Besides iCloud or a sync cable, how can i back up my files?

If you plan on getting another iPhone

iCloud backs up everything on your iPhone—every game's data, every app's data, your health data, your messages, your phone logs, your settings, your Homekit data, your photos and videos, everything. If you get a new iPhone, when setting it up, you can choose to set it up from a backup, and that new phone will have all of the data your current phone has. The sync is as complete as backing it up to a Mac. Also—try the Google Photos (not Google Drive) app for awesome photo backups.

If you need any help backing your phone up with iCloud or iTunes, check out Apple's support article.

Note: you can very easily get a new sync cable for your iPhone from Amazon. Here's a reliable one, and it's just $6.

If you plan on switching to Android or you're not sure what your next phone will be

Save your photos with Google Photos: download the app for iOS and it's really easy to back up all of your photos, and since Google Photos comes preinstalled on many Android phones (and is available from the Play Store on all others), your photos will be right there waiting for you.

Save contacts by going to iCloud.com and exporting them all as a VCard, then importing this into your Gmail contacts; see a guide here: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH3606?locale=en_US.

Notes synced to your Gmail account are just waiting out there in your google account, but notes synced to your iCloud account must be manually exported with Copy and Paste. Here's Apple's official guide on exporting your iCloud notes:

  To copy notes, open the Notes app at iCloud.com. Copy the text of each
  note and paste it into a document on your computer, such as a Pages or
  TextEdit document. Save the document to your computer. To export your
  notes as PDF, open the Notes app in OS X Mountain Lion or later.
  Select the note, then click File > Export as PDF and choose a
  location.

Emails are self-explanatory, just hook up the Gmail app on your next phone.

Calendars are pretty self-explanatory too, they should all be tied to accounts in the cloud you can sign in to on an Android phone.

Your phone number is hooked up to your Sim card, but be sure to deactivate iMessage if you switch to Android or you won't get some text messages! Here's a guide on that: http://www.imore.com/how-to-disable-deactivate-imessage-iphone-ipad

Anything else on your phone can likely be exported in its own way, and more than you may realize is tied to the cloud.


How to remove group membership from user using the Lion Terminal?

Try this command to remove the user from a particular group

dseditgroup -o edit -d $Username -t user $GroupName

dseditgroup -o edit -d _denyhosts -t user workgroup


NAS - "there was a problem connecting to the server" while on other networks

What you need is a network location manager program, typically these allow you to perform certain actions (e.g. connect to a network drive) when the machine is on some networks and not on others. Several years ago I was using one, now defunct, so I can't recommend any from experience. What I found now are things like Sidekick ($29), Control Plane (free).

You can also do this with a script (e.g. Login Item, if you log off or shutdown the machine when moving it from home to work or vice versa, or cron job) to determine the network the machine is on and depending on it to connect to the network drive (if not already connected) or not.


What are the downsides of getting a foreign keyboard layout on a MacBook Pro?

I once was in a similar situation to what you described—I'm an American and brought my U.S. MacBook to the UK.  A couple observations:

U.S. keyboard layouts are substantially different from the UK ones. Many common punctuation characters, including quote marks, are mapped very differently. I found UK keyboards too awkward to use and did virtually all of my work on my own U.S. keyboards.
U.S. keyboards do not include the pound sterling symbol or the negation symbol used in the UK. You can get them by using Option key combinations, but that can be a bit of a pain.
As bmike mentioned, if you need a keyboard repair you'll face a substantial delay. Someone spilled a drink on my MacBook in a pub towards the end of my stay, and about a third of the keyboard was shorted out; when I took it in to an Apple Store, they warned me they would need to hold the computer for several days while replacement parts arrived.  I couldn't spare the laptop for that length of time, so I spent the last couple weeks of that trip using an external keyboard with my MacBook, and repaired it when I got home.  (That option, of course, won't be available to you.)

All in all, I don't think I would recommend it for you.  That £150 is buying you freedom from a lot of hassles.


Recording video on mac without mirror inversion

Shift+Command+H will flip a video horizontally in QuickTime after you stop recording.

In summary:

Record a video in QuickTime as usual (it will still show as inverted during this time)
Stop recording
Shift+Command+H to flip it horizontally
Quit the app - it will prompt you to save the file, which will save it in the desired inversion. Alternatively you can File > Export to a variety of formats.

I tested this on macOS Catalina using QuickTime 10.5.


iPhone 5c weather app can't change default city

Just disable Location service for Weather application.

Settings > Privacy > Location Services - toggle Weather from Always to Never.

'Current Location' vanishes from the Weather app.


Data recovery on MBP 15’s SSD corrupted drive?

Is your drive formatted as an HFS+ (macOS Extended) or APFS volume? If it’s HFS+, you can try DiskWarrior. (Though, from the sound of it, the corruption may not be in the volume itself but rather in the partition map, and I don’t know if DiskWarrior is able to fix those errors. May be worth reaching out to their support team.)


Macbook Pro Retina (mid-2014) shutdowns with -128 code

Here is a post suggesting disabling the Thunderbolt Ethernet Driver solves the issue.
Another post suggests the nocrashmbp utility which says 2013-2015 MacBook Pros are susceptible:

The CPU has several power states and voltages.  Some CPUs have become unstable at the extremely low voltage on one of it's cores.   The CPU will sometimes briefly dip into that power state, and if it happens to be on the core wherein it is unstable you will see the “silent” crash.  Screen goes black, a few seconds later it dies completely.  This condition was observed with external test equipment, as well as through internal cpu voltage monitoring.


How do I uninstall wine when I don't know how it was installed?

The wine project has an excellent Wiki article specific to macOS.  It includes how to remove wine from your macOS system, but basically there are a few ways to uninstall wine

MacPorts:

sudo port uninstall --follow-dependencies wine

Homebrew:

brew rm wine && brew rm $(join <(brew leaves) <(brew deps wine))

Source:

sudo make uninstall
rm -rf /src/wine              #Remove the source
rm -rf $HOME/.wine            #Remove pseudo C: and registry entries
rm -rf $HOME/.local           #Remove desktop menu entries and icons

You can attempt any of these methods without fear that if you didn't install using that method, there won't be adverse affects to your system.


How to completely block specific Wi-Fi SSID on macOS?

There's no blacklist function (that I know of) but there are a couple of simple workarounds
Restrict to Admins Only
Your first option would be to set up networking and restrict it so only Admins can join networks (Network Settings >> WiFi Adapter >> Advanced)

The caveat here is that the user can no longer be an admin.
Progmatically remove network
Your second option is to have a terminal command run periodically:
networksetup -removepreferredwirelessnetwork en1 SSID

If the SSID doesn't exist, it will just error out without any issues.  If it does exist, it will remove it from the preferred (saved) network.
You could put this is a simple bash script
#!/bin/bash

SSID=MyBannedSSID

net=$(networksetup -listpreferredwirelessnetworks en1 | grep ${SSID} | cut -f2)
ap=$(networksetup -getairportnetwork en1 | cut -d ":" -f 2 | cut -c 2-)

# Remove Network if exists in saved networks
if [ "$net" = "$SSID" ]
  then networksetup -removepreferredwirelessnetwork en1 ${SSID}
  sleep 5

else echo "No Network"
fi

#Power cycle wireless adapter if connected to banned network
if [ "$ap" = "$SSID" ]
  then  networksetup -setairportpower en1 off
        networksetup -setairportpower en1 on
fi

then use cron or launchd (preferred) to run it periodically.  The caveat is that while they may join the network, it will eventually (per your schedule) delete it.
You have to run this as root (meaning put in /Library/LaunchDaemons if using launchd) otherwise it will ask you for a password every time.
What the script is doing

Checks to see if banned SSID is saved
Removes the saved network if it exists
Power cycles the airport card if it's attached to the banned SSID


Why Does OS X Mavericks Start Indexing After A Crash?

While reading up on this, I found two prevalent suggestions. One from this Ask Different thread:

  Try to erase the Spotlight index by either running sudo mdutil -Ea or by temporarily adding your startup disk to the privacy tab in the Spotlight preference pane.

  If that doesn't work, try to run:

  sudo lsof|grep mdworker

  or

  sudo mdutil -Ea;opensnoop -n mdworker

  to see if the indexing hangs on some specific files.

And the second, which I actually feel is more relevant to your case since your machine does finish indexing, suggested this:

  After trying everything under the sun, here's what fixed it for me

  Booted in Safe Mode and ran the free utility OnyX.

  Cleaned system caches, repaired/restored permissions.


Shell scripts/commands in AppleScript are handled with the do shell script command, which executes a shell script using the sh shell. In the short form of:

do shell script "..."

Where ... is the shell script to execute.

See AppleScript Language Guide do shell script Commands Reference and Technical Note TN2065 do shell script in AppleScript, for additional details.

What you need to do, is escape the double-quotes with a backslash, e.g. \"$f\" and elsewhere as necessary.

I've tested your command, wrapped in a do shell script command, with the necessary escaping as shown in the command below and it worked without issue.

do shell script "cd /Volumes/MEDIAS/WORK/CONVERSION_VIDEO/PROXY_720P/INPUT/; for f in *.mov *.mp4; do ffmpeg -i \"$f\" -vcodec prores -profile:v 0 -s 1280x720 /Volumes/MEDIAS/WORK/CONVERSION_VIDEO/PROXY_720P/OUTPUT/\"${f%.*}_PROXY_720P.mov\" && rm \"$f\"; done"

Note: Because the do shell script command uses the sh shell, if the ffmpeg executable is not in the PATH passed to the shell, which is /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin, you'll need to include the fully qualified pathname to the ffmpeg executable for your command to work in AppleScript.


Ability to control lock screen of iPhone running iOS 7 with bluetooth keyboard?

I upgraded the iPhone. And yes, the bluetooth keyboard still works to unlock the phone (just not iPad), and unlike in iOS 6 it jumps straight past the "slide to unlock" to the passcode screen.

Interestingly, though, if I show the slide to unlock screen, "esc" no longer swipes it to the passcode screen.

Spotlight/search button on keyboard is, by the way, useless now also on the iPhone.


What is the exact behavior of Catalina verifying app?

I’m not sure that anyone knows the full extent of how Apple’s protections work, but if I wanted to understand them better, I would start by reading Howard Oakley’s site at http://eclecticlight.co as he has done the most thorough job writing about it.

I know SE likes answers that aren’t just links, but there's way too much to try to summarize here.

This would be a good place to start reading: https://eclecticlight.co/tag/gatekeeper/


Item "is in use by another application". How can I find out which one?

The cause is usually a copy job that unexpectedly died or some process that has an open file handle on that file. You can check which process opened which files with lsof | grep "filename". This will not necessarily yield a result. If the issue isn't resolved after a logout or even a restart you still can continue at that dialog and remove the file.


Is it possible to restore individual app data (over iCloud)?

This is reasonably possible with a little configuration work on your old iPod Touch. The key will be to turn off everything except what you want on your new iPhone. Also, there is some possibility that miscellaneous settings and such will sync over. However, we should have control of basically everything.

Another important note is that the restore cannot be done after you set it up as a new device without re-wiping the device. iCloud, unfortunately, doesn't allow selective restore, but it does allow selective backup.

What you will need to do is open your Settings app on your iPod Touch and select "iCloud". Go down through that first list and disable everything there. I'd probably leave "Photostream", "Documents and Data", as well as "Find my iPhone" enabled. If you would like "Contacts", "Calendars" and such synced over, go ahead and leave those switches on as well.

Next go down and select "Storage and Backup" > "Manage Storage". Leave all the Documents and Data enabled there - those will only be referenced/downloaded if you have the applicable app. But, if you desired, you could disable some of these as well.

Now select your iPod above "Documents and Data" and start working through the list. Turn off everything you don't want, and leave on anything you want. This could take several minutes as you will have to choose to delete all the unneeded data.

If you happen to turn off a switch accidentally that you want left on, turn it back on and perform a manual backup. That should re-send the data to iCloud.

Again, while this may happen to sync things that you didn't really want restored - like settings - I can't think of anything that would do that. Either way, this is the control we have.

After all the above is complete, wipe the iPhone 5, restore it from your iPod Touch backup, and configure your iPhone 5 to backup. You can now go through and re-enable everything on your iPod Touch as it will be listed as a different backup and will no longer affect your iPhone's current data situation.

And, of course, congratulations on your new iPhone


Neither dock or bar appears on external monitor when I move an app to it How can I fix it?

I have a secondary monitor hooked up to my iMac, take a look at "System Preferences > Displays", does it match the screenshot I have attached?

You can move the blue rectangles (screens) by clicking and dragging to the desired position, the same applies to the "bar" at the top of the screen

Hope this helps


New Notes Will Not Sync From Mac to iPhone or iCloud

I had the same problem, and found out how to solve it. The default account for notes on the mac is "On My Mac" you want it to be "iCloud".

How to make that happen:

open the notes app
click on notes in the notes.app menubar
set default account to "iCloud". (You can also click help and search for default account to find the option.)


Performing unit conversions in Spotlight

There isn't really any way to customize the Spotlight menu or add features to it.

I know it would be nicer to display the results inline, but it doesn't take that long to search with Google either:

There are some Alfred extensions that use Google's calculator API or Wolfram Alpha's API, but they display the results as notifications, so you can't copy them as text.


New battery installation in the Macbook Pro

It is a new battery.

The cycle count is a chip on the battery it self, if you move battery from one Mac to another the cycle count goes with it.

You only have about 2 hours left because you are consuming  3324 mA (which is high consumption). That value can go up is you reduce the consumption.

Fully charged Capacity is 8391 mAh. (new battery have that)

That value goes lower over the life of battery.

Charge reaming 4730 mAh. (this also tell you the battery charge status) in %. (56%)

That value will drop with the speed that depends on consumption.

You do not need 3D party app to find out about your battery.


Caps lock key response delay on Apple Wireless Keyboard

Sadly, ends up the delay is built into the keyboard hardware, so it’s still there even if you remap the Caps Lock key to some other function, such as Control.


How to use Internet Sharing AND File Sharing?

Internet sharing on MacPro1 is acting as a router and doing NAT. The protocol used for discovery of other Macs on the 192.168.2.x network probably doesn't cross routers, which is normally what you want on a local network. The best way to fix this is to put an Ethernet switch or hub between MacPro1 and AirportExpress. Then plug both MacPro1 and MacPro2 into the switch.

If you don't want to use additional hardware (the original question didn't mention this), you need some way to get bonjour (OSX's discovery protocol) across the NAT/Routing function of Internet Sharing. There a few of Bonjour proxy/forwarder-type applications and IIRC, the "Sharing" system preferences has a global mode. Finally you might look into implimenting your own DNS Service Discovery server.

Unfortunately, I don't have experience with any of these.  I guess this isn't really an answer, but maybe it'll point you in the right direction.


Do I have to reinstall XQuartz every time I upgrade MacOS?

Not really - the tool is one that's very command line - run and bind against the specific OS that it's installed in.

I realize this may not be the answer you like, but I'm actually floored it keeps working as long as it has. Here's to hoping this is our main complaint on this tool.


El Capitan - when is the last iPhone backup?

The panel is still there and hasn't moved.

Select your iPhone in the toolbar.

The latest backup times and locations are shown under Latest Backup.

The version of iTunes is independent of the version of OS X. Image Capture has by no means replaced Photos and was part of OS X long before iPhoto (the predecessor to Photos.app).


There are Three Methods to Share internet from iPhone to other devices as per my knowledge.

Method 1 : Via Hotspot

On your iPhone tap the Settings app. This may be located in a folder labeled "Utilities."
Tap the Cellular option.
Toggle Cellular Data ON if it isn't. This will need to be enabled in order to turn on the wireless hotspot.
Tap Set Up Personal Hotspot

  This button only appears if you've never used the personal hotspot before.

  After setting up your personal hotspot for the first time, the Personal Hotspot option will appear in the main Settings list.

Click the Networks button in Windows. You'll see this in the System Tray in the lower-right corner of the screen.
Turn on Wi-fi and Connect to the network displayed with the password shown on iPhone.

Method 2 : Via USB Tethering

Install iTunes on your computer.

  If you're tethering your iPhone to a Windows computer, the computer will need to have iTunes installed in order to connect.

Tap the Settings app on your iPhone. You can find this on one of your Home screens, or in the Utilities folder.
Tap the Cellular option.
Toggle Cellular Data on. You'll need this enabled in order to share your iPhone's internet with your computer.
Tap Set Up Personal Hotspot option.
Plug your iPhone into your computer's USB port.

  you will see a prompt how to share the internet ( over USB only or wifi and bluetooth as well )

Click the Network button on your computer. In Windows, you'll find this in the System Tray.
You can now setup iPhone as a new network.

  Click your iPhone to select it as your computer's network. Your computer will now use your iPhone's internet connection as you browse the internet.

Method 3 : Via Bluetooth

Follow same steps till turning on Hotspot
go back to settings menu
Toggle Bluetooth
on Windows: Click the Bluetooth button in your System Tray. If you don't have a Bluetooth icon, your Windows computer may not have a Bluetooth adapter installed.
Click "Join a Personal Area Network."
Click the "Add a device" button. This can be found at the top of the window.
Click your iPhone.

  Don't Close this Window.

Tap Pair on your iPhone. You may be prompted to enter a code that is displayed on the other device.
Return to the Devices and Printers window.
Right-click on your iPhone.
Highlight "Connect using" and then click "Access point." Your Windows PC will now use your iPhone's internet connection over Bluetooth.


Mac OS X Messages and Facetime Started Failing

The best answer so far (weeks after the problem) was at https://discussions.apple.com/message/27149499#27149499 The gist of it is a corrupt keychain. I'll copy paste the steps for a fix here but I advise to read the actual thread over at Apple Discussions and have backups.

Here are the steps:

Open Key Chain Access
Select Login at the top left side
Select All Items on the lower left side
Search for entries of IDS.
Highlight and delete all entries that has IDS. (For me I am going to
need to re-install my RSA SecurID Software Token)
Search for entries of FaceTime
Highlight and delete all entries of FaceTime
Search for entries of Messages
Highlight and delete all entries of Messages

I hope this helps.


It is good you mentioned the Check Battery Warning since that is your problem.

Mac will cut down the CPU speed to 1/2 if the battery is not up to snuff.

Your SMC reset will ratify the issue for a while, but since the battery is on the verge, it will eventually trigger the cutting the CPU Speed/Power consumption to 1/2 of normal. You see that as computer slowdown.

If you want to verify my claim there is a CPU test made by Intel to check the CPU and do that during the slow times as comparison to when it is fast.

Download it, and yes you can keep it :)

Here is a sample what it looks like on my MBA.


iMessage entries appearing in wrong order

The entries should be displayed in time stamp order.  That fact that your are not just occasionally wrong but seemingly always wrong suggests that you or the receiving end has a problem with their date and time settings.

If one of your phones is out by just a few minutes, I would expect this problem only to crop up if you are replying to each other quite quickly.  If many messages can go by before switching from sender to receiver, then there could be a wider gap.

Check out Settings > General > Date & Time and check if you or the other phone have manually set a date or time that could be different from each other.  If you both use Set Automatically it should prevent these problems. Check your timezone also.


Is there a config option to maximize widows that are minimized when you select them via cmd+tab

I am not certain that this addresses the problem but still: after you ⌘+⇥ to desired application then without releasing ⌘ press ↓ (down arrow) or ↑ (up arrow). This will display all windows of this application. Those which are minimized are displayed in smaller size. You can navigate to desired window using arrow keys and then press ⏎ to bring it up.


iPhone "Other" storage still present after Erase All Content and Settings

I understand you haven't installed a single app, but the list shows Self Service, the client side app to a mobile-device-management solution. This is not part of iOS and is a separately installed app. MDM lets the administrator place any files on your iPhone, so it is possible that the space is consumed by data provided through MDM. You can contact your administrator.


Moving the treeview to the left side in QuollEyeTree

Your comments got me thinking, and I knocked up a vertically oriented view.
This works, but hasn't been through a full testing cycle.

I will probably include this in the full version, with options for either mode. This will require another set of changes to allow independent configuration of both modes.

EDIT
I included the vertically oriented view as an option in the normal Beta
http://binnie.id.au/Downloads/QuollEyeTree-2.03.dmg


Is there an alternative App to Mail on iPad?

A solution would be to use Gmail web app and add it to the dashboard.

The iPad web interface is pretty nice, I believe it works offline, too. One of the main problem is that there's no new mail notification.


Which websites provide alternative listing of Mac App Store content?

AppsOnSale is a Mac app that shows an alternative listing of apps than the MAS.


Why won't my Apple Software Updater connect to Apple?

I'd try downloading a full copy of iTunes rather than trying to update it: http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/


launchd initiated process receiving signal 15 (TERM)

In the past when I need to diagnose something like this I've used the kill.d script from Brendan Gregg:

dtrace:::BEGIN
{
    /* Print header */
    printf("%5s %12s %5s %-6s %s\n","FROM","COMMAND","SIG","TO","RESULT");
}

syscall::kill:entry
{
    /* Record target PID and signal */
    self->target = arg0;
    self->signal = arg1;
}

syscall::kill:return
{
    /* Print source, target, and result */
    printf("%5d %12s %5d %-6d %d\n",
     pid,execname,self->signal,self->target,(int)arg0);

    /* Cleanup memory */
    self->target = 0;
    self->signal = 0;
}

Running it and then running killall Finder in another shell results in:

[user@fozzy Scripts]$ sudo kill.d.sh
 FROM      COMMAND   SIG TO         RESULT
  155      launchd    15 4294900609 -1
66872      killall    15 66687      0

Which tells you what (killall at PID 66872 with Signal 15) killed which process (in this case, 66687 my then-running instance of the Finder) and the result. It does slow down the system somewhat while running, but should provide you with the results you need - just make a note of your Finder PID before hand, and then let it run (either while you are working, or overnight to avoid disrupting your work) and look to see what killed that PID.


How to change the cmd-h command to cmd-e

You can do this with BetterTouch Tool (free) or Keyboard Maestro (paid).

In BetterTouchTool:

Choose the Keyboard tab
Create a new global action with shortcut ⌘E and action ⌘H


AppleTV Air Mirroring: does the signal go through the WIFI router?

Two different AirPlay devices exist:

AirPlay transmitters (such as iPhone/iPad/iPod/iTunes)
AirPlay receivers (Apple TV, AirPort Express and audio system with built-in AirPlay)

Apple TV will connect to your WiFi modem to get Internet access.

It will also connect to your computer (without modem) for Airplay/mirroring.

It could also connect true the AirPort Express modem if you have it set up for that. Check what settings do you have in this article.


Eventually sussed it - if anyone comes here in future, you want to install KSDiff (also available from the Kaleidoscope site), then go to the External Diff Tools tab in Storm, and set it up as:

External Compare Tool: /usr/local/bin/ksdiff
Parameters: %1 %2

Then open Kaleidoscope and leave it running - if you don't, nothing will happen.


2009 MacBook Air: I can, and want to, purchase an SSD upgrade, but what about Mavericks > Sierra?

Replaicing your rather slow spinning HD with an SSD will certainly make your Mac faster. In fact its the one upgrade that will give you a noticeable speed bump. Other things can give you some speed like RAM (not an option for you) but the SSD is a great upgrade.

That said Apple does not support upgrading to Sierra (though there are hacks that will allow you to do so, which is beyond the scope of this site.)

The only way to see if it is to slow for your intended usage is to try it and see. Personally, 2gb of RAM is considered pretty small these days and I would be hesitant to upgrade the OS because of that. But depending on your use case it might be acceptible with the addition of an SSD which should speed things up considerably.


How to stop iTunes from automatically downloading purchased TV shows?

Ultimately, I was able to stop iTunes from automatically downloading TV shows with the following steps:

With iTunes open select iTunes > Preferences... and click the Store tab
If checked, uncheck checkbox Always check for available downloads
If checked, uncheck checkbox Download pre-orders when available
Click the OK button, and close iTunes
Remove the contents of your Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Downloads directory. You should be able to do that through Finder or by following these steps:

Open Applications > Utilities > Terminal.app
Type rm -rf ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Downloads/* then press <Enter>to delete the plist file along with all of the downloads of TV shows. (Note: this method removes the files permanently, which is fine since the next step re-downloads them.)

Re-open iTunes. There shouldn't be TV shows automatically downloading any longer when you open iTunes. Breath. Relax. Rejoice.


The key is to change the main Apple ID email address or add an alternate email address instead of creating a new Apple ID altogether.

If you logon to appleid.apple.com, you can change your primary email address. There really aren't many big repercussions, and as long as you don't create a new Apple ID you will have access to all of your previously purchased content.

If you have friends that iMessage your @gmail.com email address you will need to add that email as an alternate email address - something you can do from  appleid.apple.com.

What is interesting is that you can use your @me.com email address right now to sign into your devices. It is added as an alternate email address automatically. When you log in to appleid.apple.com you will notice that under your primary email address is an "Alternate Apple ID". This is probably your @me.com or @icloud.com email address. So, you can use that email address and your current Apple ID password to sign in to your Apple ID - either will work.

Note that you can't login to your Apple ID with your "Alternate Email Addresses", but you can iMessage from your "Alternate Email addresses".


PackageMaker is unsupported by Apple and would not of been updated to work on newer versions of OS X, most likely the cause of your problem.

The answer to PackageMaker alternative? seems to provide an alternative pkgbuild.


How can I enable search by filename in finder on Lion

You can add tokens like this by typing name: before the search phrase or selecting Filename contains from the suggestion list:


Locate phone with Find My iPhone without locking it

Yes, sure - so long as the phone can currently find a net connection.

Either from another iPhone, using the Find my iPhone app & entering your own Apple ID, or from the website - https://www.icloud.com/#find

It will show on the map & give you options to Play Sound - useful if it's somewhere near you, down the back of the sofa, in a coat pocket etc, or more seriously if it's been stolen or lost you can set Lost Mode or Wipe all data.


Mac won't boot; get the Apple logo then it becomes a prohibitory symbol

This means that the Mac can't find a valid startup folder to boot from.

The solution to this is to reinstall OS X – power up your Mac while holding down Cmd-R, then select Reinstall OS X (or Utilities -> Reinstall OS X).
Depending on what version of Mac OS X, you will want to select "Archive and Install" if you want to preserve your files. Follow the onscreen prompts to reinstall Mac OS X.

If you have a backup disk for your Mac, that's a bonus just in case the installation goes wrong.


iPad Air 2 keeps losing Continuity features, requiring restart

I've found that the Continuity features are more reliable in iOS 11.


Lost Windows Bootcamp boot entry after resizing the partition

There are ways to create a bootable Windows installer thumb drive. The problem is you can not use this thumb drive with your computer. The software that searches the USB ports for bootable flash drives is part of the the firmware located on the main logic board. This firmware is not part of the OS X (macOS) operating system. Even though the firmware for the 2011 iMac can boot OS X (macOS) and certain Linux versions from a thumb drive, the Windows 7 installer can not be booted this way. The best option is to use original internal optical (DVD) drive. I would recommend a RW DVD which takes longer to burn, but is reusable.

If the Windows partition is intact, there are three main reasons you can not boot Windows. These reasons are listed below and apply to Mac computers which are booting Windows using the BIOS method.

The values in the partition tables are wrong. There are two partition
tables. The first is the legacy Master Boot Record (MBR) table and
the second is the newer GUID Partition Table (GPT). The bootable
Windows partition must exist in both of these tables. The MBR table is stored at the beginning of the drive, followed by the GPT header and array of partition entries. There is also a backup copy of this GPT header and array at the end of the drive.
The MBR does not contain the correct code needed to boot Windows. The
BIOS boot methods reads at least the first 512 bytes stored on the
boot drive into memory and execute the code contained in this 512
bytes. These bytes are referred to as the MBR which also contains the
MBR table. This code reads the MBR table and determines which
partition to boot Window from. If this code is missing or incorrect,
Windows will not boot.
Finally, the Windows Boot Configuration Data (BCD) is missing or
contains the wrong data. If a change is made to your computer or if
the Windows partition is moved regardless if within the same or to
different computer, the BCD may need to be corrected or simply
recreated. As far as I know, this can only be done (without using a
third party tool) by booting from proper Windows installation media.
In your case this would be a DVD containing the Windows installation
software.

The output from the fdisk command shows the MBR table contains some incorrect values. This output should have appeared as shown below.

users-iMac:~ user$ sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Disk: /dev/disk0    geometry: 121601/255/63 [1953525168 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
 2: AF 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [    409640 - 1168862256] HFS+
 3: AB 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [1169271896 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [1170541432 -  782721552] HPFS/QNX/AUX

Basically, your forth partition (where Windows resides) has the wrong id (partition type) and is not flaged as active (bootable).

The MBR table can be corrected by using the fdisk command. This command is interactive. An example the the necessary command line entries is shown below.

users-iMac:~ user$ sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
Password:
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> e 4
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 4: 0B 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [1170541432 -  782721552] Win95 FAT-32
Partition id ('0' to disable)  [0 - FF]: [B] (? for help) 7
Do you wish to edit in CHS mode? [n]
Partition offset [0 - 1953525168]: [1170541432]
Partition size [1 - 782721552]: [782721552]
fdisk:*1> f 4
Partition 4 marked active.
fdisk:*1> q
Writing current MBR to disk.
Device could not be accessed exclusively.
A reboot will be needed for changes to take effect. OK? [n] y
users-iMac:~ user$

NOTE: For you can just hit a return instead of entering values for the entries shown below. This will instruct fdisk to use the default values. This is what I did in the above example.

Do you wish to edit in CHS mode? [n]
Partition offset [0 - 1953525168]: [1170541432]
Partition size [1 - 782721552]: [782721552]

If you have System Integrity Protect (SIP) enabled, you may have to temporarily disable SIP in order to execute the fdisk command.

If after correcting the MBR table your Mac will not boot Windows, we can try to determine if the other causes listed above may also be at fault.


Deleting an Entire Line Moving Forward Shortcut

You can use Control ⌃-K to do this. This is one of the many key bindings that OS X borrows from emacs by default. Others include Control ⌃-A to go to the beginning of a line, Control ⌃-E to go to the end of a line, and Control ⌃-D as an alternate forward-delete.


One thing to check is if you have enabled  Assistive Touch or Switch Control.

These are enabled and disabled in the Settings app:
 -> General -> Accessibility


Mirror iPad camera to two projectors (simultaneously)

As other commenters have already said, it doesn't seem to be possible to AirPlay a display to two targets at once.

Option 1)

The best solution I can think of would be to run something like AirServer on a Mac or PC. Attach the computer to both projectors and have it mirror the display. AirServer will make the computer a valid AirPlay target and you'll be able to mirror your iPad's display to it (and thus see it on both projectors simultaneously).

Option 2)

You could also buy an HDMI splitter and two long HDMI cables. That way you could AirPlay your iPad's screen to an Apple TV and have the Apple TV output to both projectors simultaneously.

Option 3)

I believe it's also possible to connect some projectors to a network (eg: via Ethernet or Wi-Fi), so perhaps you could look into that? You may be able to create an AirPlay endpoint on your network (perhaps with a tool like the aforementioned AirServer) and then direct its output to your network-connected projectors.

Option 4)

You could browse the App Store for an app which streams camera input from an iOS device to the network. You could essentially turn the iPad into a streaming HTTP server and then have any number of devices tune into it. Then you could attach an iPad, iPhone, Apple TV, computer (or anything, really) to each projector and have them stream from the source iPad (eg: By visiting the URL for the source iPad's stream in a web browser like Safari or a video player like VLC). This has the advantage of not requiring any long cables, although you'd need a solid Wi-Fi connection.


How do I connect my iMac to a Windows SMB share drive

This answer assumes a few things:

your iMac is already connected to the network (most likely via ethernet)
that your credentials are all setup (based on your question, they are)
that you’ve been given the host address for the share drive

To connect to the share drive, you should only have to:

Make sure the Finder is active
Press commandK (or, in the top menubar, click on Go and select the Connect to Server… option)
A Connect to Server window will appear with a Server Address field
In this field enter the host address (it should start with smb://)
Click on the Connect button
You should now be connected and able to access all the files via the Finder

Note: - If you’re not already connected to the network, or you require different credentials for this share drive, then after Step 5 you may be prompted to enter your username and password.

[EDIT]

If you do have to enter your username and password, it's likely you will need to enter the username in the form of "DOMAIN\username" where "DOMAIN" is the name of your Active Directory domain. If you're unsure of this, your IT helpdesk should be able to tell you.


Single byte memtest errors — possible to tell which RAM chip is defective?

Not from that utility.  You’d need to see how the chips were laid out and what the addressing scheme was.  Since Apple doesn’t provide this, you’d be guessing.

Since these chips are soldered, they can’t be (user) replaced unless you take it to a shop that does SMT rework.

Keep in mind it could also be the memory “controller” that handles the addressing of the memory that’s has also failed.  Usually when this work is done, all chips are replaced.


Ubiquity process root certificate not valid

The certificates are probably self signed certificates that get generated to make each mac unique and avoid sending data in the clear between macs and macs/apple servers performing iCloud services.

As for the processes you mentioned, these belong to iCloud and back to my mac location services and are part of a normal installation of Lion. You'd need to checksum / verify binaries to be sure you are safe, but the presence of them shouldn't be startling as they are normal processes on Macs.


SafariBookmarksSyncAgent makes new iMac freeze

I found a solution that worked for me.  It involved updating the permissions for my home directory, as indicated in the following article:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203538


I think this is a feature for web developers called "paint flashing".

Right-click on a blank bit of a page and select "Inspect Element", this will open the Web Inspector in Safari.

In the top-right corner of the Web Inspector there are a few icons. One looks like a paint brush. On your machine I bet it is selected.

Click it to turn it off.


iPhone 6 Plus Touch ID Sensor developing oily-like "rainbow colors" on its surface

There is a layer between the sensor and the glass that covers it, sometimes liquids can get in depending on pressure. It looks like an oily substance has seeped in between the sensor and the glass and no cleaning agent will therefore work (I was going to suggests isopropyl alcohol).

Try your warranty first, it's a cheap replacement at your local shaman otherwise.


Is there a OS X equivalent for iproute2?

iproute2mac
https://github.com/brona/iproute2mac

is available on brew so far


iPhone not reacting when connected to electricity

What type of cable are you using? I've seen similar behaviour with

Poor quality third-party Lightning cables
A poor quality USB charger

I think there must be some form of 'leakage' which affects the working of the touch screen when using some sub-standard chargers/cables. I'd suggest either changing your cable or charger and seeing if that helps.


Is there a way to setup Yahoo mail for push with iOS5?

Yes Yahoo mail supports push, but failing sometimes. This is how to enable it:

Go to "Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendars"
Tap "Fetch New Data"
Slide "Push" to ON (you can select Fetch period whatever you like)
Also from "Fetch New Data" page, tap "Advanced" and see that Yahoo! mail account has Push text on the right

It is easy to do, but sometimes Yahoo push just doesn't work.


Why did an "Untitled" partition appear that uses up half the disc space and how do I get rid of it?

You only have bookkeeping files on that partition. Unless there are hidden files, you can delete it and expand the / partition to get all the space to use.

sudo ls -laOR /Volumes/Untitled

As to why, that might be hard to guess unless someone was contemplating Bootcamp or making a RAID and needed to reduce the size to match the other disk.

To delete it, Disk Utility is the easiest method to resize the main partition once you've deleted the Untitled one. Just read the dialog carefully on which partition's data will be erased and which will remain before pressing OK in the dialogs.

You can learn more here:

How to resize Macintosh HD?

The command you might need to do that from the command line without prompts asking if it's OK (so be sure to back everything up on the mac first) would be:

diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ "Macintosh HD2" disk222s2 disk222s3

I made the command use disk222s2 to avoid it working on all reasonable setups. If your second drive was disk2 that held the splits, you would substitute disk2s2 disk2s3 after checking the s2 and s3 parts matched the volumes to merge.


How to connect Macbook Pro 2015 and 2 x Dell U2518D monitors

No, you do not need Mac drivers for this monitor to function.

I think the problem is your cable. I would suggest using the cable that came with the monitor to connect the laptop and the display. That cable is a Mini DisplayPort to DisplayPort cable. If this is actually the cable you've used (and not HDMI as you mention), then try getting an alternative cable to test with.

All you need to do is to plug that cable into the laptop and the monitor, and you should get a picture. You might need to set the input on the monitor to Mini DisplayPort if you have disabled the auto function.

If that fails to work with a good cable, try rebooting the laptop with the cable plugged in. That should definitely not be necessary, but just to test out every option.


This problem has been solved recently elsewhere in the forum:

How to add characters to the press and hold character picker in OS X Lion?


Honestly... that's messed up to the point where you should just start from scratch.
Apple is part way through a several year process to transition from HFS+ to APFS (and other related technologies like Core Storage), which has added a whole bunch of complexity to the low level filesystem layer of the operating system. Some things have been removed from the GUI and can only be done by command line for now, and if I'm honest, you just can't trust either the GUI or the command line to do anything without data loss.
I assume you already have a backup? Make a separate backup from your main backup, erase the hard drive, and start over. Use APFS and if you don't need boot camp, get rid of it (I prefer virtual machines personally). It's time to format the entire disk, remove all partitions, and do a clean install - restoring from your backup.
Get rid of the "data" partition for your home directory. It's not the best practice anymore especially on APFS. Some new features that work better if you give it the whole disk. And the last thing you want during a multi-year filesystem transition is to do anything "out of the ordinary".
If you can, I would hold off on this until the current beta release of macOS is available as a stable build (in a few months maybe?). That includes yet another new approach to splitting the disk into "containers" (which are similar to partitions). I haven't verified this personally, but I've heard it's something like one for recovery, one for the core operating system, another for user data (including stuff outside the home folder). Of course, how it works on the beta might not be how it works on the stable release.
If you really don't want to use a virtual machine for windows, I strongly encourage buying a Mac with two physical SSD drives and run Windows on the second. Or if you're on a laptop, get a good external SSD for bootcamp (this is a bit tricky to setup, but it can be done).


Collect data on CPU usage per core at regular time intervals?

There is a tool that can collect this information called glances, which is a command line based monitoring tool that can track all sorts of parameters.
It can be installed via homebrew:
brew install glances

You may need to tinker with the options to get something you're happy with, or parse the data downstream with a different tool, but it can output timestamped, percpu usage (in 60 second intervals) in the following way:
glances --stdout now,percpu --time 60

The results aren't quite what you outlined, but the output can be processed with other tools to get them into a format that you can use.


How to connect Macbook pro's Retina screen with my Mac mini?

As far as I'm aware, it's not possible to run a Macbook Pro in Target Display Mode, only iMacs.

Ref: Apple KB - Target Display Mode: Frequently Asked Questions

BTW, VGA or Ethernet to Thunderbolt is a physical impossibility.
Your cables must be  Thunderbolt to VGA / Ethernet.


What does 'automatically check for newly published albums'  in Aperture mean?

This searches your online Facebook and Flickr account for any images that have been uploaded since your last Aperture upload. If there are new images in your Facebook or Flikcr albums these will be catalogued into Aperture.


Batch change creation dates based on file names

Bash parameter expansion will work:

for f in *; do
    t="${f#* }"
    t="${t%%.*}"
    t="${t:0:4}${t:5:2}${t:8:2}${t:11:2}${t:13:2}.${t:15:2}"
    touch -t $t "$f"
done

t="${f#* }" strips off the part before  (< the first space)
t="${t%%.*}" strips off the part after .
t="${t:0:4}${t:5:2}${t:8:2}${t:11:2}${t:13:2}.${t:15:2}" formats the content of the date variable (t) for touch which requires the following format: [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS].

And as one-liner:

for f in *; do t="${f#* }"; t="${t%%.*}"; t="${t:0:4}${t:5:2}${t:8:2}${t:11:2}${t:13:2}.${t:15:2}"; touch -t $t "$f"; done


Can I restore a Snow Leopard backup onto a Lion machine?

It's not complicated at all. I can't point to a current Lion Apple support doc but I just moved my old snow leopard time machine backup to my new Lion install.

Simply launch Migration Assistant, select your Time Machine backup and select which settings and users to copy. It doesn't care that your backup is a Snow Leopard backup.

For more information here is an article about how to use Migration Assistant in Snow Leopard. It is virtually the same in Lion.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/27921.html


Why was my 2016 MacBook Pro keyboard illuminated when I woke up?

haven't had this issue again. must have just been a bug.


Can I use 2 harddisks to backup using time machine (not duplicate, but to extend)

Yes - there are two ways to do this.

Apple intends and designed Time Machine to work with disks in a sequential manner. You are expected to fill up the first disk and put it on the shelf. Then attach the second and fill it up. You can then go back to the first and this lets you have more history before the oldest backup is reclaimed due to space running out.

An alternative is to use Mac OS X built in RAID functionality. You will have to erase all the disks when you put them into a RAID the first time - but you can have two disks with half the data written to each every time a file gets written. This is striping or RAID 0.

Using a RAID would mean both drives need to be connected all the time. You would then have one large backup and since Time Machine won't be saving two copies of many files - you will get much longer time for storage using a RAID than the first method of using the drives sequentially. If your boot drive is almost full - I've seen times where the first method could store a month or two of history, but years would fit on the second method. It really depends what files you have and how often they change.


It is unlikely either your Mac or iPhone was used to send the e-mail. Regrettably it is difficult to protect yourself from this problem.

See Receiving spam from myself for a related question and answers about this subject. For a more technical overview, start with this spoof email search of the StackExchange network.

Spoofed E-mails

How Spammers Spoof Your Email Address (and How to Protect Yourself) – article from LifeHacks in 2014 helps explain the sitation:

  Most of us know spam when we see it, but seeing a strange email from a friend—or worse, from ourselves—in our inbox is pretty disconcerting. If you've seen an email that looks like it's from a friend, it doesn't mean they've been hacked. Spammers spoof those addresses all the time, and it's not hard to do. Here's how they do it, and how you can protect yourself.

  Spammers have been spoofing email addresses for a long time. Years ago, they used to get contact lists from malware-infected PCs. Today's data thieves choose their targets carefully, and phish them with messages that look like they came from friends, trustworthy sources, or even their own account.


This information is readily available online if you know what to search for. Specifically "Subnet Calculator."

24 in that context is sometimes referred to that way but really it is the number of bits in the netmask.

Honestly your question could easily be closed as your question does not have enough detail to make it specifically about an Apple product or service.

Please edit your question to give all of the details of what exactly you are doing and what results you are getting and what results you need/want. That may help to answer your question.


Go to "Messages -> Preferences..." (or hit Cmd + ,)
From there, select the "Messages" tab from the row of icons at the top
At the bottom of that pane are four checkboxes, the topmost of which says "Save history when conversations are closed". Make sure that checkbox is deselected, and you should be good to go.


Connecting Thunderbolt 2 Mac to Thunderbolt 3 Display, what is the maximum resolution@100hz , will USB 3.0 work?

Yes in general. I use the same adapter to run all manner of USB-C and Thunderbolt 3 displays from 2013 Mac Pro and MacBook Air and Pro from the same era. You don’t get any extra resolution than the Mac could drive originally using adapters that shipped when the Mac in question was brand new.
I’m delighted with 5k displays running over the Thunderbolt 2 and all USB and Thunderbolt hubs I have tested work at full Thunderbolt 2 speed. Since USB-C and 3.0 is less speed than Thunderbolt - they all work fine in my experience.


Apple ID or password entered incorrectly

Sometimes the servers go down. If you try again in a couple of hours you may find that everything is back to normal.

I have had this happen on a few occasions.


~/Library/Safari/Form Values is a plist file, but it's encrypted with AES-128. The encryption key is stored in the System Keychain as Safari Forms AutoFill.

You can decrypt this file with the decryption tool found here:

http://encase-forensic-blog.guidancesoftware.com/2013/06/safari-form-values-decryptor.html
Decrypt Safari's Form Values file


Is there a GUI viewer of databases created by Database Events?

I ended up creating my own: https://github.com/dtrebbien/Songs-Database-Viewer

In my case, the database is a simple database of songs, where each record has "Artist Name" and "Song Title" fields, so my Songs Database Viewer just has two columns for those fields. Though, Songs Database Viewer is adaptable to other schemas by adding more table columns in Interface Builder and setting the identifiers of the table columns to the field names.

Alternatively, a Database Events database is based on SQLite3, so the DBEV file can be opened with the command line sqlite3 utility. On Lion, the two important tables are ZRECORD and ZFIELD. Each row in ZRECORD corresponds to a Database Events record and each row in ZFIELD corresponds to a Database Events field.


Right, all the useful info is...

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4646963 (but the thread is closed)

https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Magic+Trackpad+Rubber+Replacement-Reinsertion/16825

I may have just fixed this...

I gently lifted the white rear away from the metal case with a tiny flat-head screwdriver, from the side. You need to be careful not to break off the catch that hooks the white rear to the metal case at the bottom end of the device, above the hole pictured.

I put the button bit back in the rubber foot and was able to push them through the opening with the same screwdriver, back in to the hole and let the white rear go back over it.

This was without really lifting the white rear catch out of the metal case.


Bluetooth controls from Notification Center on iPad

I just had a browse through the Cydia app and I found iTether w/OnDemand and it also has a SBSetting toggle to go with it.

Now it is $5, so I am not goign to buy and try, but seeing your question it seems to solve what you want to achieve:-)


Disable HTML5 video auto-play in OS X Safari?

This seems to work for me (macOS Sierra 10.12.2, Safari 10.0.2), courtesy of jeffreyv in an Apple Support thread:

In the Terminal, enter:

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1

That enables the Debug menu in Safari. Then tick this menu item on:

Debug -> Media Flags -> Video Needs User Action


Apple Mail, how do I hide the Archive folder?

So here's kind of crappy workaround, but as for me it worth it. The solution requires one external useless email, say useless@mail.com, maybe fresh generated or some old one.

Starting settings: You have several mail boxes that is shown in Archive parent mail box. So the Archive box shows as extendable one, e.g. with the arrow that allows to expand it to see included mail boxes.

In some useful mail account, say useful@mail.com, in the web interface create some additional folder, like "arch" make sure that it available by imap.
In the "System Settings" -> "Internet Accounts" add some additional useless email account.
Check that it shows in mail.app
In the Mail "Preferences" -> Accounts -> useful@mail.com choose "arch folder as the Archive one.
In that point you're should have extendable Archive folder in mail.app (like any other Folder which have subfolders).
Expand Archive folder to see what subfolders it have.
Select the one that are from useful account, hit right click and select "delete mail box".
After mail.app have been reload its state you should have non extendable Archive folder again. (If this is not true — make steps above till it will be). And the only one mail box in it is the useless one.
Completely delete useless mail account from system.
Restart mail.app and there's none Archive folder.


Is there an alternative client for Homebrew?

As far as I know, there exist no other implementations of HomeBrew than the standard one.
I doubt that the main cause of any wait times is due to the fact that it is programmed in Ruby. Such a program does not "magically" become faster just by being implemented in C. It is of course fully possible for other implementations to be faster, however one could also fear that for example an implementation in C would be more prone to security bugs.


Those specifications and those of the cable and monitor indicate that it should work.

You could try resetting the SMC on that Mac by shutting down the Mac holding down the Shift+Control+Option keys and the Power button at the same time. Wait 15 sec and then turn it back on.

Failing that you could start in Safe Mode by holding the shift key while booting (booting will take a lot longer) and try plugging in the monitor then.

Failing those I would try another adapter, preferably one with an all digital signal path like a Mini Displayport to HDMI or DVI-D


Computer playing sound from a TV commercial. How does this happen

I opened activity monitor and checked it whenever the sound started playing. Dashboard started using a lot of computer resources when this occurred. I inadvertently copied something to the dashboard that would play these soundtracks. I deleted 2 files there that I knew nothing about and that solved my problem.


Disk image creation from folder: error 28 - no space left on device

Well...
It seems that APFS and/or iCloud Drive has killed the ability to create a disk image from an entire disk...
I tried lots of things, even Disk Utility's Restore in a freshly-created disk-image failed.

So I did it the hard way, with the terminal

Creation of a disk image (lot bigger than the drive) hdiutil create -size 500g -fs HFS+ -volname Clone\ Macintosh\ HD /Volumes/WD\ 1To/Clone\ MBA.dmg
Mounting the disk image
hdiutil attach /Volumes/WD\ 1To/Clone\ MBA.dmg
Note the /dev/disk_s_ path to unmount it
Save the disk with RSYNC (options and exclusions found on the internet)
sudo rsync -vaEx /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/ /Volumes/Clone\ Macintosh\ HD --exclude=/Volumes/* --exclude=/Network/* --exclude=/automount/* --exclude=/dev/* --exclude=/private/tmp/* --exclude=/private/var/run/* --exclude=/private/var/spool/postfix/* --exclude=/private/var/vm/* --exclude=.Spotlight-*/ --exclude=.Trashes --exclude=*/.Trash --exclude=/afs/* --exclude=/cores/*
The result was bigger than the original drive (probably due to APFS which have some tricks to not duplicate data when copying a file, and certainly due to the saving of documents that are on iCloud Drive but not really on the disk: icons with a cloud badge)
Detach the image hdiutil detach /dev/disk3s2
Then I tried to shrink the disk image from the command-line, but neither hdiutil compact, not hdiutil resize worked (errors)
Then I tried to resize with Disk Utility, but it didn't work too (disk utility claimed it was done, but the size didn't change at all)
So I converted the image to read-only with Disk Utility (in fact, it duplicated the image), and now I have a shrinked disk-image of my entire startup disk!

Lot of wasted time, it used to be easyer


Upgrading OpenSSL without linking and workarounds

You have two versions of OpenSSL installed. There is one that is distributed as part of the operating system, and one that Homebrew has installed. They live at different locations on your Mac.

The Heartbleed bug was introduced to OpenSSL with version 1.0.1. The last version that Apple shipped with OS X is version 0.9.8. So you don't need to update the version that is bundled with the operating system to compensate for Heartbleed, 0.9.8 is not affected by the bug. And if similar bugs are found in the future that do affect 0.9.8 then Apple will release a patch to fix them.

Homebrew has installed its own version either because you asked it to or because it needed it to for another piece of software. The version that Homebrew has installed (1.0.2l) includes the fix for Heartbleed. So you don't need to do anything to compensate for Heartbleed there either.

In general though, you should run brew outdated to look for any packages you've installed through homebrew that are out of date and either run brew uninstall XXXXX if you don't need them or brew upgrade XXXXX to update them if an update is available (replacing XXXXX with the name of the package).


Can Server be used to standardize the desktop background on user computers?

This is one of the preferences that Server can manage using the managed preferences (sometimes referred to as MCX on older servers and now called profiles on Lion and later for servers).

Here is a short Apple document covering the high points on how to use managed preferences and the workgroup manager. This would be a good, safe item to test with in getting started with WorkGroup Manager and a couple of lightly used Macs.

Managed Client: How to manage settings using the preference editor


Applescript: path to files in application's Resources

set myPath to POSIX path of (path to resource "audio.m4a")

    do shell script "afplay " & quoted form of myPath

or

set myPath to POSIX path of (path to resource  "audio.m4a" in directory "Stuff")

do shell script "afplay " & quoted form of myPath

You should look at the libraries in the library window of Script Editor.

In this case standardAdditions


Verifying LibreOffice after each restart?

You still seem to start LibreOffice from the DMG file it was delivered in. Just drag the LibreOffice icon into your /Applications folder to install it properly. You can then eject and delete the DMG file.


Downloading two copies of the Yosemite public beta

If you go to the App Store and select "Purchases" tab while holding Option also called the alt you should be able to re-download the installer.  Then it will show up in the Applications folder again.


Application Pallets move to main display when switching between applications in Mavericks

I found the answer on one of apple's support community posts:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6049450?searchText=mavericks%20pallet


Is iTunes 12.4.1 available for 32-bit Windows?

If you make the iTunes download believe you are 32-bit Windows, it will provide you with the 32-bit installer.

Change the user agent string following instructions for your browser (this guide seems to work) to something like Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win32, x86; Trident/7.0; rv:11.0) like Gecko so it appears you are running 32-bit Windows. Visit the download page again: it should now give you iTunesSetup.exe instead of iTunes64Setup.exe.


How can I install NumPy / SciPy on Lion?

do it with the scipy superpack, by Chris Fonneback. It's very easy, automated and it works (using it right now!).

It also takes care of installing Fortran for you, which is mandatory for the python libraries to work.

PS: If you have Lion, Numpy is already part of it.


How do iPhones get carrier locked remotely?

Per Virgin Mobile's Unlocking FAQ (emphasis mine):

What does it mean for my device to be "locked"?
The term "locked" means that either Virgin Mobile software or the manufacturers' device designs restrict the device to use with a carrier operating on Sprint's network, such as Virgin Mobile.

They gave you a Sprint model at the Apple store.


How can I do a "git push" to remote with the gui gitx tool?

Given no good answer in the past week - probably the product just doesn't have it -the "answer" for me was to start using the free SourceTree visual git tool.
It's amazing.  Once again gui tools have stepped up to another level.


What can cause an iPhone 4 to not actually sync data when told to sync?

iTunes uses iTunesHelper.app to detect if an iPhone has been plugged in. This app is usually started as a login item. Therefore you could check if iTunesHelper.app ist listed here: Preferences -> Users -> Login Items. If it's not listed you can drag it back as described here: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2313998?start=0&tstart=0.


Is there a keyboard shortcut to jump directly to a particular full screen app in Lion?

If you want this for a specific app, you could use an application like Keyboard Maestro to set up a shortcut to switch to that application.

If you want this for every app, I don't think it is possible at the moment. It may come with an update (as the ability to manually re-arrange spaces in Mission Control).

Waiting for a better solution, you can still use ⌃→ and ⌃← to navigate between spaces (including fullscreen applications).


Volume not recovering after a FaceTime call

Quit coreaudiod:

Open app Activity Monitor (Utilities -> Activity Monitor in your applications folder)
Search for "coreaudiod"
Click the (x) in the top left corner and quit the process normally.

It should restart automatically and if you hear no sound, restart the desired application. Note: All applications already playing audio might have to restart as well, not sure.
Warning:
Be aware if you've turned up the volume to max in frustration of the low sound. It might break your speakers or cause permanent hearing damage. I take no responsibility for following this advice. Consult with your IT technician before moving your curser.


Can I disable wifi automatically if there is an ethernet connection?

You have several solutions:

https://gist.github.com/albertbori/1798d88a93175b9da00b

  This is a bash script that will automatically turn your wifi off if
  you connect your computer to an ethernet connection and turn wifi back
  on when you unplug your ethernet cable/adapter. If you decide to turn
  wifi on for whatever reason, it will remember that choice. This was
  improvised from this mac hint to work with Yosemite, and without
  hard-coding the adapter names. It's supposed to support growl, but I
  didn't check that part. I did, however, add OSX notification center
  support. Feel free to fork and fix any issues you encounter.

https://macperformanceguide.com/blog/2014/20141118_0958-OSX_Yosemite-disable-WIFI.html
The associated google search :

https://www.google.fr/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=disable+wifi+if+ethernet+osx&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&gfe_rd=cr&ei=VL_cWMj1B-zUXt3CkLAM


WhatsApp Desktop App failing to establish a web-socket connection on macOS Mojave

It's a problem related to MacOs Mojave (IFF you have a good internet connection for real and everything is working fine).

Grant access to WhatsApp desktop app:

System Preferences -> Security & Privacy -> Privacy -> Full Disk Access

after you open the lock please add WhatsApp app to this list.


Exchange mail and configuration profiles (generally installed by a workplace or school) can also enforce a passcode. To disable the passcode in this case you'll have to either remove the profile or the account.


Stop holiday/christmas/spoken word from playing in iTunes DJ?

Make a playlist that includes all your Christmas songs.  Then in all your other playlists, explicitly exclude the Christmas playlist. The DJ can pull from a playlist that isn't the "holiday" mix.


Bring all windows of active application to top

You can assign a keyboard shortcut to the "Bring All to Front" menu item from System Preferences:

The activate AppleScript command also raises all windows:

activate application (path to frontmost application as text)

If you are assigning keyboard shortcuts to opening applications, you can use scripts like this:

tell application "TextEdit"
    reopen
    activate
end tell

reopen opens a new default window if there are no open "default" windows, like a text editor window in TextEdit. If all default windows are minimized, reopen unminimizes one of them.

It is also possible to use AppleScript to click the "Bring All to Front" menu item:

tell application "System Events" to tell (process 1 where frontmost is true)
    click menu item "Bring All to Front" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Window" of menu bar 1
end tell


Pending how long was the last connection, you could find the answer in your Console log.

I have it showing the information for last 7 days. Back to Dec 23. 2014

In Console type MAC in the search window.

Look for MacAuthEvent

In systemlog7.gz file.

EDIT:

If it is older than that:

Use Terminal and type mdfind systemlog

if it shows ....PreviousSystemLogs try that one. (highlight the find and use Reveal in Finder)

If it does not show it in Terminal then look for it in the hidden folder /private/var/db under .cpgz archive that you have to unpack.


Automated screensaver configuration in command line/shell script

So through JAMF, a very wise man showed me a very simple thing I needed to add to the end of my script:

killall cfprefsd

Solved the problem entirely. While if you go into System Preferences, it still shows the old screensaver being selected, it works.


How to switch tabs using keyboard on bigsur?

For a lot of applications (e.g. Finder, Safari, Terminal) it's ControlTab/ControlShiftTab.


From my understanding of the question, it seems to me that you are trying to sync your new iPhone with two different libraries.  This is impossible without a jailbreak (which by no means I am suggesting you do).

Since you can't sync songs from your own iTunes library, it looks like you set up your iPhone on your mom's library. I would suggest that you select 'Erase and Sync' when you try to sync your music to your own library and allow your iTunes library to manage your new iPhone. Then, I would probably import your mom's music to your iTunes library.

You can do this using Home Sharing, as you said, but only if both of you use the same Apple ID.  Alternatively, you could follow this thread and simply share the organized files and put them in your ~/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Music/ if you're on a Mac. Hope this helps!


Will maintaining lot of files in trash affect Mac OS X performance?

I was thinking about whether or not the Trash is just like any other folder from a file system's point of view. Let's assume that it is for a second, then another way to look at this would be "what's the worse that can happen to the performance of my Mac if I keep thousands of files in any folder? Mac OS X probably does some sort of memory swapping using the hard drive, so that would be the first problem of an increase in used hard drive space. But this may be the case of any folder, not only the Trash.

That reminded me of my Windows days and how running utilities to defragment a hard drive made my system feel faster after frequent defragmentation. However, unlike Windows, Apple claims that due to its design, their OS does not need defragmenting. Take a look at this interesting article. On it, Apple claims that it can handle thousands of files. However, Apple here is talking only about the file system itself.

John Siracusa, on his Ars Technica review of Lion mentions that performance does in fact decrease with thousands of files. However, the way I read his article is that the performance decrease is on the Finder UI itself rather than on the file system as a whole (i.e., the Finder is not the file system). It makes sense that if there is more information to prepare graphically and your computer was running multiple apps to the point of your system being very taxed for RAM; then the Finder will probably have a harder time rendering a simple Finder window to show thousands of files in the Trash.

Coming back to your original question, it seems to me that a user who never empties the Trash and only accesses its contents occasionally would not seen any noticeable performance decrease on the rest of his system--other than perhaps the Finder struggling to render the contents of the Trash every now and then. I would consider any performance hits on the system the same as with any other growing folder. Hope this helps.


Any insight here?

You're unfortunately dealing with a long standing problem Apple has had with trying to jam a Core i9 CPU into a form factor that is inherently and notoriously bad with respect to thermal design.
Here's just a short list of articles addressing this issue.

Benchmark test shows Core i9 severely throttled in 15-inch MacBook Pro
It's not limited to Apple:  It’s Time to Call Out Laptop Manufacturers for Their Bulls**t CPU Throttling
About that MacBook Pro Core i9 throttling story (updated)
YouTube Video:  Thermal Throttling on Your Mac
Apple claims it a software bug and releases patch

A pragmatist perspective...
Apple claims to have issued a software patch.  It wouldn't be out of the ordinary for Apple to break things again with a macOS update.  How many times has an update broken something like WiFi only to be fixed in the subsequent release?
Even with a software patch, you can't get around physics.  IMO, there's an unreasonable expectation when it comes to MacBook Pro computers: users want them to be razor thin, completely silent, and über powerful.  Unfortunately, physics has a bad habit of crashing the party.
If you want all the power of a high end CPU and GPU then you have to deal with the heat it generates.  Dealing with heat means cooling - proper heat sinks and fans.  That alone has a balance you must strike - if you want proper cooling but have something be very quiet, you need larger heat sinks.  If you want something razor thin, thereby limiting the size of the heat sink, you need a fan which inherently makes noise.  So, if the market is demanding a razor thin, silent laptop with an i9 processor and GPU, then the trade off will be thermal throttling.
So, to answer your question, it's a design problem with that form factor and it's not limited to your MacBook Pro - other manufacturers are dealing with this issue.
From a personal perspective, I wouldn't get a MacBook with an i7 or i9 processor because it just doesn't have the size heat sink required to efficiently dissapate heat.  The fans are also to anemic to efficiently cool things down.  This means it has to throttle to limit heat which means you're not getting the CPU you paid for.  To put it another way, I would rather have an i5 that can run at 100% with no throttling than an i7 or i9 that can only run at 50-75% because of throttling.


An iTunes Card is Apple's version of a Gift Card. It comes in a different range of values ($10, $15, $25, $50 or $100) and it can be used to redeem any item of the iTunes Store, App Store, iBooks Store, and Mac App Store.

An iTunes Card Generator is a software which allegedly generates these gift codes, so that you can acquire anything from the aforementioned stores without actually paying anything.


Use ctrl+cmd+space to bring up the Character Viewer. It is also accessible in edit menu → Emoji and Symbols. Leave the cursor where you want to type and double click on the arrow you want.

Alternatively, The alt codes for arrows can be viewed here on Wikipedia. Have Hex input enabled and active in input sources in keyboard preferences.

For right arrow, hold alt and type 2190. ← will appear.

Source:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrows_(Unicode_block)

More standard codes can be found in this table

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Standardized_subsets


Try this in a terminal window:

killall Finder

or even

killall -9 Finder


How to send email from "different accounts" in Outlook iOS app (Outlook.com account)?

I ran into this post while doing some research.

I think this works now, but if you add your aliases after you added your outlook account to the app i think you have to add them manually in the app. At least that was what i had to do.

And they need to be connected in outlook.com as well.


There's no limit to the number of apps you can submit.

I've found that it's better to have your clients sign up for their own developer accounts and to add you as an administrator of the account. That allows you to create certificates, etc., but the app shows up under their name.

It also means that they can easily do whatever they want with it down the road. You can't transfer an app from one company to another, but you can effectively hand over your entire developer account, allowing them to sell the app to someone else if desired. If you keep it under your company/name then it'll always be there.

Lastly, it allows them to view their own iTunes Connect sales/download information without having access to your other clients. Without it you'll have to provide portions of the reports yourself, or summarize for them, or whatever. Probably seems reasonable now but two years from now, say, there's a good chance you'd rather be out of the loop, especially if the app isn't selling well but they still need to know.


Is there a way to enable wifi-calling on an iPhone 5

I used Talkatone on my 5S while out of the country, and it worked pretty well. http://www.talkatone.com/

This is a 3rd-party app that will assign you a new number, so it won't "enable" WiFi Calling on your phone using your existing phone number.

While FaceTime and Skype do work, WiFi Calling is slightly different. It involves the phone connecting to your carrier's servers through the internet, which for some reason isn't supported on certain devices (especially odd since my 5S is supposed to have WiFi Calling, but AT&T chooses not to support it).


Multiple installs of the same application?

You can do this with Reeder.

You will need as many user accounts as you have Google accounts.
Supposing you have 2 Google accounts, you can obviously run your main Google account as the default user. Just click on Reeder from Launcher or Dock and you are good to go.
Go to System Preferences, Users & Groups, and create a new user. Call it TestUser. Make sure you set a password. A standard user account would do.
Open Terminal.
execute this: echo "password" | sudo -S -u TestUser /Applications/Reeder.app/Contents/MacOS/Reeder &

voila! You can now see a 2nd Reeder window!


In Macs there is no nvidia-smi command that comes with nvidia drivers. However, you could check this open-source alternative : https://github.com/phvu/cuda-smi

Edit in 2020 :
As an alternative to nvidia-smi is Activity Monitor. Search on spotlight (cmd + space) and type Activity Monitor. When the program opens press cmd + 4. This will show you the active usage of GPU(s) on your system.
I think this feature comes with High Sierra 10.13 prior to that there is no option for gpu history.


Can I programmatically install a specific version of JDK (i.e. using command-line tools only) on OS X?

curl -L -b "oraclelicense=a" http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/7u79-b15/jdk-7u79-macosx-x64.dmg -O


No sound from iPhone speakers when connected to a dock with line out

No, it is a feature.
I'm not sure if there is a fix for jailbreaked iphones, but there isn't such an option.


How do I recover purchased music on my iPhone 4?

It appears there are multiple ways. The first, is outlined by Apple here.

Automatic Downloads and downloading previous purchases are not compatible with iPhone 4 (CDMA Model). Automatic Downloads and downloading past purchased music and TV Shows is supported only in the US and is not compatible with iPhone 4 (CDMA Model). Previous purchases may be unavailable if they are no longer on the iTunes Store. Downloading past purchased TV Shows requires iTunes 10.4 or later.

It details the following methods:

Open the iTunes Store on your device.
Make sure you are signed in with the same account used for the
    original purchase.
Tap Purchased from the bottom navigation bar.

From the Purchased tab, tap the artist name for the content you
    intend to download again.
Once you've located the music you are looking for, tap the download
    button.

Note: To download all songs from a purchased album, tap on the Album's toggle button to switch to Album view.

Once you redownload the music to your phone, they will transfer to your iTunes library when you sync the device.

And an alternate method using the new iCloud service can be found here (it's of note that when I tested this method, I could redownload books and apps but not music; your experience may, however, differ).


How to keep MacBook awake with lid closed + extended display?

Requirements for closed-display mode from, Use your Mac notebook computer in closed-display mode with an external display:

  To use closed-display mode with your Mac notebook, you need:

  An AC power adapter
  An external keyboard and mouse or trackpad, either USB or wireless
  A USB-C to USB adapter if you're using a USB mouse or keyboard with MacBook (Retina, 12-inch, Early 2015) and later or MacBook Pro models introduced in late 2016
  An external display or projector

  If you're using a USB keyboard and mouse

  Make sure that your Mac notebook is plugged in to an outlet using the AC power adapter.
  Connect a USB keyboard and mouse to your Mac.
  With your Mac turned on and the display open, connect the Mac to the appropriate port on the external display or projector and turn the display or projector on.
  Use an appropriate Apple video adapter if necessary.
  After your Mac notebook's Desktop appears on the external display, close the computer's lid.
  When you close the lid:
  In OS X Lion v10.7 and later, the external display changes to a blue screen, then shows your Desktop.
  In OS X v10.6.8 and earlier, you can wake your Mac by clicking the mouse button or pressing a key on the external keyboard.

You can now use your Mac notebook as you normally would with a USB keyboard and mouse.


Disable the guest user completely in El Capitan without having to disable 'Find My Mac'

@alan-shutko pointed out very important info about this in his comment:

  The point is to make Find My Mac work. If you turn Find My Mac off,
  the guest account will go away. The reason it's there if Find My Mac
  is on is that if someone steals your mac, it cannot report its
  position unless the thief connects it to a wifi network.

Looks like we should keep it on.


Will this Mac mini setup work as I intend?

The 2018 Mac mini can output two displays at 4096 x 2304 from its Thunderbolt connectors, and one 4096 x 2160 display via its HDMI port.
So a single 3840 x 2160 display is well within its capabilities.
The mini has 2 USB A ports, but 4 Thunderbolt ports, which also provide USB C. You could use a USB C to A adaptor or cable to connect a USB device.
I have a mini with an Anker 7-port USB hub, and that powers both my iPhone and external USB drives. My iPad, however, does not charge through the hub. Keyboard and mouse take minimal power. You might want to connect the drive to the mini directly, and the hub to the 2nd USB A port.
Most hubs do come with an optional power supply, but I would expect that would only be needed for multiple high-power devices.


How to keep monitor off when logging in remotely

Are they logging in as the same user as the currently logged in user?  Post-10.7, Mac OS X VNC supports logging in and either sharing the current desktop, or generating a new virtual desktop.

HOWEVER, I believe if you're logging in as the same user that's currently logged in, it will take over the computer as though you were accessing it directly.  The solution would then be to create separate users for everyone who accesses the server.

Here's some info about the VNC options.

Hope this helps!


Location of services created in Automator

As others have said, services are normally in one of the Library/Services folders (~/Library/Services, /Library/Services, and /System/Library/Services).  If just looking there doesn't turn it up, another option is to spy on what files are being opened when you invoke the service, with something like:

sudo opensnoop -n WorkflowService

... and then running the service, and looking through the results to see if you can spot the relevant file.  If it isn't an Automator-based service, you might have to leave off the -n WorkflowService (although you'll have a lot more irrelevant files to sort through because you'll be seeing every file anything in the entire OS opens).


How to securely erase/format an iPhone for resale?

The built in “Erase all Content and Settings” function (found in the Settings app, under General → Reset) should be sufficient in virtually all cases.

The 3GS and later iPhones, 3rd generation and later iPod Touches and all iPads use hardware encryption, where all data is stored encrypted in their flash memory. On these devices the wipe function simply deletes the encryption key, rendering the data not much more useful than random noise. On devices without hardware encryption, the wipe function overwrites the entire user partition with ones. This is more secure with flash memory than doing the same on a hard drive (where some residual magnetic field can be detected from the previous data, although the chances of that are likely very low) — it's theoretically possible someone could retrieve some data, but it would be prohibitively expensive and time consuming.

Unless you're keeping extremely sensitive data on there (i.e. state secrets or evidence of a massive criminal conspiracy), I wouldn't worry about it once it's wiped.

Source: Apple Article HT2110 — iOS: Understanding 'Erase All Content and Settings'


Why is my ac wifi signal weaker than my b/g/n; does it matter?

The ac is 5GHz signal.

The way the radio waves work is the higher the frequency the lover the range.

However, the signal strength is only one factor.

With your signal strength on 5GHz network you will still get much higher data throughput, then on the b, g, n (which is on 2.5 GHz WiFi).

Unfortunately the 5GHz is also more sensitive to the interferences (like for the microwave ect..)

Signal strength:

Since the Radio waves jungle are controlled by our Government, you can not exceed the given power output to boost the signal (otherwise you might have Jumbo-jet landing in your backyard). Engineering the multiple antennas (arrays) can help directing the beam from the broadcasting station to the receiver, to help with the distribution of the 5GHz signal. Standard antennas are ommi-directional (broadcast equally in all directions). Using a directional antenna is the solution here, where the beam goes focused in one direction.


Persistently or aggressively enabling Low Power Mode

Yes, the _CDBatterySaver API in the CoreDuet (Private*)Framework can be used to toggle low power mode.

An example invocation, untested:

#import <CoreDuet/CoreDuet.h>
#import <objc/runtime.h>

-(void)setLowPowerMode:(BOOL) isOn {
    _CDBatterySaver *batterySaver = [objc_getClass("_CDBatterySaver") batterySaver];
    int nextState;

    if(isOn) {
        nextState = 1;
    } else {
        nextState = 0;
    }

    if([batterySaver setMode:nextState]) {
        NSLog(@"Set power mode state");
    }
}

I'd wrap this in an app with a background task to watch for low power mode (both well documented APIs). This can be done with Xcode as Apple allow building and installation of apps to your phone without requiring a developer license (IIRC).

*See answer to question how to import private frameworks in xcode. Note: header files can be found on GitHub without the need for a jailbroken device.


I didn't test it with Lion, but there is a high probability that control+d would delete the character to the right of the  cursor, and control+k would
delete everything to the end of line.


Where can I download the source code of SEDarwin project?

Depending what version of SEDarwin you are looking for here is a website that might help you.

SEDarwin Downloads

If satisfied with the answer to mark it as completed do the above :):


If you format the disk exFAT you will have a disk that is read and writable on both systems. Then on the mac side you can create an encrypted disk image on that drive that is only accessible on a Mac. You can also create an encrypted .zip file on the PC (with 3rd party software) that is only readable on a PC.

Alternatively, if you don't mind partitioning the drive, you can create a drive with one NTFS and one HFS+ partition on it then you can encrypt both at the file system level and each will be accessible only on their corresponding operating system.


Jailbroken, supervised iPhone. Is it bricked?

You should be able to put the device in DFU mode even if it is supervised. Recovery mode should work too—both should let you restore the device in iTunes.


Help downloading iOS 7 with link that drops

You can download the IPSW specific to your device here:

http://www.redmondpie.com/download-ios-7-final-ipsw-for-iphone-5-4s-4-ipad-and-ipod-touch-direct-links/

Use iTunes to restore your device using that IPSW (shift-click Restore and select the IPSW).


The problem here is not only the Fusion drive but the new iMac hardware as a whole. Older OS X versions usually do not work on hardware released after the release date of the respective OS X due to missing drivers etc.

Alternatively you could try to install 10.7 in a virtual machine.


Scanning over ethernet, natively in OS X?

Harv,  This is not the answer you want to hear.  I went with the Brother printer/scanner models because it was clear that the HP drivers that they supply to Apple often do not support network scanning (there may be a few exceptions).  The Brother drivers do.

The other recommendation I have seen is to use the drivers that come with the OS, not the installable ones.  In some cases, it seems that the scan works when the installables are not present.

Also, if the printer has SMB sharing, that sometimes needs to be turned on (usually only available on the higher end models with hard drives).

~Hilton


Create different header after each chapter in pages 8.2.1

On the right side of the document window, click the 'Document' toolbar button, then the 'Section' tab.

Click somewhere in the section that you want to have a different header, then deselect the 'Match previous section' checkbox.


How can I "delete" the last word, using iOS dictation feature?

It doesn't seem like it is possible.

The closest I have seen is to use 'shake to undo' which will then select your entire last phrase/sentence. It's then possible to adjust that selection & delete as required.

Not what you wanted, I'm aware.


It's basically not possible to make a new MobileMe account while the transition to iCloud is happening. There are some loopholes (like adding a new account under an existing Family account) - but most will have to wait until iCloud is released. The official word on that is a vague - in the fall of 2011.
From the Apple preview page covering Contacts, Calendar and Mail as part of iCloud:

Mail that delivers. Free.
When you set up iCloud, you get a free me.com
email account. iCloud automatically
pushes new email messages to all your
devices, so your inbox is up to date
everywhere you check it. And iCloud
keeps all your folders in sync, no
matter which device you’re using.

That was posted June 6, 2011, and I think that's pretty definitive. Free me.com accounts for all. It's unclear if you can get a new one today, but when iCloud opens to the public, you'll be able to sign up for one.
The sign-up page for MobileMe was disabled when iCould was announced at WWDC. People with unredeemed paid memberships can request a refund as they can no longer create a new account. Also, the free trials are suspended - presumably until iCloud opens this fall. The MobileMe transition FAQ documents this in detail and should be updated if things change before iCloud details are released.
The only way to get an account is if you already have a Family Pack with unallocated sub accounts. It is not clear if and how that sub account will transition to iCloud, but that may be an option for some to establish MobileMe email after June 6, 2011 and before iCloud opens for business.


Disable Documents and Desktop iCloud sync but keep all files locally?

You could hold down the option + click on the document folder and drag it to another directory (essentially copying it) and then disable sync, so it does not affect the files you just created. Do the same for the Desktop Folder.

Best if you can copy to an external drive, to avoid any chances of losing the local files, until you resolve the unsync and deletion of said files.


How do I remove unwanted OS X User Accounts?

The 'discs' you're referring to are users for your computer.

In the system preferences pane, click on a user, for example QCD in your case.

Now click on the '-' sign under 'Login Options;

This should do the trick.


iTunes Match hangs at step 2 and does not complete

Open iTunes. Click the “Store" Menu Drop Down.
While holding down Option click "Turn Off iTunes Match”
Reboot your machine.
Open iTunes. Without holding option, click the “Store” Menu Drop down again > "Turn on iTunes Match”

It should now run as expected.


Solved: I used an Apple support link that gave me keystrokes in diskutil to re-map the Fusion Drive in Terminal.  I was able to reclaim all disk space and I'm reinstalling from my Time Machine back up now:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207584


AMRestoreErrorDomain error 14 when "restoring" iPad with Apple Configurator 2.

I came here looking for a solution to this very problem. Fwiw, I find that I can un-brick the iPad by closing AC2 and restoring it in iTunes. Unfortunately, that does not supervise the device.


In Catalina, set default for saving files to show extension

This was annoying me too.
Today I found a solution.
You can now set save with/without extension in every application.
As soon as you get the Save screen you can change this and it will be saved for that application


Yes, app uninstallation on iOS is very thorough. The app is in a normal circumstance not able to leave behind executable bits and pieces to infiltrate your phone, spend resources or otherwise change the behavior of the phone.
Note that the app might leave data behind in the iCloud, in your Keychain and other places - but it is data, not executables.
The reason I write "normal circumstances" is that you're considering app made by national states for the express purpose of spying. In that case, it is possible that the app exploits some kind of vulnerability in iOS that allows it to alter your system permanently. This would have to be done without somehow alerting Apple to it in their reviews. I wouldn't consider it likely for almost any app though.


How can I power off an iPhone if the screen is not working (because it's broken or not detecting touch)?

Well, the iPhone restarts because pressing the Home and Power buttons simultaneously for a longer period is actually the way to force a restart (on the iPhone 6S and earlier). I think you're simply holding them too long.


Can't open News app after changing region/country

News App has been limited to specific countries.

You can change your country under Settings > General > Language & Region > Region to keep using News, if your country no longer has access to it otherwise.

  Note: you can always use the App's widget in other countries.

More:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202329 (Apple's page about News)
https://www.imore.com/how-get-apple-news-uk-australia-canada-and-more (an article explaining how to change your country in Settings)


What solutions are available for using iPad as an extended desktop?

You will need an app to get this working properly, the nice new features in Mavericks are still essentially limited to traditionally connected displays via cables (DisplayPort/HDMI/Thunderbolt), rather than wireless connections.  There are many you can try, but my (unaffiliated merely personal preference) recommendation is Air Display.

Note that because the 2nd screen will be transferred over Wifi, you need to ensure that the iPad has a solid connection to the same LAN as your main Mac - being close to your Mac might be no good if they are both a distance away from the router...  As such, any usage of the iPad 2nd screen that requires fast refresh of window contents might not perform in any way like a proper monitor would, but it should be great for normal non video/gaming OS X apps.


What's the duration of a In-App Purchase Promo Code for Auto-Renewable Subscription's?

Got an answer from Apple. They confirm what I thought:

  Promo codes for auto-renewable subscriptions are valid only
  for the duration of the subscription. Subscriptions purchased with a
  promo code do not automatically renew.

So, in my case; one month and then it expires.


Use MacBook Pro LCD Screen as a standalone monitor

That is a proprietary interface and there is not going to be a ready made solution to get it to adapt to being used as a stand alone screen separated from a Mac Book Pro.
Your best bet would be to sell the MacBook Pro as parts on eBay or something and just buy an external LCD or put the cash towards your next computer.
Its going to be an engineering effort as referenced in a similar question Can my Macbook Pro's display receive inputs from other sources?.  Here is the answer provided by "Fake Name":

Yes, but it's not worth it.
You would have to take the laptop apart, design and engineer a custom converter to drive the LCD interface (internally, it's going to use LVDS to handle the interface between the laptop's motherboard and the screen), and power it somehow. It also would probably render the macbook from which you removed the screen unusable as a laptop.
It would take a few hundred hours of engineering time, and cost a lot in prototypes.
You are better off just buying a separate LCD.


As noted OSX uses .dylib and not .so for shared libraries.

For motif I would install this as a port via macports and get the openmotif port. Note that macports will install a newer version of X11 from a  as well so this will take time.

then you will need a fortran compiler - note that Apple's gcc does not have Fortran as far as I understand so you will have to install that via macports as well - either a new gcc for possibly gfortran - I don't know the details.


Open a new terminal window and run the following commands:

$ tmux new -s temp
$ ssh-agent
$ ssh-add

That seems to have fixed the issue for me; new tmux sessions now no longer ask me for my ssh key passphrase.