open Disk Utility, select the RAID set and then click on RAID. Then click on Rebuild.


When the Wi-Fi diagnostics tool finishes, the logs get saved to your desktop.

If that didn't happen or was deleted, you will have to find them from a backup or re-run the tool.

Depending on what performance you are monitoring, I would start with the two files to get a summary of the signal and noise of your Wi-Fi recording session:

link-events.log:
link-info.log:


How do I add a directory to PATH when using `zsh` in Sierra

export

To change the path within your shell session, not system-wide, you can use the bash-style export command with zsh, as documented here.

The name of the PATH variable is case-sensitive and must be all-uppercase.

export PATH=$PATH:/folder/you/want

To verify your change, run:

echo $PATH

You will see results like this.

  /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/folder/you/want


Sharing OS X iTunes Library with Bootcamp?

This solution may very well not be to your taste, but the simplest thing I can think of that doesn't involve the phrases "disk partitioning" or "file permissions" would be to sign up for iTunes Match and match / upload your music collection, thereby making your music available to both your Windows and OS X partitions as though they were simply different devices (which, for all normal intents and purposes, they are).

I recognize the downsides to this approach:

The service isn't free (~$25-$30/year, depending on location), or even necessarily available in all countries
If you have a large library, you'll be using a lot of disk space to keep what are essentially duplicate files in each partition

But the result is a fairly painless and reliable solution, which does indeed keep your playlists, rating, and play counts in sync.


How can I remove DRM from my iTunes music without transcoding?

Apple offers a feature called iTunes Plus to upgrade most purchases to a DRM-free version for a small fee. This link will bring you directly to the appropriate section in iTunes to do this.


Have you checked to make sure that your CAPS LOCK key is turned on in your Keyboard Preferences?

Go to System Preferences -> Keyboard -> Modifier Keys. Make sure next to Caps Lock, it says Caps Lock and not "No Action".

Also, do you have any 3rd party Keyboard Modification Preference Panes installed, like KeyRemap4MacBook or PCKeyboard Hack? Those can be used in various ways to disable or otherwise alter the CAPS LOCK behavior.


You have two options to close an app:

With the application hidden (i.e. if you are currently at the home screen or are interacting with another app) you can double-press the home button, hold down any icon in the app switcher until they all start to wiggle, and press the minus icon in the top left corner of the app you want to close.
With the application in the foreground, you can hold down the power key until the "slide to power off" option appears, and then hold down the home button until the the application quits.

The first option is faster.


iphone 7 - messages on lock screen showing separately from the same sender

You need to re-enable the grouping setting:

Go to Settings → Notifications → Messages → Scroll down to Notification Grouping → Set it to Automatic


Device Enrollment works for desktop but fails for iOS devices

to allow the enrollment, I went to the Hardware and then select settings tab. there I went to custom SSL and then make sure that the certificate that was recognized by apple is selected for the web then it work...


mac OS microphone only works when using Siri, works fine on bootcamp

I had the same issue recently, and i found a seemingly stupid fix to it.

Go to system preferences, keyboard, and access the dictation and try using it on any document. The default to using dictation on my mac was double tapping Fn button. Strangely enough my dictation feature worked and typed what i spoke on the screen as Siri did. Then, go back to your input devices and check if that "permanently" fixed ur input issue; microphone should now also work without dictation being active.


LTE USB dongle Huawei datacard driver on macOS Mojave

You may be missing the following .kext driver:
/Library/Extensions/HuaweiDataCardDriver_10_9.kext

for the Huawei E3372 modem (aka Megafon M150-2).
As explained in this excellent blog post, you just need to download the driver for your macOS version:

macOS 10.14 Mojave
macOS 11.15 Catalina

and install it.
Note that the driver for Catalina won't work with macOS 11 "Big Sur".


A few applications are automatically opened when I first turn on the mac

Either these apps were running when you turned off the Mac and you are have selected to 'Reopen windows when logging back in' on the log off or shutdown dialog, or you have these apps listed in the Login Items list available from System Preferences → Users & Groups.


What is special about Preview added text or shape elements? Can I move other elements besides these?

The items you add using Preview.app (text, shape elements, etc.) are annotations (technically correct term), also called "comments".

The example you mention to move around using Acrobat are part of the contents of the document.

Annotations and contents are two completely different things in a PDF.

Acrobat (Standard, Pro) has the tools to access both. Preview.app (and Acrobat Reader) have the tools to access annotations, but not to access contents. (a bit of a rant: …and that's good so, considering how badly Preview.app can mess up PDFs…).


What type of bracket to use for HDD/SSD in optical bay? (MCE vs. OWC)

The only really important thing when choosing a bracket is to get one of the correct height.  You can get 9.5mm and 12.7mmm "tall" versions, and some machines will only take the thinner of the two so choose carefully in that respect.

Other than that, what is important is difficult to canonically state further it depends on what type of machine you are putting it in, and what sort of drive you will use etc, but I would have the following observations instead:

Open Bracket Type:

Sometimes these are simply mounting brackets, without the SATA adapter mounted in the corner
If you are running a hot drive, then heat build up may be less of an issue.  However, keep in mind that this is an unlikely scenario with an SSD, and if you are using a traditional spinning platter drive, then this type of bracket may not provide optimally tight fixing (it's not screwed in on both sides) which could be a vibration problem

Caddie type:

These have a full height end plate where the CD is normally inserted.  It's important to close off the slot to prevent dust ingress, and if you don't want to tape to your case, then sticking a little strip of foam on here is an effective barrier
Not so much for Macs which always us a slot loading device rather than a tray system, but the caddie type usually comes with a fake CD-Tray strip that you can use to block off the hole in your case, which won't come with (or fit to) a bracket type device.


Can I hook up a MyBook Thunderbolt Duo external drive to a late 2009 Mac with mini DisplayPort?

Nope. Mini DisplayPort has a physically compatible connector to Thunderbolt, but it's a totally different technology. You can only use Thunderbolt devices with Thunderbolt equipped Macs (or PCs).


iTunes to iPhone cannot sync parts of the iTunes music library

How did you add the music to iTunes? Did you drag and drop it into the iTunes windows itself or did you manually add the music to the local folder?

If you manually added the music to the to the local folder then you need to "re-sync" your iTunes library so that the music appears in iTunes application.

Just choose "Add Folder to Library" and choose your iTunes music folder so that it "re-syncs" your library and ALSO adds all the new songs to your list as well.

You can add songs manually to your iTunes music folder without them appearing in iTunes if you navigate to the iTunes music folder itself on your computer and just drop the music in. iTunes tells you in the preferences:

But all of this is irrelevant until you tell us how you added the music to your computer???????

Hope this helps!


Slow connection to my particular brand of router over WiFi with Lion on MacBook Pro

Have you tried flushing the DNS cache? In Terminal.app, enter dscacheutil -flushcache.

It could be your DHCP router handing out IPv6 information incorrectly, which is especially annoying if you don’t need IPv6 — like at home. This seems like the most logical explanation, given that all browsers and applications are suffering from the speed issues.

Go to System Preferences → Network → WiFi → Advanced → TCP/IP and set “Configure IPv6” to “Link-local only”.


Airport Extreme Guest Network and Dual-band

Guest network is just a VLAN and doesn't otherwise affect the channels or the antennas.

So - the guests could use bandwidth because they are connected, so if you ignore those effects, the guest network just tags along with the main channels and settings which doesn't have any major effects on the system.


Take the side off & look ;)
A 6-core is probably a single socket, a 12 would be a dual.
You can also tell from About this Mac > Memory.
Dual socket has 8 RAM slots, single has 4.
single…

dual…

The sockets are on a daughter-card which slides out & is replaceable/interchangeable.
Image from OWC


I "erased all content and settings", but did not sign out of iCloud before selling my iPhone?

No, once you "Erase all content and settings" your iPhone is basically back to factory settings and the new owner will not be able to sync with or sign in to your iCloud account.


Automatic shutdown hindered by sleep mode

You can use a third party tool like Power Manager to automate reliable shut downs.

By default, events will wake a sleeping Mac before being performed. Typically your Mac will be woken 15 – 30 seconds before the scheduled shut down begins. Ultimately, the wake up is performed by OS X's IOPMQueue which you can see and edit through the pmset tool.

I am the engineer behind Power Manager, so do ask if you need more details.


First, close the app store or itunes, etc.  I fixed this by opening a terminal, then getting a super user terminal:
sudo su -
enter your password
now be careful. You are root.

Next we want to kill all the App Store related processes.  This doesn't hurt anything.  Let's find them using the ps command and then using the grep search utility to get down to what we want.

MacBook-Pro:~ root# ps -ef |grep store |grep -vi google
  501  9284     1   0 21Dec15 ??         0:08.90 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/storeassetd
  501  9349     1   0 21Dec15 ??         0:00.73 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/storeinappd
  501  9353     1   0 21Dec15 ??         0:01.91 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/storedownloadd
  501  9459     1   0 21Dec15 ??         0:00.17 /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/CommerceKit.framework/Versions/A/Resources/storelegacy

The second column is the process ID we want.  We want to use the kill command:

kill 9284 9349 9353 9459

The numbers will be different on your PC.  Open up app store and it should work!
I have also read other ways - removing some verisign keys from the key chain app, and others, but this is what fixed me.


Why are Firefox and Safari having problems with certain PDF files on the web?

Adobe's Safari plugin for their PDF Reader doesn't work in 64 bit mode (and they don't supply a Firefox/Mac plugin at all!).

Try this Adobe kb article to see if setting 32-bit mode for Safari will work for you.  I had similar isses a while back, and I had to reinstall Reader (after upgrading to Snow Leopard) after doing this tip.


SMS iPhone history chaos after migration from Android

I would reset the whole iPhone and start over. Most likely the file was not read correctly after the transfer from the Android phone and the message history was corrupt/moved.
Look at this tutorial how to transfer messages from Andriod to iPhone.
Here is the official document from apple about "Move from Android to iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch".


MacBook Pro suddenly started spinning fans at 100% while lid was closed for a couple of hours

The first thing I'd do is a NVRAM and SMC reset (in that order). Before following the steps below, ensure you have no external hardware connected and that you're using the built-in keyboard.

Reset the NVRAM

Reset the NVRAM on your MBP as follows:

Shut down your machine. Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out.
Press the power button and then press the commandoptionpr keys. You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work.
Hold those keys down until your MBP reboots again and you here the startup chime.
Let go of the keys and let your MBP reboot normally.

Note: When you log back in you may need to readjust some of your system preferences (e.g. speaker volume, screen resolution, startup disk selection, time zone information, etc).

Reset the SMC

There's a couple of ways you can reset the SMC on your MBP, however I prefer the following steps:

Shut down your MBP
Keep the power cable plugged in
Press at the same time shiftoptioncontrol (on the left side of the keyboard) and the power button
Let go
Turn your computer back on with the power button

After resetting both the NVRAM and SMC, use your computer to determine if the issues still persist.

If you're still having problems, the it's time to test your hardware with Apple Diagnostics.

Run Apple Diagnostics

Follow the steps below to run Apple Diagnostics:

Fully shut down your Mac
Restart your Mac
Immediately press the D key and keep it down until you see the Diagnostics screen appear
Wait for Diagnostics to finish (this typically only takes a few minutes)
Once complete, one of two things will appear on the screen:

a No issues found message
a brief description of any errors found plus further instructions

If the diagnostics test does find errors, take a note of what they are

Note: If pressing and holding the D key at Step 3 doesn't work, start again at Step 1 and, at Step 3 press and hold both the OptionD keys instead. This will try and run diagnostics from the internet instead, so you will need to allow more time for it to complete.

Regardless, take a note of what happens and let me know how you went.


Unmodified F4 no longer summons LaunchPad

One solution is to rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist and log out and back in. I just tried this and it seems to have restored the binding, no hack like FunctionFlip required. My other special keys all work, too. However, I lost my other customized Keyboard Shortcuts, like ctrl+← for switching spaces Mission Control. They worked after I re-enabled them.

It looks like com.apple.symbolichotkeys.plist is the preferences file, and MacOS works fine if it's missing. After I'd edited my Keyboard Shortcuts via the preferences panel that file was recreated and everything's back to normal except Launchpad launches again. Based on a diff of the two plist files I'm guessing the keycode for Launchpad is one of 118, 119, 64, or 65.

I found this solution on a MacRumors discussion.


On your Mac that isn't syncing, go to System Preferences > Internet Accounts. From the list of accounts in the left column of the screen, select the account that isn't syncing in. Make sure that "Calendars" is checked.

Next, open your Calendars app. Click "Calendar" (next to the Apple icon in the menu bar) > Preferences (NOTE: Clicking "Accounts" instead of "Preferences" will just send you back to System Preferences > Internet Accounts). In the Preferences pane, click "Accounts". Select the account that wasn't syncing. Then make sure that "Enable this account" is checked.

If the calendar still isn't appearing, make sure that you're not hiding the calendar. There is a toggle button in the Calendar app that hides or shows the list of calendars available to display. If you cannot see a list of calendars on the left column of your Calendar app, then click the "Calendars" button in the top left corner of your Calendar app. This will display a list of calendars on the left side of the app. Make sure that your missing calendars are checked. Unchecked calendars will not show up in your calendar view.


Can I delete this recursive link to my Home directory?

In command line you´ve more power with the following code line

cd ~ && unlink steve

so you´re shure that only the symlink will be deleted and not the complete home path :)


When I download a text file, .txt gets added to filename. How do I prevent this?

You can only in general prevent this if you control the server.

I assume you're talking about downloading using a browser - in which case the web server controls the file type and naming using the Content-Type MIME indication as well as the Content-Disposition header for specifying the file name.


Uninstall all HP software from your computer. Usually the installer also provides an uninstaller. Prevent from automatic starting by removing those apps from Login Items under Users in System Preferences.

The HP print drivers from Apple directly are really good. And normally the official HP software is not needed to print, copy, scan etc..

There is a big memory leak in the software written by HP.. it has been for several years now. I have seen this issue many times.


Adobe applications - Case-sensitive volumes not supported Mojave

When you Erase a drive, or Add a volume to a Container, you will be given a choice of Format. By default, this is APFS, but it can be changed to "APFS Case Sensitive", which is presumable what you have already done.

You need to change the format to "APFS". Adobe applications have several 'issues' with case-sensitive volumes (even on HFS+) through errors of their own making.


Two Login Screens with different accounts on both

The first login prompt is for File Vault and shows the administrators that can unlock the machine, the second prompt is to actually login to the device and thus can be any user including guest.

To remove the double login process you will need a single administrative login account.  This account needs to be new or the password reset using the following method:

  Settings > Security & Password > Change Password ...

Alternative is to completely remove File Vault and thus one could login to the non-administrative account.  File Vault 2 is an all or nothing affair.


Does the new iPhone 5 Lightning connector still provide serial output (or does it when the dock connector adapter?)?

I dont't know if this is what your're looking for but anyways.
Momentarily it is a work in progress. I hope we'll get some info soon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f8aUUHrHKc

P.S. I am not affiliated with this, I was just looking for it.


How to run a script if external IP is changed?

Your computer has no way to detect by itself that the external IP has changed, as this is handled by the router that translates your private IP to the public one.

So you must poll either the router itself, or an external site.

The router can be interrogated through SNMP le if it supports this protocol.
If it doens't but has a command line (CLI) access then you can use it with a language like expect.
If the router is only accesible through a web interface, this is doable but more complex.

You can actually avoid polling if the router support sending SNMP traps or has an event handler, then it is the router that can notify you computer about the change, and then you run your script on reception of such notification.


Accessing a local IIS server in a VM on a Mac from an iOS device for testing

Change your network setting in parallels to be bridge mode and you should be set.

http://kb.parallels.com/en/4948

The IIS and Windows will get their own IP address so you can connect as if the PC was a physical one connected directly to the network. The Mac won't see the traffic to the server process.


Remote login option not saving after reboot

I have found a workaround that can force Remote Login to be turned on, when the computer is powered up. This can be a good choice for someone who is working in a workgroup with several machines.

I have installed LaunchControl, and went in Global Daemons, then created a new plist named as com.remotelogin.true (you can choose the name you want) there with:

NOTE:

After you choose Save and Load, it will give you an error, but if you go to terminal with,

sudo systemsetup -getremotelogin

you will see that remote login is now on.


On your Mac, you can use Terminal to see the amount of data you've written to your drive.

Open Terminal and enter the "diskutil list" command.

Find your physical drive on the list, which includes partitions and virtual disks. In my case, my physical is disk0.

It is usually disk0.

Enter this command: "iostat -Id disk0" or similar (depending on the number for your drive).

You will see three values listed:

KB/t = kilobytes per transfer
xfrs = number of transfers
MB = number of megabytes transferred

The value listed under MB is the total number of megabytes that you have written to your drive from when it was first installed to now.

In your case been 2012 model I suspect somewhere around 500GB (500,000MB) to 1000GB...or more.


Ping on Mavericks on late 2013 MacBook Pro slow and variable compared to Windows

The ping on Mavericks is badly broken. The reason for this is Mavericks puts network card into a power save mode within milliseconds when there's no traffic that it considers vital, and apparently it doesn't consider pings to be valuable traffic, therefore the network card (or, rather, wifi card) goes to "sleep" immediately, and it takes time for it to do so, therefore causing completely random ping results.

I have submitted a bug report to Apple in the early beta stages of the Mavericks, but they refused to address the issue, claiming "will not fix".

So the results you're seeing are not representative of the actual network connection.


How to disable auto preview for *.doc *.docx in finder?

Open Finder, press ⌘+G and enter /System/Library/QuickLook/ to go to the QuickLook plugins folder. Click on Office.qlgenerator, press ⌘+I and rename the file to Office.qlgenerator.backup. Now, press ⌘+⌥+esc and relaunch Finder. If ever you want to turn the plugin back on, simply remove the .backup from the file name.

Essentially, plugins tell QuickLook how to render a preview of a given file type. Without the Office plugin, QuickLook will by default show only the icon and information about the file (i.e. size, date created, etc.)

Note I'm pretty sure this removes QuickLook's capabilities of previewing OpenOffice files as well.


iTunes "Home Sharing" doesn't work with Apple Lossless files

iTunes Home Sharing works for me to send playable Apple Lossless songs to iPhone / iPad and another Mac streaming songs.

There may be a problem with your setup since it is supposed to work and does for me. Perhaps someone else will chime in with their experience - but I have seen it work recently at several friend's houses as well as in my setup.

I'm fairly certain I would have noticed a problem back at 10.2.1 as much of my Beatles collection is stored in lossless format but I'm not 100% certain there wasn't a bug in a previous version of iTunes.

You could rule that out by upgrading to the latest iTunes 10.3.1.

I am guessing there is another problem but am at a loss to guess what it might be without more information on your setup.


Unpacking a installer is failing with pkgutil tool

It was the missing owner write permissions of the pkg that is causing the problem.


No, that is not possible. The creation/modification date/time is a fixed field within the file system, and not a user-specified attribute that you can remove.


Can you run OSX as a server without OSX Server.app?

For the uses you need, you can do it with base OS X.

OS X server adds stuff like Time Machine support on networked drives, networked spotlight, Open Directory, policy support, etc.

They're useful features, but you don't really need them for the stuff you're describing.


I had the same issue when upgrading my RAM.
It turned out that the SO-DIMMs were not properly inserted.

Try the following:

take out both SO-DIMMs
re-insert the first one and make sure it goes fully into the lower socket
try rebooting

if it works, shut down again and insert the second SO-DIMM (again taking care to fully insert it into the upper socket.)

Good luck.


How does my iPhone know which headphone cable I plug in?

An line-level input, which is what your car's aux in jack is, presents a relatively high impedance to the source - generally 10k ohms. Your 'phones have a much lower impedance, typically 32 ohms for PMP phones. It's possible to distinguish between them in that way.


BigSur Click on Dock App does not change to Space with App

This behaviour is toggled on a pref…
System Preferences > Mission Control > 'When switching to an application, switch to a Space with open windows for the application'
This needs to be on for the behaviour you desire.
It will fail if you have any app spread to more than one Space… but that always would. Spaces cannot handle multiple Spaces for a single app, that's not within design spec.


Can corrupted MacBook1,1 graphics be fixed?

I would try erasing the Mac and reinstalling the OS


What are the advantages and disadvantages to jailbreaking an iPad?

For

You can run any app you like, including ones not permitted by Apple, and you can run them at a system level rather than the unprivileged level they do on a normal device.
You can remove Apple services on the iPad more or less at will.
Provided you can download the image of the software, it's relatively easy to restore to a non-jailbroken state.

Against

Running apps at system level comes with inherent risks - malicious code can kill your iPad, and badly written code can cause an entire system crash / instability.
It's my experience that jailbroken apps (Springboard ones particularly) deplete the performance of the device (But I'm talking about an iPhone 4, rather than the more powerful iPad 2 - may be less valid).
Jailbroken iPads aren't elegible for warrantee - in theory if you reset back to default you're okay, but if that's not possible you've invalidated yourself and they are totally within their rights to refuse you service.
Jailbreaking needs to be redone with every software iteration, and with it, so do your jailbroken apps [possibly no longer true, can anyone verify?]


Can I safely charge my iPhone 4 overnight on a regular basis?

All this hype about how to charge your batteries is blown out of proportion.

Although some batteries (I forget which types exactly) can have longer lives if charged at "optimal" rates and temperatures, the reality seems to be that it does not extend the life by much. One of the research papers I read concluded something like if you charge your device at around 17 degrees from 0% until 75% full you can extend the lifespan by about 1/5 of the total life span.

I have charged my devices for days at a time, and my iPod Nano has been plugged in for months, and holds a charge the same as my other nano (I have two) which almost never gets used and only charged ocasionally.

In conclusion, just do whatever is convenient for you.

EDIT: Here are some links to the apple pages related to their iPhone batteries:

Batteries - iPhone
iPhone Battery Replacement Service: Frequently Asked Questions


Apple Configurator is a piece of software from Apple that allows you to centralized manage multiple iOS devices (e.g. remote wipe, remote software rollout,...). It's made mostly for companies, organisations,schools, etc.

To be able to help you with the certificate you need to post the certificate details.


Apple documents the requirements here:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/notarizing_your_app_before_distribution

The section that governs is yellow and hilighted:

  Important

  Beginning in macOS 10.14.5, all new or updated kernel extensions and all software from developers new to distributing with Developer ID must be notarized in order to run. Beginning in macOS 10.15, notarization is required by default for all software.

So, your whole account isn’t new so unless you make a new developer account, you are not required to notarize anything that’s current or in the field as long you don’t have a kernel extension.

Those are mandatory today for all updates and new builds. Your tests are what I expect and you surely can notarize everything now so you are set for 10.15

The developer I read closely for all the underpinnings and reverse engineering of this process is Howard Oakley and his Eclectic Light blog - it’s amazingly well written, clear and technically deep about how gatekeeper works in practice and what things Apple has and has not documented yet.

https://eclecticlight.co/tag/notarization/


Apple Macbook Pro Late 2011 freezing screen on startup

Do you notice any colorful graphics glitches? The startup screen would be filled with dots. The Late 2011 MacBook Pros are known for defective AMD GPU. The symptoms point to GPU issue. Apple has a free logicboard replace program. The program is available till Dec 31, 2016. Better you visit your nearest Apple Store or Authorized Apple Service Center for diagnostic. for more info about the replacement program, visit the link below.

Apple MacBook Pro Video Issues (Apple Support)


How to get rid of these random Norton antivirus notifications on my MacBook?

My eyes missed it. Inside of Google Chrome notification I had a www.goodbiz.com type of site where I was receiving the notifications from. I removed it.


Could be graphics card issue, check my question Macbook pro checkered display, safeboot works

I ended up replacing the logic board.

P.S: Talk to customer relations instead of call center and ask for free service in case of hardware failure.


How to Mount a Sparsebundle Disk Image from Time Machine Backup?

If you are ok with creating a temporary shadow file, you can mount it this way:

hdiutil attach -shadow /path/to/store/the/temporary/file.shadow /Volumes/Backup/Backups.backupdb/MachineName/Latest/Path/To/Image.sparsebundle

For succinctness, that is: hdiutil attach -shadow <shadowfile> <imagefile>

Edit: in a previous version of my answer I included the -readonly flag in the command, but I've found that it will sometimes fail with "no mountable file systems" when -readonly is passed. Omitting the flag in these cases allowed the image to be mounted successfully.

As such, I've updated the answer to exclude the -readonly flag. Just note that any changes you make in rw mode will only be written to the shadow file.


Siri Windows API: Make Windows PC print a document via voice command to Siri HomePod

Workflow on iOS allows you to perform web service calls and send commands over SSH. The Siri shortcuts functionality coming in iOS 12 appears to be based at least partially on Workflow’s technology (Apple aqui-hired the developers.)

As to whether all of Workflow’s functionality will appear in Siri Shortcuts at some point, I have no information either way.

Even if it does, it would be up to you to provide some sort of endpoint/plumbing on the Windows side to actually pull this off. You’d be fully on your own.


How can I disable the iPhone Restrictions code?

There is no way to remove the Restrictions passcode without restoring the device in iTunes or from the device. However, you can save your data by backing it up to iCloud or iTunes and restoring all content to the device after it has been restored.


You can set it with defaults write:

defaults write com.apple.Safari CustomUserAgent "\"useragentstring\""


How to show a notification when you go online/offline?

I have a home-grown script that uses a rather inelegant polling mechanism to identify open network connections, and takes action based on what it finds. In short, it turns my wifi on or off depending on if it's plugged into a LAN. This to avoid connecting our corporate LAN with our visitors wifi. It uses ifconfig to obtain this data.

It's fairly easy to identify which interface routes your public internet, using netstat -r I think.

To the determine if the connected internet is actually working, I would probably using ping -c 1 www.google.com or something and see which code ping exits with to determine if it's alive.

All very "sticks and strings" I'm afraid. But you did say you're open to that!


Macbook pro OSX stuck in version 10.9.1, can't update software

The possible solution in your case can be doing a combo update, but this may erase all the data from your drive.


How to Make Bootable APFS Volume From Disk Image

I would try rsync. Below is an example of the syntax. Here, I assume the source is the mounted disk image volume and the destination is the apfs volume.

rsync  -a  /Volumes/source/*  /Volumes/destination


Bluetooth audio choppy/skips on El Capitan

I have found yet another unofficial solution! it worked for me and i hope the same to you. i believe the macbook utilizes bluetooth in the background for handoff and FaceTime. i believe it searches occasionally for data or cues that are sent from secondary devices or stays quietly paired with a device you may already have (causing gaps in bluetooth connectivity). i signed out of FaceTime (disabling it) and disabled handoff. i have an iphone, and it seemed to create some kind of bluetooth interference. try this and see if it doesnt help or solve the issue


What is the best way to guarantee that the person I send an image to from my iPhone 10 receives it in full quality?

Pending on sensitivity of photos and privacy preferences one can use iCloud link instead of attaching file to e-mail (or sending using messaging app). iCloud Mail will use iCloud link for files over 20 MB anyway.
iCloud links expire automatically after 30 days (you can stop sharing manually whenever you like) and anyone with the link can view them. More information in Apple support document: Share photos and videos on iCloud.com


Android device connection broken in Sierra

One thing I noticed you haven't tried is resetting the PRAM/NVRAM or the SMC.

Resetting the PRAM/NVRAM

Older Macs had what's called Parameter RAM (PRAM), newer Macs use Non-Volatile Random-Access Memory (NVRAM). Here’s how to reset your PRAM/NVRAM:

Shut down your machine. Yes, a full shut down, not just logging out.
Press the power button and then press the command-option-p-r keys. You have to make sure you press these keys before the gray screen appears or it won’t work.
Hold those keys down until your Mac reboots again and you here the startup chime.
Let go of the keys and let your Mac reboot normally.

Note: When you log back in you may need to readjust some of your system preferences (e.g. mouse speed, time and date/timezone, etc).

Reset the SMC

Your computer's System Management Controller (SMC) can also be reset. The instructions for resetting your SMC depend on three things:

Does your device run from a built-in battery? (In your case, yes)
Does your device run from a removable battery?
Does your device just run off power from the wall?

Now, for the sake of others who may come here looking for answers to the same issue, I will provide the process for all three.

For MacBook Pros, MacBook Airs, and MacBooks where you can’t remove the battery on your own (i.e. it's a built-in battery), here’s what you do:

Shut down your computer
Keep the MagSafe adapter (power cable) plugged in.
Press at the same time shift-option-control (on the left side of the keyboard) and the power button
Let go
Turn your computer back on with the power button.

For MacBook Pros, MacBooks etc that you can remove the battery from, here’s what you do:

Shut down your computer
Disconnect the MagSafe plug (power cable) from the computer
Remove the battery
Press the power button for 5 seconds and release
Put the battery back in
Reconnect the MagSafe cord (or power cable)
Turn your computer back on with the power button

For iMacs, Mac Pros, Mac Minis, etc that only run from a power point in the wall

Shut down your computer
Unplug it from the power
Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds
Plug it back in and turn it on.

Hope this helps. Please report back and let us know.


In terminal, how to get "say" to say things "right" ? ie using custom phonetics?

The Speech Synthesis Programming Guide describes the embedded speech commands that you can use to adjust how the speech synthesis engines process your input text.

The [[inpt PHON]] command enables the use of phonemes and phoneme modifiers.

For example, the following text includes a phonemic version of your chosen word  (select the text, Control-click, and select Speech > Start Speaking to hear it directly in Safari):

If you don't like how I say "colossians",
then perhaps you will be satisfied with
"[[inpt PHON]]kUH2lAASUHnz[[inpt TEXT]]".

This syntax is accepted by the say command in the shell and AppleScript (though you will have to modify the (above) use of single- and double-quotes to suit the string literal syntax of your chosen context).


How do I find out what my iBooks "authorized computers" are?

The iBooks authorization count is the same count you get for iTunes Store. They're the same thing. This covers Books, Music, Movies, etc... If you go to the Store menu item from iTunes or iBooks you can click View My Apple ID, enter your password and then you'll see the authorization count.

Basically if you have authorized another computer to use iTunes Store it counts as a computer authorized for that Apple ID. That's why you're seeing the count as 2. It's no longer just related to music. As Apple's info states on the Account Information screen:

  2 computers are authorized to use content purchased with this Apple ID

If you want to reset this, just click the Deauthorize All button and you can re-authorize your 1 computer to start fresh. You won't be able to see what computer it is, but you can see the count and reset it.


Can I make a shared link in Mail.app appear above my signature?

I can see the attached image when I select add Signature:

Do you have this? Does it work?

I'm using 10.10.x


AppleTV does not have native support for mkv files. You can use various third-party programs to transcode and send to AppleTV, ranging from the simple (Beamer) to the full library solutions (Plex combined with PlexConnect).


Can one install Automator .workflow services via Terminal without user consent?

Moved the Automator services to $HOME/Library/Services/ instead of installing them.


The app was never shared to your Apple ID and was not associated with your Apple ID in any way. If the app was still on the store and needed updating, your friend's Apple ID would be used. The app remains bound to your friend's Apple ID and thus you need your friend's Apple ID again to install it elsewhere.


Prevent icon from appearing in my Mac's Dock when I text on my iPhone

When an icon appears in the Dock with a badge that looks like a stylized iPhone:

it means that macOS is making you aware that you started something on another device (a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch) and you could pick it up on your Mac. This functionality is called Handoff, which is one of a set of integration features called Continuity (other Continuity features include Universal Clipboard and Sidecar).
To turn Handoff off:

Launch System Preferences and click General

At the bottom of the pane, deselect “Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices”:


the iCloud IMAP server "p01-imap.mail.me.com" rejected the password for user xxxxxx

It should be in the format p01-imap.mail.me.com, it looks like your missing the 'mail' part.


What is the purpose of Docker.raw file on Mac OS Catalina?

The answer to your question is in the Docker documentation:

Disk utilization in Docker for Mac
Docker Desktop stores Linux containers and images in a single, large “disk image” file in the Mac filesystem. This is different from Docker on Linux, which usually stores containers and images in the /var/lib/docker directory.

The size of this file is big in your system because you have a lot of images and containers. You can reduce its site by pruning unused objects.


Phone battery use searching for a signal

It might. This questions shows several factors there are to battery loss, including the cell reception, but that Wifi can help reduce that. I would recommend following his 5 day test procedure before returning the signal extender.


Where can I buy a digital version of Windows 7 for Boot Camp?

You can download it from here : http://www.mydigitallife.info/official-windows-7-sp1-iso-from-digital-river/

You will need to have the product key to install it. If you don't have one you can buy it from Microsoft store.


Make vim read the vimrc from ~/.vim/vimrc

I created a symlink.

ln -s ~/.vim/vimrc ~/.vimrc

Works like a charm.


How can I check if my MacBook Pro is shut down without turning it back on?

Shut down before you close the lid.

Set the lid behavior so that it does not auto wake.

I set that behaviour when I want to clean the keyboard but you have to avoid the power button...


iTunes (version 12.3.1.23) doesn't play my TV Shows/Movies!

A lot of people are experiencing the same issue. It seems to have occurred after the most recent security update (for Yosemite 10.10.5 this is security update 2015-005. There is a discussion on apple support but nobody from Apple has bothered to respond yet. Deauthorization, moving files in and out of library, re-downloading videos from the iTunes store, etc. have not helped anyone. System logs indicate there is an error and those people who've posted the log passages on the error show that it seems to be the same among those experiencing the problem. Some people have advised downgrading to an earlier iTunes version. However, I'm figuring since a lot of people are experiencing it, Apple will have to come up with a fix that will cause less problems than a downgrade...


Close Terminal.app, then open one Terminal.app window and read the manual pages for uptime, w and who, e.g man uptime, then execute each command e.g. uptime, w and whoin that order in that one Terminal.app window you opened.

It should become apparent however if not... There are always at least two users logged in, you using console and note its time, it's corresponds to the time you logged into your account from the GUI, and you using ttys000 (the Terminal.app windows that you opened). In these instances you is as shown in the output of who am i.

Each additional Terminal window you open will show as another user using , e.g. ttys001, ttys002, etc.


Where can I find a pricing guide for used Apple devices?

http://www.everymac.com has estimated current price for every model
(It's at the bottom of the table).
I'm not sure where they are getting those from though.


Cannot access certain MS Server 2003 Active Directory users with Mountain Lion Server's Server App

Our AD has 1000+ users. As it turns out, Server App could see all the users. It was hard to realize this for a couple of reasons: When viewing "Users from MyDomain", if I typed in a user's name, Server App would not recognize it. This behavior still occurs. It's only when I search under "All Users" that the name is recognized and labeled as a "User from MyDomain". I realized that Server App did recognize the account when I made a Local Network Group and tried adding a user to the group. When I typed in the same user's name (invisible when viewing Users), Server App recognized the account. This whole issue is just the Server App behavior on Mountain Lion and accounts on a Windows Server 2003 AD server.


Why won't iCloud let me download Pages documents uploaded from a computer?

The same things happens to me. After some digging around I found this from Apple:

  Important:   You cannot download a document from icloud.com to your Mac or Windows computer until the document has been opened on an iOS device.

My guess is that this is a symptom of iCloud's "work in progress" status, and that this functionality will eventually be there. Considering that you are only asking to download the exact same file that you uploaded, though, it is a pretty silly restriction.

Update:

For me, the behavior has recently changed. Now if you upload a file from your computer to icloud.com, you can download the original file to any computer from icloud.com. You still must download the document to an iOS device before you can download the file as a PDF or other format.


Depends on the file, a LOT.

The iPad has no (visible) filesystem. So unlike a Mac or PC you can't move things around as you wish. You have to have an application that will deal with it in the form you send it via the method you send it by.

Yes you can send an .mp3 but there is no way to then add it to the music.app without a Mac or PC and iTunes. The same goes for MS Office files, Photoshop files and many other proprietary file formats.

Perhaps if you edited your question to say specifically what kind of file and what she needs to do with it, we could be of more assistance.

Like @stuffe said a free Dropbox account could help you with this. Dropbox will let you play videos right in their file browser as long as they are generally playable on your Mac (EG H.264, MP4, MOV files, etc.) Dropbox is free for up to 2GB of storage.


The Time Machine backups became disassociated with the new drive because of the change to the UUID of the new drive. With a little usage of tmutil in Terminal following the directions here, you can rebuild the association of the Time Machine backups to the new drive.


Calls from my iPhone to friend's iPhone always go to voicemail, and he never gets my texts anymore

Sounds like your friend may have blocked you accidentally. Have him open your contact card, and scroll to the bottom. If he did in fact block you, he will see a button to Unblock this caller.

Blocking requires no confirmation, and that button is present at the bottom of every contact card, so it’s easy to tap on accident.


No, however you could purchase a USB device that gives you a headphone output and use Audio MIDI Setup in macOS to aggregate outputs so it would output on both. Steps for that are here:

http://lifehacker.com/5933282/how-to-aggregate-and-use-multiple-audio-inputs-and-outputs-in-os-x

Alternatively, just buy a headphone splitter to split your one 3.5 mm jack into two. Like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Speaker-and-Headphone-Splitter/dp/B00009WQSR


Can you connect iPhone to LDAP on a non-standard port?

To the best of my knowledge, iOS doesn't (as of 5.0) support accessing an LDAP server on any port other than 389.


RoaringApps.com provides a compatibility list for multiple versions of OS X. You can search for an application by name or compatibility status, to quickly scan for apps that are known to be incompatible.

Apps can be submitted by users, and also includes iOS compatibility if applicable.

You can also check for feature support, to see if apps contain the latest features available in the new OS, such as iCloud Keychain and App Nap.


MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan - Photo Problems

The reason is that, when you sync photos with the app, pictures are copied in the Library, so it is actually created a new version of each photo. When you modify it in the app, you will only edit that copy, and not the original one.

If you want to access the edited photos, you have 2 options:

Just drag the pic from Photos to a specific folder: the photo will be copied again, with all the previous edits you made.
You can directly access the Library. Just go to Finder > Pictures > Photo Library. Right click on it > Show Package Contents > Masters: here you have all the photos, classified by date. Now you can treat each photo as it were in a normal folder.


How can I restore my iCloud deleted e-mails?

You say "computer" but don't specify what, I will assume that you mean you have a Mac also, in which case, on the assumption that you run Time Machine (please, everyone, make backups!) then offline copies should be in your backups.


This is similar to functions found in the bios of PC's as described here. I don't believe that functions is supposed to be available on portables, but evidently it is for you.

What explicitly counts as a power failure is loss of power to the motherboard. So that means the battery would have to be removed while the MagSafe is not connected. If the MagSafe is connected, it would not count as a power failure.

The computer starts up again if the power was cut to it (Last State). So if you yank the power at the log in screen, it'll power back on however if you yank the power after shutdown, it'll stay shut down.


Get data from iPhone in DFU mode, by having all the passwords

In a word, no. The data on your device is, as you know, permanently encrypted. And is decrypted, when in use, partially by using your lock code. As far as I know, and I am fairly certain of this, there is no known mechanism for decrypting the data off-device, and you cannot move the data off device either because there is no way to move the data off while in DFU mode. And they do not provide any way to decrypt the data using the lock code in any other cicumstances than what happens in a full normal boot.

So, in DFU mode, there is no way to decrypt the data on-device, and no mechanism for moving the data off-device.


Booting from Windows USB Key Overwrote EFI - Mac No Longer Boots

If your EFI is not working, you will need to restore it.

Download from here for your model.

Then follow the procedure described here.


Trouble in Automator's Shell Script after OS X 10.9 Mavericks upgrade

I think you were close and that the following should work:

cat >> ~/Dropbox/ClipBoard/Appunti\ Mac\ del\ $ (date "+%Y-%m-%d").txt

You had smart quotes in your sample and that won't work and you left out the plus in the quoted format string which you had included in your original.


Partition HD for triple boot (or move Apple_Boot Recovery HD from a primary partition)

You're getting confused between the MBR and GPT partitioning schemes. Intel Macs generally use GPT, but for Boot Camp, they also add a so-called Hybrid MBR for booting Windows, which duplicates all or some of the partition entries. GPT can have a large number of partitions (typically, enough space is reserved for 128 partitions), but as MBR only supports 4, if you have more than that, you can't represent all of them in the MBR. Note that one partition of the EFI type 0xEE is required - this normally covers the whole disk, but for hybrid MBR, it usually only covers the GPT itself and the 200MB EFI partition at the start of the disk. So that gives you 3 usable MBR partitions, which Windows will see.

You don't mention what your third OS should be for triple-boot; if it's another installation of OS X, you have nothing to worry about. Just install it as normal, it will use GPT entries 5+. If you want another BIOS-based OS, such as Windows or most Linux distros, you'll probably need to mess with the hybrid MBR yourself. I'd do all the partitioning in OSX's Disk Utility, as it will update both the GPT and MBR tables simultaneously. Just make the new Windows or Linux partition FAT32 to begin with. Then, if your MBR covers the Recovery HD but has no entry for your new partition, get the exact positions and sizes of the GPT partitions using

sudo gpt -r disk0

This should list all 5 partitions.

In fdisk (or so), delete the MBR version of the Recovery HD, and create a new partition with the exact position and size of your new (5th) partition. Windows should now see this partition instead of the Recovery HD. You can change its type, format it, etc. as usual. Just don't try to resize it from fdisk or Windows Generally, make sure that all partitions that exist in the MBR except the 0xEE EFI partition map exactly onto a GPT partition.

This is all a bit dangerous so make sure you have backups of everything.


A way to do it with Chrome's built in scripting:

tell application "Google Chrome" to set URL of active tab of window 1 to "http://example.com"

And to expand your script to press return:

tell application "Google Chrome"
    tell application "System Events"
        tell application process "Google Chrome"
            set (text field 1 of toolbar 1 of window 1)'s focused to true
            set value of text field 1 of toolbar 1 of window 1 to "http://example.com/"
            keystroke return
        end tell
    end tell
end tell


Can I set a password on an existing dmg?

You can change it by first selecting the DMG in Disk Utilty. Then go to Images>Change Password.

It will prompt you for the password.

Then, it'll ask you for a new password for the DMG.


The Preview does not lower the image quality, but will fit it in the given parameters.

If you use Preview to open a original image: Example:

5.5 MB file size with Dimensions of 3648 × 2736 pixels

Now open the Preview Tools - Adjust Size to see the current settings.

The default resolution is set to 72 which is standard for web applications.

In that window you can set it to the original size/resolution.

Now if you are using a copy/paste to move the image to Preview, the resulting quality will depend on the copy/paste settings. That can be found in the application it self.


When does the Mac App Store produce notifications?

You need to have it set to "Automatically download system updates" in the software update panel of system preferences. I got a notification about the xcode update today.


MacBook Pro 3,1 (2007), running 10.6.8, sudden logout, window_server crash

Although I can't be 100% certain I've fixed the problem, it's now been 3 weeks w/o a reboot - in my case, I believe the fix was turning OFF the 3D graphics acceleration option in VMWare (I run VMWare Fusion, w Win XP vms, constantly).