How to terminate connections to shared PCs?

I don't know why this PCs are showing up in the shared computer

They are showing up because they have a zero configuration network service like Bonjour or mDNS enabled that is responding to broadcasts from your Mac.

  I never tried to connect to this PC then how did the connection happen

As stated in the comments by Steve Chambers if you have guest access enabled on the client, it will immediately connect when you select it.  This is not a problem.  If you want to turn this functionality off, disable guest access on the client itself.

  so my question is how can I remove this PCs and terminate the
  connection

You can't really "remove" this PC because it's working as expected.  Your Mac is broadcasting a "request" for all networks nodes with a zero configuration protocol to respond and that PC does.  What you are seeing is a list of computers that your Mac has found (not necessarily connected to).  It's very similar to Windows "Network Neighborhood" where you can see the computers on your network subnet.

The connection will terminate after a few minutes of idle activity.


You'd need a new daughterboard & both heatsinks, at least - the single & dual CPU boards are physically different & the singles have larger heatsinks which won't fit the duals.

picture from OWC

Changing the board also gives you 4 more RAM slots & a potential maximum of 128GB RAM, if you are running Mavericks 10.9 or later.
With earlier OSes, though it will take 128GB RAM [8x16GB in dual channel], OS X cannot use it all - it only supports a maximum of 96 GB [6x16 in triple channel].
Bootcamp into Windows & all 128 is a possibility.

The 5,1 should already have the firmware necessary to support the Westmere processors, the update is only necessary for the 2009 4,1.

BTW, if you are considering doing this yourself, be aware that standard off-the-shelf CPUs are expected to go in PCs not Macs & have lids. The ones for Mac are lidless.
You can make the lidded processors fit, but it's fiddly [& would need an entire answer in itself]

Refs: Everymac, MacSales, OWC & being the owner of a similarly upgraded 4,1


Start video playback NOT enter full screen

I have discovered that I can go to full screen with a double click. If the double click speed is too fast it won't do it so there has to be a couple seconds between clicks, so I think that what is happening is that I am clicking the tap where the video is and then clicking in the screen and the time between the two clicks is the right amount to put me in full screen. Now that I know this I can do another double click to exit full screen. I would still like to be able to disable tis if anyone knows how to do it.


What are the advantages of formatting an external disk as journaled HFS+?

Taking aside the part that says which OS a particular filesystem is associated with, the main point is the word "journaled".

I include the following Wikipedia quote as there is no point re-inventing the wheel:

  A journaling file system is a file system that keeps track of the
  changes that will be made in a journal (usually a circular log in a
  dedicated area of the file system) before committing them to the main
  file system. In the event of a system crash or power failure, such
  file systems are quicker to bring back online and less likely to
  become corrupted.

Taking that to one logical end, an external drive is by definition more likely to be removed from the system than an internal drive.  It's not possible to remove your laptop drive and keep the OS running, but perfectly possible with something USB or Firewire attached for example.  As such you run a greater risk of changes that need to be written to the drive failing to complete should you remove the drive too quickly, or without following the correct eject procedures.

Particularly if you use any form of caching, the data may be waiting to be written to the disk at the point of removal, thus losing your data.

A journaled filesystem helps to prevent too much damage in these scenarios by keeping a log of all changes it needs to apply, and noting when they are successfully completed.  In this way it can examine the log on a restart and work out of there are outstanding changes that were never completed.  This is far faster than simply running a chkdsk or similar command to check the entire filesystem for problems which you would need to perform on a FAT32 file system.

In addition to the protective side of things discussed above, is the fact that a HFS filesystem has all the Mac OS X hooks built in for automated indexing, backup, version control and so on that would not be possible on a FAT32 enabled filesystem.


Why does this applescript not actually set the input volume to zero?

As far as I can tell, the script works as expected, the problem is in the OS X audio input code. When I run it, the slider goes to 0%, verified by mousing over the slider until the tooltip appears:

This is the same as if I drag the volume slider manually.

The problem is seemingly that "0%" doesn't actually mean off, but rather a very low threshold. In some quick testing, I could record the sound of my finger tapping on my MacBook Pro's casing near the mic (on most machines I believe it's around the right speaker grill) when the volume was set to 0. I could replicate that regardless of whether I set the slider manually or via AppleScript. It did seem to be low enough that virtually any other sound isn't picked up, but clearly the microphone isn't truly off.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to properly mute the built-in mic. The best I can suggest is changing the audio input to use the line in, if your Mac is equipped with a line in port. Doing that via AppleScript requires some GUI scripting unfortunately, but this should do it (source):

tell application "System Preferences"
   activate
   set current pane to pane id "com.apple.preference.sound"
end tell
tell application "System Events"
   tell process "System Preferences"
       set frontmost to true
       --get properties of UI element of tab group of window "Sound"
       click radio button "input" of tab group of window "Sound"
       tell row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of tab group 1 of window "Sound" to set selected to true
   end tell
end tell

If you have more than the two standard audio inputs (Mic and Line In), you may need to change the number in row 2 to whichever is appropriate, according to the order in your Input preferences.


How to open a .app which is inside the Contents/Resources/ of the script?

You can use path to resource to get the pathname of the .app file that's in an App's Resource folder, and then use Finder to open the apps, e.g.:

set appPath1 to path to resource "AppName1.app"
set appPath2 to path to resource "AppName2.app"

tell application "Finder"
    open appPath1
    open appPath2
end tell

Note: This method is for use from a AppleScript App's script that is run upon the AppleScript App being opened. If this is not what you're lookin for, then I misunderstood your question. If I did misunderstand, would you please clarify your question.


Pages: keyboard shortcut for inserting an equation

You can use the keyboard shortcut Command + Enter to invoke the Insert button and press the Esc button to invoke the Cancel button.

If you have keyboard navigation enabled (System Preferences app → Keyboard → Shortcuts → Use keyboard navigation to move focus between controls, refer to the screenshot below), it is generally possible to move focus to onscreen control using the Tab key and invoke the control currently in focus using either Enter or Spacebar key. However, it doesn't appear to be the working in the given case. So the aforementioned keyboard shortcuts should be your recourse.


Two entries with identical name and inode in same directory?

I finally figured out the underlying cause. The following is adapted from my blog post with my findings.

I connected to the shell of the original server's underlying Linux operating system. I looked at the corresponding directory in the server's underlying file system. This is what I saw (bowlderised for confidentiality and simplified for clarity):

% ls -la /share/Volume/path/to/directory/with/duplicate/entries
total 56
drwxr-xr-x  1 myuser  everyone      4096 Jan  3  2016 ./
drwxr-xr-x  1 myuser  everyone      4096 Aug 24 00:21 ../
drwxr-xr-x  1 myuser  everyone      4096 Aug 24 01:32 .externalToolBuilders/
drwxr-xr-x  1 myuser  everyone      4096 Feb 20  2009 :2eexternalToolBuilders/
-rw-rw-rw-  1 myuser  everyone      4096 Feb 20  2009 other_files

The crucial observation is the directory name, :2eexternalToolBuilders. It begins with the string ":2e", while the other directory entry begins with the string ".". From the point of view of the underlying operating system and file system, there are no duplicate entries in this directory. The two "externalToolBuilder" directories have different names.

The layers of software on top of the server's operating system — quite probably the netatalk AFP software — interpret the prefix ":2e" as standing for ".". When presenting the underlying directory entry :2eexternalToolBuilders through AFP to my Mac, it rewrites the entry's name to .externalToolBuilders . It fails to notice that there is another entry named .externalToolBuilders in that directory. The result is that my Mac sees, in the original server, a directory with an unexpected, and rule-violating, duplication.

I suspect that the use of prefix ":2e" in place of prefix "." is a convention from old Server Message Block (SMB) file server software.  SMB allowed Mac OS files to be stored on underlying Windows file systems. The Windows file system of the time did not permit filenames with a leading ".". "2e" can be read as a hex ASCII code for period ".". The colon ":" can be read as an escape character, meaning that it plus the following two hex digits should be presented as the character represented by the digits. Thus ":2e" in an underlying directory entry name stands for "." in the directory entry name presented by the server.

It turns out that the data on the original server was old enough to have been copied forward through multiple versions of server and server software. Sometimes I accessed it through SMB, and other times through AFP. I expect that the directory :2eexternalToolBuilders was created first, and the companion directory .externalToolBuilders was created later. They coexisted, especially for old data which I didn't access. Only when I used Finder to copy the directory did the conflict become apparent.

I speculate that the inconsistent behaviour I saw on my Mac, looking at the volume presented through AFP, is caused by Mac OS utilities treating directory entries differently depending on whether they look up a specific name in a directory, or enumerate all names.  The software no doubt assumed there can be no duplicate names among the entries. Utilities looking for a specific name will find one or other of the duplicates, and stop. There is no reason to look for another of that name, because none should exist. Utilities enumerating all names, or all names matching a wildcard, return all matching entries, not caring that some are duplicates. The duplicate inode number can be explained by the software enumerating all names, then for each name, using that name to look up the inode number corresponding to that name. The software returning inode numbers would of course end its search with the same directory entry both times, because it was looking for the same name both times.

The solution for me was to patrol the underlying filesystem of my original server, looking for cases of duplicates separated by "." and ":2e" prefixes. I found about five cases, with names like .externalToolBuilders, .svn, .libs, and .metadata. I used shell command to merge all files into the entry with the "." prefix, then delete the entry with the ":2e" prefix. This removed the duplication, and let the Finder copy succeed.


How do you record audio from command line with osx?


Firm-Bricked I'm afraid. It happens a lot with those.


The best way to solve this is to call Apple Care (http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201232). They would be able to solve this if you want to download an app.

When you want to download a free app, you could also try on iTunes for a Mac of windows pc. When you're asked to enter your payment credentials, there should be an option to choose "none". I would try this first before calling Apple Care.


Will iPhone 4 turn on automatically when charging?

Yes, it will turn on once it reaches the minimum charge needed to start the phone.

When the battery is completely drained, you would just see a depleted battery icon (with a connect to charger prompt) for a few seconds if you press the Sleep/Wake button or the Home button. Once you connect it to the charger, it will charge for a few minutes and automatically start up, taking you to the lock screen.

At any time, you can wake your phone by pressing either the Sleep/Wake button (on top) or the Home button (below the touchscreen).


Using tmux and pbpaste, pbcopy, and launchctl

Okay, I found a solution...

Chris Johnsen has a good writeup of what causes this problem on github.

His tools work, but a better solution, if you have homebrew installed to:

brew install reattach-to-user-namespace

Then in your ~/.tmux.conf add these lines:

set-option -g default-command "reattach-to-user-namespace -l zsh" # or bash
bind C-c run "tmux show-buffer | reattach-to-user-namespace pbcopy"
bind C-v run "reattach-to-user-namespace pbpaste | tmux load-buffer - && tmux paste-buffer"

The first line ensures your shell can talk to pbpaste, pbcopy and launchctl now with no worries.

The second line lets you copy the tmux paste buffer into the Mac's paste buffer by typing control-b control-c (replace control-b with your tmux prefix key).

The third line will directly paste the Mac's paste buffer by typing control-v.  As a side-effect it copies the Mac's paste buffer into tmux's paste buffer.

I'd prefer if I could nuke tmux's paste buffer entirely and have it paste directly into the Mac`s paste buffer, but... oh well.


External SSD not being recognized by newer (retina) MacBooks

It seems like, since the SSD is not recognized at all, and:

The USB ports fully function
The SSD fully functions (with older Macs and Windows computers),

the only conclusion to come to is that the adapter uses drivers which are not present in newer MacBooks. Even if the old and new MacBooks are on the latest version of macOS (Sierra as of writing this), there is some connection between the adapter and the hardware you are trying it on.

Solution: use a different adapter (this solved my problem!)

Many thanks to Allan for his help resolving this issue. This answer has been posted with a different account by has been written by the same person who posted the above post (I lost access to that account somehow.) Likewise I can't choose this as the answer to the question, but if Allan sees this and writes his own answer, I will delete this one and vote him up. (I can't ping him as I have <50 rep)


Set default sending account on a contact by contact basis in OS X mail

I would love to see this feature in Mail (because I would likely use it a lot), but this currently isn't supported.


According to man syslog.conf, Mac OS X's syslog.conf can handle messages only by writing to a file, sending to a remote host's syslog, and send them to users' consoles.

Your best option is probably to send to a file, and write a daemon or a periodically running script that consumes this file and calls growlnotify with what it reads from the file, something like the following:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
while read line
do
    /usr/local/bin/growlnotify "Your App" -m "$line"
done < /path/to/file
echo -n > /path/to/file

Either keep this running all the time by wrapping in a loop, or start it every few seconds using a launchd job and the StartInterval directive. man launchd and man launchd.plist can help you here.


Reanimate "dead tracks" in iTunes that are one external drive

First, go to Preferences > Advanced, and uncheck "Copy files to iTunes Media Folder." For whatever reason, that seems to be necessary to get it to search for missing files. You can re-check that option when you're done.

You have to get iTunes to recognize that tracks are missing. The only method that I know works is to select the first track, hold the down arrow on your keyboard, and scroll all the way through. This should check each track as it is highlighted and mark it with that exclamation icon.

There may be a better way to do that…

Once iTunes recognizes multiple tracks are missing, select one, and get info. It should notify you that the track is missing. Find the file for that one, and it should then ask if it should search for other missing tracks in the same location. It may take a long time, depending on how many tracks it has to go through. Just let it churn away and it should eventually come up with a message saying "X items were found, X items could not be found," or something like that.

I've done this many times, moving old items to a network storage drive. Works with music, podcasts, books, audiobooks, music videos, and mobile apps.


How do you create an alias for iPhoto package folders in mountain lion?

This still is possible via a work around.
The right-click contextual menu does not contain an option Make Alias for the Originals/Masters directories, but it does for subdirectories. The option Make Alias always shows in the menubar under File → Make Alias but is greyed out for the Originals/Masters directories.
Workaround

Go to a subdirectory of Originals/Master in Finder.
Create your alias, ⌘+L.
Open the Info of the created alias folder, ⌘+I.
Click the button Select new Original
Press ⌘+⇧+G to enter a custom path.
Enter your path, e.g. /Users/my_name/Pictures/Aperture Library.aplibrary/Masters
Rename the Alias folder.


App Store update shows different account

If you are being prompted for another Apple ID when trying to download and update that means the app was originally purchased (downloaded) with that email address it is prompting you for.

In order to fix this, you must either continue to enter the password for the @gmail.com account to download future updates or re-purchase the application under your @mac.com email address.


Any way to watch Netflix on an iOS device running outdated software?

It is a common thing among outdated apple devices.
If you have a friend, relative or access to any device with the latest iOS, just open up your account from them.
Install the app, delete it and log out.
Once you go back to your own device, the app will be listed in your "Purchased" section.
When you press download from there, the prompt will say something like (paraphrasing) "The latest version of Netflix is not compatible with your version of iOS, do you want to install latest compatible version?"
From then, you can install the app and use it up until Netflix cuts support for that version of app.


How can I remove duplicate photos in Camera Roll?

I think you could just connect your iphone device to a desktop and, depending on your os, use a duplicate finder. These apps organize your photo collection pretty well.


Appleworks and 10.6.8 was working with USB before, then stopped working, correct?

These are the trouble-shooting steps I'd go through for your USB problems:
-- Try backing up and deleting the Appleworks preferences file
-- Try a different USB Port
-- Remove USB devices one by one to see of one device is the problem.  -- Try a different USB "string" (cable? / thumb drive?)
-- Repair Disk Permissions  - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1452
-- Reset PRAM - http://support.apple.com/kb/PH6478
-- Update or Reinstall Appleworks


How to find a good replacement iPhone e-reader app?

This is the problem Apple is grappling with right now.  I'm hoping that they'll have some answer for us this year that helps us deal with the number of competing apps in the app store.
In the meantime, I have a few strategies for finding an app that meets my needs:
Use the app store search.
If you need your ebook reader to support epub, bookmarks, notes, and dropbox, simply type, "epub bookmarks notes dropbox" in the search field of the app store.  I like to sort first by rating and check out the highest rated apps, then by popularity and check out the most downloaded apps. Note that sorting by rating and popularity are only available on the iPad.
I read the reviews, both at the high rate end and low rate end to get an idea of the types of features people are excited about, and the types of problems people are experiencing.
I look at the most recent update notes, and see how long ago it was last updated to get an idea of whether the developer is taking an active role in maintaining the app and is responsive to complaints, or if it's an old app that works, but probably doesn't have new features.
At that point the only thing to do is to try out the ones that look most promising.  Many apps offer a trial or ad supported version, so the trial can be free in many cases.  For others, you'll have to pay a little to try them out, and if they don't fit your needs you've lost a little money and time, but remember that you're picking an app that should fit your needs for a long time - when you find it it will be worth the effort and money you've spent on other apps looking for the perfect one.
Use internet reviews/forums
Do a google search for "best ebook reader ipad" or similar, and you'll often get dozens of "top ten" style lists from people who have spent some time not just reviewing a few apps, but comparing and contrasting them.  You have to do a bit of wading, and you are going to have a hard time finding less popular subjects, "best lawn care app" isn't going to give you such collections because few people will have taken the time to check them out, even though many exist onthe app store.
Ask in appropriate forums
This site, Ask Different, does permit apple and iOS specific product recommendations, for instance, and there are many other forums that are fine with such questions.
You can check out the tag software-recommendation to get examples of the style of questions allowed here.  The tag has this note which might also give you tips on asking for a recommendation:

Recommendations can easily be subjective and local to one person or time. Please be specific about function and broad about timeframe so that your question, once answered objectively, is of use to the community.


Safari not prompting for basic authentication

Well since I can't find a definitive public answer, I'll do the next best thing.  This is the response I got on a private bug report through Apple:

  This behavior is expected. Following the fix per another bug. We do not prompt for credentials whenever navigating to an insecure web page that requires authentication from a secure web page. Moreover, we do not prompt for credentials when loading an insecure subresource (say, an image) that requires authentication or a secure subresource that requires authentication through an insecure redirect on a secure web page. The motivation for these restrictions is to prevent phishing attacks by a networking attacker who could have replaced the contents of the insecure resource HTTP response with a secure redirect to their own server that prompts for credentials. Although the authentication prompt shows the URL being accessed, a person may not read the prompt closely or, more likely, an attacker can purchase a domain name that could lull a person into falsely believing that the URL is legitimate so that the person submits their credentials to the attacker.

I'm still looking for a public statement from Apple that can be linked to.  If someone can provide that I will mark that as the accepted answer.

UPDATE

Someone with authority at Apple got in touch with me about this.  They finally linked me to the official release document showing the changed behaviour:

  Changed to only allow non-mixed content protected sub-resources to ask for credentials.
  https://webkit.org/blog/8035/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-44/
  https://developer.apple.com/safari/technology-preview/release-notes/#r44

We worked with Apple to address the broken user experience caused by this security fix. Apple listened to our feedback and fixed the credentials dialog for links from an HTTPS resource to an HTTP hosted resource. It works correctly now in Safari on Mojave onwards.


How are you so sure that there is no air being moved around?

Further, when does the throttling apply - right at the start or after some time? Because at some point under high load, you will experience some throttling on basically any laptop.

The only thing - depends on how familiar you are with such things - I can think of, is taking the back cover off and literally looking at the parts. Yet, I would not necessarily recommend this.

Before doing something like this: Save your data either in a backup or by copying your files.

Apple might be able to help you, but what usually do and recommend is going to a certified repair shop. It's more personal and you usually speak directly to the repair guy. Though, I guess they will probably not be able to do anything different than what you did, @Tetsujin or I suggested.


Is it possible to create a bootable installation partition for a PowerPC mac using an Intel-based Mac?

Maybe this link helps to accomplish what you described:
Installing OSX onto PPC using Intel Mac and Firewire
If it works, let us know.


How do I load the DiskManagement framework in single user mode?

The Disk Utility Repair Permissions command is just a front end for the repair_packages program.
Use this:
 /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs

Suggestion: run /sbin/mount -uw /  prior to running the above command.  Sometimes the disc may be mounted as read only and the command above will not work until you mount it with write permissions. You will be then able to successfully restore file permissions using the command after mounting the disk as writeable. The command ran for over two hours.


Messages sent to which number if iCloud message turned on

So, the answer is likely neither. Apple prefers to deliver a message securely and end to end encrypted and not deliver to any phone number for security and privacy reasons. The APNS system uses your contact information that is registered to make a device unique address. The same “message” sent to two of your devices is encrypted differently. When decrypted, they are the “same message” but over the air, the messages are unique and distinct.

SMS messages can be forwarded to devices that have none (iPhone sets up forwarding of the message content to an iPad or Mac using Text Message Forwarding opt-in settings)
The AppleID you use for Messages can have SMS and email as addressees. You can sometimes tap the message and see which if your contact items a message was addressed, but it’s hit or miss for me since it matters if you are reading these on iOS or iPadOS or macOS how it looks. Select yourself at the top of the chat window and see if one of your “addresses” is a different color is my best advice. The software tries hard to just show you who it was addressed to, not which of your data points was the recipient.


Is there a way to set another shortcut for "Eject" in the Finder without using a third-party application?

The only way I can think of to achieve this without any 3rd party software is to do the following steps:

Use Automator to create a service that runs an Apple Script
Use System Preferences to assign a keyboard shortcut to the service

Below are the steps involved for each. Don't worry, the whole thing should only take 5-10 mins.

1. Create a service using Automator

Launch Automator (usually found within your Applications folder)
Go to File > New.
Select Service and click Choose.
In the top right hand of the window that appears, ensure that "No input" is selected from the Service receives drop-down list.
Ensure the In drop-down list is showing "Any application".
In the second column containing the long list, find "Run AppleScript" and double-click on it.
This will add the Run AppleScript window on the right.
Now, replace the ( Your script goes here ) with the following code:

set exceptionsList to {"HD1", "HD2", "HD3", "HD4"}
tell application "Finder"
    set diskList to the disks
    repeat with mountedDisk in diskList
        if name of mountedDisk is not in exceptionsList then
            eject mountedDisk
        end if
    end repeat
end tell

In the first line of code, add your exceptions by changing the references to HD1, HD2, etc to any names of drives you do not want to eject. For example, HD1 should be replaced by your Macintosh HD (or whatever it's called). You may also want to add any Time Machine drives to the list, etc. You can add more by adding a comma and placing the name within quotes. Likewise, you can remove any you don't need.
Save the service using a meaningful name (e.g. EjectAll).

Now to the next step.

2. Creating your shortcut

Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
Select Services from the sidebar.
Find your service (it'll be in the list on the right-hand side).
Add a shortcut by double clicking on the service name.
Now go to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy.
Select Accessibility in the sidebar.
Click on the + sign (you may need to unlock the padlock if it's locked).
Add Automator.
Add Finder (to find this you will need to navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/Finder.app).
Exit your System Preferences.

Now you should be able to do two things:

1. Eject your drives from any application by going to the Services list within any Application menu (e.g. Finder > Services, Safari > Services, Mail > Services, etc) and select the service you just created. This will eject all drives not within your exception list.

2. Use the keyboard shortcut to run the service.

NOTE: I am aware that for some users keyboard shortcuts do not seem to work even though they've been assigned to a service. This is a whole other topic, but if this happens in your case, at least you should now be able to eject all drives from within any application you're using.

Hope this helps you and others.


How is your backup Situation?, if you've got everything backed up, I recommend that you simply format your Drive and reinstall OS X. if you know how, and have the original Disk. If you don't let me know. -quick pointers-

-Insert reinstall CD in your mac.
-restart mac holding option.
-choose from the two drives the Reins-CD
-Boot into it.


How to get MacOS Catalina to allow VMWare Fusion to have Accesibility permissions

You are doing the correct step. Unless VMWare has an uninstall / reinstall or way to clear that, you might need to start over with the database that tracks that entitlement.

Make a new admin user in system preferences and log out of the current user.
Log out of the current user and log in - try. Also consider disabling automatic log in and restart - then use the new account.
Make sure SIP is enabled: csrutil status should show enabled
Be sure you allowed the kernel extension for VMware Fusion to run. You have to click allow in the general security pane before you can go to the privacy pane to allow Accessibility and other more granular entitlements. Uninstalling and reinstalling VMWare Fusion should prompt you for this kernel approval before you have to accept the EULA and enter a license but after you approve the installer to run an admin script.

To wipe all the settings for that app, you need it's bundle identifier:

How do I reset Screen Recording permission on macOS Catalina?

In your case, the reset would be for the VMware Fusion app or processes. To get that, you can open the command line in terminal app and type mdls -name kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier and then drag the VMWare fusion app into the window and press return.

tccutil reset All com.vmware.fusion


Get Numbers & Pages et al. on macOS 10.11 El Capitan

I had this issue too. Whenever I used an Apple ID that hadn't previously downloaded iWork I wasn't able to download the free version on 10.11. I even tried this workaround.

What did work was getting access to a 10.12 Mac. Downloading Pages, Numbers and Keynote. The apps were now associated to that Apple ID. I then went back to the 10.11 Mac's, signed in using the same ID and clicked download. The App Store displayed a message asking if I would like to download an older compatible version.


Downloads vs Update charts in new iTunes Connect

It appears that this has been removed from the new iTunes Connect Sales & Downloads.

  Units is the aggregated number of items sold, refunded, or updated for a given day or week.

However, the data is still in the raw reports:

  Update transactions have the Product Type Identifier 7.

Source: https://itunesconnect.apple.com/WebObjects/iTunesConnect.woa/wo/5.0.0.13.7.2.7.9.3.1.2.3.3.1.1.4.1


I was trying to jailbreak my iPhone 4 (OS 4.3.5) but

You are using a version of redsn0w that cannot handle that specific version of iOS. You will need to find the correct version.

Here is a guide that might help: http://technorati.com/technology/gadgets/article/how-to-jailbreak-ios-435-on/

And it is of note that they have not released an untethered jailbreak for either 4.3.4 or 4.3.5, which means you will have to load the IPSW in redsn0w and apple the crack (select the option "just boot tethered") every time you cycle the power.

Also of note that the redsn0w .8b series is reserved for the iOS 5 betas.

You can see the full list of versions here: https://sites.google.com/a/iphone-dev.com/files/home/

Off hand I don't remember which will jailbreak 4.3.5 but give the latest .6 series a try first and work backwards.

And a word of caution, be wary of Redmond Pie, fromy experience they are far from a credible source for help and frequently report inaccurate information or often times completely spread misinformation. They seem more concerned with "getting there first" than actually reporting steps that you can rely on.


How can I enable a notification that a pop-up has been blocked in Safari?

Better Pop Up Blocker does trigger an alert in Safari when a popup is locked.

And it also improves the effectiveness of Safari's blocking.

But - the alert behaviour does not work in Lion! Snow Leopard only. If the dev updates it for Lion it should do what you request.


MacOSX Installer signed but Gatekeeper complains

Duplicated question: My signed .pkg file is not accepted

I was actually using a wrong certificate. I will try to confirm it before flagging this as the answer, but the question looks promising.


Try OS X Recovery, which is supported in Lion and later and hopefully on your Mac (if your Mac shipped with Lion it is supported, otherwise see http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4904 for a list of older Macs that support Lion Internet Recovery. If your Mac is not listed you will need the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant, see http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433).

To start up into OS X Recovery you need to turn on your Mac while holding down ⌘R (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718):

  OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion includes a built in set of utilities
  in the Recovery System. Restart your Mac and hold down the Command key
  and the R key (Command-R), and keep holding them until the Apple icon
  appears, indicating that your Mac is starting up. After the Recovery
  System is finished starting up, you should see a desktop with a OS X
  menu bar and a "Mac OS X Utilities" application window. Note: If you
  see a login window or your own desktop and icons, it is possible that
  you didn't hold Command-R early enough. Restart and try again.

  In order to reinstall OS X Lion or OS X Mountain Lion, you will need
  to be connected to an Ethernet or Wi-Fi network. The Wi-Fi menu item
  is in the upper-right corner of the screen. Click the icon to display
  all available Wi-Fi networks. Click your preferred network name and,
  if needed, enter a username and/or password.

(You will be given the chance to restore from a Time Machine backup, which works very nicely and I'd highly recommend.)

Read the rest of the article for more information on how to proceed.


Some applications are reporting different stats than Activity Monitor?

The answer to your question is given in an article from the Knowledge Base of Abelton entitled : CPU meter shows a different value than the Activity Monitor/Task Manager.
Here is the main points :

The value shown on Live's CPU meter differs from Activity Monitor (Mac) or the Task Manager (Windows) since it shows Live's audio processing load but doesn't show Live's overall CPU usage
[...]
Another reason for differing values between Live's CPU meter and the system's CPU meters is that the Activity Monitor and Task Manager normally show 100% per core/CPU. For example, 200% CPU load on the system CPU load meter of a quad-core machine means half of the computer's processing power is in use.

Read the original article for full details.


Mail - how to show POP3 mail account in the side bar

POP accounts are view-only and provide no access to folders on the server.  You can create offline folders to keep your POP mail organized on your computer, but obviously these folders will not sync with your online account.


Automator script to paste each word on clipboard followed by tab key

How can I create an Automator script to split the contents of my clipboard on space, and then paste each word followed by the tab key?

You can use a Run AppleScript action in an Automator workflow to accomplish this.
Example AppleScript code:
set cbText to (the clipboard)

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
set cbTextAsList to text items of cbText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {}

repeat with aWord in cbTextAsList
    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke aWord
        delay 0.05
        key code 48 --  # Tab key
        delay 0.05
    end tell
end repeat

Notes:

The example AppleScript code was tested in Script Editor under macOS Catalina.
Whatever the words are to be typed into must be frontmost as this is required for UI Scripting code, which is what System Events is doing.
As coded, it assume focus is already in the first text box the first word is to be typed when the script is triggered.

If you really want to paste the words instead of typing, then use the following example AppleScript code instead:
set cbText to (the clipboard)

set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
set cbTextAsList to text items of cbText
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {}

repeat with aWord in cbTextAsList
    set the clipboard to ""
    delay 0.05
    set the clipboard to aWord
    delay 0.05
    tell application "System Events"
        keystroke "v" using command down
        delay 0.05
        key code 48 --  # Tab key
        delay 0.05
    end tell
end repeat

Note: The example AppleScript code is just that and sans any included error handling does not contain any additional error handling as may be appropriate. The onus is upon the user to add any error handling as may be appropriate, needed or wanted. Have a look at the try statement and error statement in the AppleScript Language Guide. See also, Working with Errors. Additionally, the use of the delay command may be necessary between events where appropriate, e.g. delay 0.5, with the value of the delay set appropriately.


can't mount an encrypted Volume on an M1 Mac. Works fine on Intel Macs. Known Issue?

There's no known, general issue with encrypted drives for the M1 Mac.
The symptoms you're describing sound very much like a corrupted file system. Together with bugs in the operating system's file system code, it can lead to these issues. I would run a file system check on the drive when unmounted. You can do this from your Intel Mac.
You can run the file system check from the Terminal like this:
sudo fsck_hfs -f /dev/disk3

Note that this assumes the file system is HFS+ and that it is mounted as /dev/disk3 (as in your screenshot). Use Disk Utility first to find the actual disk number.
The problem could also be of a hardware nature. I would suggest trying to connect the disk using the exact same adapter to another PC/Mac and see if that works. As you're using different methods of connecting the disk currently, it is difficult to know if it could be a hardware issue or not.


How can I change a URL that an application pings

What you want to do is to is first find the IP address of the website which has the data you need. Enter this command in Terminal (only the dot-delimited portions, no slashes or anything):

nslookup deadurl.com

You should get a non-authoritative answer. This is what you want. Copy that address, and then enter this command into Terminal:

sudo vim /etc/hosts

You'll have to enter your password and press return to proceed. Note, for security, it won't show as you type. Once you're in the host file, move the cursor down to the bottom by pushing the function key, and the down arrow. Then press the "o" key, and paste the IP address, press tab, and type workingurl.com, replacing workingurl.com with your working URL.

Now press escape, ":", "x", return.

Now, assuming the software doesn't circumvent the hosts file in some way, it should have its communications redirected to the working URL, assuming the URL's path hasn't changed beyond the domain name.


Where are the default (system) wallpaper folders located on OS X?

Its on:

/Library/Desktop Pictures/

Notice though this is the system library, not the user library, so its right on the root of the drive and not inside your user folder.

Its hidden by default. Go to terminal and type open /Library to open it.

Hope it helps!

Edit: On Finder, you can hit CMDShiftG and paste the path to go to the folder. (thanks Sjoerd)


What about the Apps that I bought on the App Store when I buy a new iPod?

At the very least, make sure you sync your old one to your Mac before you sell it. When you sync, it should copy purchased items from your iPod to your Mac.

If you have time, back up your iPod: Connect it to iTunes, then right-click (or control-click) and select Back Up. You can then restore your new iPod from that backup. This will restore your mail accounts, sync settings and app data to the new iPod. It will not restore the correct locations of your apps or home screen folder contents.


Screen dims then gets bright randomly on Mac Pro Mavericks

There's Brightness - freeware - but I don't know if it will work on a Mac Pro, which doesn't have any brightness control built-in, like the laptops & iMacs do.

There is no adjustment at all on a Mac Pro Display Control Panel...

vs.


How to run a LaunchAgent that runs a script which causes failures because of System Integrity Protection

I solved this as follows as follows:

Allow Bash to have Full Disk Access

Open Preferences
Go to Security & Preferences
Select Full Disk Access in the list on the left
Click the lock to make changes
Click the + button on the list on the right
Navigate to the root of your HD
Press CMD+Shift+. to show all the hidden items
Select /bin/bash
Quit Preferences
Restart the mac (I am not sure if this is really necessary)

Run your script correctly

The mistake I made was that the launch agent ran the script like this:

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>/Users/channing/bin/backup.sh</string>
</array>

Do this instead

<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
    <string>/bin/bash</string>
    <string>/Users/channing/bin/backup.sh</string>
</array>

Restart your agent:

launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/backup.plist
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/backup.plist

Rejoice.


Why do some windows not appear in the app switcher even when not hidden or minimized?

The switcher on OSX is not based on Windows, but on Applications. In this case, the item in switcher board should be system preference, not VPN login panel.


What is this mysterious Google Maps popup?

Turns out the perpetrator is - for whatever reason f.lux.
The window is truly a zombie though and even stays unmovable and open if one of the buttons is clicked. Will inform them.

EDIT 17.02.18:
Here's their answer:

Thanks for your note - we have fixed this but haven't updated everyone yet.

Make sure you have 39.987 (download again) at

https://justgetflux.com/

The location popup says "f.lux" now and explains what it's doing....


Retrieve Passcode from iphone backup files

Disclaimer: I'd make this a comment, but I only just joined the Apple branch of Stack Exchange and lack the 50+ rep to do so.

First and foremost, the keychain database that stores the device's secure information will only be present if a backup is encrypted with a password. If it's not, well, sorry, but you're out of luck.

If it is encrypted, then we need to clarify on what exactly you're asking for. I'm not entirely sure if the lock screen password is stored in the keychain file (lazy Google search results: unclear), but if it is, you do have a chance at recovering it, though most solutions cost money. Checkout this blog post as well as this software developer's website to get an idea of what your next step should be.


Can Spaces be used on only one monitor (with another displaying just one desktop)?

I don't think it can be done...  However, you can assign applications to be present in every space.  So, if you end goal is to be able to have your e-mail always showing, yet use spaces to manage other applications, you could do the following.

Set mail.app (or whatever mail program you are using) to be present in every space.  Then drag the windows to your second monitor.
Launch several other applications, each in their own space.

Now you can switch from space to space and have Mail available in all of them.

Not exactly what you asked for, but I suspect that it will serve your purposes.


The script is searching for "Name" - but no field entitled "Name" exists, so nothing is found. There is an alternate command lpstat that may be easier to parse the name from, and returns the same ordering:

/usr/bin/lpstat -p | awk '{print $2}'

Since PPD is also in PPD Version, this causes a conflict. Search instead for PPD:, like the following:

ppd=($(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPPrintersDataType \
           | /usr/bin/awk -F ":" '/PPD:/{$1="";print $0}' \
           | /usr/bin/sed 's/\ /-,--/g'))

Here's a complete script - it appears to do what you want:

 #!/bin/bash
 name=($(/usr/bin/lpstat -p | awk '{print $2}' | /usr/bin/sed 's/\ /-,--/g'))
 ppd=($(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPPrintersDataType | /usr/bin/awk -F ":" '/PPD:/{$1="";print $0}' | /usr/bin/sed 's/\ /-,--/g'))
 ppdversion=($(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPPrintersDataType | /usr/bin/awk -F ":" '/PPD File Version/{$1="";print $0}' | /usr/bin/sed 's/\ /-,--/g'))
 uri=($(/usr/sbin/system_profiler SPPrintersDataType | /usr/bin/awk '/URI/{print $NF}'))
 total="${#ppdversion[@]}"
 /bin/echo "<result>"
 for ((counter=0; counter < "$total"; counter++))
 {
     echo "name: ${name[$counter]}" | /usr/bin/sed 's/-,--/\ /g;s/\ \ //g'
     echo "PPD: ${ppd[$counter]}" | /usr/bin/sed 's/-,--/\ /g;s/\ \ //g'
     echo "PPD Version: ${ppdversion[$counter]}" | /usr/bin/sed 's/-,--/\ /g;s/\ \ //g'
     echo "URI: ${uri[$counter]}"
     echo
 }
 echo "</result>"

The output (for my installed printers):

<result>
name: Brother_MFC_9325CW
PPD: Brother MFC-9325CW CUPS
PPD Version: 4.5.2
URI: usb://Brother/MFC-9325CW?serial=000L2J998184

name: Canon_MX410
PPD: Canon MX410 series
PPD Version: 16.10.0.0
URI: dnssd://Canon%20MX410._printer._tcp.local./auto

</result>


External monitor not recognised- MacBookAir

The first thing I would try is an NVRAM reset, instructions here.

Also close all applications and try pulling these plists

Library/Preferences/com.apple.windowserver.plist and
/Users//Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.windowserver.XXXXX.plist

to your desktop and reboot


Reset the SyncServices folder. Not sure why I didn't think of this earlier.

In short:

/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync.pl full

Apple has some other tricks to try if you're on an OS prior to Mountain Lion, but it looks like this should work for Leopard through Mountain Lion.

You can confirm by comparing output of

grep -ir "device" ~/Library/Application\ Support/SyncServices

before and after resetting the SyncServices folder. You should see some lines about your device prior and no lines about it after.


Why is same privileged bash command giving different information from script than from command line?

The difference comes from the change in shell environment once elevated. I'm not sure how you would write a script that would account for this change easily, but the answer to my original question is that you need to be aware of such differences when you elevate privileges.

Thanks to "thankyour" for this lead. I finally posted this as an answer since they didn't for some weeks.


Edit:  Apple released two updates for the MBP this week, including an EFI update.  While neither update explicitly mentioned wireless connectivity, the update seems to have partially fixed the problem.  After installing both updates, I get a pretty consistent 3-5 ms ping with a very very occasional spike to 100.  At least it's much better than before.

In the meantime, the trick below still works if you want a 1 ms response instead.

There's an interesting tip from someone on Apple's discussion forums that can work as a workaround.

It appears that if the network card is inactive for more than 200 ms, it powers down and has to be powered up to send network traffic again, hence the random spikes.
But, if you can keep the network card active (at the cost of a small amount of CPU power and some extra traffic), then the latency goes away.

The command recommended by seanfromcolumbus was:

sudo ping -i .2 192.168.1.1

(The -i .2 specifies an interval of 200 ms)

Indeed, with this running, I get consistent results of <2 ms.

Original Post


All older printers are not working in macOS v11 (Big Sur)

What worked: I read the error logs on my printers. They pointed me to permission problems with /usr/libexec/cups. Perms should be 755.
To make this work:

System Integrity Protection should be disabled.
You must be a sudoer or have root permissions.

Instructions
Open a terminal.

cd to /usr/libexec
sudo chmod -R 755 cups

That's it! Printing with older drivers works now! AirPrint works. The scanners work. Apparently Apple screwed up the perms on the cups directory that makes printing work when they created their protected filesystem! Urrgghh! This should work with all older printers regardless of brand.
YMMV.


If I buy an iPhone 6 in Germany, will it work in the U.S.?

As long as the phone you buy is factory unlocked (not a "no-contract" carrier phone), it should work. Same goes for phones bought in the United States: as long as it is unlocked, there shouldn't be a problem

One thing to keep in mind, is whether the models sold in Germany support LTE networks in the U.S. and on which carriers the phone can be used. It's most likely that the only major carriers you'll be able to use in the U.S. will be AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile, among a few smaller carrier. See this link from Apple that explained which models can be used on which carriers.


External display, keyboard & mouse connected to MacBookPro. Good or bad?

You should be fine. (It's advisable not to keep the keyboard on top, discussed below).

This mode is known as closed-clamshell or closed-display mode. Apple even has a support document sharing guidelines regarding this mode:

Use your Mac notebook computer in closed-display mode with an external display.

However, a few general instructions need to be kept in mind:

Make sure your MacBook is placed on a flat surface with no obstructions to the vents and air-flows, especially towards the lower end of the back side. That's where the vents are placed.
Do not keep it close to other electronic items which tend to get hot. Ideally your MacBook shouldn't heat up. (You can check that by placing your hand on top of the lid).

Note: To complement point 1 & 2, ideally don't keep anything 3"-4" around your MacBook. Keep that area open with proper air flow.
Refrain from keep anything on top of the device and apply any kind of pressure. I'd advise you not to use it in the way that you have demonstrated (with the keyboard on top). Consider moving the keyboard from top and keeping it elsewhere.
A few folks prefer keeping it in a vertical orientation rather horizontal as it provides for better air flow and exposed vents. There are various cases/docks which allow you to house your MacBook in upright position (random example). This advise may be helpful if you are using the MacBook in clamshell mode for pro-longed period of time. It also helps in saving desk space. (Space on desk for your keyboard .)
Keep the MacBook plugged-in to a power source. However, also consider draining the battery to a full discharge once in a while (recommended is at least once a month) to maintain its health.

I have a similar setup with an external display, wired keyboard and wired mouse connected to my MacBook Pro. I make it a point to completely discharge the battery (thereby completing one charge cycle) once a month. The advise is purely based on personal experience (~5 years of usage) and generally understood guidelines regarding maintaining a MacBook Pro.


Iterm2 BrokenPipe Failed to exec /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin: No such file or directory PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

Question asker here ...

I had the fortunate luck of working through this in a screen share with a graduate from the school and the solution we found regarding my issue is that I had this in my .bash_profile file:

source ~/.bash_profile
export PATH=$PATH:~/.npm-global/bin

So, the immediate issue was the source ~/.bash_profile, this was causing the piping error and crashing all my terminals.

Q: How did we access this file if terminal was broken?

A: I went into vscode (any text editor will probably work just the same) and opened the files path. So, vscode > file > open > X's MacBook Pro > untitled > Users > X > clicked open. This opened all the files (including the hidden one we want access to) and opened the file named .bash-profile.

In the .bash-profile file I updated it from what was posted above to whats posted below and saved it.

export PATH=$PATH:"~/.npm-global/bin"


How to create AppleID of another country without having a credit card or bank account of that country, but with a country Internet connection?

Disconnect if you are logged in with an Apple ID, go to AppStore, try to get an app, select the “create a new account” option and you will be able to create an Apple ID without a card. You can add the card (I think but it is almost sure) after you come back in your country.


Is the iPhone 4 antenna problem fixed in the iPhone 4S

I think so. Since Apple placed an extra antenna (now they are two) in the iPhone and they redesigned the whole antenna system (an extra receiver in the frame inter alia).

And according to the movies in this blogpost, it seems like the new system did fix the so-called antennagate! They compared the iPhone 4S reception with an iPhone 4 which is suffering from the antennagate.

According to Apple itself, the system...

  Intelligently switches between two antennas to transmit and receive


How can I add custom week numbers to Calendar?

I do not know of any way of customising the existing function, so I suggest that you make an iCloud Calendar and make a repeated calendar entry for each semester. Example: Make new calendar named Semesters. Make an entry called 201516-1 and set the first Monday of the semester and repeat until the last. Continue making entries 201516-2, 201516-3, 201516-4 until you are done.


Some iPhone/iPad photos do not appear on the map of iPhoto

You can add or correct wrong GPS-data to your photo with the app iMetaPhoto.

I had the same problem, I took 4 photos at the same location, but only the last photo was correctly geotagged. Wit iMetaPhoto you can take this correct GPS-data and save it to the wrong ones.


Display phone number or email on home screen when phone locked?

Yes, you can trigger that using Find My iPhone or on icloud.com. Just put it into Lost Mode and choose to display a message on the screen.


How can I run a script on a Mac before Airport starts?

how about run a script on shutdown to turn the airport off. Then when you start up the system again airport will be off and just turn the airport on at the end of the script?

/usr/sbin/networksetup -setairportpower en1 off


I have maybe the solution, but it requires a USB key and an other computer on macOS. The solution consists to create a bootable USB key.
You can find here a good tutorial: Bootable USB key macOS Sierra - MacWorld
I had this problem too when I installed macOS Sierra (but after I downgraded because my CPU was overheating). I hope it will work for you


Export versions of a document (/.DocumentRevisions-V100)

This is not an answer, but it is too much for a comment. Might be somebody can add information here.

You might think the different versions are stored within the file itself. This is not true. The different versions are stored in the following directory

/.DocumentRevisions-V100

You need admin rights to browse around in that folder, so changing its rights using the following command makes it possible to see its contents without admin rights.

sudo chmod -R 115 /.DocumentRevisions-V100

Now you can use Finder to look around in your versions.

open /.DocumentRevisions-V100

You will notice that the directory structure is a bit un-human, and it looks a bit like the iPod structure if you ask me. The different versions of all your files are stored within this folders. Probably, the /.DocumentRevisions-V100/db-V1/db.sqlite-wal file contains the most important information. But unfortunately I can only guess how these versions are stored.

It might be possible to create a smart folder that handles the contents of /.DocumentRevisions-V100 to fetch the versions you want.

(Most of this info is from: http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/everything_you_need_know_about_versions)

New:
The /.DocumentRevisions-V100/PerUID/[0-9] directory contains the files per user ID (run the id command in the Terminal to know your user ID). This is were the different versions of all your docs are stored. When I copied this Directory to my desktop and changed permissions, I was able to do spotlight searches on them and find all versions from 1 certain file.


Texting without the chain of previous conversations

Neither text nor iMessages send the conversation history; that is saved locally on your own device, & also on theirs. Each user is in charge of whether or not to keep that history.

To send a text/iMessage, all you need is their phone number, nothing else. They don't even have to be in your address book.


How do I change the login screen background in macOS Mojave?

I've fixed it! You'll have to edit the dune HEIC picture though. If you're willing, follow these steps:

1) Go To: /Library/Desktop Pictures/

2) Find the file called "Mojave.heic"

3) Save a copy as a backup somewhere else

4) Select the picture you want to have instead

5) Edit image values (DPI, size, etc.) to fit

6) Rename this edited picture as Mojave.heic


Does `dtruss -p PID` list system calls made before dtruss was run?

No

I've just run an experiment to test this. I wrote and ran this Ruby script:

puts "going to read foo"
puts File.read('/tmp/foo.txt')

sleep 5
puts "going to read bar"
puts File.read('/tmp/bar.txt')

sleep 5
puts "going to read baz"
puts File.read('/tmp/baz.txt')

After it started, I ran diagnose on its PID, as described above. I only saw one call to open:

20309/0x4a7118:     34082      41     34 open("/tmp/baz.txt\0", 0x1000000, 0x1B6)        = 7 0


VLC on windows 8.1 can't open files on iMac

This is not a fix but information sharing.

My mavericks Firewall has following settings

Use the + to add and allow connection.

I set my VLC to Block for demonstration purpose.


How do I open two tabs in a split pane in iTerm?

Really late answer, but you are probably looking for Cmd+D or Cmd+Shift+D, if I understand it correctly.
(still might be useful for some lost soul out there)


Is there a way to combine sound settings on iOS?

I believe the setting you are after is in

Settings -> Sounds  Change with Buttons = On


matplotlib is part of the python 2.7 installed with El Capitan, no need to install it.


I cannot get past an "unknown problem" error when trying to login to discussions.apple.com

There are occasional timeouts when the service that validates an Apple ID and password combination fails to report back to the web server running any of Apple's services (like the discussions, stores, review process, bug reporter, etc...)

If this error persists over a day or more and there isn't a public outage, you will need to contact support for help with your Apple ID.


usb mouse freeze on mid 2007 macbook with lion 10.7.5 installed

The first thing to do is to try another USB mouse, perhaps a different make and model, and see if it also locks up on your Mac. If so, then it's pretty certain that your first mouse is defective or incompatible with Lion for some reason. If several mice lock up, then perhaps there is something wrong with the USB controller on the motherboard of the MacBook. But it is much more likely that the fault is with the mouse.


The Mac mini, since Mid 2011, has one Secure Digital (SDXC) card slot.  Prior to that, the Mid 2010 models have one Secure Digital (SD) card slot and prior to 2010 the Mac mini has no card slot.

Back side of Mac mini (Late 2014):

If the flash memory card is a micro card, then to use the SD/SDXC card slot, you need an SD card Adapter as shown in the example image below.

If you do not want to use the SD card slot then you'll need a USB SD Card Reader. As an example, the Insignia™ - USB 2.0 SD/MMC Memory Card Reader - Black, which is compatible with, SD, SDHC, SDXC, microSD, microSDHC, microSDXC, MMC and MMC+ memory cards on PC and Mac, shown in the image below.


Select Hide Others from the active application menu, or use shortcut alt ⌥+cmd ⌘+H


Has Apple added universal TRIM support with OS 10.8.4?

I can confirm that in my case installing OSX 10.8.4 on a new SSD I had to enable TRIM with TRIM Enabler.

When I first ran TRIM enabler the application displayed that TRIM was not enabled.

How did you determine that TRIM was enabled?


Newly purchased Macs come with 90 days of complimentary AppleCare phone and web support (as well as walk in service at all Apple retail stores).

You will want to follow the internet recovery steps to erase the drive and reinstall the operating system once you have ascertained that no data (pictures, documents, etc...) exist only on that Mac.

Here is the script you will be following in a nut shell:

power off the mac
boot with Command and R held down
select Disk Utility to repair or erase and re-format the drive (GUID partition scheme and Mac OS Extended (journaled) format for the volume.
download and install Lion from the internet recovery
attempt again to set up the mac

Do consider that a hardware failure could cause things to not work as intended - a call to Apple is the fastest way to get that sorted for someone that isn't used to isolating issues on hardware.


iMac display wakes up even when no one is using it

Try this in your Terminal:

syslog |grep -i "Wake reason"

Then you'll get something like:

Sat Sep 08 09:28:12 MacBookPro kernel[0] : Wake reason = OHC1
Mon Sep 10 21:14:54 MacBookPro kernel[0] : Wake reason = PWRB
...

Depending on the text after the =-sign, you have the reason why your Mac went to sleep. And it can have multiple causes:

OHC: some USB device. If you see OHC1 or OHC2, it's very likely a USB keyboard or mouse has woken up your iMac.
EHC: USB interface too, but if you see this, it will likely be a wireless device.
USB: another USB device (drive, printer,...)
PWRB: If your powerbutton gets pressed (very unlikely)
RTC: a scheduled wake-up (energy saver, backups, iCal events,...)

I hope your item is in this list :)


Does turning iMessage off remove previous iMessages and text messages?

No. Your messages are tied to the device specifically, not necessarily the account.

If you wanted to delete the messages, you could delete whole conversations by swiping left in the messages list or individually deleting messages by double tapping on the message.


How to add a "mobile data ON/OFF" shortcut?

Without a jailbreak, that's not possible.


Why aren't any of my Folder Actions triggering?

Folder Actions seem to have been buggy for a lot of people in Mountain Lion (myself included). There’s discussion elsewhere on Ask Different about the unreliability of Folder Actions in general, and there are quite a few threads on Apple’s support forums about the issue.

Reinstalling 10.8.4 seemed to fix the problem for the OP, but I’ll note here what seems to be a common fix. The following practice, quoted from Jehan Alvani’s blog, has been cited in quite a few places:

  Create ~/Library/Scripts/Folder Action Scripts/ and drop the folder action script you want to add in there.
  Strangely, open System Preferences → Keyboard → Keyboard Shortcuts, and click the Reset to Defaults button.
  Scroll up to the Files & Folders section, and make sure that the Folder Actions Setup… listing is checked.

I think you want to go to the Services panel within the Keyboard preferences pane, but I’m not certain. I’m not willing to try it since I don’t want to reconfigure my keyboard shortcuts if I screw it up, and I don’t use Folder Actions anyway.

I know the OP’s problem has been fixed, but this may be of use to other people facing similar difficulties.


Can my messages be synced when I sign in on another iOS device?

If you change your Apple ID password, all instances where it was used should prompt you to update it before using it.
So after changing your password, your iPhone iMessages won't be synced to your iPod.

From the Apple Support page:

  The next time you use Apple features and services that require an Apple ID, you’ll be asked to sign in with your new Apple ID password.

And here:

  By changing your Apple ID password you can prevent anyone from accessing your iCloud data or using other services (such as iMessage or iTunes) from your missing device.

After you sign in again on your iPod, all new messages should be in sync, but in my experience it won't sync the messages in between the password change and the sign-in.


Important files and photos saved on Cloud service

Yes, your data is stored in multiple different locations. Most of the time cloud services has various datacenters in multiple countries on different continents.

As user you don't know where your data is stored exactly and how many copies of that data is stored. But you can bet they have a backup of a backup of a backup.

Because systems, servers, harddrives fail every single day their systems are designed to keep all the data save.

Keep in mind companies can decide to stop offering cloud services. So if you are a little bit smart, you have backups as well.


Does System Integrity Protection have any effects on OS's besides Mac OS?

No, SIP is only applied within a macOS partition. You can have a look at /System/Library/Sandbox/rootless.conf to see which folders and files get protected by default.


How can I make Ruby net::http stop stalling on ipv6?

I am not sure that this is an Apple issue, but a Ruby issue. You can see a bug report here.

You might try specifying a ipv6-specific hostname upon initialization.

For example, TCPServer.new('::1', pivotal_tracker_address) should allow you to use curl without specifying the -ipv6. I can't see you Ruby code, so I am not sure if this will fix your problem.

Hope this helps.


add a permanent static route in high sierra

I suggest to use networksetup which works persistent and also in separate network locations.

First, open your terminal of choice i.e. iTerm2.app or Terminal.app

list your network locations:

networksetup -listlocations

choose your desired network location:

sudo networksetup -switchtolocation <locationofchoice>

list "devices" called networkservices

networksetup -listallnetworkservices

list persistent routes on "device" of choice i.e. "Ethernet"

networksetup -getadditionalroutes Ethernet

add your route to "Ethernet"

sudo networksetup -setadditionalroutes Ethernet 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 10.0.0.2

list persistent routes on "Ethernet" again to check

networksetup -getadditionalroutes Ethernet

To see all commands:

networksetup -help or
networksetup -printcommands

Hope that helps ;)


I wish I could get a new Finder window launched if I double-click the Finder icon in the dock. Is this possible?

Hyperdock will let you do something similar. It doesn't seem to support double clicking, but I have my system set up so a middle-click on the finder icon opens a new window.

It's also an awesome dock enhancement, and brings the dock much closer to the usability of the windows taskbar (i.e. you can switch to a specific other window without having to use expose or alt-tab).


Can you try and see if executing this in the terminal changes modes?

<route to app>/gfxCardStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/gfxCardStatus --discrete

Other available commands are --dynamic and --integrated. If that works, a workaround solution would be to automatically launch that command on wakeup.


Whatsapp Notification to use number of people instead of number of new messages for push icons?

Not possible at the moment. Maybe you can send them a suggestion.


Can I use ssh in "forwarding mode" as a workaround missing Telnet in High Sierra?

Well, using built in utilities the answer would be nc. nc is easy to use for this, a simple nc <hostname> 23 does the job. Obviously, if your telnet host is using a non-standard port then replace 23 with the port number. <hostname> can be either the name or IP address.

nc is the BSD version of the Gnu/Linux netcat utility. If you want the Gnu version it is available via homebrew, brew install netcat. If you're going to that much trouble you may as well install telnet from Sierra on your High Sierra Mac via homebrew, brew install telnet. Note that you should never run brew via sudo.


How to share and project Powerpoint presentation with ARD

In answer to the first query - When the students connect they should see both of your displays and then be able to select Display 1 or Display 2 for a closer look at either one. These options appear (or not) depending on the display arrangement setup under Displays in System Preferences.

The bottom line is, ARD is not really suited to this task. There is a piece of software that does exactly what you're after, but it does cost. It's called LANSchool.

The killer LANSchool feature that you're looking for is - 'Show Teacher's Screen'. This overlays your screen onto a selection of student machines. There's a 30 day trial available, I highly recommend you try it out!


Remove them from your dock, then go under the go tab in finder to your hard drive, then to library, and then in the prefences folder find com.apple.dockfixup.plist and move it to the recycle bin. Problem solved. This worked for me and I am running Lion so, hopefully it will work for you...


Smart Folders: What is the difference between "This Mac" and "All My Files"?

All my files could contain files from mounted or networked drives.


Gitlab-runner service not started after reboot

I’ve had great luck using brew services to start it at boot as opposed to needing to log in.

https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/install/osx.html

As described, you cannot get any UI integration when it runs as a pre-log in service. For us that’s not a dealbreaker as we run those in a locked space / headless and set automatic log in but for basic use, try https://brew.sh first.


MacBook Pro 2009, can't format/fresh install

So, happy - more or less - ending. I contacted an authorised reseller and they made me a bootable USB. now i have a working machine but the situation still sucks, mostly the whole installer dvd thing. And the fact that you can't download an .iso from an official Apple source even if you legitimately purchased a Mac.


What you're seeing, namely, the behavior where the Escape key closes the window, is automatically built in to the NSPanel class, which is a subclass of NSWindow.

From Window Programming Guide > How Panels Work:

  A panel is a special kind of window, typically serving an auxiliary
  function in an application. The NSPanel subclass of NSWindow adds
  a few special behaviors to windows in support of the role panels play:

  ...

  • If a panel is the key window and has a close button, it closes itself
  when the user presses the Escape key.

The preferences window (or panel) in many applications is implemented as an NSPanel: for example, Safari, Preview, Terminal, Console. The Fonts panel in Cocoa apps is implemented as an NSPanel. When you choose Safari > Safari Help, it actually launches an invisible background application, HelpViewer.app (/System/Library/CoreServices/HelpViewer.app), whose main window is implemented as a floating NSPanel. For these reasons, those panels will respond to the Escape key by closing the window. Standard general windows, which are instances of NSWindow, don't automatically get this behavior, as only panels are meant to behave that way.


How can I download a video from the web to my iPad?

This is not possible in MobileSafari on the iPad.  There may be an app for it somewhere on the App Store, though.


Okay to leave iPhone on a Qi charger while at 100% battery level?

Yes, it is totally safe to do so. Your phone won't suddenly overheat, "overcharge" or break due to it being placed for a prolonged amount of time on a Qi-charger while fully charged.


What file permissions do I need to change after 10.8.3 restore?

Turns out that my issue was resolved here: OS X computer name not matching what shows on terminal

sudo scutil --set ComputerName "newname"
sudo scutil --set LocalHostName "newname"
sudo scutil --set HostName "newname"
Flush the DNS cache by typing: dscacheutil -flushcache
Restart your Mac.


Stop password characters from being shown

Short answer, it is not possible to do so.

This functionality is built into iOS and it is by design. Showing a character for split second lets the user visually verify that correct character is entered.

If you are concerned about someone watching over your shoulder, consider using a password manager. Apple's iCloud keychain can store and enter passwords for you. If you upgrade to iOS 12, built-in support for 3rd party password managers in included in iOS. You get an option to enter password via it in the keyboard toolbar area. When entering password using password manager, no character is echoed and only dots are shown.

While it is also possible to use password manager in iOS 11.4.1, you'll have to resort to manually copying and pasting the password where the characters aren't echoed.

Password Autofill in iOS 12 now works with 1Password, Dashlane, and LastPass


Where can I see the installed profiles in iOS9

You don't see a profile entry until the first one is saved. It's listed when it shows up immediately below the VPN entry, so be sure you scroll the content up so that VPN and below are visible.

Other than that, you can tap through each profile and see details about what entitlements it controls and how it's authenticated and/or cryptographically singed in the same manner as before.


Tired of the Apple Mail Client Woosh sound on mail send

Go to Mail's Preferences. ⌘+.

Mail > Preferences > General tab

Deselect the

  Play sounds for other mail actions

checkbox.


It depends on the level of security you are looking for. For PGP, some options, as explained in this article, are iPGMail and oPenGP. If you are looking for a simpler option, in which you don't want to rely on the PGP web of trust, then you can use S/MIME in the stock mail app with little effort. The linked article explains the easiest way to do this on iOS.


Can I make the Keyboard Viewer more readable

In Catalina Keyboard Viewer, click the Gear icon in the upper right corner of the window. This opens a pop-up window where you can select the Appearance setting of the Keyboard View window to either Dark or Light, independent of the System Appearance setting:

When you choose Dark Mode, a pressed key is outlined in red.
When you choose Light Mode, a pressed key is outlined in red in addition to having a grey overlay, which is what you are looking for.


How to go to new line in iTerm2 without executing command?

This has nothing to do with iTerm, but rather the shell that you're using and whether or not the option interactive_comments is enabled or not.  To treat the line as a comment, you have to start the line with a comment character.
Bash Reference Manual (Chapter 3.1.3) - Comments

In a non-interactive shell, or an interactive shell in which the interactive_comments option to the shopt builtin is enabled (see The Shopt Builtin), a word beginning with ‘#’ causes that word and all remaining characters on that line to be ignored. An interactive shell without the interactive_comments option enabled does not allow comments. The interactive_comments option is on by default in interactive shells.

$ shopt -s interactive_comments          <-------- Enable interactive_comments
$ shopt -u interactive_comments          <-------- Disable

To make this permanent, put the command in your ~/bash_profile or ~/bashrc.  It's enabled by default in Bash
Zsh Reference Manual (Chapter 6.7) - Comments

In non-interactive shells, or in interactive shells with the INTERACTIVE_COMMENTS option set, a word beginning with the third character of the histchars parameter (‘#’ by default) causes that word and all the following characters up to a newline to be ignored

% setopt interactive_comments         <------ Enable interactive_comments
% unsetopt interactive_comments       <------ Disable

To make the setting permanent, place the appropriate command in  your ~/.zshrc.  It's disabled by default in Zsh.


Safari Web Developer Tools - how to edit a cookie?

You cannot use Safari's Web Developer tools to edit cookies (at least not yet?).

Entries in this table are read-only; if you want to edit a cookie’s value, you need to do so with the document.cookie object in JavaScript (you can use the Quick Console at the bottom of the content browser to modify the cookie and see the results update in real time). Pressing the Delete key while a cookie is selected deletes the cookie.

Ref: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/AppleApplications/Conceptual/Safari_Developer_Guide/ResourcesandtheDOM/ResourcesandtheDOM.html


Does the weight of iOS devices change based on storage size?

The 128GB and 256GB variants don't have any more chips than the 32GB model. They still have one chip, that has smaller cells and hence higher storage density, but it takes up the same volume and weight.

Even if this is not true, the difference in mass is likely to be within a gram or two. It's not significant enough to note.

Source: iFixit teardown for the iPad Pro. As you can see, the logic board has no space for any additional flash memory chips.


Keep iPad always on and locked to one app. In >iOS 12

I have seen several people with the same issue. Assuming you upgraded the iPad with guided access enabled follow these steps:

  I have found that if Guided access was enabled prior to the upgrade it
  might reset in this process.

  Turn off Guided Access in Accessibility / Settings.
  Hard reboot.  (Hold Home and Lock buttons for 7 seconds)
  Turn on Guided Access in Accessibility / Settings.  Reset Passcode.

From Kiosk:

  iOS 12.1.1 has been released and includes a fix to this issue, but requires a change to a new setting introduced in this release to prevent the screen from sleeping: General > Accessibility > Guided Access > Mirror Display Auto-Lock > ON.

to update your device, go to Settings -> General -> Software Update


Command+TAB (⌘⇥) to switch to most recent window (even on different space)

There is the default shortcut ⌘` (that's a backtick [or ⌘` for QWERTZ keyboard layouts] to toggle focus between application windows.

I don't think it's possible to adjust the behaviour of ⌘⇥ so it meets your criteria.


How do I stop mail from automatically trash meeting invitations?

You can set a mailbox rule, that when a message is both in trash, and is a Meeting request, move it to the inbox (or a folder/area of your choice).

Screenshot is OSX which I imply that you are using. This would be possible on Windows too with a similar approach.


No, this will not work. Only the RAM for the MacBook Pro and Mac Mini are compatible, as MacBook Airs have their RAM soldered to the logic board.

While you will be able to move the MacBook Pro memory to the Mac Mini, the speed would be slower. Because the RAM is soldered to the logic board of the MacBook Air, this memory can't be moved at all, so you'd still be short new memory.

If you want to upgrade your memory in both the Mac Mini and the MacBook Pro, move the sticks from the MBP to the Mini, then buy new ones for the MacBook Pro. If you just want the upgrade in the Mini, buy new sticks for the Mini's specs.


Access photos from Iphone 5 with a smashed screen that has never been paired

iOS requires screen interaction on iPhone 5 to enable the USB port to access data.

Unless you have FBI budget to buy an exploit, the cheapest path forward is to pay someone to get a screen connected long enough to trust your chosen computer. You mOught spend $50 for that service, so it's really a matter of are the photos worth anything. If so, worth sacrificing something else in the family budget since backups were not kept.

Once the pairing record is set - you can browse the device without a screen attached - this allows your screen repair to be very temporary. At that point, your recovery proceeds like unprotected devices of old.

How to recover photos from an iPhone 3G?


first:
sudo /usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -a "com.apple.loginwindow.netaccounts" -t group "com.apple.access_loginwindow"

then:
sudo /usr/sbin/dseditgroup -o edit -a "yourAccount" -t group "com.apple.loginwindow.netaccounts"


I had no luck getting bindfs and osfuse up and running with macOS Sierra. So I configured a virtual machine instead on top of CentOS 7, with everything running now.

https://bernhard.hensler.net/sftp-yosemite-server/


Enable spell check for various languages in Chrome

I do not use Chrome (often) and Firefox is my favorite browser.

So I added Spanish to the Spell check and if I right click and select it it works just fine.

One drawback is it applies to the whole text so I can not spell check just a single word.

If you want to do that in Chrome:

Under the Edit tab select the Spelling and Grammar-> Show

Now select Spanish


My iphone 4s's sound settings changed by themselves

Please verify the position of the upper left switch on the housing. Slide it down so that you can see the orange background. This setting mutes your iPhone. You will then hear no system sounds, only vibration.

I assume you always had that switch in that position and it accidently changed its postion to unmute.


Is it possible to have two partitions on external drive that is used for time machine backups?

Yes, it is indeed possible.

The easiest way is to start with a clean drive (i.e. containing no data you want to save), and then use Disk Utility to create two partitions on the drive. You can name the partitions so it is easy for you to identify which one is which.

The partition for Time Machine needs to be formatted as "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" (HFS+).

The Windows drive will usually be formatted during Windows installation.


Goodreader for the iphone extracts text and images and fits them to your iphone screen and can be customized to your liking.


You can use the AppleScript menu on the Menu bar. Script Editor > Preferences... > General

Script Menu: [√] Show Script menu in menu bar

Place your scripts in: ~/Library/Scripts

Or create Automator Service workflows using a Run AppleScript action.

Automator > New > Service
Service receives selected no input in any application
Add a Run AppleScript action
Replace the default AppleScript code with you code.
Save the Service workflow. (They are automatically saved in: ~/Library/Services)

You can now access them from the Services menu in Outlook.

You can also assign a keyboard shortcut to any Service workflow that might be relevant to have one. This is done in: System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services

Or use a third-party utility like FastScripts.


Can't install OS X on blank HDD on a Macbook Pro 2010 13" - Stuck on white screen

That Mac to be able to use Internet Recovery. Hold  Cmd ⌘    Opt ⌥   R  at the chimes

No Mac can boot to an OS older than itself.


Getting error: RPC prog. not avail while trying to mount using nfs

Try this:

pi@raspberrypi:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/nfs-kernel-server restart


Apple Wireless Keyboard on Windows PC - How to make FN and Eject keys work?

There is another open source software that works with my A1314 apple keyboard on windows 10.

Try it : Apple Wireless Keyboard

Remember to select restart from tray icon after configuration change.


How do I open a browser which Apple gives in popups

One way to accomplish something similar is to use the Website Popup workflow in Automator.

Open Automator
Create a new Workflow or Service
Add Get Specified URL's
Add Website Popup

Modify the settings in each workflow to your preference.  The popup can be then captured for screen shots.
From the Mac OS X Automation website:

Website Popup
More and more, services and functionality are moving to the Cloud. Accessing internet-hosted server-based content without
the hassle and overhead of using a browser can prove to be invaluable
in providing simple, quick, and elegant workflow soltuions.[sic] The
Website Popup action displays specified HTML or web-based content in a
floating HUD-like palette that can provide fast access to important
content and then quicly [sic] get out of the way.

Sample using "Website" in a Wikipedia search workflow:


Check and see whose Apple ID is being used by iCloud. Go to Settings -> iCloud -> Account. The Photo Stream associated with your device should be the one associated with the iCloud account that is logged into the same device.

Also, deleting items from the device will delete them from whichever user's account is associated with iCloud on the device.


Can I automaticly CC emails to an email address in Mail.app?

If you switch your team over to Google apps, the Gmail web client lets you automatically cc or bcc every email, this is how I automated emails.


Using a keyword that contains a space in a Spotlight search?

This is not an answer. I wrote this just inform:
In my experience, spotlight can get the right result, even if it contains spaces in the file name. Please refer to the screenshot below

First, Make Sure enable "Mail & Message" option in spotlight preference.

PS:Usually you can search email in build-in Apple mail search or using Smart mailbox. Of course, you can also use the spotlight to search for email.


Is It Possible To Use Desktop Mac Apps On An iPad?

Using remote desktop tools, yes.

For example, Remoter VNC, LogMeIn, and Teamviewer come to mind immediately.


eMac stuck - won't boot, won't eject disc

I don't know if it's still like that but you could try to keep the mouse button pressed while booting: it used to force a disc eject.


Very strange green artifacts in Google Chrome?

16" Macbook Pro?
It sounds similar to this (although most users report blue lines, not green).
Does it still happen if you turn off hardware acceleration in Chrome?


Is it possible to install Swift Playgrounds in iOS Simulator?

It's not possible to access the App Store from an Xcode simulator.  Apple doesn't install the App Store on the simulator and there's no way to add the app.

You can only access Swift Playgrounds from a real iPad running iOS 10 or later.


Mac Big Sur home folder permissions: Read-only file system when renaming files

The problem is the double forward-slash in ${f/PCC-//}. Unlike a sed substitution pattern, there's no / at the end of the replacement pattern (it's terminated by }), so the extra / is taken as the replacement string. This turns e.g. "PCC-ASR-L.Rdat" into "/ASR-L.Rdat", which (because of the "/") is at the root of the filesystem... which is read-only.
When I'm doing things like batch renames, I also often don't get everything right on the first try, so I tend to do a dry run with echo in front of the mv (or cp or rm or...) command first, so I can see what's going to happen before actually running it. I also strongly recommend using mv -i or mv -f, so if there's any sort of naming conflict it won't just silently and irreversibly overwrite files. Also, putting double-quotes around variable references is a good idea, in case any filenames contain weird characters.
So my dry run would look something like this:
for f in *.Rdat; do echo mv -i "$f" "${f/PCC-/}"; done

...and if that looked right, I'd hit up-arrow to get it back, delete the "echo", and re-run it for real.
If you need to troubleshoot in even more detail, using set -x before the command will show what the shell thinks is going on (i.e. what the command looks like after substitutions are performed) in cases like this.


Deleting .AppleSetupDone in /var/db/ will delete my iCloud account?

The .AppleSetupDone file will not delete either the admin account or the iCloud account. See this article: "How to Re-Run the OS X Setup Assistant" This will just allow another admin account to be setup.


Applications bought through the Mac App Store are handled by Apple's mechanism. Most non-App Store Mac applications include their own built-in software updating mechanisms.

I would approach this as a question of what value does Mac Informer offer over the risk of opening up your Mac to an unknown company.

At some stage, the application will need your administrator privileges to install software updates. This will expose your Mac to any actions, positive or negative, the application wishes to take.

The lack of identifiable individuals, lack of physical address, and lack of registered company details on the about page does concern me.


Mac Catalina And Microsoft Teams Screen Sharing Permissions

There is a strange workaround for this. Screen recording will work fine if you are in full screen mode.
The issue arises when you are in windowed mode or you have an external monitor connected.


Macbook Air 13 inch (256 GB/ 8 GB/ i5) along with Windows (Using BootCamp)

If you are truly dual booting (using Boot Camp) you will find your battery life better on OS X than on Windows. However, when you boot into OS X, you won't suffer any ill effects from having a separate Windows partition sitting idle.

If you opt to run Windows in a Virtual Machine (using, for example, Parallels Desktop, VMWare Fusion, or Virtualbox), you will notice a significant decrease in battery life because you'll be running both "machines" (OS X and Windows) at one time.


I'm on High Sierra and when I do a man -aw say it shows the following:

$ man -aw say
/usr/share/man/man1/say.1

Which agrees with your location as well. You can use the following command to see how man is attempting to display the appropriate man page for say:

$ man -d say |& grep say
  (cd '/usr/share/man' && /usr/bin/tbl '/usr/share/man/man1/say.1' | /usr/bin/groff -Wall -mtty-char -Tascii -mandoc -c | (/usr/bin/less -is || true))

Based on that output my say.1 man page is located here: /usr/share/man/man1/say.1.

You can copy/paste this command in pieces to see where things are breaking for you as well.

For example:

$ cd '/usr/share/man'
$ /usr/bin/tbl '/usr/share/man/man1/say.1' | less
$ ...
$ ...

And keep adding pieces to see where it's failing on your end.


Login screen on macOS Sierra suddenly with gray background

When your machine restarts with FileVault enabled, the gray screen login is to unlock FileVault. There are no problems with your machine.


Is there a way to split the Cmd-Tab app list onto multiple rows?

How about something like Witch? It may not be 100% what you're after, but I find it nicer than the built-in application switching.


Is it possible to use AirPlay on a MacBook Pro 2013 with the lid closed?

You can prevent your MacBook from going to sleep with NoSleep.


Using AppleScript to Send Email from Mail.app to Multiple Addresses

I was able to tweak the set theAddress line and the tell msg to make new to recipient line to make the following code run as intended:

on run argv
    set theSubject to (item 1 of argv)
    set theAttachmentFile to (item 2 of argv)

    tell application "Mail"

        set theAddress to {"recipient1@domain.com","recipient2@domain.com"}
        set theSignatureName to "Sig" -- the signature name

        set msg to make new outgoing message with properties {subject:theSubject, visible:true}

        tell msg
            repeat with i from 1 to count theAddress
                make new to recipient at end of every to recipient with properties {address:item i of theAddress}
            end repeat
        end tell
        tell msg to make new attachment with properties {file name:theAttachmentFile as alias}

        set message signature of msg to signature theSignatureName

        send msg
    end tell
end run


Storage used by applications doesn't match between folder info and system report

Not all applications are stored in /Applications. That's the default install folder for most applications, but it doesn't include all applications. In fact, since applications are really just bundles of files, most applications can be run from anywhere.

To demonstrate this, take a look in System Profiler at Software > Applications. You'll see lots of software that isn't in /Applications

With that said, using this as a method to eliminate large applications probably isn't the most efficient or easy. You'd be better off using a disk scanner like DaisyDisk, Disk Inventory X, or some other alternative.


can't hear FaceTime on Macbook Pro Retina Mid-2015

The audio options are available in Facetime in a perhaps confusing place:

Open Facetime. Then in the top menu choose "Video" and at the end of this menu, there's a subtitle "Output" where you can choose the audio device. Choose the speakers you want here, and you should be able to hear people on calls.

If you still cannot hear the other party, then open System Preferences > Sound > Output, and select the device you've selected in Facetime also. Now you should see an "Output volume" slider, where you can adjust the volume.


Hyperlinked iOS mail signature, any ideas?

Have tried MarkdownMail?

What you would have to do is to write your email in Markdown in the app, then paste your signature (there's a TextExpander functionality in the app so you can reuse it easily)
The app will then generate an HTML version and directly paste it into a new mail.

All you'll have to do is pick the subject, the recipient and send it.


iPhone without a SIM card as an iPod touch?

First of all Im assuming that you are in the welcome menu and you cant pass this screen:

So I know there is a way to activate it with RedSn0w but I dont know if it works with iOS 7 so I would recommend you to check that option.

Or you can UNLOCK it via IMEI and then activate it with any SIM.


Can someone on my network access my Aperture app and how do I prevent it?

You can see them because they have file sharing or some other service turned on. Unless you have turned on some sharing options (like file sharing, remote login, Remote Management, etc…) they can't see your computer on the network. If you have turned on some sharing options then they can see your computer, but probably can't access anything outside of your "/Users//Public" folder on it.


How to check if memory usage goes above a certain number?

Assuming you have some linux knowledge, your question can be rephrased to this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/131303/how-to-measure-actual-memory-usage-of-an-application-or-process

Add a process memory check to a scheduled task that runs every x hours/minutes. If it exceeds a number kill the process.

Although, if you are confident the issue is with the application you are using, I would take it to their support team, or change the software with a better one.


Turning Off Keyboard's lights while in Bootcamp's Windows 8

The best way I found is to go into the power plan settings and go into advanced settings then under display disable adaptive brightness.


When I export video from Final Cut Pro, how to set the export directory?

Some sharing methods have a default action.

If that is set to Add to playlist: then it will simply put it into your appropriate media folder in your user folder. Many sharing methods have this as the default.

If you set that to Do Nothing, then the Share button will turn to Next... indicating that it will ask you where you want to Export the media to when you click that. For Example:

or...


Can I block my ID when making a FaceTime Call?

No, you can only set your Caller ID to one of the email addresses associated with your Apple ID, accessible through Settings → FaceTime.


There is a simple way, using AppleScriptObjC as described here:

use framework "Foundation"
use framework "AppKit"
use scripting additions
property StatusItem : missing value
property newMenu : class "NSMenu"
-- myVariable derived from whatever code >>

set myVariable to ">>  " & "Output of script: value of variable." & "  <<"

set bar to current application's NSStatusBar's systemStatusBar
set StatusItem to bar's statusItemWithLength:-1.0
StatusItem's setTitle: myVariable
set newMenu to current application's NSMenu's alloc()'s initWithTitle:"Custom"
StatusItem's setMenu:newMenu

delay 5
current application's NSStatusBar's systemStatusBar()'s ¬
        removeStatusItem:StatusItem

On the original page I posted code that gets a display-dialog's return & puts it onto the menu bar.


Verifying my email address for AppleID: Where is the verification link?

I got this fixed. I went to appleid.apple.com, clicked on "Manage your account", logged in, and then clicked on "Send verification email"; the email had a link in it.


Can I safely delete iPhoto from my MacBook Pro if I have the Photos app?

I was just on the phone with Apple tier-two support, and I asked the same question.

The agent's response was yes, both the iPhoto app and the iPhoto library can be safely deleted, if you're confident you've migrated all media to the newer Photos app.

I've done so, and I've seen no trouble on my Mac nor iPhone.


Can I use the new Apple TV without a TV to play my Mac's audio to my stereo?

I stream music to my stereo via my AppleTV all the time without needing to turn on the TV, and control it via iOS devices. My current setup is AppleTV -> stereo via HDMI, and stereo -> tv via HDMI. The stereo turning on wakes up the AppleTV, but if the stereo is left on, starting to stream something via AirPlay also wakes up the AppleTV.