I want to download Xcode that I deleted again. But when I open App Store and search for Xcode the download button is grey

16 GB might be enough to download Xcode, but it might not be enough to install Xcode.

Xcode is delivered as compressed .dmg or .pkg file (I can't remember quite which) and it would be uncompressed upon installation.

16 GB is not a lot of space to run macOS in general.

If you need more space, you might use an app such as OmniDiskSweeper to see if there's anything taking up unexpected space.


How to make Powerline fonts work with iTerm2

I am not sure about the setup that you did. But the following process worked on my system:

https://medium.com/@elviocavalcante/5-steps-to-improve-your-terminal-appearance-on-mac-osx-f58b20058c84

I suggest you change the theme from default ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell" to ZSH_THEME="agnoster".

The above guideline helped me to get the font in terminal and in iterm2 too


How can I search 360,000 files, about 280 GB?

Using find ... -exec grep -r effectively traverses the whole directory several times (once as part of the find, once as part of each grep -r) which may lead to the errors you see. So you should either get rid of the find or the -r. As you use the grep part to identify the files to be collected, it's probably the -r in your case.


"Maybe:" in front of Contacts on Message screen

This is a Siri Suggestion feature that can be toggled off at Settings > Contacts > Siri & Search > toggle off "Find Contacts in Other Apps".

What is happening is that your device received a message or email from a number or address with a name that could be linked to it, e.g. an email from "John Smith " or a message from a new number that says something like "Hi, this is John Smith."


You need to install iTunes for this, see https://support.apple.com/HT210612 for details.


iTunes on your PC can make a backup of your device quite easily - especially if you have the two devices paired before the fall.

If you haven't paired it, you'll need to have at least the digitizer working to tap to trust the computer once.

Once that's done (and iTunes will prompt you), you can use the PC to back up the entire phone and/or choose to synchronize the calendar data with the PC.

Best of luck and you probably could call AppleCare for free to arrange a repair and get help backing it up before he repair starts.


Is it possible to automatically exit full-screen mode in Safari on cmd-tab press?

As far as I understand your problem, when you are in full screen video, you can switch to normal video size by ⌃⌘F

(And switch between Apps by ⌘TAB, not ⌥TAB)


How about iPhone Call List?  (You can download a free copy in the link)

I haven't tried it myself yet (I'll as soon as I get home), but it seems the app you're looking for!

  iPhone call list to Mac Transfer fully support latest iOS 4.2, iPad,
  iPhone OS 3.1.3, iPod touch FW 3.1.3, iPod nano 5G FW 1.0 and iTunes
  10.1.


The error message may indicate that the SSD contains an MBR which can't be properly repartitioned to a GUID partition table.

I recommend to dd the partition table with zeros:

Boot to the thumb drive
Get the number of blocks of the drive with

#get the device node of the SSD (probably /dev/disk0)
diskutil list
#replace diskX by the device node you got in the last command
#below I assume the device node is /dev/disk0
gpt -r -v show /dev/disk0

Unmount the SSD

diskutil umountDisk /dev/disk0

Write zeros to the MBR

#Get the sector or device block size (either 512 or 4096!)
diskutil info /dev/disk0
#write zeros to the first blocks
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk0 bs=4096 count=8
#write zeros to the last blocks
#if the logical block size or sectorsize is 4096
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk0 bs=4096 count=8 seek=(number of blocks(4096)-8)
#or if the logical block size or sectorsize is 512
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk0 bs=4096 count=8 seek=(number of blocks(512)-64)

Example: if you got

diskutil info disk0
...
Volume Free Space:        Not applicable (no file system)
Device Block Size:        512 Bytes
...

or

gpt -r -v show disk0
gpt show: disk0: mediasize=121332826112; sectorsize=512; blocks=236978176
      start       size  index  contents
          0          1         PMBR
          1          1         Pri GPT header
          2         32         Pri GPT table
          ...

the last command would be:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/disk0 bs=4096 count=8 seek=236978112

Now retry to partition your SSD.


I held my finger on the Google button for about 15 seconds, let go, went back 1 screen, then tapping the Google button worked. I don't like this answer because I'm not anywhere near certain if doing this fixed the problem.


How could passwords on OSX keychain for one user end up in another?

The problem is that I have logged into Chrome under wife-osx-user.  Chrome saves passwords into keychain.   And then keychain makes those available to Safari.  Not AT ALL the desired behavior but I suppose it makes some sense.


Do not  blindly start typing copying/pasting stuff into the prompt without knowing what you're doing this could seriously hinder performance or destroy your system!!

Fire up a terminal window either through cmd+space and typing into spotlight Terminal.app or Finder > Applications > Utilities > Terminal

I'd modify the energy settings via pmset.You can get your current settings with pmset -g. My energy preferences are something along the lines of:

sudo pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1
sudo pmset -a standby 0
sudo pmset -a sleep 20
sudo pmset -a displaysleep 20
sudo pmset -a proximitywake 0
sudo pmset -a acwake 1
sudo pmset -a lidwake 1
sudo pmset -a powernap 0
sudo pmset -a networkoversleep 0
sudo pmset -a womp 0
sudo pmset -a ring 0
sudo pmset -a standbydelay 0
sudo pmset -a autopoweroff 1
sudo pmset -a autopoweroffdelay 0
sudo pmset -a tcpkeepalive 0
sudo pmset -a ttyskeepawake 0

From man pmset:

  -a = all (all options being passed to power manager should apply to battery, ac connected or UPS, connected machine)

Keep in mind these settings will affect the entire machine; so I'd read up if you're not familiar with them. Eg. tcpkeepalive will kill off network connections; thus, Find My Mac won't be available when the machine is offline [for me, this ain't a problem; though, to each, his own. ]

Also proximitywake causes nearby devices to automatically connect and share info with nearby Apple devices that are sharing the same iCloud account (that's, if you're willing to buy into what apple is supposedly telling you through the man pages -- don't know about you but when I turn something off; I want it OFF.)

NOTE: from what I remember, proximitywake is a feature introduced prior to 10.13 (High Sierra); so it might not be available with El Capitan(Don't know  though...with all the security updates... you're gonna have to run pmset -g and man pmset in order to figure it out.)

Remember that the man pages are your friend! Whenever you're inside a terminal prompt and aren't sure about what a cmd does; type man <desired_cmd> in order to get the details about what does what. Type q to exit it.


"cron" processes spawning and piling up, but no crontab

So I found a relevant answer here:

Cron job keeps running, not in any crontabs

I don't think this question should be removed because this seems to be relevant to Catalina, even though it seems to be user error.

Explanation:

The root crontab had been edited at some point, with cron jobs that I created 6 years ago on my computer (I may have done this before learning that was a bad idea). This crontab had two lines that each referenced a script that was supposed to run every minute. Neither one of these referenced existing locations on my drive, and for whatever reason cron wouldn't exit after attempting to run them.

This problem never manifested before upgrading to Catalina, but I don't know why that is - either cron was running every minute for the last 6 years and the Catalina update semi-broke cron, or something got copied to the root cron file. Probably the former problem, which would be a PIBCAK scenario combined with typical Catalina issues.

The solution was to edit the root-owned crontab to remove the two offending lines, and boom, the problem is gone!

I created a new user crontab for testing, and this leaves one persistent cron job (with parent = launchd), but the rest of the cron jobs that I run will exit predictably and not suck up resources. Cron itself doesn't seem to be broken, but root-run cron jobs may be problematic. (EDIT: I deleted the root crontab and now activity monitor doesn't show any cron processes running - I'm mystified as to why this happened with only certain user accounts, since none of this happened at the user level)


Time Machine backup will not restore to my internal HDD drive

Similar issue.

"The system can't be restored onto this disk because HFS systems can't be restored to space sharing APFS volumes.  Reinstall macOS on this disk and then use Migration Assistant to transfer data from your backup assistant."

I think the "accidental" disconnect from Time Machine backups due to HFS/APFS incompatibility was intentional.


Check for the Dropbox icon in the Menu Bar. While the files are syncing, the icon is shown overlaid with a pair of arrows. Once the Sync is complete the overlaid arrows are no longer shown on the icon.

There is apparently a long standing bug in Dropbox client where even after files have Synced, Finder shows files as being synced with a blue sync arrow shown.

To make sure that files have Synced properly, relaunch the Dropbox client (click on the Menu Bar icon and select Quit Dropbox), and check on the Sync progress by looking at the Menu Bar icon. This is the most definitive test. Clicking on the Menu Bar icon also shows the current download and upload speeds along with the number of files to be synced and estimated time remaining.


First, pause the workout by pressing the crown and side button at the same time (here's an example taken from a swimming workout).

This will pause the workout until you can dry your fingers.  An unfortunate side-effect of pressing these buttons will be that a screenshot will be taken if you also turned on the feature to take a screenshot when these buttons are pressed.

After your fingers are dry, you can end the workout in the normal manner by swiping to the right and tapping End.


Google Chrome shuts down when my MacBook Air goes to sleep

It sounds like your Mac is set to automatically log you out after a period of inactivity.

Open System Preferences from the Apple menu in the top-left corner. Open the "Security & Privacy" preference pane. Click on the "Advanced..." button in the bottom-right corner. You may need to unlock the pane using the padlock icon in the bottom-left corner.

I think you'll find "Log out after XX minutes of inactivity" ticked. Untick it.

Advanced settings within Security & Privacy

If not work, try to uninstall and re-install software.


OK, I don't know if this is a bug or what, but I found a very effective solution/workaround.

In Preferences > Profiles > Text > ANSI Colors:

Set the Blue (4) color to 0% opacity and then in

Background > Color & Effects:

if I set the opacity to 99% instead of 100%, the previously illegible text looks GREAT. Totally clear and legible, exactly what I wanted. But weirdly, setting 100% opacity makes it completely low-contrast and illegible. Leaving Blue (4) at default is still legible, but lower-contrast.

So again, not sure if the 99/100% opacity thing is a bug, but this works.


Internal SSD not found when installing macOS

You have to make sure the SSD is in the correct format. Go to Disk Utility, and in the Erase tab, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as the format and erase the SSD, and then the bootable drive should acknowledge the SSD as a disk on which OS X can be installed. Good luck!


You are not seeing the drive because has no more partition on it.  What you have done is written every sector, including the super important ones like the partition table, with random numbers.

When you boot USB (I am assuming you are booting an OS X installer off of USB), you need to launch Disk Utility.  It will be under the "Tools" menu.  Partition your disk with GUID partition map and reinstall OS X.


How to restore iPhone 5 from iOS 5 backup?

I have restored plenty of iOS 5 backups onto iOS 6 devices so the problem here is almost certainly that the backup is now (and may have been all along) corrupt.

Before throwing that backup away and restoring the iTunes files from a backup of the computer where it was stored (hopefully you have that), you could try restoring the backup onto another device such as a borrowed iPad or iPod touch (or iPhone) to be sure it's not the phone you are restoring the backup to.

The article iTunes: About iOS backups will help you locate where your computer stored this backup set as well as general info to support the idea that you can back up an older OS onto a newer OS (but not the other way around).


I found the setting that turns this off, it's in advanced preferences. Not sure you can make it look like the normal terminal one, but this might help folks that want to get rid of the key entirely.

iTerm2 > Preferences > Advanced > Experimental Features > "Show key at cursor at password prompt" => No


Can I use Karabiner-Element or any other apps/workarounds to swap colon and semicolon in Sierra?

I just did a test and TextExpander will do exactly what you want. (Keyboard Maestro couldn't.)


Bootcamp software for MacBooks older than 2012

Download BootCamp and open command line as an Admin (cmd+x -> command line), cd to bootcamp install folder/BootCamp/Drivers/Apple/, run BootCamp.msi. It should skip the check for your MacBook compatibility.

P.S.: I installed BootCamp like this on my PC for compatibility with my apple keyboard. The normal install fails with message about compatibility.


How to give custom name to Time Machine backup

Time Machine does not allow to provide a name for a backup.  You can name the drive when directly attached, but not the backups within.

  I want to name my backups so I might not flash something else that I
  don't want.

Not entirely sure what you mean by that, but if you meant backing up items already backed up, then you will need to understand that Time Machine is an incremental backup system and does that for you automatically.

The following official document (and its links) may shed some light on this as well: Mac Basics: Time Machine backs up your Mac


How do I change the default font for comment boxes in Keynote

This applies to Keynote 09 (5.3):

Create a comment on a master page, style as you wish.
With the comment selected, choose Format > Advanced > Define Comment for
all Masters
You may now even delete the comment on your master page.
New comments in the presentation will still be in the chosen format.

Hope this helps!


Email notification issues (iPhone 4S with ios 5.1.1)

Are you setting up your Gmail accounts as "exchange accounts? If not I would recommend doing so. Here is a quick walk trough. http://email.about.com/od/iphonemailtips/ss/Set_Up_Push_Gmail_in_iPhone_Mail_Step_by_Step_Screenshots.htm


My iPod Touch won't play some of my files

If it's working now, it sounds like a software bug. I'd go ahead and update it iOS 6.1.6, the latest version that the 4th Gen iPod Touch supports.


Prevent maximum screen brightness in lockscreen?

iOS 4 and 5 were notorious for having this issue. They frequently ignored the ambient light sensor and were so stubborn, they refused to adjust the screen brightness to compensate. iOS 6 has corrected this issue.


Whenever you lose your cell connection, and reconnect again, Facetime / iMessage may need to verify if your cellular network has changed and thus the SMS request pop-ups. (Nobody at Apple must have thought of your scenario of frequent disconnection as that is rare).
See this answer for a short term solution - and contact Apple support and report your issue so that they can hopefully fix it.


This is Normal in the way Safari now operates.
Each process is part of Safari sandboxing.
If you go to the View menu in Activity Monitor and down to the 'All Processes Hierarchically'

You will see that they all gathered and are owned by Safari.

Also this is a known feature: apple.com/safari

Sandboxing for websites.
Sandboxing provides built-in protection against malicious code and
malware by restricting what websites can do. And because Safari runs
web pages in separate processes, any harmful code you come across in
one page is confined to a single browser tab, so it can’t crash the
whole browser or access your data.


According to Dori's answer in this Apple.SE thread, what you're looking for is not possible:

  In order for a Mac to create a local Wi-Fi network, it needs to have a
  wired Internet source.

More information can be found in this Apple Support KB:

  Choose Apple menu > System Preferences and click Sharing.
  Select Internet Sharing and click the checkbox if it isn’t checked.
  Choose the Internet connection you want to share from the “Share your connection from” pop-up menu. For example, if you’re connected to
  the Internet over Ethernet, choose Ethernet.
  Select how you want to share your Internet connection in the “To computers using” list. For example, if you want to share your Internet
  connection over AirPort, select AirPort. If you share your Internet
  connection using AirPort, click AirPort Options and give your network
  a name and password.

You'd need to hook your MacBook up to a wired connection before you can share Wi-Fi via Internet Sharing.


Could removing corrupted files on the MacBook or Mac's hard drive make the file system's health even worse?

Short answer: yes, almost any changes you make on the disk have a possibility of causing further damage. Back up anything important (making minimal changes as you do so), then try to diagnose and fix it.

Long answer: there are several different levels where you could have data corruption/damage:

There might be a hardware problem -- failing drive, bad cable, etc. I'm not familiar enough with the failure modes of SSDs to tell if this might be the problem here, but I wouldn't rule it out.
The filesystem data structures (which keep track of what files exist on the disk, where their data is stored, which blocks are available for use, etc) might be corrupted. This sort of damage sort-of applies to the entire volume (or container, in the case of APFS), but might only affect some files/folders.
Some individual files might have damaged/corrupted contents. I don't think that's the problem here, since a Finder copy will just blindly copy the contents, whether or not they make sense.

Problems at any of these levels can cause secondary problems at higher levels. Hardware problems can cause volume data and/or file contents to get garbled, and volume problems can cause things like parts of files getting overwritten or lost. So if you see problems at one level, keep in mind that the root cause might be at a lower level.

Conversely, trying to fix (or just change) things at a higher level than the root cause can cause additional damage. If you've got damaged volume data structures, creating, deleting, or even editing files can cause the damage to snowball. If you have a hardware problem, trying to repair the volume data structures (e.g. with Disk Utility's First Aid feature) might just cause additional secondary problems at that level.

In your situation, the first thing I'd do is make sure any important files/data is backed up (or as sure as possible under the circumstances). If possible, do this while booted from something else, with the suspect volume mounted read-only to avoid further corruption. (That's probably not possible, so don't worry about it too much. But don't make any unnecessary changes on the disk until the backup's done.)

Then and only then, try running hardware tests, like Apple Hardware Test (for models introduced before June 2013) or Apple Hardware Diagnostics (for models introduced after June 2013) (more info here), or a third-party test utility.

If the hardware tests don't find anything wrong, then start looking at the volume data structures. I don't have any experience repairing APFS yet, but I'd try Disk Utility First Aid first (probably booted in recovery mode). Frankly, if that can't fix it, I'd erase the disk (not just the volume) and reinstall/recover from scratch.

Afterward, maintain good ongoing backups in case there's some underlying problem that didn't get detected/fixed.


If you don't want any borders, create a custom paper size and change margin size to 0 as shown below:

Name your custom paper size, use it and create PDF.


You don't need iCal or Calendar to be open at all anymore. Open System Preferences and select Notifications. Then be sure to review Calendar settings and any Do Not Disturb settings.

Here is the Sierra article on how to use the notification center:

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH25142

You might put the Calendar at the top and remove any widgets you don't care for so they do not clutter up notifications.


Terminal Command Line to find corrupted files

My first thought was that ImageMagick is bound to have something for this, and indeed it does. You could run something like this

find . -name "*.JPG" -exec identify {} \; | grep Corrupt

where you can replace . with your directory of choice (it will descend recursively) to check each file or image with ImageMagick's identify command. Grepping for 'Corrupt' will print you identifys output for those files which are in fact corrupt. You could probably trim the output to make it more readable, which would involve some regexing for grep.

Obviously, you need to have ImageMagick installed for this. If you use MacPorts, it's as simple as sudo port install ImageMagick.


Do you have 2-factor authentication set in your Gmail account? Sometimes, this seems t lose the password for a device with symptoms like yours.

If that's the case, a solution is to go to your Gmail account settings (at Google, not on your MBP), revoke the password for the MBP and create a new one


Can I restrict ios to only one WiFi connection/SSID?

This answer is short and simple: No, you cannot do this.

You can simply add a chain to the iPad so it cannot leave the building if that might help you, but any other way of restricting access to (free) WiFi Access isn't possible.


Create a PDF with a custom page size? (Mavericks)

It is possible to convert images to PDFs without 'placing them on a default page', so that each page will be whatever size the image is.

There is a collection of python scripts and Automator Actions here, which include one to batch convert images to PDF in that way.

https://github.com/benwiggy/PDFsuite


If you backup with iTunes and you restored from the backup and the notes were gone, then there is no where to retrieve them from unless you have another backup that contains those notes.

Launch iTunes on the computer and go to iTunes>Preferences>Devices. You will see a window with all of your backups listed in it.

If you see a recent backup that you are certain contains the notes that you need, recover deleted notes from iPhone backup.

If your note is gone from iCloud.com there is only a few ways to possibly recover it.

The first things I would check is a iCloud Backup, a iTunes Backup, or a 3rd party email that may have contained the note. To restore from a iCloud or iTunes backup follow this link. This article explains how to restore a device from either back up.

Note if you have backed up since the note went missing, you will not have the note on the backup. Make sure you do not back up if trying to restore from a back up as this will back up the content without the note.

To get to the "Set up assistant" on an iOS device, you must go to Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Content and Settings. Once the phone restarts, you will be at the "Set up Assistant"

Gmail emails are very commmon sources for notes and you may have been adding them to the gmail notes without even knowing it.


How to display an image above the needed window in needed position?

Depending on your needs, and based on how I gotten your question, you probably need something alike Clickclick:

  “Cliclick” is short for “Command-Line Interface Click”. It is a a tiny shell/Terminal application that will emulate mouse clicks or series of mouse clicks (including doubleclicks and control-clicks) at arbitrary screen coordinates. Moreover, it lets you move the mouse, get the current mouse coordinates, press modifier keys etc.

it's what people advice to be the good compromise for xdotool.

As for conky, probably the closest alternatives for Mac would be:

GeekTool
GKrellM - a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme.
XRG
Übersicht - "Übersicht lets you run system commands and display their output on your desktop in little containers, called widgets. Widgets are written using HTML5, which means they

are easy to write and customize
can show data in tables, charts, graphs ... you name it
can react to different screen sizes"

But there are no direct alternatives, which fully accomplish the functionality of highly-customizable conky and powerful xdotool. You need to invent something else.


Sony WH-1000XM3 headset defaults to SBC codec despite forcing aptX codec

Download Sony Headset app for your mobile (iOS or Android). They have settings to remotely configure the headphones.

Turn on the setting to prefer the sound quality: Priority on Sound Quality.

Now you get aptX:


deleting java from system library on mac

I found this useful article:

  Quit out of any active web browser or  any other app which uses Java

  From the Mac Finder, pull down the “Go”  menu and choose “Go To
  Folder” and  enter the following path:

/Library/Interned Plug-ins/

  Locate and delete “JavaAppletPlugin.plugin” from this  folder – note
  moving this item to the trash requires an admin login

  Now go back to the ‘Go’ menu and “Go To Folder” and enter the
  following path:

/Library/PreferencePanes/

  Locate and delete  “JavaControlPanel.prefPane” from this  folder,
  again you will need an admin  login

  Again return to the “Go” menu and “Go  to Folder” to the following
  path:

~/Library/Application Support /Java/

  Remove the “Java” folder

  Empty the Trash on the Mac as usual


MacBook Pro black screens and shuts off after a few minutes' use

As discussed on the MacRumors forums thread, Help! Updated to macOS 10.12.4, MBP randomly shuts off, it is likely that AppleThunderboltNHI.kext is the culprit:

  So if you disable (move out of /System/Library/Extensions) AppleThunderboltNHI.kext driver then reboot. Everything runs ok, you can connect external screens via Thunderbolt.

  The only drawback is that Ethernet via Thunderbolt will not work.


How to setup iTunes account in a business environment and can you share app purchases?

Below is the Apple license agreement for the Mac App store, accessed on 24 January 2012.

According to a layman's reading of the text (I am not and do not pretend to be a lawyer), what you describe should be both possible and allowed under the terms of the license.

You or your IT staff would log in to the Macs, authenticate to the Mac App Store with your  company Apple ID, install the App(s), then sign out of the Mac App Store.  Your employees could then log in with their personal accounts and install any Apps they may have purchased, although according to the text in section i, they shouldn't do company work with their personal apps.

I hope this is helpful.

From http://www.apple.com/legal/itunes/us/terms.html

  MAC APP STORE PRODUCT USAGE RULES

  Except as otherwise set forth herein,

  (i) If you are an individual acting in your personal capacity, you may
  download and use an application from the Mac App Store (“Mac App Store
  Product”) for personal, non-commercial use on any Apple-branded
  products running Mac OS X (“Mac Computer”) that you own or control.

  (ii) If you are a commercial enterprise or educational institution,
  you may download a Mac App Store Product for use by either (a) a
  single individual on each of the Mac Computer(s) used by that
  individual that you own or control or (b) multiple individuals on a
  single shared Mac Computer that you own or control. For example, a
  single employee may use a Mac App Store Product on both the employee’s
  desktop Mac Computer and laptop Mac Computer, or multiple students may
  serially use a Mac App Store Product on a single Mac Computer located
  at a resource center or library. For the sake of clarity, each Mac
  Computer used serially by multiple users requires a separate license.

  (iii) Use may require sign-in with the Apple ID used to download the
  Mac App Store Product from the Mac App Store. Mac App Store Products
  can be updated through the Mac App Store only.


Trouble accessing ntfs drives in mac os x

i use this i have not problems http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26288/ntfs you can try !


Map Section sign (§) button to backtick(`) and tilde (~) without Karabiner

You can use Ukelele to make a custom layout for this.


How to export photos from a folder in iPhoto, preserving the album structures in the folder?

Go to File → Export, select File Export and choose a Subfolder Format. This lets you select what you want the directory structure to be.

Source: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4921


How to send music to one output device, all other sounds to phones?

Unless anyone can come up with a freeware solution, SoundSource is your best bet. It's about $£€ 30, depending on local tax.


How can I download free music from the internet to itunes on the iphone/ipad without using a mac/pc?

There are no ways to download an .mp3 using only your iOS device for later use by the Music app on said iOS device.

You have two options:

Download music via the iTunes app on your iDevice.
Download music on your Mac/PC and synchronize with your iDevice.


How do I send imessages to non-iphone users on my macbook os x, if I don't have an iphone?

Create contacts for your non-iPhone users in Contacts.app, then iMessage should use SMS to connect. If you use iCloud Contacts, then they become available on all devices on which you use iCloud:

Below, an SMS conversation with a friend who has an Android phone, viewed on my Mac:


Edge swipe gesture for opening Notification Center on macOS stopped working

I managed to solve this by quitting Notification Centre using Activity Monitor.

Instructions here : https://osxdaily.com/2012/09/18/how-to-restart-notification-center-in-os-x/


Is it possible to programmatically (or in machine-readable form) get location data from an AirTag?

Yes, it is possible to do so via a private API - however it is a bit of a "hack" as this is not officially supported by Apple.
You can find an open source implementation of using the private API here:
https://github.com/seemoo-lab/openhaystack/tree/main/OpenHaystack/OpenHaystackMail
Note that in order to use the private API, you'll need a specific entitlement for your app that is not available to third parties. This can be worked around by disabling GateKeeper, installing the program linked above as a plugin for Mail, enabling the plugin in Mail, and then re-enabling GateKeeper.


How applications behave with Matrox Dualhead2go?

I have this product.  All your concerns are valid.  Modal dialogs and prompts are split by the program's bezel.  The dock can be positioned across only one monitor, but that is the only configuration option.  Fullscreen video on one monitor is not possible.  Fullscreen apps span both screens, which doesn't work well. Calendar is OK.  Mail is impossible, especially when composing a message.  It is easy to maximize to just one window using built in hotkeys.  However "true" fullscreen is usually complicated by monitor bezels.


How do I import music from a CD into iTunes on OS X when the dialogue does not appear?

Assuming that the CD shows up fine on your computer, you should be able to manually start the import process by opening iTunes and going to: File > Add to Library

In the file dialog that opens, you should see your CD listed on the left side under "Devices". Click this, select all songs, and click "Open" to import the songs.

Also:
To try and clarify what the other answer says, when a CD is inserted, a CD icon usually appears in the upper left hand corner of the main iTunes window. Clicking or right-clicking on this should give some import options.


Can you use an iMac backup for a MacBook Pro?

Yes, you can. The system, cache, or any hardware-specific data such as drivers are not backed up. Even if they were, any installation of OS X contains the necessary drivers for any supported Mac model by that version of the system (with the exception of printer drivers IIRC, which are not included to save space and will be downloaded).


Can UEFI Secure Boot be achieved on Macs prior to T2 secure chip?

Apple only officially supports macOS and Windows for use on Macs. Therefore, the firmware does not support Secure Boot. A Mac with a T2 chip can be configured to only allow booting of macOS and Windows 10. A Mac's firmware can not validate the integrity of a grub efi binary. Having T2 chip does not change this.
As for a setup mode, basically a Mac with a T2 has the following window.

The instructions for configuring can be found at the Apple website About Startup Security Utility.


Operation failed when I tried to create a partition

Like it says in the error box, try making a bigger partition. The partition you are trying to create is only 128 mb. Even though it says create a 128MB partition(in the guide), it wouldn't cause any problems to increase the size of the partition since there are errors for creating a partition of the size 128MB.


You can try and get the data from a backup or use it on an older device.
From this Apple Discussion:

If the app was deleted from the App Store and you were restoring an iCloud backup, whatever you saw was a glitch and the app was not going to download no matter what you saw. If the app is no longer available, it can not download again from the App Store.
When you restore an iCloud backup, the apps download from your purchases in iTunes, not from the iCloud back up itself.


Set iPhone volume to maximum when connecting to a Bluetooth speaker

Some Bluetooth speakers use the phone volume control to determine the speaker volume which is much simpler than having 2 independent volumes. It works both ways too, if using volume buttons on the speaker then the iPhone volume slider updates instantly. Its similar to how using line-out was better than headphone for connecting speakers via a cable in the old days. I'd suggest trying a speaker with that feature and see if it works better for you, like the Anker Sound Core Sport for example. The Amazon Echo and Sony devices don't have it unfortunately. I'm not sure if it remembers the volume level but think it does.

Update:
This feature is called Absolute Volume Control and was added in the Bluetooth spec AVRCP v1.4 so look for devices that support that.


How do I save a screenshot with the ISO 8601 date format with Applescript?

To get the date in ISO 8601 format, use:

on date_to_iso(dt)
    set {year:y, month:m, day:d} to dt
    set y to text 2 through -1 of ((y + 10000) as text)
    set m to text 2 through -1 of ((m + 100) as text)
    set d to text 2 through -1 of ((d + 100) as text)
    return y & "-" & m & "-" & d
end date_to_iso

on date_time_to_iso(dt)
    set {year:y, month:m, day:d, hours:h, minutes:min, seconds:s} to dt
    set y to text 2 through -1 of ((y + 10000) as text)
    set m to text 2 through -1 of ((m + 100) as text)
    set d to text 2 through -1 of ((d + 100) as text)
    set h to text 2 through -1 of ((h + 100) as text)
    set min to text 2 through -1 of ((min + 100) as text)
    set s to text 2 through -1 of ((s + 100) as text)
    return y & "-" & m & "-" & d & "T" & h & ":" & min & ":" & s
end date_time_to_iso

You can call these with, for example:

set dt to current date
date_to_iso(dt)

gives something like "2013-10-23"

set dt to current date
date_time_to_iso(dt)

gives something like "2013-10-23T14:00:05"

Source: AppleScript Date to ISO Format


Sending an email to senders of selected emails in Mail.app

Try this AppleScript (using 10.7.3).

Select the messages you want to reply to before executing the script.

tell Application "Mail"
activate
set selectedMessages to selection
set countMessages to (count of selectedMessages)
if countMessages is equal to 0 then
    display alert "No Messages Selected" message "You must select a message first."
else
set theMessage to make new outgoing message with properties {visible:true, subject:"My Subject", content:"My Body"}
repeat with i from 1 to countMessages
    set theInput to item i of selectedMessages
set theName to sender of theInput
tell theMessage
    make new to recipient at end of to recipients with properties {name:theName}
end tell
end repeat
end if
end tell


What is the app which let user to find by finding application and files with key combinations?

Spotlight is a part of OS X. The default keyboard shortcut is, I think, Command-Space for the Spotlight menu entry and Option-Command-Space for the Spotlight field in a Finder window. (Clarified after Chris' answer.)

There is also a third party application named Quicksilver.


MacBook Pro with shot battery, possible to prevent CPU throttling?

Please note that this can damage your device.. you've been warned. Continue at your own risk

In short, IOPlatformPlugin is power management, CPU scaling, idle frequency (and others). How much the following helps is arguable.

Disable SIP in recovery (CMD+R on boot), open terminal (CMD+3 i
think),
csrutil disable
Reboot into MacOS, move
/System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPlugin.kext to / or somewhere
else
sudo mv /System/Library/Extensions/IOPlatformPlugin.kext /
(terminal)
Rebuild cache sudo kextcache -i /, reboot
Re-enable SIP in recovery csrutil enable


Is it legal to install one copy of Final Cut Pro X on six different Macs owned by six different people?

No. This would violate the license agreement between you and Apple when you purchase the software.

Second, there is no such thing as an installation DVD for Final Cut Pro X. You would have to purchase it as a download and install and register it through the Mac App Store, and I don't think you would be able to use your single Mac App Store log-in account on six computers owned by six different people who are not family members of yours.


Is there a way to edit google spreadsheets offline on iphone?

Not currently, but I'd assume Google is working on that to eventually allow you to.

  Offline editing isn’t currently supported.

(Source)


iPhone Apps in Waiting mode for the last 4 days

The springboard has several mechanisms to prevent this from being a permanent situation, but sometimes it falls down. Normally you can cancel a download cleanly. I generally follow this advice to "help" the springboard finish or abort the download transaction:

(just use the X to cancel the download) - How can I cancel an app installation on the iPhone?
(reboot the phone) - Why are my updating iPhone apps "waiting..." forever?
(reboot with airplane mode and sync) - How to fix apps "waiting.." forever after sync?

However, you could have your springboard stuck and a restore is needed. This is discussed here:

(last ditch efforts and restore as new) - How can I remove this half-downloaded app from my iPhone?

With the information you provided, it's difficult to tell which of the two causes is happening on your phone.


This is the Handoﬀ feature on iOS 8 and OSX 10.10. It appears when you are doing something on one device and lets you finish your task on your computer.

You can read more on Handoﬀ and Continuity here.


Messages with Adium or third party client

Judging by the list of supported services on
https://adium.im/help/pgs/Accounts-ListOfServices.html
it looks like the answer would be no.


Messages: Setting to Always Display Time Stamp?

They are displayed by default, as well in the left navigation panel as in the messages list on the right side....


How to quickly stitch a ton of albums back together into compilations?

I've had to fix some music before manually to get them sorted into full albums. You CAN select multiple files at once and change them in one click; if I recall correctly iTunes may prompt you to confirm that you really want to mass-edit files it thinks should not be treated as a single album.

Be careful you don't overwrite anything except the field you intend to change, as you can easily accidentally rename or assign the same artist for all of them at once. To be safe, it might be best to group-select items from the same compilation only.


I found that this worked for some users:

  Open and login to Google Calendar (https://calendar.google.com)

  Select the Setting gear icon (upper right-hand corner), then select
  “Setting” from the pull-down menu

  Below the “Calendar Settings” header select the Calendars link

  To the right of the calendar name under NOTIFICATIONS, select Edit
  notifications

  There are five options in the section “Choose how you would like to be
  kept up-to-date:” - remove all of the checkmarks under the Email
  column

  Click the “Save” button at the bottom of the page


Is there a Mac app that will open all images within a folder, regardless of the folder depth?

Isn't this where you would want to utilize Smart Folders, and search for Images?

This tutorial gives an example, but I've outlined a basic overview below:

  Open New Smart Folder.

  Select the type of search (in this case, type in images, and choose    Kind:Images from the selections.)

  Locate the Save button and save the search.

  Choose a meaningful name for the search. Optionally, check the Add to Sidebar box.

  Note the presence of the saved Smart Folder search, presuming that you followed the above step.


Activation Lock on iPhone 4S randomly appeared (not my username, I am the only owner)

Take it to an apple store, they will check if it is really yours, and if it is they will remove it. Also, check your find my iphone settings after it is fixed.


How do I fix small gap at top and on the left of iMac display?

I have the same model with replaced RAM as well. You can try this. Open system preferences and click on display/Scaled. Now set the display to a couple of different resolution values and then return to your desired value. If offset is still apparent, try a different resolution.


Add a PROMPT_COMMAND to your  .bash_profile

export PROMPT_COMMAND="echo -ne '\033]0;${USER}@${HOSTNAME}\007';$PROMPT_COMMAND"

The PROMPT_COMMAND gets executed every time the prompt is displayed.

Please note that we include the existing PROMPT_COMMAND environment variable, such that we do not lose any existing settings (i.e. update_terminal_cwd).


I don't want to use Apple's Mail.app on macOS - Any unintended consequences?

It is safe to remove your Gmail account from Mail.app without any unintended consequences, as all the Gmail data is stored on Google's servers.

Also, there’s no harm in never setting up any mail account in Mail.app for macOS. The system does want to have a default mail app, so if you click a mailto://hi@me.com link, it will open Mail.app. Mail will then try to onboard a new account, but you can end that action easily by not choosing to continue.

Simply removing a Gmail account from Mail.app won't delete any of your Gmail data (although performing any action on any of the mail or folder will reflect the changes in Gmail). This is the same for any purely cloud based IMAP mail services (iCloud as well as Gmail) where deleting the local cache leaves the server copies of all mail intact.

The only small caution is if you save mails locally and delete a copy from the server - maybe make a quick backup of your Mac or export your local mails to an export file or folder just in case you fear you’ll delete those and want them back.


Mac says password is wrong but it's right. I have to enter it twice to start Mac every time. How could I solve it?

If you are talking about the user password and you are locked out of your mac, you can try the following:

Reboot into the Recovery Drive by choosing the ‘Apple‘ menu > Restart, hold down the ‘command’ + ‘r’ keys on the keyboard during the start up process, when you see the start up screen you can let go. When the machine boots eventually you will see the macOS or OS X Utilities screen.
Go to the Utilites menu and select Terminal
At the prompt type ‘resetpassword’ (hit enter)
Reset your password

Keep in mind that this deletes your keychain, so your saved passwords are lost


How to create /etc/certificates/*.{cert,chain,concat,key}.pem files without reboot?

1. Also import the .fullchain
Beside the .cer file also import the corresponding .fullchain file into the keychain, like
$ sudo /usr/bin/security -v import /Users/user/letsencrypt/fullchain.cer -k "/Library/Keychains/System.keychain"

2. Unload and load UserEventAgent-System
$ sudo /bin/launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.UserEventAgent-System.plist; sudo /bin/launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.UserEventAgent-System.plist

3. Wait
About 1-2 minutes for the 4 certificate files to correctly appear in /etc/certificates/


Thunderbird and other apps in Maverics' notice panel

Go to System Preferences > Notifications.

All apps which have the ability to display notifications will be listed here.

If it is not listed here, then it won't work with the notifications sidebar.


MixTape turns out to be an excellent solution that costs only $3.

http://dorshorst.com/mixtape/

I'm not sure what changed between now and Feb 5th when I first tried it (and commented above) when literally nothing worked but I tried it again today and it worked perfectly for my needs.

As pointed out by @dwightk, Pandora as of 2019 does not support streaming directly to the watch, but does allow you to manually transfer songs to the watch for offline, phone-free listening if you are a Premium subscriber.

So far those are the only two solutions I can find.


MacOSX Big Sur - Terminal ZSH Shell Command's Execute Sometimes With "!" Exclamation Symbol In Front

!str   Refer to the most recent command starting with str.
this is the history expansion behavior.
type
man zshexpn

and check 'Event Designators', you will get the answer

An event designator is a reference to a command-line entry in the history list.  In the list below, remember that the initial `!'  in
each item may be changed to another character by setting the histchars parameter.

   !      Start a history expansion, except when followed by a blank, newline, `=' or `('.  If followed immediately by a word designator
          (see the section `Word Designators'), this forms a history reference with no event designator (see the section `Overview').

   !!     Refer to the previous command.  By itself, this expansion repeats the previous command.

   !n     Refer to command-line n.

   !-n    Refer to the current command-line minus n.

   !str   Refer to the most recent command starting with str.

   !?str[?]
          Refer to the most recent command containing str.  The trailing `?' is necessary if this reference is to be followed by a modi-
          fier or followed by any text that is not to be considered part of str.

   !#     Refer  to  the  current command line typed in so far.  The line is treated as if it were complete up to and including the word
          before the one with the `!#' reference.

   !{...} Insulate a history reference from adjacent characters (if necessary).


The question mark means that it cannot find its boot partition.  On any OS X drive, you are going to have several partitions.  It might look something like:

 #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *55.9 Gi    disk0
   1:        Apple_partition_map                         31.5 Ki    disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_Boot Boot OSX                128.0 Mi   disk0s2
   3:                 Apple_HFSX Macintosh HD0           25.0 Gi    disk0s3
   4:                 Apple_Boot                         128.0 Mi   disk0s4

Using this drive as an example, you can probably see what is on "Macintosh HD0" which is disk0s3.  To boot, you need the "Apple_Boot" partition or disk0s4 partition.

You should be able to fix this by running the installer and having it repair the OS X installation.

Make sure you back up your files first (it sounds like you did).


How to make fullscreen windows appear next to the current space with "...rearrange spaces based on recent use..." disabled

The workaround seems to have some unnecessary length. If one holds the green button, then clicks in the app itself, it will become fullscreen right away in the next space, not at the end. It is a two step process. Just like methods like this hypothetical one: Go to view menu -> "Full screen in the next space, not the end". Also the option about rearranging the spaces was turned off in my Mac.

MacOS 10.14.5

MacBook Air 2017


How do I download a single song via iTunes Match in iOS 6

There is no direct way to just download one song onto an iDevice from iTunes Match right now. You can either

request the whole album/playlist and cancel the unwanted tracks
create one-track playlists

Both options have their drawbacks of course (especially the second one).


According to its man page:

-N or --LINE-NUMBERS
      Causes  a  line  number to be displayed at the beginning of each
      line in the display.

So:

ls /usr/bin | less -N
  1 2to3
  2 2to3-
  3 2to3-2.7
  4 2to32.6
  ....


There are quite a few commands which let you do this in Mac OS X:

Cmd+Tab for switching applications
Cmd+` for switching windows within applications
F3/F9 for Exposé (shows all windows in a graphical way, on trackpads you can do a 4-finger swipe down)
F10 for showing windows of a specific application in Exposé
F11 for showing desktop and shoving all other windows to the side, on a trackpad its 4 finger swipe up

There is also Spaces which is like having multiple desktops, where you can switch to and fro. You can enable it in the Exposé & Spaces prefrence pane in System Preferences and suit the keyboard shortcuts to you liking


What more does installing Homebrew allow me to do?

HomeBrew is a package manager for mac. It facilitates the installation of different tools by installing and configuring all dependencies as well as the program itself.

You can think of it like the Mac App Store for unix apps. If you are familiar with Linux, then Homebrew is exactly like the Linux package manager. For a complete list of everything you can install go here : https://github.com/mxcl/homebrew/tree/master/Library/Formula/

If you don't know what you would need it for, then you probably don't really need it.


How can I convert .ichat logs to text files?

The files that Messages saves have an ichat file extension.

But from the command line you can inspect them to see they are actually binary plist files:

$ file transcript.ichat
transcript.ichat: Apple binary property list

Turns out, you can easily convert binary plist files into human-readable XML documents:

$ plutil -convert xml1 transcript.ichat

Now, when you run file again, you can see it's an XML file:

$ file transcript.ichat
transcript.ichat: XML document text

Go ahead—open it and see for yourself:

$ open transcript.ichat


Unable to deselect items in migration-assistant

This posting seems to suggest it might be something to do with Server.app software - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4157337?tstart=0

On the new machine, you might try removing Server.app from the /Applications folder and restarting. It might be that you need to remove Server.app from the backup before doing the migration - perhaps you can boot from the clone and remove it from the clone. Removing Server.app from the /Applications folder should cause the system to warn you that it will shut down all the server services, but should otherwise leave the server data and settings intact so when Server.app is reinstalled everything will be as it was before.

Server.app seems to also cause probelms with "not enough room" warnings that are incorrect but still prevent Migration Assistant.app from completing its job as detailed in Migrate OS X using Migration Assistant and Time Machine - not enough space


How to Copy Current URL of Web Page in Fluid App with AppleScript/Service and Bind on Keyboard Shortcut?

If you're having issues using ⌘L, ⌘C and Esc and you want an AppleScript script that runs as an Automator Service, in order to copy the URL of a Fluid App, created with Fluid, then here is an example scenario you could implement.

Under macOS 10.12.3 using Fluid (Version 1.8.6 (206)) and the URL of this question, I created a Fluid App named Ask Different Question.

I them made an Automator Service workflow using a Run AppleScript action and the AppleScript code below.

set appName to "Ask Different Question"

tell application appName
    activate
    tell application "System Events"
        set toolbarState to (name of every menu item of menu 1 of menu bar item 5 of menu bar 1 of application process appName)
        if toolbarState contains "Show Toolbar" then
            keystroke "t" using {option down, command down}
            set the clipboard to (get value of text field 1 of group 1 of toolbar 1 of window 1 of application process appName)
            keystroke "t" using {option down, command down}
        else
            set the clipboard to (get value of text field 1 of group 1 of toolbar 1 of window 1 of application process appName)
        end if
    end tell
end tell

Note that all you should have to change in the code above is the first line, set appName to ... where ... is the name of your Fluid App. The rest of the code should then work as is.

In Automator, create a new Service workflow, adding a Run AppleScript action to it. Then replace the default code with the code above. Also change the value for Service receives to no input while selecting the target Fluid App for in, as shown in the image below. Then save the Automator Service workflow.

The next step is to assign a keyboard shortcut for the Automator Service workflow you've just created.

In System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Services, find your service and set its shortcut.

I used ⌘U as that was easy to remember using U for URL.

The last thing you'll need to do, is add the Fluid App you created that will use the Automator Service workflow you've just created to System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility as shown in the image below for the Ask Different Question app I created in Fluid.

Now when you're in the Fluid App you created and press ⌘U, the URL will be copied to the Clipboard and from there you can paste it wherever you'd like.


iPhone 5s calendar won't delete all events of the repeated event

Delete them one by one. I don't think it would be possible to delete all those events at once, because they are now not linked as a recurring event.


Can't delete or move item from trash using sudo rm in terminal, in superuser account, or even single user mode

I recently had a file I could not delete from Trash. Finally I moved it from the trash back to the desktop, which I have synced to iCloud. Then I was apple to use the Files app on my iphone to delete it.

Another path to pursue: boot to recovery and turn off SIP (until you get the file deleted.)


Depends on which AppleTV you have.

With the 1st generation you can select which videos from your media library to sync with and iTunes would copy them to the AppleTV.

Unfortunately the 2nd generation doesn't have any internal storage, so it can only stream videos.


I have lots of lock icons -- how can I get rid of them?

The icon is for Keychain Access. You can enable and disable the icon (usually there's only one) from the Keychain Access app's preferences. Try toggling this checkbox and seeing what happens.

Multiple icons is sometimes a rare glitch where other menu bar items appear with the wrong icon, taking on the appearance of a different item. This can usually be fixed by killing SystemUIServer (killall -HUP SystemUIServer).

If it really is multiple menu bar items, you can remove them by ⌘-dragging them away from the menu bar.


How do I display text in the middle of a dialog as well as a new line?

To create a second line use \n or just hit enter when you want the new line:

display dialog "Test\nTest2"

or

display dialog "Test
Test2"

About the center alignment, I think that is not possible.


Installed provision profiles not seen on iOS8?

I know this is an old thread. I have been experiencing the sam issue with students downloading apps through 3rd party. The provisioning profiles are still on the device, despite them being removed through settings etc..

Once the update 10.2.1 was complete they no longer exist on the device as seen through the our MDM, Xcode or the device itself..

So updating to new OS worked for me.. Hope this helps anyone


Can't format samsung 128 evo micro sd card

In the half-dozen or so instances where I've seen this specific error, the micro SD card itself had gone bad and couldn't be formatted on Mac, Windows or Android (via OTG), even with different card readers. Not only couldn't the card be formatted, but files couldn't be added or deleted nor anything else that required writing to the card. (Reading files was unaffected.) It was effectively in read-only mode like a full-size SD card with the switch flipped, but obviously the micro SD doesn't have that. Only solution is replacement.

I know this is an old post, but I thought I'd add the real cause (i.e. a defective card, not a software or format issue)  for future reference.


How can I ensure that friends with iPhones send me SMS/text instead of iMessages?

You may not have to do anything except deregister your cellular number from messages.

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

At that point, if people send you messages to your Apple ID they won’t deliver if you sign out of the app on any remaining Apple OS devices.


What do these numbers and symbols mean in my Documents folder in Finder?

I think I've figured it out.  So when I click the pie shown by the arrow below

this pops up another window showing the progress of my uploads

So I guess the figures do represent the data remaining for that directory, maybe MacOS just made up the numbers at the beginning
¯\_(ツ)_/¯


If my iPhone was stolen and I decide to cancel my phone plan, would it still show up on my iCloud?

There is no relation between the carrier's plan for cellular services (which is tied to your carrier) and iCloud (which is a service from Apple). So even if you cancel your phone plan after it's stolen, the iCloud linkage that was established when you setup your phone (or later modified it) would continue to remain with Apple.

If your iPhone is running iOS 7 and you have Find my iPhone turned on (Settings > Privacy > Location Services > Find my iPhone), then the person who has your phone cannot erase it or use it without your iCloud account and password.

If your iPhone is lost, you can visit http://www.icloud.com, login with your iCloud account (the one setup on your iPhone) and use Lost Mode (which prevents activation of the phone without your iCloud account credentials and also allows you to send a message to the device) or Erase iPhone (which erases your iPhone remotely).

Also see:
iOS 7: Activation Lock + Find My iPhone
How To Enable Activation Lock On Your iPhone And iPad (iOS Tips)


Using the same Apple ID on private and business iPhone

There are two separate questions here but hopefully they won’t get mixed if I’m careful about wording things:

Your company can install MDM profiles and unless they do, you only expose what addresses and traffic you send when you connect to their network or VPN or install their apps. Apple protects you since there are no hidden backdoors and if you have a company MDM - you will see it in the profile portion of the settings app and it has to list what it does.
You can choose to use a private AppleID in the App Store and that won’t let the business see what you do in the store other than seeing the side effects.

With MDM - they can see all apps installed - so if you installed a sports betting or game - they would see that IF they have MDM or if they see that app talking to the servers that run that app.
They can send apps to your phone on iOS 11 without needing you to be signed in, so it’s up to them if you should use an AppleID or just use MDM to push the “work apps”
Work can erase the device but not get data from it with MDM in general. Unless they get your passcode or you back up to their servers, Apple ensures data is secure with your password so unless they have surveillance or a key logger on a computer and capture your password - your password and account is yours and it’s your choice to use it on a work device or not.

So - If you really want to keep work from personal - sign up for and maintain a work AppleID so you don’t mix the streams. For many people, using a personal AppleID for just the App Store is super low risk and you can manage to not auto install apps and control what app history you wish to share with work. Without MDM, they can’t modify settings, wipe the device, lock the device, unlock the device. With MDM they can do those things, but you will see they can do it and ask about their policies so you can make a good choice.

I wouldn’t mix normal AppleID like messages or Photos or iCloud or GameCenter with work and pleasure - this answer just is about apps and access to app data. That second item could leak more data like contacts or conversations you would rather be yours.


How can I get Preview to open up in the Foreground?

Auto-opening a downloaded file from a browser is done on pretty much a browser-to-browser basis. Since you asked about Chrome, here's the relevant blurb from Google's Docs:

  Automatically open certain types of
  files

  If you want certain types of files to
  always open after they're done
  downloading, click the arrow next to
  the file button in the downloads bar
  and select Always open files of this
  type. To prevent potentially malicious
  files from automatically downloading
  to your computer, this option isn't
  available for executable filetypes,
  such as those with .exe, .dll, or .bat
  extensions (for Windows), and .dmg
  extensions (for Mac).

Personally, these features weren't visible when I tried it, but then I hardly use Chrome other than for the odd web site test.


iCal does not open correctly invites sent from Outlook

In iCal

Go to Preferences
Enable Turn on Time Zone support


Is there a way to hide the unread count badge in Mountain Lion's Mail.app?

With the advent of Notification Center, the display of badges on any app can now be managed alongside display of banners, popups, and other notification-related settings.

Go to the Notifications preference pane in System Preferences, and select the Mail app from the list - the option to turn off the Dock badge should be there.

You may need to restart Mail for this change to take effect, though on 10.8.4 I do not.


Due to the Apple Developer Center being down this process may fail, however;

You can install Command Line Tools via Xcode's Preferences. Open Xcode, then hit ⌘+,. Choose the 'Downloads' section, and Components lists the downloadable items.

Assuming that ADC being down hasn't also locked down these utilities, the installation process will take place.


MacBook Air (mid 2011) running OS X 10.7.2 won't stay asleep

The logs say that it's waking from a usb. If you unplug all USB the problem should be fixed.

Also look here to make sure that the option is NOT selected :


How can I right click on an image in Finder and copy its pixel data?

I'm not aware of any way to copy the pixel data, but you can just drag & drop the file directly into Photoshop to achieve the same thing.

This works with most image editing and publishing applications I've used (including things like Powerpoint/Keynote, Word/Pages, as well as all the usual image editors).


Why does my launchd script not run at login?

This is a deeply unsatisfying answer, but I got it to work by running /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background & in a subshell. I changed login.sh to...

#!/bin/bash
longname=$0
shortname=$(basename "${longname}")
echo "$(date -u "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") ${shortname} (${longname}) running..."
output=$(/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background)    # <- COMMAND GOES HERE
echo "$(date -u "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") ${shortname} ended."

...and that works (my usual static desktop changes to my default screensaver). I use this idiom for other launchd tasks, running the tasks in a subshell so I can easily test whether the operation succeeded and log $output. I don't understand why this works while your original doesn't, but at least it does work.

Note that I removed the & from the end of your command - I'm not convinced this is necessary with launchd, and it was preventing my wrapper script from logging that it had ended (though the & wasn't the cause of the original problem).


Ok, answer for the question was pretty much obvious -- you just go to the AppStore and hit 'Download' on Mavericks once again. It then asks  if you really want to reapply the once downloaded update. Just accept it and update will be reinstalled.

If you want to reuse once downloaded update file you could use advice from this question.

But the main problem (with jumping windows) wasn't resolved. To resolve it I used advice from this thread on apple.com. I've rebooted to safe mode and then rebooted once again to normal mode. After that the issue was gone. At least till now. Hope this helps to someone.


It's gone. Use this extension to work around it:
http://ozymandias.me/2013/05/08/force-autocomplete-on-in-safari/


Watch movies from Time Capsule on Apple TV

Yes, but you just need a client that is able to play your video files.
I'm not sure which Apple TV generation you use, but if it's 4th gen you can download an app called "Infuse 4" https://firecore.com/infuse

If you use an older generation you can use another solution by the same vendor (I don't have any experience with it) https://firecore.com/atvflash-black.

This guide mentions how to connect to your Time Capsule:
https://support.firecore.com/hc/en-us/articles/215090977-Streaming-From-Other-Devices


Install Macos from recovery using Bootable USB

Note: These instructions assume that the only internal drive is a SSD.

The procedure given below may seem lengthy, but once completed, you will not have to preform this procedure again. After installing 10.13.3, you will be able to reinstall the current version of macOS directly from Internet Recovery.

Boot to  Internet Recovery
Use the Disk Utility app to initialize the SSD for Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Install 10.7.5.
Boot to 10.7.5.
Download 10.13.3 installer app from the App Store. If this is not possible, then first upgrade to 10.11.6.
Transfer the 10.13.3 installer app to a USB flash drive.
Boot from the flash drive.
Use the Disk Utility app to initialize the SSD for APFS or APFS (Encrypted).
Install 10.13.3
Boot to 10.13.3


What is the 6th Gen (2018) iPad's Touch Delivery Rate?

It's 60Hz. It is aimed for students. And It is a budget friendly iPad when compared with the iPad Pro.


Unable to boot into ElementaryOS on MacBook after PRAM reset

Just reinstall rEFInd http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/

This way this runs before Grub which seems to not work very well to boot the Mac OS side of the system


How to force Xcode(or any other app) to be on dark theme while macOS Mojave's setting is on light mode

Open Terminal and run the following:

defaults write com.apple.dt.Xcode NSRequiresAquaSystemAppearance -bool FALSE

source: https://medium.com/@pawelurbanowicz/boost-your-productivity-with-macos-mojave-enable-dark-mode-for-xcode-only-33d86e452ea9


Screen Sharing without Username and Password login

If you have identical accounts with the same credentials set up on both Macs, and you are currently logged in as that account, I do not believe that it will prompt you at all when you connect to the other Mac.


Where does the Apple Bootcamp software store the drive definitions on the windows partition?

A drive is usually divided up into partitions. There is a table stored in the drive that contains this partition information. The Boot Camp software installed in Windows looks at this table to determine which partitions are bootable. APFS is fairly new and your Boot Camp software does not properly recognize bootable macOS volumes stored in APFS partitions.

There is a workaround that can allow you to boot directly to your SSD from Windows. See the question: macOS partition disappered after installing windows 10 using bootcamp. I consider the accepted solution as a temporary fix. Apple may issue a Boot Camp update for Windows that will fix this problem. Or, Apple may  not.

Below are the steps to make this fix to your Mac. The commands need to be entered into a Terminal application window.

Create the new volume.  The diskutil command, shown below, shrinks the APFS container by 300 MB and creates the new 200 MB "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" volume labeled "MacSSD via rEFInd".

sudo diskutil ap resizeContainer disk1 119500M JHFS+ "MacSSD via rEFInd" 200M

After the command completes, restart the Mac.
Download the rEFInd Boot Manager software from this SourceForge web site. Enter the following commands to install the software to the "MacSSD via rEFInd" volume.

cd ~/Downloads/refind-bin-0.11.2
./refind-install --ownhfs /dev/disk0s3

  Note: The error message Could not set boot device property: 0xe00002bc was expected and can be ignored.

Configure the TextEdit application. Open TextEdit, then navigate to the "Preferences..." window. Uncheck all the "Options", as shown below. When finished, quit TextEdit.

Use the command below to navigate to the folder containing the refind.conf file.

cd "/Volumes/MacSSD via rEFInd/System/Library/CoreServices"

Make a backup copy of this file.

cp refind.conf refind.conf.orignal

Open the file in the TextEdit application.

open -e refind.conf

Add the following lines to the end of the refind.conf file. You should be able to just cut and paste these lines. When finished, save the changes, then quit TextEdit.

#
# Added to make rEFInd silent.
#
menuentry "MacSSD via rEFInd" {
    icon \System\Library\CoreServices\icons\os_mac.png
    volume "MacSSD"
    loader \System\Library\CoreServices\boot.efi
    ostype MacOS
    graphics on
}
timeout -1
hideui all
scanfor manual

Enter the following commands to modify the /etc/fstab file. This entry will instruct macOS not to mount the volume labeled "MacSSD via rEFInd" at startup.

sudo bash
echo >>/etc/fstab
echo "LABEL=MacSSD\040via\040rEFInd none hfs rw,noauto" >>/etc/fstab
exit

  Note: The character sequence \040 is just the octal representation of the space character.

When finished, restart the Mac.

Now when choosing Boot Camp from the Control Panel, you should get something similar to what is shown below.


iMovie on Macbook download fail: "We could not complete your purchase." What could I do?

Appears to be an issue with the Mac App Store. See this Apple Discussions link: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/251378763


Restore photos to new iPhone from previous backup

There are easy two ways to do this.

You can turn on the iCloud photo library feature in your settings, this will backup your photos to your iCloud account and share them across your Apple devices. You can learn how to do this here: iCloud Photo Library
You can also backup your photos onto a Mac computer as well. This will allow you to easily choose which pictures to put back onto your phone. You can learn how to do this here: Transfer photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch


iPhone/iTunes play count & location updating

Set the iPhone to Manually manage music, Does the trick for me.


How to I set the scroll direction to be "non" natural for any new users created on a Lion machine?

From a Terminal window:

  sudo defaults write /System/Library/User\ Template/Non_localized/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences  com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool false

Source


iTunes 10 file directory organization in Windows

If you want to use iTunes to manage your media files, it's best to stop bothering about file system structure for these media files and just let iTunes do its magic. Any specific sorting and selecting can then be done directly in iTunes (at least after you updated all the metadata).

In your case I would probably import all the files and then use playlists and playlist folders inside iTunes to get the structure I want:


16G memory or an SSD to upgrade a Macbook?

I would go with the SSD.

First you can check to see how much benefit you would get from upgrading the RAM. You can look at the Activity Monitor.app memory section. The last several versions of Mac OS X have a graph describing "Memory Pressure", which is a way of describing how hard you are pushing the RAM. The OS will naturally try to make use of ALL of the available RAM, so don't be surprised if you see that your are using it all up. What you want to note is if you have "High" memory pressure, this means that you could benefit from adding more RAM.

Moderate Memory pressure can often be just as well addressed with upgrading to a SSD to speed up swapping to disk. Low Memory pressure will mean that there is no significant benefit to adding RAM.

There are a number of downsides to adding RAM:

You will double the amount of disk space used by swap files.
You will double the amount of disk space used when you put the system to sleep and the RAM is stored to disk. (This is in addition to the swap space)
You increase the time to put the system to sleep.
You will shorten the battery life, while the system is sleeping but still powering the RAM

On the SSD side, it is really all benefits. If you are RAM constrained SWAP is much faster. Everything that reads/writes to the drive will be much faster. Boot/wake times will be a fraction of the current times.

The only downside of SSD's is that when they fail, the usually fail catastrophically without warning or ability to recover. But that is why you have a backup.i

For myself, I have the same MacBookPro8,1 with an Intel i5 with a 500GB SSD and 16GB of RAM. I am a very heavy user of RAM for some of my development tasks. I would much rather be reduced on RAM than not have a SSD. Last year, I had to have the motherboard replaced and ended up using a MacBook Air with only 4GB RAM and an SSD for a week. I was actually impressed how well that MacBook Air stood up to what I threw at it even when the RAM pressure was getting fairly high, I am sure that I would not have felt the same about system with a spin disk hard drive.


OSX Preview: Bug in the size of PDF Highlights

I can't seem to avoid this problem, but I can get around it by restarting OSX Preview when it starts happening. When I reopen OSX Preview highlight works as it is supposed to (normal hight on highlights). Note: If I however save the PDF with a faulty highlight, the faulty highlight will still be there when I reopen the PDF – new highlight will work fine, but old ones are not corrected by saving and restarting OSX Preview.


You don't want to mix those two.

Why?

Because the USB-C port conforms to the USB 3.1 Power Delivery Specification whereas the Magsafe charger does not.  Part of that specification includes the negotiation of delivered power.  The Magsafe will not negotiate how much power is supplied.  What it's looking for is the presence of the 1 wire charging circuit before it begins charging.

There may be adapters/converters on the market that will convert one interface to the other and vice versa, but (IMO) those cheap adapters are not worth the risk of sending the wrong voltage to your very expensive MacBook Pro.

Bottom line, use the genuine adapters built and designed for your MacBook Pro.


Terminal process stopped when MacBook Pro was closed and opened

Assuming you installed wget from MacPorts or HomeBrew (it doesn't come preinstalled on macOS), you can resume a download using the -c or --continue flag.

$ wget -c http://foo.bar
$ wget --continue http://foo.bar


Issue while installing Windows 10 on an early 2011 MacBook Pro

don't try to force boot using EFI if you have MBP early 2011, I have and it succeeded but without sound. the only way to fix the sound problem is to re install it in BIOS boot not EFI


How to enter home address so that Siri recognizes it and can direct me home

Siri knows who you are and where you live based on an contact card in your Contacts application that you keep up to date for yourself.

Open the Contacts application on your iPhone. Add yourself as a contact. In the address section add an address and set the type to home. Save the contact information.

Open the Settings application a go to General -> Siri. In that settings page there's a field that says My Info -- click on that field and select your contact entry from your Contacts application.

Now when you ask Siri to find a route home for you, it will use the home address saved in the contact that you said was you.

You can add other places to this contact card and Siri will recognize them like work. You can also set up relationships in this card. For example: if you create a contact card for your spouse, you can in your contact card link to this other card as a relationship with type spouse or wife or husband. Now when you Siri to "Call my spouse" it will use this relationship in your contact card to determine who your "spouse" is and what numbers are available to be called.


How to restore motherboard firmware on an unresponsive MBP mid-2009?

A search for fixing broken firmware suggested that you can use a "firmware restoration CD". These are some instructions for creating and using one (although I don't see your machine listed). If you can't find the right CD for your machine, maybe you can take it in to an Apple store; they should have all the tools necessary to fix firmware if it exists. If they fix it, see if you can find out how.


Here is what I got using six VLOOKUP

=CONCATENATE(VLOOKUP(2,Hm_Roster::A3:E8,3,FALSE),(" "),VLOOKUP(2,Table 1::A3:E8,2,close-match),(" "),VLOOKUP(6,Hm_Roster::A3:E8,2,FALSE),(" "),VLOOKUP(1,Hm_Roster::A3:E8,4,FALSE),(" "),VLOOKUP(5,Table 1::A3:E8,2,close-match),(" "),VLOOKUP(2,Hm_Roster::A3:E8,4,FALSE))

The search is being done across two sheets. And I am using thefirst columns in each table to match against. The first columns contain numbers so that is what I am looking for. Than asking for the return-column to be either 3,2,4 to the right of matched column

And returns :

  Jone Fuller Silver Sales Person Buchanan Chairman

If you edit your formula you will see that some of the arguments have a drop down selector. These allow you to select the option for that argument.

In the case of Exact-Match. You will see that it is equal to FALSE. so don't worry about it changing.

Make sure you are not using extra brackets where they are not needed. Also I noticed that if I change a cell detail. I had to re-affirmed the formula so that it would pick the change up. I am not sure if thats a bug or not.

(Also note this is the first time I have looked at VLOOKUP )


Boot Camp Windows 10 not connecting to Magic Mouse 1

So far, I learned from experimenting and the blogs: I have to REMOVE (not just DISCONNECT) the Bluetooth mouse in Mac OS X, before I can pair it in BootCamp Windows. Since this is not comfortable enough, I'm not fully done yet.

After another entire day of fumbling around in blogs, Apple sites and the machine itself, it seems to work.

1st of all, I have to correct myself - the mouse is an Apple Bluetooth MIGHTY Mouse (not a MAGIC one). Sorry for the wrong place - there is not much word about the Mighty in the blogs.

The machine is a late 2006 MBP15 (2,2 A1211). The Mac OS X is a Lion, the BootCamp is 4.0.4 running Windows 10. Apple doesn't support this combo. They don't provide Windows Support Software for it either (the download attempt through BootCamp Assistant fails). So I'm in fact on my own.

Having eventually learned that, I decided to UNPAIR (not REMOVE) the mouse in Mac OS X, before I switched to Windows 10. In Windows 10, I managed to pair it within the Bluetooth Preference window. However, the transition had switched the mouse OFF, so I had to switch it OFF/ON again. And, I had to toggle the Bluetooth switch in the Preference window; otherwise the radio wouldn't at all search for the mouse! I think that I even had to click the mouse - but I'm not sure about that. Anyway - the mouse worked than, and I could open the Device Manager to check the Bluetooth entries and the Mouse entries. (With the mouse, the Bluetooth entry has to have 2 extra sub-entries, while the Mouse entry has to have just one extra sub-entry.)

From there, I could switch to Mac OS X. Of course, the mouse was dead, but I could pair it after having switched it OFF/ON and clicked to make it alive.

For the return to Windows 10 I could keep it paired. Arriving in Windows 10, I had just to switch the mouse OFF/ON and click to make it work.
I'm going to test this for a while - happy that there is no need for additional drivers.


Has anyone solved issues with iPhone 5 and iPad that won't connect to Netgear WiFi routers?

I was also having iPhone 5 connection issues while running 2.0.16NA, but I was concerned about rolling all the way back to 2.0.7NA. I was able to connect by using 2.0.12NA. No other issues... so far.


What exactly is your use case? There is not any way to connect two Mac Minis together and have them function as a single machine. But there are ways to split the workload between two different Macs.

Some programs may let you designate master and slave computers, which would allow you to have one computer control the actions of another. Isadora, a video/performance application, is one example.

If you're looking for a more general use case, there are multiple options for automating actions on a Mac. For example, if you wanted to offload converting video files via handbrake, you could have Hazel watching a folder on the second Mini. When you put a video file there, Hazel could automatically run handbrakecli with predefined settings.

Here's an example rule:

Here Hazel is watching the folder "pinboard-backups"1. When it sees a file that is a movie it runs a script executing handblakecli (I've set it up so that the converted file ends up back on the first Mini. You could have Hazel running there as well set up to rename the file).

After it runs the script, it moves the file to the trash.

This is just one option; there's plenty of other methods out there. I'd be happy to help point you in a more specific direction if you let me know what you'd like to do.

1: Probably not where you'd be keeping them, but the folder I was editing at the moment.


How can I disable a USB port that is drawing too much power?

Short answer is no, you can't disable a USB port.  Additionally, if you are having this issue with nothing attached to it, it's definitely a hardware issue.

First thing is to do an SMC reset.

If that doesn't fix the issue, you need to take it in for service because it's likely a logic board or component (connector issue).  If I had to guess, it would be a short to ground of the 5V power rail on the USB connector.  However, without actually getting hands on with it, it's only a hypothesis at best.


How can I fix Chrome 32.0.1700.77? CPU use and fonts issues

According to this thread one of the possible culprits is the Chrome Extension AdBlock (which is pretty nice to have).  A second possible culprit is some of the catalog indexing done by Quicksilver -- when I disabled the indexing of running processes and restarted Chrome I noticed a solid improvement in terms of lower CPU usage.  The CPU usage is still, annoyingly, going up, albeit slowly, and I think this is due to Adblock (or maybe another extension, but I only have about 5).  Because I like to avoid ads I will keep the Adblock extension running and restart Chrome from time to time until the issue is resolved.

Basically Chrome's CPU usage might be due to other apps interacting with it (Quicksilver in my case), and also due to Chrome Extensions, so it is worthwhile exploring these two avenues to try and improve Chrome's resources usage.

I have not found a cause or a cure for the erratic font behaviour.

Addendum 27/1/2014:  another big improvement seems to be had by (1) installing the official Adobe's Flash Plugin and (2) deactivating Chrome's own Flash plugin so that it uses the Adobe's version.

Addendum 29/1/2014:  yesterday Chrome autoupdated to 32.0.1700.102, and the issues of CPU usage seem resolved, i.e. there was little I could do on my end.  To be honest I do not have the time to chase which plugin might minimise CPU use and whatnot, I hope Google will avoid releasing updates that have CPU usage bugs.

Addendum 3/2/2014:  despite all the above Chrome's CPU usage would still creep up, slowly but inexorably.  I reset to factory defaults, reset the fonts to the 'defaults' and thus far the CPU use seems to be under control.


2010 Macbook Pro keeps crashing in Adobe - does it need more video memory?

It could be pure out of memory, but it may be that both products are fighting over the OpenGL implementation that Adobe uses.

Try this - it may need some fiddling to get the best balance
[this is for Photoshop, idk the precise locations for other Adobe apps]

In Prefs > Performance, reduce the overall memory requirement - it ought to handle this OK by itself, running into pagefile if needed, but just to see how it goes with this reduced…

Either disable "Use Graphics Processor" or open Advanced Settings… & selectively disable sections until you find which is causing the issue.

If you decide to leave "Use Graphics Processor" on, then look in Prefs > 3D & drop the memory requirement in there to half your card's total memory, less a little for the system.

All these tweaks will require you to relaunch each app, so it may take some time to finally settle at something that works best for you.

The alternative, as you first surmised, would be to get a more powerful graphics card with greater memory - if that would be even possible on a Macbook, which I somehow doubt.

Everymac states [for the high-end i7 machine]:

  NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M with 512 MB of dedicated GDDR3 memory and Intel HD Graphics with 256 MB of RAM shared with the system -- that Mac OS X automatically switches between for better graphics performance and better battery life, respectively, depending on application use.

One thing you should definitely check is that it is at least switching over to the NVidia rather than using the Intel card.
gfxCardStatus would be the go-to tool for that kind of task.


Alternative to FaceTime or iMessages to communicate with Android devices?

Well, you cannot use iMessage or FaceTime with non-Apple devices.  With iMessage on the iPhone, the phone will switch to SMS messages when contacting non-iPhone users, but that's it.

Fortunately, there are alternatives to FaceTime and iMessage that are cross-platform.

Alternatives to FaceTime:

Skype (Mac, PC, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)
Tango (PC, iPhone, Android, Windows Phone)

Alternatives to iMessage:

Kik (iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry)
Facebook Messenger (Works on pretty much anything with a web browser)


Try opening up the Spotlight Preferences and re-ordering the position "Music" by dragging it higher up in the list. In Lion when you search via Spotlight it prioritizes the most relevant items according to the order you see in the Spotlight Preference Pane.

Another thing that will save you some frustration is to do a Spotlight search (any file will do) and select "Show All in Finder", from there select "Show View Options" and change Arrange by to "None" and Sort by to "Name".

If those two things don't work then I would recommend rebuilding your index. (Do I need to re-index my Volume?)


How can I increase the maximum allowed swap space?

While I could not find any more recent documentation, Singh's "Mac OS X Internals: A Systems Approach" mentions two obscure limits in /sbin/dynamic_pager (p. 919 f.):

  The absolute minimum and maximum swap file sizes are 64MB and 1GB, respectively.
  The maximum swap file size must not be greater than 12.5% of the free space available on the volume that contains the swap file. Moreover, the maximum swap file size must not be greater than the amount of physical memory on the system.
  At most, eight swap files can be created.

  [...]

While the book is a bit dated and the numbers are likely to have changed, the 12.5% rule sounds very suspicious to me.

Singh implies that those are hard-coded limits in the binary and thus the property file you found is likely not to be of use. Also note that the swap system creates several, but only up to eight, distinct swap files.

/sbin/dynamic_pager is documented, as you noted, as a very rudimentary man page, and there is a conflicting statement in the current developer documentation on Virtual Memory, stating that

  To give processes access to their entire 4 gigabyte or 18 exabyte address space, OS X uses the hard disk to hold data that is not currently in use. As memory gets full, sections of memory that are not being used are written to disk to make room for data that is needed now. The portion of the disk that stores the unused data is known as the backing store because it provides the backup storage for main memory.

  [...]

  Note: Unlike most UNIX-based operating systems, OS X does not use a preallocated disk partition for the backing store. Instead, it uses all of the available space on the machine’s boot partition.

(emphasis mine)

Hence, at around this point, I'd go for some pragmatic workaround. Perhaps try increasing your disk space even further to check for a correlation in the obtainable swap size, thus checking the 12.5% limitation mentioned above.


Error trying to backup both iPhone4 and iPad (1) after 4.3/iTunes/XCode updates

I would try manually checking the backups folder(username/Library/Application Support/Mobilesync)and then deleting anything in there. That error message makes me think Xcode but you could try resetting Sync History from preferences in iSync and resetting the SyncServices folder as per http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1627 . Doing that will wipe sync settings for your iPhone so you will have to re-check the information you want to sync in iTunes. I am running Xcode 4 on 10.6.7 and I have not run into this issue. Hopefully this resolves the issue, let me know if this helps. Also as per the last suggestion I would recommend following the instruction on the apple support site for reinstalling iTunes @ http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1224


How can I really disable the Cmd to Win key mapping in Parallels Desktop 5?

It works for me, but I have it remapped like this:

So cmd is really control for Windows.


iPhone 4 locked out while on holiday, how can I unlock it?

I assume you, as a developer, have iOS5 installed? Try recovering from iCloud?
That is if you have backed up your iPhone using iCloud before of course.

EDIT: Use a random computer to back-up your iPhone


KeepingYouAwake is a free and open source app that can be used for this purpose.

The intended purpose of this app is to prevent your Mac from going into sleep. You can activate this app from 5/15/30 minutes to 1/2/5 hours to indefinite duration.

Having KeepingYouAwake activated will prevent screen from turning off when lock screen mode is activated.

KeepingYouAwake can be easily installed using Homebrew by running the following command:

brew cask install keepingyouawake


How can I remove an empty folder that I created manually inside the Photos library?

I was able to solve this problem by first deleting in Finder the "New Folder With Items" folder, then exiting Photos and immediately starting it again in the repair mode. Once repair was finished the stale directory tree was gone. I since then have imported over a thousand photos and videos and everything seems to be O.K. I guess problem is solved :)


If the path includes spaces, you're going to need to quote it.

Your line export PATH=/Users/ps1/Documents/PS 1/whatever-else/:$PATH causes Bash to interpret the PATH=/Users/ps1/Documents/PS part as the full first argument to your PATH—telling export to set the PATH to only the section before the space. If you use export "PATH=/Users/ps1/Documents/PS 1/whatever-else/:$PATH", it will interpret the entire PATH=/Users/ps1/Documents/PS 1/whatever-else/:$PATH as part of the first argument. By convention, most people only quote the right side of the equals sign, because it looks nicer, it's the only thing that needs quoted, and bash automatically concatenates strings with no spaces between them.


How do I disable private browsing in Safari

I could suggest something more evil :

Enable parental controls and use the logs !

Someone on Apple Support asked if private browsing disabled logging. It appears no, the parents controls will still log the websites. Even if the sneaky kids enable the private browsing, the logs will spill the beans !


If you install OSX Mavericks via the app store, Java will stay up to date & working.


How can I adjust keyboard backlight on the new M1 MacBook Air?

From Control Center, choose Keyboard Brightness and adjust the slider.


GPU-defect Macbook Pro 2011 does not accept csrutil disable anymore (10.13.6)

I had same issue but did not have to use another computer or usb drive.
Via: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/336676/302408

I was having the same issue. This is how I fixed it.

As we are not able to get to single-user-recovery mode by holding Cmd+R+S at startup to run csrutil disable, it is not taking you to SingleUserRecoveryMode.

I run the nvram command here in SingleUserMode

nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00

Then reboot

reboot

On reboot hold Cmd+R and it will take us to the GUI recovery mode. There click on Utility and open Terminal, here we can run the csrutil command.

csrutil disable

Then again make sure to run the nvram command then reboot

nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00

reboot

Boot into SingleUserMode Cmd+S to continue with the kext moving procedure. once done, go back to GUI recovery to re-enable SIP csrutil enable, then reboot once morew.

Once the Mac fully boots run nvram one last time as sudo

sudo nvram fa4ce28d-b62f-4c99-9cc3-6815686e30f9:gpu-power-prefs=%01%00%00%00

Now do multiple reboots to test the machine boots back up properly. I have no issues now.


How can I Create a Recovery Partition on a Newly Installed SSD?

Reinstall OS X using the Internet Recovery option (hold Command+R during boot).

During the reinstall, OS X will create a local Recovery HD. You also won't need to backup your data as it will simply reinstall the core operating system without touching your existing content.


Is there a way to force iTunes to reset volume levels for audio tracks?

Select all your Tracks in your Library cmd+A.
Right click on a random track and select Get Info in the menu. You should get a popup with a warning you are about to edit multiple track info. Click "YES".
In the popup under Options you should see the volume slider. Adjust to your liking.

I don't see how this could interfere with iTunes Match so you should be fine.


Combining parts from a MacBook Pro with a Dell Inspiron

Technically speaking, yes the CPU would work (provided it was still functional). Apple makes no changes to the (Intel) CPU making it "Mac only."

However, (and this is a big one), where Dell typically uses a socket, Apple solders the CPU to the board - you can remove the Dell CPU, but you need to de-solder it from the Mac.

What you would spend on the labor just to remove the CPU is far more costly than surfing eBay for a deal on a compatible CPU.


Why is it not possible to use the "cut" command to manipulate a file in the Finder?

Keyboard method: Cmd-C then Opt-Cmd-V does the cut&paste for files on Mac.

Mouse method: Drag the file from one folder to the parent of the target folder (ie, if moving to Documents:Financial, drag to Documents). Hover on the parent folder for a few seconds, and it will spring open. Then you can continue dragging the file to the target folder. (note, the mouse method may result in very long hover times, if you're dragging a huge number of files, eg 1,000 files)

Menu method: It's not part of the Apple menu system to 'cut' files.  The menu Cut option is grayed out, and becomes enabled when text is selected.  But not files. Here is an in-depth discussion on Apple's discussion forum.


There is a map view built into iOS 9. Go to the photos tab and select the location at the top of the photos area!